You obviously have never heard of NOBUS backdoors.

Emacs, with no helper key bindings. Vi advocates just don't understand the power of self-punishment available in emacs.

Some people think that companies doing all that for profit are fine and dandy, but it's evil and horrible when the government does it. Most of them are too stupid to put together that if companies here (USA) are doing it for profit, the government can pretty much have access to all of it anyway.

"We know nobody would choose this, so we're going to force it on them and hope nobody notices."

Remember when companies had to make something that people wanted to exchange money for? Instead of trying to dictate every aspect of life to people and then wondering why nobody loves them for it?

Pepperidge Farms would remember, but they were too busy trying to tell you you should remember, and buy more cookies.

Simple: They tried and it failed. Again. sure, as an end-goal it is valid and eventually it will work. But not anytime soon. Computers are not magic.

I mean, this could be used to see things about the non-existent climate change, right? It must be banned! Or maybe put 100% tariffs on every byte of data!

Indeed. The Chinese also know that publishing a story about a found backdoor in their software would be a great exploit for the US and hence they know that the US is looking. Strangely, nothing has been found so far. Or rather very obviously, nothing has been found and the whole thing is nothing but lies.

And no, that is not "socialist" or "China loving". This is what is called a "fact". Obviously the MAGA cretins do not know what that is.

And as soon as you are, expect to get fleeced.

And yet, US citizens are in prisons around the world for violating local laws. I guess that little detail is too complex for you to understand.

And in other news that oh-so-mighty US military just got defeated by Iran. Even if the Dumb one (who you apparently pray to) claims differently. BTW, have fun wen the US strategic oil reserves run out in the near future.

Always the same stupid and invalid comparison. Here is one that is actually valid: We do require banks to have secure vaults and if a bank were to store the valuables of its customers, say, in cardboard boxes in an unsecured office, of course the bank would be punished

Anybody else feeling a little queasy here? Yeesh.

They're trying to make sure the entire AI industry is so up in the rest of the economy's guts that when the crash comes the only choice the government(s) have is to throw money at them until they're whole. When the crash comes, it's going to be fun for about three minutes, and then we're going to start following after it, like passenger's a huge ship as it goes down, the draw of the down-flow will suck a whole hell of a lot of us down with it.

Not just our wages, though that's the beginning of the dream. The real dream is creating a perpetual profit machine for the owners while needing absolutely no actual humans, and no need for actual products or commodities involved. Just a bunch of digital bits floating this way and that, creating waves of profit for virtual shipments of nothing. It's a beautiful vision of the future if you're one of the folks directly involved in it. It's a dystopic nightmare that ends the illusion the general population ever had any value at all to the owner class and the politicians once and for all, leaving most of us to try to sort out how to live once the economy is completely separated from its need for us as employees or consumers.

This helps lead to adults that crave authoritarianism because they think some "parent" needs to solve the crises of living for them. There are those of us who have seen this coming since the "never tell a child no" trend started some thirty plus years ago, and have been wondering if society will wake up to the idea that raising children involves teaching them how to deal with reality, not just softening every blow until they move out, then wondering why they aren't equipped to handle living on their own.

I really don't think preventing people in college from getting a fair assessment is going to help this situation. For some individuals, not getting anything other than pass/no will stress them out because they won't know if they barely passed, or if they passed with flying colors. Maybe someone can twist this into something about equality, but I still think it's the wrong direction at the wrong point of life. These kids are going to graduate and wonder why their boss's in their first jobs are so mean to them for expecting something other than just barely skating by with minimum requirements sorta/kinda met. And everybody's gonna be confused as to why..

They were gonna make it 3D, but their moms told them they weren't sure how to hang 3D objects on their refrigerators.