They clearly have too few executives. They need to hire a hundred more and also pump up the middle management with thousands more MBAs. They can pay for it by sacking most of the engineers and selling off the fabs for pennies on the dollar.

If, by technologically competent, you mean willing to spend their parents' money on shite hardware/software/content whilst allowing the entire internet unfettered access to every device they touch, yes they are technologically competent.

Is the black box recording that the switches were physically moved or that a signal from the switches was received?
Or (if the switches directly controlled shutoff valves) is the black box recording that the valves were closed and therefore assumes the switches must have been moved?

A _country_ needs to purchase $Billions of weapons, but the decision of who to buy from is made by a small number of _Leaders_, so you bribe the _Leaders_ with $Thousands and they spend the $Billions that belong to the _country_ with you.

The issue is a software thing, that is the easiest thing to conceal and misdirect.
Why can't they just falsify the update record, then if planes crash and people die simply shift the blame to the pilots? I thought Airbus were trying to be a major player in modern aerospace? So unprofessional. Sad.

Hmm. And America pressured europe to buy all its weapons and technology from America. Sometimes they were even caught bribing the governments.

"When the scientists are sidelined, the leaders are selected for their looks, and their willingness to lick the bossâ(TM) boots and wear a maga hat, and spend more time on their makeup than on the actual issues, for some reason a ton of people arent gonna trust what they say or do."

Unfortunately, for every ton of people who aren't gonna trust them, there are a thousand tons of people who think that is exactly why they should be trusted.

"I also love incredibly intelligent, sophisticated products that you want to touch, and you feel no intimidation, and you want to use almost carelessly, that you use them almost without thought, that they're just tools."

Sounds like any other CEO, except that he said 'products' instead of 'employees'.

If it is any consolation, I am still laughing at "its smooth brain population of willfully ignorant maga derps". :-)

Why is this even being discussed in public? If a pc is running windows, that means all the hardware and software now belongs to microsoft, along with any data typed in, results of wifi scans, audio and video from any peripherals, everything from attached storage. It all belongs to microsoft and will all be stored, used and sold by microsoft as it sees fit.
AI stealing data is just an inefficiency as it is data duplication in the silos.

The capital has grown to ten times its 1950 size, so 90% of it has had to be built since then anyway. If you build a pipeline to Tehran, you will need to build another nine additional pipelines over the next 75 years along with expanding Tehran itself 900%.
If you move the capital you will only have to double its size every 20 years or so and not have to build pipelines.

I think VHS won when an executive at Sony said "This is awesome, you can record video onto magnetic tape! The only limit on how much you can record is how long the tape is in the cassette and we are setting the standard so we can make them any physical size we want! Let's design the cassettes to be quite small so that it will be a nightmare to try and extend the capacity later!"

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If your hardware, firmware, software, router and ISP are compromised out of the box with taps, telemetry and the like, plus the website you are connected to gets hacked every five minutes, why bother?

There are sixes and sevens next to each other, clear signs that some gen alpha made the whole thing up.