That's your error in a nutshell.

Yes, they are bad, and I don't want to live in any of the countries. But lumping them together and consider them a monolithic block marching in sync is such a misjudgment of reality, that it is exactly that simplistic world view I am referring to. If the police chases a suspected killer, do you expect the thief to come out in support of the killer, just because both are bad? No, the thief does not care if the police catches the killer or not. He will seize the opportunity with the eyes of the police somewhere else to continue stealing unimpeded. That's what Putin or Xi Jinping or Kim Jong-Un are doing right now. There is no point in defending Iran and getting into the line of fire. The eyes of the world are somewhere else, and they can continue whatever they are up to right now with less scrutiny.

The world is not a superhero comic, where the superhero with supernatural superpowers thumps the baddie and everyone applauds. The world is not a secret agent movie where there is only one real antagonist, everyone else considered bad is in serfdom to him, and his henchmen lack any marksmanship, while the agent will hit two of them with a single .22 round from 1000 yards away. And the world is not a chess game with a limited set of pieces, each with a limited set of legal moves, and you win by catching the enemy's king.

1) They knew it already. Nothing to see here. Iran was always the outcast on the Persian Gulf, being Shiite, anti-monarchist and Non-Arabian.

2) That's the whole point. Iran shows that you can do damage cheaply, and very expensive to defend against, even against an enemy with far superior firepower.

3) It was before, and like Hamas, it is so deeply rooted in society that you have to kill the population, e.g. commit genocide to get it out.

Why should China and North Korea come out in support? Do they gain anything from their verbal support? As long as China gets its oil from Iran (which it does, and cheaper than other countries), it just sits and waits. And North Korea could not care less for Iran, but grins broadly because the U.S. is wasting money and military power somewhere else.

Your whole idea how the world works is very simplistic and in a black-and-white, us-versus-them scheme.

But just because they could not. Russia, being a imperialistic country since the Grand Prince of Moscow named himself Czar of all Russians, would immediately if given the chance.

Define "established session", and how it works with SIP or H.323, and what happens if signalling runs within an encrypted channel!

Still, Slashdot doesn't have to play along with their weasel wording. For example, "ergonomic collars that deliver an electric pulse" - just say "shock collar". Don't help them whitewash what they're talking about.

Still, you got it wrong, because the curve around 100 is flat, and given that the IQ is rounded to a whole number, a significant part of the population has an IQ of 100 (or 99.5 to 100.5). Thatâs what the curve vs. triangle was aimed at. Add to the fact that individual results can vary a lot, depending on the exact Series and the current State of mind of the one tested, results between 95 and 105 are well within the IQ-100 group.

Thatâs not an independent thinker. Thatâ(TM)s someone who routinely doubts everything. But as Henri Poincaré already observed more than 100 years ago: To doubt everything and to believe everything are considered two equally convenient strategies, both of which relieve us of the necessity of thinking or reflection. (And I know, a witty saying proves nothing.)

Everytime I run the output through the Test test suite.

Does anyone have an example where there is electricity rationing due to data centers overloading the electrical grid?

The magic elusive skills way to "never find" a "qualified US worker" needs to be closed for common positions which have thousands of US citizens working.

Supply and demand

Company - "It's extremely hard and rare to find a worker with skill XYZ"
Company - "We cannot find a us citizen with that skill even though we looked for X months"
Company - "We found a 'qualified' worker 'by chance' just graduating from a US university"
Company - "To be fair we will pay them at the 50% of the prevailing wage for an entry level or 1 job title above entry level worker pay"

Supply of the workers is "very rare" yet pay for the workers is average at best.

Don't the corporate CEOs make the same argument that there are so few of them that they all need to be paid millions by year?

Supply and demand.

For example H1B visas should not be granted for entry level QA tester jobs.

The "editorial independence" appears to be in the same vein as how large corporations have faculty member or two from the major business schools (Harvard, Columbia, Chicago) for the academic's expert guidance. Something that is unconnected to the business school's publication of a top 5 business or management journal.

We need to plan on what to do once AI does not need all the data centers, electricity and cooling.

What is being built is based on a continual increase in compute needs and does not take into account the inevitable 100x, 1000x , ... reduction in compute cost due to better hardware or algorithms.

Fully expect at this minute that there are dozens of labs using AI to reverse engineer everything from network edge devices, motherboards, GPU support chips, firmware images, heat sink and dissipation designs, ....

One wonders how much faster (100x ?) will it be to reverse engineer critical software with AI since the AI can reverse engineer, fuzz, code, test the new code vs the original all automated by AI.

Speculation: Microsoft will be 'investing' in major countries around the world to have a local to the country cloud and AI compute.

It will allow Microsoft to sell to the government and corporations when the country passes the eventual law requiring data storage, personal data, government cloud and AI models to reside within the country for economic and security reasons.

Second speculation: Microsoft and other world's largest consumer of CPUs, memory chips, GPUs, computer motherboards, networking chips, etc. will have supply chain shortages crippling their business in 2 years if the AI use/consumption keeps growing.

The net result of 1986 to today of politics on both sides being name calling, "we're not evil like the other party", "let's accommodate and celebrate even more behavior" and "it's not my money they are wasting" is

- no progress on policy benefiting average US citizens
- a steady increase in government spending and debt burden on each US citizen
- elected officials who do nothing to help average people and practice aging in place or office holder for life
- news reporters who parrot the same old tired worn out issues and the same tired old worn out talking points
- a persistent and steady decline in purchasing power by nearly everyone at less than top 20% of income year after year since 1975
- a broken contaminated food and water supply with *controversial* negative effects on reproductive health (especially boys and men due to plastics and water containing birth control hormones and endocrine disrupter chemicals)

And making it acceptable on an industry wide scale to package heated food in plastic lined cans, acidic foods in plastic containers, cook foods in plastic bags in restaurants) when heating food in plastic causes plastic chemicals to leach into the food.

And letting petroleum based dyes be used in common foods for 60 years.