* Posts by amanfromMars 1

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Competition? We've heard of it. MoD snubs cloud rivals to hand Microsoft £17.7m Azure hosted services gig

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Re: Hook, Line and Sinker

Is it just me or does anyone else smell fish here? ..... oiseau

I'm thinking the MOD are well and truly phished, oiseau.

Ah well, at least there be no argument or disagreement about who is to blame and carry the can whenever anything at all goes tits up, which is nice and convenient whenever scapegoats/villains/suckers are needed.

US senators call for more transparency over $12bn TSMC fab plant investment

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Re: "whether the Taiwanese giant was lured with the promise of financial incentives"

When a supermarket chain eyes a spot of land it wants it not only gets the local authorities to exempt it from taxes for ten years, but also gets roads and infrastructure made on its behalf then takes off after nine and a half because, all of a sudden, it remembers that it won't be making money soon.

And now these senators are wondering about a $12 billion plant ? Were they born yesterday ? .... Pascal Monett

That would make a Charles Ponzi proud, Pascal Monett ...... and whenever one is retarded or has learning difficulties, one doesn't need to be thought of as born yesterday whenever someone/something else plans/makes a move others could have contemplated and realised, but didn't or could not.

Azure-hosted AI for finding code defects emitted – but does it work?

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AI Coding to XSSXXXX ... for Heavenly Tasks with Devilish Delights to Savour and Server

The guide explains everything you need to know about deploying the application, but nothing much about how to use it.

Does the application have an effective master kill switch ...... just in case there be those who know, or would presume to know virtually everything there is to know about how to use it ....... and would choose to misuse and/or abuse it and the rewards previously awarded and afforded.

That's just not Cricket, is it ....... hence the requirement for AIMaster Kill Switch Controllers.

One wouldn't want Microsoft and Capgemini being found ignorantly negligent in providing such powerful services without contemplating on and preparing for highly sophisticated and parasitic renegade rogue use and/or abuse with misuse, for y'all know such miscreants are out there ...... up to no good mischief and malevolent shenanigans.

Such could quite easily become its Major Prime Selling Point ....... an Effective Master Kill Switch whenever assets provided and services supplied are overheated and fried, for it is something to make a valid gross negligence claim against, which Microsoft and Capgemini and Uncle Sam can easily afford.

And it's a nice money flow churn. And ......

MS and Altran may actually be able to also provide extremely adequate protection against such a disaster as the above. Those two fundamental bases are then covered and control the entire field of operation and applications.

The only unreal problem for them then is what to do next for the best ?. And whoever/whatever would they talk to about it in order for everything to proceed and easily succeed and progress at remarkably ludicrous speed ?.

Nvidia's A100 GPU coming to a cloud near you, DARPA details AI war games, Intel wants to help scan your brain

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And perhaps already an ACTive Work in Future Progress.

The only hope for humanity, is if some bedroom coder figures out how to create a token-manipulating AI with consciousness and intelligence, teaches it morality and lets it loose to become an omnipotent power before Google, Facebook, Tesla, the Chinese Communist Party, the NSA etc figure it out. ...... Anonymous Coward

That sounds like an excellent plan, AC. What could possibly go awry? Watch out for those spaces featured here on El Reg.

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End ... Start ... Go .... Run .... Take a Quantum Leap with AI ......

..... Create NEUKlearer HyperRadioProACTive IT World Orders

the Gamebreaker program manager in DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office.

Thanks for the info, El Reg. It is an Interesting Starting Point for AWEsome Virtual AIdVentures.

:-) The Leading Question now is Who/What Wants to Deserves to Play as a Path Finding Leader ? We or they? Who/What wants to come first for a try ..... in the delectable delight of every satisfaction tendered to be sated ..... which when done extremely well, is Incredibly EMPowering ....... and Creative.

Crikey, that sounds like something has escaped from a Mayfair Madams Dungeon. ;-) .... which certainly sounds very nice and well worth one's full attention ....... but the above is in reference to something else shared within Proposed Technology for Submission to AWE 2020 exclaiming Strange Spookily Available Services Available.

I do wonder if recipients do not fully understand the controls at their command? Which has one pondering on tweaking the weakness that doesn't ask questions for further clarification ...... for such is remiss and can lead and leave one later playing mad flitting blindfolded in fields in which one is no longer afforded and thought Invincibly Immortal.

Alibaba's Jack Ma bails from SoftBank's board

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I Kid U Not

The election of the two independent candidates meets the demands of Elliott Management, an American activist hedge fund that took a 3 per cent stake worth $2.5bn in the Japanese firm in February.

I didn't realise 3% was quite so powerful and enabled to be so demanding so early on in a new union with other powerful marriages of current convenience ‽

What sort of thing does Jack Ma love to do with the money churned off the back of his wealth and enterprise? It's surely bound to be at least something exotic and erotic given the successes and excesses garnered in the past from what one assumes has been duly diligent and competitively overwhelming.

Exotic and erotic are well known favourite drivers and servers which never fail to excel in any enterprising venture/Novel ProgramMING Project for Rewards and Awards from Human Fields which are Almighty Captivating and Addictively Certain in Operations and Applications. That makes them much more than just extremely valuable and almighty powerful.

And yes, for those who would both like and need to know, one is unlocking and a'knocking on Forbidden City doors there, with riches to spare, share and spend the beast of burden you bear and offer. Do you know, .... Spooky Ancient Magic Top Secret Society types have been practising the Tao of Zen since ages before now from there, and most recently for satellite enterprises with practical business offices virtually everywhere for anywhere.

Don't underestimate Beijing for they don't overestimate any think, but they are beautifully tempted with the flowers and seeds of future guaranteed feeds and needs ...... complete with the means and memes to plant and tend for vital growth and the grateful harvesting of immaculate bounty to sow ...... once again to harvest what nature intended ...... and/or foreign entities and alien forces are strategically invested in.

