Asimov's Laws of Robotics can't be encoded using any existing technology. So there is no way to stop bad stuff from being generated at this time.

There are proposals to have 7 day SSL/TLS certs. This is an example of why that could be a major problem. Many Islands are connected by one cable with an old satellite system as backup. Emergency satellite links often don't comply with the local law of the disconnected country or the downlink station.

I would expect the AI to say "fix the core routing network" based on the last problem I had. It turns out the ISP's config is broken for IPv6 BGP via two different backends on their system to the same router on my end. I kept getting the BGP packets on the wrong interface so one link would never come up. I have no idea how that would happen but it did. Oddly the v4 BGP works quite well.

Base load coal power in China is about $25/MWh. Solar panels by the container ship load cost less than $0.20 a watt at the factory. Most of that cost is the energy to make them. A good guess for daily average solar production is 4 hrs a day at 100% power for total power produced over the 20 year expected life of the panel.

When are advertisers going to learn that too many ads run people away from their product. That has been a great deal of technical market research that proves that. The bottom line after increases in ad spend also proves it. I guess the people buying ads haven't collectively figured out that the only people who are falling for the ad agency's BS is the ad buyers, not the end customers. There is plenty of data showing only 2 commercials in a typical sitcom work which is the 1st one past the end and the one before it starts. The rest of the commercials in a sitcom decrease brand value.

The Aussie ABC has a show called Gruen which is about ads and covers the technical and psychological details behind advertising while making fun of bad ads. The show was named after the well studied psychological technique of confusing customers with shop layout.

Retina damage isn't the only eye damage that can be caused by IR lasers. The iris, lenses, muscles and nerves that control them can also be damaged resulting in blindness or serious loss of vision.

If this system can damage a camera, it should not be on the road.

Sun tried that 25 years ago and even today it is hard to find correct examples of how to create the configuration to make it useful. There were a lot of good things in Trusted Solaris that never got used even in most places that decided they needed the "Trusted" version.

It is hard to tell if the sun is upside down but the moon sure is.

What happens in countries that have all their internet links cut at the same time?

I'm still looking for one real world example where a short cert expiry time solved a problem.

The time/date meta data is fine when it is correct with a properly written Makefile. The problem is most projects have never had a proper Makefile which is one of the reasons so many other build systems are out there. People don't seem to know how to build a proper Makefile. When Linus started with Linux, he was using systems that didn't do timestamps correctly and there were ugly hacks to keep things working. Even today some of those concepts have made their way into many other Linux based distros even though the underlying technology was fixed long ago. I think git needs an option to "preserve as much metadata as possible" including the create/modify times. Right now I use a program that pulls that out of git and sets the times which seems like a hack that should be a config file option.

Quite a bit of the new malware will find systems with ssh keys and then use those to probe other systems and hop around. Sshd can be configured to require a key AND a system password which defeats the current round of these attacks.

They are using some other compline's list of bad sites and they won't say who so you can't get off that list. My own personal site was on it for a number of years and then started working again.

They have been censoring abnormal.com for years because it contained hacking related stuff or something vague.

That isn't good news about Redflow going bankrupt. I was hoping their next battery bank would be better priced because they work well in hot conditions.

The article mentions that the storage of flow batteries just requires a bigger tank. That isn't true, it needs a bigger cell as well. The Redflow batteries would add or subtract about a kilogram of metal to the plates between a full and empty state of about 600kg of fluid.

My card from Commbank from this month has a signature panel and the number is printed in a font I can clearly read from 3 meters away. Since it is their common BIN, someone would only need to remember the last 6 digits. At least the expire date is a smaller font but the CVC is right next to to it. The security cameras of every grocery store and bar will pick up all the details.