Is that really up to some random superintendent to decide. In most countries it would have to be an act of parliament.

Well, the US is set up that way...MOST local power is reserved for the States and the localities within.

The Federal govt is set up to be weak, at least constitutionally it is only supposed to have the limited, enumerated powers and responsibilities listed in the US Constitution.

That has been bastardized greatly over the years, but it also still largely applies.

For the most part, the Feds can't order the states to so jack shit....they can coerce them by trying to withhold tax monies...etc....but that's largely it.

Oh, so you are just going to fly the confederate flag

Why?

Are you trying to start a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert or something....?

Let's be real, even if wordpress code quality isn't the highest of its CMS peers at least the core product is probably not worse than the vast majority of server software out there.

The real issue here is AI. The time it takes and the range of capable people who can now reverse engineer a patch, and generate exploit code from has been greatly reduced and greatly expanded respectively.

Patch management that once got exposed systems patched the same day is no longer adequate, if you can't be patched within hours even if you're tiny potatoes, shodan.io knows about you - so you're in for a bad time. Every hour is a roll of the dice.

Which brings us back the zero trust model, and why it really isn't a very good idea, or not a very good idea implemented independently from the tradition moat/perimeter model. Between true 0-days and now near zero time to patch, nothing not even the immediate peer if it is directly on the Internet can enjoy much of any trust no matter how often you re-authenticate.

I used to wonder, in the early days of the transformation, how much was Drew changing moderation and selection criteria, and how much was becoming popular enough to attract a critical mass of political junkies. It's been a long long time, but my memory says it was a fast transformation, days or weeks rather than months, but not overnight, and could have cut either way. I sent a few emails, never got any response, and quit logging in as often, and soon not at all.

Same here. Fark's only redeeming quality was poking fun at everything and everyone. Then the political junkies swamped it, and I stopped visiting. I'd forgotten all about it til now. Tried my old login. Says the password has expired.

*shrug*

I was going to say the same thing. We have some amazing weapons systems. I mean when you think about it, it is down right stunning what a systems like Patriot Interceptors, AIM-9 air to air missile, or even a Phalanx CIWS, actually do and with such efficacy.

Yet these are 40-60 year old systems, at least their fundamental designs are.

All of it is undone though by swarms of cheap drones, which are marvels of technology themselves in terms of position identification and the digital logic to deliver simple stable flight be it fixed wing or multiple rotor aircraft.

Its funny in some ways it seems we are back to castle walls and archers. You can bead a horse to be strong and fast, put a bunch of fancy Armour on the riders, but if the enemy your are approaching can throw a lot of cheap shafts at you (which just as now were actually not all that cheap to manufacture) all the expensive super weapons become as much liabilities as assets.

I don't know. All the same arguments could be applied to not acting upon a non-responsive passenger while the taxis is traveling as well. It isn't as if cardiac events or respiratory failures are just going to wait until the vehicle is parked!

Yet traditional cab drivers don't monitor their passengers to make sure they are awake and alert and not reporting any distress the entire trip, as matter of fact neither do bus lines, railroads, airlines, passenger ships, and so on. Neither do these business require everyone to wear a pulse-ox for the duration. Would we hold a motel accountable if you expire from natural causes in your rented room overnight?

Liability usually follows from either expectation of concern/care or causation and I am not sure there is either here. I am not a fan of Waymo but if I am on the jury and they are the defendant in your case against them because they did not do enough to prevent your whomevers death by self inflicted alcohol poisoning where we have video that simply shows them appearing to be sleeping peacefully in the back seat most of the ride; I am going to need to hear a lot of compelling argument. I can't currently imagine what that would be to get me to go along with the idea you have any claim against them.

This is what everyone needs to understand when they say "we should have a public..." or "why did we privatize this".

If you have actual experience doing any work from the government you know that huge portion of it is compliance costs, realistically it absolutely is something like 40% probably.

First there is the upfront bits of doing an RFP that looks like nobody else's

then there is proving you have the required mix of ethic and gender representation (if you actually want to win)

after that comes the recording and reporting on different metrics than anyone else in industry uses because someone has to follow a rule from 1943 or some public employee who does not understand anything about the process decided they needed to CYA and wrote up some report templates, because they all believe (possibly rightly) that if they make the haystack big enough none of them can ever be identified and faulted for ordering the wrong thing or given the wrong instruction.

Next unlike the business world where the incentive is usually to accept the deliverable, if it meets the spec and functions well under test, because the customer wants to put that asset into operation and either start making or saving money money with it, the public folks are incentivized to nit pick and play lawyer about every word because again CYA, in case anything ever goes wrong in the future. So you got 15% in rework or dispute resolution right there whichever path you chose; again all the fix things any reasonable persons would find no fault with.

So the private sector responds to this in a couple ways.

First - dramatically over charge because it is government. In competitive markets there is a wink a nod and nobody offers the tax payer a far price

Second - in smaller less understood tenders they dramatically under bid to win, then insert some time and materials language somewhere that lets the go 30X over budget. The people evaluating the responses know this and don't care because it is not their money after all and the vendor will let them play victim in the court of public opinion. Oracle, SAP, Blackwater, Core-Civics types don't care what "people" think about them because they don't have "consumers", the Amazon's and Microsoft's of the world have figured out consumers are not informed enough or don't seem mind them abusing Uncle Sam or the local yokels on their county board..

in the free market businesses form and compete for consumer money with other businesses, it is the competition that is pro consumer. Unions, like any other political formation, exists to protect special interests, preventing businesses from competing to the best of their ability and pushing prices up - anti consumer.

Businesses are pro-consumer by definition, unless they are government subsidized. Being anti-union (as I am) is being as pro-consumer as possible. Unions push prices up, consumers want lower prices, unions are anti-consumer.

They're just sending out the bills a year early, due to an AI-based timing mistake.

I"m curious...do these Chinese models contain Chinese guard rails?

I mean, will it censor you if you ask about the Chinese premier looking like Winnie the Pooh or tienaman (sp?) square....will it say it can't answer that...or give answers that only praise china?

Genuine question with potential genuine concerns....

I think it's pretty f-ed up to say a company has to give their IP and trade secrets to their competitors (aka, your friends) so they can take their business, and then call it fairness. It isn't, it's theft.

Kinda sounds like China's business model, eh?

I agree they can't toss the EU completely away...

However, why couldn't Google just yank their servers out of the EU..and station them all around the EU. Sure, there might be a little performance hit, but at least they'd not be compelled to follow the EU rules, and I doubt the EU will firewall all things google, you know?

I'm also highly allergic to cats...

;)