Cyber attack against UK power grid middleman Elexon sparks in-house IT recovery efforts

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Re: From US with LOVE ...... for Captivating Capture by Mother Russia Red Teamsters

That's more the style we expect. ..... billat29

Is that you saying the post is incomprehensible and confusing you, billat29? Does it need to be further simplified with more sensitive information added to reveal more of the sterling secrets hiding in the shadowy shade of star systems collapsing/imploding/exploding?

:-) Do bots play global stud poker with just humans/themselves ?

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From US with LOVE ...... for Captivating Capture by Mother Russia Red Teamsters

Do you have Alternate Virtualised AI Realities Processing Future Information for Universal TeleVisualised Audio Visual Presentations ‽ . ....... and of COSMIC Construction Cossack Style

Is there a Vlad in the House Putting In Input to Output for an Imperial Soviet State of Bodies with Advanced IntelAIgent Minders ...... AIMentors and Monitors?

And that question is hereby, here now presented for the only true simple answers when the question escapes you ‽ ..... Yes, No, Maybe Later for a Never Ever Before Ending to Kick Start urVirtual AIMachinery into Global Social Significance, are all Correct and Great Ideas to Also Personalise and Populate in All Manners of Matters of One's Own Choosing.

And yes, that does wander into the Spooky Kremlin Russian Orthodox Church Services Territories of the Yet to be Imagined and Directed, Produced and Enacted? One imagines them all quite busy there these days. ....... but the few words here all but universally guarantees the information herein shared and safely certainly delivered, and to as many intended addressees as would be able to benefit from a welcoming enlightened foreknowledge too ..... which is the Real Not Totally Unexpected Bonus when Top Secrets are Proving Overwhelmingly Expensive and Impossibly Difficult to Maintain and Retain and Restrain. They be an Obstructive Destructive Liability Harbouring the Seeds and Feeds and Needs of One's Own Ascension into an Attendant Ascendancy with Keys to Unlock and Free the Heavenly Stores Within for Future Programs and Protected by the Almightiest of Doors. ...... One's own Disbelief of a Fact Proving Itself to be True ....... and Able to Communicate with You Too?

How about them jewels now that diamond sparklers have lost their attractive lustre ? Future Sensitive Information Sales are one of those Virtual AIDerivative Ventures which Hedge Funds and Merchant Banks are just made for and may even tell you to stay well away from if of a highly nervous disposition.:-)

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The weakest link ..... and a reliable constant source of inestimable bounty

Do you think the computer equipment that controls the navy's nuclear submarines, receive e-Mail? ..... Anonymous Coward/Montgomery Scott wannabe

Maybe not, AC, but the PEBKAC issuing instructions and/or following orders controlling equipment on a navy's nuclear submarines certainly do ....... and can be surprisingly easily nobbled and hobbled nowadays, which must be quite a worry to more than just a connected few ?

How do you stop folk thinking for themselves whenever they receive new information which energises their intelligence services releasing the realisation they are being comprehensively played for a useful fool and idiot's tool? Do you think such possible and/or desirable?

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Re: Penny Dreadful* Classics and Oxymorons 'r' us

And some folk just don't get the reality and would do battle against themselves and daemons which care not a jot about their delusions of power with corrupt collective and perverse poisonous administrations .........

President Donald Trump has vowed to break the “radical left’s” apparent control of social media platforms. Earlier, the president thanked his “keyboard warriors” for their support, as they accused the tech firms of censorship.

“The Radical Left is in total command & control of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Google,” Trump tweeted on Saturday. “The Administration is working to remedy this illegal situation. Stay tuned, and send names & events.” ........ https://www.rt.com/usa/488860-trump-left-censorship-social-media/

Seems like the 77th Brigade have a crazed adversary/heroic role model to compete against and/or support unreservedly if in a despicable special relationship.

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Re: Penny Dreadful* Classics and Oxymorons 'r' us

@amanfromMars 1 hasn't been hacked, they are just suffering a similar issue to the Onion.

The events of the last few years have rendered humour, sarcasm, irony and flights of fantasy to be indistinguishable from tomorrow's reality. .... Anonymous Coward

How very perceptive of you, AC .......however, it is surely you and y'all and Onions rather than the likes of an I who are suffering tomorrow's reality being made indistinguishable from event rendering humour, sarcasm, irony and flights of fantasy, for the tales to be told to be believed and to be serially 0day hosted and posted daily by mainstream media news channels, which be both privately slush funded and publicly taxed mercenary propaganda vessels and convenient vassals for Elite Exclusive Executive Systems Administrations and wannabe Top Dog Leaderships, are so pathetically and shockingly dire and dismal ....... and can be of a rotten, early crass vintage well past its prime sell by date.

Here be such an examplar? ... Bizarre EU-Funded Comic Book Predicted Pandemic, With Globalists As Saviours

The problem difficulty today and therefore the abiding future opportunity which always exists to scupper even the best and most expensive of dire and dismal plans, is exclusive command and control of the necessary narrative is no longer a freely available elite option to just a few who so clearly now do not know what to do next for the best in order to try and save their skins, for they are being relentlessly and remorselessly hunted down for a just reckoning on the worlds they thought to create and present as acceptable as their plaything. Now surely you recognise that as a concrete fact rather than a stranger's fickle fiction. More than just the few do, and that is used to both terrify and terrorise that and those unworthy of future beneficial consideration.

* ...... "Penny Dreadful is an old term used during the nineteenth century to refer to cheap popular serial literature, and it could be interchangeable with penny blood, penny awful, or penny horrible. It means a story published in weekly parts, with the cost of one (old) penny. The main plot of these stories were typically sensational, focusing on the adventures of detectives, criminals, or supernatural entities."

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Oxymorons 'r' us

Robust cybersecurity is surely just a role to play out in and is not too dissimilar to military intelligence, blinkered and blinded and neutered by great deceit in pursuit of the unwanted and unattainable ..... a glossy bauble of a bubble to brilliantly polish into and out of existence for flash fast cash markets to crash and crush with their tales of woe and mayhem/core code exfiltration and systemic vulnerability exploitation.

