Obviously billing errors are bad; but it seems like ones that off by an egregious number of powers of ten should concern us much less than ones that are small enough to be within the realm of plausible; those are the ones that you'll need to fight over and quite possibly not even win if you are an edge case or dealing with one of the services/configurations where you don't necessarily have any independent measure of usage. You can probably tell that you didn't use a VM more than 720 hours in the last 30 days; but are you actually counting GET requests in some way that is both authoritative and cheaper than just paying the $0.0004/thousand rather than hoping that Amazon will charge you correctly? For some very buttoned up buckets that only your other stuff accesses, quite possibly you can infer from those systems; but if it's something public facing and it might be a billing error or maybe you just got crawled hard last month?

Realbotix's classroom robot has drawn scrutiny because the company is connected to RealDoll, the longtime maker of hyperrealistic sex dolls and sex robots. Realbotix acquired RealDoll's parent company in 2024 but says the education-focused operation has separate employees, payroll, facilities, and technology, with plans to formally separate the businesses at the ownership level.

The "companion robots" are different from sex robots and intended to address what it's described as a "loneliness epidemic." Kiguel has previously said the company's goal is to produce robots and AI that are "indistinguishable from humans."

I'm not surprised surprised or anything; but it seems like a serious problem that it's the 'maker of high-end sex toys' part; rather than the 'attempting to replace education and human interaction with chatbots' part that has the company embroiled in controversy. Real Dolls are certainly pretty niche; a lot of additional inconvenience and cost for modest gains vs. vastly cheaper and more accessible local stimulation tools; but using tools as stimulation tools seems considerably less weird than using them as friends or fobbing children off on them.

Dear child rape enthusiasts still supporting Donald Trump, please die immediately. Thank you.

Yeah, but you support trump, so we know you don't actually care about sexual anything. You're pro child rape.

It was a nice theory but it didn't pan out.

The design you're talking about is 250 years old. It's antique. Notably, the technology of legal language has come very far since. The constitution leaves many questions unanswered to the extent that today any fucking video game EULA is at least ten times more determinate.

It's not productive to use "retard" as an insult.

I propose using "rapeublican" instead.

It's a pragmatic FINANCIAL decision. Five of the top funders of the Linux foundation are hawking LLMs. Linus is typically compromised by the usual capitalistic conflict of interest.

Instead we eventually hired someone who has only read Hitler's book to run our country

We already have, from a leadership perspective anyway

Of course he does. Corporations have made him wealthy. Wealthy people can afford not to have human-centric principles.

America will retake the lead in AI the same way we did with EVs: Just ban the ones from China. Problem solved.

The child who mods down three of my posts in a row every time they get mod points has them again.

If the people who run this site wanted to reduce mod abuse they could do it any time, but they don't want to.

They only want us arguing about stupid shit that doesn't matter to increase the page count so they can show ads for shitlords to morons who haven't figured out how to block them yet.

Remember when this site had benevolent management? Those were the days.

There's a brigade of idiots who are mad that other people know more than they do collecting an apparent majority of modpoints on Slashdot. The design of this site's moderation system can't survive malice, it's pathetic.

If you're deleting any information you think might be requested later as part of a legal case, that is destroying evidence.

No surprise that pro-Trump Apple is pro slavery. They literally see those prior employees as their property.