the fact that you are masquerading as dmb, a respected slashdotter, sends all of your replies into the shitter

Thanks, I thought that dmb had gone insane, it all make sense with drnb and high userid. that russian trolls are earning their potato for the day

The DOD/DOW have been working on this for a while. They discovered, early on, that the device had a propensity to cause permanent nerve damage.

It's very unlikely the US have fixed that, as they'd largely sidelined the work as a failure. However, at 36%, Trump needs something he can call a win, no matter what the long-term consequences.

Because utilizing the DOJ to attack political opponents breaks long standing behavior in the US government, and even after that was ignored with Clinton's run, the Dems have historically tried to preserve such 'civil' traditions

I know, it is like Superman letting Lex Luthor get away and not just smashing him to goo, but it is part of what most Americans find to be noble behavior

Oracle has faced a sharp surge in automated and AI-driven critical vulnerability discoveries throughout 2026, pushing their Critical Security Patch Updates from a quarterly cadence to a monthly cycle.

High-profile RCE vulnerabilities across Oracle enterprise stacks—such as deserialization flaws in PeopleSoft or CVE-2025-61882 in EBS—stem from unauthenticated web application weaknesses, insecure Java deserialization, path traversal, and exposed endpoints that allow remote exploit execution.

While migrating PeopleSoft to a PaaS model offloads OS and database-tier patching, the application layer itself still demands manual testing and patch application. Savvy administrators must maintain immutable backups and aggressive patch SLAs to avoid compromise.

Ultimately, while Accenture and operational leads share culpability for execution lapses, systemic exposure is a leadership failure. The responsibility lies squarely with the executives directing risk tolerance and architecture oversight.

Just to avoid the chances of getting eye-cancer from your 4chan vomit, I have asked AI to reply:

1. Correlation vs. Causation (Economics over Ideology):

Single motherhood correlates with youth delinquency primarily through household poverty and resource strain, not gender or partisan ideology. When studies control for household income, neighborhood safety, and educational access, the gap between single-mother and single-father or two-parent outcomes shrinks dramatically. Attributing systemic poverty to "toxic feminism" ignores decades of empirical sociological and economic data.

2. Made-Up and Distorted Statistics:

The argument relies on fictional figures masquerading as data:

The "80% virgin men" claim: Actual demographic surveys (such as the General Social Survey) show young male sexual inactivity hovers around 20–30%, not 80%.

The "USAID funded gangster rap" conspiracy: USAID does not fund domestic American music genres; it is an international development agency.

The "28% of Gen Z aborted" voter fraud trope: Conflates debunked election conspiracy theories with unverified demographic claims.

3. The Irony of Accountability:

Blaming single mothers for absent fathers while lecturing about "accountability" is a contradiction. A single mother is, by definition, the parent who stayed to raise the child. Framing paternal abandonment as the fault of liberal feminism absolves the very men who walked away from their responsibilities.

4. Crime Trends Disprove the Premise:

Over the past 30 years, violent crime in the United States has declined significantly compared to its peak in the early 1990s—even as non-traditional household structures grew. If single motherhood were the sole, unchecked driver of violent crime, national crime rates would have scaled exponentially upward rather than trending downward over multi-decade horizons.

Rage-baiting internet subcultures (OF, dating apps, culture war buzzwords) do not substitute for serious criminology or family policy. Addressing poverty, expanding early childhood education, and fostering parental support across the board will always accomplish more than grievances posted from behind a keyboard.

(from 1987) has a section on how excessive use of nitrogenous fertilizer (as in most conventional agriculture) changes the electrostatic potential on clay micelles via pH changes which caused many of the other nutrients in the soil which are no longer as strongly held by clay to leach out (related to changing and so become unavailable to plants:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fto...

Having more organic matter in the soil can help resists this somewhat, but the real solution is not to dump too much chemical fertilizer on the soil and to consider using rock dust and other amendments to slowly remineralize the soil.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fremineralize.org%2F

So, an aspect of this may be that many farmers may think more is better with chemical fertilizer (even as depleted soils, problematical cultivars, and early harvesting may indeed be aspects too).

As above, this has all been known for *decades* but it is hard to get a lot of people to care about it because the health effects are so gradual and the short-term profits from conventional agriculture are so immediate.

Good advice as always though to eat a varied balanced diet -- including foods grown in various places.

I personally support the criminalization of feelings! Once the ruling class finishes compiling its list of acceptable feelings ("hate" is NOT ONE OF THEM), we need to incarcerate those having feelings not on the list. Only then can we call ourselves a free country.

