Mod parent Funny (and basically the expected joke), but based on recent books about Facebook, I'm not understanding what part of this story is supposed to be news in the sense of "new".

The thing about "opt-out" is that almost no one will bother, but Zuck can always say "It's your own fault for not figuring it out."

If this were really a personal attack, then I'd use his real nickname, but I don't know Zuck from Adam. And if I were an "effective" writer, then I'd be better at coining memes. (Latest idea along such lines versus Rumplicans versus Dumbocrats. Cowardly orange-nosers versus believers in flying elephants.)

Still better than removing a liver rather than a spleen.

Also, frist psot. Been a long time since the last one..

Super El Niño, AMOC shutting down. Mauna Loa CO2 shutting down reporting 432 PPM before we shut them up. The mighty Colorado river died. We drank it up. India has been over 95F for months, and parts are becoming uninhabitable reaching 114F.

Dinosaurs had 165 million years. Sea turtles 260 million. Genus Homo, 2 million. Sentience may be self defeating, which solves the Fermi Paradox.

That's the joke I was looking for, but Slashdot failed again. Either at the comment level or the moderation level, and I don't even care enough to search to find out which.

Tracking license plates is nothing compared to tracking the MAC identifiers.

That's the joke I was looking for, but considering the current state of today's Slashdot, I wonder how many of today's visitors to the website even know that that own smartphone keeps a list of all the MAC IDs for the Wi-Fi networks it has connected to at some point in the past.

Oh, wait. I only learned about this recently.

But I suspect there are some places like China and the US of Surveillance where they are logging LOTS of MAC data. And now developing the AI systems to analyze it. Why aren't you laughing yet? You think you have a solution approach?

My father has been locked out of his email account since last month. Multiple calls to support and now a second ticket for support have gone nowhere. They're a bunch of script kiddies repeating the same things over and over and never listening to what is being said.

The issue is on AOL's end, but they refuse to acknowledge it, let alone do anything.

Based on this experience, no way I'd buy company stock. With that kind of bad service, people will be leaving.

Hmm... Only "insightful" comment in the FP branch? Maybe the moderators have been replaced with genAIs?

(And no Funny anywhere, as expected.)

As regards the story I'm remembering a recent MIT video. Long section about how to make AI work with the course. On the negative side, it recommended an anthropomorphic approach, basically treating the AI as though it were a human collaborator, but with "usage limits" to keep it in a subordinate status. On the positive side, I forgot. Maybe I should ask an AI for help?

I'm feeling increasingly bleak about the future of humanity. We definitely need to change the reference frames of our thinking, but we humans have never been that quick on our wits. In theory I think we could learn how to think about problems at new levels of abstraction that would make the AI tools useful, but in practice the tools are changing faster and faster all the time and we are already past the point where we humans can keep up with them. They have become almighty black boxes, spewing words that appear meaningful while we have no clear idea how the words are being created.

The YOB just wants to get his own beak wet and Bernie is worried about people getting hurt. The motivations matter.

Sam Altman's use of the same words may be more troublesome. He sometimes sounds like he understands the risks there.

Too bad there's no funny here. And the FP branch was disappointing, too. Didn't lead anywhere interesting before I lost interest in following it... Both par scores for Slashdot these years. Almost enough to make a nerd want to invite comments from a genAI: "What is the best joke for this story?"

This thread is supposed to be about wrongs that aren't necessary?

Or perhaps some sarren of the horde of sarrens intended "necessarily"?

Symptoms of something. Would that it would be funny something? Just on my way out the door, but an even less amusing visit than average. Am I diverging from Slashdot or is that just necessary? Necessity was the mother of a better website I hope to find somewhere?

(Irrelevant failed joke of the day, since I always feel the need to go a bit tangential and I already used the on Bluesky: Is it necessary to vote for Rumplicans or Dumbocrats? R where their noses are or D for belief in flying elephants? ROFLMAO. Not.)

If air is leaking out, is it not possible to do an EVA and try to see where it is leaking on the outside? Wouldn't the air freeze once it hits space? Yes, I realize there is the issue of what would carry away the heat, but shouldn't they still see something, even if it's a pinhole?

If they had some super powerful analysis and synthesis computer that solves problems for them, would it be able to sort this out?

Congress doesn't have these powers.

Yes, they do. Had you ever read the discussions in the Senate about the amendments, you would have known this very subject came up. Unfortunately, his orange lardness has hidden from public view those historical records, so what I'm about to say goes from my memory.

Essentially, if Congress has the power to enact laws affecting the country, it is up to the Executive and Judicial branches to curb that power. Madison, despite opposition to the General Welfare Clause, admitted late in the life that clause granted Congress a power to legislate on all national problems. His nature of limited government was undercut by that clause, for if the national Congress could enact laws affecting the country, it wasn't a limited government, was it?

Further, as mentioned in the debates, Congress could delegate its authority. It would be inconceivable for Congress to be involved with the minutae of the country, to discuss and debate whether this or that is allowed. Instead, as granted by the Constitution, Congress has delegated its powers to others. Namely, agencies such as the FTC.

It's really hard to find these powers in such a tiny document without decades of legal training.

No it's not. All one need do is read the debates in the Senate to understand the mindset of the Founding Fathers. If you want more, reading a few books about those Founding Fathers would suffice to fill your lack of knowledge.