Does a DoS attack count as prevention?

Shannon-Hartley's theory-- Capacity Limit: As noise approaches infinity relative to signal, capacity approaches zero, meaning reliable communication becomes impossible without increasing power.

So, DoS attacks effectively prevent communication.

Is AI slop a DoS attack? It sure as heck feels that way...

My father used to work at RCA (computers and aerospace) and tells this story of how RCA lost its way in TVs. The background of RCA is that they were the premier high-end TV maker during the 60s and into the 70s. They were riding high and then lost it all.

Step one: RCA signs a contract with Sears to make RCA black-and-white TVs under the "Sears" name

Step two: Sony, then a scrappy little company, goes to RCA and offers to sell to RCA the TVs for the Sears contract for less than RCA can build them. Note that RCA is not the first high-end manufacturer that is unable to stay up to date when making low-cost devices. RCA accepts this offer.

Step three: Sony goes to Sears and grabs the previously lucrative contract from RCA. It's a "curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal" kind of deal.

Did you miss the critical word "renew"?

IMHO, this does nothing but good stuff for me. My refill is kind of a no-brainer (the medicine I take works great for me with no side effects and completely "cures" my problem). The problem is that if I miss seeing my specialist doctor and the prescription goes out of date, the specialty pharmacy cuts me off right away, causes me to miss doses until I can see the specialist again.

And like any good specialist, the wait time to see them can be months.

The only fly in the ointment is the " first 250 prescriptions issued in each medication class". AFAICT, there's only like 300 people with what I have in my state :-)

Back when I did email protocols in the Windows division, we learned a weird thing about POP3: it was super popular in Japan.

Why? Because a bunch of email providers would only support fancier protocols like IMAP for the paid accounts. The free accounts were relegated to the POP3 protocol for fetching email.

Per the linkedin post: the persons goal is to replace c/c++ with rust. That's not a plan; it's the team's north star. The headlines don't reflect what the person wrote, and it pisses me off. Slashdot should be better than that.

Here's my bet for the reality: Microsoft wants to have a agile, easily updated code base with a team of motivated programmers.

But the actual code base is giant and old. I've worked with two different teams where the people were younger than some of the code they touched. The code supports a bunch of features that aren't relevant to the world any more (for example: we still have code to work with corporate servers for regional dial-up connections. That's not a thing any more, and hasn't been a thing for decades).

Worse, the code base, being old, has old code patterns that strongly resemble security issues, and the teams spend a bunch of time chasing down bugs filed by the automated security analysis tools. It's a drain on the teams, and reduces morale.

So management spins up a team to try out AI on large code bases. It's a risky bet with a big payoff. The worst case is that some code gets rewritten. And the best case is that Microsoft gets a nice new billion-dollar business in "rewriting old code".

One of the other products in this vein that works well is Konnected's "Blaq"

With RATGDO (or the one or two other things that do the same thing), you can:
- View status of door
- Open/Close door (this includes positioning it to some position, like 5% up, or 50%, etc)
- 'Lock/Unlock' the RF side. RF stuff is relatively insecure, so being able to 'lock' it is helpful

And you can do all of this without cloud, without paying subscriptions, and without worrying about the vendor going "poof" (open source is cool that way) and leaving you stranded, and without requiring an app (the device serves a basic webpage that you can access from your LAN (or IoT lan)).

You can use it with (local!) home automation like Home Assistant too.,

You can always choose to go live in some other successful society where no one has any requirement to pay for the common good.
Admittedly I'm unaware of any such, and they may not exist, because the game-theory of such a society causes it to collapse rather quickly.

https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Fire-Manage-Computer-Systems/dp/1718501188

Kill it with Fire has notes from Marianne Bellotti, a person who's managed the conversions of multiple legacy systems with recommendations on how to keep the conversions momentum going, biggest killers of projects, how to manage your people, and more.

It'd cost less to put solar panels on most roofs in the US than to fund a single war for a year, and not a whole lot more to then include local storage/charging. This is ignoring bets we could fund and build out on community or grid storage.

I think you grossly overestimate the required investment for usual/normal use as compared to the cost of keeping the alternative going, and paying for its effects.

We've had the ability to solve the logistical problem for years. The will? Nah. No, and especially no since it became a politically polarizing issue.

Fun idea is to have some external entity hack the tractors, plow under most of the crops.
Yeay, famine.

People forget the security element of having humans in the loop way to often.

.. the thing that is weird about that is.. .. Congress /always/ had the power to change the laws, and the scope, responsibility and composition of the regulatory bodies.. and thus to direct the regulations.

Couldn't have written it better. 100% Agreed.

Loper Bright vests in an unelected body of /explicitly/ unaccountable (for life) folks (literally because there is no precedent) unprecedented power over what legislators can do with laws/legislation.

The topic of the law or enforcement of it, or understanding companies' behaviors doesn't require experts?

That is a courageously naive outlook.

So, who are we electing in congress or appointing in courts that understand this stuff enough to do /anything/ proper w.r.t. modern communications?

The power to regulate commerce is explicitly mentioned as one of the powers of government in the constitution. All I'm aware of saying that Congress can't do what has been done for the last nearly 200 years, having been previously upheld by prior Supreme Courts, is a dubious recent Supreme Court ruling... where the Supreme Court is a unelected bunch of explicitly unaccountable for life folks. This was, in my opinion, one of many recent dubious rulings, like "gratuities to government officials aren't bribes."

Amusingly, you assert that you want the president elect to be able to push executive orders, which vests in the executive branch powers that are not explicitly enumerated under the constitution either, and which powers it'd have made sense to restrict to the legislature as well under the recent dubious Supreme Court ruling...

I think you need to check your arguments to make them more coherent, something which is often true for the things I say as well, which doesn't render the observation false...