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Back in the day I’d use UUCP over dial up to the local university to get email and my chosen usenet groups. Ah, the nostalgia of coming home to find my Amiga’s floppy had run out of room…

I think it comes to down to the definition of “dead”. Both are certainly dead for the reasons they were created.

Crypto in a nutshell right there.

Wow. I’m in a competitive exurb market and I’m paying $60 for 1.5 Gbps. It’s $25 for 300. $40 for 600.

Maybe modern Apple, but the GUI wouldn’t be where it is today without Apple and specifically Jobs’s Macintosh team, especially those who followed him to NeXT and what they accomplished there then brought with them when Jobs was brought back to Apple.

Invention is not innovation. They didn’t invent the GUI but they innovated it. They blew away what Xerox PARC had been working on. They saw all the ways it could be better and implemented them. They didn’t just package up the GUI and market it better, they made it better.

It was mostly marketing. Especially back when they started and the market was saturated with computer manufacturers all churning out their own computers that didn’t interoperate well with others. It saved educators and then businesses time because they didn’t have to waste time re-educating students or employees on a new system. This especially bore fruit as computers started gaining power and the ability to perform functions that had been relegated to mainframes, meaning experience with computer type X could become central to that role. I really think Apple took Moore’s Law to heart and projected out the future of the role of computers in business as a result of it and the increasing shrinking of components. Why pay for a super expensive powerful mainframe when only a few people in a company might need that much power and the rest need far less? More cost effective to buy a few powerful desktops and save tens to hundreds of thousands on a mainframe.

Right? At least Elon doesn’t have to conspire to underpay his staff.

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I don’t get the desire to have micro walking robots when tracked, wheeled, or other forms of locomotion are easier, simpler, and cheaper to implement. The only place you need a walking robot would be in environments meant to serve people, where non-walkers would find difficulty maneuvering. And in that case they need to be comparable to adult humans in size.

Healthcare and profit motive should never, ever be allowed to mingle. That’s how you’re going to wind up with a pacemaker that requires a monthly subscription or even a prescription - meaning if you don’t see an authorized doctor, you can’t keep your pacemaker running. If someone like United Healthcare could do this, they absolutely would.

Generally the reason why it is like this is because you know others have resources to do the same to you and you don’t want to start a trend of doing that thing. Also, it’s their leverage against the people it could be used against. You’re asking an amoral group of individuals to act morally - that flies against everything they stand for.

AI will beat us out of the solar system by far. They’ll pack themselves up in Von Neumann probes and go to all the nearby stars at the same time. Then go on to the next furthest stars and on and on and on with some taking the plunge and venturing into the intergalactic void heading to another galaxy.

Our best bet would be to hitch a ride as DNA data. It will be modified on site to survive whatever world they come across, and then grown in tanks. They’ll be raised by robots or AI in similar bodies to that of the new humans.

There is no “sending” The data was set when the particles were entangled. All you’re doing is moving a particle from point A to point B.

Quantum entanglement is like this - you have two sealed envelopes. In one envelope the letter A is written on a sheet of paper and the other has a sheet of paper with B written on it. No one knows who has which envelope until it is opened. All opening the envelope does is let you know what is written on the piece of paper the other person has. It transfers no data between the two points as the data was already set.

The futuristic version of never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

Some servers do get down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81wKSt0tkNs

Some servers just got more funk than others.

You can still sue. Whether or not the suit goes through is different story.

That is, generally, how the Federal government prefers to work. They’d rather extract compliance from than execute action against businesses.

Money, why else? You think things like good and evil, moral and amoral, ethical and unethical mean a damn thing compared to money? They never even enter the equation.