Comment Sounds like ISAC (Score 2) 39
This is something folks are working on for 6g -- integrated sensing and communication.
https://www.qualcomm.com/resea...
Basically, hey, you've got all these devices pumping out signals everywhere at all kinds of wavelengths; if you receive and process them you can pretty much build a 3-D scene.
Comment Littleton(TM)? (Score 1) 32
I had no idea that the good people of Littleton, Massachusetts had trademarked the name of their town.
I look forward to their lawsuit against those imposters over in Colorado.
Comment Old books, you say? (Score 1) 114
My parents built up a pretty decent collection of Horatio Alger's highly formulaic rags-to-riches "dime novels" from around 1868-1910. Perhaps AI would like to ingest many, many stories of plucky and hard-working young men who wind up making it big?
Comment Similar stuff on other sites too (Score 1) 44
There have been a lot of model-poisoning spam over on Quora too. Notably in service of pump-and-dump manipulation of stocks belonging to companies that are basically circling the drain (off the top of my head, seen NXXT, RIME, MYNZ->QUCY, DVLT, NRED and maybe one other I'm forgetting). When you can create tons of accounts, post tons of AI-generated slop that just occasionally casually mentions whatever "fact" you want the models to ingest, and so on, all for "free" or so close as to make no difference, I guess this is what you get.
Comment Even if it doesn't scale up... (Score 1) 77
If it's as effective against stovetop fires as the KMPH video indicates, some kitchen manufacturer should license this tech and build it into their vent hoods. Some sizable percentage of house fire start on stovetops, so killing them off early would be a good thing.
Comment Re:My home network is nearly pure IPv6 (Score 1) 73
I have something like ~1.2 trillion times the number of routable addresses that the entire IPv4 space has. Not all are reachable, of course, just the services that need incoming access and they're each on their own isolated DMZ.
Comment Re:My home network is nearly pure IPv6 (Score 1) 73
Comment My home network is nearly pure IPv6 (Score 1) 73
I have an SSH bastion set up. In all this time there has not been a single SSH attempt from the internet. On IPv4 it was constant background noice.
For those legacy IPv4-only systems on the internet, I set up NAT64. I have an IoT VLAN and IoT 2.4 GHz wireless network that are only IPv4 because a lot of IoT network stacks are junk.
I'm still farting around with it, but man oh man, there's no way I'd go back to IPv4. It was one of the best moves I've done in ages.
Comment targeted growth-oriented investments yadda yada (Score 2) 7
"Targeted growth-oriented investments aligned with the 6 strategic areas of focus," eh?
How will this help them leverage their core competencies in order to holistically administrate exceptional synergy? Will they still be able to distill their identify through client-centric solutions? And proactively oversee day-to-day operations, services and deliverables with cross-platform innovation?
Comment I read tons, just not on paper. (Score 2) 73
I don't even know where I could even get a hardcopy version of Moses T. Runnels' two-volume History of Sanbornton, New Hampshire, totaling around 1,700 pages or so and published in 1882. But I frequently consult the PDF version I downloaded from one of the numerous web sites that has it available. Then there's my OverDrive Libby account, which gives me access to the holdings of something like eight library networks covering virtually all of a state, plus a university library or two. I voraciously consume news from a variety of sources, including through aggregators like Slashdot and Fark. Plus various academic journals related to my work and other interests, through one of the aforementioned university libraries.
In short, if I'm not asleep or driving, I'm likely reading something. I just use a lot less shelf space and forests than I used to.
Comment Re:It still works like shit. (Score 2) 51
It makes it economical to solve problems in code.
Comment Re:not everyone (Score 1) 186
Comment Yep (Score 1) 186
We haven't had cable since ~1999-2000. Downloading and the *arrs have kept us happy, but the better half wanted to check out some live sports. So IPTV it was.
Comment Re:Calling it a lead is very generous (Score 1) 28
Ouch.