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Comment Personal time (Score 2) 282

I don't think we've adequately explored the possibilities of individual time zones. Each of us carries a pocket computer, which can be tuned to whatever zone we wish to be ours. Shoulder-mounted high intensity LEDs could allow us to establish a personal zone of daylight around us at a time of our own choosing. Biphasic sleep? No problem! And of course VR goggles with a good light seal could ensure personal night as well, with the added bonus of a great view of the Milky Way even in the most light-polluted of cities.
I suppose the goggles would have to be peril-sensitive as well, given possible objections of any nearby luddites to my light cannons at 03:00.

Comment *flation (Score 1) 161

by BenBoy (#66356144) Attached to: McDonald's Reportedly Using AI to 'Dynamically' Price Its Burgers

Rolling this around in my head a bit -- what's the difference between this and calculating that a given customer will put up with a smaller serving of fries, or a burger with the lettuce 'accidentally' left out. Or one of the 'grade b' patties? Diminishing the quality of the meal, or the size, based on what a customer would tolerate, according to an algorithm? Or how long they'd wait before their meal's brought out? Dynamic quality. Dynamic service.

FWIW, I think Amazon is A/B testing me this way. I've cancelled late orders, and the next one has arrived pronto, without Prime.

Submission + - NYT: Civilization underpinned by a Faberge Egg

Submitted by BenBoy
BenBoy writes: NYT discusses the ease with which the US could be rendered literally powerless for a year or more:

“If you knock out nine total substations among those three grids, you can black out the entire United States.” According to Wellinghoff, which nine substations were taken offline didn’t matter as long as each one was among the 10 most important in its region, and you could black out the three interconnections individually as well: “I mean, it’s not like there are particular substations. You just have to figure out what are the top 10 critical ones in each of those interconnects. Which, to do that, it’s probably something that a bunch of 12-year-olds with the internet could do pretty easily. All you have to do is look at a map of the grid and figure out where most of the wires go into the substations — that’s a critical substation.”

Comment Watermark erasure (Score 1) 90

My understanding is that the system in question is a statistical 'choice of synonym' algorithm. I'm a little surprised we're not hearing about synonym randomization using local llm's to 'wash away' watermarks like this and ... Oh ... never mind â" https://github.com/guillaumeme....

Em dash intentional :-)

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