My first thought at the headline was "They're developing some licensing scheme for law enforcement that will be *MUCH* more expensive."

Agreed. That was my first thought too. My second thought was that they're saying, "Don't use the public interface! It logs everything. Here, use this special LEO interface that doesn't leave a paper trail."

reducing harmful outputs and promoting safety

But why would I want to use a hamstrung AI?

Google Urges US To Update Immigration Rules To Hire Cheaper Labor, Using FUD To Threaten A ${buzzword} Gap If Denied

FTFY. HTH. HAND.

Even if they could extend life for hundreds of years it would be terrible for society. Usually the only relief people get from dictators or business moguls is they eventually have to die. Society would stagnate as people clung to wealth and positions seemingly forever.

"How would you ever get rid of a poor leader? I mean, what if ants lived *thousands* of days? We'd be stuck with a bad queen seemingly forever!"

My point is that "seemingly forever" is very subjective, and I have no confidence that the lifespan of a 21st century human is the ideal lifespan to maximize societal good. If our lifespan was 10 years, 100 years would seem to be forever. If our lifespan was 1000 years, 100 years would barely be getting started. As long as the average human lifespan is changed for everyone I think "bad leaders won't die off" or "society would stagnate" aren't valid arguments.

What would be a problem is overpopulation and lack of resources. If you double human lifespan you have to halve the birthrate. We're arguably already reproducing faster than is sustainable.

Maybe Logan's Run had it right. Let's work on medical science keeping us healthy and fit until some defined cut-off age. Once you've had your allotment of years, into the Carousel with you. Renew! Renew!

It's all because of "woke", huh? That's funny, I could have sworn the problem lay with the right-wing Christian theocrat-wannabes who are afraid of two dudes in bed together lest the viewer get an un-Godlike stiffie. Bondage and anything else other than man-on-top-woman-on-bottom-get-it-over-with-quick gets shut down because sex for pleasure is sinful.

But if you want to keep making "woke" your bogeyman, go for it.

That's the problem. I bet this will be applied to law enforcement to "zoom and enhance" like all the best crime dramas do. But remember, the enhanced details aren't really there. They're merely plausible fiction based on the information that is available, they're not adding any new information. People will see blurry security camera footage of a crime. The enhanced version will show a weapon where there is none, or no weapon when one was used. Detail will be added to faces that will make them look like one suspect or the other, leading to convictions based on plausible but not real extrapolations.

This is a great technology for certain uses. Cleaning up old movies or TV shows, for instance. It's great if you want something that is believable when it doesn't matter whether or not the details are entirely accurate. It's horrible if you expect the extrapolated details to provide new factual information.

I'd really love to see some samples that were filmed in high res, downgraded to be blurry, then upscaled by the AI. How do the original high res images compare to the generated ones?

I use Linux servers all the time, but not the desktop. I'm not terribly familiar with Wayland. But I'm curious about what you say about "remote desktop capability". IMHO, that was the one *huge* benefit of X11. Remote capability was granular down to the window. Every X11 program was capable of putting its display on a remote machine. You didn't have to export the whole desktop, and you didn't end up with an add-on program (a la VNC) that just bit-copied the whole screen elsewhere. Remote displays were a first-class feature of X. Some lab equipment, like logic analyzers and oscilloscopes even supported X giving a simple way to interact with the device directly from your computer. It was OS-agnostic, too, and you could get X servers for Linux, Windows, Mac, Solaris, and pretty much anything else that had aspirations of being a desktop OS.

As I said, I'm not too familiar with Wayland. The Wayland FAQ suggests that you need add-on programs for remote support, and I think then you only get full desktop replication. Am I reading that correctly?

X had its share of shortcomings and was showing its age even 20 years ago when I last used it in earnest. But I *loved* this particular feature and I sorely miss it today.

The only thing the moon offers that's better is for resupply or emergency scenarios, Earth is just a hop and a skip away.

Which is exactly what you want for prototyping. Work out the kinks close by where you can iterate designs quickly and have near real-time conversations with legions of engineers back on Earth. Then you can take all that experience and build something that has to work the first time and takes months or years to resupply.

So yes, Mars is a better colony location, but the Moon is a better testbed.

I figured someone would notice this. The system was designed around 1980, well before I started there. I'm not sure why the Z80 was chosen over the 6809. The explanation I was given was that the Z80 was more capable than the 6809. The Z80 was also less expensive, though given how much we sold the boards for I don't think a $20-ish difference in CPU price would have made a difference. It could have just been that the people designing it were more familiar with the Z80 and could design faster for it.

Ah, my first job out of college. Circa 1989, I got hired at Motorola to code Z80 on their EMX series of cellular telephone switches. But this was no ordinary Z80! This was a Z80 with blackjack! And hookers!

The board had an external MMU and a bank register gave it an effective 24-bit (16 MB) address space. There was an active processor and a standby processor, and 4 MB of the address space was shared between the active and standby. The MMU even had an NMI mask, so we could mask out non-maskable interrupts. I was super proud of myself that I taught our HP logic analyzer to understand the bank register and actually decode the full 24-bit address bus.

So many fond memories. Like counting clock cycles to make sure a task would run in the time allotted. Or the time a co-worker thought the I register was just another general purpose register. (It was actually the interrupt vector. Hilarity ensued.) Or the fact that we only had half a dozen machines in the lab, so lab time was scheduled 24 hours a day and you grabbed a slot whenever you could. Or the two weeks I spent all night, every night, sitting on the floor of a customer site in a refrigerated Bangkok switch room with a microfiche reader and stack of fiche about the size of a brick, typing opcodes into the debugging terminal on the running production system.

Wait, did I say fond memories? I meant nightmares.

Not really, most of us use Macs because we find Windows a disgusting cesspool of GUI abomination. Linux GUIs are equally as bad.

In all honesty, so is the Mac GUI. And I say this as someone who has used a Mac by choice for work for the past 15 years or so.

It's just a matter of taste. Do you personally prefer the taste of pig shit, cow shit, or horse shit? There's no point in arguing about which is better. At the end of the day, they're all shit.

Define: "Protect". If you play a game for more than about 10 hours it still becomes one of the cheapest forms of paid entertainment you've had, and you will have gotten your money worth out of it.

"Protect" means to defend against some undesired outcome, in this case the publisher making a previously purchased game unplayable. If you don't buy the game and don't play the game, they can't take it away from you. You could argue that this doesn't count, it's only "protection" in the sense that never visiting Asia is "protection" from wild tiger attacks. You're not at risk, but you don't get the benefit either. Fair enough.

But as you said, games are one of the cheapest forms of paid entertainment available. This has a relevant side-effect: Entertaining games are plentiful. Foregoing a particular game or even a particular publisher doesn't mean going without games completely. There are thousands of other titles out there, some just as fun as this game, which don't put you in danger of having the game arbitrarily removed from your library. There's no need to reward a publisher for their nonsense. Give your money to one of the many other publishers out there that make single-player games which run locally without requiring a connection to their server.