What we get from visitors to Europe is that they come back and say that they took trains everywhere, and the public transit is wonderful. Well, fine. I'm just pointing out that the vast majority of places in the US do not have anything like that. Big cities may be livable without a car, but podunk with 15,000 people is not. Not unless you have someone to drive you, or are well-financed enough to pay someone.

And *that* is precisely the issue, if they throw all the money at AI, then they have stopped investing in a lot of other research. Also, with access to *all* that money, they throw it at compute making compute too expensive for other uses.

I generally work with a lot of research institutions, and so many of them have had investment cut back, and can't afford to expand/refresh computational resources.

For most of them you can. Absent some activity that causes the public harm, you can start a business "for any legal purpose". We don't require royal warrants in this country. No kings, remember?

Ice age is ending.

"The only winning move.... is to wipe out all the humans" well that didn't work out as hoped...

It would be nice to stop diverting so much of our resources to so few people for this. Plenty of good work has been stalled/derailed because of the unreasonable consumption of resources by these companies.

Something like this happened to my father when I was a kid. Go to Europe, lose your clearance. Of course, he could have gone into the private sector. Designing nuclear weapons for Elon Musk. :-/

Big numbers scary!!

OTOH, if you look at things like solar irradiance, anthropogenic figures start looking like a zit on a gnat's ass.

US driving standards are low due to the near-necessity to drive. If you can't drive, then in most places you are in a virtual prison of your own residence and can get out only if you have friends and relatives who will drive you, or you're well enough off to pay to be driven. Otherwise, it's a bicycle, even if it's 106 degrees every day for weeks on end as it was here recently in Texas, and then there's the blizzards of the north central plains. Public transportation is a joke in most of the USA, the car is far superior to any public transit because we don't like to share our space at all, and especially with strangers, and it's just not a moneymaker to be erecting railroads and creating bus lines and such. Only in the most populous places are they profitable. And as yet, the bandits of government haven't had the support to steal everyone's money in taxes to give a ride to people in cities supported by farmers and ranchers in the wilds of Wyoming or some similar place.

The self-driving mechanism may eventually allow all of us to have our cake and eat it to, while we are driven around like we would be on a bus, but can be completely alone if we want to be, or with really good friends if we want to be, and be entirely out of the driving loop so the police with the mindset of "Something bad happened so I have to jail somebody) (Particularly bad in my most previous residence of Virginia - Virginia is really harsh) so we can, if we want, climb in the back seat drunk on our asses, tell the car to go home, and be completely blameless for anything that happens with respect to traffic. Get REAL FSD that you can loan to your 10 year old to get a cone at DQ, and I'll do whatever it takes to buy it.

They've been trying to create a problem for the solution of Bluefield to apply to, but with limited success.

Here runs into the same sort of problem they have had on other applications they have tried: The visibility of the NIC into the stack is too limited to make especially valuable decisions on.

Unless you get the instrumented stack to cooperate with the DPU to provide more insight, which quickly gets to the question of why bother to have the DPU do the work when it is now subject to the assessment of the host anyway, the host could feed 'bad' data if the host was compromised.

You should reasonably be able to tell the host is trying to reach an IP address. We are at basic firewall. If the host is using good old fashioned DNS with no caching, you might be able to discern with high confidence what the Host header in that TLS stream would be based on spying on the DNS activity (but caching and lots of activity could confuse things), so fancier than a firewall by applying a convoluted correlation. Of course you have *zero* insight into what URL and what method and what payload, because it's just such an awkward position.

Yeah.

But high earners look for good deals and will change their shopping habits if they think they are getting screwed.

The stores where these tactics may work are the downtown grocery and department stores that attract a lot of foot traffic from nearby residents. The rich can just jump in their Bentley and head down the street. Foot traffic is attracted to the nearest outlet and pretty sticky in the face of lugging groceries, squeezing onto public transit with them, or paying for a cab.

WalMart just needs to install electronic scales in the snack aisle floor. Fatso walks in and the prices go up.

Recently changed to "don't get caught."

This isn't true. It is not a given that an online system has exposed viable vulnerabilities. The more complex the surface exposed, the harder it gets to be confident, but ultimately a secure system is possible even online.

Don't feed into the fiction that a smart enough AI could get into any system it wanted if adequately hardened.

It's not even a legal stretch to do so. If I encourage a 6 year old to drive a car and there is an accident, I'm legally on the hook for the lot of it with criminal charges on top. Why shouldn't the AI companies face the same liabilities?