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Comment Re:All this happens openly on THEIR servers (Score 1) 106

If Walmart sells a gun to a five year old, they cannot say, "Well, the five year old broke the law. Not our fault."

If the 5 year old poses as an adult online with all the lack of age verification possibilities that come with it, it really wouldn't be their fault. Your analogy falls flat because OpenAI hasn't actually done anything illegal (unlike say selling guns to a minor).

Comment Re:Blaming the victim (Score 3, Informative) 106

You really live in a post truth world don't you. Literally everything you claim to know about this case and every assumption you made while formulating the words on your post is incorrect.

In fact if you actually read the link rather than throw-up ignorance you would have realised everything is wrong. But hey, what's facts when you have opinions right?

Comment Re: Not really new information... (Score 1) 78

I have never once come across a drive HDD or SSD that doesn't correctly respond to "smartctl -t long". Some drives may not respond with diagnostic data as expected because this is a vendor specific dataset without a standard implementation, but all drives ship with some mechanism for quick and extended tests, and they all respond to the same SMART command.

That being said, your past experience may not be relevant here. Unlike HDDs, SSD controllers are actually governed by a standard of what SMART metrics to respond with so they are consistent between all tools and manufacturers. Technically only SSD controllers on NVMe drives, but the controller manufacturers seemingly to not differentiate on a SATA connected SSD. Not sure if the NVMe standard also mandates a drive respond to short/long tests, but I've never seen a HDD or SSD not do so.

Comment Re:No One Mentions (Score 1) 108

NCAP is an independent rating system. But the EU has safety standards that are performance based and many cases more stringent than in the USA. The USA has some more stringent than the EU. The reality is these cars meet them.

But yeah sure, discount everything I said on a technicality of how NCAP tests. Disregard that regardless of how you think the test works, that the BYD I linked to outperforms many European and American cars subjected to an identical test. Just because you have a better testing system in the USA doesn't change how good or bad a product is.

So really, what point were you trying to make? Clearly not one related to the quality of a Chinese car. Maybe try and stay on topic?

Comment Re:Glad they have their priorities straight (Score 1) 13

I wouldn't think his greed stops at 1000 euros monthly revenue

Those 68 customers were commercial. It's only 1000 euros in "illicit" revenue, much the same as an iPhone 16 is only worth $50 when I buy it from a thief. You should see what an actual cable company charges a hotel for connection.

Comment Re:Glad they have their priorities straight (Score 1) 13

You certainly wouldn't want a taxpayer-funded "cybercrime" unit to prioritize pursuing ransomware gangs, malware writers, or email scammers and phishers!

What makes you think they don't? Do you think only one person works in the Greek Cybercrimes unit? I mean only 6 days ago Greece's Cybercrimes Unit worked with Europol with operation endgame. They arrested the creator of the VenomRAT malware in Greece, and shutdown hundreds of servers related to that tool as well.

Analogy: Just because you say stupid things, doesn't mean other Slashdotters don't say smart things.

Comment Re:It's not meant to be a competition (Score 4, Insightful) 17

I find the guy's constant repetition of 'world-leading' and 'best in the world' strange. You've got some scientifically interesting results, great, go ahead and publish your findings, why put so much emphasis on what 'the rest of the world' has done in that area?

I'm sorry but what? TFA uses the term world-leading twice in the entire piece. Likely quite far apart in a very long interview. Why are you so offended that someone points out that China built something big and sensitive that will advance science?

I mean TFA literally sounds like how *anyone* talks about *any* massive construction. You should have seen interviews with CERN physicists. Heck IceCube (back 15 years ago) was talked about identically (no not the washed out rapper, but the previously largest neutrino observatory in Antarctica).

Calm yourself man.

Comment Re:Fails From Australia (Score 1) 45

[Citation Required] I can't find a single reference to Australia trialling an AI model on it's emergency services line. And even if you could find that citation, it has zero to do with the non-emergency police line - the kind of place you call when you want to tell them, yes you do have some info about that crime that was committed last week.

Comment Re:UK arrests 30 people a day for speech (Score 2, Insightful) 45

A significant portion of /. posts

Only when you include ACs. People aren't being arrested for stupidity. They are being arrested for truly obscene shit and death threats. I'm not sure if you've seen the internet, but believe me Slashdotters are perfectly safe.

Because of that, I don't think UK qualifies as a Western Democracy anymore.

Speaking of stupid posts, laws passed by a democratically elected government on behalf of the people still makes it a democracy even if you disagree with it. Back to civics class with you.

Comment Re:Who? (Score 1) 76

Has anyone heard of "Plex" before this was posted here?

It's okay gramps, we got you. Try these links:
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
https://it.slashdot.org/story/...
https://entertainment.slashdot...
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
https://entertainment.slashdot...

I'd post more, but then we'd be in 2024 territory and that's starting to go too far into the past. FYI Slashdot has posted over 75 Plex related stories. Maybe read this site more often?

Comment Re:Jellyfin (Score 1) 76

Cool server app, but doesn't have a TV client, so the end result is just as broken for the people this Roku change affects. More so actually since most people's TVs are in the same network as their Roku server and thus aren't impacted.

I wanted to like Jellyfin, but there are downsides.

Comment Re:It's (Score 1) 76

It's dangerous to go alone. Take this.

Looks good, but I can't find the app in my TV's store so it's a complete non-starter. There's far more to Plex than just storing and serving media into a web browser. This story is about Plex enforcing something on TV apps. Promoting a service that doesn't also have a TV app is non-solution.

Comment Re:Could the AI bubble do something good? (Score 2) 54

maybe something good could accidentally come from it?

Like even more expensive power bills? Is that good?

Give it up. No nuclear plant will be built within the next 20 years in the UK as a result of this decision. Even the ones that are underway are horrendously resource constrained and literally none will meet time and budget.

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