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Comment Re: Artificial Intelligence doesn't stand a chance (Score 1) 46

Nobody can even define what general ai would even be. It's just the singularity all over again we were supposed to get to a decade ago.

If someone thought the ai-pin was a good idea and reasonably priced they probably believe the general ai already exists. You shouldn't let them decide how to use money.

Comment good news! (Score 2) 50

Nobody reads them! Its just other ai bots scrounging for bits for articles!

No seriously the young people don't read already all that much. This makes it very hard for them to actually absorb information from text and with the articles on offer starting to be more and more lenghtened with ai they're even less likely to start reading.

How do they learn then? they don't thats how we get university graduates who can't learn how to use excel.

Comment Re: Non-consensual rapey software at its finest (Score 1) 185

Yeah you need a bunch of hacks.

You can get the context menu like before, you can get win10 taskbar with explorerpatch (github) that you can drag around, you can get win7 start menu with openshell etc. It's just a too big of a hassle for most people and only reason i bothered with 11 is drivers.

Comment Re: Lol. (Score 1) 102

They would still need to read it.

Will they? Probably not and if they do it they use the ai as the basis, biasing the grading.

Besides than that the students themselves will run it through the same thing either getting the same access to the model or by giving a fiver to the ta.

Now if the essays don't matter because they're just literal filler on a bs subjective subject and this is okay then its a separate problem. In all cases if the higher education is based on this and costs tens of thousands a year its a scam. Like think about it, there should easily be enough ta's to read them all at those rates. There should easily be 1 staffer per ten students.

Comment clinging mostly a cost issue (Score 1) 370

For economy cars its cheaper and has less losses. Robot auto gets the losses to same but that costs more. The less losses part then matter(ed) for gas and to get better acceleration out of the small engines.

Goes for scooters and motorbikes too, cvt is nice and all but for same engine its kinda suck and cheaper smaller engine bikes that sucking kinda matters just for running your errands.

As for ev's so? Are the ev's going to kill small engined econoboxes? Does it even matter when you can just learn to drive it fairly quickly anyway?

Now some 3rd world weirdness perspective. I know some people who "can't" drive an automatic, not really sure why but they just scare it.

Submission + - xz/liblzma Backdoored, Facilitating ssh Compromise

ewhac writes: A backdoor has been discovered in the liblzma data compression library, whose purpose is to facilitate a compromise of ssh. liblzma versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 are known to be affected. Debian's "unstable" and "testing" repos yesterday rolled back the library by pushing version "5.6.1+really5.4.5-1" to mitigate the exposure. RedHat is also recommending all users roll back to a pre-5.6.0 release.

The backdoor is not in the source code, but rather is in the test suite contained in the distribution tarballs. Hostile payloads masquerading as test data are decompressed during the ./configure phase to modify the Makefile and drop modified versions of liblzma_la-crc32_fast.o and liblzma_la-crc64_fast.o. When the compromised library is loaded by client programs (such as ssh), these in turn install an audit hook in the dynamic linker, allowing them to intercept lookups/calls to RSA_public_decrypt@....plt, which it then replaces with its own code. This compromise appears to have only been discovered in the last few days; study of the precise nature and scope of the compromise is ongoing.

Comment Re: Australia lack of sensors and reclassification (Score 3, Insightful) 56

Yeah places like finland have sort of bad air in very few places in few of the cities. Whereas in thailand when the pm2.5 index levels are commonly over 150 going to 200 in ALL of the rural areas. For reference in rural finland it would be something like 5 to 10 (and i have firsthand experience for both of these)

Australia would have great air in most of the country because most of the country is far enough from indonesia. Theres no forests to light on fire in inner australia anyway.

Comment Re: I'm conflicted (Score 1) 125

The definition for driving like a lunatic might surprise you.

99% of people its not worth getting an insurance company tracker. If you have bumpy roads even less worth it, but more worth it than a different company selling the data since the data becomes more valuable the more lunatic its represented as, so if you live in a town with traffic lights you'll be doing lots of "hard braking" or running the lights.

Eventually the insurance companies will stop paying attention and paying for the data as they get actual baselines built and notice the fleece and customer drain.

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