Um, this looks like a policy of instant 'publishing'.

So the for-profit publishers will suffer? And their value proposition was, what? Peer review? We know how valuable that is.

And your point is?

Mod up. The I-9 process is flawed. When the SSA finally obtains sufficient IT resources to do cursory grooming of the member database we can expect them to figure out where the abuses are, and at least dela with the obvious and copious. But our government seems to be incapable of managing its IT resources to even a marginally successful level, unless it's for the acquisition of revenue. And that's the lesson. They will damn sure make sure they get paid. Reducing fraud? Only for headlines. Even just hampering abuse? Only for headlines. Until the government gets leadership that harkens to minimal principles. one being that taxpayer money is finite and ought to be spent wisely.

Now to go off-topic and hope a companion principle finds a place in this, that we ought not spend ourselves into debt except for emergencies. But that requires real backbone. Our elected representatives seek re-election, and get distracted and diverted from such tasks.

Air gapping North Korea is an absolute data security solution. Unless you permit travel from North Korea, and that breaks the gap - people will transport the threats. Or these travelling agents recruit others to work on their behalf. Or an ally grants them clandestine access.

Aw, crap, there is no prevention. So we treat their threat like we would the cDc... annoying little snots they were. You have to lock your windows , bar the doors, and electrify the fences. And after all that, muzzle flash. And some will get through. Security is a best effort game, at best. Plan for failure and recovery.

And Elon has led his teams of scientists, engineers, technicians, all of them, to successfully develop a LEO launch system that is much more affordable than anything before.

Every complaint that Elon, and by extension his companies, are somehow idiots, foolish, incompetent, blah blah blah, is itself misguided and foolish. Hating mildly eccentric and flawed CEOs or business leaders is a somewhat harmless hobby, but it's not astute. It's just spew.

At least with NASA, you could make complaint and rail against the amorphous agency, government, etc., and few would disagree. Fewer would call for an end to a government space program. Some, perhaps many, would demand better decision making. Better decision making within SpaceX? Sheesh, 'better decision making' is a universally desirable trait. Nothing added to the discussion stating the obvious.

I believe SpaceX will solve the Starship problems, and ultimately achieve their stated goals. We should be ready to acknowledge that and accept the benefits.

I'll trust the herd.

Ordinarily in not interested in following the herd to the cliffs, but having multiple password/authentication tools is not as critical for me as it used to be.

Then again, I'll be puking up the VPN/reverse proxy crap so I can host more of this at home behind CGNAT. No ftth or fttn for the foreseeable future, the original vendor STB and can't afford to do it and will never relinquish the easements for a reasonable fee. My local government knows they made the mistake, the next 2 vendors had to commit to lighting it up be a certain date.

But this continuing corporate shell game of 'free' tools being thrown on the dust heap isn't just an annoyance anymore. I'll learning to host more and more, even when it means learning things I did not want to know.

I'm using third-party ink in my Brother all-in-one. Only real drawback is that the built-in ink level meters do not work, you need to go to the iPrint&Scan app.

A 60% discount on ink is worth it.

Not many other manufacturers tolerate third-party supplies well.

I think selection via harvesting is being mistaken for evolution. And I doubt marine biologists can precisely judge age by size/weight. Either way, overfishing will have to stop.

That's normal. The whole world 'poached' Atlantic Salmon between Greenland and Norway, Greenland and Canada, all in international waters of course. The Russians actually fished salmon with factory ships that produced meal for livestock, a horrible waste. The Japanese and Norwegian fleets harvested salmon for food, understood. Overfished and struggling to spawn in polluted US rivers, the wild stock dwindled. The Connecticut, Hudson, Merrimack, Kennebec, and Penobscot Rivers saw thousands of fish, teeming, each season. In the 90s the runs could be numbered in the tens of fish in the northern rivers, the Hudson and Connecticut no measurable runs at all. Pollution was the greatest problem, and as that was addressed, the overfishing resulted in virtually no fish spawning. Restocking will take decades to establish a sustainable population. This is a lesson for the Banks fisheries, recovery will take decades. Recovery is slow.

The general goal of Georges Bank fisheries management has been to protect juvenile fish and extra-mature fish, permitting more spawning and thereby increasing the sustainable catch. American fisherman have largely complied, but the Exclusive Economic Zone is regularly violated by fishers of other nations. And every reduction in catch is fought as further penalty for commercial fisheries. They really need to reduce the catch for a decade, defend the EEZ, and make further instruments in research and marine biology. I'm not hopeful.

More likely, the MBA *&($#)es look at the outcomes, ROI, and impacts, and if the AI bots serve the customer sufficiently, that is how they will proceed. Not many of these MBA whatever's survive if they think their idea results in less success. Are they sometimes wrong? Well, so are you. And me. Mistakes by some of us mean no new cell phone this year. For others, their mistakes mean a great deal more. Still mistakes. I await your infallible process.

Some of their products look like and act like AI. If they can successfully use their own products to deliver, I think that's a good measure of the value.

Even if you cut down the wrong tree, if you do so efficiently, you prove the process works. Right thing, wrong way, well, the next tree cutting project will go better. Your saw is not the problem.

No the other end of the equation is a fork. More time to resolution, or less time to resolution.

Neither is necessary, the first step is migration to new technology. Now Salesforce can focus on improving performance, or possibly reducing costs further. If you're optimizing a programmable, non human process, you're relieved of the costs of employment. Now you manage the costs of processing bits, managing the whole of it, and adapting to changing circumstances. Not necessarily cheaper than having people doing the work, but that's a learning process.

Upfront costs of developing these AI processes will not be reflected in this quarter's earnings. Between that and the time lag of reducing now-superfluous staff, you will have to wait for the increased profits to justify your outrage that this business is now more efficient.

Efficiency often results in profits. Sometimes it results in reduced income due to competition, market retractions, and possibly lost sales from customer dissatisfaction. It's not even that simple in reality.

I would contend there is a difference between evolution and commercial selection. Wild Atlantic salmon have so overfished that they are within real risk of extinction. yet the farmed fish are now 'different' from the wild population, they have no discernable spawning urge, no selection of a specific river to spawn in. When they escape and join schools of wild salmon, they follow along to the Atlantic coast, and there get confused. And there are other interesting problems. That is not evolution, it is an interference in evolution.

So I submit, limiting harvest of a species of fish to certain sizes is not an evolutionary pressure, unless it is proven that these fish no longer grow much past the upper limit of size. When we no longer see cod much larger than that maximum size. we can assume they have evolved to not grow up to catchable size, and so no larger specimens are found. I doubt that has happened. And I doubt it will. There is still a good outcome for cod that succeed in avoiding capture long enough to grow much larger. This is happening in the striped bass population. Evolution be damned.