Sounds like some hacker(s) needed to demonstrate their operational efficacy to potential clients. Either that or just some too-edgy vandal wanted to burn something to the ground. Small probability: someone needed something specific wiped and needed there to be no fingerprints left behind.
You're an AC so you won't see this, but I'll say it again, louder: The pharmaceutical industry and the medical industry has been wanting, for decades now, to have 'regulation' of all OTC dietary supplements, including vitamin and mineral supplements, making them all prescription only, mainly because it's an untapped revenue stream. Seriously, the pharmaceutical industry would love nothing better than to take your $10 once-a-day multivitamin, make it prescription-only, then charge you $100 for it. Doctors just want control and would rarely if ever 'prescribe' any such thing, but would be willing to play along with Big Pharma just to get the control over their patients they want. None of that benefits The People though, we'd all suffer because of it. IDGAF about idiots who take all sorts of shit for dumb reasons thinking they're going to 'raise their testosterone' or 'cure their cancer' or somesuch nonsense, I'm talking about people who care about their health, are smart enough to research things and use things that are actually beneficial, but would be denied access to them due to stupidity and greed.
"PS: not an expert in any way."
I'm really trying to not be insulting here, but: no, you're clearly not. Vitamin and mineral supplements are not 'useless'. True, excess of water-soluble essential nutrients are washed out with your urine, but also understand that the so-called 'recommended daily allowances' are survival levels, not optimal levels, and on top of that are aimed at the average adult, who is more or less sedentary, not anyone who is regularly physically active, or like me and many people I know, sincerely athletic; for us, it's not possible to get everything we optimally want and need just from food, not without eating bushels of expensive vegetables every day. And as for 'doctors testing your blood for deficiencies', they'd never do any such thing if you asked them, most doctors are pretty clueless about anything as subtle as nutrition, and unless you have some severe condition they'll never even think about it.
Then they'd have an open seat someone else could fill as well.
I was thinking the same exact thing. Considering how often airlines will pay passengers to get 'bumped' from their flights altogether, I'd think they'd actually make more money being able to sell that seat to someone else.
I'm going to scream bloody murder if this turns into some sort of referendum from the entire pharma-industrial complex to destroy ALL dietary supplements all the way down to garden-variety vitamin and mineral supplements. The pharmaceutical industry has wanted to make all the above 'prescription only' for decades and decades now, and everyone would suffer if that happened. Do you really want to have to get a prescription for a simple one-a-day multivitamin?
If you want to go there: then how about this is when they activate their 'Doomsday' virus, that's already silently infiltrated every system on the planet, and that completely overwrites and bricks every system it's on, including critical infrastructure systems, all banking systems, and finishes off by completely toasting all routers and switches, completely destroying the Internet? Maybe even having infected satellites in orbit, which sit there and continually infect any replacement systems that come online, immediately bricking them, too? Russia then emerges as the only country with working Internet of any kind.
Any so-called 'AI' that is developed because of this 'prioritization' will be smarter than Trump himself is by at least a full order of magnitude.
For purposes of contrast, a 'Trump AI' could easily be implemented in an interpreted BASIC version of ELIZA.
Yeah sure just use enough fairy dust and unicorn farts. Who cares if it's 1% efficiency or less it works right? Never mind how much power you're throwing away. Troll harder you're not laughing enough.
So by your logic being addicted to porn, for instance, and not being interested in actual sex with an actual person of the opposite gender is perfectly okay, because the 'brain chemicals created (by porn) are quite real'? Are you really going to take that position?
Your kid ends up going through life with a 'social anxiety disorder' because he can't relate properly to people live-in-person and can only really be comfortable if it's 'interacting' through social media; the brain chemicals are 'real' according to you, so that makes it okay for him to be that way?
I think you need to think through this a little more carefully.
I dunno about 'morally wrong', but imagine walking down a crowded street on your way to a specific destination, and there are people putting flyers and signs right in your face, yelling in your ears to buy this-that-the-other, and occasionally someone who actually grabs your arm and pulls you aside to blather on and on about some crap he (or she) wants to sell you; how would you feel, especially about that last example? Annoyed, pissed off a little, and absolutely outraged, or if you're not then I wonder about you. That's the internet these days, and the last example is if you don't have some sort of pop-up blocker in your browser.
