Comment no need (Score 1) 2
Other countries aren't putting US-registered SIM cards on their daily missile attacks.
Comment Why Leo? It was better than Cancer or Virgo (Score 1) 34
Because Virgo sounded too much like Virgin Galactic and Cancer sounded exactly like "DO NOT WANT."
Comment A fully mechanized plant? (Score 1) 39
A fully mechanized plant, using imported Chinese materials, dumping toxic waste everywhere. Will you sleep safer?
Comment Shmucks! (Score 1) 29
No one has scruples any more?
Comment Part why I am experimenting with Basilisk (Score 2) 38
I remember when Firefox was a 5MB download--now, even the downloader is larger than that. Other than lapses of privacy, I am experimenting with Basilisk because is supports Scrapbook, the best internet research tool ever made.
Comment Phone numbers are scarce Re:Never used emails (Score 3, Informative) 29
At least in some places, phone numbers have to be re-used after only a few months of non-use because of demand.
"Short, easy to remember" email addresses are also scarce, but you don't need a "short, easy to remember" email address to function in society. Most people do need a phone number.
Comment AI's widespread data-theft must stop (Score 1) 60
If Napster was illegal--so is AI's training.
Comment Questionable ethics (Score 1) 42
So, with AI, now even human experimentation is all-good?
Comment Somehow I'm not feeling it (Score 1) 44
I'm not feeling any sympathy for either Disney or Google on this one.
For the viewers caught in the middle, yes, but for the giga-corps, not so much.
Comment +1 funny because (Score 1) 2
The ads I get when I load up this submission's page and turn off my ad-blocker are, you guessed it, ads for AI products and services. Sigh.
Submission + - Popular Tech Site Caves to AI $, Starts Serving AI Popups (slashdot.org) 2
An anonymous reader writes: Popular but greying tech site Slashdot succumbs to commercial pressure, allowing AI-serving popups "Create AI Apps with Mongo DB!"
Long held to be a bastion of 'old tech' linux advocates and crusty DOS command-line devotees, they were widely representative of the cutting edge of the golden age of desktops and still regarded highly for their knowledge of kernel lore and deep protocols fundamental to modern computing. Fading in relevance since its heyday of the 1990s and 2000s, conventional wisdom would still have suggested this should have been the last bastion to fall to the idea of letting LLMs "do the coding for you", but Slashdot admins, alert for commercial opportunities (on a site that remains relatively ad free), clearly have a different opinion. "Our users need to understand what an opportunity this was for us" they are imagined to have said, "there's a TON of cash sloshing around the gigantic shamconomy of OpenAI, NVidia, and ChatGPT — why can't some of it splash our way? As they say: 'carpe pecuniam'!."
Long held to be a bastion of 'old tech' linux advocates and crusty DOS command-line devotees, they were widely representative of the cutting edge of the golden age of desktops and still regarded highly for their knowledge of kernel lore and deep protocols fundamental to modern computing. Fading in relevance since its heyday of the 1990s and 2000s, conventional wisdom would still have suggested this should have been the last bastion to fall to the idea of letting LLMs "do the coding for you", but Slashdot admins, alert for commercial opportunities (on a site that remains relatively ad free), clearly have a different opinion. "Our users need to understand what an opportunity this was for us" they are imagined to have said, "there's a TON of cash sloshing around the gigantic shamconomy of OpenAI, NVidia, and ChatGPT — why can't some of it splash our way? As they say: 'carpe pecuniam'!."
Comment Re:Do they Need More Money? (Score -1, Troll) 51
Work in AI, eh?
Comment Wikipedia, The Most Important World Site (Score 3, Interesting) 51
If you were trying to rebuild your society, after the way things are heading happens, you would want Wikipedia first.
Comment Oh yeah? I pugged in a toaster oven! (Score 1) 20
It's not like hooking up AI, a Billionaire's device--up to quantum computing matters, to anyone but them.
Comment AI already is destroying the web (Score 2) 54
AI is destroying not only the internet, but the quality of humanity's information, as a whole. AI, the fishing rod of the rich.
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