The two studies aren't very representative of what I consider mainstream users. Both studies appear to be run on a Mac Mini running Firefox 146 (current version is 155). CPU and memory usage appear to be more dependent on the OS than the individual browsers. Very little data is available for Brave Desktop on Windows, or Brave for Android on mobile devices.

Claiming a program needs a specific amount of memory for their tests also seems OS dependent. My running copy of Firefox with multiple tabs and private windows is only using half of the claimed 1.65GB for Firefox (847MB). Open windows in Amazon, Slashdot, and Google don't need the memory amount their tests claim is needed for their test page.

Granted, I am running both uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger so some of my memory usage might be reduced by those tracking and ad blockers, but I think most users of any browser will have installed similar blocking software when available.

If their claim is the built-in blocking features of Brave are better than the clean installed versions of Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, then the test results should be a little more specific about their conclusion.

Critically short career fields have Selective Reenlistment Bonuses (SRB). Those careers that are critically undermanned, have extremely long training programs, or require unique skills (SEALs, submarine nuclear technicians, cybersecurity, critical language linguists, etc.) will pay bonuses to entice members to reenlist.

The bonus is calculated by the member's monthly base pay x number of years reenlisting x SRB multiplier. An E-5 earning $4000 a month that reenlists for 6 years in a career field with an SRB multiplier of 3 could receive a SRB bonus of $72,000. This bonus is paid with 50% at the reenlistment and the remaining partial percentage paid each year. Reenlisting for 6 years would give 50% at signing, then 12.5% at year 2,3,4,5.

SRB bonuses are normally highest at the first reenlistment time frame. Members that reenlist for 6 years to get the maximum bonus are usually advance to the 10 year point in their career and at that point most of them will normally continue to the 20 year retirement without needing an added incentive. A critical career with a SRB multiple of 3 during the windows of 4-6 years might drop to an SRB bonus multiple of 1, 0.5, or 0 for years after 8.

True, in fact it might give a word-for-word translation round trip, which would defeat the purpose of trying to get rid of the watermarked phrasing.

Without knowing exactly which phrase in a 10-ish page document is the watermarked phrase, you would have to hope the translating round trip would remove or modify the phrase without introducing translation or logical errors. Overall I don't think using Google translate would be as helpful as he hoped.

In RADAR the transmitting and receiving systems are controlled by the same system. That system determines when to transmit and when to listen with time of flight giving the range and directional antennas giving rough angle to the reflection.

In this technique, the WiFi transmitters are always transmitting and the receivers are trying to gather information from the interference caused by people obstructing the signal. Imagine having fairly powerful lights at one end of a room and a translucent sheet blocking the middle of the room. This technique is trying to resolve individuals based on their shadows on the translucent sheet. Different WiFi transmitters will be beamforming toward and adjacent to people and the receivers are trying to resolve two or three similar shadows into a composite associated with a unique individual.

The Outer Space Treaty was signed almost 60 years ago and covers many of these concerns.

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Depending on the language you choose, that's probably not going to work as well as you assume.

Random sample from the web:
Electric cars are the future in the auto industry. As climate change gets worse, governments are going to start
limiting the number of gasoline cars being built. The cost of gas will continue to rise, which will make it harder for
people to afford to run gas powered cars. As battery technology improves, electric cars will be able to travel
further on a charge and cost less to buy. Eventually most gas powered cars will be replaced by electric cars.

Translated to Japanese and back. Other languages will give different round trip translations:
Electric vehicles are a future for the automobile industry. As technology advances, national governments will begin to drastically
reduce the production of gasoline vehicles. Gasoline cars will continue to improve, and gasoline cars will become more readily available.
Electric vehicles, which do not require a battery technology factory, will be able to operate more efficiently with just one battery,
and their cost will also decrease. In short, most gasoline cars are no different from electric vehicles.

You are correct - sending the original text through Google Translate will most definitely get rid of AI watermarks. It will also get rid of any meaningful information compared to the original text.

My version of MS Office 2016 doesn't give any alert when I open a sample copy of a .odt file, other than the standard yellow bar at the top stating it was downloaded from the web and is opening in read-only mode until I select to switch to editing mode. I can also save any file in .odt using Office 2016.

