Couldn't start a flood.

Starting a fire with petrol is too expensive, especially in Germany.

Downloading your own virus and nuking the IT infrustructure! Yup, that'll do it.

Yes ... and no.

Some tasks become easier to automate. Like coding.

But, it is still left to interpret what the user wants. AI can't do that ... yet. And perhaps never. This isn't because AI is deficient, it's because the user does not know what they want.

What will be replaced is a worker who inputs data, checks the input matches expected output and then clicks SEND. Very little to zero value added. And in every workplace, there are a lot of those types of people. Never, ever had an original thought in the workplace.

Then there are those that literally cannot ask a specific, logical question. They might be able to google/ddg "Poker 4 of a kind" but could not think their way to ask "What are the odds of having 2 sets of 4 of a kind in Texas hold'em in a single round when there are 6 players".

Less easy, but not impossible to replace at those that actually do some thinking.

So, if you can ask users the right questions, ask the hidden questions and employ AI to automate routine tasks, I think you'll do ok.

Got to stay active. I see it before me, now. My mum is one of a (non-identical) twin. The difference between her and her sister could not be more stark.

My mum plays golf and bowls regularly and has an active social life. My aunt is/was a "shut in" for the last 30+ years. I suspect a bit of mental illness played its part there. However, mum mostly has her marbles still, and can drive, shop and do most of the "real-lfe" things. My aunt is basically in gods waiting room and has her basic needs seen to by others.

This going to trial (and the UKs Teco also going to trial), might end badly for the software industry. There might actually get to be some formal ruling on what "perpetual" means. Ditto "Lifetime" and "Support".

At the moment, these terms are whatever the vendor says they are. They might become what a judge says they are. And that could be good or bad for consumers depending upon the ruling.

However, it could be even worse for vendors as now there is a line in the sand. No doubt, once the dust is settled (ie, appealed to hell over the next decade and bit), the lawyers will have pisseed on the line in the sand to have still some opacity for the vendors to wriggle out of.

MS, Oracle, IBM, et al my quietly push Broadcom to settle out of court, for all their sakes.

It's far, far, far older than that.

There was a day that, indeed, 640k was enough for anybody and a 40Meg hard drive was as much as a good second hand smallish car.

I can remember the 80s. It was rife. Everywhere was somebody making a bid for some other company, even just for the realestate and other assets. Bang, a dvision sold off, moving from prime real estate to "sticks" and the waterfront being developed for a soulless luxury hotel or apartments.

Of course, it was all with other people's money. Sometime, the purchased firms own money, And one day, the money stopped and the 80s were really over.

Do I really need to say "now get off my lawn" at this point? Because if you don't I'm going to shake my fist at some clouds and then take a mid-afternoon nap.

Same genetic background. I trust them as far as I can spit a rat.

Anyway, there are free and paid for solutions, with and without support that fit the bill at least as well as this one. Nothing stands out about the offer.

I agree. Ads which cover 80% of content, popup, popunder, music, impossible to close, super repetitive, super repetitive, super repetitive, purposely distractive, should be blown to heck.

Sometimes, I turn off my ad blockers. The interweb is unusable. Just crap. Half the websites I'd never, ever use at all if I didn't have an ad-blocker.

I don't have any problem with content producers getting paid for their work through ad revenue. I have a problem with them festooning their content with so many fucking ads that I can't get TO the content. - I can't agree more.

And homophobia!
And misogyny!
And ageism!
And regligous bigotry!
And partisanal bias!
And, if all else fails, a deep distrust of everything different from oneself!

So, practically all copy were corrupt then. And now.

1 - People with those skills might actually say "Go to Hell" if posted with morally grey, or downright illegal task.
2 - Managers like "yes" men/women/other
3 - It hurts profit to think. Just DOOOOO.
4 - Never mind the quality, feel the width

Because the Intel Mac, was, I think, the last of 27inch 4k screens. And it is beautiful to look at and use.

During Corona WFH I would use this beast to Remote Desktop in to my work laptop. Because it was so much nicer. Then, after a break for dinner and some excercise, I could spend a couple of hours studying my Masters using the same machine.

Now, I haven't need process heavy tasks, a little transcoding aside. I could have done it CPU bound or accept the compromise and use the Video Toolbox, which produces beautiful (if larger) files.

Although Apple might be dropping support for the Intel Mac, I'd hope for one last bug fix release of Tahoe before it goes in to the long twighlight beyond.

money is not necessarily the answer. It may however, compensate the victim.

However, it does not punish the perpetrator. Knowingly or not, somone has had their liberty stolen from them. I wold propose that from the cop issuing the citation, up the chain of command, they all be forced to the same prison/lockup/facility that the innocent was subjected to, for the same amount of time.

Person in the slammer for 20 years on a false conviction, facked evidence, etc? Thats about 7300 days for Office Joe, Seargent Schmuck, Luftenant Loser, Captain Jack of no-spades and Comissioner Looney-Bin.

Double, if it was malicious. That will make a few sit up and take notice. It would be very effective. "To serve and protect" ... my arse. "To server and protect ... the officers".

Agreed.

They have planted a certificate in their software. Expiration date +- 10 years. Why not 20? 50? 100? I don't believe they are using a CRL for that certificate. Otherwise, it would be too easy to kill the cert. They knew it was time limited. But they sold it as perpetual.

That's clearly misreprsentation too me. Fraud.

The fixes are easy. (1) an update can simply for another 10 years, or (2) remove the need for the activation server. Heck, the 2nd is simply a a GOTO statement to bypass the affected code.

You pretty much have to produce content that follows an established formula or audiences^W shareholders won't like it.

FTFY

No, not all still exist. I know, I was there and have the unemployment to show for it.

But enough exist that there are managers paid well enough to kick the can down the road while failing to make any meaningful improvements.

You build mass transit systems like you build networks.

Access nodes, hubs and cores. At the access level is a bus, or potentially a tram (not a streetcar). Think last mile. Well, kilometer. But it's probably more than that, but you get the idea. Buses should connect at some point to the trunk route. They should be accessible by walking not more than 1km, ideally a bit less. Stops should be frequent enough to be accessible but not so often as the trip bogs down to an endless stop-start-stop-start.

Trunks are Rail (or light rail), connect at the hubs. Separated right of way, mostly. This allows express running and stops are several km between them (eg, 5km, plus or minus). Fast enough to get going and beat traffic. Ideally they should have some commercial activity "on the door step". Like a major hospital, university, shopping district or commercial district. Not in the middle of a sprawl. Target top speed 100km/h to 160km/h for longer stretches.

Core routes are then high speed rail targets. 20 to 50km apart. Linked to other neighbour cores directly. Target top speed 200 to 200km/h

Occasionally you'll get super "Core", such as state, or national capitals or major urban areas. The target top speed would be 300km/h or more.

The whole lot if of course "Token Ring" and fixed slots. (Cars are more Ethernet)

Of coruse, that's the theory. In reality with have (1) geography and (2) the reality of how land is used now based on potentially hundreds of years of use. Good luck fixing that.