I have never worked at MS, but I have been looking at how they do business for 30 years, and "stupidity" is not the correct word.

They are a malicious entity. Think Zuckerberg, but worse.

At higher management levels MS is actively evil, so I'm not surprised. Is the DoD the same or is it just stupidity, not malice?

Given that it's open, universities will flock to it. Its openness will at least allow biases to become public knowledge.

Many of their customers are in the US anyway. It makes sense to build there if that's what your customers want. Of course politics plays a role too!

There is a physical limit to the size of the lithograpy used, the smaller the wavelength the smaller you can make things, that's why they're starting to use ultraviolet, which comes with its own problems.

Making 3D chips is the obvious way to go and they're on track there.

Physics is what it is

In most of the world you choose a phone and then hop between carriers as you wish. The US market is not very representative.

For those if you who don't understand what I'm on about: in the US it's fairly normal that the carrier will provide you with the phone and the access to the network. This is called a "locked phone" arrangement.

Correct. SS7 is ancient, and was never created with security in mind. Bell created it in the 1970s, and very idea that security was needed would not even have been in the engineers' world view.

This is a protocol only meant for phone companies, and Bell was still a monolith back then. Similar to the early internet in the 1970s where only the military and a few computer scientists even had access.

Actually, producing shoddy code is precisely what Microsoft is know for. All they are interested in is locking people into their ecosystem, and producing good code is a disadvantage in that business model. The worse their code is, the more difficult it is for users to step away. User lock-in has always been their goal, and they don't even lie about it. This moat strategy is arguably the most deliberate and consistent part of the company's history.

For instance, they created the SMB file protocol not from computer science first principles, but as a hack. And so everyone who wants to interoperate with it (e.g. Samba) is then locked in a decade long attempt to reproduce every single bug in their own code.

Mars also has a large amounts of sugar, and we're more likely to get there in our lifetime!

Murder is a crime too you know.

American AI companies 'distilled' millions of works from the original authors, they dont like it? Tough.

Isn't the whole point of having human beings in the loop that they can deal with limited information and still draw correct conclusions?

If your entire behaviour is guided by that license plate number then your focus should be on getting your facts straight. Sure, confirmation bias is a thing, but especially police officers should be trained to beware of confirmation bias and so check and recheck before engaging in a stop that could endanger people.

You monster! Won't anyone think of the stockh^H^H^H^H^Hchildren!

I honestly don't see the problem here. They did homework, cheated. Then they got the real test and failed.

So the system worked!