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You have to learn Arabic numerals fist.

The Democratic "rift" is between the leadership and the voters. Islamophobia doesn't play with Democratic voters like it does with Republicans.

The first Federal laws against hacking and computer crimes was a direct reaction to the movie War Games (1983).

From Wikipedia:

President Ronald Reagan, a family friend of Lasker's, watched the film and discussed the plot with members of Congress, his advisers, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Reagan ordered a full national security review. Within a week, the Joint Chiefs of Staff returned an answer: "Yes, the premise was technically possible". Reagan's interest in the film is credited with leading to the enactment 18 months later of NSDD-145, the first Presidential directive on computer security.

So the people exonerated from DNA evidence are entitled to a rape and murder on the house?

I'm skeptical that empires have stages and supposing existing empires will obey these stages is dubious. Previous efforts to suss out patterns in history for the purpose of predicting the future have not gone well.

Why hasn't the US been doing this already? Any country that's not developing these skills are fools. Even if you don't use them aggressively, the knowledge will come in handy when Russia or China trys to do it to you.

Somehow, the boomers and Xers survived TV. Somehow, Millennials survived the internet, social media, and cellphones. GenZ will overcome chatbots; the kids are alright.

I've been ride or die with FF since before Chrome was a thing. I keep Vivaldi installed for a few things, but FF is my daily driver.

I know that Mozilla has made some decisions that I don't agree with, but the Internet would be worse off without FF.

people who worry about "kids these days" are invariably the mediocre kids of yesteryear.

Be careful about using AI to summarize a TOS. Some companies have been caught adding hidden prompts to steer your AI from telling you about parts of their TOS that they don't want you to know about. Regulatory information that they're required to disclose for example.

I'm astonished that anyone would trust their bank login to a chatbot. But if you read the article, the banks aren't worried about depositors loosing money, they're worried about AI getting a better deal for their customers.