This is a good place to mention my very first post on social media. It was here on Slashdot. The thread was about a rise in shrunken and mutated genitals on amphibians. Everyone was positing causes like plastic or meds in the water supply. My comment, titled "What this really means" was "Us old guys have bigger dicks than all you young wiseasses. Now get off my lawn, pansies!
We've been talking about this for a long time, well before cellphones.
To address your comment: Those two things can be true simultaneously. They can be smart and skilled enough to gain access to weapons systems. And they have no ethics or conscious: those concepts do not apply to these machines. They could easily launch said weapons systems either by themselves or by being a tool for a human bad actor. And their existence amplifies the possibility of this scenario.
If I had points I'd vote you up. Unfortunately, a month ago I used the word "slashhasbeen." My 15 mod points 6 times per month disappeared, and now a 5 insightful comment in a thread is only a 3 point comment in my profile. You'd think they'd avoid pushing users away with the already meager userbase they have, especially long-term users like me, but there you have it. I wonder if management knows the editors do this, or are the editors also the C suite of the company?
Ah well. Now it'll probably last even longer.
Hmm, let's check:
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No, no, you're totally right, this has everything to do with McDonalds as some kind of appeasement to Darth Cheeto rather than referencing some location in California. Well spotted!
Producing a lot of power for a few seconds is one thing, maintaining it for any significant length of time is quite another when you only have sunlight to rely on.
Do you actually need to do it for extended periods, though? All you have to do it make it intermittently unreliable for a few minutes at a time in order to potentially make it unusable in a war zone (if your GPS guided bombs/cruise missiles have a high probability of going off target, you're not going to use them and fall back on laser guided bombs / inertially guided cruise missiles, for example).
It sounds like at least at some point, Donut Labs genuinely believed that CT Coatings actually had a revolutionary battery tech, and would eventually be able to supply it to them, per leaked emails between the companies, and maybe the initial fakery by Donut was just trying to bridge the gap until CT Coatings delivered what they promised.
Err... "we were only defrauding people until we could figure out how to make the snake oil actually work" is still fraud. No amount of handwaving gets you passed that.
From the summary, that does not seem to be the case. It merely identified a similar car at another location. The police are responsible for looking at the image and the metadata to figure out if it is the same, or a different, car. The police and courts, not Flock, determine if there is "reasonable cause" for an arrest.
In some states you're not required to have insurance on a car operated on public streets - you can, for example, post a surety bond instead.
Of course doing so won't give you insurance company lawyers to defend you perhaps even beyond their liability under their "duty to defend". You will also still owe the damages if any as the bond only covers the case where you fail to pay a judgement (and then the bonding entity will come after you for whatever they paid plus expenses to, perhaps only partially, cover the judgement).
Sure, there's plenty of fun and humor. But "obfuscate" means to make hidden, unclear, difficult to understand. These are clever parlor tricks at best, made for pretty showings. Nobody is actually reading the code to figure out something subtle and hidden. They just marvel at how pretty the formatting is or the convoluted execution path. It used to all about reading the source, which was written to look normal but hide big surprises, sometimes as poetry. Where are the subtle punctuation marks that completely change a function's behavior, or the occasional whitespace character in a strategic spot? It seems more for artists than programmers now.
No one is using well-known ports for anything legitimate that isn't the associated service. Anything spun up on e.g. 110 that isn't a POP server is going to inherently be questionable.
The people who block ports pointlessly just because they've been abused in the ancient past are idiots too.
You'll want to amplify on this, because blocking a well-known port for an insecure protocol has no downsides. Nothing legitimate is going to be spun up on e.g. 110, why would you leave it open vs blocking it?
As O'Brien passed the telescreen a thought seemed to strike him. He stopped, turned aside and pressed a switch on the wall. There was a sharp snap. The voice had stopped.
Julia uttered a tiny sound, a sort of squeak of surprise. Even in the midst of his panic, Winston was too much taken aback to be able to hold his tongue.
'You can turn it off!' he said.
'Yes,' said O'Brien, 'we can turn it off. We have that privilege.'
I savor the irony. Makes me feel like parking a small EV in front of a gas pump. (Don't live in Texas, don't own an EV, and wouldn't do that to a gas station owner, but still enjoy the irony.)
Just what are these undersea drones expected to do when they come upon a sub messing with a cable? Putting aside a false positive from a legit repair vessel, will it be offensive or just a snitch? If armed, who says they can't be repurposed or hacked to attack a friend's or foe's cable?
Porque no las dos?
Do not use the blue keys on this terminal.
