If the US gave Israel half a dozen nukes tomorrow, what do you think they would do with them other than add them to their inventory? Do you think they would randomly drop one on Dubai, just for shits and giggles? Hit the UAE next, and then threaten Great Britain with another?

Now dare tell me what the fuck Iran would do with the same. To innocent civilians first.

It gets really old trying to get civilians to understand the difference between a sane leader and a fanatical terrorist. If the leader of Iran was told they needed to ride the ICBM personally in order to hit their target, they'd be installing seat belts by the end of this sentence.

It also gets old reminding Democrats exactly who created President Trump. Twice. There wouldn't be a massive ICE movement at all if America didn't elect an Open Border Czar for the last four years. Inactions have consequences. (They don't teach that at Learing centers.)

The Deporter in Chief Obama also proved that with the FULL support of the corrupt MSM you can deport WAY more illegal immigrants and be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize and standing ovations in Congress for doing it. I guess the problem of deportation is merely down to marketing.

npm is a problem. It's this massive, unvetted self-publishing repository without any easy way to verify the origin of packages, and the packages largely get installed directly to production on billions of sites every day without any vetting or review.

It's crazy, like something out of the 90s.

Yes, supply attacks like those carried out against npm are pretty common in general, at the state actor level. There've been a couple fun ones in recent years. But the openness and lack of basic precautions surrounding npm in conjunctions with common development practice just makes it a recipe for disaster.

>"Your experience is not an indication of a good practice."

My experience is normally updating frequently. But it is still on my schedule, when I choose to do it. I wouldn't say it is bad practice, especially since I am aware when the rare high-priority update is released. The few that are not updated that I mentioned are those that are intentionally isolated (and are safe regardless).

>"Linux is somewhat sheltered because of its low adoption as a desktop operating system."

That is true. But it is also generally more secure, outside of its obscurity. And updates usually come out much faster. And most do not require rebooting.

>"What a shit show Microsoft has become."

I don't remember it NOT being. Although I guess it depends on comparisons to which point in the show.

And I thought I heard they were 'listening to their users' and trying to undo some of their "mistakes". Hmm. Any word yet of removing forced cloud logins? Ads in the menus? Changing browser choice/settings without permission? Removing artificial hardware requirements? Opting out of "AI"?

>"These days, it's literally not even *safe* to fail to upgrade to the latest version of whatever software.[...]The days of upgrading when you want to, are a relic of the 1990s."

Seems to work fine for Linux. I update only when I choose to on all my machines. Granted, I don't let most of them get much behind. But there are those that are intentionally left alone, and need to be, for various complex reasons.

Take a good hard look at the average multi-millionaire beach body and understand affordability has fuck-all to do with it.

There's a reason Hollyweird looks like a 2027 documentary on GLP-1 addiction and abuse. They can afford healthy food, personal trainers, and the best gyms all day every day and they STILL choose the shortcut.

There are probably many methods to ensure that AI can do something accurately and correctly.

Ever wonder how many methods there are to manipulate and convince AI that it's wrong?

Today's AI tends to remind me of Google hacking 20+ years ago. I fear the early days can present challenges we haven't even thought of trying to curtail or control yet.

Why does my taxpaying wallet have a feeling someone at NASA wearing a badge titled "Space Camera Technician" (AKA one-fucking-job), is quietly sweating in a corner somewhere, hoping they also didn't forget to format that memory card after borrowing it to play patty-cake on St. Patty's Patty..

We name the new AI "PT Barnum" and turn it up to 11 via a Spinal Tap.

Then we fire up the industrial popcorn machine, and remember the good ol' days.

Good luck to anyone born after nineteen-hundred-the-fuck-off-my-lawn.

Nah, AWS provides logistics to military and intelligence and has for quite a while.

It's tough to argue, "these aren't military targets, we just rent the equipment and provide services to the military for hundreds of billions of dollars."

Which is probably what people will argue.

"lossy compression"

Yes, just like human memory.

If I read a bunch of books from a series and extrapolate based on them to form something similar, it's not plagiarism.

If I read your book, then write a book using a similar voice, style, and plot, and do it in a different language - it's not plagiarism if I offer citation. Likewise, if I do so with a verbatim copy in another language. It's an independent effort.

Ultimately, it boils down to what you can get away with. Considering how trivial it is now to re-implement things, I'd say the chance of license enforcement is close to zero for anything open source except in extremely rare situations where there's a lot of money involved.

The mullahs thank you for your support.

No (imaginary) kings! Just (real) totalitarian theocrats, please!

Do they only have to state a reason or does somebody have to adjudicate whether that reason is validly "justified"? We have a Public Utilities Commission here that pretends to do such things.

Or is this one of these, "you can't know, so try it and a judge will tell you what the law was" sort of things?

Maybe somebody who understands Italian jurisprudence can clarify their theory of law.

Heaven forbid we should have the right to even the tiniest bit of sovereignty over things we have paid for. I hope the state of Colorado takes these guys to the mattresses.

Anyone charging hundreds of dollars per hour for their work had better damned well be doing it. Not only should they be sanctioned by the courts, but they should face criminal fraud charges. If the courts want to put a stop to this they had better get serious now and stop handing out slaps on the wrist. Multiply the sanctions by an order of magnitude and give opposing counsel a 30% finder's fee to encourage additional vigilance and it'll quickly stop.