No, the competition is just getting started.

The thing is, there's money to be made in AI, LOTS of money. And that will motivate all kinds of competition. Sam Altman should be shaking in his boots.

Every single office network everywhere, is vulnerable to trivial attacks. The human being is the weakest link in the security chain, as this story demonstrates.

Your house is also vulnerable to physical intrusion. If a thief wants in, and your door is locked, they can just break a window. That's pretty trivial.

Security, both physical and digital, is only as effective as people's respect for boundaries.

A "political faux pas," and sabotage, are two very different things. The first deserves being "let go", the second deserves presecution.

Yes, agree.

Computer crimes may seem "unreal" to people who spend a lot of time on computers. I mean, video games just give you another life when you "die." But the damage is real.

If this guy had set fire to his office, causing $800K of damage, the reaction might be a little different.

Windows installs do happen from time to time, my point was that they are not *typical*.

Your problem here seems to be CloneZilla's lack of support for disk encryption, not necessarily with Windows itself.

Honestly, I wouldn't recommend trying to clone a disk when installing a new version of Windows. The "cloning" process often copies garbage you don't want. Reinstalling from scratch doesn't usually take much longer than cloning (for most people) and you get a cleaner system.

If you want to turn off disk encryption, just go to Settings and search for "Device Encryption".

Don't worry, as soon as they get enough people hooked, they'll bring back the ads.

Well, it means "super intelligent" of course!

It only seems like a step to human irrelevance to some people. To those of us who actually use AI, we see that it is little more than a slick toy. It can do some amazing tricks, and it can even save you some time, but you can NOT trust it.

When Klarna comes along and says it is replacing people with AI, what they don't tell you is that their net losses increased by 10x in the last year. The whole shtick about replacing people with AI, is just a smokescreen for "we're losing money and letting people go, but we want to make it sound positive."

My oldest son hated homework. We had to push and prod him to get it done. Finally, in high school Spanish, we decided to let nature take its course. He blew off his homework, and failed the class. Suddenly, he realized that failure was a possibility! He had to retake the class. After that failure, we never had to push him to do his homework again.

These days, schools have forgotten that failure is not, in itself, a bad thing. Too many give everyone A's and B's just for showing up in class. The reality is, failure is a better teacher than success.

I get your frustration, but I'm having trouble following your proposal.

If you're on Windows, Windows (Microsoft) decides how everything works.
If you're on Mac, Apple decides how everything works.
If you're on Linux, the Linux OS decides how everything works.

What is a plain-old file system, exactly?

Whatever one might think about Microsoft and it's AI push, your experience is not typical. I've set up numerous Microsoft laptops and desktops. Most work correctly out of the box. Some need updates, but when they do, it's usually a few minutes, not a few days. Blue/black screens of death are very rare these days.

You're right, I am clueless about your argument, because you haven't provided any.

From a climate change impact perspective, it doesn't matter what the motivation is. Technologies like solar and wind power do impact climate change, whether the motivation is money, or climate.

There's an "official" arbiter of which generation uses the worst passwords? Who knew!

Even trickier, pa$$w0rd!