Comment Re:Yeah no shit sales tax wouldn't work for that (Score 1) 90
Comment Really weird ... (Score 0) 171
... watching modern slashbots worship the government.
I remember when DeCSS t-shirts were all the rage here. But that was a long time ago.
Ah well, mod me to oblivion. But I am going to say the obvious - one of the beautiful things about our federal system is that companies can flee overreaching states.
Comment Re:Likely an improvement (Score 1) 90
As someone who once had to call 911 in New Orleans, handing it over to AI would likely be an improvement.
Came here to say that. It only has to be better than the average human who was actually doing it before
Comment Re:Mark my words today... (Score 2) 90
That's why property taxes pay for schools, so rich neighborhoods have nice schools and poor ones have crappy schools. Schools in Benton Harbor, MI, haven't been painted in 20 years and some classrooms are unusable because of roof leaks. Three hours away the high school in Gross Pointe Shores has a heated swimming pool and they go on class trips to Europe.
Um
Thanks for proving that it didn't work, lol. Gee, something else must be at work
Comment Re:Sigh (Score 1) 42
Having solved all other problems...
/ srsly, why do people waste their time on stupid crap like this
This is where innovative minds come from. People who want to play with stuff and figure out how it works.
Comment "Thousands", I tell you! (Score 1) 167
Comment Dozens! (Score 1) 100
But it turns out dozens more police officers have also misused Flock...
One of any crime is too many, but "dozens" in of a country of hundreds of millions is not a reason for panic.
Comment Yep (Score 2) 65
"Artificial intelligence means it's much easier for us to make movies," he told a trade magazine earlier this year. "There's nothing you can do about it. That's progress. It's the future."
Yep. It's like claiming that you aren't going to use computers in the making of movies. It's just ridiculous posturing.
Comment Huh (Score 1) 58
Comment Well then (Score 1) 97
Comment How is it "slop" ... (Score 2) 85
Comment But ... but ... (Score -1, Offtopic) 47
The warning comes after hackers targeted more than 30 municipal water facilities in Minnesota in an attack that had hallmarks of Iranian meddling, according to a law enforcement official.
Gee, how could Iran find allies in Minnesota, lol
Comment Of course (Score 1) 77
Comment Re:The evidence (Score 1) 49
b) contacted eBay directly, which had a security team respond in good faith, and the whole plan unravelled.
Oh
I had dropped in to mention that, about the misleading headline.