They want the regulators focused on the wrong things:

- They want the regulators to treat their products as non-fraudulent
- They want the regulators obsessing about Skynet scenarios, rather than AI companies taking over businesses that realize too late they no longer have control over their own companies any more because their employees no longer have business knowledge, and they need now to subscribe to the AI companies to stay in business.
- They want the regulators obsessing about Skynet scenarios instead of environmental damage
- They want the regulators obsessing about Skynet scenarios instead of economic harm, such as the huge sums being used to make personal computers unaffordable.

That's what this is about. It's a classic magician... and con-artist's... trick of focusing the attention of your audience/victim on something else to keep them distracted from what the rest of you is doing. A magician will make a show of opening their sleeves and tapping a hat with a magic wand so you don't look at his foot pushing a lever under the table. AI companies are making a show of alarming you about Skynet so you don't see the attempt to steal the entire economy and make it dependent upon your non-product.

I'm an oldhead programmer (still) in the games industry. You're thinking of DigiPen. (I didn't go there.)

it's just a pipeline for techno-oligarchs

I think a thing people overlook here is that it does, actually, have complicated enterprise features, in an uncomplicated way. Chromebooks, and the Googlebook which is a direct successor, and even Android phones, are intended to be managed centrally using whatever-they-call-Google-Apps-these-days (Google Workspace? Not sure.) The fact everything's web based makes it, theoretically, much easier for system administrators - Active Directory configures a lot, but admins still have to set up either complicated start up scripts, or go to people's PCs to install software. Google Apps just means enabling OAUTH apps. Presumable this has integrations with the Play Store too.

The idea is essentially most organizations can give most of their employees Google/Chrome Books to work on. A small minority, smaller by the minute given Crostini et al, will not be able to use it, but they are easier to manage individually, and they can still run Chrome to access the applications everyone else uses.

The Chromebook model, of which this is a successor, is entirely about what organizations want. More so than Windows and Active Directory. Ask an average system administrator and they'll reluctantly, because they generally like open computers on a personal level, say they prefer managing a network of Chromebooks. Less headaches. Less fixing people's computers. Less having to use other people's computers. Easy recovery from laptops not working. No viruses. etc.

Maybe the version that isn't Gemini enhanced will be more popular, but I gather they're pricing that at $1,798.

"a name since reborn to climate change because the planet was cooling not warming"

How is this not an indictment on America's ability not to raise incredibly dumb voters? I mean .. c'mon dude. This has to change. I dunno how America, but it's getting hilarious.

"We need to call it Super Intelligence!" Trump demanded, waggling a finger at an iPod.

Lol, this is the president some people are willing to tolerate for a party that promises you'll have lower taxes (while only giving them to the upper class) and less thinking about trans people or something. Communism! Boo! It's quite astounding.

It's actually very funny. There's a reason word of mouth has been doing the heavy lifting for this.

"No, I grew up in the 80s watching the roadrunner"

The connotation that the roadrunner in the 80s was original is hilarious.

Did you read the summary? Or even the rest of the paragraph you quoted from?

> [T]he system itself is decentralised. Member states run it through issuers they designate, and the proofs live on the user's phone. There is no central EU database of ages or of who verified whom... A user proves their age once to a nationally designated issuer — a body vetted by the member state, which can be a digital ID provider, a bank or a post office. At a restricted site, the app certifies that the user is above the required age threshold. The platform receives only a yes-or-no response. Issuance and verification are handled by separate entities. The proof provider is not told which service the proof was used for. Each proof works only once, preventing cross-service tracking. No identity documents or biometric data are retained. The code is open-source, allowing independent scrutiny.

You know, I'm bothered by the age verification fetish, especially in an age with a resurgence of fascism, but if they're going to do it, this is the way to do it.

I'd just rather they not do it.

I don't think it is common knowledge in the way you describe, no. They're not talking about reptilian vs not-reptilian, and while it's true that's a pop-psy thing, it's not a "The brain is physically made up of this", merely a "The logic the brain uses to determine responses to things are..." thing.

So what? If Apple cannot obey the law in a country, it needs to stop operating there. At best it should create a mostly independent division that's under local laws.

The only reason this affects Apple is because Apple chooses to make it affect Apple.

Probably "Mind your own business".

I don't agree with UK policy here, but the US telling other countries what they're allowed to legislate when it affects foreign entities is a little rich given its laws have literally impacted, for example, EU officials investigating Israeli government war crimes.

I wouldn't call it "Thinking" Archie...

Do tell, how is $5K per head giving workers ownership or control of the means of production?

Or are you another propagandized dick who's so used to misusing the term that you're another person who'll vote against things like socialized healthcare because sOcIaLiSm without knowing what the consequences of either are?

Word to the wise: either you're lying, or you've been lied to. A movement that embraces trade unions and the cooperative movement is not defined as "the government doing stuff".

You are why we can't have nice things.