Plus, cows are a renewable resource. They operate off ordinary grass without any additional greenhouse gasses required, and turn it into leather and delicious steaks. Truly an environmental miracle.

First off, it's not 50% of _work_. It's 50% of studios. The stupid headline make it sound like half the work is being done by AI, when clearly it's not.

And then if you RTFA, it's not 50%. It's 31% use AI tools, and 18% have a colleague who does. That doesn't make 50% of anything.

In short, it's the dumbest summary on Slashdot I've read in a long time, and that's saying something.
 

The proponents seem to have a naive believe that "government run" equals free from outside interests. In fact, the opposite is true.
Government run: Post Office. Private: FedEx
Government run: DMV Private: Costco

It is extremely unlikely that taking over legacy utilities will "lower costs, greater investments in the grid and improved performance". Public utilities are already heavily government regulated with mandated rates of returns. There's no magic want that both lowers costs and has greater investments in the grid -- those are opposites. Hopefully it doesn't go through. But there are a lot of dumb ideas that get passed, so who knows.

"Worldcoin’s website outlines its key potential applications: fortifying incentive strategies like coupons and loyalty programs traditionally susceptible to fraud, combatting bots through identity confirmation, and facilitating a globally democratic governance mechanism."

It's :cueCat for Web3. Give up any semblance of privacy for...what? Better ad tracking?

Judge Albright is in the Western District of Texas (Waco), which has taken much of the new patent cases that used to go to Eastern District of Texas.
While article says this court is "plaintiff-friendly", in reality this court has a specialized IP litigation docket, with processes that expedite patent cases to trial. Some plaintiffs may favor that, but it also benefits defenses to have the court know the ins and outs of IP and to have specific expertise.

As alluded to in the post, it is similar to what users have to go through with Kindle on IOS. You purchase a book, you have to go to the web version of Amazon. You can't use the Amazon app or the Kindle app.

It's an extra barrier of stupidosity due to Apple's rules. If Apple were to charge a small, reasonable fee for distribution -- say 50 cents for a purchase -- everyone could end up happy, including consumers. But instead, you have to work around because Apple insists on charging a percentage of the value of the content.

"Hashed" invested $25M. They lost $3.5B in fake money. It never existed, never had value, and so was never lost. They are just out $25M, poured down the drain.

Can we please have a end to the "$1Zillion NFT purchase using StupidCoin" stories. There's no liquidity in whatever the heck is "MANA", so there's no real value.

Here's an ICO for "IdiotCoin", 1 of 10 quadrillion. Key: #000001. I'll buy it from myself for $1. There, now I'm a multi-quadrillionaire. Now I'll use 1 IdiotCoin to purchase virtual land on a virtual server. Wow, this is making me rich!

I'm 95% certain that the top search term on Google is "Google"
There are millions who think Google equates to The Internet.

I'm pretty familiar with Enron fraud :-)

The successful appeals weren't on the grounds of collective responsibility. They were because the convictions were based on "honest services", which is a relatively vague law that means you are supposed to do the right thing. It's not fraud directly, but sort of indirectly, and it wasn't often applied to private sector employees (and that was what was appealed). Lots of people still went to jail from Enron.

How dumb do you have to be to see a difference between overpromising and intentionally inflicting flawed medical treatments because of defective medical devices that don't work at all (Holmes). And even the Neuman types actually produced a product. A stupid product, sure. But if WeWork properties collapsed on their users or they served poison coffee, you can bet Neuman would be facing criminal charges.

It's not a crime hype a stupid idea. Theraos wasn't a stupid idea. It was a fraud. And a dangerous one at that.

You have to run installer as admin (Run-as). Fixes the install, problem. Pretty silly issue for a big release.

Itâ(TM)s spectacular, but it will crush your PC.

There are lots of stupid sites that require you to log in, and I use a stupid password for them. Like the NYTimes to view 5 articles a month. I don't care if anyone hacks my account, because it's just a throwaway.

Banks, email -- I use LastPass + 2-factor. But lots of junk sites I'll use the same junk password.

You don't need huge institutes and government funding to do AI. The major government-sponsored AI initiatives have been largely wasted, whereas commercial AI is getting serious traction.

I was just saying, "You know, C++ is too straightforward, and there are too few ways to get things done. It needs a few more keywords and paradigms to make it make it work."

What a freakin' mess.