Which I think indicates the problem. The Chinese government will not allow ByteDance to do something? That means ByteDance is, by logical extension, the Chinese government, and not an independent company as they claim.

But honestly, citation needed on the actual ability to "refuse to allow it," because I'm not sure the Chinese government has the power you claim. They say all sorts of things and take all sorts of stances that they cannot enforce or enact. I don't doubt that they said it, I doubt that it isn't more hot air.

Pick up a psychology book. Nobody is that smart. You don't need to be "easily impressionable." There are known techniques to cause mayhem. Don't think yourself immune because you're a tough guy or smarter than that.

It isn't "dangerous ideas," it's willful mob manipulation to modify behavior. You don't want to be in the middle of that. History won't help you, this technology didn't exist back then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Don't they have copyright over their own software? Were they distributing someone else's? Did they include proprietary libraries that they don't have the rights to?

Suyu is GPL. I'm pretty sure they declared their copyleft here. What on Earth is Git doing?

Yes, I'm playing coy. But if they're not distributing copyrighted game applications to run on the emulator, they are very much the rightsholder, and Git knows this.

+1

I scrolled into the comments to say the same. Kernel level copy protection is no good neither, and we all remember the Sony rootkit. Microsoft should ban these drivers, now.

Games, f-ing recreational activity, belongs in userspace, if not a virtualized sandbox. Sandbox is going too far I think, but userspace isn't. No privileges outside the home directory. No root for you!

If that makes e-sports stop working, it's time to write a new OS just for e-sports. If amateur multiplayer games are rife with cheating, time to start to deal with that without compromising the OS. Manage the community better. For best results, base it in Linux. Might want to have a look at Proton.

Enough. If Windows can't be a gaming OS without kernel shenanigans, then it can't be a gaming OS. If you need kernel drivers to make your gaming business model work, it's time for a new business model.

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A panel fell off on a two-decade old jet and the manufacturer and not the airline is getting the headline?

I call shenanigans.

I have 350/10, and I would kill for 20 up.

But really, the minimum should be 50 up, IMO. Download you can often wait on. Uploads, OTOH, tend to need to happen right away so you can share stuff with colleagues. The disparity is anti-publication. Lots of people have good reason to want to publish something.

Dude copy pastes this every time there's an article on Bitcoin. Exact same text. Don't mod this up.

This is the most important line in TFS (and TFA). This is a weather report, not climate. I think only climate scientists really understand the scope of what climate is. Everyone else is fretting about daily weather, yearly weather, and stuff that just, AFAIK as a layman, isn't climate. The dust bowl is a thing. Wasn't climate. It was a long catastrophic weather occurrence.

That said, if we don't do something now -- and that means not ruling out mitigation strategies out according to political preferences -- this planet will no longer have us as inhabitants. We can look forward to the Dust Bowl as our climate. My gut tells me that climate scientists are hopeful humans like anyone else, and that this is going to be much faster, and much worse, than current estimates.

We need to stop patting ourselves on the back for our performative concern and do something. Do everything possible that isn't carbon producing. It's about how we produce energy. How we consume it is a stop-gap, but clean and bountiful production is what's really important.

Contrary to other responses I'm seeing, let me offer you my wholehearted support. It's just fine. This issue is a lot, to say the least. Furthermore, your post says nothing about your politics or your response to immigration and/or climate refugees. Shame on anyone for making bitter political assumptions over a simple request to stop talking about this day-in day-out. Really, guys?

Just so long as you don't run around angrily claiming "hoax," "solar maximum," "carbon is good for life," etc. I assume you are going to be a leader of the "just shut up" movement by example. Some of us have too much to deal with personally to stomach this stuff. That's fine. Take a break. Get some fresh air. Touch grass. Don't feel shamed by others for doing so. They simply don't have empathy for human limitations.

As a general commentary, the signal to noise ration on this issue is somewhere along the lines of a small child's whisper vs the Space Shuttle taking off in your backyard. Most people, and a lot of folks on Slashdot, really do need to shut up about it. This includes some media outlets who provide clickbait spin and fear instead of useful information. There's only so many ZOMG!s people can take. So yeah, I'm with you, maybe some people should shut up.

But unlike "could," medical science is very, very sure that ageing correlates with increased incidence of heart attack and stroke.

Put on your critical thinking caps, kids. What this is is an indication of is avenues of further - possibly fruitful - research, and nothing else.

Could we please dispense with the pro-environmental fear machine? Keep this up and when something worse than global climate change comes along nobody will believe it. It's arguable that it was so easy to mislead people about climate change because of exactly this kind of thing in the press.

I don't know why your response made me think this, but:

The only thing that stops a bad guy with an AI model is a good guy with an AI model.

In this case, the NYT appears to have used Microsoft's own AI model to prove that it's being ripped off by Microsoft. I don't care what the prompt was. Well done.

(*golf clap*)

More like putting rules into this is about equivalent to killing a fly in a diverse ecosystem. Who knows what will happen? Probably the Butterfly Effect, eh?

It's all in the data set. Exactly. Who decided to build a set of the entire internet? Someone who doesn't understand people. This is one time where so many coders on the spectrum is a really bad thing.

At Google: We wrote the code. We know it works. We know how it works, but we have no idea what the implications and effects of throwing a data set this large at an iterative algorithm will do. When it does stuff like this, we don't even really know why. Too many data points. Too many cycles. We just write more rules and hope for the best.

Guys. We love you. Really we all do. This is going to be a great tool!

It is a toy right now. It is your toy. You have a lot of work to do, all of the models across all vendors, before it's ready for production. Like a decade. The good news is you get to FAFO. Stop releasing this stuff to the public. This is one time when QA can't be skimped on.