If you build a product that uses a patent that you do not own nor have licensed, you are banned from selling it or I think even using it. The only recurse you have is to build it without infringing or getting a license.. As to "Financially infeasible", OpenAI could NOT make that as a credible argument. Technically, it is very easy, before you feed the cesspool of the web, dvds, cds and illegal pdfs into your 1GW pile of polluted silicon, make sure you have legal permission regarding "All rights reserved. No part of this .. may be reproduced, stored in a database or retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or any media embodiment know know or hereafter to become known... " (I hope I didn't violate a copyright by typing that). BTW I license EVERYONE to copy this EXCEPT OpenAI and their customers, vendors, employees, licensees and house pets. All it is going to take is 100 000 individual lawsuits filed to let their lawyers get to the 2Millon mile level on Southwest and demands in each one demanding individual subpoena of 3 or 4 their Sr Exec VPs for depositions and court testimony to have a little fun with an OpenAH.

The issue is "limited, ineffective government". Something is only ineffective if it is not reaching it it goals. It may be difficult to accept but not everyone in the United States may accept the "goals". It is possible, that reasonable people might think the goals are too narrow and the approach is too naÃve and simplistic and not effective against 'global warming'

(I accept it is happening, I accept that homo sapiens are the major cause. I accept the models IIF read correctly may be real.)

For example, it MAY be naÃve to think that the 10 major carbon burners are gong to actually "effectively" stop CO2 emissions. (not just stop increasing it or reducing it. but going to zero --- think of the US deficit vs. the US debt.) IF you believe the CO2 models, and you can watch the reality of China, India, Indonesia, etc. ) then MAYBE all your investment shouldn't be on reducing your CO2 to zero, because it probably won't make a difference.

So .. maybe an equal investment to encourage people to move from the swamps in LA? Maybe better water management with dams, levies, etc,? Build houses / roofs that manage storms better? This can be handled by INSURANCE companies.

The US is 4% population and although it uses a lot of energy per person, the other 96% are not going to "live" at 1920 energy levels.

But sadly, it was NOT a bug. It IS a feature as no government except in a very short term (5 year top) can focus people on a short term but abstract goal. Think of wars.
In the end, every one comes back to "Life, Liberty and the Pursue of Happiness" and then begets civil wars, revolutions, and other letting of blood.

If you move too fast for the masses, they will eventually fall behind and find another leader. Have a goal that is too abstract? They will lose interest. Have a goal where others can think that the goal doesn't solve the problem or even understand the problem but makes reduces their standard of living.. well, you might need a gun permit in 20 years.

HISTORY is your guide.

I don't think this contributed anything to the conversation as it has no basis on historical (over the last 10,000 years) or current realities. Even the children in Africa get to sleep as they dig cobalt.

Windows is NOT a 21 century OS. It was built using a macro assembler called "C" that will convert a unsigned 32 bit number to a signed 32 bit number and allow bad code to run. When you have a state of the "art" OS based on single points of failures (e.g. registry); the inability to properly stop Excel from interfering with SQL database management; based on a standard that has so many "Undefined behaviors" (which would allow logging to NORAD and type "Global Thermonuclear War"... which is like being connected to the internet); it must be very difficult to find competent programmers, QA and programmer managers. You must remember, the first purpose of Windows for MSFT is to spy on all users, use them to debug their software for corporations and expand their other businesses such as games, subscription services for brain dead applications like Excel (FLOATS are NOT currency and the difference between to dates is NOT a date). So pay your $100 and take your chance.. MSFT REALLY doesn't care.. because they don't have too.

I never liked Disney since they bribed Sonny Bono and a bunch of other "Clowns on the Hill" to extend copyright to 70 years after the death.
I thought the intent was to give the original author, that invested time and effort a chance for fair return on his labor. Now it is to make sure that 80 years later no one can make something that looks like Mickey Mouse to protect stockholders and stop people from finding out what Anne Frank wrote 60 years ago about enemy sympathizers.

I would never subscribe to Disney, not even if my grandchildren are in town.

But I'll invest in their stock because there are obviously 150 million people that like what they sell. But then again I would have invested in the East India Tea Company when they were sell opium to China.
Controlling minds and bodies via visual/audio stimulation or ingested chemicals... what's the difference.

