Just wait until you try to download the bootleg video and end up with a copy of Musk's AI-generated "historically accurate" version instead. D'oh! :)

Book conversions are almost always WORSE. Some books simply can't convert properly let alone being just "ok" conversions. This is a book that I can't imagine being done well even if the best people tackle it; it's simply not a book that converts. Many have begun at trying to adapt this book and it always failed to materialize or they settled for inspiration and did something else more feasible.

Also, because of the timing it's not the same now as it was back then and that you can't recreate at the same level even if you read the same book today for the first time. Not that it can't work but it's not possibly the same.

The key point here is that data's security isn't enforced by the OS, but rather by the encryption algorithm itself. A non-OS forensics terminal would see the raw contents of the hard drive, which is to say, blocks of random-looking bytes that might be encrypted data or might just be truly random; without the corresponding password, there is no way to to tell.

Without any password (and assuming a robust encryption implementation), that's as far as they'd get. With a password, they'd be able to decrypt the blocks associated with that password and view the files for that account, but not any of the other blocks/accounts.

At that point, the FBI's nerds might well suspect that there are other accounts on the phone that they don't know about, but short of coercing the phone's owner into providing additional passwords, that's as far as they could get.

He wins so much pressuring them and the legal system doesn't apply to him except that ($5 million he just lost but hopes to get back with more threats to his SCrOTUS) he feels that the EU will tear up legal cases to avoid economic and political pressure.

He did manage to get that pathetic woman a Nobel Peace Prize which was totally due to his threats. It was a half measure which was not enough for him but enjoyable in that the person he supported stole the prize away from him and he couldn't exactly criticize but... it didn't work even when she physically gave the gold to him. She'll never get his support now (despite Rubio and a big donor heavily promoting their puppet) because she took his award from him. It also helped that the smart VP knew all too well how to navigate narcissist run governments for decades; she also is an expert on oil and trying to restart the industry Trump actually killed (but the senile old fool forgot he's the reason their oil industry died and will take billions and years to rebuild. Hence the reason Exon dismissed the wasted effort...so stupid that they made the mistake of openly speaking and triggering Explosion of Don-arrhea.)

I expect him to demand the Nobel Peace Prize again; he seems distracted this year; probably next year if he can ever escape the Iran war enough in his broken mind. Bring it up and I bet at least he whines about not getting it during questions about Iran!

The goal would be to have a device OS with no concept of "correct blocks", i.e. there are only a bunch of blocks, all equally correct, and the OS uses some subset of them based on the password that was entered. Ideally the OS wouldn't even have the ability to tell anyone how many viable subsets there are.

Of course, "more cost-effective than SLS" is a pretty low bar. The actual goal would be "more cost effective than Falcon 9".

To me, it sounds like "well, we thought we had it isolated..."

There's nothing like saying "it can't be done" to make a nerd's imagination fire...

I'd start with a filesystem that stores all data encrypted, so that without the proper decryption key, there's no way to tell whether a given block of storage contains encrypted data or random noise. We'd overwrite the entire drive with random noise on install, of course.

Then on top of that, add a layer that determines which subset of the physical blocks to use based on a hash of the decryption key; so if you log in with password A you get a particular filesystem, but with password B you get a completely different/unrelated filesystem, and so on. Repeat as necessary for as many accounts as you like; all accounts which are equally real/valid; the only downside is additional drive space required.

The tricky bit would be coming up with an algorithm that tells each account which storage-blocks it is allowed to overwrite, but doesn't simultaneously provide a hint to the police that those other not-to-be-written-to blocks might actually contain hidden data rather than just noise. Well, that and the fact that just having this software installed would look suspicious, if they were able to recognize that it was present :)

LLMs have two effects here:

1. They help the white hats find and fix bugs
2. They help the black hats find and exploit bugs

These two effects cancel each other out to some extent (depending on which "team" is more proactive in its bug-discovery and consequent activities).

Eventually all of the low-hanging-fruit will be picked, and the current deluge of AI-induced CVEs will be reduced to only those bugs that were subtle enough not to be noticeable by anyone except the latest-and-greatest AI models.

Free speech includes lying.

