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Comment Re:Grand Theft Servers (Score 1) 31

That was pretty much what happened to "Kim Dotcom's" servers in New Zealand in 2012, except that he was offering an encrypted cloud and had no way of taking backups. Last I heard, the data was gone and a lot of companies / private users were really really screwed. If the servers were ever returned and the data recovered, it will have been years later.
Pirated movies, police raids and politics: A timeline of the Kim Dotcom saga seems fairly accurate, Wikipedia also covers this.

Comment Re:"Average" bomber. (Score 3, Interesting) 140

I was just reading this comment on another social site:

"Any statement that starts with "No one would be stupid enough to..." is false."

There's probably too much metal between the cargo hold and the passenger compartment for Bluetooth to work anyway. I think all actual bombs on aircraft (other than the failed shoe bomber) have been triggered by pressure switches at altitude or timers.

So it's not just that they wouldn't be stupid enough, but also that it probably wouldn't be successful even if they were.

Comment Re:Windows? (Score 1) 77

Nobody does AI on Linux so it makes so much more sense to keep playing three legged racing with Microsoft tied to you. NOT.
NVidia has always been tied to MSFT and their Linux software has always looked like it was done by a single NVidia employee after hours in the basement office.
Besides, Windows is sooo 'yesterday' no matter how much Microsoft pays Qualcomm or NVidia to tie themselves up with.

LoB

Comment Re:I guess turnabout is fair game (Score 1) 42

Wyden said in a statement that it was time to "start treating the adtech industry as a national security threat."

More of an international security threat but . . . whatever. I think the Ukrainian army was using this type of data for targetting early on in the war, the invaders were docking into Ukrainian cell towers and their government obviously had access to that data.

Comment Re:Congress fails again and blames others (Score 1) 42

Off Topic, and there was an operating framework channelling Iranian nuclear development - including monitoring of the sites to make sure they were not developing nukes on the sly - in place when the Orange One was first elected. It involved Iran and Obama, that was enough for the OO to withdraw from the agreement. The reason this conflict is still going on is that the OO does not want a peace agreement which is basically what was in place before he sabotaged it.

Comment Re:Fear of irrelavancy (Score 1) 164

Except for trivial cases I don't think that is really true yet.

I agree in general, but not with this strong phrasing. I've let AI build a good amount of non-trivial code. But my consistent experience is that it works best when guided by an experienced coder who can correct it, and when implementing well-known algorithms rather than coming up with novel solutions.

Example: I let it write up a quadtree implementation in a language for which there was no ready solution online. It took 2-3 correcting prompts to get a good result. I could've done it myself but it would've likely taken a few hours to get it all right instead of the half or so hour it took with AI. The important part for me was that there's nothing unknown in how to implement a quadtree. All the AI needs to do is take the 100s of existing implementations and translate them into a different language.

Comment Re:Fear of irrelavancy (Score 1) 164

so some coders are becoming modern day Luddites

True but too simplified. The Luddites had an entirely different motivation: The fact that factories now employed women and children at very low rates meant that the men lost their status in the family as bread winners and head of household. That was a major social disruption, which we don't have with AI.

I'd compare it more to teamsters or wagoners when cars became common. Your job is threatened by a different way of doing the same thing, a way to which your skills don't cleanly transition. Some choose to pick up the new tech, some want the old ways to persist.

In the end, coachmen became chauffeurs, because rich people prefer to be driven around oder driving themselves, no matter if it's a horse or an engine doing the pulling. But much fewer teamsters and wagoners became truck drivers.

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