Comment Re:Nooooo! (Score 1) 33
I'd say don't give him any ideas, but republicans have already suggested it, and after demolishing the east wing, all bets are off. He's just meglomanical enough to try.
Comment Re:No problem with the Pentagon, though (Score 4, Insightful) 40
Israel should be able to do war crimes because america does war crimes is lizard brain logic. both countries need to cut it out.
Comment Re:So Trump is planning to run for a third term (Score 0) 64
Canada didn't kick the crazy people out of the party. Carney put them in his cabinet.
Comment Re:Can we please cut Russia off the entire Interne (Score 2) 47
If the recent change to Twitter which put location on user profiles is anything to go by, most of the troll farms seem to be in India and Pakistan.
Submission + - US probes reports Waymo self-driving cars illegally passed school buses 19 times
Submission + - Microsoft faces new complaint for allegedly aiding Israeli war crimes in Gaza (aljazeera.com)
Alain Williams writes: The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has announced it filed a complaint against Microsoft, accusing the global tech giant of unlawfully processing data on behalf of the Israeli military and facilitating the killings of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
In the complaint, the council asked the Data Protection Commission – the European Union’s lead data regulator for the company – to “urgently investigate” Microsoft Ireland’s processing.
“Microsoft’s technology has put millions of Palestinians in danger. These are not abstract data-protection failures — they are violations that have enabled real-world violence,” Joe O’Brien, ICCL’s executive director, said in a statement.
“When EU infrastructure is used to enable surveillance and targeting, the Irish Data Protection Commission must step in — and it must use its full powers to hold Microsoft to account.”
After months of complaints from rights groups and Microsoft whistleblowers, the company said in September it cancelled some services to the Israeli military over concerns that it was violating Microsoft’s terms of service by using cloud computing software to spy on millions of Palestinians.
In the complaint, the council asked the Data Protection Commission – the European Union’s lead data regulator for the company – to “urgently investigate” Microsoft Ireland’s processing.
“Microsoft’s technology has put millions of Palestinians in danger. These are not abstract data-protection failures — they are violations that have enabled real-world violence,” Joe O’Brien, ICCL’s executive director, said in a statement.
“When EU infrastructure is used to enable surveillance and targeting, the Irish Data Protection Commission must step in — and it must use its full powers to hold Microsoft to account.”
After months of complaints from rights groups and Microsoft whistleblowers, the company said in September it cancelled some services to the Israeli military over concerns that it was violating Microsoft’s terms of service by using cloud computing software to spy on millions of Palestinians.
Comment That explains it ? (Score 1) 87
I ordered a single run of the mill 16Gb SoDimm DDR4 to upgrade a laptop 2 weeks ago. After a week the order was showing delivery in... april 2026 !!! I canceled the order and ordered from somewhere a bit more efficient. I dunno if that's related as AI uses top of the line ECC DDR5 in banks way bigger than 16Gb... But if so that's fucking dumb.
Comment 'Poaches'....Apple apparently happy about this (Score 4, Interesting) 30
Should you choose to believe the gossip, this is apparently being seen as a good thing amongst Apple's staff.
Seems to be a case of the Gene Wilder's Wonka scene "oh no, stop!" while doing nothing to actually stop it.
Seems to be a case of the Gene Wilder's Wonka scene "oh no, stop!" while doing nothing to actually stop it.
Comment Re: Has Climate Doom Modeling Turned Into Clickbai (Score 1) 128
Sorry - as a full-blown human-caused climate change believer, I am also old enough to remember being told that we were in an inter-ice age era and that it would end in my lifetime. I'm in the UK, and I clearly remember a school textbook with drawn pictures of Trafalgar Square fully iced up. This would be early 80s.
Let's not deny that bad information has been given in the past. Bad information is also likely being given today, and will be tomorrow as well. Mistakes happen. I like that this paper has been caught and do not in any way see it as a problem.
Let's not deny that bad information has been given in the past. Bad information is also likely being given today, and will be tomorrow as well. Mistakes happen. I like that this paper has been caught and do not in any way see it as a problem.
Submission + - European Union May Not Ban Combustion Cars After All (caranddriver.com)
sinij writes:
The European Union's plan to ban new combustion cars starting in 2035 may be over before it has a chance to go into effect, if Germany's leader has anything to say about it.
2035 target was simply infeasible with current technology. While some promising new developments, like solid state batteries, are being worked on, they are not yet ready for mass production.
Comment I'm already playing x86 games on ARM (Score 4, Informative) 41
I'm seeing a lot of scepticism in the posts, whereas in fact this approach works really well. I'm going to use the example of the Mac - Rosetta 2. I play games running x86 code all the time on my M2 ARM chip, and it's not really noticeable at all. Taking exactly the same approach and applying it to Linux - yep, why on earth not? Already proven to work well.
Comment Re:Anti-features (Score 1) 32
Maybe I'm just a weirdo but I am very annoyed at them for trying to take away the option of local-only accounts. Why do I need to let them be a third party to everything I do starting with logging in? Nobody asked for this.
At this stage, the best way forward is to apply the "Debian" patch to your system to restore local accounts, and strip out the all the daft AI guff
Comment Re:It's a Bold Strategy (Score -1, Troll) 106
This is bizarre, not to mention terribly Boomerish.
They could say no. No-one is stopping them.
They won't because they care more about money than their long-term customers.
This is why such people shouldn't be in positions of power. And won't be in the society that arises from the collapse of this one because we'll be damn sure to drum into the survivors that the merchant caste can never, ever be put in control again.
Comment Re:It's a Bold Strategy (Score 1) 106
You Can Just Say No.
The only people who believe they have no choice are the ones who chase money at any cost. This is why such people should never be in positions of power.
I'm just glad we upgraded all our PCs over the last few years before the "AI" scam wrecked the computer business.
Comment You know that Competency Crisis we talk about? (Score 2) 39
Well, this is it.
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