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Comment Re:Standing? (Score 1) 57

1st Amendment grounds? What the fuck are you smoking? DeepSeek is a Chinese company. It doesn't get ANY of the protections of the US Constitution, you clown. It's a foreign entity.

DeepSeek offers services in the US and thus would come under the protection of teh 1st Amendment, teh same as any foreign company offering services in the US, the Constitution doesn't discriminate between US and non-US entities in teh US as far as their rights are concerned. A more tenuous argument, IMHO, would be such a ban violates he ight to freedom of association of those in the US.

Comment Re:Standing? (Score 1) 57

Well, was it? Is that your claim, or not? Were they subscribing now for a future discount, or was the subscription for current use? Seems pretty straightforwards. Note that it doesn't matter what they anticipate unless it was promised.

Sometimes a company does make future promises to get people to subscribe now based on FOMO. Is that the case in these services? I don't use them, but my understanding is that people are merely subscribing to what is currently offered.

I do subscribe to one and use it for work. They basically promise access with usage limits at various tiers, and offer more powerful models on a pay as go basis for the basic tier. No where do I recall being promised ongoing development of ever more powerful models. You do expect that given how computer development occurs, but it is not unreasonable to think they may at some point decide what they offer is powerful enough and not introduce more powerful ones.

Comment Re:Standing? (Score 1) 57

Yes and this is likely also an attempt at regulatory capture, to get lawmakers to set the bar high enough that new players would find it very difficult to gain traction. I won't be surprised if DeepSeek gets banned entirely from the USA and ordered to be blocked by ISPs

Possibly but regulatory capture is not illegal or an anti-trust violation and a common practice for many industries. Even if the US decided to block DeepSeek and it didn't get thrown out on First Amendment grounds, VPNs make banning a whack a mole game.

Comment Bullshit Lawsuit (Score 3, Interesting) 57

Your subscription pays for access, there is no implied obligation to keep making it faster or more powerful. Antitrust law is intended to prevent companies from colluding or having to much market power so as to keep prices high and prevent new companies form competing in the market. This is more like a standards committee, if anything these companies limiting their LLM's power means a new company could decide to build a more powerful one and there decision does not prevent other companies, such as Chinese ones, from continuing to push the boundaries. I hope a judge tosses this case out and lets the lawyers eat the costs they have incurred so far.

Comment Re:Coming soon to an orbit near you (Score 1, Troll) 149

"Data center satellites will not be happening, same as Mars colonies."

You're too late, one is in orbit and I'm making an even bigger one right now.

Go figure, someone with heavy thermal regulation experience in semiconductor technology is what's needed to properly cool high-tech in space and make what everyone says is impossible into reality.

And I do it with only a GED.

Sit down.

Comment Re:uh (Score 1) 179

nope. I can record in my own home, my friends home, a strangers home. There is no barrier as long as I consent to my own recording. This has helped many domestic abuse cases, kidnappings, SA, murders be solved in single-party states.

I was referring to two party states, however even in one party states there are limits to your right to record, for example you may have to be a party to the conversation and not just eavesdropping or in a place with a reasonable expectations of privacy. One party consent doesn't protect someone from other laws regarding recording.

Comment Re:New business opportunity (Score 1) 100

That would be a temporary solution, but competitors of Flock are already using fingerprints from your car based on Bluetooth from infotainment, built-in modem for updates and telematics, and even your TPMS sensors which broadcast unique IDs. In addition to that the fingerprints can contain info from your phone (Wifi, Bluetooth, RFID, cellular modem) and other wireless devices such as headphones and AirTags. Apparently this is already available in a product known as Leonardo. Looks like it's time to build a Faraday Cage around my vehicle.

Sounds like th epublic needs an OSS version of Leonardo to even th eplaying field and track police and elected officials...

Comment Re:uh (Score 1) 179

Only illegal outside of single-party consent states.

Even in two party or all party consent states the laws generally only apply if there is an expectation of privacy, and thus usually not in public spaces.; as always the laws are more complex than"require two party consent to record..." That doesn't make it any less creepy to walk around recording people.

Comment Re:Spread it evenly (Score 1) 141

"The Trump administration's Department of Energy wants to create 'campuses' in several states to store waste,"

Given the high standards this administration sets for contractors, I'm sure there's no reason to ask more questions.

Yea, those tears in the casks are due to vandalism and Democrats and of course, Joe Biden ...

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