He was arguably a worse president than even Trump. Which of them is a worse human being is a different question.

I was in IT back in 2001 when the Code Red virus hit. It was a very similar situation where entire enterprises in totally unrelated fields were brought down. So many infected machines were still trying to replicate that corporate networks and Internet backbone routers were getting absolutely crushed.

Prior to that, trying to get real funding for securing networks was almost impossible. Suddenly security was the hottest topic in IT and corporations were throwing money at all the snake oil Silicon Valley could produce.

That lasted for a couple years, then things started going back to business as usual. Microsoft in particular was making all sorts of promises and boasts about how they made security their top priority, but that never really happened. Security remained something slapped on at the end of product development and was never allowed to interfere with producing products demanded by marketing with inherently insecure designs.

Once upon a time, search. Those days are long past.

There would have to be some kind of currently unforseen breakthroughs before something like that would be even remotely possible. In all likelihood, quantum computing would stay in specialized data centers. For the problems quantum would solve, there is really no advantage to having it local anyways.

I remember them saying all the same exact things in the early 2000s after a slew of widespread disasters. Security will never be a higher priority than whatever cool new thing they want to sell.

I got banned for spreading “disinformation” about how badly the war with Ukraine is going for Russia.

Where did I advocate for open porn in the workplace? My only point was that it’s a sign of societal issues that there would be a gender based difference in how people see the issue. That’s not anti-woman, it’s just pointing out broader issues.

Aren’t society’s norms arbitrary? There are certainly societies where showing tits is normal.

The fact that someone’s gender makes a difference is part of that “social wound” they mentioned.

I have a hunch that “working” would not exactly be a top priority.

Brain fart. My bad.

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The big oil corporations have been busy buying up all the competing charging networks, so that much tracks.

It works the same for capitalism. I’m in the camp that says neither pure capitalism nor pure communism are systems that can realistically exist at all. In one system, the government usurps the power of capital and in the other capital usurps the power of government. They both end up totalitarian by different paths.

I’m libertarian, but that gets confusing since in America the right wing has twisted the definition beyond recognition. Libertarianism started as a left wing philosophy that uses the power of government and democracy to protect individual freedom from both government and capitalist tyranny.

Communication is kinda important.

Yes, but what would be the advantage of handling that traffic twice when your already paying someone else to do it?

The Soviets might have aspired to socialism early on, but slipped into totalitarian state capitalism.

Even so, they did start the space race from which a surprisingly large number of technical advances came. There are over a dozen advances in your cell phone that came from NASA research. That includes almost everything except the touch screen which was invented by the Smithsonian museum.

Just imagine the US goes to war and Elon shuts them off because some foreign leader strokes his (let’s say) ego.

This is certainly possible from a technical perspective, but it’s unlikely that it would happen in reality. Consumer product companies are invariably going to want to outsource ads to a third party, not host them from their own systems. It’s also going to be a pretty small percentage of customers that would bother to do this, and they are probably not the ones that are likely to make purchases based on ads anyways.

You can lead a horse to water, but when his health fails or his business burns down he’ll be looking to the big bad government for a handout.