As an IT person? They’re both equally bad. To the idiots out there, hackers make good scapegoats for your shitty infrastructure.

If you have the bots, turning them towards a target takes a matter of minutes. All the planning is in creating the botnet in the first place. Once you have it, it’s pretty much on demand.

Why would you DDOS your own site when you can simply not provide enough server capacity so the site fails under the load naturally?

Nope. No one is going to be replacing them soon. What you’re going to see are support systems. Aids like Intuitive Surgical robotic hands, or pattern recognition software for scanners. It’s still a person in charge of it all.

Because you didn’t inherit a billion dollars and shady connections from your dad.

Sure it is. The most ignorant among us often think they know everything. The wise not only know they do not know everything and then do something about that. The ol’ difference between known-knowns, known-unknowns, and unknown-unknowns. Wisdom doesn’t come from maximizing the former, but minimizing the latter.

AI (and let’s be specific: we’re talking about machine learning/analytics, not earlier kinds of systems or Strong AI which doesn’t exist and may not ever exist) makes certain kinds of jobs obsolete. Nobody is about to drop a R2D2 or Cmdr. Data on us to take all our jerbs. It’s not going to happen at once either, not…

So you’re saying they didn’t just stuff everything into Main()?

Except, with very few exceptions, individuals have no idea what they’re actually at risk for because they do not control their risk factors. So you’re not really saving anyone any money in the aggregate. In fact, you’re actually costing more money because actuaries don’t work for free.

Maybe. I’m not sure how deep I’d dig into it. I also don’t know how applicable it would be to my work. But I still wouldn’t keep a copy.

Again, non sequitor.

I generally don’t rebut any strawman, red herring or non sequitor. As fallacies, I merely have to point them out for you to be wrong.

“I like non sequitors and streaming mental feces out on the internet”

I’d be curious to skim through it. I’ve never seen a project that big and would be curious how they architected it.

You are like a fountain of shitty arguments.

You spend two who sentences amping up how few fucks you give only to give the coldest take ever. You love your child? You think she’s a miracle? I bet your lame ass likes to hug her before bed. Because you sound like every parent ever. Which is the opposite of what you built up to.

No, the point I was making is that complaining about never having to cash in on an insurance policy is asinine.

Homeless people still have bodies, so it makes sense to insure them against medical issues.

1) Jon Doe has home/renters insurance.

Right, because it’s impossible to want to serve your country and take advantage of your one shot to make it into the NFL. Because people are only allowed to want one thing ever, for all time and cannot prioritize things based on whether or not they’ll get another chance at it.