I'll grant that public school isn't doing great in the U.S., but private school has it's own share of problems in the U.S.

I would argue that healthcare would be a good candidate for a public option. Many factors confound market economics in health care.

But in addition, we really need to bring worker's rights into the 21st century.

I think it depends on context. IIUC...
If the hacking damaged someone who is a customer of Clorox, then it's Clorox's resonsibility. But it they've got a strong contract with someone else to do the work, they can try to collect those damages from the contracted company. And if it causes damage to Clorox's business, then then can try to collect damages from the contracted company.
Still, if one of Clorox's customers was injured, Clorox is the one they sue, not the contractor. Recovering the damages from the contractor is on Clorox.

I was responding to a post claiming it can't work because of behavior. It makes sense to address the argument given rather than something else.

Floppies were the wrong answer, so is a usb stick. CDRoms (write once) or DVDs (write once) would be a good choice, though. The point is to not have the work be reviseable. Paper is pretty good for that, and so are CDRoms and DVDs.

I'm not sure a chemicals company shouldn't outsource it's IT, but I am sure that if it does it should have strong liability requirements in the contract. Theoretically a company that specializes in providing IT services should do a better job. But you need to be able to check that they *are* doing a better job, and demand various penalties if they aren't. (I'd say just switch, but that itself can be expensive and trouble prone.)

It's definitely better if you have in-house expertise of good quality. But would your management even recognize good quality IT?

Yes, but people who don't know how the markets really work have strong opinions to the contrary.

In the end, though, this is about AI HFT, not economic justice.

I'll agree about security decisions being made by incompetent people, but I'm not sure those incompetent people have ever worked in IT, much less in IT security. Good security if often inconvenient, and usually more (immediately) expensive than just ignoring the problem. I've experienced arguing for security (well, I wasn't a boss, but it was a small group) and ended up trying to convince a lawyer...unsuccessfully.

It didn't say *what* information was accessible. For all we know it could just but their vacation schedules. (Yeah, not the way to bet. But for who knows?)

If I don't trust them, why would I trust their web page, i.e. what they say to the public.

Get an independent audit and I might consider it.

As it is I pay more attention to people reporting on the effects of their actions. Those may not be individually trustworthy, but at least there are multiple sources.

If those terms aren't operationally defined, they mean whatever the person in charge wants them to mean. And AFAIK, they *aren't* operationally defined.

Yeah, but there are degrees and degrees. I haven't seen an honest administration (well, perhaps Eisenhower, but I don't remember him). This one is worse then Nixon by a long way.

Not really. I invent new ones every day. But they're sort of "ad hoc", and I don't remember them for long. "We probably weren't designed to remember things we don't think are important"...HA! caught one forming. Although lots of people seem to believe in the implied designer, so that's not a good example.

Interesting that power scaling wasn't available at release time, but nice that they're doing it.

Power bills never go down and AI is squeezing family budgets.

It might also help in warm climates without air conditioning, both to avoid overheating and not warming up the house as much.

Certainly that microclimate change is something they can actually have an impact on.

And the binding membership of the ICJ is limited to those party to that particular treaty.

cf. "Hauge Invasion Act"

They ought to turn one of those British military bases in Cypress into the new UN.

No snow, geographic center of the world's land mass, and contiguous with the largest UN landholding.

Being in NYC negatively affects NY, USA, and UN.