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I contend Starship Troopers (1997) wasn't recognized as a satire of fascism because almost all of the obvious and over-the-top media manipulation, propaganda, disinformation, hero worship, &c in the film were entirely too familiar for audiences to cognize or understand.
To Verhoeven or Carpenter the political landscape of the western world and america in particular was already a sea of manipulated citizens gleefully worshiping anything their leaders would deign to fool them with.
I don't think Starship Troopers and They Live and RoboCop and similar films were "ahead of their time", or "prescient". In the same way "The Simpsons" hasn't predicted anything. The creators just had a much more accurate understanding of reality than their peers or the general public. They made works to show the comically obvious and nauseatingly banal places these ideologies would lead us.
These creators were dismissed as cranks or hacks making genre pictures. Their work wasn't seen as the well-reasoned and artfully made critiques of society they really were. Their cultural criticism was so dead on that only people with a historical frame of reference or a critical eye caught it. The [purposeful] lack of political education and media literacy in the dominant culture meant that the real messages of these films sailed over the heads of the people who most needed to hear, understand, and internalize them.
In July 2004 I found myself sitting alone in the dark, on the enclosed deck of a ferry boat oozing between fog-shrouded islands of the Alaskan coast. The scenery was haunting, but after the first three hours, I decided to occupy myself by finally reading Neal Stephenson's essay about the command-line. Halfway through it I began crossing things out, and scribbling comments in the margin. The essay was five years old, and in dire need of a fresh perspective.
Months later, I learned that Stephenson himself was dissatisfied with the essay. He wrote that it, "is now badly obsolete and probably needs a thorough revision." An "Ask Slashdot" poll quoted him as saying, "I keep meaning to update it, but if I'm honest with myself, I have to say this is unlikely."
Though I have fleshed out my original comments into longer, more structured pieces, it is not my intention to replace or revise Neal Stephenson's original writing. His original essay is a much more cohesive and entertaining read than my notes are. (He is a Writer, after all. I consider myself a code-monkey by comparison.) In fact, my notes do not hold together unless they use the original essay as a framework, and that's why his entire essay is reproduced here, with my comments color-coded. And yes, I have sought and obtained permission from Neal to do this.
Erst im Januar 2022 vermeldete die Unfallkasse einen Cyberangriff, bei dem "alle Server" mit einer Ransomware verschlüsselt wurden. Auch damals kam es zu weitreichenden Ausfällen über einen Zeitraum von mehreren Wochen, während die IT-Systeme neu aufgesetzt wurden. Die zuständigen Administratoren dürften darin also inzwischen geübt sein.
Und das ist gut so.
Pirate Bay und Scihub hätten Milliarden an Risikokapital verbrennen müssen.
Dann wären sie heute legal. Wie OpenAI.
Der auf ChatGPT basierende "Berufsinfomat" zeigt allerlei Probleme – und lässt sich zudem leicht austricksen. Das AMS weist die Kritik von sich, sieht Kosten von 300.000 Euro gerechtfertigt
Repeat after me: If an AI can "assist" in your job, you do not have a job.
Die Nutzung von KI bei den Wirtschaftsprüfern von Deloitte soll die Produktivität erhöhen.
Diese sollen damit Powerpoint-Präsentationen erstellen, E-Mails verfassen oder auch Programm-Code zum Automatisieren von Aufgaben, ...
A list of artists purportedly used to train Midjourney includes prominent names such as Banksy, David Hockney, and Yayoi Kusama.
I think that we will see more phase transitions, in which whole web applications switch from JavaScript to Wasm/GC, compiled from Dart or Elm or what have you. The natural fundamental abstraction boundary in a web browser is between the user agent and the site’s code, not within the site’s code itself.
Nun war ich mit einem meiner Kinder auf dem Congress. Mit elf Jahren nimmt man noch nicht jeden Talk mit, die blinkenden Säle sind spannender und die unzähligen Stickerboxen. Wir befanden uns also drei Tage auf einer Loot-Tour durch den Congress. Die Chaos Post erfüllte dabei eine besondere Funktion und war durch ihre nun siebenjährige Geschichte bereits recht ausgereift.
If "Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards", where are my "WEB 2.0", "Industrie 4.0", "CYBER", "5G", "AI", "Quantum Computing" and "CRYPTO" keys?
(I do appreciate the "Multimedia" keys though)
Like many things in git, zdiff3 is one of those hidden features that I wish was set as the default option. It has made my day to day development much easier when it comes to resolving conflicts and it's a nice little improvement over diff3. If you want to enable zdiff3 by default on versions of git >= 2.35, you can run git config --global merge.conflictStyle zdiff3. If you just want to give it a test run next time without setting that option to see if you like it you can also run git checkout --conflict zdiff3 ./conflicted/file/path to checkout just the one conflicted file again with the zdiff3 algorithm.
President Clinton had exhorted the government in mid-1998 to “put our own house in order,” and large businesses — spurred by their own testing — responded in kind, racking up an estimated expenditure of $100 billion in the United States alone. Their preparations encompassed extensive coordination on a national and local level, as well as on a global scale, with other digitally reliant nations examining their own systems.
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The innumerable programmers who devoted months and years to implementing fixes received scant recognition. (One programmer recalls the reward for a five-year project at his company: lunch and a pen.) It was a tedious, unglamorous effort, hardly the stuff of heroic narratives — nor conducive to an outpouring of public gratitude, even though some of the fixes put in place in 1999 are still used today to keep the world’s computer systems running smoothly.
A collection of stickers found at hacker events made available for free reproduction. Everything from slogans to unicorns goes.
Gemeinsam mit Ermittlern auf der ganzen Welt ist es der US-Bundespolizei nun aber gelungen, mehrere Websites der Gruppe zu beschlagnahmen. Darunter auch eine Seite, auf der regelmäßig erbeutete Daten veröffentlicht werden.
Seit dem 19. Dezember sind die Seiten der Hacker im Tor-Netzwerk (umgangssprachlich auch als Darknet bekannt) nicht mehr aufrufbar.
Wie PULS 24 exklusiv erfuhr, übernahm die Direktion für Staatsschutz und Nachrichtendienst (DSN) federführend die österreichische Zusammenarbeit mit internationalen Ermittlern.
"Mit der Zerschlagung der Ransomware-Gruppe Blackcat hat das Justizministerium wieder einmal die Hacker gehackt", wird die stellvertretende Generalstaatsanwältin Lisa O. Monaco in einer Aussendung des US-Justizministeriums zitiert.
Um wegen des Cyber-Angriffs auf die Südwestfalen-IT nicht zahlungsunfähig zu werden, muss Bergisch Gladbach Kredite aufnehmen.
Wisst ihr, wessen IT 2022 infolge von #Ransomware nicht mehr funktionierte? Die der Unfallkasse Thüringen- Ab Februar 2022 waren die Systeme wieder am Start.
Wisst ihr, wer gerade wegen eines Sicherheitsvorfalls offline ist und das noch bis 2024 bleiben wird? Kommt ihr nie drauf!
Here's the truth. Ted Kowalski, username frodo, may he rest in peace, was the original author, just down the hall from my office in Murray Hill, and his name for the program had a 'u' where there is now an 's'. Management made him change it for distribution, but they couldn't make him change his pronunciation.
Die acht ehrenamtlichen Mitglieder sind ...
there I fixed it for you:
US-KONZERN Microsoft kooperiert mit US Gewerkschaften, um US-Arbeitswelt "KI-fit" (was auch immer das zum Nachteil der Arbeitnehmerinnen heißen soll) zu machen