Well they aren't teflon like trump, so I'd say toss their ass in jail. Even a government official is not immune from all prosecution. To me, this is a case that is clear, they broke the law, not a little, not a unclear one. It is as I said, no different then having the directors march into people's backyards and look at their meters.

Yes, but it seems it can be spoofed. Military GPS is encrypted, so you can jam it, but you can't create a spoof. It appears the Ukrainians are spoofing a location. I think because Vlad many years ago opened up the GLONASS encrypted signal from what I can tell. So I'm thinking Ukraine can create a proper encrypted spoofed signal. I know Russia has been caught spoofing the non-encrypted GPS signal around some ports. Here is just one example, seems it is pretty common for them to do. https://en.usm.media/massive-g...

No one thought Ukraine would be standing a month after the invasion. How'd that go russian comrade?

I don't like FLOCK either, but that at least is in a public space. Your electric meter is NOT. Reasonable expectation of privacy. As I said, how this passed the smell test for ten years is unbelievable. The judge should have handed a bigger smackdown in the ruling. And I still say the SMUD people should be facing jail. I am assuming it is a private company like PG&E. If I start peeping into people's back yards to read their meter, would I be arrested? Me thinks so.

that it took 10 years. Especially given from the article, "the court ruled, finding that SMUD violated its “obligations of confidentiality” under a data privacy statute." How hard is that to follow? Can the customers of SMUD sue them for privacy violations? Seems reasonable. And perhaps even find the upper management of SMUD be held criminally for the violation. Seems clearcut.

Feel free, let us know how that works out.

I think can be true, but as you say not usually in mature companies like Amazon. There was a rumor that the DRC verification program Calibre was the result of a in house skunkworks project that was not sanctioned by Mentor management. Of course it turned out to be such a fantastic product that it did very well. Very very well. Anyone know if that rumor was correct?

Unfortunately it will not work that way. Meta and the other AI co's will find a way to weasel out of their power commitments that they should be stuck with, IE they have to pay for that power they promised they'd consume. Because they won't pay, the power companies that spent the capital to build out power generation will need to be given rate increases to cover that cost. Power price = capital + operating cost. Power is heavily regulated and they get to recoup cost + profit.

I don't think unreasonable to be complaining. Here is an article from npr, https://www.tpr.org/education/... that shows current funding levels of around 12K/student. X20 students in a class and voila 240 grand for an average class for a full day. Teachers get around 60K, where exactly is the other 180 grand going? 3X for overhead seems a bit steep.

Yeah, I'm guessing the logo money went to a supporter of Watson, the mayor. The old stamp actually looked more official too. The new one looks like a theme park.

To be expected. Austin recently floated a property tax increase that was over the state limit, so had to get it voter approved. It was rejected, soundly, like 66% voted no. Which in Austin is surprising, because generally voters approve this stuff. But tone deaf council just doesn't see that tax rates in Austin are killing the middle class. 10K+ prop tax bills are kind of the norm without the increase. But the mayors response to the sound defeat was typical. It was, "We did not explain the increase correctly". Not we have to tighten the budget, not that maybe we spent some money we could have saved (like maybe the cool mil they dropped on a fucking new logo), but we didn't explain it right. This is exactly the sort of think this microsoft whack job is pushing. Users aren't understanding the tremendous value of AI. No the users get it. AI was overhyped and the balloon is deflating.

I think SA is throwing pasta at the wall now. They know the oil money will not last forever and their subjects live pretty well doing nothing. The monarchy is aware bored people with nothing to do and suddenly no money for basics after the oil runs dry is a recipe for uprising. So they have for several years now been looking for a way to make money post oil. This is another. The crown may hit paydirt on one idea and forestall a uprising. Or not.

When you play in someone else's playground, you play by their rules and their umpires.

I suspect they have squat, just a private version of the tax funded version. The key line is, " blend of the startup's fuel and technology with key structural components provided by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, one of the DOE's research and development laboratories." But now the venture fund wants some return on a IPO, so time for pressers extolling the value of the DOE^h^h^hValar technology.

I'm actually very good with faces. Like weirdly good. Conversely I am awful with names. If someone introduces me to someone, and they say this is Jerry, I've already lost the name. I started using a trick in meetings a sales guy showed me. Arrange biz cards in the same order as people at the meeting are seated. Of course it does mean I may have to rearrange them as the meeting progresses since I can't remember their name long enough to put them out initially. And now it doesn't work, what are biz cards?