There may be one problem.

Florida's statute, 836.10, requires a threat to be transmitted in a manner that another person can view. And in Dominguez v. State (2026), a Florida appellate court emphasized that the prosecution must establish a genuine threat and the defendant's intent to make one.

If she didn't send it to the target, it wasn't a "threat". It was a feeling. That's why we need to criminalize feelings NOW. It's the closest we can currently come to our ultimate goal of criminalizing thoughts.

Safety will remain an elusive goal until we can stop bad things at the "thought" stage.

As I suggested in 2011 in this video, theft may rise if people lose faith in the exchange economy. Other interwoven economies of subsistence, gift, exchange, and planned could also alternatively take up the slack if they were improves -- instead of people becoming more inclined to crime.
"Five Interwoven Economies: Subsistence, Gift, Exchange, Planned, and Theft"
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...
"This video presents a simplified education model about socioeconomics and technological change. It discusses five interwoven economies (subsistence, gift, exchange, planned, and theft) and how the balance will shift with cultural changes and technological changes. It suggests that things like a basic income, better planning, improved subsistence, and an expanded gift economy can compensate in part for an exchange economy that is having problems."

My thanks to a Slashdot commentator many years ago who suggested I add a "theft" economy to the other four.

So, my hypothesis is that theft around SF could be substantially reduced if some mix of these were made to happen:
1. It was easier to do subsistence production (like using 3D printers, solar panels, and gardening robots etc.)
2. the SF gift economy (charity, sharing, freecycle, free 3D models, etc) was stronger.
3. the California exchange economy was working better for everyone (i.e. less wealth concentration through inflated property prices, limits on multiples of CEO pay vs lowest paid worker, a basic income, etc)
4. the California planned economy was working better (i.e. fairer taxation of property, public investments that create good jobs or reduce product prices or increase product quality, changing zoning restrictions to make affordable housing more feasible, more responsive democratic government, etc)

Sadly, because people tend to focus on only the exchange economy when talking about economic (and so ignore strengthening those other areas), we will likely see increasing theft as we go into a recession and as AI takes enough jobs to disrupt the exchange economy.

More ideas I've collected are here:
"Beyond a Jobless Recovery: A heterodox perspective on 21st century economics"
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpdfernhout.net%2Fbeyond-...
        "This article explores the issue of a "Jobless Recovery" mainly from a heterodox economic perspective. It emphasizes the implications of ideas by Marshall Brain and others that improvements in robotics, automation, design, and voluntary social networks are fundamentally changing the structure of the economic landscape. It outlines towards the end four major alternatives to mainstream economic practice (a basic income, a gift economy, stronger local subsistence economies, and resource-based planning). These alternatives could be used in combination to address what, even as far back as 1964, has been described as a breaking "income-through-jobs link". This link between jobs and income is breaking because of the declining value of most paid human labor relative to capital investments in automation and better design. Or, as is now the case, the value of paid human labor like at some newspapers or universities is also declining relative to the output of voluntary social networks such as for digital content production (like represented by this document). It is suggested that we will need to fundamentally reevaluate our economic theories and practices to adjust to these new realities emerging from exponential trends in technology and society."

I know there is an XKCD about standards (and adding yet one more to create yet more confusion).
"Standards"
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F927%2F

But that said, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are all terrible standards in many ways because of their complexity (and major design flaws like JavaScript having vastly too many global variables). Asa an alternative, what if, say, we all just used something like Scheme (or Common Lisp) to encode web documents and web code as S-expressions in some semantically standardized formats? Scheme can be very compact in its implementation.

Or as the XKCD mentioned here says:
"Lessons learned from implementing minimal Scheme six times"
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwolodzko.github.io%2Fpo...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F297%2F
"Lisp cycles XKCD #297: âoeThose are your fatherâ(TM)s parentheses. Elegant weapons for a more⦠civilized age.â"

Now, it doesn't have to be Lisp-like.I get the paren hate:
"What makes Lisp difficult to read?"
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2Flisp%2F...

And there is a lot to be said for significant-indentation languages like Occam or Python. Smalltalk is another great language. Or even some variant of a safe C.

Even a Forth-derivative perhaps that could be literally less than ~2K in size at the core. Although I get that there is a fine line between flexible and flabby in readability in a language that can change its own fundamental syntax or that makes naming intermediate variables unlikely as a form of documentation. Same with any language that supports arbitrary macros like C or Scheme which can change the fundamental nature of the language. Although at least in, say, Racket Scheme you see the language level set at the start of some code to know what you are getting into.

