More like increase costs for everyone as cyber insurance rates go through the roof and are passed on to the customer.

IMO buying and selling are a matter of gambling on which way you think other people gamble.

I know what .rar and .gz are. If .lz is something similar, maybe dark matter is a compression artifact.

I'm sure that hopping on the AI bandwagon will fix everything.

The fact that it makes a big cloud around a galaxy or cluster rather than collapsing puts a lot of constraints on what it can do.

For more info, you'll have to go to someone who knows more about it than what I've read on science-news websites.

Dark energy is a real puzzle. As I understand it, it's too weak by a factor of 10^30 or 10^60 in comparison from what we should expect the known vacuum energy would cause. You see this mentioned very occasionally, but most treatments of DE that a layman runs across just ignore it in favor of wringing their hands over some issue that is trivial in comparison.

Some boffin cam up with that idea, but they rule it out because DM apparently doesn't interact with itself (very much) other than by gravity, so it can't clump up tight like a star or a planet or a living thing. (Something to do with shedding energy, IIRC.)

But it's a cool idea. If I were a novelist I'd run with it.

Sure you can change miles to km, it's in settings under "Units of Measure"

No option for fathoms or leagues, though. I'd actually prefer to use rods. It just makes sense to me that 1 mile should be 320 rods.

Interesting also how he fantasizes about needing get someone else to do it for him.

I think this is what he daydreams about when he wanks.

WOW that's low.

Chinese bots don't need to fuel anti-data center sentiment.

Is this really a crazy psyop to make me doubt my own convictions against data centers? Wow, the balls on these soulless scum...

Have you ever actually got charges filed from your footage of those people walking off with your packages or crashing into your parked cars? Or was it just to fulfill your sick curiosity?

Sometimes there's an advantage to "whatever will be" and not obsessing over it.

I think they mean the licensing is "all digital." Just an entitlement associated with your account on their servers.

It has happened under both.

I agree, that's what I initially thought as well. A backdoor is supposed to be a built-in feature, possibly covertly added, but a designed-in part of the software nevertheless. This sounds more like a particulary sneaky remote access trojan.

You have to wonder though, if it is behind a NAT and Firewall like most PCs, how does it receive the magic packet if it doesn't phone home? It must be designed to be used against a specially targeted victim.

If you were worried about being chased by kill bots, go and watch some videos from drone operators in Ukraine. Robots don't need feet for that job.