No, sweeny does not believe in those freedoms. He believes in your freedom to give him money.

Specifically, Epic's financial interest here isn't their store. It's their engine. They want to sell ai features to developers. If you've ever heard Epic's pitch as to why you should use unreal, it's all presented in the form of having less employees do work. "Stop hiring shader developers, let the engine do it for you" "Stop hiring texture artists, let the engine do it for you"

Which, in and of itself isn't such a bad thing. But when the slop comes in, the quality goes down. And every damned one of us knows it. And he doesn't want us to know it, so his customers will pay for the new unreal features.

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).

It really does. They even pointed out the teen is dead, normally lawyers would just call them "the plaintiff". The humanity they are showing is already borderline no longer lawyer like.

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?

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.

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?

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.

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.

I think I've seen that in India before. I thought the USA claimed it was a first world country.

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.

[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.

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.

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.

It's mostly a contracting issue. Sometimes, if a customer wants full rights to all documentation and design details (or source code or whatever), they have to pay more. If they want exclusive full rights, they have to pay even more. This can be beneficial for some things, not so good for others. If you want to customize your ERP system (SAP or something like that), you'll generally bring in an outside company to do it. You could demand all the source code for everything they did and pay more for it, but if you don't have the necessary expertise on tap to make use of it, it's just throwing money out the window.

The taxpayers paid for the goods along with their research and development.

Not always. Companies do undertake their own research on their own dime, hoping to later sell it to government or other contractors. To take a simple example, a government that purchases a Cessna Citation jet for travel purposes is mostly buying off the shelf. They may customize it with their own communications gear, but they didn't pay for the R&D that went into it. Textron (owner of Cessna and part of RTX) paid for that and is making it up over time with sales of the jet.

A more complicated example is Anduril, which started developing families of weapons on its own and then started getting contracts to further the development process. How much of that should the government own, or at least get access to, if they didn't pay for it?

I agree that the government should be able to fix its own things through contractors of its choosing, and it should get access to all necessary design data. But it's still a contracting issue.

We have AI to summarize the AI slop articles.

I'm the same, always use a good credit card, but the occasional hassle is worth it. The prices are 1/10th the Amazon ones.