I don't know if you count Tiktok, 4-chan and similar forums, Discord's many forums and forums using similar technologies, and other web-accessible-places that are more-social-media-ish, chat-ish, or forum-ish than than-web-ish sites as "web sites" even though they can be accessed through a web browser.

But if you are looking for creativity and don't mind having few or no filters for taste, decorum, common decency, or just plain quality, look in those places. You'll see a lot of quality stuff, but you'll see a lot more things you probably will want to un-see.

Of course, there's always YouTube and other anyone-can-upload video-hosting web sites.

If anything happens, I hope it all drifts east, where the missiles came from.

Betteridge's law of headlines notwithstanding, just about any "yes/no question headline" can be rested as a /. poll, such as:

Are Supershear Earthquakes Even More Dangerous Than We Thought?
1. Yes.
2. No.
3. Maybe.
4. Can you repeat the question?
5. What is this "Supershear Earthquake" of what you speak and how may I invest?
6. What does CowboyNeal say?

Range anxiety is going from one Podunkville to the next with long stretches of nothing in between.

My driving pattern still leaves me vulnerable to range anxiety.

Sure, that's improving every year, but if I had to buy a replacement vehicle today, it would not be pure-electric.

Hopefully things will change by the time I need to replace my current vehicle.

Oddly, when you hold a thin cellphone--it only becomes more difficult to hold. The camera bump is still there, anyway. This is what happens when marketing people try to design a cellphone.

>but today the left/democrats are absolutely fucking bonkers.
>What's a woman? Really? jfc

I see your point, but please tell me you know about people who are biologically intersex, neither wholly male nor wholly female. Conservative estimates suggest about 1 in 5000 people are interesex.

Only 1425 out of presumably over 100 million Americans who identify as Republican? That's a very low number. Maybe it's just the high-profile ones.

To get anything close to a "real" list will take a lot of work and probably a lot of money.

If you are up to the challenge, you can compare public sex-offender lists with those who have voted in party primaries or registered with a political party. You will probably have to pay a copying fee to get the voting data though.

Even this will paint only a partial picture, since some people with partisan leanings can't or don't vote in primaries, and some convicted sex offenders aren't on public sex-offender lists.

Hanford announced last week that their spent fuel vitrification plant is officially in operation, converting nuclear waste into glass ingots that can be safely stored for millenia. If they keep going for about a century they might be able to vitrify the spent fuel we already have. But we still have no place to store the ingots.

All these small modular reactors have the same deficits. They require high assay low enriched uranium (HALEU) produced only in Russia. They're a proliferation risk. They require a substantial footprint with passive and active defenses, 24/7 armed security, security clearances for all the highly paid professionals involved. They're slow to approve, finance, build. They're more costly even than classic nuclear reactors to build and operate, and those are the slowest building and most costly form of energy which means high energy costs when (if) they are finally built. Traditional nuclear reactor projects have a 95% failure rate from proposal to generation so 19 times of 20 they never deliver a single watt hour. Those times the money is just spent and lost. The one time in 20 that the generation comes online to produce the world's most costly power doesn't even include those costs.

At Hanford cold war nuclear waste continues to seep gradually toward the mighty Columbia river. Inch by inch.

Somewhere in America just now a homeowner just plugged his DIY solar panels into the inverter and battery he bought on Amazon for the first time. It will give power 24/7 for 30 years at no additional cost. It was quick and cheap. He didn't even need permission. It won't kill his family, nor yours, nor mine. There is no chance that his solar panels will result in radioactive salmon or other seafood.

It's a sad day when things like this happen.

I'm glad they prevented him from killing himself.

I'm even more glad he didn't intend to murder anyone.

Hopefully, after some psychiatric care, he will send the people who tackled him a thank-you letter and send the people running the conference an apology for what he put them through.

Give me a car that can do all my normal driving from the batteries, then attach a generator (or in my dreams, a fuel cell) that runs on gasoline or deisel so I'm not at the mercy of charging stations.

Wasn't the original Intellivision in the $150-$200 ballpark?

>Aren't actual rents readily available on sites like realtor.com?
Not necessarily.

Those may be the offered rents available today before any discounts, but they may not be the rents existing tenants are paying.

As someone already pointed out, the "you can't copyright it if AI generated it, full stop" is about the only feasible interpretation that won't result in either an "everything generated by AI is copyright-eligible" scenario or every single application having to be decided on some criteria that will itself be challenged by those on the losing side.

On the other hand, the very act of prompting and re-prompting an AI until you get something that looks, subjectively to you, like a thing of beauty and IMHO is deserving of legal protection. Whether or not it should be treated as a wholly new work or as a derivative work depends on the same thing an existing "work based on other works" does - things like "is the other work recognizable" - "does the new work impact the commercial value of the previous works" and so on.

It is analogous to me hiring you (a human doing work for hire) to go search all the images of people in 10 magazines (all images presumably under copyright), find 10 with green eyes, 10 with red lipstick, and 10 with noses that are relatively narrow, then create combinations thereof using a blending technique (blend eyes from "green eyes set picture #1" with mouth from "red lipstick picture #1" with nose from "narrow nose picture #1") but change the eye color to blue and the lipstick to green and widen the nose. This will give you 1000 combinations to create. Then I will remove any generated faces that are "so close to the original that the result might be considered a derivative work under copyright law." I will then print out the rest, pick the 10 that I think have the most commercial value, then register my company's copyright on them.

You, my employee, may be doing the drawing, but I'm the one directing the scene (plus I hired you).

I very much doubt the copyright office would reject my application. I MIGHT have to face lawsuits from anyone who claimed I was infringing, but if I did my "reject close calls" filtering right, then by definition I would win every challenge when it got in front of a judge (if I lost, then I didn't do it right).

This is analogous to using an AI: I'm starting with many existing works, but I'm using a tool to selectively blend them in ways that will, hopefully, allow me to claim a completely new work. Even failing that, my creative use of the AI tool should allow me to claim copyright on this new work that contains, as a part of it, other works.

The key here is that I am using the AI tool creatively, not slavishly or trivially.

> At what point does analyzing the market and trends to determine pricing become illegal?

It SHOULD become illegal when it uses information that is not easily available to renters.

In this case, the software has access to actual rents that are not widely available (at almost no cost or effort to obtain) to renters.

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As to when it actually becomes illegal? Same as with anything else: When lawmakers declare something is illegal, it's illegal until or unless a court invalidates the law making it illegal.
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