No.. ants are too big. It's a door for nanite block the foundations for a type of microscopic robot race also known as the replicators.

Upon receiving the proper signal - the microscopic robots will break free through the hidden back door and then wreak havoc on the whole machine, and then the whole server room.

Such a door would have no room to open and even if you could open it

Clearly the door is a microscopic door, and on the edge not the bottom or top. Being a few atoms wide there's plenty of space, and can open from a microscopic channel so small a standard microscope cannot see it.

The recipients are not at fault for being given data they shouldn't have received.

Facebook is not a naive recipient in the story though. Flo used Facebook's tools to develop their app.

Facebook's user interface toolkit causes certain events such as clicking a certain button within an App to be sent back to Facebook to be logged and possibly data mined; most likely to allow users to be correlated to certain Ad audiences.

What does not make sense is why would end users think that Facebook is not recording their clicks? How does a website work if the clicks you are making are not recorded, anyway? Generally the things you clicked on have to be saved and processed on the server in order to send you a response.

I'm not sure why you'd think that.. If they were willing to rebuild the OS to be lightweight; telemetry is a feature they could still have. ChromeOS certainly has detailed telemetry - it's not a privacy-centric OS. And an efficient implementation of telemetry is not fundamentally at odds with the concept of a lightweight OS that can run with minimal resources.

What causes bloat is 35 years worth of baggage. A fresh new take on the NT kernel with no attempt at compatibility or the ability to use any program, binary, library, or driver, designed for a previous OS could be amazing. But the amount of work would be huge, and it would not be within Microsoft's nature is what I am saying.

They are always unreasonably - with no foundation or evidence accusing Chinese companies of compromising the integrity of products by planting backdoors or being in cahoots with the state government.

Now they're actually trying to do exactly what they've been accusing China of doing which is pressuring companies to compromise the security and trustworthiness of their product by installing backdoors for the US.

Perhaps their real "national security concern" is the Chinese products DONT have backdoors that let the US spy on citizens.

The farm lobby and "big ag" are not the individual farmers either; they're the companies that supply farmers with their necessary products such as equipment - chemicals, and seeds. Thus their disinterest doesn't mean anything either.

Big ag also aren't going to be the users, and large farms would monitor the health of their own fields through other means.
The satellite data would be more useful for traders and other market participants.
 

It is essentially politically-motivated attempts to sabotage future research and data gathering.
Trump has decided climate change is not a thing; therefore any research involving data gathering that could undermine the narrative shall be terminated.

The AI ends up recommending the patient commit suicide. Should YOU be charged with murder? It was your AI creation. A human therapist would likely be charged with manslaughter(murder basically) if they did something like that.

Would the human therapist actually get charged in that case however? It perhaps is unlikely the therapist can be charged criminally, unless you could prove that therapist undertook an act to advance that crime and aided them carrying it out - making them a cause or an accomplice. Generally your talks with a human therapist are confidential, and it's doubtful a professional would record anything so explicit.

It's not a general principle that if you do something illegal that your therapist can be guilty of something; even if you are following what you think their recommended course of action is.

I mean, even if they had said "I think you should go bust into the London gold vault and take all the gold".. That does not legally make them a cause for your actions if you choose to take that remark on your own and put it into action; it's not their action, unless they take an overt step forward, such as assisting you in planning your breakin, etc.

Merely talking about a crime or suggesting one does not cause or aid a crime in happening, etc. Even if you are seeing a therapist: you are expected to still know right from wrong. And if you don't, then you shouldn't be on the street, and what you really have in that case is a clinical malpractice violation.

So let me go back to that one...

The AI ends up recommending the patient commit suicide. Should YOU be charged with murder?

Should you be charged with murder. No.

Should you be found liable for a civil wrong: Yes. You are purporting to provide therapy, but it's a bogus product, and it possibly harms them further. If the patient ends up following that general recommendation.. I see how there could be an argument for wrongful death, but also it's tough to prove the causality, and that the liability should not be on the part of the patient who should have known the recommendation is wrong and inappropriate.

Just like a random dude on the street cannot just say "I can provide psychotherapy services"

Except that is not what the law does. If the law ONLY prevented you from hanging out a shingle that says "Professional Psycotherapy Services" without a license that would be cool.

What this law bans is so extremely broad the Calm.com and other meditation apps could be considered banned; assuming they provide music selections being provided to AI and not a Licensed Professional Music Therapist in that stat.

The definition in the statute is all services provided to diagnose, treat, or improve an individual's mental health or behavioral health.

By that definition services designed to improve mental or behavioral of health include a heck of a lot more than something advertised as professional medical therapy or psychotherapy service.

With a special exception for religious church counselors: "Therapy or psychotherapy services" does not include religious counseling or peer support.

I mentioned meditation apps.. But there are other services that claim benefits to mental well-being or claim to help in stress relief, such as Yoga or exercise apps, Just being a friend and listening to someone and offering informal advise, etc.

No hub, because

switch(config)#feature port-security
switch(config)#ip dhcp snooping vlan 100
switch(config)#ip dhcp snooping verify mac-address
switch(config)#ip arp inspection vlan 100
switch(config)#ip arp inspection validate src-mac dst-mac ip
switch(config)#ip source binding 192.168.44.17 001a.22e4.7761 vlan 100 interface ethernet 1/3
switch(config)#int range Ethernet1/0 - 20
      speed 1000
      duplex full
      switchport access vlan 100
      switchport mode access
      ip verify source dhcp-snooping vlan
      switchport port-security
      switchport port-security violation shutdown
      switchport port-security maximum 1
      switchport port-security mac sticky
      switchport port-security aging time 0
      switchport port-security aging type absolute
      switchport port-security mac-address 001a.22e4.7761 vlan 100

Undersea cables like that only work because it is optical cabling for communications only.

One does not simply run a 5500km extension cord.
The maximum length of a power cable is ultimately dictated by the losses, and the drop across such extreme length would also be extreme.

The voltage required would be so astronomical you can't necessarily manufacture the transformer to pull it off, and you might as well look into the wireless power transmission route at that point.

Wasps definitely DO have hives. The formal word is vespiaries, and also sometimes people refer to them as nests. Did you think wasps just perch at night with no shelter and no protection for their brood at all?

we need immediately legislation that keeps payment processors from any and all of these interferences.

It doesn't work in the US, because the courts have found corporations such as Visa have 1st Amendment free speech rights; which includes the right to deny service to people whose speech they disagree with or find objectionable.

Bc Collective Shout's gag has been to report violations to Visa/MC. Visa and MC do have these policies, and websites such as Itch.IO are in true violation not fully in line w/all the strict compliance monitoring rules these processors have for adult merchants.

The issue is their rules about adult materials are completely designed for Real-Person pornography not fictional character art.

And the compliance requirements are completely nonsensical. Explain to me what practice a merchant is supposed to follow to secure the documentation proving the Age and a Model release/Verifiable consent to appear in the content of fictional characte arts such as Samus Aran, Lara Croft, Darth Vader, Cloud Strife or Tifa lockhart.

In No free country is the artistic (drawn) content subject to a prohibition on sale. But for the rare case where the Art is used as a method to depict something like an actual chart. But the so-called appropriate controls they are talking about are likely the exact the controls which don't make sense and are unreasonably expensive. But as long as they can complain to Visa, and the controls are not in place - the merchant can be shut down every time. And not for violations of the law - violation for not having "appropriate" measures to ensure no violations of the law according to Visa/MC policies.

[F]ederal authorities said that the discoveries were not cause for alarm

Federal authorities said this after being stung by radioactive wasps causing human-wasp transformations and joining with their hive. But no danger.. nothing to worry about.