DoesHaveManyCasesOf80sMagazinesStackedFloorToCeilingForSeveralYards == YES They're part of the alternate universe before the series of unfortunate events (MFNforDaCCP, MS-DOS, FSF, PPP/MSRAS, The Sculley, The Gould, The Cutler, That Face and InfoSys) that left us in the current dystopia: Three trillion dollar what? who?
IMHO, the real "morons" (your word) are those deploying Chinese-fabricated SoCs (like the latest ESP32, LinkStar, etc) and mainboards with Chinese-written BIOS/EFI/UEFI (like Zima) on what an increasing number of "influencers" deem "Raspberry Pi alternatives". Even when you cite the websites about things like "Moonbounce", there is a generation of workers in the Business now that become outwardly enraged and irrational about the risk and otherwise stick their head firmly in the sand while quietly knowing what they have done and will therefore likely continue to do is costing us the Country. Even if this effort wasn't part of VOLT, it certainly is consistent with the LAW in China that all companies must have CCP management and implement all requests required of them by that management. The worst part is that when you publicly confront these companies with this fact, for example, in Discord, they don't even deny it, they simply respond solemnly that "the other side does it too." (True, but our guys don't currently sell prisoner kidneys.)
Hey, I'll bet you never look at that WiFi-"enabled" power bank or HEPA/AC unit again the same way (or my favorite AI response du jour "Some Chinese scooters come with a microphone integrated into a GPS tracker or helmet, while others can be customized with aftermarket solutions. There is no single model called "Chinese scooter with microphone," but rather multiple products and approaches that fit this description.") Errbody worried about the talking LLM parrot AI and your vehicle dashboard always listening (or even watching), but that's not the most serious threat we face now.
Unfortunately the problem is that your government is the one that has natural powers to inflict violence on you, but Chinese can't. (And vice versa for Chinese citizens)
Not sure if you're aware, but the organ harvesting allegations are complicated because the Falun Gong believe their adherents enjoy magical organ healing; the blind will see, kidneys become good again, etc., and that they are targeted specifically for their organs is an endorsement of their religion. So there's incentive for false claims, which I rarely see brought up.
Companies have official discords to respond to requests or questions. They attempted to call out a company (presumably US based) for this concern and got the specified response
PS: I've been downvoted on HN for years and years for mentioning this topic. Once, someone even summoned dang. One would think that by now, with this being out in the open (why did "China H2Oh" fail again? lol) but no..threat actors gone act.. Those smart enough to listen to words of someone with nearly five decades in the Business might not lose as much money as those who don't.
Not the person you are asking but there are indeed Chinese cops in the USA that harass and threaten Chinese expats and even threaten to hurt or arrest their family members back in the mainland. It is a violation of our nation's sovereignty but some cities are very slow to arrest them if they even try.
Here [1] is one example of a couple Chinese police in NYC but I can not find the links to the groups in Los Angeles.
Oh I understand some countries do these kinds of operations, but as a general rule your government has far more power over you than a foreign government. Obviously relevant if you are an expat etc
Do your kids have Social Security Numbers yet? Let's ask Elon to use his privileged mode on xAI to have it characterize their socio economic relations among all Americans that have existed since The Great Deal, shall we?
To respond in such a moronic, unthinking, truly absurd and ridiculous way to such a beautiful comment is bizarre and unnecessary beyond human understanding
The Solution here is as it always has been --to build furniture that's used to support students with built-in monitors that connect wirelessly (AirPlay or something like Apple's SmartConnector) when an iPhone is placed top of them (or a nearby cradle). As for the keyboard and iPhone, that's up to the Students, though there are widely available programs available to help pay for and insure them along with student discounts and public grants. This solution implies that Apple would allow a Dex-like solution on iOS, which I think is imminent based on recent iPadOS announcements and obvious increases in RAM/storage.
