My wife was complaining about the collision warning in my car constantly going off. "Then quit tailgating," I told her. "I'M NOT TAILGATING!" Honey, I love you dearly, but I can read the 1" square expiration tag on the plate of the car in front of us. You certainly are tailgating.

On the other hand, it is a very stupid system. If I'm driving on the inside of a gentle curve it will think an oncoming car is an imminent collision. No car in front of me for miles, and I'm dead center in the lane, it just can't tell the the road is curving slightly and it thinks a car headed the other direction in their lane is headed right towards me. Good thing it's only a chime and doesn't actually hit the brakes. The car is 10 years old, I certainly hope the sensor technology has improved since it was made.

The TSA itself poses significant threats to our privacy and civil liberties, and Congress should prohibit it.

After 20+ years of invasive pat-downs, millimeter wave scanners that see through clothing, and needing picture ID to fly... NOW they have concerns about privacy and civil liberties? Must be an election year. I expect they'll give this the same lip service they've given it during every other election year since 2001, and promptly forget about it after November.

The ban is stupid, and that is the point. DeSantis wants to run for president in 2028 and feels he needs to out-stupid the other candidates.

Yup. The message here isn't about meat or insects. Those are merely the delivery mechanisms to get the message to your brain. The message is in two parts. (A) The bogeymen ("global elites", whoever they are) are coming; and (B) DeSantis is the only one who can stop them. Whether it's global elites coming for your meat, leftists coming for your gas stoves, or drag queens coming for your children, the Republicans are your only hope. Only they can save you from all the horrors they've pulled out of their collective ass.

My first thought at the headline was "They're developing some licensing scheme for law enforcement that will be *MUCH* more expensive."

Agreed. That was my first thought too. My second thought was that they're saying, "Don't use the public interface! It logs everything. Here, use this special LEO interface that doesn't leave a paper trail."

reducing harmful outputs and promoting safety

But why would I want to use a hamstrung AI?

Google Urges US To Update Immigration Rules To Hire Cheaper Labor, Using FUD To Threaten A ${buzzword} Gap If Denied

FTFY. HTH. HAND.

Even if they could extend life for hundreds of years it would be terrible for society. Usually the only relief people get from dictators or business moguls is they eventually have to die. Society would stagnate as people clung to wealth and positions seemingly forever.

"How would you ever get rid of a poor leader? I mean, what if ants lived *thousands* of days? We'd be stuck with a bad queen seemingly forever!"

My point is that "seemingly forever" is very subjective, and I have no confidence that the lifespan of a 21st century human is the ideal lifespan to maximize societal good. If our lifespan was 10 years, 100 years would seem to be forever. If our lifespan was 1000 years, 100 years would barely be getting started. As long as the average human lifespan is changed for everyone I think "bad leaders won't die off" or "society would stagnate" aren't valid arguments.

What would be a problem is overpopulation and lack of resources. If you double human lifespan you have to halve the birthrate. We're arguably already reproducing faster than is sustainable.

Maybe Logan's Run had it right. Let's work on medical science keeping us healthy and fit until some defined cut-off age. Once you've had your allotment of years, into the Carousel with you. Renew! Renew!

It's all because of "woke", huh? That's funny, I could have sworn the problem lay with the right-wing Christian theocrat-wannabes who are afraid of two dudes in bed together lest the viewer get an un-Godlike stiffie. Bondage and anything else other than man-on-top-woman-on-bottom-get-it-over-with-quick gets shut down because sex for pleasure is sinful.

But if you want to keep making "woke" your bogeyman, go for it.

That's the problem. I bet this will be applied to law enforcement to "zoom and enhance" like all the best crime dramas do. But remember, the enhanced details aren't really there. They're merely plausible fiction based on the information that is available, they're not adding any new information. People will see blurry security camera footage of a crime. The enhanced version will show a weapon where there is none, or no weapon when one was used. Detail will be added to faces that will make them look like one suspect or the other, leading to convictions based on plausible but not real extrapolations.

This is a great technology for certain uses. Cleaning up old movies or TV shows, for instance. It's great if you want something that is believable when it doesn't matter whether or not the details are entirely accurate. It's horrible if you expect the extrapolated details to provide new factual information.

I'd really love to see some samples that were filmed in high res, downgraded to be blurry, then upscaled by the AI. How do the original high res images compare to the generated ones?

I use Linux servers all the time, but not the desktop. I'm not terribly familiar with Wayland. But I'm curious about what you say about "remote desktop capability". IMHO, that was the one *huge* benefit of X11. Remote capability was granular down to the window. Every X11 program was capable of putting its display on a remote machine. You didn't have to export the whole desktop, and you didn't end up with an add-on program (a la VNC) that just bit-copied the whole screen elsewhere. Remote displays were a first-class feature of X. Some lab equipment, like logic analyzers and oscilloscopes even supported X giving a simple way to interact with the device directly from your computer. It was OS-agnostic, too, and you could get X servers for Linux, Windows, Mac, Solaris, and pretty much anything else that had aspirations of being a desktop OS.

As I said, I'm not too familiar with Wayland. The Wayland FAQ suggests that you need add-on programs for remote support, and I think then you only get full desktop replication. Am I reading that correctly?

X had its share of shortcomings and was showing its age even 20 years ago when I last used it in earnest. But I *loved* this particular feature and I sorely miss it today.

The only thing the moon offers that's better is for resupply or emergency scenarios, Earth is just a hop and a skip away.

Which is exactly what you want for prototyping. Work out the kinks close by where you can iterate designs quickly and have near real-time conversations with legions of engineers back on Earth. Then you can take all that experience and build something that has to work the first time and takes months or years to resupply.

So yes, Mars is a better colony location, but the Moon is a better testbed.