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Submission + - SPAM: Poll on AI generated videos on youtube

BishopBerkeley writes: What's your opinion of the hyperreal, hypersexed, hyperdesigned and hypercheesy AI generated videos flooding youtube? Here are a few examples, in case you need them:
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Choices:
1. I can't stand them
2. I'm so addicted, they are burned into my retina
3. They turn me on
4. Other (PLEASE explain in comments)
5. Meh
6. I'm dying for Cowboy Neal's ultimate fantasy to hit

Submission + - Tired of broken McFlurry machines? The Copyright Office has a fix. (washingtonpost.com)

SpzToid writes: A new exemption to a 1998 law will allow third-party technicians to repair McDonald’s ice cream and McFlurry machines.

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Meredith Rose’s children wanted ice cream on the long drive to her parents’ house for Thanksgiving last year, so she stopped at a McDonald’s and ordered an Oreo McFlurry.

A few minutes later, the attorney from Rockville, Maryland, learned that the restaurant’s ice cream machine was broken.

That disappointing moment for her children — something Americans nationwide have experienced — motivated Rose to fight for a legal exemption that could lead to more functioning ice cream machines at the world’s largest fast-food chain, she said.

At that time, it was illegal for anyone other than the machines’ manufacturer, the Taylor Company, to repair the copyrighted devices, which include access codes that only the manufacturer typically knows. But Rose and her colleagues had recently begun petitioning the U.S. Copyright Office for an exemption to federal law, arguing that copyright shouldn’t apply to repairs.

The Library of Congress — which houses the Copyright Office — agreed, ruling last week that any technician can repair some commercial food preparation equipment, including the McDonald’s ice cream machines. The decision could decrease the amount of time McDonald’s restaurants have to wait for an expert to fix the devices, Rose said.

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Submission + - Tesla needs to come clean about HW3 before the word 'fraud' comes out (electrek.co)

theweatherelectric writes: Fred Lambert of Electrek writes, "The walls are closing on Tesla’s claim that millions of its vehicles with Hardware 3 (HW3) computers will be capable of unsupervised self-driving. Tesla needs to come clean before the word 'fraud' comes out. Making a mistake is not a fraud. If Tesla really thought that it could deliver unsupervised self-driving to vehicles equipped with HW3 and, at one point, it figured out that it couldn’t, it’s not fraud even though it used that as a selling point for millions of vehicles for years. However, the moment Tesla figures out that it can’t, it needs to stop selling its Full Self-Driving package to HW3 vehicle owners and come clean to owners about what their vehicle will and will not be able to do, like a robotaxi service. Has the moment come?"

Submission + - Open-sourcing of WinAmp goes badly as owners delete entire repo (theregister.com) 1

king*jojo writes: The owners of WinAmp have just deleted their entire repo one month after uploading the source code to GitHub. Lots of source code, and quite possibly, not all of it theirs.

The deletion happened soon after The Register enquired about the seeming inclusion of Shoutcast DNAS code and some Microsoft and Intel codecs.

Comment Re:Keyboard, keyboard!!!! (Score 1) 28

I don't think you can avoid the better camera any more, at least at the top end.
All the major phone manufacturers incorrectly now think that the camera is all everyone cares about, so it's all they prioritize and differentiate on any more.
If any manufacturer came out with a phone that had a crap camera, but had a 3.5mm jack, SD card slot and replaceable battery, my next purchase would be an automatic no-brainer.

Comment Re:Musk can't even get self-driving cars to work.. (Score 2) 251

Except the last time I checked, Lyle Langly hasn't revolutionized the car and AI industries, put people and more than 7000 satellites into space using his own rockets that also are the first to be reusable and self-land, or bought internet to everywhere in the world, put transport tunnels under LA and Vegas, and gone from nearly broke to the richest person on Forbes billionaire list in maybe 15 years.

Comment Re:Rationale for inductive charging? (Score 1) 251

I totally agree with the inefficiency issues. But Elon isn't looking at a world where individuals maintain cars or even own them.
He also is clearly not interested in people with low enough incomes that they need to care about another $1000/yr on their electricity bill just for eliminating a very minor inconvenience.

Comment Re:More uses for this OS? (Score 1) 19

I bought my GF one of those, it is indeed impressive.

I fail to understand how an OS can get stale and how you can actually loose functionality?

I can't imagine that Onyx will actively remove functionality going forward but If you are worried that they might, then what's wrong with simply not accepting OTA updates? Its really just an E-book reader after all.

Comment Heard it all before (Score 1) 30

>> AMD is historically in second place. Now, AMD is aiming to take share from its Silicon Valley rival

They've been saying that with every next release for decades, yet all they ever do is win is on bang for buck, never outright high end performance.

Also, even after decades, the reliability and stability of AMDs drivers still suck compared to nVidia's.

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