Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment Re:Standing? (Score 1) 108

> whereas normally you'd have to wait for the harm to happen to sue

False. You can file a suit for any reason at any time. You do not have to wait until any harm is done. This does not, of course, mean the judge has to accept your filing.

But in this case, the 'harm' is that they are slowing down development/improvement of a product you are paying for. If you buy into a service on the promise or reasonable expectation that the vendor of that service will continue to improve it, and then they declare that they will drag their feet, that's a type of harm because you're not getting what you reasonably expected to be getting for your money.

Ultimately it's up to the judge to decide if there's enough meat on that bone to proceed to the next phase, but it's enough to get the paperwork started.
=Smidge=

Comment Re: Oh Noes! (Score 2) 68

So stalking is constitutional, then?

'cause it's not just "recording in public" it's full tracking and profiling. Who you are, where you are, when you're there. A full record of your daily activities from the moment you walk out your front door to the moment you get home again.

If the government was doing this directly in the same manner as these corporations do (e.g. without a warrant) it would 100% be a violation of your constitutional rights. The fact that the government does it by proxy, letting a private corporation do all the dirty work for them, really does not change the fundamental complaint here.

=Smidge=

Comment Re: Rust designed to mitigate limitations found in (Score 1) 92

Frameworks have nothing to do with OO. Ask any javascript kiddie. And if you want to babble about "how computers really work" I presume you're programming them using front console toggle switches and an enter button? No? Didn't think so.

"I've worked on were big and complex mainly"

yeah, sure you have.

"you're a just noob that needs more experience before spouting your theories."

Son, I started out with punched cards. I was probably programming before your parents had even met so spare me your faux guru BS. You really need to go get a clue. OO makes a number of problems simple, so does declarative programming. Horses for courses. When you've got some actual experience instead of playing with you PC in your bedroom you might realise that.

Comment When I read AI tech discussions ... (Score 1, Informative) 108

... I know how my parents felt when I tried to explain programming too them. It all makes grammatical sense but the actual meaning eludes me.

Is it just me? Am I just getting old and heading for the get-off-my-lawn stage or are there any other people who like to think they're tech savvy but are totally confused by AI models and how they really work?

Comment Adversarial noise (Score 1) 64

There are methods to add noise patterns to audio that are imperceptible to humans but cause AI to go apeshit, such as misidentifying rock music as classical or transcribing speech as something completely different from what is said.

I wonder what the practicalities might be to deploy this form of attack in an area around you when having a conversation you with to keep private. Probably would not be inaudible when played through a speaker (unlike data implanted in audio recordings) but maybe masked? Listen to some music on your phone's loudspeaker at a modest volume and broadcast invisible noise that fills any eavesdropping AI's buffer with junk or even malicious payloads.
=Smidge=

Slashdot Top Deals

If you teach your children to like computers and to know how to gamble then they'll always be interested in something and won't come to no real harm.

Working...