Posts by Paul Hovnanian

Re: Not just parallel ...

"the inner brain is functionally the CEO"

Or PHB, if that analogy is more apt.

Re: "the entire industry is chasing the AI dragon"

"Is this to imply that the industry is getting high on AI?"

It's the AI industry claiming that all the cool kids are getting high on it. And you should too. Typical street drug pusher behavior.

Re: Nork wet dream

They'll have to fight with the Indians for the jobs.

Re: "Always keep a second passport"

"No point in keeping the old one"

It would be very handy to have right up to the point at which you make your escape. At that point, clip it to a collar on a stray dog.

Re: Data centers are not capital investments for teh local economy

"After construction and build out completes, the only taxes paid are those via payroll tax."

And how many people will a 4 million square foot data center employ? Not nearly as many as 4 million square feet of manufacturing facilities. Those systems will be managed from Menlo Park, CA. With a few people on site to do what h/w maintenance needs doing.

"how do I know my spouse wasn't meeting with someone"

Because I'm the only one I know who can "complete the task" during the Recall snapshot gaps.

Re: Lose your device, lose your access

This.

The key revocation process will have to be thought out very carefully.

Re: "as it would pass through the rotating blades during flight"

"Perhaps just a very well endowed duck"

Damned multiplicity of British Thread standards!

Re: Sigh....

Microsoft is one step removed from the '"material financial risks" from its links with the fossil fuel industry of Big Oil. If BO has the money to pay for their products and services (and they do) then the risks to MS are minimal.

Is it anyone's business what a customer does with their product? As long as they adhere to the instructions for use and warning labels on the procuct, I'd say 'No'. Holding that nebulous accusation of "material financial risks" (I interpret the quotes in As You Sows statement as denoting opinion rather than substantiated fact) as a hammer held threateningly over ones head to elicit behavior changes as bordering on unethical. 'MS, don't you sell product to BO because we don't like what they do.' You don't like what BO does? Fine. Then go after them directly. Microsoft (and any other supplier) is not your personal army.

I'd go so far as to say that MS caving to such indirect pressures on their customers is a far greater material financial risk, as I don't know if I'd want to use a supplier that might cut me off because someone else doesn't like me.

"The fine is denominated in roubles"

OK. We'll start printing roubles*. Enjoy your hyperinflation, Putin.

*Didn't Hitler try to do this with the British Pound?

Re: ".. additional justification for .."... "..we know..."

Assuming Congress is willing to go public with what "we know" in an appropriate venue, I don't have a problem with it.

"Steganography"

This.

You can hide data almost anywhere. Trick is to get an application to extract and execute it. And the prerequisite there is to get someone to install that particular (evil) application.

But first, Ghostpulse has to find a way onto a system. And into a location with executable permissions. Which I, as a plain old user (even on my own systems) do not have the permission to install.

"The reason criminals typically do not obey such laws - including gun registration laws - is because it makes them hard to catch and prosecute them for their crimes."

Sort of. Unlike an automobile, with number plates, registering a gun creates no opportunity for police or witnesses to observe a crime and report a serial number for the purpose of tracking. It does create an opportunity to add extra charges once the perpetrator has been apprehended. Or charge additional people as suspects in some (but not all) gun transfer violations.

For a gun serial number to be of any use, one would have to have a suspect in custody already.

Re: PITT

It all began when Microsoft decided that the "Start" button was a good place to put the "Stop" function.

Hey!

Microsoft could drop their numbering system and name new OS generations afer members of the genus Sus.

But configuring sendmail was no job for a novice. First, learn M4. Then be aware of all the vulnerabiities that each configuration item involves.

The default distributions of sendmail often had some serious holes in them. Which allowed your home PC to become an evil mail relay. Hence the default blacklisting of most home e-mail systems.

Many systems (particuarly Linux) were set up by people who really shouldn't have. And only got configured with a domain name and ISPs MTA address.

Re: Good old days

"Pretty sure that violates some clause or other of the Windows license :-)"

Back in those days, anything you did that didn't result in Microsoft posessing your first-born was a violation of their license.

Re: Reproduction is prohibited

"So when OpenAI has already gathered it,"

Legally? With due respect for its owners IP rights?

"it must be protected at all costs because it's their sensitive property."

It's still the property of its original owner/creator. And their rights should be protected.