Is it? When physical borders become damn near become secondary to digital borders, the concept of a firewall ultimately becomes a component of National Security.

Firewalls are sold all day every day without a license, dictatorship, or age restriction. Many a cybersecurity professional have chosen to block entire IP ranges at the network edge devices for one reason. And it's not because a (cough) border firewall needs to channel its inner Mussolini.

If running outbound limiting rules is considered a dictatorship now, then I can't imagine the kind of military approval someone is going to need to deploy the psychological torture device known as an IDS.

Yup - it sounds just like Slashdot

"Adult" films are listed on IMDB, as well as the actors.

That was long post to say "I have no understanding of evangelical Protestantism."

  This is not say there are not a number self described evangelical Protestants who also have as little understanding. These are better described as 'cultural-christian' with lower case Cs, as they have never read a Bible either.

However there is no Christian sect / organization with any significant following that believes anything like what you described there. If anything it sounds more like you're writing about Islam.

I thought it was BS to include them at first, because they're just salespeople, but then I checked IMDB for Billy Mays. Yup, he's there with his infomercials, so I guess it's only fair to include his modern incarnations.

You should look for that answer yourself before asking it. They have many. It may surprise you, but on Capitol Hill, the most popular anchor is Bret Baier. Both parties want to go on his show, and he has guests from both every day.

>"Nope, it doesn't work at all anymore. TiVo discontinued Thumbs Up/Down and Suggestions in early 2023."

Mine records suggestions, every day.
Mine thumbs up and down work fine, every day.

According to my information, only TE4 (Edge) was affected. Mine is a Roamio. I am using TE3. So your statement isn't technically correct. Apparently they discontinued it for TE4 only. I didn't even know that (since it doesn't affect me).

CO2 being an infra red absorber and scatterer really isn't hard to understand for anyone with even a passing understanding of physics. ie not you.

Oh, the irony of AI being smart enough to turn around and tell the grifters to knock the stupid shit off already.

Fun things will happen when the smartest person in the room is no longer human.

And when I say fun things, I mean Skynet.

Not capable of what? Reading?

The classic “script kiddie” should have started World War 3 about 897 times by now if the step-by-step threat was that critical. A 14-year old would find learning how to budget AI tokens is harder to do than following a recipe out of the Anarchist Cookbook. Which happens to be a mayhem 101 guide (available on Amazon! Get yours today!) so old even the Unabomber would have felt old-fashioned browsing it.

Not biology, but material science here. I actually talked to ChatGPT about training local models for my discipline (oh, thw irony).

Apparently my RX 7900 XTX is plenty and I could run and train a Quen 3.5model in the 15-30 bn range. And CgatGPT expects it to be quite capable as a "scientific research assistant", close enough to frontier models to never look back.

Experiment hasn't started yet (there's more to the story, the main part being how to set up the training material - I'm in a fairly unique position), but it sounds encouraging that I don't need to sell my house for this just yet. :-)

I think the infographic they put out said that the "always listening" features were not available in the EU and China. Although honestly I don't see how anyone can trust the hardware when the "always recording conversations" features are part of the SIP.

I can't wait to see how many places ban this Apple Watch entirely. First, there's no way this is legal in two-party consent states, and I don't care how Apple tries to re-define "record."

Secondly, I don't think anyone really cares how secure Apple says "Private Cloud Compute" is, no one is going to trust that a device that's designed to "listen" (but not "record") every conversation in the vicinity isn't "recording" especially when it can produce an AI summary of a conversation.

There's no way this Apple Watch will be allowed in government buildings or anywhere else that people may not want to be recorded, no matter Apple's privacy claims. I expect to see "No Apple Watch Allowed" signs start appearing all over the place once this releases.

Haven't you seen Idiocracy? Fox lets Pete and Bernie on their network every once in awhile so their viewers can point and laugh at the "faggot" and the "communist". These people don't even hear the argument, they just see the caricatures Fox has created for them.

The problem with your theory is that if these people really had a problem with "sin" per se, they wouldn't have held their noses and voted for Trump.

Some of these folks don't like the idea of the world being different than the one they grew up in. Others don't want their kids growing up in a world that's different than the one they grew up in. You've also got the control freak weirdos who don't even have kids but hate the idea of other people's kids growing up in a world that's different from the one they grew up in.

Lastly, you've got some folks who just really find the concept of two people of the same sex getting freaky with each other to be disgusting. It's like if you knew your neighbor was beating puppies to death in his house, that'd probably bother you, right? Well, now imagine you've got some weird irrational miswiring in your brain that puts gay sex on the same level as beating puppies to death. Those are the people you just have to wait for them to age out of society before their homophobia finally goes away.