Which is why business is switching to a forever landlord model. BMW tried it with heated seats. Teslea tried it by selling you a car, then making you rent the battery. Takes very few people to maintain a portal to change your back account each month and it's not that highly skilled, either.

There's a very clear pattern when we look at who benefits in any given gold rush and while there's a few big winners that fuel the mania, the vast, vast majority are losers.

And then there's Nvidia, happily selling shovels all day.

"Continuously rotating keys".
You don't have to use the keys given. You can make your own. Like your own SSL, TLS, or SSH keys, just longer, and with a different algorithm. Discontinuous functions with constant key rotation is hackable, true. Not sure how long that would take now, in 2000 it was calculated to take over a million years. And remember that part "continuously rotating"? You get one message with that key, now start over. With Enigma, they got complacent by only changing keys every 24 hours. Now change the keys for each message. Even "Back when" - it took on average 48 hours to find one day's key. As much intelligence was from signals analysis and frequency of messages than actually reading the content. Today, your system should be sending random null messages nearly continuously.

Combined with the rest of the world abandoning the USA's SWIFT banking system and SABRE air reservations outside of dealing with the USA (Still running on Oracle 5? Not sure, haven't kept up with it since 2000). That's the issue with a "trusted partner" that thinks it is cool to shit all over their "allies". At some point, they stop being friends. Or allies. Or tame.
American Exceptionalism isn't, and hasn't been since the end of WWII. We've been going on momentum, and people went along with it because the US did not do anything very objectionable to them. Now we are. We should be building longer tables, not higher walls. Because as King Gustavus Adolphus knew, it's cheaper to talk than to go to war, and you can quietly reach for a bigger hammer while talking.

Which are already dealt with by using different algorithms but go ahead and say it ain't so. Won't change the facts that the current administration's incompetence and the leadership of a senile old geezer with dementia has alerted the rest of the world that the United States is in decline, and come grab a few mouthfuls off the quivering flesh of a sessile, impotent mountain of blubber. Not that the left is that much better, but at least it understands the importance of alliances. Even if some of them are unwise to the point of screaming frustration.

Here are the hard facts: It is time and past to dispense with both major parties and start working on real solutions using real thought and real intelligence. We've rested on our collective laurels for 80 years now. Like the failed man recalling his glory days as the high school linebacker, everyone's heard the stories but what have you done for us lately, and how are you going to do it with that pot belly and dementia?

UPDATE:
Turns out my suspicion of the system being bypassed to trouble (armed when a zone isn't closed) was correct. The report also indicates it was the main entry way, and that they closed it, then re-opened the main door using a plastic shim of some sort specifically to trip the alarm. Station KCRG report on 2025/01/30

Further, the county attorney promises to "prosecute to the fullest extent of the law" any future pen-testers. I guess he's unaware of the statute about willfully abridging rights by law enforcement and the penality. With the judgement and court costs, this clown prosecutor as already cost the courts over a million. But, hey, it's on the taxpayer's dime, it's not like it's coming out of his pocket. And I doubt any security professional will engage with the State of Iowa or Dallas County.

The nurse story is horrid. The places I've worked where security matters were not just code cards but 2FA tokens that required re-authorization every 24 hours for the doors, including to the restroom. One guy tried to live in the facility once. It wasn't pretty. I've heard people pull that at AWS and GWS and other VPS companies. I've had to work 20 hour shifts where, after 12 hours, I could sack out but had to answer the phone before it rang twice. Gave me PTSD.

As to Amazon, I was with "The other guys" except when they agreed to make me go do collaboration for 14 months. I did not enjoy my time with them but I'm happy you were treated better. The rented horse is frequently mistreated.

Agreed. See comment about AA alarm installation monitoring the dead bolt. AA installations usually ALSO has AA reporting but not necessarily.

In the years I did alarm systems, I never once saw a portal (door, window, vent, pipe, grate with a duct, bricked over window, window with bars) unprotected. Standards drift and it's been many years now. Maybe that sort of work/business ethic is acceptable in their eyes now but "back when" heads would be "adjusted".

