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Comment Re:In "normal person speak" (Score 1) 15

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program is a dictionary or glossary of vulnerabilities that have been identified for specific code bases, such as software applications or open libraries. This list allows interested parties to acquire the details of vulnerabilities by referring to a unique identifier known as the CVE ID.

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Comment Re:This is pretty well done (Score 2) 109

The flaw in this implementation, [...] is that it requires every damn adult site on the internet to comply.

It's not a flaw. The onus is on the predatory companies (ie adult sites) to police their subscribers and filter out the small fish.

The point here is NOT to ensure that no kid ever sees a naked adult. If that were the point, it would be flawed to assume that every possible source of porn can be blocked.

The point here IS to ensure that companies selling naked adult material for profit or influence have no incentive to attract kids. This is clearly working.

There are of course those porn companies that choose to ignore this incentive. However, they cannot be sure that one of their subscribers will not denounce them to the authorities. Which tends to be bad in the long run. So the rational thing to do is to follow the rules.

Comment Re: How the hell does the BBC need... (Score 1) 42

You should probably not assume that the BBC content that you can access in the US is anywhere near the British programming. American consumers are notoriously incapable of comprehending regular British humour, and this has unavoidable repercussions on the variety of British products on offer in America.

(Note that this applies equally to television and cheese products.)

Comment Re:Just beyond wtf... (Score 1) 76

New stock listings are complicated things. For a new company looking to be listed, it is cheaper and faster to find a dying company which still has a stock listing, invest in the company and take it over, then close down the old business units, and repurpose the existing stock listing.

You should not view this as a shoe company going into AI. The shoe company is dead, the AI company is only wearing its skin.

Comment War and Genocide (Score 2) 70

You should probably thank War and Genocide more than Disease for maintaining the genetic evolution of Humanity at a rapid pace.

Diseases can work fast, certainly, but in general there's a sweet spot where killing the hosts too quickly prevents the disease from surviving in the population, and killing it too slowly allows the susceptible hosts to transmit their existing, unmutated, genes to the next generation. In the first case, the unfit humans cannot be exterminated as a whole, causing notable evolutionary mutations to be relatively less prevalent, while in the second case, the unfit humans continue to procreate, causing evolutionary mutations to be relatively less prevalent in the surviving population.

Contrast this with War, and especially Deliberate Genocide. These human activities cause targeted populations to be dramatically reduced due to the killings, giving the surviving humans a relatively more important role in defining the genetic makeup of the future human population. Especially in the common cases of racism and genocide, I would expect that extermination of the targeted humans would correlate naturally with a strong reduction of particular genetic traits in the overall human population. And since War is the result of deliberate decision making toward a goal, it doesn't need to preserve its hosts to survive, like a disease, in the human population.

Remember, human (or animal) evolution simply means that a lot of previously unfit individuals die in coordination with some genetic propensity, it doesn't mean that these unfit individuals somehow transform into fitness in their lifetimes and influence the future.

Comment Re:AI is a huge problem for programmers (Score 1) 150

Traditionally, the solutions that took two minutes to google were not added to your IDEs because of copyright issues and corporate limitations on internet traffic from unapproved sites. Once the AI companies decided to blatantly commit copyright infringement and compress all this information on their own servers for whitewashed retrieval, it became "technically" trivial to open a targeted connection to an AI vendor and access the 2 minute solutions systematically.

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