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Comment Re:regulatory capture (Score 1) 71

It's much more likely this is a carefully orchestrated propaganda piece. I don't trust any of these people, and it's the people who are really at issue, not the weighted predictive text generators.

Exactly. At this time these people get no presumption of independence or honesty anymore. They have lied way too much for that and simple plausibility says they are lying even more now that their financial (and legal and technological) situation gets more and more dicey.

Comment Re:A crime is a crime, 6 to 586 ratio in Chicago (Score 1) 114

Asking for better police in the USA has been going on for much longer than I've been alive and that's quite a long time.
I've also been alive long enough to remember when overall crime was MUCH worse than today, almost everywhere and most police, again almost everywhere, fit into the ACAB designation.
But over time the police in every advanced Western nation became much better trained and much less of of a gang of bastards with one glaring exception.
BTW "defund the police" meant a lot of things, that are difficult to fit into a short slogan.
Personally, I would have gone with "BETTER cops NOW!"
However if you took the time to actually LISTEN to what was, what has been asked since the days of WEB Du Bois and other notable minority leaders, were entirely reasonable and would have taken away the burden of cops dealing with situations for which they're entirely unsuitable and usually unwilling to handle.
It sucks for those who grew up in dangerous areas but many live to escape them as you did, congrats.
But when you when have a culture of law enforcement where the Thin Blue Line is also the Blue Wall of Silence then the safe society we all prize is endangered and YOU, most of all, should be the LOUDEST voice for change instead of being the most ardent apologist.
Enlisted men and officers are subject to the UCMJ regardless of how stressful and dangerous their missions and postings.
Should police officers, many of whom see themselves as urban warriors also be subject to the UCMJ?
If not then why not?

Comment Good work on the easy part! (Score 5, Interesting) 30

This doesn't seem like a lie, a NIC is in a pretty good position to knock something off the network if it feels like it and the 'bluefield' devices have enough punch onboard to run some rules regarding whether or not to do that; but it seems like a wild exaggeration of how helpful it actually is.

If you actually have a set of rules that detect your bot being wicked it will presumably save you some CPU time to run them on the NIC rather than having the host CPU watching the traffic; but the hard part is the set of rules that detect your bot being wicked.

This is basically the equivalent of adding a firewall and claiming that you've solved network security. Yeah, the firewall is pretty well placed to block malicious traffic; defining 'malicious traffic' is left as an exercise for the reader.

Comment Re:Yes, probably. And they likely can do even bett (Score 1) 216

Who said anything about a "ban"? It is really simple: Prove to be an expert driver and get coverage for $100M and you are allowed to drive. Get coverage for $1B if you are just a regular driver. Btw. German standard is around EUR 10M already, most do EUR 100M or "unlimited" though.

Comment Re:Yes, probably. And they likely can do even bett (Score 1) 216

Yes. One prime example for the Dunning-Kruger effect is driving skills. For reference just look at accident and injury statistics. No appliance or industrial system with a safety record this bad would even be legal.

If you want somebody that is a bad driver and knows it, I am one. I never caused any accident, but I stopped driving as soon as it was possible. These days I do not even own a car.

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