>"Still, the XPS comes with compromises of its own"

Yeah, it runs MS-Windows 11.

FYI: Apple discontinued their Time Capsule in 2018 without replacement.

Is there an objective basis for this or are you merely relying on personal feelings?

Here we go again this time with a rather cult classic of circular arguments. Murder is defined as a crime and not just any crime.. an unlawful one.

"the crime of unlawfully and unjustifiably killing a person"
https://www.merriam-webster.co...

I don't see a path to further butchering language by asserting crime is unmoored from law therefore murder is also unmoored from law since the definition of murder explicitly constrains crime to unlawful killing. Perhaps shop around for a different definition somewhere else that better suits your needs?

Alternately you could always claim unlawful means "not morally right" and is therefore consistent. Asserting unlawful means something other than against the law has the problem of sounding even more absurd to other living human beings than your previous invocation of crime.

Either way both in terms of linkage to law or to morality the argument "murder is always wrong" is a circular argument. Anyone who agrees with the law or finds a killing immoral will view it as murder. Anyone who disagrees with law and finds the killing moral will not view it as murder. Either way "murder is always wrong" is a circular statement.

I have not justified anything. What I have done was point out the fact human evaluations of what is right and wrong can be in diametric conflict.

Circular arguments are merely meaningless manipulations of language. They have no value of any kind.

the answer to that one is actually kind of obvious, IMHO where do put large number of gold bars that does not result in people asking a lot of questions?

Safety deposit boxes? - I guess if spread it around enough separate banks, you have some privacy accessing the box (usually) but you still are not the only one handling it, gold is very very put much of it a given box and it might raise questions. One nosy bank manager might become a real problem quickly.

Bury it in the woods? - That works unless someone finds it, how undisturbed can make the local landscape appear? Did anyone say a local sheriff, game warden, etc get curious about that pickup beside the road?

Even transport carries a lot of risk, - what if you get pulled over, and an over zealous officer decides to search the car? Sure legally you might be able to get the discovery excluded from evidence but you're not getting the gold back..

Given it someone else? - Who do you that both won't ask questions, is dishonest enough to help you do something they reasonably can guess isn't on the up and up, and also trusty worthy enough to not help themselves?

40 million in gold without some documentation as to why you have it is rather a problem. Even you hammered it into look alikes of 17th century Spanish coins and claimed you found it diving off the Florida keys, a whole lot of entities are going to show up asking questions and asserting it should be theirs, just look what Mel Fisher went thru!

Whether it should be or not, the business of a working CIA agent is entirely crime and mostly bribery. I personally doubt any disincentives for self-enrichment are even on the performance review.

1000X ^^THIS

I am not say we never as nation need to conduct clandestine operations, but having an entire clandestine service is fundamentally at odds with the concept of representative governance, day light, and democracy.

The CIA should not exist. It should be shuttered and actually operations running agents and gathering intel should be returned to the DOD, and even if for reasons of operational security a considerable amount of activity has to be done off the record, the people running those activities should be far enough down the chain of command that when gross failures occur and are discovered there can be accountability.

IE some General officer can say "you dun fuk'd up, you're demoted/fired bring your people in and shut down the operation" vs our current system of congressional hearings where everyone shouts at each other, the people in questions just lie and evade knowing full well any hard evidence of their obvious purgery went in the shred bin already.

I guess that is what gets most fraudsters in the end. Seems like the guy made a career out of false claims and progressively bolder lies. Probably started to believe he could away with anything.

This isn't just taking shortcuts though this wholesale negligence.

Once in a while you hear such and such President/CEO of ACME never really graduated from Some Small University. They lied to get past the HR gate got hired as manager or director of Widget production 15 years ago where they were not an officer not responsible for signature on public records etc, later got promoted and nobody went back and checked up on stuff.

This though, the claims this guy made were shall we say rather remarkable for such a short career, service in multiple military branches, a graduate degree, pilot, managing a lot of people, etc.. A bunch of things that should have said to anyone reading the resume, this sounds perhaps a little puffed up, maybe I should check on SOME of this stuff which should have produced a few easily obtained artifacts. Obviously zero effort was made to verify any of it. Clearly nobody did any DD here not the hiring manager, not OMB..

