On the other hand, copy&paste from StackOverflow rarely ever works right away and forces the coder to study it, and figure out how to make it. We laugh at the ones that did manage to copy & paste something together but I suspect those cases are not that common.
But with AI you get code that right of the bat works. That doesn't mean it works right but that allows for a lot more damage.And it's atractive to use as you don't get flamed for infractions like posting a question that has been asked before.

You're confusing "headline" with "article." The latter explains things if the editors do their job; the headline should tell you if the article is worth reading or not, not be the article.

>I can't even figure out how you would cheat at chess. You move a piece, and anyone can see what you did.

The same can be said for bringing a dictionary to a spelling bee. The words are there and anyone can see what you spelled

Human chess players, even grand masters, are human. They make mistakes, they regularly play sub-optimal moves. Skilled players can even recognize a style in well-known players games.

Computers, on the other hand, will always play the (according to their algorithm) optimal move. Of course the exact algorithm differs from program to program but most algorithms ("engines") are interchangeable and it's relatively easy to feed an existing game to a computer and see what moves the various engines would come up with for both sides. Even for a champion like Magnus Carlsen you'll see many deviations from what the computer picks.

So, what to think of a player who consistently picks moves one of the (better) chess engines picks? One or two moves, in a position with no other options perhaps. Five, six moves? Unlikely. A dozen? Very improbable. This is where claims like "statistically extremely likely cheating" come from. Apparently there are scores of games where Niemann played like a computer, and the most obvious explanation for that anomaly is that he played with a computer. And that's cheating.

The article claims that the “standing theory” is that the rings are a leftover from the forming of the solar system. That is new to me and most readers here, as we all obviously thought that “splintered moon” was the prevailing theory.

What I gather from the article is that there's a certain lack of resonance between Saturn and Neptune that was expected but isn't there, and that this moon was instrumental in maintaining it until Titan kicked its orbit out of place. Since it happened so recently, no new Neptune equilibrium has been established. That's all theory of course but it does strengthen the Splintered Moon theory.

Exactly!
"The construction of new manufacturing facilities in the US has soared 116% over the past year"
Seems to me that 116% of nothing is still nothing. Trade balance dropping or at least domestic production rising faster than import of foreign goods US Production is mainly goods that are so capital intensive that labor costs are not relevant, or production that can be so automated that shipping outpaces limited labor cost.

A true turn-around would be a massive resurgence of the production of FMCG in the US and there's a reason the article doesn't mention that.

Unlikely. By the time you have a vessel that's decrepit enough to qualify for such a scenario it's unlikely that it can sail autonomous as its engine will require continuous T&C to make that final trip. Not to mention that retrofitting remote control on such a ship just before its final voyage is going to look suspicious.

It's safe to expect the following:

• Not participating? Expect to get pulled over. a lot
• A few years from now, the program will be extended to indoor cameras. And again, not participating will be very, very suspicious
• Of course, the system will be used to keep cops honest as well; you can request footage from any interaction with an officer. It just happens that the fragment you requested mysteriously disappeared from the server.

I actually have a "Tile" and it works quite nicely.

I also have an iPhone and witnessed how at one point a full charge got sucked dry within an hour. There are some apps for which location tracking and bluetooth is useful. There are some apps for which it is not, but they do it anyway because god forbid they have some need for a location fix when you activate them they'd better have it ready now and not after two seconds.

Even without nefarious purposes the continuous use of battery-power sucking hardware services on the phone can literally be a real drain and I'm glad Apple offers a way to put an end to that; and you can simply turn it back on for Tile, if needed.

Their complaint should be towards their fellow app-developers who made it necessary for Apple to implement such a setting and claiming that Apple is doing this to thwart Tile is truly pathetic.

Don't underestimate the flat earthers. By their own words, they are a global movement.

You canâ(TM)t make a deposit without using a bank pass. Wouldnâ(TM)t they start with the person associated with that? If this was a stolen pass, why wasnâ(TM)t it blocked? It sounds to me that the bank didnâ(TM)t really look into it.

You are absolutely correct! Visit a maritime website like gcaptain.com and you'll see that the process is well understood. Wet bulk cargo, people who make the decision to load it anyway and don't have to deal with the consequences... There's no mystery. Just greed and the wrong people paying for it with their lives.

Looking at the video, I donâ(TM)t think âoeit got ripped off its base,â instead, the base got ripped out of the ground. Thereâ(TM)s a clear, smooth piece of concrete sticking at the bottom of the turbine.
Sizewise that matches the foundation Iâ(TM)ve seen in other âoehow wind turbines are builtâ type videos and I was always in shock over how tiny these bases were, and amazed that they were sufficient. Apparently they are not.

What struck me was the fact that it was the relatives they got the genetic data from. It doesn't matter that you carefully avoid submitting your DNA to ancestry sites (or other DNA sampling sites); if your family does, you can still be traced.

Of course there's the mandatory but what about the children retort, but as others pointed out... today is murder and rape. Tomorrow it's watching kinky pr0n. And next week it's protesting fascists.

And yes, the same technology can be used to prove someone is innocent in jail. Pray tell me, what are these cases where the government does not give up over decades to prove they jailed the wrong guy? Because I have a hard time believing anyone who's innocent will benefit from this.

The article ends with:
“The Mercator projection showed the spread and power of Christianity and is standard,” she said. “But it is not the real world at all. What the Boston public schools are doing is extremely important and should be adopted across the whole of the US and beyond.”
Beyond the US even! Perhaps beyond the US other maps have already been adopted for this reason? I know that when I was in high school decades ago, our world map was not a Mercator projection for exactly this reason.
If those educators had been looking over the border they would have implemented this around the turn of this century.

It probably happens all the time, people having a "lucky" set of cards, bringing talismans, having "lucky rituals," and so on. The casino will be more than happy to comply as it just increases their profits.

In this case they probably brought in a fresh pack of cards, perhaps even bought from the Casino store with the stickers on them and still in the cellophane wrapper. Even on close inspection no tampering would be revealed because there was no tampering.

Yes, the cards were marked, but by design, not by something the dealer would have been looking for. It's a bit of a grey area, and everyone loves to see the Casino get reamed. If it weren't a casino but the local church trying to earn a buck for charity, public opinion would not be on the player's side. But it is a casino, a money greedy institution that will do everything to get your money into their pocket, so there we are.

One wonders to what extend they'll go out of their way to reimburse players who were a victim (by losing money to cheating players) of such "faulty material."