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Comment Re:Who? (Score 1) 84

He a typical nerd left loonie who thinks that dissing anyone who uses or makes money makes him great for "sticking it to the man". Same sort of guy who think his users are nuts, laughs at people who do not use leet command line UIs and jacks of to ASCII Art Porn in his mother basement because he cannot interact with real humans. And only Open Source ASCII Art Porn Written by other nerds in Vi. AI is definitely not on, and if it is closed source... wel it involves money so it is not leeeeet enough.

Comment Re:hostility (Score 1) 70

The whole Cold War was about the Soviets/Russians being able to just completely change your precious country into radioactive glass with people living in the Stone Age. Ok, glass age.

“Take over” is. It the point. “Eliminate rivals” is the point. And I can ensure you the Russians have threatened, have tried and and will again. The US, believe it or not, is not a hermetically sealed block. It depends on external inputs and very definitely depends on other countries to buy your exports. And the Russians are most assuredly threaten your customers. They threatened to nuke the Chinese outright in the late 60s.

And then there is the election interference and Russian money in politics. The Russian mob bailed Trump out after he bankrupted a casino. Twice. Buying politicians is not the same as boots in the ground, no. But it most assuredly comes asymptotically close to “take over”

They also distract your attention and resources. The whole mess in the Middle East was made much much worse when the Soviets invaded Irans weak neighbor, Afghanistan, in 1979. The plan was to exploit the Iranian revolution and move their forces closer to the oil fields. Before that the US was not all that interested in the Persian Gulf. After that they had the entire 5th fleet based there. That war ultimately ended in 9/11 because the US was sort of forced to give money to the Jihadis to fight the Russians.

Comment Maybe the ultim killer app will be legal/political (Score 1) 112

Ever since I started writing code in 1980, I've continually wondered if we'll ever reach a plateau where consumer-affordable tech is so good the average person won't need it to advance anymore. Eventually computing and networking will be fast enough, and storage will be huge enough, that we can all essentially have full copies of the Internet on our phones (or whatever), and intelligent, locally-running agents that can tell us anything we want to know, conversationally in realtime, including results that require analysis. At that point what would a faster or bigger computer do for you? Hardware and software will definitely get there, but getting permission to have and manipulate the content will be an even bigger barrier. I don't see a scenario like this happening as long as economics is still a force in the world. Food and electricity will probably be free before information will.

Comment Re: Exactly what every IT dept needs (Score -1, Troll) 69

Red. Frakking. Mine?

Sitting your moms basement looking at ASCII Art Porn and whining that the boobs are not open-source, written with Vi by other nerds does not qualify you as a UI engineer. And yet... these people wrote RedMine claiming that it is good because "ITS FREE!!!". Do you know what else is free? Syphilis. I don't want that either.

Seriously, Redmine is the ultimate expression of the concept of "Hack Job by Linux Nerds who think UI Design is for La-Di-Da College Types"

Redmine sucks donkeyballs.

Comment Re:Anyone and everyone mentioning AI (Score 1) 61

This. Hint for them: probabilistic Monte Carlo algorithms are not AI and they have been around forever.

In fact, the Metropolis algorithm was develops by Nicolas Metropolis in the 50s to model neutron flux in thermonuclear explosions. It is now widely used to model photon flux in you favorite movie CGI so in a way nuclear weapons and you beloved Netflix shows have AI inside of them if you go by that lame definition

Comment Re:Your AI designed personal computer! (Score 1) 71

Not good enough. The bunker needs to be buried 2km deep on a remote island in the antarctic and "surveillance" means a battallion of marines, paid 10x their salary in gold backed by an aircraft carrier task force. Maybe, maybe then it will be safe. No guarantees.

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