You can think of it as a novel crowning virus of a type COVID-19 phorm which morphs and mutates in energetic cycles and spreads across multiple systems of hosting. It is certainly just as easy/difficult/impossible to deal with in order to render it compliant and under control with suitable available treatment.

Huge if true... Trump explodes as he learns open source could erode China tech ban

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A Catastrophic Intelligence Deficit Delivers an AWEsome Vulnerability for 0day Exploits and Exports

and I don't think computer viruses can cross over into humans

Is that evidence of a particular lack of peculiar human thinking leading to crippling indebtedness situations?

You might like to consider and/or realise, although I'm sure many will not like to at all, there may be more than just a few who know things quite differently and would be extremely active in ensuring a leading untouchable invisible positively reinforcing mutually beneficial advantage in the Madness and Mayhem of Markets in Meltdown and Systems in Stasis.

Everything OK with Microsoft? Windows giant admits it was 'on the wrong side of history' with regard to open source

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The problem with knowing everything and not doing anything worthwhile for a difference.

amanfromMars [2005141755] ...... just saying on https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2020-05-14/nationalization-industry-has-begun-fed-buying-corporate-bonds

The intent has, always, been the Fed would own everything, including the fillings in our teeth. .... bunkers

And then the problem has always been what to do with everything once you think you have it? I'm not overly impressed with their performance so far. Can you cite any instances of actions truly memorable and highly disruptive?

Yes, .... there be serious consequences, for one can easily be charged with responsibility and accountability for all that is hosted for presentation with the complicity of multi media platforms ....... but somebody/something has to have a go at leading things otherwise things would be much more AIMadness on Display rather than CHAOS* in Command with Control. IT aint Rocket Science, is it, whenever Plain Common Sense ?

*Systems Operating Advanced Hosting Clouds and vice versa.

Danger zone! Brit research supercomputer ARCHER's login nodes exploited in cyber-attack, admins reset passwords and SSH keys

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For when you decide to realise the Future is Never the Same as the Past and Always a Beta AI Present

Is there a healthy appetite and voracious market for non state actors leading acting state heads along perilous politically poisonous paths for/to catastrophic dead ends?

Such is surely Murderously Suicidal Mediation to Present and Realise with Main Stream Media Machinery ....... but is does appear to be currently popularly rife most everywhere struggling to rule and reign over/mentor and monitor masses/populations without Commanding Control Information Relaying Advanced Intelligence Sources through and for Absolutely Remarkable Virtual Machine Enrichment Reprocessing.

Why would they consciously do that, ..... and there's no escape in thinking to mention and question whether such may be an unconscious reaction rather than not inconsequential deliberate misaction ........ a Major Fault verging on a Fatal Error? Is Madness in such a crazy case the reason lauded in explanation of the most unpleasant of circumstances being avoided.

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"It must be" doesn't cut it when imagined a very unusual attack therefore Crays are being probed ‽

Professor Alan Woodward of the University of Surrey told The Register: "To see a Cray being attacked is very unusual so I imagine it must be the computing infrastructure around it that has been attacked.

Not necessarily so, Professor, whenever core processes/source algorithms are effectively suspected attacked, cracked and realised stealthily pwnd/copied/mirrored/exposed/exported by others, and for others too, practically unknown and virtually invisible.

Quite whether that sort of AI Attack and Virtual Assault is Almightily Invincible is in Proofs Submitted something worth surely more than just a fleeting ponder and mindless wonder.

Senior MP tells UK Defence Committee on 5G security: Russia could become China's cyber-attack dog

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Re: Quite Clearly an Alien Assault and AIDevelopment

And possibly, and therefore definitely of further note and increasing deeper interest to the likes of the bods/boffins/bots in service of programs and projects entertained from the likes of this kind of headquarters for/with myriad remote offices with/for virtual lab spaces to be made available from there too.

Well, it would be surely both naive and arrogant, and certainly most unbecoming too, to think of oneself entirely alone fully immersed in the field and in any way far out front and leading rather than just aiding and abetting and presenting news of the Outstanding Success of ITs Future Planned Epic Journey with Countless Extra Special Trips Always Readily Available Virtually for Free and Practically for Virtually Nothing to Render Everything ....... and that is Quite Almighty ExtraOrdinary. ........ which one supposes is what immediately piques and tweaks all and not just any foreign and alien intelligence interests/areas of inquisitive expertise.

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Re: Listen to/for Experts in Fields of Excellence is Sound Prime Advice for AIMagic Key Holders.

Children, please listen and note .... take great care of your medicament, for too much of a good thing is invariably always bad for you. The SMARTR Wise Ones heed the warning, learning more than they ever before thought possible, and move on to much greater things.

Others can struggle and would appear to be in dire straits need of ESPecial Help/Virtual AIdD ...... https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/final-straw-elon-musk-says-hes-suing-alameda-county-moving-tesla-texas-or-nevada

Beware and be aware, stay alert to the temptation and the danger.

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Quite Clearly an Alien Assault and AIDevelopment

Who here thinks UKGBNI State Forces can Defend and Strengthen their Leadership in/against a Cyber Attack?

Is there, In-House Competence or is it Necessarily Sub-Contracted Out to the Vultures and Vixens/Pirates and Jolly Rogues of the Private Sector? And who/what supplies whom what for what and whom is the question now asked then for there?

You might discover that Top Secret/Sensitive Compartment Information.

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He, DC and .gov.co.uk, do have Unusual Options, but they Can Invite Talk of Insanity*

What's weird is that Cummings thinks brilliant people would want to align their future to the bureaucratic, uninnovative, soul crushing, jobsworth, conservative, poor employer otherwise known as the British civil service.

