It's quite common globally since long before "pervert glasses".
Image boards like 4chan often have threads with poster-supplied content. If you want to understand humanity, look to its vilest preferences.
Unlike RF jamming IR floodlighting is harmless to communications.
What (theoretically of course) would be required for a discreet 360-degree IR flood zone of useful depth?
Knowing countermeasures makes sense in an irreversibly declining-trust society. What are the most effective? The least disruptive to legitimate (which means communication, not concealed photographic spying) uses?
The parent is useless. Slashdot was once a tech site instead of this general news for the typical retard.
Anyone have some QUALITY reading material on the subject? We will never see that from the editors who really should be replaced by AI which would do a better job on a bad day than they've done for many years.
Media bullshitted America for views since long before electricity.
Fear sells to the simpleton masses terrified of what they don't understand. US literacy is poor and comprehension terrible.
This will not improve because intelligence is not a choice.
So they posted none.
Creators are free to compete and create collectively or their own.
They sell their work for what the market will bear if they want money. If they wish to create for arts sake they are free to use AI to enhance their product with their professional insight, or ignore it and market their work on its own merits as determined by the customer.
The market will decide. Artists are free to create but not entitled to customers. Anyone is free to create for the joy of it. If they want money they serve the customer.
The vast majority of entertainment has always been trifling so what is really at stake when automating kitsch generation? If Great Artists are so great, they are free to prove it independently.
Development does not require empowering AI to do act upon anything important.
That's not really been part of the discussion because greed.
No matter how many old men yell at clouds, tools improve.
Presuming AI will remain crude is odd for techies but Slashdot (by management, especially moderator intent) is no longer a tech site.
There are no inherent obstacles to effective use of AI. Successful movies already use computer-generated content aplenty. The Matrix is now very old news.
The entertainment industry exists for profit, not welfare.
The gaming industry is already larger than Hollywood and
animation (by any name) will only improve.
Scripts are "code". Interposing fewer humans between script and finished result lowers costs and democratizes production by reducing physical (including equipment and set) footprint.
As movies obsoleted theater so computers are obsoleting old ways to make video. That's a natural evolution, similar to how CNC machining obsoleted factory floors of manual standard and specialty manual machine tools. Those tools still exist and get frequent use, but not for mass production.
A feature of Linux is anyone can code what they care about.
Charity carries no obligation.
Users merely use. We should remember how little we matter, and that if we want something different we're free to learn to code what we want.
Forget the double standard of carrying far more pervasive surveillance equipment in our pockets
This is a false equivalence. At some level, I agreed to the ToS for my phone, so the tracking on my phone is at least somewhat consensual (not enough, IMO, but there was SOMETHING).
I can use GrapheneOS or
I didn't accept a EULA for Flock. I cannot query the data Flock has on me, or who made a query for that data, or the metadata that they have aggregated and for which they provide access.
If you can't see the difference between the two scenarios, I don't know what to tell you.
Yes, right now we're running into the problem where municipalities are turning "we don't have Flock" into a selling point because Flock became the Kleenex of ALPRs...but Axon is also getting at least some recognition in the space as well. It's not the cure, certainly, but I do think that the bipartisan, organized backlash against ALPRs is causing at least some tension as to whether the backlash will persist if the line item is still on the government ledgers.
Instead, let's be happy that America finally seems to have started remembering how to stand together. It's like Pokémon Go but with activism.
Agreed; it is pretty nice to see those wearing MAGA hats and those wearing Planned Parenthood T-shirts sitting next to each other at city council meetings on the matter.
But who is going to play the latest Blizzard game when it is coded by some boomers with union seniority?
Given the fact that the most famous and most popular Blizzard games WERE CODED PRIMARILY BY BOOMERS (and some GenX; admittedly Mike Morhaime was early GenX)...the answer is "a good number of gamers, probably".
The oldest millennials were in college when World of Warcraft came out; it was boomers and GenX who made Diablo, Diablo II, Warcraft, and Starcraft.
I'm not saying that Blizzard isn't still making popular games, but I *am* saying that the last decade has consisted of remasters and sequels from the studio, with the sole exception of Overwatch.
I don't exactly have a Blizzard org chart in front of me, so I can't create the pie chart of boomers/genx/millenial/genz employees at the studio, but I do think it's overly reductive to assume that a studio who's most iconic titles were made by boomers and early genx would somehow suffer if their staffing roster retained them.
"If it's not loud, it doesn't work!" -- Blank Reg, from "Max Headroom"
