I wonder if deminishing "net neutrality" will be "yet another nail" in the copyright industries coffin.

The closest analogy I can think of to a historic non neutral network is AOL. And we (should) all know how that worked out.

The only "doubt" is whether or not they are working for their state or just condoned by their state.

Plus a big chunk of playing to public opinion because it's heresy to imply let alone state as fact that Russian or Chinese offensive comp sci is better than US defensive comp sci. Even though, in your hearts, you all know it to be true.

is it the good AIDs or bad AIDs (Mary Whitehouse experience reference)

It was clearly the good computer virus designed to penetrate state infrastructure. because Glenn Greenwald said so.

fvey vs fsb played out in public.

otherwise its too much effort and they'll just go along with whatever seems trendy and cool at the time.

And its definately not cool to point out the sun has set on the American empire.

you seem intent on forcing your particular world view on hn than providing moderation of explosive or unpleasant reading.

i find reading all the posts you like to detach often more interesting reading than any of the hn comments that get left over.

successes rarely get written up. so finding details on them is much harder.

also depends what you mean by fail.

if fail means "ran over budget and hit loads of unexpected problems" then yeah, most probably do "fail".

if fail means "shut down prematurly and abandoned without hope" then afaik, your only really talking about stuff by google and microsoft. most other software houses would fail with their software. and plenty are still arond from the 90s.

intel. ibm. apple... not so much real fail, for example.

But the point was, The russian hacker forums are orders of magnitude better than anything offered in English, and virtually every single one has made no secret (other than you need to read Russian) that they were working hard all year to get Trump "elected". From spreading rumours, distributing any dirt they could elicit, to boots on the ground playing with the voting machines. There was even talk of cash incentives from George Soros and Peter Thiel.

WaPo and NYT undoubtably have journalists that both read Russian and Frequent such forums. But it will be a while before they get the courage to go public with just how much US infrastructure is now completely pwned by the Ruskies. RNC and DNC only made headlines because some of the haul got sent to wikileaks aka FVEY.

My personal opinion is "America" deserves it for all the effort they put into making systems insecure.

the singluarity isnt "ai making new ai"

the singularity is ai solving problems that we cant - "greater than human intelligence."

which has basically already arrived. albeit bounded such that we still have ultimate control over what problems we direct ai to solve.

the economist is pro imf/world bank.

that is less pro globalisation and more pro * poorer nations for the Western profit incentive.

which isnt quite an equivalence.

most web problems are now bugs either by the site developer or in a specific browser.

thats a long way from ie6 problems where either you needed a unique site configuration for every browser or supported ie6 only.

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->RUSSIA and China have cracked the top-secret cache of files stolen by the fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden, forcing MI6 to pull agents out of live operations in hostile countries, according to senior officials in Downing Street, the Home Office and the security services.

Rather than whistleblowers that didn't blow any whistles. Political Correctness gone mad i tell ya.

As for "shared it with everyone on the planet." - really, where exactly can i download the 1.5 million highly classified US documents he has shared with the FSB?

aside from apple stuff (who have made it quite clear they believe their users want a totally walled garden and are not interested in compatabilty with the rest of the world), the other two are now rare afaik.

so if it happens to you regularily, then yeah, very likely it is nothing more than your distro sucks.

Many many companies getting not significant cash inflows in the run up to 2000 which made their balance sheets look great, until the end of the 2000 tax year in 2001 when they didn't look so great any more.

But yeah, the OP is a perfect example of a strawman.

Not just windows though afaik, JRocket MC is integral to the oracle JVM.

They were all so blinded by actually being asked on TV most never seemed to think it would be a problem that they were being asked to defend things completely opposite to their views.

Why the beep they didn't say "Your policy, you defend it" I'll probably never know.

On Topic: I was worried this would be a "we're leaving the EU so we don't care" thing. But turns out they already lost in the UK courts and it was the government trying to use the EU to overrule the British legal system. Which is the first good thing I've heard the British legal has done in ages.