Here's some example code of a "wrong" program that is 100% valid:

// well-formed code; no compiler will flag an error
int sum_two_numbers(int a, int b)
{
        return a-b;
}

Is it faster? It sounds really tedious and error-prone to me. If someone were to suggest I quit writing code and instead spend the rest of my career supervising the intern as he writes code for me to review and correct, I'd feel the same way about that.

You don't seem to realize that this car has the lowest drag coefficient of a land vehicle. Your side mirrors are as bad as this whole car. They began working on this decades go using a GAS engine, it was not an EV!

It's so great that SOLAR can drive it 45 miles per day but that was not the purpose of making the most efficient car ever. You can have smaller batteries which means they charge faster and it costs less to charge it; a side benefit is bugs don't go splat so it doesn't need as much cleaning. The solar marketing gimmick actually has real results even if they are are minor - but for people like me, it'll save me from plugging it in most the year! I go days at a time without driving and when I do it is not 45 miles; I won't need perfect days of sunlight when I only go out a few times per week.

NOTE: This car does 100 Miles/kWh so you are not getting 5 miles per hour at level 1. I get that on my Leaf which is rarely 5 Miles/kWh (4.5 winter, 4.9 summer) and I do that annoying other drivers who are not paying enough for gas with the wasteful way they drive. I used to hypermile and almost doubled my gas savings.

I ordered a NO solar model of the car but they dropped that option. I asked. we asked. They said it cost them too much to set that up and actually saves me little money over the non-solar covering. Their work on hardened curved PV panels resulted with them inventing and patenting solar tech which will be used in other places (they only have 1 customer for those so far.) Yes they are not the best PV but they are better than other curved panels I've seen over the decades and they are being sold and they won't easily break.

I'd rather pay for more PV on my roof; and if I saved $300 on the car without PV I'd still get it on the car just because it's a cheap upgrade. Lithium batteries do not wear out if you keep them above 60% charge. Worth it. For $1000 extra, I think I'd skip it for house PV which is what their estimated add-on cost was initially. If you have micro-inverters etc. you don't get hit as bad with shading. Me, I wish I could go 1000V and have an inverter which could do a wide voltage range because I think that would handle shading far better. but 600V seems to be peak and everything is geared for lower; and oddly microinverters are more reliable... so I have those.

They reclassified a DIFFERENT group called "Asperger's Disorder" as being the top end of Autism because a few outward traits are shared. Mostly, I think it is because of funding and maybe some politics. The same year they did this (or maybe 2 years) a big study showed proof there is no genetic correlation for Autism and yet it showed there was one for Aspergers. No causal proof except that when you have 0 correlation that is proof it's not the cause. This was the strongest evidence the two are not the same thing with varying degrees. There is nothing you can do to an Apsy to set them into an autistic fit or get their brain scan to go goofy like that.

Asperger's is a DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER in that they grow up in a different order. Their intellectual development comes way sooner than their emotional / social abilities/intelligence. So the child will think at an adult level but emotionally, socially, etc. they move slower and are behind for their age. Around 30 they will be normal except the previous life experience which can't be undone just like growing up in another culture or having unique experiences can't be undone. The perspective is valuable and arguably BETTER than the norm. Having an intellectual lead their emotional impulses and development is arguably far better for the best outcomes in the end (like 30 years; but should be 25 years if we handle things better.)

Treatment for Autism is mitigation and adaptation, it is not developmental. They don't need sheltering from their problem like autistic they need growth they are fully capable of while the Autistic can't grow their way out anymore than a blind person can; they must learn to cope. Fundamentally different. It's not optimal if not possibly harmful to lump the two together. There is actual discussion about it being a mistake and splitting the two apart again; which is great. Science will autocorrect in the long term and the funding and study is there now because of the mistake which I was in support of about 20 years ago even though I was sure it was a mistake and said so ever since.

Tesla was given a massive US government bail out and subsidies.
Aptera was forbidden because Joe Manchin (oil/coal guy) fought hard to ban 2-3 wheel EVs and compromised watered down US modernization efforts. Aptera couldn't get ANY help that GM and Tesla received so they went bankrupt. It took all this time to come back again and then the Pandemic... Now it's going to be another depression hopefully not before they can get a foothold and enough guts to move to a successful country before they go under again.