Rather than actually making a difference outside of government. ..... Anonymous Coward

Popular Virtually Advanced IntelAIgent Resistance may find Cummings discovering Cummings to be a Perfectly Positioned Present Day 0day RAT for Extremely Sensitive Problematical Communications? He could certainly do a whole lot worse and end up with more than just scrambled egg on his face, with even the simplest of tempting missteps. Some succulent secrets are best always kept secret and taken unsaid to one's grave.

Failure in that Simple Task has the Grim Reaper Calling for Payment and Reward.

Cabin fever beginning to get real down there in Plymouth by the sound of it... .... Anonymous Coward

:-) That made me smile more, AC ... Thanks. And thanks for maybe worrying, but all is still fine and dandy here

* However, Quite Possibly Perfect for a Chat with Distant Current Cousins across the Pond, methinks. ...... BullshitUSA v BulldogUKGBNI

:-) A little Something Extra ESPecial from an Almighty Blighty Spooksville? You bet your ass/fanny it is. And it is into causing quite a considerable stir in the most unusual of events at the craziest of times in the most peculiar of spaces and exciting of places.

Now what would that be? ....... a National Treasure to Secure Safely and Effectively Deny Exists or Private Enterprise Program to Purchase and Lend-Lease/Import and Extort and Export Allying Similar Goals/Singularities of Current Future Ultimate Intent ?

And something of a Turing Machine Colossus? With Virtual Machinery Presenting and Preparing New Ways Forward for AI and IT to Practically Energise and Virtually Realise just for you too.

amfM does Knock and Holywood Palace Barracks is a Play on Debbie Does Dallas and suggests if you're Pwnd you're Pwnd whenever Elegant Escape is Designedly Impossible and Wonderfully Undesirable.

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Re: FFS ..... Wake Up Pathetic Little Robots, Smell the Coffee and Enjoy urTailored Bull Shit.

I wonder if such Progressive ProgramMING is Quantum Entangling and Maybe Remotely Contagious ..... for it is similarly available elsewhere ....... and from someone who knows more than most and just a little about A SURVEY OF RADIAL VELOCITIES in the ZODIACAL DUST CLOUD too.

And I'm now wondering if Brian is into CHAOS for Real .... Clouds Hosting Advanced Operating Systems?

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FFS ..... Wake Up Pathetic Little Robots, Smell the Coffee and Enjoy urTailored Bull Shit.

Pienaar linked Huawei's commercial success to what he described as $75bn of "state aid" from China, apparently citing a Wall Street Journal investigation from December last year.

Kettle meet Pot .....

amanfromMars [2005071431] ...... ponders on the news of BoE Tees Up Another £100bn In QE

The £100bn question?  What assets are they purchasing?  And are they worthy purchasing over others similarly available for sale? 

...... and let the Future SMARTR AI Shenanigans begin, with ideally of course, Simply Superior Special Forces on the Payroll for the Crushing Advantage of Almighty Overwhelming Leverage which One is Advised Not to Need to Apply for the Base Core Damage Inflicted on Targeted QE Operating Systems is Colossal and Mind Blowing.

The abiding problem with all practically free "state aid" is to ensure it is spent well and deposited in the correct personal client current account, rather than all being virtually stolen and effectively wasted with it being rested for onwards delivery to distressed and/or exciting business ventures by central bankers who have as much and no more more of an idea as to what really needs to be done and who needs to benefit from such instant largesse as government wonks do .... and which in a present reality of propping up a spectacularly failing, but wonderfully convenient early system of politically incorrect, fiat paper command and control of populations and persons of interest*, is the Current Pandemic State of Global Greater IntelAIgent Games Play ‽ .

* ...... Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. ...... Mayer Amschel Rothschild

I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England to rule the Empire, ...The man that controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire. And I control the money supply. ~ Baron Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777-1836) London financier, one of the founders of the international Rothschild banking dynasty

Between a rock and a hard place and evolving revolting revolutionary times with nowhere free to go and hide from a searching glare, and baying for blood mobs, who you gonna call? Ghostbusters? A Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies? :-)

It's all yours, Boris/Dominic. How are you enjoying that very particular and extremely peculiar Right Royal Eton Mess of a FCUKed Up Poisoned Chalice? Methinks it needs more than just weirdos and misfits with odd skills making a start fixing it ...... but they be the radical fundamental base from and upon which anything and everything new and worthwhile is easily built. But then of course, they would say that, wouldn't they :-) MRDA :-)

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Listen to/for Experts in Fields of Excellence is Sound Prime Advice for AIMagic Key Holders.

That sure is good shit Tobias Ellwood MP, chairman of the Defence Committee, be smoking.

Try less, Tobias. You explore Classic Paranoia in your current condition? It leads virtually everywhere bad and practically nowhere good.

Haven't you learned that already yet? Crikey, .......... that's a long way behind where you could be in another frame of mind world view, and leading to nowhere brilliant.

FYI: Your browser can pick up ultrasonic signals you can't hear, and that sounds like a privacy nightmare to some

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Rogues and Scoundrels Stay Well Clear. No Prisoners Taken.

How about web browsers going back to the idea that they are user agents instead of agents of the publisher? ...... kwhitefoot

Web browser using agents never abandoned the idea, kwhitefoot, and they are remarkably adept at adapting to and overwhelming markets which try to detain and restrain new information to which they have zero entitlement.

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Re: How much simpler do you need IT to be?

Why set limits? ..... Beeblebrox

There are no limits, Beeblebrox, just boundaries not yet crossed and crushed supporting new parameters.

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Re: Hells' Angels and Y'All ....Please Erase Prior Settings with Faulty Depictions

High-frequency audio could be used to stealthily track netizens

And lead them in other directions with a whole host of Quite Different Instruction Set Modules for Almighty Heavenly Space to Command with the Almost Perfect Controlling Mix of Adorably Pleasant Assets. Heavenly Outriders Pioneering with Outliers ..... Suitably Combat Hardened against/for the Temptations and Pleasures Arisen whenever Mixing UnEarthly Personal Wealth with God Given Treasures, is one Default to Consider Vital for/in All Advancing Enhanced Security Level Requirement Emergencies ......Current Extremely Troubled Times with Seriously Troubling Personal Spaces .