I can't verify what happens with the newer O365 versions because I refuse to "rent" my software from MS.

ODT is an open standard. If you open the file in a text editor you will see the first two letters are PK (RIP Phil Katz) Microsoft's .docx also starts with PK. Both are compressed zip files that contain the actual document, images, markup, etc. in specified folders, according to the open standards. Try opening either a .odt or .docx using 7zip to see the internal format.

Wow! You know you wouldn't have to ASSUME anything if you would just RTFA!

The actual problem is we, the people, have not yet decided if mass recording and storage of identifiable images should be illegal. The people must decide if they wish to enact laws that prohibit this activity and create laws to prevent it. This means we need to let our local representatives know we want to restrict this mass surveillance and storage of our whereabouts. They write the bills and if enough people support it, it passes and becomes law.

Without a law to prevent it, these companies will attempt to generate income from anything not yet illegal. If we feel strongly enough, we need to create these laws to stop it. Many cities and states are writing laws that prevent capturing information, limit how long the data is saved, or who can query the data. The laws in Boston, Boise, and Barstow will very different depending on the amount of public pushback each location generates.

I remember when you were finally allowed to connect your own phone handsets to your phone line, but you had to contact the phone company and give them the Ringer Equivalence Number (REN) printed on the bottom of the phone. Because the power to ring the bell in the phone came from the phone line, the phone company needed to know if your total REN was above 5 so they could supply more power on your line.

As more phones started using electronic ring sounds instead of mechanical bells, the whole REN reporting disappeared. As homes transitioned to multi-handset cordless phones, the whole line-powered phone was forgotten.

While I would love to grouse about how this is the result of corruption or incompetence, I don't see this problem as surprising. It's like the army fielding a new close combat battle rifle and then complaining about all the ammunition the army is firing.

The modern battlefield is changing. We saw a similar shift in the 1980s when electronics went from tubes to discrete components to integrated circuits and then microprocessors. The war in Ukraine has shown how drones have become integral to the battlefield. Using AI for planning, image analysis, pattern analysis, and tactical analysis is something the military is just getting a handle on. Getting the ground troops familiar with how AI can enhance or reduce their workload is something that is going to take familiarization and experimentation to find what helps, what is noise, and what is hallucinations. It's hard to categorize something as normal or abnormal if you've only used a tool twice.

The thing I find interesting is they still show how to secure and release a seatbelt. When the safety briefings began in 1952, it was not all that common for cars to have seatbelts, so explaining back then how they work made sense. Seatbelts were not federally required equipment in cars until 1968 and more years away from common usage. I didn't start consistently wearing seatbelts until they started checking for them at entry checkpoints in the 1980s.

I can understand the logic in pointing out where the nearest exit is, explaining that floor lights will pulse to show you the route to the nearest exit, how to start oxygen flowing if the masks drop from the overhead panels, but explaining how to secure and release a seatbelt seems like something that is now common knowledge.

There are two quick ways to turn manage Device Installation Settings on Home editions:

Almost all Group Policy settings can be configured by manually changing or adding registry values.

A user that logs into Windows with an organizational account does not have a Microsoft user account. The backup data itself is stored in the enterprise's domain, and the feature does not support cross-tenant migration. Cloud PCs are also not yet supported.

All this "backup" tool does is enumerate the installed programs that came from the Microsoft store so provisioning a new computer or creating a new profile on an existing computer offers the user the option of installing the previous set of listed programs from the Microsoft store. It does not backup program settings or program data. The same process could be accomplished in AD group settings, but not admins configure individual or group provisioning settings.

I see this as a tool for busy AD admins that haven't spent the time to pre-configure deployment settings. It also has absolutely no impact on home users.

Good point. I had seen some interest rates on private loans that were above 15% but I see now that is not common.

I've seen both opinions championed. Jump into a four-year degree using student loans and plan on getting a job capable of paying the debt in a reasonable time frame, or working and stretching a degree to six years with no debt. Both have advantages and the choice heavily depends on the demand for the job your degree supports.