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Goodbye Chrome

Google states that "Older versions of Chrome will continue to work, but there will be no further updates released for users on these operating systems. If you are currently on Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1, we encourage you to move to a supported Windows version to ensure you continue to receive the latest security updates and Chrome features."

So if you are using Chrome on an old computer then you need the either throw it in the trash can and buy a new computer ... or uninstall Chrome.

Water helps us make soup

It's a good suggestive idea although I feel we need to work on the concept a lot more. This might explain why we see evidence of water on Mars and suspect water on Venus but it seems less universal on other planets. The big deal here is that water is a key molecule that makes life possible ... so might this slightly reduce the probability of life throughout the Universe? I'm confident that life exists throughout the universe but there's not much in deserts. I believe that water everywhere could result in the creation life although the most common forms of life are plants and fish, even on the Earth.

I often post "updated" Brendan Behan quotes (LOL) so this make me think, "If it was raining soup, NASA would go out with forks." because life in the universe results in soup with water involved.

National Security isn't working

Russia's invasion of Ukraine clearly defined how warfare doesn't work these days - FTFY

I hope that Russia's failure is also influencing Xi Jinping who is quieter about Taiwan these days, the politics still leaves him talking about it but Russia's failure in the Ukraine is probably helping the Chinese, both on the mainland and the island.

Every stockpile of cyber-weapons

I always saw Edward Snowden's revelations as honest but scary - after looking at them in extensive detail. The USA then "attacked" him for revealing what they were doing so he had to move to Russia to stay free for breakfast every day. I doubt that Russia would have trusted him to be involved with this crap now so it would now be a very smart thing for the USA to completely erase the original accusations, apologize and ask Snowden to return to the US and try and help prevent all these cyber-weapon deliveries in future.

"Ninety-seven spam deliveries every day wouldn't affect your working environment, but two cyber-deliveries would ruin it." an updated Brendan Behan (icon) quote.

ChatGPT updated?

ChatGreatPythonThing will fix your software issues, oh wait it doesn't handle FORTRAN.

This is "good news"

Targeting the lawmakers and their friends may result in them finally making some excellent efforts to stop phishing and malware deliveries. The current situation is that phishing and malware deliveries are everywhere and we're just told that we need some antivirus software or an insurance policy, so basically nobody is trying to stop it, just catch it or recover afterwards. A legal effort to ban this crap would be a good way forwards so I'm happy in a way about this.

Living better is documented

If you are interesting in this story, regardless of your current age, then read Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding, an excellent book by Daniel Lieberman that explains how we evolved and how we can improve our lives these days. It's very educational (Dan's a paleoanthropologist at Harvard University) and will tell you what has happened and what can happen in your future. I've read it and boosted my exercises, walking about 30 miles every week, and am happy, reading this book will help everyone.

Kaspersky has had a good history

"We cannot fully rely on people, we can't fully rely on security solutions - it's a combination," she explained. "Of course some things will go wrong one day, but it's just a question of how well you have prepared for such conditions." - she's 100% accurate, certainly in today's environment it's seen as risky to trust Kaspersky but look at all the alternatives - the Google mail system anti-virus works very well too but they see everything in your emails whether they are infected or not ... I'm OK with Google doing that these days because the alternative environment (infected) is far worse.

Super AI evilution?

If "machine-learning software can design better chips faster than humans" then how will this work for us over the next 100 thousand years?

Originally we were monkeys learning to climb trees by developing longer fingers to grasp the branches ... a very helpful evolution because now we can walk around everywhere holding a cell phone in our hand and posting on social media. Will we start to see Google telling us that our brains are no longer supported and that we need to upgrade to the new super-human AI chip brain?

Great Science!

This is an excellent description of the chance of life in the Universe, for years we've been looking for distant radio signatures but never considered how life evolved on our planet. Dr. Neil Shubin has released several books that explain how we became life - they are all wonderful and very helpful to read - if you find this article interesting then start reading Neil Shubin's explanations, he's so damn smart!

We know that life on our planet changed when the dinosaurs were extincted after an asteroid struck the Earth but had it been a bigger asteroid then our "life" would have been reduced to dust in the universe, which landing on another planet could have evolved into new life. I see the evidence described by Neil Shubin as virtual proof that life exists everywhere in the universe although looking at our planets history then the chances of intelligent life in the universe is very low, but not non-existent. However plants and fish may be surprisingly common because they have evolved so easily in our planetary environment although the chances of seeing anything like this on the rest of our sun's planets is virtually zero, life on Mars is the only slight possibility locally. But 40 light years away is seem almost 100% likely.

Let's take full control of our borders!

That was the essence of the Brexit arguments and now we're being told "We have full control of our borders!" But malware, viruses and phishing emails sail though our "network borders" every few seconds so was this an issue that nobody noticed or even discussed back on 23 June 2016? Well, malware and viruses were relatively uncommon back then, at least the way I'm seeing them every hour these days, so networkwise we have no control of our borders at all these days and the current handling is to let everything cross the network border and then hopefully stop them if we notice them.

Words "meanings" are always open to interpretations

For example, Bob Marley wrote the song titled Kinky Reggae with the line .... "I saw Miss Brown, She had brown sugar, All over her booga-wooga"

And everyone who never had to work in Jamaica thinks it's a rude female joke, not the fact that Miss Brown had been working to harvest sugar cane and was wearing the booga-wooga shoes. Get some sugar cane in your world and you'll end up with brown sugar on your shoes. I've always seen this song as Bob Marley laughing at (and with) everyone loving reggae, so many of his songs have "other" meaning buried deep in them that they are wonderful!!!!

What does "app" mean?

Is it "All Privacy Publication"? Is TikTok implementing an unusual form of data un-privacy that's vastly different from some much stuff these days? It might well be doing that but if we are using Google, Windows, Apple etc etc etc etc then is the environment similar? It seems that everything we do these days is aimed at collecting information and then sending adverts or malware.

I did a search on Google last week to see if there was a Biggles book available that I don't have and now I'm getting junkmails from "Biggles" ... I even see emails from my mothers name too - she's 100 and has never used computers at all, clearly whatever I do is being monitored and probably sold.