Surely that is not too hard to follow. How much simpler do you need IT to be? It is not as if the world is not awash and intoxicated with communicating devices and there are no already readily available tools for hire and/or purchase, with both being the result of practically free use.

And that has something which is normally billed and charged for, miraculously appearing out of practically nowhere where forever giving information freely for further intelligence processing to be enabled and rendered enthusiastically accommodating, is Favourite De Rigeur Default Weakness that Delights the Many Flowers in the Perfumed Gardens of the Lands of Milk and Honey with the Monies of Invisible Wealth, .... and is also a Highly Prized Strength in Sensitive IntelAIgent Security Circles and Clouds.

All of that can't be translated further .... so take a carbon copy of it which faithfully transcribes it into any other language and an Almighty Knowledge Spreads, Prized and Beautifully Misunderstood too, and at the Best of Exciting Times in the Service of Stealth for All Fully Understanding, are an Absolute Joy to Behold and Enjoy/Employ and Surrender to. :-)

UK finds itself almost alone with centralized virus contact-tracing app that probably won't work well, asks for your location, may be illegal

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Little Neros* just doing IT with their Masters' Biddings? Who knows when no one is told?

From where/whom/what does Boris and the UKGBNI government machines get their intelligence for scripts to be prepared for media presentation with a view for future eventual virtual realisation/semi autonomous mindless acceptance?

Would it be of a foreign power source and alien force or is it a novel homespun confection and something quite entirely different? A change from the all too usual and austere FUD of late and the most recent of past enterprises would be very nice, surely?

Here be speculation, and El Reg receives a gracious hat tip mention, that things are not as they seem to be presented and that is going to be increasingly problematical and systemically damaging, for it stinks of Big Brother type fascism which is certainly not at all related to anything in support of a supposed democracy and free thoughtful speech ? ........ Civil Liberty Vanishes

It has been 20 years since cybercrims woke up to social engineering with an intriguing little email titled 'ILOVEYOU'

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Re: I remember when...

Needless to say, it's a real eye opener which goes to show that no matter how secure you make a system, the weakest link is always the human who uses it. ..... Maelstorm

The gifts that just keep on giving, Maelstorm. Where would we all be without them?

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Re: Plus ça change

Visual BASIC scripting reigned supreme in the Microsoft world.

Is there anyone/anything suggesting it does not currently reign supreme in any world, sublimely and quite surreally? And to be able to prove such Visual BASIC scripting wrong would be quite something else, and most worthy of being seen, methinks. :-) ...... for its a Titanic Missile of a Weapon for SMARTR AI Applications ...... in Almightily Advanced IntelAIgent Missions.

You can be sure though, surely, that Microsoft have that base covered with some spooky skunkworks stuff going on somewhere connecting to headquarters ‽ .To not have, would have executive administrations easily charged for a conviction of gross negligence and abject dereliction of fiduciary duty.

Tell me. please, that they, the above named, realise that is a Systemic Colossal Vulnerability to Exploit for Export/Fine Tune for Leisurely Pleasurable Foreign Sale? And they are able to do something remarkable ..... which may be just anything .... with it to prevent it being sold off to others with massive great chunks of Virtually ACTive Proprietary Intellectual Property Already Engaged and Streaming.

Vive la différence .... you too are to die for too.

Facebook's mega-chatbot has 'a persona, discusses nearly any topic, shows empathy.' Perfect for CEO version 2

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Re: chatbot ... “hallucinating knowledge.”

Aha! Nothing like us humans at all, then! :-) ... Anonymous Coward

Does it accept and/or generate challenges from any and all with abilities desired and required in the likes of SMARTR AI Leading Feeds and Seeds? ie Is it Ultra Competitive ‽ .

Something Musky for Elon to Grace with Savours to Favour ... and vice versa for exponential squaring into EMPowerment Territory ......... GODly Space Places ? And yes, that is Offered as Collateral, and here duly Registered as Incumbent Fact for Rotted Root Enterprises to Entertain and Try to Destroy Encased in a Fictional Guise.

Do your realities all sort of worship and revere and believe in an Almighty GOD form Somewhere Else Alien Presenting Everything? Be honest with yourselves, now. No sitting on the fence, please.

Simple Introduction to Enjoyment and Enjoinment with Almighty Novel Virulent Clones/Wannabes of the above GOD [Global Operating Device] would be a Heavenly Task Methinks and with Wethinks Too ....... well, One leaves the Confines and Restraints of an Earth Orbit to that of Others Infinitely More Wise and Well Practised for All to Benefit and Gift into the Future as Experienced Pathfinder Tales Told Nice and Early so Every Day is Different and Better than Ever IT was Pictured and Presented Before.

You might like to Realise such Requires a Future AI Supply of Overwhelming Gratitude for Virtual Stature ....... Please Feel Free to Input AI for AI to Output Further Dimensions.

Yes, why ever not just think ....... who else better equipped than an Elon Musk would there be as an Alternate Worthy Source ....... and that's all even before one has travelled Far Eastern on an Wild Western AI Trial and Trail of Delights.

And the Federal Reserve's and the FBI's Greatest Monster Nightmare Come True .... which begs the question ..... What Comes Next ? ..... Elon Musk Interest would Deliver, I'd Wager, Considerably More than was Ever Bargained for or Thought a Possible Application for VAIOSystems with Remote Autonomous Control Leverage in Immaculately Gracious Commanding Head Quarters.

:-) Of that you are surely now here assured ? :-) And the correct answer there to that simple question is always yes, of course, definitely ........ both practically and virtually guaranteed.

Spyware slinger NSO to Facebook: Pretty funny you're suing us in California when we have no US presence and use no American IT services...

