I wonder if my phone really does turn off completely when I tell it to. I shall find out, I suppose.
{^_^}

Now try to collect.
{o.o}

We've a long history using facial recognition. Human brains do this all the time with somewhat questionable accuracy. People have been picked up, tried, and convicted based on facial recognition. Usually, it appears, we get it right. But, a very significant percentages of all such events are sad mistakes.

Within my life time the wanted poster with photographs of criminals appeared. And organic facial recognition leapt to the fore - and fell on its face again, perhaps a few percentage points less often.

As best I can tell digital facial recognition is significantly better than organic facial recognition; but, it is also not nearly perfect. We keep stopping development. Is this because of the latent criminal within us that figures, "I might no longer be able to get away with it!" Maybe that is why the digital facial recognition creeps me out a bit. But, when I think about it the organic based facial recognition REALLY creeps me out.

No matter what kind of facial recognition is used, other substantive evidence must also exist before any conviction (or exoneration) can take place. Yeah, if you are in California and picked up because you resemble somebody accused of killing somebody else based on organic facial recognition, the facial recognition in Columbus, Ohio that shows you were at a specific street corner at precisely the time the killing took place can clear you. Maybe we can achieve the huge leap of extracting this argument from the realm of emotions to the realm of logic, risks, and rewards. Or is that another thing that is "Probability Zero?"

{^_^}

OK, presume for a moment that we have an apartment owner with a spare bedroom. The owner is a very trim and attractive woman in her late 20s. She wants to rent out her spare bedroom. She advertises, if she can, for a female tenant. Bluto turns up at her door for "her" rental. Yes, Bluto, a 6' 350# bearded monster, identifies as a female.

I don't like where this is leading me so I'll leave it to your imagination.

{O.O}

I was one of the victims on BIX when a person lost his mental wheels and started posting hate from fake accounts opened with "hacked" credit cards. I was told I'd be cut up and fed to his dog after being raped with his knife. I'm more stubborn about this than stupid for sticking around to help catch the critter. He end, as it turns out, was at his own hands after he lost his Korean wife and work visa in the US over a pattern of credit card abuse. He was brought down by the Secret Service treasury people not the FBI or anybody else. There were no other laws they could apply.

This story's conclusion leaves an unbelievably warm feeling in me. That bastard earned far more than a mere 15 years as far as I am concerned. This kind of thing really changes your life even if the perp commits suicide a few years later. I've lived 38 years wondering when and how the world would poop on me again. I wish I could have lived with a brighter outlook on life.

{o.o}

At the end of April I received letters and phone calls from Frontier, our POTS service incumbent, loudly proclaiming fiber was now available. It appears that this is not (yet) true for me through at least today, August 28. It seems engineering had to become involved to actually run fiber to our home. We're an island, it seems, in the middle of our nearly 200k population city, a mile walk or so to City Hall. Everybody around our property has the necessary fiber to which they can connect service. We don't. After two restarts we find ourselves paying for 1G fiber, paying for phone service over fiber, and the idiots have already disconnected our wire service so we are paying Frontier for receiving NOTHING other than hopes and promises.

Then they have the sublime gall to send "How did we do?" emails - for doing a net disservice. No, Frontier, I won't recommend you. I'll recommend T-Mobile Internet, even though it is less than stellar as a performer for us.

{^_^}

When do we start openly and loudly condemning China for its rampant pollution, more than the developed world in total? That brings up another question. When are we going to quit letting China get away with calling itself a developing nation so that it gets all the financial and climate change perks afforded developing nations?

Until China is forced to consider climate change I ain't gonna make any changes on my part. It is just not worth it.

{+_+}

There is a pesky detail that should be addressed. Obviously they will need thousands upon thousands of new charging stations. Alas, they share a problem with California in this regard. Those charging stations need thousands upon thousands of megawatts of electricity that is nowhere in sight, especially for the poor sods stuck recharging at night.

Where is the power gonna come from?

{O.O}

Next we will have Windows Bob-GPT. Oh the shame!
{O.O}

So the BATF can become the BATFA with AI tacked onto its enforcement portfolio. Let's see if they have any better luck regulating illegal AI than they have had making illegal guns disappear.

{^_-} (Well, I wish i could wink and consider that humor....)

some of the problems companies and the CCP have been having with their AI models is keeping them properly politically correct and in line with the company's politics.

{O.O}

to repair Windows 11?
{O.O}

As somebody near the end of my 8th decade I've watched this trend developing in way too many of our schools. Students are taught to spout the current religion of Woke or more generically "Riot" and much less how to think. This has been very obvious with the current feeling among students that, "I gotta go to college to get a decent life and income at any expense." To a certain degree even back when I spent money on college for my masters degree in electronics I could work the math and see I was actually not really going to have lifetime earnings much if any above that of people who left school to work in the skilled trades. I'd ask my college mates who were studying things like English or history, where are you going to find a job using what you are learning? I got dumb founded looks and lots of babble. And NOW students are being fed college level classes in racial dynamics or equity or sexual performance. They have no place to go to use their education, So they have spent a lot of good money to lose 4 or more years of income potential, at a higher wage than they can get from an employer.

Too many of our schools are not teaching students how to generate a new proof for the Pythagorean relationship. They are teaching students how to have no saleable skills, how to freeze their brains into little balls of hatred, how to be dumb. And, yes, IQ responds to education.

Yes, given that I think I'd be rioting, too. I hope I'd have been smart enough to go after the people who screwed me, the schools and Marxist role models, rather than innocents.

{^_^}

Maybe not - but, it appears that the lipids used in mRNA vaccines may be implicated in the vaccines payloads appearing all over the body in manners that cause severe life threatening and life taking side effects. They also deliver the active ingredient to the wrong portion of the immune system for respiratory diseases. A nasal spray version MIGHT work; but, that places the lipids very close to that unnecessary organ, as some people seem to feel, the brain.

Let's not rush this mRNA thing too much. It shows promise. And it shows staggeringly bad side effects. And we're only beginning to learn just how wide spread this is. Don't stop. Conversely, don't go rushing in as we did with Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

{^_^}

The results of the study are interesting, most interesting to somebody whose story is just about completely written. Rather than looking at only how much longer the mice lived how about also looking at how the mice died. Did they die of heart problems, advanced feebleness, cancer, or other things. That may give a clue for what to watch for when studying it in humans.

Meanwhile, gimme some. I have little to lose at this point.

{^_^}