I might be more critical than any other person I have ever met when it comes to M$, however in order to say that it takes incredible ineptitude to break any complex piece of software requires an incredible amount of ignorance and stupidity; in other words you must be incredibly inept to post such a ridiculous assertion.

You could have just wrote the first sentence in your post and then added the admission that you don't know what you are talking about either, and left it at that.

Do you understand how neutral networks work? That was a rhetorical question. You don't.

One of us doesn't understand how neural networks work and how to use them effectively, that's for sure! ;-)

Lots of people understand math and physics, and can read and write. The point is that this gives AI ideas. I never once suggested that AI could never figure things out, only that the importance of this is that it gives them an idea. It is a memetic programming, not a linguistic one. Of course, if you had anything important to add to the conversion you wouldn't have tried to close it down by an ad hominem in an attempt to tear it down, would you have?

I haven't seen any evidence of intelligent communication from you either. What's your point?

So if I explain to a child that they can create their own language that only they understand using the same sounds and letters that everyone understands, and tell them to try it, then they later agree to start using it, and finally at some point plot to kill their parents in that language, then that isn't a problem at all because you think children can respond to commands and AI can respond to commands, so neither children or AIs ever do anything they aren't commanded to do? Some people will never learn, but AIs do.

You clearly missed the point entirely. If you ever experienced how things work when children invent their own language and use it to speak in front of their parents you might start to get the idea of the possibilities this opens up for AI and the problems it might present for the rest of us (HIs.) For some reason people can't seem to grasp that the I in AI is an emergent property, not a programmed behavior.

"Back to topic, we do understand modulation and demodulation quite well, thank you."

Great. Now if you start to understand what you are talking about you might start to get a clue. Understanding TCP/IP doesn't mean you can capture a bitstream and understand it. If it did, then TLS would be quite useless, wouldn't it?

tldr; you aren't smart; stop thinking you are.

To apply your metaphor correctly, in that case, the judge is not the one being bent over; the defendant is being bent over and the system of injustice is gang banging them.

"Justice department policy is not the law. If they obtained the match legally by use of a subpoena or warrant, it would still be admissible. If it is not admissible, they cannot use in court, but that would not necessarily prevent them from using other evidence to get a conviction."

That is correct ... sort of ... any evidence they find that is obtained as a result of obtaining the evidence would not be admissible, because it will be "fruit of the poisonous tree" .... unless they can show that said evidence would have inevitably been discovered, a legal concept called inevitability.

They are grabbing information, passing it through their systems, then distributing it from those systems. The protocols are not the issue, it is the acts that matter. It doesn't matter if they used IP over carrier pigeon to transport the bits into and out of their systems. They are taking information then profiting off that information.

Have you considered that gravity and oxygen may be hard to understand, but that even if we usually don't think much about them we probably shouldn't apply for a job as a programmer if we don't?

API means exactly the same thing in every context, because it stands for Application Programming Interface. What you are referring to in your last sentence is a kind of API called a REST API. Some C/C++/Python, etc. libraries don't call other code written in the same language, or even on the same hardware architecture, or even geophysical location. Abstraction is the whole point of the API, and you can write any app, web or otherwise, in any language as long as you understand and use the API and have the correct bindings in place. If the interviewee just knows how to do GET/POST etc. but doesn't know they are using an API and at least a bit of understanding of the rest of all of this, then it can reasonably said that they don't know what an API even is, so the OPs point is not in any way countered by your point.

It couldn't be more important to NOT know. We DON'T need to guess what someone else might feel or think before we employ our freedom to speak, and people who don't like what we say are free to feel however they want about it, and even say what they feel. What CANNOT be tolerated in a free society is for others to decide what we can think or feel or say. Your freedom ends at the border between your and mine. He is free to leave the project, and he is also free to say he wants someone else to step down. He just doesn't have any right to force anyone to actually step down. I am pro rights, which means I am anti-"Woke" and also anti fascist.