In other news a whopping 37% of Americans use AI for work tasks!

Yeah, they kind of lost credibility with me here. Parallel computing has been around since the 50's. Some of it is still done through time slicing but multi-core processors and specialty instruction set cores have been around for more than a decade.

I hope the cards are less expensive since they will lose all of their resale value when and if crypto becomes unprofitable again. I'm also curious as to why the hash rates are relatively low. You can get about 60MH/s from a 3060 Ti or 3070 and over 100 on a 3090. I don't think miners are going to warm up to this product SKU unless the price is considerably lower or the performance is higher than their counterparts. Decreasing consumer surplus usually isn't a good way to introduce an offering to the market.

If government authorities insist that we have no private data....they must do the same. It's like freedom of speech: You can only have it in a society if you allow others the same liberty...otherwise it doesn't work. If this body insists that all private information should be freely available...they must also comply. If they don't...they must state the reasons. As they are making these statements they will be providing all of the obvious arguments supporting the importance of privacy. Catch-22 bitch.

You could always run pfsense or Untangle...something like that in a VM and use it to securely route and monitor your workstation VM.

We are constantly ceasing to be exactly what we were a moment ago and becoming something completely different. We exist in a different place in the universe, our molecules have all changed in relation to one another...but for tax purposes, we get to keep the same social security number. The important note is, we're constantly changing and being hurled through the universe while still maintaining our identity. So if we cease to exist at one coordinate, and are lucky enough to continue to exist elsewhere...that's nothing new. It's really just a matter of degree.

I know enough about Bitcoin to find this highly dubious, but not enough about it to say it's impossible. I'm certain that blockchain technology can be used to store files and images...it can be used to store any sort of information, just like any file system, notebook, or bathroom stall. In my limited understanding the Bitcoin ledger works by presenting a string to decrypt wiith an intended possibility of error....thousands of computers work on the decryption and come up with a solution. When a large number of them come up with the same conclusion, that's written to the ledger and the computer, or pool of computers are credited a portion of bitcoin....I suppose that if you used a computer that also served illegal content then the IP could get into the Bitcoin blockchain. I don't see how any intentional images would be possible without using ASCII art and a great deal of imagination. I suspect this is an article with an agenda....

Good critical thinking should never be abandoned because we defer to the source of the arguments put forth. From many religions to Hitler this has proven over and over again to be a bad road to go down. Completely untrustworthy people can be right sometimes. The most rigid researcher can make a mistake. I agree that truth and validity are becoming more important. The way to recognize them, and to distinguish sound arguments from unsound arguments is to apply good critical thinking skills. Unfortunately Logic is a university level course. It really should be taught in Jr. High, and touched upon in Elementary. This would certainly boost the IQ of the general populace...which is maybe why it isn't taught. Politicians and governments get away with too many things because the people they rule don't seem to have very good bullshit detectors.

I think that we could somehow leverage Blockchain technology from top to bottom, weâ(TM)d see a more realistic representation of voters. Votes can still be manipulated through gerrymandering and the like, but at least we would have real and transparent numbers on the other side of the equation.

I see these iterations as consumers filling the os makers need for recurring revenue, and it can be disruptive. Most businesses need a foundation of policy and procedure. The way they print, scan, and even read email attachments often changes when a new os comes out. Often their mission critical software doesnâ(TM)t support the os, and in order to upgrade work around and compromises have to be made to a system that was secure, reliable, and predictable. I know at least one government is still using Windows 7. Most of the bugs and security issues have been worked out. Expensive custom made software remains compatible. Companies need stability, and a new OS is invariably disruptive. This is why many kiosks mobile computing systems and telephone systems are still using NT, CE, and OS/2. The investment of integrating these systems into a highly secure and well documented infrastructure is just too expensive or impractical to do every year, or every 5 years. Microsoft moving to a subscription based scheme is probably a good compromise. Clients can keep using the systems they have in place, people can be trained, and documentation doesnâ(TM)t need to be recreated every year. Of course the OS makers keep trying to push these organisations to use the new systems by taking away support, and creating new applications incompatible with older OSâ(TM)s. This will probably always be a point of contention.

Beam your old Atari to randomly placed monitors in the house.

We could all be using satellite phones now...but they're not commercially viable...capability does not equal widely applicable. Especially technological capacity in its infancy. We could theoretically all be travelling in electromagnetic floating cars...but we're not...it's technically feasible...but not practical or commercially viable at this point in time...so...even though Tesla demonstrated wireless electricity in the 1800's...we're just now coming into induction charging as a regular thing. We're still not powering every device in our house through one central electrical generator...it's all being worked on though folks...you just can't get it cheap now...

Although obviously the new guy fucked up...unless his job was to be solely responsible for the repository...he probably shouldn't be fired. He's pointed out a systemic issue with the system...and punishing him for it isn't reasonable. I don't know all of the details...but on first glance...the people responsible are looking anywhere else for the blame. Typical.

This is one of the articles which makes me sick about Alarmist claims of Malware....and it applies to most malware. For it to work the user would have to point port 22 to their device...and if they have the savvy to do this, they would of course password the device as well...we're in much less danger than we're lead to believe..

So it looks like they're simply getting the IP address of the downloader and running VLC client against it. Is there any actual code in the file, or do they simply hope the user is running VLC server without password?