Perhaps that's the standard now. I wouldn't know. Wouldn't fly back when and I observe alams now. I don't see portals without senors. You can tell even if they bury them in the jamb because the drywall or concrete is patched - usually badly. Also only using one type of motion sensor wouldn't fly. Microwave, Ultrasonic, Infrared, and tripwires. We didn't use tripwires too often other than were the insurance or state law required it or the customer asked for it. Mostly only for UL rated installations.

Worked and designed burglar alarms just out of high school. If the door was unlocked and ajar, the alarm would have refused to set up unless the zone was "troubled" out by whoever set it at the very lest. If a AA security installation, the locking bolt would also have had a sensor monitoring that it was actually engaged.
As far as "intentionally tripping" the alarm, that's a part of pen testing too - after you've taken standard measures to block the alarm from reporting. Prior to about 2005-2010, that would be a complex task such as cutting the phone line or stuffing steel wool into the demarc, or using a 9 volt battery if it was metallic pair to prevent the local alarm from transmitting a signal to the central office. If they had AA line security, then it might be a tad bit more troublesome, such as using a capacitor and a resistor to form an oscillator or a balanced bridge if it were really high tech line security.

As correct as that is, it is missing the point there are several ways to avoid tripping IR sensors. That they did not do so is more a comment on their technique than anything else.

They could simply do like other places do: make it a pay to own, where each month simply pays off the phone some more. If you cancel before you have paid off your phone, then you'd have to pay the difference.

In the case you arenâ(TM)t paying for the product I could agree. When you are paying for the product, then itâ(TM)s simply double or triple dipping on their side.

Given China has about 4 times the population of the USA and is a manufacturing powerhouse, to consume double of the US, means China is not doing too badly. In fact this probably shows how wasteful the US is in energy consumption.

Sounds like a variant of the journals model: get universities to contribute papers and then charge them for access.

Maybe it’s time for universities to have an open source distributed system for this sort of thing?

Now, it's been more than decade since I ran a "fair sized" OPAC[1], AND I was running a hell of a lot of other things too, not just the OPAC, but as I dimly recall, WorldCat was complied by technical archivists submitting their OPACs in MARC format to them either by request, or by the archivists wishing to reach a wider audience and voluntarily submitting their own MARC records they created. So, unless I'm mistaken and someone please do point that out, this would appear to be yet another case of CDDB style profiteering, whereby someone gets others to do the work, not get paid for it, then charges others for the work they didn't pay for.

I am not denying there is value in compiling the work, but WorldCat appears not to have made it "Transformative" in the sense of conveying a new copyright on their original work. We already know that compilations cannot be copyrighted.

Which brings up another point: Another thing that can't be copyrighted: AI output. Machines aren't given copyrights.

[1]: "Ran" it in the sense I kept the server up, patched, and the hardware and software maintained, and custom programming now and again as requested. I am not repeat not qualified in any sense in Library Science - I done what I waz tolded. 100+ federated collections, somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 million unique holdings)

No, of course not, because he's stuck in his dogmatic viewpoint. He doesn't actually know much about LLMs, but he's got a ton of beliefs about them. And you have a hard time changing peoples' beliefs.

That was definitely a problem two years ago. I did just check in ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini and all reported 3 correctly. The problem with people throwing out these sorts of criticisms isn't that they're all wrong; it's that they're ignorant of the leaps in progress being made. These models are rapidly improving and it's getting harder to find serious gotchas with them. They're still weak in some areas (e.g., spatial reasoning), but for serious power users who know how to prompt them well? They've become insanely powerful tools.

Not gods; tools. But really, really strong tools for huge variety of tasks.

The price point isnâ(TM)t too bad, but it is another subscription. The main thing here is that the office related stuff (Pages, Keynote, Numbers) was available without a subscription or purchase, so Iâ(TM)m curious where this leaves them? Will they still be available without this bundle?

DCI : “Drones, Cronies and Idiots” policy?