I completely deny their assertion that it was "Wrong" then and is "Wrong" now. They are NOT the keeper of morality or ethics. I will dress up an American Indian, South Asian Indian, an African from 1400's, a Roman Senator in a toga any time I want and if anyone is offended, then it is their problem. They need to grow up. They may question why I might get any enjoyment from it, and it may be "WEIRD" but it isn't "WRONG"

Hi, We'll from Tesla. We hope you like your car. As we embrace the best practices of the SW industry, we hope, (as if you have a choice) understand our new Policy and End-User agreement in which you have no practical recourse but to accept.

As you understand, in the 100 page end-user agreement, we OWN the software in your car and have the RIGHT to turn your car on and drive it our shop and upgrade the software as we see fit. These services may cause the dashboard gauges to change colors, we might move the speed gauge to the trunk, start making you use your phone via Bluetooth to turn on the lights and switch the location of the brakes and acceleration based on user experience. We might add some microphones so we can learn from driver comments their experiences so we can continually make more and different ways to do things. We may add new video cameras to monitor how our software is doing and to mitigate our costs by selling the videos of your teenagers on their dates at the "OutLook Point" to porn channels on the internet.

You don't have to be involved in the process, in fact, we DON"T want you involved. We might or might let you know what we did. If we do decide to tell you, we will tell you in the morning when you get in your car and trying to get to work. Because, although you might need to get to work and do something productive, it is FAR more important that we make you learn a more "efficient" way to drive and experience our well thought out view that everyone should constantly be finding a new way to do the old same thing.

So .. just tell us when you won't be driving for a while. As you are aware, you can postpone your service for up to 14 days from today. But after that, you have no choice.. we WILL do the upgrade. Our lawyers and Congressmen assure us you have no choice.) But in any case we need to leave us a 8 hour window when we can commandeer your car and do whatever we want because we have egos to feed.

We MIGHT detect that you are driving so we MIGHT not take it. If you have to make an emergency run to the drug store at 2AM, leave the car idling in the parking lot.. (it might work.) When we need to do a REALLY big upgrade, we require you to pay for any and all costs we deem necessary included and not limited to any mileage against the car lease and any recharging / energy necessary. It might take 2-3 hours (maybe more.. we are never really sure.) for the upgrade and the 14 engine starts and stops.

We hope you can plan your emergency use/needs appropriately. We realize the challenge as we won't tell you went it going to happen. But then again, you can't tell us when you are going to have an "abnormal" need to use YOUR car outside of an 18-hour window. (When you detect that we have "serviced" your car, please make sure you have enough charge and that all your fluids are at a reasonable level of your usage. (There may be some empty beer cars in the trunk and some cigarette ashes on the floor.. they can be ignored.. we did. )

We HIGHLY recommend that you install the UBER app on your phone in case the upgrade fails. (Hope you live in a high bandwidth/high traffic area.) If there is an issue and your car fails to start, please find a friend and borrow their car and you can drive to your local Tesla dealer (there is one within 1000 miles) where you can wait in line or call our call center where you can hear the melodic tones of broken English from technicians with 2 weeks experience on Ford's Model -T. (There isn't enough time nor experience to train them on all the possible things that could go wrong when changing millions and millions of lines of code that got tested on 15 cars at the factory.) Just be prepared that you might not be able to drive YOUR car for a few days until we finally get to you.

With all do respect, driving a car on a open road @ 100 MPH is idiotic, psychotic and sociopathic behavior that should NOT be tolerated.
If driving a car at 100 MPH is a mistake, what about 150 MPH or 200 MPH. Should people have to move their houses back from the road to be safe from irresponsible , reckless behavior among the 3 Billion people that have an IQ below 100?

The right answer is for the sociopath is 2 years in jail and can't get an operating permit for any vehicle that can go over the school zone speed limit for 10 years.

I have no idea why this has -1 score.

My experiences with the online is about the same.
Change the UI for the sake change even if it takes the user 20 minutes to figure out how to do the same thing they did yesterday. "Just for he hell of it, let's do it ever week so no one knows how to use this advertising platform. The user is too stupid to go anywhere."

