This action has an equally important function: It's a political football to distract people with while Patriot Act 3.2 is being quietly passed.

She was applying for a divorce without telling her husband. Apparently the system allows a divorce to go through without him even having a say in it* so when the law firm accidentally pulled the trigger a week early there was no material difference. *Thanks, feminism, for all the single parent households. I'm sure those improperly parented children won't follow the well-documented statistics of becoming burdens on society.

heeehehahaBWAAAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ahh, I needed that, thanks. Up next, regulations to control something equally misunderstood. Let's do the environment!

"woke" is the descriptor for a hateful group of power hungry ninnies afraid of everything they can't control. They demand group control and ownership over culture and the attitude is being pushed by billionaires. They incidentally hate men, families, fatherhood, feminine sexuality, and anything standing in the way of female supremacy.

These days anyone can get a song out on the internet. The risk averse, money minded music industry heavy hitters can largely be ignored: the market is waiting for a company to make a huge collection of the people out there with real talent. It can be done by trolling the likes of Youtube for singers, poets, and musicians with large talent to views ratios. It will be immensely profitable.

It's also worth noting that even objectively terrible movie treatments (for example, Soylent Green's failure to represent the actual storyline of Harry Harrison's Make Room, Make Room, while also being cheesy and stupid, and Without Remorse's failure to even remotely resemble Tom Clancy's book, while also being... well, lame) didn't hurt those books.

Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son of a bitch in space!

Newton submissively begs scraps from Einstein's table, suh.

No. Leave the fucking books alone.

Protip: Just don't buy into new motion pictures based on books. Your problem, solved! Because as you probably will understand if you give it some thought, the existence of a first-time movie treatment of a book doesn't hurt the related book. Quite the contrary, most often.

For those of us who don't want to see yet another Roadhouse or Bladerunner or Poseidon or Total Recall — and for the authors — new motion pictures based on previously untreated stories are a good thing. At least once they're out on physical media. Movie theaters... [shudders] :)

Pretty much all tech we have today is entirely possible without burning fossile[sic] fuels

One of the apparent filters is simply that above a certain level of gravity, chemical rockets will not suffice to reach space. We're near the edge of that condition ourselves. Any number of civilizations might be out there, pinned against their planet's surfaces. The only way that's not true is if there are physics yet to be discovered that can accomplish surface-to-space in high gravity without using chemical rockets. We certainly haven't found any sign of such science/technology here. And fission or fusion powered rockets... the engineering for that is at least completely non-obvious thus far. And before anyone says "nukes against a pressure plate", yeah, a delightfully bang-y notion, but no.

The assumption made in the Fermi paradox that any civilization could reach space if they try may simply be wrong.

As there are so many wonderful books out there just begging for a motion picture treatment, Hollywood will oblige by... releasing more pointless, vapid remakes.

This is a law that will allow the federal government to take total control of AI forever

No. The tech is already out — this horse is so far out of the barn you'd need a passport and numerous border crossings to even find hoofprints.

Not only is such a law completely unable to regulate GPT/LLM/generative software in the USA's non-commercial software ecosphere, it can have no effect across national borders and you may be absolutely certain that other state actors will simply smile and wave at such ideas (for that matter, you may be certain that the US intelligence apparatus will do the same.)

At home or cloud-based? It is either-or.

Exactly. These marketing twerps no longer know WTF the words they use even mean. If they ever did. Also, using "secure" in the same context with "the cloud"... that's a similar bit of nonsense. When your data leaves your hands, even just crossing the Internet, it's no longer secure. One party can keep a secret. Anything else... can very quickly become not a secret. As we have seen many times. And of course, we should never forget about this.

> MacOS Sonoma 14.4.1.

Running Ventura 13.3.1 here. Perhaps that's it.

Thanks. I'll consider upgrading after I surf the "bugs in Sonoma" stuff.

Read up on it. All claims as to feature sizes below 25nm are lies. Weaseling with the word "x size process" does not change this fact. Or you can stay ignorant, no skin off my back.

No, I'm saying that if the 9th limits anything with respect to this situation, it's not the corporations. And you seem to have mistaken my comment on the constitution's limitations as a comment on Congress's limitations. The constitution does not say anything about what corporations may do. I'm not sure how I can make this any clearer.

The constitution limits the government. Limiting the power of corporations exceeds its scope. It could be within the constitution to limit what the government knows about you, but the 9th tends to limit the government's ability to limit corporations.