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Vladimir Putin's military adventures in Crimea
El Reg, please stop doing "we was attacked without provocations, honest" declarations.
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Win 10 is a purely commercial OS without the faintest taint of ideological purity or political correctness, running programs and drivers distributed under any terms you could name without a whisper of protest.
I hope this kind of dross is being written by a paid grassrooter sitting in a warm office in the Redmond Complex, pining for a warm cup of coffee.
Shock report: People doing 9-to-5 just want to keep using what they are using and not be served the Windows beautified interface "change is good, it's for you best, you will like it, we have also complexified and re-styled/flattened/recolored it a bit for your amusement" bullshit. Film at 11, after Trump!
Excellent reminder that this story exists. I found it in a fat "best of" compendium back when we were having fun with warbling phones.(and were probably breaking a few laws meant to protect "muh telecom infrastructure")
See also "Shock Wave Rider". Far better than Toffler's book that inspired it.
Actually Stand on Zanzibar is even better. It's practically like watching CNN and similar shit.
I do think this fluffy, unidentified stuff is 100% proof of Putin's revanchist and even irredentist attitude regarding our new practically po-faced NATO partners some of which are currently orbiting national-socialism like it's going out of fashion, but this shall be hidden by the Curtain of Righthought. Can't something be done, like ordering an additional dozen F-35 or so? That plane is practically done!
But then the government in its most feralfederal form (a TLA created by "Edgar Hoover, The Body Remover" that is both utterly clueless and discombobulated and evil enough to ship guns to Mexican Narcos because they can) actually pays them a visit in black "smoking man" limos.
No-one knows what's going on anymore.
Not even Fox Mulder.
... the bill was a good and necessary way of updating the law ... but the bill's nickname of "Snoopers' Charter" was insulting to the people who work to make the country safer
Going along with all manner of authoritarianisms and bullshit as long as the awkward feeling that someone, somewhere might be offended or made to feel bad by the wording can be avoided.
(Himmler discreetly puking into a handkerchief and asking for a reformulation and more humane final solutions, please)
Well no. That kind of ship has sailed.
Any kind of interface that is not static, just-sitting-there-waiting for you-to-post-an-ugly-form-to-a-server-like-in-a-dsytopian-retro-noir-movie needs it. I do think even North Korea is happy to have left these behind...
If you don't want scripting, you might as well go back to green screen (and without curses). It has its uses...
Totally pales against a 3 billion USD-per-month "Quantiative Easing" Repubocrat-condoned robbery of the taxpayer via fresh "money" injections. The EU is even worse with Mahrio N'Dhraghi nuking the Eurozone wholesale from the ECB orbit (with that kind of name the guy must be an alien "who comes in peace")
We need an icon where someone is requesting a smoke and otherwise looks blasé when facing certain end.
Haven't these been lifted?
I know that the US has decided to reclassify Ballistic Missile Research as "Research into Nuclear Devices" the day after the other sanctions got lifted. So US-only sanctions continue. Must be about that.
Makes sense, right? AIPAC money is needed for the show of "presidential candidate" subhumans, so we can't go soft now...
Definitely recommending Houellebecq on Lovecraft
We have no idea what the limits of intelligence truly are
Not entirely. We are pretty sure it does not involve solving problems outside of P (because P sure ain't NP) and does involve a lot of messing around like a dumbfuck trying to fit square pegs into round holes (possibly emitting electronic noises) until something works. For humans, all this indeed looks better in retrospectivbe because they have the ability to also deceive themselves about their abilities. The real world behaves messily, unpredicatbly and any any predictive horizons are soon swamped by the compbinatorial explosion - and the real world is the game opponent for any general intelligence. It does not look that Quantum Computing will solve any of that. This also kills dead any Soviet-style dreams of putting powerful computers in charge of distributed systems like the economy for some optimal lossless central management (yes, the irony that cybernetics was decried as a "capitalistic science" post-WWII is not lost on me).
An unphysically powerful learning algorithm doing reward maximization (AIXI) has been stipulated as a theoretical framework for a "most intelligent machine". At least it's a honest attempt at finding the upper limit.