Unilaterally change T&S for their own future ability to resell data or to harvest ideas or to deny any responsibility for their malfeasant

To put the consumer at a complete disadvantage in dealing in any contest of their behavior.

Annoy the crap about taking online billing and statements when there is NO obligation for them to supply statements tomorrow or anytime in the future. Yet they can destroy your credit rating if you don't pay or the bank send the check or some moron doesn't compose or send the bill. Even the FCC says that the internet isn't a "Communication Service", so there is no reason to expect any wire/mail fraud protection.

Or like BestBuy, charge you a penalty if you pay the the first bill before they bill it. You get the privilege of dealing with someone in Southeast Asia that doesn't really speak the same language.

Or BOA that decides that overdraft protection isn't in their business plan anymore. (I decided that dealing with BOAH (as in AHoles) isn't in my business plan anymore. Been doing business with their organization for 45 years and maybe used in 2 times because of mistakes) but had literally had millions of dollars flowing through the accounts.

Like all those organizations that want feedback or "send us your problem" and then give you a 3 line by 48 character box. (I hope the UI guru dies a very painful death by cancer.)

EBAY that just keeps sending my freaking emails about anything that I ever looked at in the last 20 years .. and I don't use them.. I don't even know the damn password to tell them to STFU.

If you get an Android phone and use Google mail, the morons on "600 Amphitheatre Parkway ,Mountain View, California" need to be able to turn on your microphone and get your heart beats /second as you are intimate with your significant other or their software will not work (i.e.. it is broken). Because they have a need to know EVERY aspect of your life.

Microsoft will infect your computer every 2 weeks with broken software in which YOU , the one the purchased the hardware and paid for the software, get to figure out what they broke because their marketing campaign of pushing more broken UI, software, etc. is more important than for me getting my job done after any random update from the buffoons in Redmond. (I spend months figuring out how to do things after every fecal push. "Can I just pass on this one?" "NO!!!! Eat this one and every one for the rest of your life and be thankful that there is someone that can and will screw you over and waste your time on our brain farts."
MSFT won't even provide help for an Office user unless they are online and they can monitor who, what , where, when, and how they asked how to use a feature that may or may not be in a rev. 90% of the online help is useless and is out of date because some fecal portal pushed out an update with invalidated all the links.


The online data experience is broken by large, arrogant, and incompetent organizations that are so big that no one can ignore / avoid them and they don't care about the average person.. only the % of new customers. We all just have stand around naked as the big media fans (those government officials awaiting their next campaign contribution or megadollar stepping stone in their career ) allow the bending, folding and mutilation of the average citizen. But that is just my experience, your mileage my vary

I totally agree..
It used to be "shoot all the lawyers", but can we also now go after incompetent DBAs, and their bosses up the chain to the CEO and Board of Directors?

Or as a less violent alternative, we release ALL their personal information into the wild including the SSN, stock broker and bank accounts numbers and their home, vacation house addresses and their license plates and tax returns over the last 5 years including all sub schedules. In the case of the CEO / BOD or Governor/President and the respective members of their Legislative branches, the publication would include their spouses, significant others, and children.
And by the way, they lose their pensions, Social Security and all the 401K/Roths redraws get taxed at 100%. They get 40 acres of land in Idaho or Maine to raise potatoes. Their current assets are used to provide compensation coverage for ANYONE who was compromised.. (no proof is required that organization's failure was cause of the compromise. Just that the victim's name was on that particular breach list.)

If they demand/manage the data, then protect it the same way you want your data protected. If you are responsible for protecting the info, then be competent or learn "Le gustarÃa papas fritas con eso"

I might be willing to compromise on some of the particulars, but I think, at least, everything that was leaked should be true of any and all individuals, including government officials that have responsibility, including "oversight" should be also be released.

like I was trying to say.. "Should be seamless" but to the end-user will it "seamless" I wish them all the best but "should" and "could" and "is" are different and I just hope the experience of end-user is "IS" 45 years of experience cause me to be skeptical and the skill set of the current generation of programmers don't demission my concern.

okay.. I guess I struck your religious button.. quite sorry, but you are quick to call nonsense but lack any substance to the claim. What is the Nonsense?

