Pretty much all tech we have today is entirely possible without burning fossile[sic] fuels

One of the apparent filters is simply that above a certain level of gravity, chemical rockets will not suffice to reach space. We're near the edge of that condition ourselves. Any number of civilizations might be out there, pinned against their planet's surfaces. The only way that's not true is if there are physics yet to be discovered that can accomplish surface-to-space in high gravity without using chemical rockets. We certainly haven't found any sign of such science/technology here. And fission or fusion powered rockets... the engineering for that is at least completely non-obvious thus far. And before anyone says "nukes against a pressure plate", yeah, a delightfully bang-y notion, but no.

The assumption made in the Fermi paradox that any civilization could reach space if they try may simply be wrong.

As there are so many wonderful books out there just begging for a motion picture treatment, Hollywood will oblige by... releasing more pointless, vapid remakes.

This is a law that will allow the federal government to take total control of AI forever

No. The tech is already out — this horse is so far out of the barn you'd need a passport and numerous border crossings to even find hoofprints.

Not only is such a law completely unable to regulate GPT/LLM/generative software in the USA's non-commercial software ecosphere, it can have no effect across national borders and you may be absolutely certain that other state actors will simply smile and wave at such ideas (for that matter, you may be certain that the US intelligence apparatus will do the same.)

At home or cloud-based? It is either-or.

Exactly. These marketing twerps no longer know WTF the words they use even mean. If they ever did. Also, using "secure" in the same context with "the cloud"... that's a similar bit of nonsense. When your data leaves your hands, even just crossing the Internet, it's no longer secure. One party can keep a secret. Anything else... can very quickly become not a secret. As we have seen many times. And of course, we should never forget about this.

> MacOS Sonoma 14.4.1.

Running Ventura 13.3.1 here. Perhaps that's it.

Thanks. I'll consider upgrading after I surf the "bugs in Sonoma" stuff.

Read up on it. All claims as to feature sizes below 25nm are lies. Weaseling with the word "x size process" does not change this fact. Or you can stay ignorant, no skin off my back.

No, I'm saying that if the 9th limits anything with respect to this situation, it's not the corporations. And you seem to have mistaken my comment on the constitution's limitations as a comment on Congress's limitations. The constitution does not say anything about what corporations may do. I'm not sure how I can make this any clearer.

The constitution limits the government. Limiting the power of corporations exceeds its scope. It could be within the constitution to limit what the government knows about you, but the 9th tends to limit the government's ability to limit corporations.

Multiple foundries claim to use 5nm processes. Actual feature sizes are around 25nm at the absolute smallest. Keep guzzling that koolaid though, you'll get to the promised land in no time.

If it passes it's because there are other methods of tracking you which aren't mentioned in the bill.

I would expect the same of any virtue signalling politicized group.

If they're lying in the press release I'm not going to bother looking into it. Nothing humans manufacture in bulk is 5nm.

You read it wrong. Google is not announcing THE first custom Arm-based CPU. It's announcing ITS first custom Arm-based CPU.

because forbidding all pollution is no different from just shutting down every chemical plant. Forbidding specific pollutants shuts down all processes which make them. And I, for one, kind of like having headphones under $150 each, cars under $200,000, and food for 10% to 50% the price it would have to be if packaged in wood, glass, and a limited range of paper or cardboard. I also like having a computer, using dish soap, and many, many other activities which rely on these toxin-producing chemical plants.

Poor people? Fine. Help the poor people. I'm all for it. Just don't get racist about it.