"industry is exploring nuclear as an alternative"
Good. Anything that will decrease the insane amount of coal plants that we are collectively using is a Good Thing in my book.
Please base them on Thorium, for added safety and availability.
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I can only encourage you to read them. You will learn that the authors thought things through way more than could be shown on TV.
Simple example : in the books, you learn that, when fighting on spaceships, the guns use bullets made of plastic so as to not punch holes through the ship hulls.
They thought of that, and of many other things besides.
It really is an awesome story.
Ah, The Expanse.
I was so enamoured by the TV series that I bought the books - and read all of them.
I understand now why the TV series stopped when it did. It still gave a positive message, but eschewed the following 50-year plotline that the rest of the books described.
The book series is awesome, to be sure, but trying to get everything after the Slow Zone was colonized would be a mind-breaker for production and for most viewers.
Some things are best left in print.
Agreed. I remember playing WCIII, it was fun.
But X-Wing was the game that finally decided me to buy a joystick. And Alliance was just everything a Star Wars fan could want at the time.
Awesome games, awesome gameplay, fun and engaging. Terms that more than few modern so-called blockbusters have utterly forgotten.
Then, when the next breach occurs, further work will "be underway".
Sometimes it would be so nice to be able to just stand those idiots in a line and slap all of them in one fell swoop.
I don't care that security is hard. You know that the database is critical. Get yourselves an $800 million dollar budget and secure the damn thing.
This train wreck keeps on derailing, apparently. That's exactly how it was programmed from the start.
Now, all those people who didn't want anything to do with 'em are going to have the joy of watching the technician come back and do it all over again.
Planned obsolescence at its finest.
You mean, the abundance you did not put into securing your network and training your people ?
And I see that you have found the boilerplate yada yada for failling to ensure the security of the data in your care. Well done. It sounds just as reliable now as it has the last million times we've already heard it.
You might want to actually put some millions behind your words soon, because it has cost some other health company $800+ million just to clean up.
You have that kind of money ? If so, carry on mouthing your platitudes.
I will not trust that individual to respect anything he promises.
I trust that he will find a way to track people who have subscribed and opted out of advertising, will get caught and try to brush it off with another "Oops, sorry Your Honor, we made a mistake. Won't happen again, pinky promise."
And then it will happen again.
Well duh. It's not like you're going to actually say anything like : "well we are considering grounding our entire fleet for an extensive security review".
That would basically shut down the company. Permanently.
So no, head chief engineer and all spokesdrones are going to be "confident" in their planes - even though they avoid flying on them.
Shoulda woulda coulda yada yada. It's all very nice to request the public to be responsible, but the public isn't and it's not being given the tools to be responsible about AI.
Those decisions are all being made at the Board level by people who, frankly, do not have the public's interest at heart in any way, shape or form.
So the only tool the public has is blind disregard for anything AI. Once the Board suits will have understood your message and understood that it is in their interest to show the public what has been 100% human-generated versus what has been "facilitated" with pseudo-AI, then we have a better environment where the public will be able to gradually accept and integrate that, indeed, pseudo-AI is not going away and there are things that might be better for it.
But until then, only shunning AI is going to have any effect on Boardroom discussions.
I don't.
We live in an age where multinational behemoths believe that they have the right to define how we go about our daily lives and, for Alphabet, that means it has the right to track our every move. It will do any and everything it can to ensure that that "right" is enforced.
Poor Mr Orwell. He thought it would be governments . . .
Now that is an intelligent choice for a chip foundry.
Just below the Great Lakes, water in abundance, it is a much better choice than Arizona.
Good on Gelsinger for having done that. Now why did he have to go and put two fabs in the driest place of the US of A which is subsisting only because it is sucking up an entire river of water that is failing ?
How is it that people looked at this possibility and thought : "now that's a great idea" ?
I am not interested in remote-opening my front door. I want to open it when I get there, not before and certainly not after.
And if I am renting something with this, I will tell the owner that I am replacing the lock. If he objects, I will look elsewhere.
There is only one solution to oppose scams and malware : intelligence.
Check the link. If it goes anywhere you're not familiar with, don't click.
Nobody is going to offer you millions to just click something. Sorry, that Nigerian billionnaire does not exist. Play the lottery, you've got better chances.
No one you know is sending you an attachment you should open. If someone you know does send you an attachment without you expecting it, contact the person and make sure it was meant for you. In every other case, trash the mail. It's a weapon.
It is so fucking simple, and yet so many are still caught by this.
Sometimes I dispair of Humanity.
Looks like the days of Cupertino riding high on other people's work are coming to an end.
5% is enough for Apple to still gain money and provide Store services at their current level but, of course, why settle for 5 when you can gouge six times more ?
Well six times more is too much, and the rising number of lawsuits tends to prove that Apple is going to have to lower that ratio permanently.
It might choose to do so on its own terms before having to bow to a law (ie set the bar lower to appease everyone before you're forced to set it really low).
Artificially tight deadline created because the Board has decided something stupid ?
You bet it's going to create a mess. The gun is going to meet the foot and Broadcom is going to demonstrate how little it cares about the users of the product it has paid a fortune to destroy.