It's your word against theirs. You need expensive lawyers to fight DUI's. All the COP has to do is falsely accuse and ticket someone driving a poverty car who they know won't be able to fight back.

I think I saw someone swimming in some sewage en route from scraping a bear carcass off the road, let me go check.

If medical science develops to the point of reviving frozen people, treating their cancer will be childs play.

1. I got asked once if I played world of warcraft since they say a guy with the name "thegarbz" playing. I said no. By the way I know exactly who that person is because he impersonated me as a joke. I found that flattering and funny, but it has no impact on my life beyond that.

Reminds me of my first email account ;) One of my professors said we all had to register for an email account (this was in the mid-90s) so we could submit our homework to him, so I registered his name at hotmail.com to mess with him ;)

I don't trust single points of failure.

Yeah, this. If I have to sign up to some site that I don't care at all if it gets hacked, I use a throwaway password. Oh noez, someone might compromise my WidgetGenerator.foo.bar account and generate some widgets in my name, heavens to betsy!

The last great recession was due to precisely this sort of spending pattern plus a collapse in payment. Banks may be healthy, for now, but they can't keep lending forever with no recover. This is not a good sign.

Game theory. They possess the data. Paying them not to release it doesn't guarantee they delete it but does incentivize them to come after you for more payments NOT to release it, like, rent seeking. Best not to pay and let it leak, financially. Mitigate all actionable intel first of course (account numbers, etc).

If your essential service can be taken down by ransomware, you need a better backup and recovery strategy. If we get popped with ransomware we can nuke the system and have it rebuilt inside 5 min from either a snapshot, or a completely clean rebuild.

His surname is one transposition away from "AI Mode".

I don't need to be an expert to know that prime numbers have no pragmatic function, and therefore are a waste of energy to pursue. You can apply this logic to anything else where pragmatism is absent.

Yeah, because all even/all odd is (from basic statistics) rare, and happens to be rarer than the percentage of people who play all-even or all-odd, so you'd be more likely to split any winnings.

I got my gas heater installed for $1000. At 60c/therm it beats resistive heaters by a huge margin in efficiency/$ . Same guy quoted a heat pump for heat but it was like 15k. It wouldn't amortize in my ownership period, so made zero sense.

I'm not into math so i don't really care about that nuance, but the fact that computing primes of any variety is a waste of energy.

Why not run Folding@Home? At least that produces meaningful results. Factoring the largest prime number will not, in any way, help humanity, science, or math, and is an even worse waste of power than mining crypto (which at least helps keep the network/blockchain secured)