I have a about 300 lbs. of C++ books. I don't think I need any more.. C++20 is just getting so stupid on top of C++ 17 and C++ 14 and C++11 and C++x and C++.. good god then genealogy is longer than Moab in the Bible. Sometimes , it just best to let die off and move on.

ANYONE can write a compiler if they can understand how to link in STDLIB and don't have to handle reasonable error messages and have a very simple language like the original FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC or PASCAL. I used YACC and LEX .. isn't that hard to do for Nmake, or even Pascal for a simple, non scalable language that would be inappropriate for any multicore system. Can you do it for C++ with the stupid syntax of having two less than signs as an intro to a template template argument? It only took some compiler experts about 2 years before you didn't have to write a space between the space between the two symbols.

Did you optimize the generated code for register and memory renaming and aliasing? Would it be able figure out if CMOV was a good choice on Intel or AMD? Did it try to use Bit instructions to get the sign/change/invert of a floating point number? Did it understand the difference between software emulation of FP or using the floating point registers (if available) .. could it scale to AVX or AVX-2? Did it even generate an executable?

Simple coding exercises at 16 don't make a professional scalable and long live product.

If C++ is such a GREAT language why is Sutter et al trying to make the compiler writers issue WARNING on "bad" usage and writing tombs regarding the "Proper Use of C++". The syntax of the language doesn't even allow all the appropriate warning / (what should be error messages) to be issued. The language is carrying 50 years "undefined behaviors" because of UNIX. No one has the guts to say "Stop The Madness". There should NOT be 3 different ways to pass a potentially shared pointer to an object. (Raw, Shared, Ref to shared Ptr>, and about 3 other perverted ways.)

When a language can't figure out bit numbering .. calls and declares undefined behavior, well you may want to pass that off you your children and grandchildren to figure it out. But I don't want to have to live / use / depend on a language that allows a function to return undefined values.

C++ is nothing more or less than a very fancy macro language that trying to do everything from device drivers to end-user email programs and does NOTHING to make it easy to build scalable applications that can work on an 8 core AMD chip. There are thousands of std::includes that may or may not work depending on which revision of the include you use and what magic switch is used on the compiler and how those magic switches interact and even which compiler you use.

The REALITY is that even the likes of Google are saying that C/C++ is getting unsupportable and looking at moving to RUST to at least the address the "sharing issue". It is probably a good first step, but doesn't really address the issue of why in 2020, Excel can't use more than one core on a 8 core processor, regardless of the number of spreadsheets open.
So.. back up your claim of nonsense.

I doubt they would have a programmer go up there and say.. "well it works most of the time and on 95.55 we had no problem but the other 4.45% were a real bitch"..\ I was in Product Marketing.. you pick your references and control their language... I'm sure it works "Most of the time", my original comment was regarding the poor user slobs that find where it didn't "quite work".

BTW. I played with a Lisa before it was announced and said it wouldn't get mass acceptance. I'm sure it wasn't my feedback, but McIntosh the back pocket answer .. So I been around and know a thing or two. What about you?

Okay.. Please explain my incorrect facts.. and please supply yours. You could start anywhere, but lets start at the top. Educate me Sensei.

okay.. I am SURE that you don't know C and C++ is based on a macro assembler built for the PDP-8. That almost ALL of the code of C++ has undefined behavior based on trying to give the compiler a break instead of forbidding a 9 month old programmer from using a construct that interferes with a compilers attempt to optimize.
I know more about compilers that you will ever know and I do KNOW that compilers create broken code, ie. not what the programmer and even the language intended. I have written more code that your will ever write in your life time.

So get off your freaking insulting worthless remarks and deal with real life.
The current tools used by the current programmers can't scale in any reasonable way that a programmer 2years after the fact can maintain. If you think the C++ shared pointer and threading model is appropriate for a code base that should last 10 years to be maintained by neophyte programmers, then PLEASE, just go and do something that will last like build a dyke around New Orleans. Because anything you product will be USELESS and Unmaintainable 2 years after you go to create your next CF.