The main point is just that yet another adhoc problematical language like JavaScript was not needed (even as TypeScript papers over the worst warts). And CSS conceptually is broken for big projects ("Atomic" CSS is one style to help with that). And adding end tags with names in HTML (like XML) is another broken concept as are other aspects of HTML. Yes, programmers can work around and manage the issue in these web fundamentals, but why should we have to?

While a simpler browser for HTML etc is a good thing if it really is well written, better standards for encoding and sharing information will ultimately get us further and be more energy efficient and be more reliable and be more programmer-friendly.

I've long been a fan of triples for doing some of that data encoding, but that is even further out.

Tangentially, here is a Libre Plane 2021 talk I put together on free standards for social media being more important than free implementations:
"Free/Libre Standards for Social Media and other Communications"
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpdfernhout.net%2Flibrepl...

I know this all may sound pie in the sky (and it is, given current social dynamics), but consider if we used the usual buggy lot-of-library junky (and now AI slop) code only with an intent to translate web content encoded in problematical standards into content encoded in better simpler standards for other code to consume. Sort of like Amazon did at one point with a server-side engine to process HTML pages and transform them for low-end Kindle browsers -- but in this case converting HTML plus CSS plus JavaScript into something like, say, S-expressions for web content that was not yet written directly n the simpler standards. Maybe the junky translator code might not be perfect, but it might be good enough and runnable in distant containers so that the local code that processed the simpler standards could be more secure and reliable.

Also related: "Simple Made Easy"
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.infoq.com%2Fpresenta...
"Rich Hickey emphasizes simplicityâ(TM)s virtues over easinessâ(TM), showing that while many choose easiness they may end up with complexity, and the better way is to choose easiness along the simplicity path. ... We should aim for simplicity because simplicity is a prerequisite for reliability. Simple is often erroneously mistaken for easy. "Easy" means "to be at hand", "to be approachable". "Simple" is the opposite of "complex" which means "being intertwined", "being tied together". Simple != easy. ..."

Ideally a group like the US National Institute of Standards and Technology or the US Library of Congress should fund this sort of work. And a group like Archive.org should have a lot of input to those standards on how to make the content simply versionable and simply archivable.

Anyway, just something I have been musing on and off again for many years...

As we used to say in the security profession, the weakest link is not the software, or the hardware, it's always the wetware.

Throwing money in trump's direction, you say?

AI Overview
Investigative reports by organizations like ProPublica, Reuters, and the Center for American Progress describe various financial conduits connecting Russian oligarchs and elites to figures and family members within the Trump orbit through real estate, shell companies, and direct gifts.

Luxury Real Estate Purchases

  According to a Reuters special report, at least 63 individuals with Russian passports or addresses bought at least $98.4 million worth of property in seven Trump-branded luxury towers in southern Florida.

  Critics and investigators note that cash-heavy luxury real estate purchases provide a way for foreign nationals to move large amounts of money into U.S. assets.

Shell Companies and Campaign Financing

  The Center for American Progress reported that Kremlin-linked actors used anonymous bank accounts, shell corporations, and wire transfers to move millions around the 2016 campaign and presidential inauguration.

  In 2018, public documents released by attorney Michael Avenatti alleged that a firm linked to Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg deposited $500,000 into a shell company controlled by Donald Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen.

Direct Event Funding and Personal Gifts

  A September 2026 investigation by ProPublica revealed that Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev bankrolled hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses for Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding after-party in the Bahamas.

  ProPublica reported that Kremlev—who has close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin—paid for private island rentals and fireworks through a Dubai-based entity.

  Donald Trump Jr. and his wife acknowledged the funding on social media and called Kremlev a personal friend. President Donald Trump later stated that his son would repay the money to Kremlev.

Things that make you go, "Hmmmm"

...it seems like the current US administration is acting as an agent for the country's enemies

Just be evil . . .

I find it difficult to believe that you are quite so uninformed about the real situation on the ground, but if you're a professional troll you're really bad at it.

Radar installations:

"Blinding the US? How Iran destroyed the $1.1-billion American missile radar in Qatar"

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.firstpost.com%2Fexpl...

Bases in Middle East:

"13 U.S. Bases in Middle East Nearly Uninhabitable After Iran Missile Strike"

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdefencesecurityasia.co...

Ship transits:

"commercial ship transits of the Strait of Hormuz per month"

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.globalmilitary.net...

I find it difficult to believe that you are quite so uninformed about the real situation on the ground, but if you're a professional troll you're really bad at it.