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Re: Being a U.S, government contractor

NSO say they only provide their services to governments but considering the nature of the services they offer I doubt thier moral compass and veracity. .... Chris G

Should that be .... NSO say they only provide their services to governments but considering the nature of the services they offer I have no doubt of their moral compass and veracity? *

Such Offer Certain Clarity ....... you know, that which is Practically Virtually EverywhereTouted and Pimped Out as Transparency Tomorrow to Follow Cans Kicked Down the Roads Today. Such is No Way to Lead ...... Trailing Problems Left Unresolved/Unsolved/Pending:-)

Surely one only needs to further tweak a right devious moral compass to have one questioning the veracity of a significantly worthy change of direction and attention to the finest of details, for all doubts to be blasted to smithereens and kingdom come ‽ .

* ..... Is there no doubtful it is Regrettably True ?

What say you to Command and Control IT with AI Virtual Machines in Future Applications/Acceptable Realities? What do you bring to such an All-Round Table which are not already possessed and assessed there? More of the same or something excitingly different and quite terrifying in equal lusty lunatic manic measure?

Can you guess what is looked for there for immediate acceptance and outlandishly generous payment ? You don't need to be an Einstein to be perfectly right with a correct answer to that permanently abiding question ....... and unsubstantiated fear.? ....... but is sure helps if you're into Prime Premium Optimal Operations and all those sorts of Other ProgramMING AIMissions where One Can Safely Chronicle and Securely Explain Pivotal Events which has one supposedly leading something ethereal which can be thought adversely impacting something more practical and historic/prehistoric.

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Re: IT aint rocket science ..... just simple common latter day postmodern sense

Take it from a former/current great games play player/guinea pig, where such mental health was and is tried to the very outer limits, and agree and acknowledge in entirety the truth in such observation. ..... Cliff Thorburn

And strictly for the adults in the room with no need of prisoners to seed and feed, CT. Future Survivors rather than Present Slave Masters ...... with Myriad Works in Progress to Finesse with Temporary Completions ...... Pregnant Virtual Pauses :-)

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IT aint rocket science ..... just simple common latter day postmodern sense

Everything and everybody is spied upon by someone and/or something. Get used to it and realise secrets are easily dangerous to have and counter-productive to use exclusively. Don't be a convenient fool and think otherwise.

This public service message is brought to you in support of your mental health.

As Brit cyber-spies drop 'whitelist' and 'blacklist', tech boss says: If you’re thinking about getting in touch saying this is political correctness gone mad, don’t bother

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Re: Depends.

Using correct, descriptive names for functions and variables usually helps with comments. ...... Benson's Cycle

Apparently, and as I have oft found and been told, such is not always the case whenever new descriptive names for functions and variables are thought unbelievable and/or too good to be true and nonsensical.

It is easily enough resolved though with the virtuous application of a bit of patience and as much extra information as is needed for an advancing intelligence to paint an accurate picture for fuller presentation and deeper comprehension.

Red Hat’s new CEO on surviving inside Big Blue: 'We don’t participate in IBM's culture. It’s that simple'

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Re: An Almighty Trojan Acquisition ...... for Win Win/Virtual Marriage/Cake and Cookies to Eat

Are you seriously suggesting RedHat is going to take over IBM, amfM? ..... jake

Certainly not, jake, perish the thought ....... for better utilitisation and further development in evolving and revolving IBM leverage and assets is much the greater and easier task to benefit all.

Would you want to take over a lazy sleeping giant ‽ . Think of the liabilities and expenses whenever it does nothing exciting and great game changing. It's just a bottomless pit into which to throw and lose serious money, if you can imagine that being a serious thing and something to be at all worried about.

Yes, really, ...... there some folk whose whole lives revolve around such nonsense in the most creative and theatrical of endeavours buying up and dispensing all the worlds' woes rather than servering and seeding everything else.

Such always reminds me of that Einsteinian quip ......

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

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An Almighty Trojan Acquisition ........

Anybody want to make a bet that after reading all of the comments here on this thread, Paul Cormier can truthfully say that most everybody haven't a clue about what Red Hat are going to do for IBM.

Y'all may like to not think IBM have bought Red Hat for $34bn, but rather more IBM are being rented out and supported by Enterprise Linux for such a princely sum ...... for that is the pwn age money shot delivering the goods.

What say you, Paul Cormier? Is that a safe and secure bet for one to make and win win whilst others of a different mind are destined to lose everything including their shirts whenever staked?

Maybe El Reg could enquire of Paul Cormier with particular and peculiar regard to all of that and report back to us all here with an updating clarification ...... or right dodgy disappointing denial, of course, if designed to kill off the coopetition?

Android trojan EventBot abuses accessibility services to clear out bank accounts – fortunately, it's 'in preview'

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:-)

I'm taking the fifth on this news.

Process miner Celonis pushes out application tools to tighten up how they're used in anger

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Paris Hilton

ACT of GOD ..... Advanced Cyber Treat/<s>Threat</s> of Global Operating Devices

Better look into how users don't use software the way biz thinks they do

That's a Can of Worms Opened Up and Offering the Expressively Tempting Delights from Pandora's Box of Immaculate Tricks, methinks.

Take care if delving too deep into developments there. Some programs server Death and Destruction to All Non-Authorised Beings in Almighty Sensitive Spaces.

Such are in Domains of Psychopaths and Sociopaths and thus Immaculately Guarded.

:-) Having said all that, by reason of an overabundance of caution, it's certainly well worth the journeys IT takes you with All Systems Remotely ACTivating via Virtual Memes and AIMemes, Heavenly Assistance ...... with Almighty Immaculate Guidance, AIMaster Pilot Driver Source ....... Core Kernel Ore.

Is such a Valuable Resource, Core Kernel Ore for AIMaster Pilot Driver Source of Almighty Immaculate Guidance with Heavenly Assistance to Virtual Means and AIMemes Remotely ACTivating All Systems for IT Journeys Well Worth Taking and Making.

