Wages and career prospects are a factor in what students chose to major in:
- Business and Finance: relatively easy courses, excellent career prospects and very good pay. Good social status too
- STEM: work long and hard to graduate. Wages are decent but in general there's not a lot of upward mobility (unless you go into management). And no one looks up to engineers.
- Academia: unless you love what you do, forget about it, because you're not going to get anything else out of it. Not even tenure, these days.

Not saying that this company is not legit, but most of these startups looking for investors claim to have some special doohickey or exotic process. To reassure investors: we are unique, no one will easily copy us, and even if we can't make it work there might still be a valuable patent in the company.

Well, if you need cat piss, I got you covered.

Yeah, I guarantee none of the people involved know the true risk factors.

This should go in the "Just Because You Can, Doesn't Mean You Should Dept." category of Slashdot.

The app receives a token when you present your ID, and uses that token in subsequent age verifications, it does not need to contact the central authority each time. The scheme and app are open source, so you can verify what data is communicated when and with whom.

It is not. Or they get hold of their dad's passport, or whatever. No system is going to be proof against a curious teenager. Does it have to be?

The system now being trialed in the EU is promising. You don't have to present ID every time you visit an adult site, you do it once and receive a token that's stored on your device. That token is used to prove your age to a website. That means:
- No 3rd parties get a scan of your ID, only the government age verification service does (and only once for every device)
- Websites don't get your identity or even an identifier, they get Kid / Adult, and nothing else.
- The government (nor anyone else) does not get to see which websites you visit.

"If you the same programmer can be x20 more productive"
That's a big "if". Most studies show a 50-100% increase in code output at best, and code produced with AI assistance requires more rework. Measuring end-to-end, AI increased developer productivity by 10-30% or so. Sure, the tools are still improving, and developers are still learning how to use them to best advantage, but we're a long long way off from a x20 increase. That will likely require a breakthrough rather than incremental improvement of AI coding tools. The only other way this will ever make sense if the cost of running AI decreases dramatically.

Yeah, except the definition of "nazi" for most of these assholes is "someone who disagrees with me".

WITH GLITTER!!!! OMG!!!

https://slashdot.org/story/06/...

I was here before moderation started (mid/late 97?) but didn't bother to create an account for a long time as it wasn't necessary for posting.

We had flame wars back then, sure, but not the mass freakouts/meltdowns we see today. The kids are not all right.

You're just another choad who shares the webcomic version of this crap around on Facebook or Insta in order to look smart.

But you clowns never read your own source, in which Popper said:

Wikipedia is a widely-used chunk of large language model training data, so this fight influences how people get information from AI chatbots, among other things.

Ideologues like some of the nutjobs that devote their lives to editor wars at Wikipedia know this and there is growing concern about the kind of "supply chain" poisoning they can do and probably are doing.

Disclaimer applies since Slashdot is full of similar drooling clowns: I'm a Green voter and/or usually a (D) voter--mainly because the local candidates on the (R) side are even crazier. This isn't about my wanting rightwing views, it's about extremism of any kind infiltrating the tools we use to get insight.

And here we have the very definition of prejudice.

I miss the liberalism of my youth (1970s and 1980s). You fucking kids have lost your minds.