The US has decided to try to siege Iran. The limits haven't been reached, more like a nice little tickle.

Yes, he's walking a narrow, difficult path. Success is difficult and failure could be disastrous.

What is your point here? Are you trying to say that Iran deserves to own the cables because the US government deserves to have data held by other countries?

I don't think you are saying anything coherent.

And if you ask it kindly, it will enumerate the real numbers between 0 and 1.

Do you have anything to say about Iran and the cables, or are you incapable of staying on topic?

Exams are a waste.

Rather, you want continuous practice that is also continuous assessment.

But US methods of teaching are also pretty 18th and 19th century. They are not sensible methods and result in students who are more advanced than the material being penalised. The US obsession with standardising is a recipe for subnormalising.

A lot of modern neural networks are low precision fixed point arithmetic.

Because you can't stay on topic, and when you get off topic, you say why you hate America.

Freudian slip, you revealed yourself.

Oops.

Military size is limited by GDP.

The IRGC has been importing foreign fighters because they aren't supported by their own population.

The shallowness of your ignorance is on display because you treat Iran as a monolith with only two events, Mosaddegh and the Shah (and frankly, you don't know much about them either).

That was 70 years ago.

If you want to understand Iran today, you need to look at Iran today. Who are the power players? Who does the population support? What military power do they have?

My reply is that you are ignorant, willfully ignorant, ignorant of your own ignorance, and should not type again before you fix your ignorance. Go understand Iran better. Go find out who the different power players are in the country.

With a GDP of $300 billion, it's not a powerful country.

The reality is that no country can fight against the rest of the world alone (including the US). Iran needs allies to win, and the IRGC in particular is toxic to allies.

No, the state of the art was a Sound Canvas. GUS was just for rich folk wanting an incompatible soundcard. The music for DOOM was generally composed using a Sound Canvas, likely an SC-55.

Just like how in the past you'd probably want a MT-32.

Of course, you could also keep Sound Blaster compatibility and just get an AWE series card.

The latest DOSBox staging actually has the Nuked SC-55 emulator incorporated into it (with a warning to remove it if it's part of a commercial distribution due to license issues). But basically everything supports piping the MIDI audio to a real MIDI device or an emulator.

But honestly, 99% of people who played Doom experienced it on an OPL2 or OPL3, or a crappy clone of such. (Imagine my surprise when I realized the IBM ThinkPad my parents got me for University was actually a pretty decent retro gaming machine - having one of the Crystal sound chips that was basically a Sound Blaster Pro on a chip complete with decent OPL3 core. A machine I keep to this day and is basically in mint condition).

Literally NOTHING of what you just wrote has anything to do with charging for using cables.

We get it, you hate America. America is bad. So what?

Well, not likely. You're right it's not the first speaker to get booed, but the speech for this was probably written months ago, practised for weeks and then given. The fact someone else got booed likely never came up because everyone else was doing same.

Graduation is happening around this time, so a bunch of people will likely be talking about AI. Many of them are likely tech bros who basically are chanting the positive aspects of AI because the benefit of AI goes tot hem. Likely they have been insulated from all the AI induced troubles like people graduating and being unable to get a job, and now people graduating and running into last year's graduates also jobless.

The whole "AI is great" speech works except those graduating have become disillusioned because it's made their job of finding a job so much harder. The whole "let's use ChatGPT to write our essays!" thing wears off pretty quickly when the jobs disappear because "let's use ChatGPT to replace these employees!".

The problem is, it's now too late for many techbros to rewrite their speeches in time for graduation ceremonies.

It's likely because it's stupidly cheap.

A Flock camera is around $2000 installed - and installation is basically sticking a pole in the ground as the cameras are solar powered and use the cellular networks for communication. A neighbourhood HOA can install a bunch for very little cost, which is where they proliferated for a number of years. They were just cheap things to install and use, and many cameras are operated by private companies.

Even the contract the city has likely only cost $100K or less, and likely Flock has them on a service plan where they can install X cameras for that subscription fee. And I believe the police agencies are given access for free for any camera in their network - whether installed by a private company, or city/town/etc.

That's really why they've proliferated. And honestly, they probably would've stayed under the radar save for recent events which revealed less than savory law enforcement groups abusing their access to track people or certain peoples.

One trick that worked in WA state was someone simply filing a FOIA request - it was a properly formatted FOIA request that only requested images from a certain time and place. It went through the courts which decided they were public records, and since it was well formatted and requested and contained they should be turned over. The towns felt that brought up a bunch of questions regarding future FOIA requests and decided to shut down their network to avoid having to answer those questions.

... the World Wide Web. How about just turning JavaScript off? We'd all be the better for it. [Well, except for web developers who can't close an HTML tag to save themselves.]

Then we'd be under attack by CSS viruses.

(CSS is Turing-complete, mind you. It's just a bit arcane to use, but I'm sure AI will let you write the next CSS virus soon enough).