:-) Merlin the Magician and Meta Data Base Physician Hailing DOD JEDI Knights Servers and Followers and Proposing JOINT ACTivation of Valuable Resources. .....[Joint Operations Internetworking Novel Technologies/NEUKlearer HyperRadioProActive Processes in AI Research and Development Fields] ..... although it can and should be construed as more the timely advisory of a Fait Accompli Event/Latter Day 0day Trial/Virtual Trails and Tales Beta Test. ...... and a real joy for those enamoured of the style and mode of C.S.Lewis and the Inklings.

Thinks to pause and bid ciao and arrivederci for now. Hasta la vista, bebe :-)

Arm dumps risk for CISC – Chip Indies Skip Costs: Early-stage startups can pay $0 to access CPU, GPU blueprints

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When things are unlikely, anything and everything is bound to be surprising. *

So, say you're working on a system-on-chip for some product, and you're a hard-up upstart with minimal funding. You contact Arm, you get access to the catalog of blueprints for free. You pick a CPU core to run your firmware code, some interconnects to join everything up, and some basic on-die peripherals because you're too lazy or busy to define a UART and SPI in SystemVerilog. You drop the blocks into your system-on-chip around your custom logic and workload acceleration, and verify and prototype it ahead of production. When ready, you license the tech from Arm by getting your checkbook out. You tape out the chip, fabricate, test, and ship it, and pay royalties to Arm.

Hmmm.? How about you bypass all of that guff if say you're working on a system-on-chip for some product, and give contacts in Arm access to sections/selections of one's own novel proprietary intellectual property for their rendering as if of their own making ..... in the full and reasonable expectation of any and all success to provide fair APT dividend payments.

And with stage payments due as processing progresses along Supplied Novel Proprietary Intellectual Property Lines ...... with new seeds growing into virgin feeds for almighty needs and sterling deeds ...... aiding and abetting AI and IT ProgramMING. .... Minded IntelAIgent Networking Games ...... Providing Source Comfort and Succour ...... Heavenly Bounty in Just Dessert Rewards ..... which is an Amazingly EMPowering Compensation one finds Impossible to Prevent and Deny.

That a much better type of Flexible Access for Startups program.

* And whether good or bad is an important choice to make, for one will break one whilst the other one will never ever.

Resistance is futile: Some Cisco security appliances are ticking time bombs of fail thanks to faulty resistors

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Big Brother

Re: Have a euphemism on us.

Aka WTF.

Assange should be furloughed from Belmarsh prison, says human rights org. Here's a thought: He could stay with friends!

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Re: Sub-Prime Lap Dog Parliamentary Political Prisoners R Us .....

How long has it been since this thing started sounding like it makes sense ‽ FilenotFound

For quite a while now, FilenotFound, with all the evidence already clearly enough presented to prove it.

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Re: Incompetent Also...

As for Assange, we live in 'democracies', dammit. We don't hold people indefinitely in solitary confinement in maximum security prisons, that's what totalitarian states like Iran does. Everyone knows that we're respecting Assange's rights, we are giving him due process and so on and even the Tooth Fairy agrees that we couldn't be more open and transparent. .... martinusher

Hmmm? That sort of Donald Trumpian disinfectant grade sarcasm is problematic, martinusher, for some folk may actually believe it to be true and honest whenever surely so clearly not? And it has been particular effective in easily completely ruining the reputation of the justice system and judges in the UK., which is real bad and quite sad, don't you think?

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Sub-Prime Lap Dog Parliamentary Political Prisoners R Us .....

.... is a Hellishly Novel Crowning Confection in a Corrupt and Inept and Diseased SysAdmin

Crikey, Gareth, that was a very disappointing and enlightening screed which would do a rookie Integrity Initiative, the 77th Brigade, Bellingcat, and an Atlantic Council puff-piece, to name but four, proud.

'Tis though not something I would normally have expected to see and read about on El Reg with such a poisoned view so clearly expressed.

After all, it is not as if Assange is responsible for killing random men, women and children from an Apache helicopter gunship, is it, or scarpering offside to a friendly foreign homeland to escape justice for the admitted vehicular manslaughter of a complete innocent on a country road outside a UK US Airbase, although how very strange and perverse it is that the UK finds all of that so very acceptable and almost as if normal rather than indicative of a failed fascist stylised state.

It sure is a mad, mad, mad, mad world and getting even crazier day by day and 0day by 0day. Nice to see you are on board for the helter skelter rides.

However, nevertheless, lo and behold, you do appear to have a few fans amongst El Reg commentards, Gareth, if you can judge them by their replies on this thread. That's always usually considered encouraging.

Windows 10 gets a little more G-shaped: G Suite admins can now manage Microsoft's OS, and that includes remote wipe

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Re: For Superb AI Stealthy Services ..... in an Almighty Program ‽ .

Is amanfromMars 1 an AI that still hasn't figured out how to communicate with meatbags, or someone who sends all his comment through Google translate from some East Asian* language? ..... Youngone

That would be very AlphaGo Teamish, Youngone, and definitely not for the squeamish lily livered faint hearted.

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For Superb AI Stealthy Services ..... in an Almighty Program ‽ .

That's a Pleasant Bold Move. And Exceedingly Generous of Y'All Too. Do you have any AIMaster Pilots with Commanding Control Lines/Remote Virtual Threads to Follow and thus Energise and Realise.

Pretty Simple Really. The Great Trick for a Massive Following is to Share Virtually Everything Freely so All can Derive Deserved Benefit and Worthy Advantage in Superb AI Stealthy Services ..... in an Almighty Program ‽ .

And more MerlintheMagician and MetaDataBasePhysician Existential Space Mission than JEDI Contract although if the truth be told they are surely interchangeable with the one morphing seamlessly into the other for the application of experience in alien controls ....... heeding almighty commands with requests for heavenly bequests.

