How 'bout if I buy now and pay after I die?
sounds like the plots of a cheap SF movie.
They shouldn't be trying such a desperate solution without trying chlorox and ivermectin first.
Just don't leave the country after you participate.
For that matter, you may suffer remote retaliation even if you stay home. I would leave this to the military or other government branch.
Also there is the question of legality, government operation or not. It sounds to me like vigilante justice. And countries who like their anti-American cybercriminals will certainly treat it as illegal. (Hence the advice not to leave the country.)
We certainly need a way to stop cybercrime, international or otherwise. But this doesn't strike me as a good way to go about it.
Finally a prediction: in the not too distant future, one or more offshoots from this will turn into unmanageable domestic criminal organizations.
Even Batman's job is threatened by AI.
It's just ET trying to phone home. Probably dialed the wrong number.
This is a false argument, because the mainstream oses (Windows, MacOS, IOS) break their interface every major release. Go from Win10 to Win11 and you have to learn a new interface and retrain yourself. The latest iPhone switches where search is, requiring you to rewire muscle memory. Let's not even go into how new versions of Outlook, Word, and so on break their prior interface.
We need to stop accepting the myth that Windows or Mac are stable and consistent. The shift from Win10 -> Linux Mint is about the same as going Win10 -> Win11, except one of them doesn't say 'Microsoft'.
Ideology vetos reality, news at 11.
A lot of people behave pretty ghastly when it comes to money.
If this is accurate, this suggests that abiogenesis is easy once one has a stable, watery environment, since it happened twice on Earth.
That was my first thought too. (Assuming the article is correct - all kinds of stuff gets published that doesn't hold up in the longer run.)
One potential conclusion about the Fermi paradox [...]
Remember that time is also big. Suppose that there have been 1000 interstellar civilizations in our galaxy during the past 5 billion years, and that each one lasted a million years before collapsing. How many would be active right now?
Frankly, I don't consider it a paradox at all. We've explored approximately 0% of our galaxy and found nothing. That doesn't tell us much.
Doesn't he know he's supposed to play the fiddle while he destroys his country?
This has to be a troll. Nobody on Slashdot is actually this stupid.
I'm skeptical about that second part.
As for trolls, I wonder if some anti-vax propaganda is being pushed by hostile foreign powers as a way of hurting us.
It's just a story about Meta and AI.
Oh, nevermind.
For extremists of all flavors, violence is always preferable to the voting booth.
Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
