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Comment Re:Flywheel storage buffer (Score 1) 104

Let me help you out with that.

"If Texas were connected to either of the national grids, they would have been [in] compliance with federal standards for their infrastructure and would likely not have had the failure in the first place."

There. Let me break it down for you a bit more;

If { connected to the national grids } then { federal compliance = true }

If { federal compliance == true } then { reduce_disaster_probability() }

I then go on to explain that the entire reason they are using the HVDC interlink is to avoid needing to fix their shit in accordance with federal standards.

So again, where did I even imply that the HVDC link would solve anything? I'm being pretty explicit that the HVDC link will NOT solve anything, but it WILL saddle their neighbors with more troubles.
=Smidge=

Comment Re: Yeah! Most incompetent ever! So much winning! (Score 1) 41

Bitch about MS all you want, they took security problems very seriously after XP and fixed almost all of it.

Is that why we were discussing one of their allegedly patched vulns still not being patched years later... like two weeks ago? They take stock prices seriously, security not so much.

Comment Re:Shots Fired! (Score 1) 64

It's fundamentally impossible for an operating system to protect you from the manufacturer of that operating system. That trust is unavoidable.

Apple made their OS open, then closed portions of it, so you cannot trust them, just like all of the other closed source vendors. That doesn't mean no operating system is trustworthy, only that Apple is no more trustworthy than Microsoft.

Comment Re: Yeah! Most incompetent ever! So much winning! (Score 0) 41

"The fact that they managed to keep up with this and publish massive amount of patches is a sign of excellence."

That's assuming they did meaningful fixes and not just some AI slop bullshit that will create more problems than it fixed.

I don't give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt, they have proven that is not sensible time and again.

Comment Re:Backwater (Score 1) 116

The ancient American cars people are thinking of when they think of Cuba were made of thicker, softer metal, which is easier to work on. Those vehicles were made of 100% virgin steel. Modern cars have substantial recycled content and the steel is much harder, therefore harder to work, and they use harder steel specifically so that they can make it thinner, which is also harder to work without destroying the metal. You simply cannot restore a modern vehicle as easily as you can the older ones, even putting complexity aside.

Comment Re:Every single movement you make will be tracked (Score 2, Interesting) 145

If you have a cell phone, every single movement you make is already tracked.

That's literally what this story is about.

Realistically, this will affect very few people

Realistically, this will accomplish nothing significant in the positive direction, while it will hurt a few people. In the process it will cost a lot of money. Therefore it's a shit plan.

Comment Re:constitution should be a "living document" (Score 0) 145

The only reason we don't have warrantless searches and other intensely invasive government surveillance right now is it's specifically banned in the US Constitution.

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH

"we don't have warrantless searches and other intensely invasive government surveillance right now"

HAHhaHAHAHAHHAHahAHAHA HaHAHHA Ha HA HAHHAHAHAHAHAH

Comment Re: Oh dear (Score 1) 52

The precise automation systems depend on humans doing their job correctly.

This is a signal that they will be underpaying these employees even worse than they are now. They are expecting churn and turnover so they don't have to pay people at salaries earned through years of service.

The AI solution won't need the data to be perfect going in. Of course, the data coming out also won't be deterministic, as you say. It'll be GIGO as per usual.

Comment Re:Shots Fired! (Score 1) 64

Creating an infrastructure for making that possible while protecting user privacy is genuinely hard.

What you're saying is that the infrastructure doesn't protect your privacy from Apple now. If they had built an infrastructure which protected the users from being snooped on by Apple, then it would also do the job of protecting them from being snooped on by other providers. Instead you have only their word that they are not misusing your data, when they could have made it impossible.

People who trust Apple are exactly the same as people who trust Zuck.

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