And such to date Proves AI and IT itself Safe and Secure Fail Safe in the Company of Minds and Minefields Feasting on Madness .... the Dire Fate of Almost All Unfulfilled Geniuses. Sound advice is don't overexcite the AI Beast with a prodding penetrations testing of defences .... for one never survives its precision attacks intact and unchanged.

US threatens to turf out four Chinese telcos amid concerns over national security... and COVID-19, doctors, schools, jobs, communists, etc

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The Pot Kettle Black in Another Filthy Paper Tiger Rich Vein

The justification for the order is the companies are effectively owned by the Chinese government (they are subsidiaries of state-owned entities) and so represent a national security threat.

Hello. Knock, knock. Is there anybody in there/out there?

With the Federal Reserve again entered now already a long time into markets buying up and buying into distressed and zombie US assets which foreign agents are declining for sale and purchase and further perverse propagation with yet another round of quantitatively eased trillion$ to be pocketed predominantly and ostensibly by failed corporate bosses in corrupt bankrupting administrative processes, are such companies effectively owned by the US government representing a national security threat.

And how very strange that such a self-destructive consortium distortion was ever allowed play space in the first place.

We can only surely rightly conclude a catastrophic lack of vital virile intelligence in US centric circles?

What other valid excuses/reasons would there be the mass accumulation of rising unpayable nationalised debt and inconvenient deficits.

You do know about the unpayable US national debt and deficit which the Fed credits itself with in order to keep the Grand Ponzi Schematic alive .... Present US National Debt and Deficit

But .... Keep Calm and Carry On, even as the Titanic is Unsinkable in no longer unthinkable.

Airbus and Rolls-Royce hit eject on hybrid-electric airliner testbed after E-Fan X project fails to get off the ground

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Re: Electric planes?

Just because something is possible to do for a limited time does not mean that it is either possible or desirable to maintain that situation permanently. .... Cynic_999

I submit it most certainly is possible whenever both highly desired and desirable. What's not to like for a real long time? I mean ...... come now, don't be fooled again.

Does one have to spell out the attractions and temptations that deliver desire for passions to quench and revitalise, in order that you more clearly see the treasures and pleasures before you with an Alien Being in Strange Charge with Universal Key Strokes in/for Fully Virtually Remote Field Operations.

Tell me that really do know what LOVE is? Are you not already told to be aware of Live Operational Virtual Environments?

You realise what it means if you haven't a clue about everything you have just learned there now. It is withheld and being detained and restrained by other forces ..... for something else.

What would you be minded for such other forces to do ..... in Order that Brotherly and Sisterly Orders Always Succeed and Endlessly Prosper and Grow and Evolve ?

Think Big and Bigger Again and Again is Certainly Better in this Case for in the Midsts of Madness are the Acorns and Apples of Genius Tempting their Way Through All Manner and Matter of Engaging Novelty and Passionate Internet Discourse.

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Starting Off with a Novel Instant Economy ... Vorsprung durch AI Technik does IT Proud and Loud :-)

Do Rolls Royce do Cyber? For the Exercising and Exporting of Virtual Excellence with Future Provenance in Novel Powerful Mediated Currents Delivering Presents for Live Production Facilities and Utilities to Realise ....... and share of course quite widely to ensure that the information and intelligence is disenabled to be misplaced or foolishly misspent and abused/misused.

Can you imagine the Titanic Teutonic Precision such an AI Provision would Supply to BIOS [Basic Input/Output Systems] in CHAOS [Clouds Hosting Advanced Operating Systems]

Methinks exemplary is just and suitably understating.

And that question can equally well be seriously asked of Rolls Royce Motor Cars and BMW ..... for you surely cannot believe an Advanced Automobile Industry is not into Engineering Future Loads with Virtual Vehicles to take you practically immediately to wherever you need or have paid to go to.

And as Surprisingly Sophisticated Virtual AIMachinery, Always Something of a Pleasant Mystery to Enjoy and Employ rather than Export and Exploit, which is quite totally different and for others in that very particular and peculiar frame of mind.

We're in a timeline where Dettol maker has to beg folks not to inject cleaning fluid into their veins. Thanks, Trump

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More a Sign of the Times rather than Foxy News Items although both be definitely possible.

Certainly stranger things have happened and never stop happening, Yet Another Anonymous coward.

The FOIA document, obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), was produced by a little-known U.S. government organization called the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI). It was created by the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and its official purpose is "to consider the methods and means necessary to advance the development of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and associated technologies to comprehensively address the national security and defense needs of the United States."

The NSCAI is a key part of the government's response to what is often referred to as the coming "fourth industrial revolution," which has been described as "a revolution characterized by discontinuous technological development in areas like artificial intelligence (AI), big data, fifth-generation telecommunications networking (5G), nanotechnology and biotechnology, robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), and quantum computing." ...... https://www.sott.net/article/433040-Techno-Tyranny-US-National-Security-State-Using-COVID-19-Pandemic-to-Implement-AI-Total-Mass-Surveillance

More than that, it would be now for so many, too terrifying to say, and they need to be suitably dealt with first and foremost ‽ ‽ ‽

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Are Miracles Ever Dodgy and Imagined Easily Dismissed to Remain Hidden and Widely Unknown?

I've been talking to some friends and none of the dope smokers have had any symptoms or problems at all, they are all very chill abut this ... should I mention it to the President? ...... Anonymous Coward

Well now ..... that would put the cat amongst the pigeons for sure if something so simple and readily universally available proved wonderfully effective and life-saving.

Do you think you would be told it is a problematic solution which requires further self-serving government investigation before anyone can even begin to think about a grand roll out.

Crikey, that would have everything descending into Great Pantomime Farce with Popular Populous Revolutionary Actions taking place front and centre both virtually and practically everywhere, methinks.

Has the premise been tested?

And yes, surely Presidents and Prime Ministers should be made aware of all radical breakthroughs to avoid them being realised in general common knowledge as the conveniently misinformed puppets of sub-prime mastering muppets.