I can't say I have run down every line on every CV of everyone I have hired but I usually at least go, ok says he was such and such at XYZ corp, lets look their about-us page on wayback machine, ok there is a picture of him a title that is near enough...so that checks.. oh he is a licensed PI, ok I can check the states website for that.. Then you just consider the claims, like ok says he graduated in 2000 and in 2003 was president of XYZ corp, again you check out XYZ oh fine it looks like they have about 4 employees and rented office in suburban Cincinnati; whatever, on the other hand if it is a 4000+ people and they have a XYZ Parkway named after them, you pick the phone and check that out.

Yeah, but the posting said, for Linux, "We are using RDRAND, but it is being mixed in with other entropy being gathered from the system"

If you gather entropy from the environment, like noise from certain chips, start ms time since some last connection, keyboard/mouse movements, etc, that, alone, is random enough for most any use case. And since they are applying that on top of any hardware random number generator, it ensures that it is even MORE random and prevents hardware companies from cheating.

Well, I suppose this does rather solve the difficult problem of saving the world. I'm okay with the world ending if enough people think talking to an LLM will help save it.

The meaning of words are almost always context dependent. You don't get to pick and choose context to make nonsense seem plausible. I've never in my life heard of anyone use the word "crime" in the manner you are asserting here. This is wholly unreasonable.

Your honor when I said I plead guilty I didn't literally mean I was guilty for having committed this crime I just meant I felt guilty for what happened. Also when I said "crime" I was not referring to having committed a crime in the sense of breaking the law I was referring to simply having offensively bad taste.

What is right and wrong are purely subjective concepts underwritten by equally subjective value systems. "Right and wrong" does not persist independently of people deciding what is right and wrong.

Some seem to harbor some sort of spiritual notions of modernity, wisdom or ascension by which the true righteous path of what is really right or wrong has always existed and is merely revealed to those thru sufficient contemplation. Noble eightfold paths, beatitudes, humata, hukhta, huvarshta...etc. Some even think if you make a machine smart enough then it must be "good" because it must know what is right and what is wrong. All of this is a load of BS.

There are people who believe all life on earth should be destroyed because doing so would minimize suffering. There are people who believe those living today should suffer terribly for the benefit of those living thousands or millions of years from today. If you are a paperclip maximizer then more paperclips are always better. The world is replete with righteous justifications for what others judge to be barbarism.

Here laws are still being broken, they merely fall under a different jurisdiction. I've never heard of anyone committing a crime yet not doing something illegal. I've never heard of a criminal that has not done something illegal. I'm more than happy to leave it up to the reader to make up their own minds as to what crime means.

Answer non of that matters. Almost all of those laws do not apply to the president, other federal employees, and in some cases legislators yes but the president largely is except for law that would prohibit him from trading based on his knowledge of confidential information.

He IS obligated by his oath of office to act in the interests of the United States, but he can profit from that as far as the law goes mostly.

disagree that is precisely the same question as "the script at dfgjkdf.bit.ly would like to save a file, allow?" as far as the ordinary user is concerned. They have no idea if it is a good idea to allow that or not and at the moment can't take the steps to even try to figure that out.

No the SaaS/Ad guys are the ones that want that API. The whole thing is opaque to the user. That is f'ing terrible for you and me! I can't for example (easily anyway) find the data I created stored by that API to backup, use in some other application, etc. It is all opaque to me. Again as for as Joe Normie is concerned they still have complete control over that data in terms of lock in etc. They just don't have to pay to store it for him. Which brings us to how they are actually going to use it, they will use it cache a bunch of app assets while they continue to offsite any actual information to where they can mine it.

Looks like they caught one of the hundreds of thousands of people that must be doing this same sort of thing. Most of the others just aren't making quite that much money doing it.

or hear me out on this rather than wasting actually resources, the browser APIs could just add something like sleep(rand(250)) in the path of read() along the i/o thread.

for the same of breaking the side channel attack it probably does not need to even be a particularly good secure random implementation as long as the seeds are unique to browser process/session.