I also dunno about anyone else, but ads don't do much for me even if you manage to get past everything and get them in my face. If there's some product I need to go looking for, I search specifically for it, I don't look at random ads, watch random commercials, and so on, I go search for what I want specifically, decide on what's best, then go buy it. Ads don't sway me. I don't think ads sway most people, in fact, I think most people are like me in that respect. However advertising companies seem to be demonstrating classic signs of insanity: they keep repeating the same behavior over and over again expecting a different result -- and when it doesn't work any better than the last time around, they just get more and more intense about it, somehow thinking it'll work better this time. Guess what: it won't, it just annoys people more and more.
Memo to advertisers: Change up your game, what you're doing isn't working, and doubling-down on it isn't helping.
Even if you tight-beamed a high-energy RF carrier from point-to-point, inverse square law still applies, and by the way RF amplifiers are incredibly inefficient so you waste more power as dissipated heat than you send to the antenna. Then there's the problem of what happens to anything that gets in the way of that beam. If you're really talking about 'broadcast' power then there's documentable public health concerns because the terawatts of RF power at whatever frequency you'd have to use would sooner or later cause problems for biological organisms, and meanwhile 'physics works' so you'd lose so much of that power that the inefficiency would make it impractical.
The mere fact that anyone even considers whether such a thing would work troubles me. There's just no way unless physicists (likely quantum physicists) make some breakthrough discovery of a totally different kind of 'energy' for which the conventional laws of physics don't apply.
Science is not an opinion based enterprise
I know that, and you know that, and 'N' Slashdotters know that, but there are 'N' other people in the world that don't understand that, and since they don't understand that, it's almost impossible to get them to understand that, they think science is some sort of conspiracy that makes things up just to push an agenda. Find a way to get through to 100% of those kinds of people and you'll probably win a Nobel Prize, or be elected King of the World, or at least secure your place in the history books.
Consider this: if you use this 'aftermarket' software to run your vehicle and you get in an accident as a result? It's all on you.
No one should use this for any reason.
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Sounds like some hacker(s) needed to demonstrate their operational efficacy to potential clients. Either that or just some too-edgy vandal wanted to burn something to the ground. Small probability: someone needed something specific wiped and needed there to be no fingerprints left behind.
You're an AC so you won't see this, but I'll say it again, louder: The pharmaceutical industry and the medical industry has been wanting, for decades now, to have 'regulation' of all OTC dietary supplements, including vitamin and mineral supplements, making them all prescription only, mainly because it's an untapped revenue stream. Seriously, the pharmaceutical industry would love nothing better than to take your $10 once-a-day multivitamin, make it prescription-only, then charge you $100 for it. Doctors just want control and would rarely if ever 'prescribe' any such thing, but would be willing to play along with Big Pharma just to get the control over their patients they want. None of that benefits The People though, we'd all suffer because of it. IDGAF about idiots who take all sorts of shit for dumb reasons thinking they're going to 'raise their testosterone' or 'cure their cancer' or somesuch nonsense, I'm talking about people who care about their health, are smart enough to research things and use things that are actually beneficial, but would be denied access to them due to stupidity and greed.
"PS: not an expert in any way." I'm really trying to not be insulting here, but: no, you're clearly not. Vitamin and mineral supplements are not 'useless'. True, excess of water-soluble essential nutrients are washed out with your urine, but also understand that the so-called 'recommended daily allowances' are survival levels, not optimal levels, and on top of that are aimed at the average adult, who is more or less sedentary, not anyone who is regularly physically active, or like me and many people I know, sincerely athletic; for us, it's not possible to get everything we optimally want and need just from food, not without eating bushels of expensive vegetables every day. And as for 'doctors testing your blood for deficiencies', they'd never do any such thing if you asked them, most doctors are pretty clueless about anything as subtle as nutrition, and unless you have some severe condition they'll never even think about it.
Then they'd have an open seat someone else could fill as well.
I was thinking the same exact thing. Considering how often airlines will pay passengers to get 'bumped' from their flights altogether, I'd think they'd actually make more money being able to sell that seat to someone else.
I'm going to scream bloody murder if this turns into some sort of referendum from the entire pharma-industrial complex to destroy ALL dietary supplements all the way down to garden-variety vitamin and mineral supplements. The pharmaceutical industry has wanted to make all the above 'prescription only' for decades and decades now, and everyone would suffer if that happened. Do you really want to have to get a prescription for a simple one-a-day multivitamin?
