To address your comment: Those two things can be true simultaneously. They can be smart and skilled enough to gain access to weapons systems. And they have no ethics or conscious: those concepts do not apply to these machines. They could easily launch said weapons systems either by themselves or by being a tool for a human bad actor. And their existence amplifies the possibility of this scenario.
If I had points I'd vote you up. Unfortunately, a month ago I used the word "slashhasbeen." My 15 mod points 6 times per month disappeared, and now a 5 insightful comment in a thread is only a 3 point comment in my profile. You'd think they'd avoid pushing users away with the already meager userbase they have, especially long-term users like me, but there you have it. I wonder if management knows the editors do this, or are the editors also the C suite of the company?
Ah well. Now it'll probably last even longer.
Sure, there's plenty of fun and humor. But "obfuscate" means to make hidden, unclear, difficult to understand. These are clever parlor tricks at best, made for pretty showings. Nobody is actually reading the code to figure out something subtle and hidden. They just marvel at how pretty the formatting is or the convoluted execution path. It used to all about reading the source, which was written to look normal but hide big surprises, sometimes as poetry. Where are the subtle punctuation marks that completely change a function's behavior, or the occasional whitespace character in a strategic spot? It seems more for artists than programmers now.
I savor the irony. Makes me feel like parking a small EV in front of a gas pump. (Don't live in Texas, don't own an EV, and wouldn't do that to a gas station owner, but still enjoy the irony.)
Just what are these undersea drones expected to do when they come upon a sub messing with a cable? Putting aside a false positive from a legit repair vessel, will it be offensive or just a snitch? If armed, who says they can't be repurposed or hacked to attack a friend's or foe's cable?
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Since when did they desecrate Cape Canaveral by adding war mongering to its name?
Canonical should pay the Internet Archive to keep a read only copy available.
Not true. POTS phones often use mechanical ringers. They take a lot more power than modern phones. A friend of mine likes old princess phones. Modern phone switching stations aren't designed to handle the power draw of five beefy electromagnets from the 60s: Every time he got a call it blew the breakers. They actually asked him to please only plug in one at a time. And no they aren't powered locally. The little transformers they used to plug in just powered their network on your bill, there was no separation between your home and all the others with similar wall warts. Unplug them and your phones would still ring.
Why not carry both? I'm sure they can integrate their functions in interesting ways.
We are growing into a two-speed network. Lightspeed backhaul, WiFi local. Seems like normal evolution/advancement into suoer-cool future tech.
Not a prediction, but a postdiction: Begun the cyberwars have.
Our brains are good at detecting spatial patterns with our eyes. They are better at detecting patterns in time with our ears. I think bringing a new dimension to the task of understanding "dark matter" has merit. It certainly inspires a new approach and way to think about it. The quotes around dark matter are because I think they are way off on what it really is.
How about banning the editors from using AI? They want more output, they expect AI to be the answer; tell the journalists to use AI however they see fit to produce the various articles the editors want. They will be directly engaged and willing to put their names on the final product(s). Editors can give direction and have final say on what is or isn't published, but they aren't supposed to be writing the articles too.
"We show that in almost every case where you use these fibers, this could be a privacy concern."
then
"However, this technique worked only for coiled cables, exposed at the surface, at distances of up to 5 meters from the speaker. Burying the cable under just 20 centimeters of dirt was enough to muddy the speech. And straight cables -- even exposed ones right next to the speaker -- did not record speech well."
So interesting, but sensationalized clickbaity BS of no utility. Moving on, slashhasbeen.
Two of the most awesome, enlightenning experiences of my life were each due to mushrooms. The first was 5 grams of dried, the second was an ounce of fresh. I pretty much saw God, and was so happy I laughed for 45 minutes.
It was kinda like stuffing the wrong card in a computer, when you're stickin' those artificial stimulants in your arm. -- Dion, noted computer scientist
