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- Jeff Bezos

I remember they got past the Iranian air gap using a USB stick. It’s a mistake to think air gaps are safe but they are certainly better than having your network open to the internet.

The article wants it to "just work"

What’s wrong with installing WinXP+office and calling it a day? Even if someone fulfilled your request and got an up-to-date browser etc working on your 256MB laptop Would YouTube even work?

Tactical Intervention had tons of wacky broken creative ideas, to me it felt a lot more like old school CS than Source or GO

Agreed. I think people forget that smart animals are smart enough to do bad things because they feel like it

(Of course, it's also possible that by thinking we've 'cured' the common cold, we will open ourselves up to a once-a-century pandemic, where millions are wiped out by what used to just be a common cold.)

H.G. Wells knew his stuff

You could put your fax machines in a locked container

Because it is a quote

The crown is just a rubber stamp, until it’s not, like in the Australian constitutional crisis

That's some fake Prada bag shit

I think it's different because they started out as actual Nike shoes

I read a book or something online by Michio Kaku where he was passionately against launching any kind of nuclear material because of the possibility of the rocket exploding before reaching space.

I was a big fan of Soulseek back in the day. Everyone else I knew used Limewire

The Dutch hosting company doesn't obey US law. My god! Can you believe these assholes? Running a hosting company that just hosts, and doesn't snoop into what their customers are doing? And how dare they make enforcement agencies actually go through the required legal processes to enforce the law!

That reminds me a lot of the saga of Kim Dotcom

I downloaded plenty of music on shitty dialup. It’s not like there were any other options. The hard part was finding them until Napster etc

This is Youtube's revenge for users not loving the Rewind 2018 video

Considering that they literally invented JIT manufacturing, yes I think it counts

Ha! Things can disrupt JIT operations, don't these bozos know that

For a real world example of bozos not knowing that, see Toyota in 2011.

Which translation of War and Peace?

It's truly amazing, and I wonder what I would have felt if I had seen that on an IBM PC back in its day.

I felt the same way about the 8088 MPH demo, knowledge that the original IBM PC could do that would have had unimaginable effects.

Then they should simply charge the higher amount.

Then, to make things go smoothly, you will have to pay the higher amount as well as a bribe.

This even goes higher up, as paves the way for higher levels of corruption where things needs to be at scale and yet hush hush, exposing whole nations to political risks(from money laundering to terrorism).

I think you have it the opposite way around. Where there is an effective government that makes sure that laws are written and enforced fairly, and wealth is distributed somewhat evenly, corruption disappears.

It’s interesting to me that someone smart enough could have thought of this in 1981, but considered it impossible because 90MB was an absurdly large amount of data

Is it supposed to reflect the simplicity of a back-to-nature lifestyle and the characters therein?

I'm inclined to suspect is the latter of the two; especially if kana is only employed in character speech while other parts of the game use Kanji.

This, but it’s the other way around. When characters speak to the player, who exists outside of the game world, it is in a mix of kanji and kana. When they write within the game world, it is in kana only.

I am no expert but I would hope that satellites are now used for defence based communication.

If a war gets to the point where nation states are cutting each other’s undersea cables, I think satellites are coming down too

Relax, it’s iPhone*

*until you do the thing we showed in our commercial and break your phone. When you come to the Genius Bar, we’ll point out that the commercial did in fact warn you to not do the thing we clearly showed in the commercial. Sucker!

Imagine you’re a NATO accountant planning for a war with Russia.

Which is a cheaper and more effective way to detect submarines in that area?

A. An extensive submarine detection network, with sonar buoys, aircraft, and boats able to pinpoint the location of for anything bigger than a shrimp

B. A few thousand bucks worth of mines across the straits of Gibraltar and Bosphorus

In Japan there is traffic priority (right of way) but all drivers also have a legal obligation to not hit anything, which means that in nearly every accident blame will be split between both parties, usually 80:20.

Cars with Level 2 automation can perform key driving tasks like steering, acceleration and braking to keep a set distance from the car ahead, center the car in its lane and stay at a certain speed. Yet they can't handle every situation unmonitored and need the driver to pay attention to the road ahead in case they need to take over the wheel.

Designing a system like that but blaming PEBKAC whenever something goes wrong is going to kill a lot of pedestrians. If you set impossible expectations and people don't meet them, there is a problem with your expectations.

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I'm not against automated cars in general, but if Level 2 means a decrease in fender benders, but a higher level of kids running out in to the middle of the road getting killed because the driver is zoned out, then I think it should be skipped.

Coca Cola and McDonald’s advertise and sell a lot, and I don’t think anyone would accuse them of being cool.

It is a brain teaser and you explained why