I legit first conceived of this type of setup in 1977-1978 where the iPhone+keyboard part was a "book safe" that contained an 1802 SBC covered by a PET-1 type keyboard and external jacks for NTSC (1861 video output) out, power in and a 5-pin DIN for TTL+audio (Q-line) cassette recorder. Students would be able to plug-in in the class, lab, library or at home. Let's just say Hollywood had thoroughly ruined the minds of the faculty and students and they lost out, despite being one of the top institutions in a region filled with Defense families. But by 1992, I was going wheels up from SJC with my PowerBook 170 still FAXing my contracting invoices via an RJ11 (POTS) phone line to a 3.5W Tandy BagPhone stuffed under my seat on my way home (will it finish before the signal fades LOL), typically telling this same story about the "textbook computer" to the unsettled random person in the isle seat.
In business, perception often is taken for reality (just look at how long people clung to DOS-Windows when there were far better Amigas and Macs for sale).
The Way is to build another high-speed rail line connecting Tucson to the new [Brightline West high-speed rail] station in Las Vegas (stopping in Bullhead and Henderson), then a new segment from Vegas up to SLC. The Brightline West line under construction now should also be extended down from Rancho Cucamonga to Phoenix (stopping in Temecula and San Diego). A Boring Company loop is also badly needed to connect Temecula and Irvine (underneath the Cleveland National Forest), maybe meeting Brightline in Temecula and Metrostink in Irvine. It's probably also possible to do something like close the existing freeways during certain hours, like the Silver State Classic Challenge does annually, and run 200mph (Tesla) cars and 100mph electric semis, so Brightline doesn't need to be involved, but it's really not that hard to just lay e-train tracks out.
Why?
Because connecting existing cities with 220-250mph trains will maximize the current US Southwest infrastructure so we do not need to develop new federal lands.
[PS: The BLM and non-BLM region between Phoenix and Vegas is laced with Naturally Occurring Asbestos and the BLM region between Vegas and Tonopah, East to California is largely still radioactive or in active use by the federal government, so unsuitable for new city development.]
Not really. COM/OLE is a different paradigm, their answer to an infamous vaporware called Taligent/OpenDoc that bankrupted many developers. Microsoft was sort of stuck with that security nightmare though
"COM" by itself is a rather broad umbrella. What you're describing seems to be OLE Automation. That's the one that has type libraries (which you need for discoverability).
And then Active Scripting was supposed to be how you'd script those endpoints...
I’m not reading thru all that, but believe me when I say the ground truth is that IBM developed REXX on its mainframes and a genius guy from that world (poor bstrd) recreated it on Amiga as a third-party product called ARexx that was, in turn, adopted and promoted by CBM Dev Relations. One of the things the fake frenching innovation team in charge of Apple for a few years did was go down in the basement where they had an Amiga in various forms of dissection and transplanted ARexx out of it, mixed with HyperCard’s vocab (which they also didn’t invent) and announced to the World their great invention: AppleScript. But I digress. Here in the (dystopian) Future, some Apple operating systems are just now gaining the kind of power that ARexx had, because these types of systems require the cooperation of the developers and they had little incentive to “donate” functions to the system just to gain integration with Siri/Shortcuts, but they can get fired/bankrupted for not doing it to integrate with Apple Intelligence (I know, I hate that identifier too). ARexx could not be ported to MacOS back in the day because it would have had to have been championed by Apple Developer Relations (Guy Kawasaki & Co —did I just wreck the “Hackers” movie reference?) and, even/especially in the 80s, they wouldn’t have approved a tech that “competed” with AppleScript. Microsoft didn’t jump on this because it descends from DEC tech (under the direction of the Cutler) which had nothing like REXX.
> The protocol doesn't judge your life choices. This brings me to something I discovered about MCP (Model Context Protocol) while trying to make my calendar app order takeout. Stay with me here.
What was that character in “South Park” that has a hand puppet? (White noise, flatline sound)
I'm afraid even https://jonudell.net couldn't save us.
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