There is some necessary secrecy around military operations, and where there is doubt, it's generally beneficial to err on the side of caution. And this is a reasonable thing to accept unless the whole nation is subservient to the military. And look at where the money goes... it is. But it's not really the military, is it? It's really the corporations which profit from supplying it.

But if your goal is national defense, shouldn't you cap those profits? Not doing so decreases military readiness through overspending.

Because it's a shitty strategy and they are stupid fuckups. But we knew that already because they are also crypto cucks

You do know that nobody but the editors decide which content you're going to see, right? It's called maximizing engagement and they give absolutely zero fucks about anything else.

Not creating an account doesn't mean you don't have a shadow account.

It's proven by it constantly giving bullshit results. We've seen it here over and over again. Maybe it weights the real tests like bullshit? Who knows.

I have a LG TV and it sucks. I have a HiSense TV and it also sucks, but it sucks cheaper.

You were doing okay until you got to "geekbench" as it does not accurately model ANY loads on ANY platform.

"Spikes in the electric currents burned out servo motors"

Sigh. Can we somehow stop clowns from writing tech articles?

For a human media personality these sudden discoveries of God always seem to precede a rape scandal. I didn't even know a LLM could fuck.

Time to trot out my sig again, sigh: "The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity."

Biotech if used well could make the Earth near a paradise of abundance for all. Or people could create and enforce artificial scarcity with biotech. People make choices every day about which future they are working towards.

As Bucky Fuller wrote: "Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe."

Payroll is definitely a very common case for Windows use. I was a sysadmin at a small company where the only Windows systems were in HR/Payroll, everything else was SunOS except the one SGI machine.

It's really not decryption, is it? Unlocking remains a pretty good description. But more importantly, who would guess randomly? You should be able to model the interactions by now and determine which of them are likely to work. Your attackers are likely to be people with the ability to sequence your creation anyway.

I'm not in France, but I work for and have also previously worked for government. The specific document templates are all in PDF now. If a word document isn't exactly the right format it doesn't matter. We do use forms like that, but it's completely inconsequential if the formatting is a bit wrong as long as the data is on it. Where the formatting matters, it's always a PDF. More and more of our work is done via web, many of the PDFs are generated from software on the web. There is absolutely zero reason why most of us could not do our jobs completely on Linux with virtually no retraining because all the bits we interact with work almost the same by default, and can be configured to work exactly the same in practice.

Yeah, but that's stupid right? Because the USA has been Team America World Police ever since WWII. We delayed entry into that conflict even though we knew the holocaust was occurring with the excuse that it was politically untenable, with Americans still being fatigued over WWI. But "conveniently" it also meant our "allies" were getting bombed while we grew our manufacturing capacity. And that allowed the conflict to grow as well, because we weren't the only ones building factories, the Axis wasn't thumb-sitting. But that's just the tip of the dick, because we were also war profiteering, for example selling fuel and metals to the Nazis. We actually didn't just not help fight in a timely fashion, we grew the conflict and got rich from it! And besides the parties who profited from it, nobody knows this better than Germany! QED, all of Europe but especially Germany should have known better than to adopt Microsoft in the first place. No one else is in a better position to know exactly what we are — solely self-interested.

You buy the loot box, or buy points to get the loot box. The loot box contents are either transferable or not. If they are, then you can sell them (whether the platform "allows" this behavior or not) and they therefore have a cash value. Therefore the returns (potential or realized) are in the form of money. If you don't ignore these important facts, then you'll realize that loot boxes can be and often are gambling.

This isn't new, it's just slightly more transparent. Consider the tax rate for capital gains differing from the tax rate for wages.