$3,000? That's a pie-in-the-sky machine. For giggles, I spec'd a new M4 Pro Mac Mini with the highest number of cores, 48GB RAM, 1TB storage - sure, you could get more, but 1TB is an adequate starting point - and it came to $2,200. And that's a bit better than "decent." For comparison, my 2023 M2 Pro with 10 cores and 32 GB RAM is still more than acceptably chugging along, and I have no interest in replacing it for a while. Unless I got a good deal on a trade-in.

Which is all the more reason to get rid of "qualified immunity." If these fucks were held personally responsible for their mistakes, you can bet they'd do a much better job of investigating their "tips" before rolling out the SWAT teams. Pushing the culpability onto the local government gives cops a license to be abject assholes and trample our rights and property.

Some did. Worked out about the same for them. Point being: can't trust ol' whitey. Couldn't then; can't now.

Neville Chamberlain also chose peace - something about "Peace in our time." And, yet, because appeasing belligerents never works, the entire world erupted in *another* world war. Do you really think Putin would just stop if Ukraine capitulated to all Russian demands?

Someone knows their Haudenosaunee history, I see.

Sure, as dumb as it is, it kind of proves the point, right? This system can't be compromised: even the "experts" are locked out.

The point still remains: computer crime sentencing is out of whack. This guy got sentenced - not necessarily will serve - ten years for a computer crime. No one was physically injured, though they claim a lot of damage, covered below. Miriam Yarimi caused three deaths - almost an entire family no longer with us - and she got considerably less. So are computer crimes way more harmful than killing someone?

A woman in NYC killed three people in a case of egregious negligent driving, and she'll likely get the lower side of "3 to 9 years."

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A lot of critical technologies started as, "Huh, this is interesting, but I don't see how it's useful."

Provincial putz with a "ditto," here. I don't use it often enough to justify a deep dive for training, so while I can make things with it, it's a right pita. And every time I go back to it, I've forgotten how I did it previously. To me, it doesn't lend itself to easy comprehension. But I wish them the best of success.

I grew up like you - financially insecure, almost to the point of desperation - but I think your bigger problem is why tf do you care about those people judging you? I learned early that they ain't paying my bills, so I don't give a fk. Plus, nothing I do or say will stop them from judging, anyway, and usually without full information about whatever situation they think they know about, so why bother worrying about it? I'm financially better off, now, by far, and I'm sure some of those who saw me at my lowest are still judging me. Meh. I still can't do a thing about it, so whatever. If they ever grow a pair of balls and confront me directly, we'll have words. Until then, they can fk all the way off.

No, see, you're thinking about it wrong. The entire "failure" of the internet - which is, fundamentally, just a collection of wires and protocols, of course - is the users: they're largely gutter trash. So "the internet" doesn't need a reset button: the users do. That's why I welcome our benevolent agent of change, SkyNet. It's for our own good; things will be better after a few heads roll. May the odds be ever in your favor.

Does that make what he says automatically wrong?

I wonder if these rich sorts will use AI to figure out how to solve society's problems so that they - the rich sorts - don't have to use AI to figure out the best approach to defend themselves from angry, desperate hordes intent on righting the balance of wealth. Sort of a foresight - slash - "an ounce of prevention" thing.

Oh, sure, but how would that make money for Republican donors? Gotta keep your eye on priorities, here.