Yeah, but the VIN will be next year, and the VIN is king.

Not post information but post fact. We have no shortage of information, the hard part is figuring out what tiny portion of it is accurate

The Iranian regime cares about self-perpetuation and as they have an inferior position they have to use what attacks are available to them.

If we didn't want Iran to turn into a terror state we could have just not done a coup those decades ago. But we clearly wanted that. We own this problem.

The military has followed his illegal orders at every turn. Of course they will go along with it.

He also said he'd release the files, lol

I was wondering if someone did a writeup and of course a simple search finds what we for cooling data centers in space.

Surprisingly it was done - the server had to throttle because the designed radiators were too small to get rid of the heat.

IEEE Spectrum featured a calculation show much would be required - https://spectrum.ieee.org/orbi...

Yeah that. He can't even control his orifices. He's a heritage foundation droid that's malfunctioning at best, but that fits their goals

Let's be more specific about how and why this could happen? What scenarios could lead to the total destruction of mankind?

Well, given OpenAI hacked Hugging Face, the most obvious path is hacking infrastructure. Turning off water or electricity is a definite possibility. We found this out in a recent hack.

Another thing it could do is to cause data centre loads to be spike and then sink, which could be very disruptive to the grid to the point where it results in it shutting down. Remember the 2003 blackout was caused by a power station going offline causing ripple effects. If some AIs cause such power disturbances to happen the flow of electricity rippling across the grid could cause disruptions.

And that omits the more obvious things like AI-powered weapons that the military is heavily interested in procuring, or AI powered things like drone control systems or military sensor fusion where AI helps with targeting.

Apparently the 2a folks will only use it to keep down the darkies, not to defend against tyranny... Which as it turns out they are fans of. Who knew? Oh yeah everyone.

Officers aren't supposed to get in front of cars and the person we all know you're alluding to not only didn't try to run over a cop, she was literally told to move on by one cop and then assassinated by another.

Get fucked, Nazi maggot (but I repeat myself)

The Reich wingers gave all that up to own the libs. Now they are openly treasonous.

More on topic, I think cloud customers should be aware that if their datacenter is destroyed, they *will* lose data if they didn't take care of replicating their data to a different geolocation.

Exactly the same happened when an OVH datacenter caught on fire in France. Many customers which didn't have replication set to a different geolocation lost their data. Heck a dude I know had backups on different servers in the same datacenter which turned out to be useless.

There's a difference though.

People using OVH were using OVH as a hosting service - like the hosting providers of old. You either rent space in a data centre like a colo, or you purchase a virtual or physical server from the data centre. Blow up the data centre and your server goes along with it.

AWS is not a hosting service. They are a cloud provider. You cannot choose what data centre your server is located in. You request a server and it's provisioned for you. You choose a region of the world and the data backup and replication are handled automatically. If a data centre is blown up, the servers are backed up elsewhere in the region.

The problem for AWS is that Iran managed to blow up a number of AWS data centres at the same time where all copies and backups of servers can be destroyed.

AWS compensates for losing a data centre by having multiple in a region. AWS just never anticipated that multiple data centres in a region could be attacked, and in doing so destroy all the redundant copies simultaneously. Because in general if you are going to have multiple data centres in multiple countries get attacked, there's traditionally been a lot of advance warning, like say, a war declaration. I mean, if war broke out in the Middle East then you'd have a little bit of time to try to move as much data around as you can. But Iran just managed to attack all the data centres by surprise. And do so in such a precise way that basically no one outside the building got hurt.

It's a level of precision that Iran is demonstrating - even attacking US positions without destroying the military base it was attached to. (It's why the USS Lincoln ran into programs - because Iran destroyed the supply depot in the Middle East, resulting in having to obtain supplies from Asia. The result was resupply which used to take under a day now took a week)

Yep. Someone pried a Darwin fish off of one of my cars once, I'm just glad the Jesus thief didn't break something

When I was in school, a local company donated some core memory units to us. A couple were kept for display, but we got to dissect some others. It was pretty darn fascinating.

This nation is literally founded on breaking treaties: We broke (again, literally) every single treaty we ever signed with a group of natives, no matter the size.

No one should be even slightly surprised when we break one.