These are all basically following the model of the Delphi Polls from his novel, "The Shockwave Rider". The only step left is for the government to start prioritizing funding for projects based on what people think is likely to happen and we'll be all the way there.

I, Steve Wozniak, did not participate in the theft of the BASIC. It was funny to me to see others enjoying doing this. I had never used BASIC myself, at that time, only the more-scientific languages like Fortran, Algol, and PL-1, and several assembly languages. I sniffed the air and sensed that you needed BASIC to sell computers into homes, because of the book 101 Games in BASIC. I loved games and saw games as the key. It was the [MS] BASIC that inspired me to write a BASIC interpreter for my 6502 processor, in order to have a more useful computer.

It's hard to find people with Tim Berners-Lee's integrity. We should 'own' our own lives. It's a lot deeper than just being watched.

It hasn't been "autocomplete" in a long time. Sure, there's a training step based on a corpus of Human language, and the autoregressive process outputs a single token at a time, but reinforcement learning trains specific behaviors beyond merely completing a sentence.

Besides, the best way to write something indistinguishable from what a Human might write is to, well, "think" like a Human.

The problem is that Ivermectin isn't a placebo. It's a real drug with real side effects and that puts a real load on your body when you take it. People who say "it can't hurt" are forgetting that anything that effects your body is diverting resources from other metabolic processes, like the immune response to cancer. There's a reason that double blind studies are a thing, not only to see if a drug does better than placebo, but also to see if it does worse.

Are we, as a sapient species facing an uncertain prospect of continuence in a world full of rapidly-advancing bullshit going to learn from this catastrophic and absurdly predictable failure of information security, personal and professional ethics, civilian government, market economics, basic common sense, and consumer psychology?

Eight-Ball-Based-On-Cursory-Reading-Of-Literally-Any-Slice-of-Human-History says "no".

What do you say, and why is it also "no"?

Proprietary service drops support for proprietary protocol..

For 20 years, plus or minus, personal computers reversed that idea.

I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. I now speak publicly and have risen to the top. I have no idea how much I have but after speaking for 20 years it might be $10M plus a couple of homes. I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out.

This stuff belongs in War Thunder forums!

Nope. That's why I changed all my players to BlueOS.

It was a small room with a PDP 8/i attached to a KSR-33 running Edusystem BASIC, and a PDP 8/a hooked up to a DECWriter with 2 8" floppy drives running OS/8. I spent most of my high school years in there. I founded my school's computer club and wrote all sorts of programs, including one that printed banner messages on the paper tape punch and a biorhythm generator (hey, it was the late '70s) that ended up in the DECUS catalog.

One of my two high school yearbook pictures is me sitting in front of the DECWriter. By the time I was 17, I had outgrown the computer room, had my own TRS-80 and was dialing into MIT-AI.

That's not how 3D printed guns work in the real world. Yes, a gun with an FDM barrel is going to give up the ghost after one or two shots (might have better luck with .22s, but not anything I'd be very confident in.)

But no one 3D prints the uppers (slide and barrel on a pistol or BCG and barrel on a rifle.) Those are all non-regulated parts you can buy mail order. You print whatever the registered component is (typically the lower on a rifle, the frame on a pistol), buy the rest, and put it together. If you go to EveryGunPart.com, you can get a kit with everything but the registered part, like this Springfield XD set

One reason you don't tend to see 3D printed Sigs is that the registered part for a Sig pistol is a piece of formed sheet metal that you can't print easily. But Glocks, Springfields, S&W, AR15s, pretty much anything you can think of, the actual registered part you need a background check to buy is something that is easily printable and has relatively low amounts of stress applied to it during operating of the firearm. I've put thousands of round through my 3D printed pistols and my AR15 (admitted, printed in CF-Nylon) without a single issue.

As long as A) It is legal to build your own firearms for personal use, and B) most firearms components are not registered parts according to the ATF, it will be safe, relatively easy, and impossible to stop people from 3D printing guns. However, 3D printed guys are a distraction from the real issue, because they still do take a modicum of skill to put together. Even the easiest of handguns (a G17, for example) has lots of springy bits and tweaking you need to make when you put it together; let's not even get into something like an XD40 with a palm safety that took me a good two hours to put together the first time I tried.

Almost all of the high-profile 3D printed gun cases were about people who could have simply walked into a gun shop and purchased the gun legally if they wanted to. Your generic street hoodlum doesn't have an Ender 3 at home, they know a guy who knows a guy who has a case of Kel-Tecs.

And as to the last great bugaboo, traceability... There is this myth that if you recover a bullet at scene, there's some master database that lets you figure out what gun it came from, and that there's another database has who owns that gun. Here's the reality:

1) The only "master database" record that exists is who the manufacturer sold the original gun to (by serial number).
2) When the dealer sells the gun to an individual, they keep a record of the sale, but do not report it to the ATF.
3) If an individual sells a gun (to another individual or back to a dealer), they are supposed to keep a record of the sale.
4) The dealer can destroy the records of a gun sale after 20 years.
5) The only way to trace a gun is by the serial number on the registered part of a recovered gun, bullets only tell you that two bullets *may* have come from the same gun.

So the gun the police recover can in fact be traced back, assuming that the user didn't file off the serial numbers, all sales were properly recorded and the records retained, everyone in the chain of ownership is still alive or their records available, none of the sales are over 20 years old, etc.

In short, 3D printed guns are not some easy-mode way to gun ownership. They require gunsmithing skills, are typically about the same price as buying the gun used, and in general are not much less traceable than a normal gun.

I replaced all my SONOS connects with BlueSound node Nano devices. A pricey replacement, but worth it.

As a bonus I was now able to turn off SMB1 on my home Samba server !