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Comment Re: It is not how far away we are from AGI we are (Score 1) 65

Slashdot doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode, the most common standard for text on the Internet. Nor does Slashdot support iPhone, one of most common devices used to access the Internet.

Correct, but there's a way around the above problem: hold down the 'apostrophe' key until you get a choice, and select the 'standard' one (plain looking ASCII one, for me it's the right-most) to use something that won't translate into that funky crap.

Comment Re:Isn't this the idea? (Score 3, Insightful) 113

You're not writing to be compensated, you're writing to "scratch an itch".

True, but with many popular OSS projects, that "itch" becomes a permanent rash (constant demands for features/fixes, unpaid) that drive developers to burnout.

So then there's really only a few choices:
1. close the source, or also use a less permissive license that perhaps requires paid contract for commercial use etc.
2. large companies whose products depend on those projects help fund it, or,
3. dev burns out, leaving the project in limbo (or a bunch of proprietary forks) making it less popular/supported.

Comment 90 days, huh? (Score 1, Interesting) 113

Google Project Zero policy announced in July that publicly discloses reported vulnerabilities within a week and starts a ninety-day countdown to full disclosure regardless of patch availability

What's tempting here is finding some 9.x-level vulnerability in some Google product, create a CVE, publish it and, in the same vein as Google, do full disclosure within 90 hours and see how Google likes them apples.

Comment Disbar them (Score 1) 134

[C]ourts are starting to map out punishments of small fines and other discipline [....] Court-ordered penalties "are not having a deterrent effect," said Freund, who has publicly flagged more than four dozen examples this year. "The proof is that it continues to happen."

Disbar them then - they're not doing their fucking job properly, so why should they get called "lawyers/attorneys" then?

And if they do want to be a lawyer/attorney again, then I guess they'll have to re-enroll, study, and take the bar exam again. Without using any A.I.

Imagine if a plumber relied on AI to fix your massive water leak. Would you seriously pay for that?!?

Comment Re: Why the 'flamebait' mod? (Score 0) 174

You forgot the only plausible option:

D) All cops are army rejects with anger management issues, that love power trippin' looking to abuse their next innocent victim to conjure up a "confession" from them

P.S.:

Maybe because he:
A) Was doing what his boss told him to do
B) The available evidence at that point was reviewed by a detective, a prosecutor, and presumably a judge that issued the warrant to pick up the lady
C) Police officers aren't tasked with reviewing exculpatory evidence when carrying out an arrest - they aren't judges...

All negated by the fact that HE said to be "100% sure" (as opposed to any sort of "we"). All of which were lies too (and we all know pigs love to make shit up to conjure up confessions)

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