If you want to go there: then how about this is when they activate their 'Doomsday' virus, that's already silently infiltrated every system on the planet, and that completely overwrites and bricks every system it's on, including critical infrastructure systems, all banking systems, and finishes off by completely toasting all routers and switches, completely destroying the Internet? Maybe even having infected satellites in orbit, which sit there and continually infect any replacement systems that come online, immediately bricking them, too? Russia then emerges as the only country with working Internet of any kind.
Any so-called 'AI' that is developed because of this 'prioritization' will be smarter than Trump himself is by at least a full order of magnitude.
For purposes of contrast, a 'Trump AI' could easily be implemented in an interpreted BASIC version of ELIZA.
Here you go, this should keep you amused for a while: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=trol...
Haters gonna hate.
Mock me harder, it's not sinking in.
No I just copypasted someone else's. Unlike some and perhaps you I don't have multiple accounts so I can troll people.
Yeah sure just use enough fairy dust and unicorn farts. Who cares if it's 1% efficiency or less it works right? Never mind how much power you're throwing away. Troll harder you're not laughing enough.
You sound very repressed and lonely, I hope your life gets better.
So by your logic being addicted to porn, for instance, and not being interested in actual sex with an actual person of the opposite gender is perfectly okay, because the 'brain chemicals created (by porn) are quite real'? Are you really going to take that position?
Your kid ends up going through life with a 'social anxiety disorder' because he can't relate properly to people live-in-person and can only really be comfortable if it's 'interacting' through social media; the brain chemicals are 'real' according to you, so that makes it okay for him to be that way?
I think you need to think through this a little more carefully.
So that somehow makes it okay?
I dunno about 'morally wrong', but imagine walking down a crowded street on your way to a specific destination, and there are people putting flyers and signs right in your face, yelling in your ears to buy this-that-the-other, and occasionally someone who actually grabs your arm and pulls you aside to blather on and on about some crap he (or she) wants to sell you; how would you feel, especially about that last example? Annoyed, pissed off a little, and absolutely outraged, or if you're not then I wonder about you. That's the internet these days, and the last example is if you don't have some sort of pop-up blocker in your browser.
I also dunno about anyone else, but ads don't do much for me even if you manage to get past everything and get them in my face. If there's some product I need to go looking for, I search specifically for it, I don't look at random ads, watch random commercials, and so on, I go search for what I want specifically, decide on what's best, then go buy it. Ads don't sway me. I don't think ads sway most people, in fact, I think most people are like me in that respect. However advertising companies seem to be demonstrating classic signs of insanity: they keep repeating the same behavior over and over again expecting a different result -- and when it doesn't work any better than the last time around, they just get more and more intense about it, somehow thinking it'll work better this time. Guess what: it won't, it just annoys people more and more.
Memo to advertisers: Change up your game, what you're doing isn't working, and doubling-down on it isn't helping.
Even if you tight-beamed a high-energy RF carrier from point-to-point, inverse square law still applies, and by the way RF amplifiers are incredibly inefficient so you waste more power as dissipated heat than you send to the antenna. Then there's the problem of what happens to anything that gets in the way of that beam. If you're really talking about 'broadcast' power then there's documentable public health concerns because the terawatts of RF power at whatever frequency you'd have to use would sooner or later cause problems for biological organisms, and meanwhile 'physics works' so you'd lose so much of that power that the inefficiency would make it impractical.
The mere fact that anyone even considers whether such a thing would work troubles me. There's just no way unless physicists (likely quantum physicists) make some breakthrough discovery of a totally different kind of 'energy' for which the conventional laws of physics don't apply.
Science is not an opinion based enterprise
I know that, and you know that, and 'N' Slashdotters know that, but there are 'N' other people in the world that don't understand that, and since they don't understand that, it's almost impossible to get them to understand that, they think science is some sort of conspiracy that makes things up just to push an agenda. Find a way to get through to 100% of those kinds of people and you'll probably win a Nobel Prize, or be elected King of the World, or at least secure your place in the history books.
Amatures!
Are you describing yourself? A-mature, as in lacking maturity? Similar to Amoral?
Just admit it: you're so hooked on technology that you can't imagine your life without it, not fundamentally different than a heroin addict.
I've thought for quite a while now that people are too reliant on technology -- and I'm far from alone in thinking that.
Fake compassion, fake empathy, fake feedback.
Just like so-called 'social media'.
Pedantic much? Shut up.
Consider this: if you use this 'aftermarket' software to run your vehicle and you get in an accident as a result? It's all on you.
No one should use this for any reason.
Solves all the problems in one fell swoop.