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Yeah, you can't really undo brain damage with more brain damage.

Eek! You've summoned Tom Ptacek to tell you why it's obviously better (and simpler) to maintain a second, parallel system that trusts dozens of parties to sign for any name they feel like.

Of course we should have done that ages ago, but, you see, 20 years ago or so, Verisign (and maybe others) had a profit stream to protect and people to send to the IETF. And it's just possible there may have been other players with vested interests in things not getting too secure.

Yes, and by "superintelligence", they mean something smarter than all humans in all or nearly all ways, and capable of making itself even smarter until it reaches physical limits.

They do not mean "any LLM chatbot"

Your kink is... not OK...

... and it has never meant "just anything that could be called AI", or even "just anything that could be called AGI".

What we have here with Trump is properly known as "superstupidity": a degree of stupidity that is at best metastable in any physical system, and eventually collapses upward to the intelligence ground state, which is roughly the intelligence of the vaccum.

How does it hurt Elon if you sell a car you already paid for?

The first major violation of obvious security practices was having a registry like that in the first place.

The second was giving out access to "companies and associations" that might have "legitimate needs".

THEN we get to morons using passwords like that.

I know nothing about furries, but I've been involved in, or close to, more than one subculture where there was tons of unrecognized and uncorrected creepy or outright abusive behavior, while lots of people kept saying pretty much exactly that.

> He attributes the incidents to poor human oversight and system design, and says they’re “totally preventable.”

Anybody who thinks that poor human oversight and system design are "totally preventable" is not in a good position to say anybody else doesn't understand security.

> Canada and Australia never had a similar problem.

Greetings from Canada. I live in Montreal. We have more of a Mafia problem nowadays than New York (no RICO here), and we were comparable in the 1930s. Bootleggers, remember? Where do you think they were running the booze from? Same "market", same mob. Yeah, they managed to dominate everybody else. That's what I mean about "niches". In fact they did it worldwide, and according to Wikipedia they're prominent in Australia, too. These are transnational groups. The Mafia is also big in Sicily. Are you going to say that's because of (checks notes) Sicilian immigration? Specifically because of a huge wave around 1900?

We also have Hell's Angels here. Ethnically "white". No immigrant identification whatsoever, totally acculturated... although I assume some of them moved here from the US. Pretty racist and anti-immigrant, actually. Cool fact: I used to live two houses away from Sonny Barger in beautiful Oakland, California. OK, it wasn't actually that cool. Those guys were really noisy. But I assure you they did not come through Ellis Island.

Apparently Winnipeg has First Nations gangs (Indians to you). Kinda the opposite of immigrants.

... plus a grab bag of others, some of them organized by immigrants. Yes, organized crime tends to segregate itself ethnically, so if one group gets the upper hand, you're likely to see its ethnicity as the face of the problem. But all ethnicities get to play, and they will expand into any available vacuum. If you hadn't had the Italian Mafia (worldwide), you'd have had something else (at least regionally).

And it's not always ethnic. Apparently there's a gang in BC that actually calls itself the United Nations.

> Tammany Hall was not a political machine in 1789.

It sure was by 1854, eh, according to your own quote? That was 38 years before Ellis Island opened. Before the specific wave of immigration that you're claiming caused the problem. Goalposts. You are moving them.

> Irish domination of Chicago's political machine long outlasted the Ellis Island era

... and preceded it. Your own link says "Of the 28 most influential Chicago aldermen of the 1890s, 24 were Irish.". I don't think they teleported from Ellis Island and took over in under 8 years.

> Only 12 million immigrants came through Ellis Island in 60 years.

About ten and a half million of those in 15 years, from 1900 to 1914. Against a 1900 US population of about 76 million.

> The U.S. strictly restricted immigration for more than 40 years to assimilate the immigrants.

Or, you know, because the political wind changed.

> Even after all that, the U.S. paid a heavy price. It took until the 1980s to clean up the Italian mafia in New York.

Right. Because nobody else would've filled that niche.

> And immigrant political machines were the origin of the corrupt political structures in cities like New York

The Tammany Hall machine was founded in 1789, was basically running New York by the 1850s, and was in the thick of New York corruption well past the relevance of Ellis Island.

> and Chicago today.

Chicago Democrats were immigrants around the relevant time. Chicago Republicans were from older stock. Both were corrupt.

> was a legal immigrant

... as determined by an on-the-spot interview. Which was admittedly done in a very bigoted way.

> had passed a medical inspection

... which took about one minute to check for red flags. If you had red flags, they diverted you to quarantine. They were mostly looking for TB and some eye disease.

> had proof of having enough resources to pay for their upkeep in the US, or a US financial sponsor guaranteeing same

... by which they meant having as much as $25 on hand (call it $1000 in 2026, though that's a bit high), and convincing the interviewer that you could probably get a job. That convincing step did include claiming, in a way the interviewer found credible, to have skills beyond the "day laborer" level. But only just beyond.

> I, for one, am very much in favor of reinstating such barriers to entering the US.

Good news: the medical requirements now are equivalent, the financial/self-support requirements are now much, much higher, and the vetting is vastly more thorough.

A thermocouple won't drive a relay.

My shitty overcomplicated design is better than your shitty overcomplicated design!

Lots of things aren't illegal... unless you do them for illegal purposes.

I doubt antitrust would get anywhere on this RAM issue, but antitrust law is not defined in terms of either of those categories.