Comment Then I guess ... (Score 1) 184
... Democrats had better get off their rears and vote to fund it. And give on the filibuster.
You do know that's the holdup, right?
Comment Princess Bride (Score 3, Funny) 146
"You keep on using that word. I do not think you know what it means."
Comment Words (Score 1) 41
The researchers emphasised that geoengineering only masked the symptoms of the climate crisis, and did not tackle the root cause -- the burning of fossil fuels.
I think the word you are looking for is "mitigate", not "mask".
There are all sorts of things that we do that require other things done to make them safe enough.
Comment Hmm (Score 4, Insightful) 173
Not seeing that it's a problem that this was merely looked into at all.
The problem was how the information from the system was used, the refusal to actually view the video, etc. Not that oh noes, Flock even exists.
Comment Well, what do you expect? (Score 1) 159
I mean it's not as if anybody natters on about "democracy" all the time, lol. Who cares what most people want?
Comment Oh good (Score 0, Troll) 183
Thousands of miles away on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, it is a different story. China has laid solar panels across an area the size of Chicago high up on the Tibetan Plateau,
Oh good. Well, as long as China gets to use Tibet however it wants to. I can see how the world's self-proclaimed morally superior folks might want to trumpet that
Comment Re:As a guy with a recent shoulder surgery... (Score 1) 35
Crypto? AI? AWS and AZURE falling over their own shoelaces?
Looks like you use the web
Comment But ... but ... (Score 1) 35
... blaming them isn't nearly as emotionally satisfying!!
Comment Sigh (Score 1) 205
Making sure that weapons actually work is a good idea.
But oh no OMG Trump Trump something something
Comment Came here to say ... (Score 1) 196
... that this sounds like a Slashdot (today's Slashdot, not the one I joined) dream.
Saw the +5 comments; was not disappointed, lol
Comment Well ... (Score 1) 36
... in one sense, this was part of the promise of the web - that "user agents" of all sorts would be able to intake the structured information from HTML pages, and present it in whatever way was useful to the user.
I'm not saying this particular thing is useful
Comment Re:What is AI used for? (Score 1) 65
In fact, it does, if one knows what one is doing (we've seen them in retail return fraud attempts). And it's easier to learn and faster to do than the old fashioned way with Photoshop.
Photoshop itself has had "AI" tools for awhile.
Comment Hmm (Score 1) 65
Creating fraudulent documents previously required photo editing skills or paying for such services. Free and accessible image generation software has made it possible for anyone to falsify receipts in seconds by writing simple text instructions to chatbots.
C'mon, it wasn't all that hard.
Relying on scans of pieces of paper always had a big whiff of theater about it.
Comment On the other hand ... (Score 1) 45
... if the companies have been wanting to do it, and if they economically can do it, then whether they have a useful PR "excuse" or not, it's still going to happen.
Comment Unlikely to be worse at truck driving ... (Score 2) 90
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