I had thought Russia was planning to move most rocket launches to the Vostochny Cosmodrome which is fully within Russian territory (moving mostly to avoid depending on the lease in Kazakhstan). A new launch platform was the time to move.

The only winners will be the lawyers.

It is the "only the dumb criminals get caught" argument. However, with enough time and effort even the smarter ones will be eventually be found out and provide a new record.

While one can suggest the we should be beyond that, ego drives a lot of (especially male) choices (and the African nations do tend to be male dominated).

Paypal works with a network of different banks across the locations and currencies and transaction types it operates with. In some locations (and/or currencies and/or transaction types) there may not be many options. Since Paypal only makes money if you can spend money, I suspect they would really like to find a solution and would be working on it. That does not mean they can actually find a solution, or can implement one quickly.

Nolan has said repeatedly that digital IMAX is not equal to film IMAX. Maybe he will change his mind at some point, but not today.

As I understand it, Kodak is one of the main manufacturers of the film used in IMAX cameras. If Kodak goes out of business, what will Christopher Nolan do? Can he purchase Kodak's film manufacturing and developing business? Living within driving distance of a real 70mm IMAX film theater (only 19 in the US, 31 worldwide), I can and do appreciate the difference in the experience. I would like to see it continue to exist and be available.

I have not been in Rochester for ages, but is Kodak still a substantial contributor to the local philanthropic economy there? I would presume if Kodak goes bankrupt (again), there would be a loss of whatever funding they still provide to the community.

Linux has a succession plan in place in the case of some unforeseen event happening to Linus. Right now that plan is that GKH will take over the leadership role (GKH shares the same approaches and philosophies as Linus). One might expect an updated succession plan sometime in the early 2030s simply because they will then both be sexagenarians (and it will be time to make sure there is a new generation ready to take on the leadership roles).

So a million physical qubits means 10K or so logical qubits usable (as IBM has mentioned needing around 100 physical qubits for each error corrected logical qubit). If IBM can build a million physical qubit system by 2030, larger ones will no doubt follow. Moving to PQC and deprecating (in 2030) and disallowing (in 2035) RSA 2048 is probably the right recommendations by NIST.

If this proposed purchase went through (or Google is forced to sell Chrome) Firefox is probably dead sooner, as most of their revenue is from Google. While they have a reserve capable of funding development for a few years, it is likely they would close down sooner to reserve available funds to pay the salaries and bonuses of the foundations executives.

The TV Show Continuum (I believe it's on Amazon Prime) is a good starting point.

Books become illegal, neurotechnology becomes rampant, and cops go corporate with top tier equipment far more advanced than anyone can imagine.

On the flip side, street drugs get better, terrorism becomes harder but more impactful, etc.

Algorithms go unchecked, and people go crazy.

That's essentially Revelation.

I disagree.

https://blacksheephackerprophe...

The summary is that mental health, which can be manufactured, is not a reliable way to "discredit" someone from owning a gun.

I know from experience. While I don't need a gun myself, I was often called crazy for some of the posts I would make regarding neuroscience and AI algorithms. I have personally felt the "echo chamber" that AI algorithms can silently murder someone, purely based on their ad profile, which consists of interests/likes, diseases, flaws, etc..

https://blacksheephackerprophe...

Silencing your alarm clock before you have to wake up for work, or causing a missed appointment at the doctor, or having AI bombard you with depressing memes while your depressed, all can contribute. The crisis becomes manufactured.

If a civil war were to break out, it would be the "crazies" that would need the weapons to defend themselves, I suppose. Pro-Trump supporters (or even anti-Trump supporters) are flagged as crazy by the opposing party and slowly lose their rights online, with increased targeting / profiling / interest. You can become singled out, and with AI, that's even simpler to do. Predictive technology, or maybe it's because of manufactured crisis', can single you out for being a threat years before you become one.

end-to-end encryption is a must to avoid this, and I know it's possible, because I've done it to myself with my own messages.

I took my Facebook messages from a friend and asked about any unresolved issues we may have had. These are easy targets for someone to prey on to cause conflict, break up relationships, or otherwise cause crime. It can be helpful too, by pointing out to you something that may have caused negative thoughts against you from that point forward, so you can address it and put a stop to it.



That's just some examples. 1984 doesn't even begin to cover what's coming (or already here).

On recent phones you can disable amber and public safety alerts (while allowing extreme threat alerts). Of course, some jurisdictions may abuse the classifications.