Why would Al Lewis be able to fire generals?

These assholes are just thrilled to spend other people's money. And something like 30% of the voters are still cheering for that. Dumb and dumber.

Engineers like to practice engineering to extend their skills. Yes, most people do not get that. But without engineers you would still live in a cave.

... are still idiots and assholes, just with skills upgraded from "none" to "somewhat there, but not too impressive".

Same in the security space. They will never match an expert, but they can get lowish-medium skills and that is already very dangerous because that LLM does not provide them with the clue needed to use those skills responsibly. Eventually we may have to ass an "LLM user" category for the Darwin Awards.

I respect what he was trying to accomplish, BUT...

Bug was found, bug was reported, bug was patched. This is the way things are supposed to work. He was sitting on a known hypervisor bypass bug so he could exploit it for his plans. His plans may have been noble, but others may have also known about the exploit and had less-than-noble plans for it.

Sony may suck, but fixing bugs is good for all of us. No exploit will ever remain only for the good guys to use.

Yes. "A fool with a tool is still a fool" and all that.

We didn't fire a bunch of competent generals or run them out of office for various political reasons. I'm also extremely at ease because we didn't put a secretary of defense in, excuse me Secretary of war, solely because he was the only candidate who would not rule out ordering the US army to fire on American citizens.

We literally elected the king of debt. 1/4 of all US debt is Trump. That's 10 trillion dollars in debt.

And we did it twice. But I need did you hear how she laughs? And let's not forget, Trump low prices, Kamala high prices.

Like I said, you're a moron.

The statement was at best tone deaf, and likely intentionally offensive. The US Military leadership is trolling the American public.

MAGA lives on outrage. They want liberal tears. Even if it hurts Americans.

It is called "winning".

Yes, it's a fuzzy line, but I'm sure Putin realizes that the consequences of something like that and what would happen in response to an overt military attack are very different.

The pilots of these machines need to log actual flight time in order to be good at it. We set minimum training hours to maintain their flight qualifications, and then struggle to find something for them to do while they are flying around. Airshows and flyovers are done as ways to occupy some of those hours of flight time.

It is not a waste of money. It is money that would be spent anyway.

You'd think they'd be concerned about security even if just to protect themselves from corporate espionage, yet they can't even secure their own systems.

Presumably (but who knows - they seem incompetent) they've tried using their own models to hack/secure themselves, and the fact that they've failed rather taints their whole "look what a powerful hacking tool we've built" story.

Russia attacking NATO in some limited way (beyond just hacking & sabotage) is possible, but I don't see Putin opting for "suicide by cop" - he seems to very much want to stay alive.