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Comment Re:PJ must be losing her mind over this! (Score 4, Informative) 86

Does anyone actually have any evidence PJ was a real person and not just a persona created by IBM's PR department? PJ appeared mysteriously, exclusively posting stuff supportive of IBM's position in this case. They never turned their attention to any other litigation. It's awfully suspicious. You'd think a real person who knew that much about the relevant law would have opinions on other cases as well, and you'd expect them to market themselves using the fame/goodwill generated with Groklaw. You'd also think they'd have done at least one interview, or you could find at least one person who's met them. I'm not saying anything posted on Groklaw wasn't true, just that it always seemed like a very successful IBM PR exercise to me.

Her name is Pamela Jones, she was a paralegal. She's done real interviews in the past. She was/is real!

Comment Re:Wrong conclusion. (Score 1) 56

Given that we live in a "market-driven" society, the correct conclusion is that companies are refusing to properly compensate skilled workers.

With executive pay at all time highs and the gap between executive and workers larger than ever, I would agree. This is a failure in the system where boards of directors are not holding executives accountable. The system can't hold for long.

Comment Re:That desperate for press leading into IPOs? (Score 1) 70

So powerful that Claude requires a billion little hacks to be optimized so as not to use ridiculous amounts of tokens. The programmers are so good they can't build those optimizations into the model to begin with.

AI was supposed to resolve these issues, not add to them. Claude is the worst offender of them all.

Comment Re:Landfills are such a bad idea (Score 3, Interesting) 183

We are already stopping this. In my state when I run to the landfill I'm required to drop electronic items off at one station, chemicals at another, recylcing like wood or plastic at yet another. Only when I am down to the misc crap not worth recycling or salvaging or handling differently for safety purposes am I allowed to go dump it in the actual landfill.

One of the catalysts for this was Lithium Ion Batteries and how they were causing huge fires at landfills. It's been true of chemicals for decades.

Comment Re:So Flock too? (Score 1) 63

So the airwave spectrum is publicly allocated through taxes. Light is also in the electromagnetic spectrum. Your phone is broadcasting a MAC address(s) on that publicly allocated spectrum. Is that not the same fundamental thing? Or are you saying that because you have a phone or a licence plate, you are given consent to be surveilled?

I don't think having a visible licence plate or a broadcast MAC address gives the government the right to hoover up everything and put it in searchable databases just in case a crime might wander by... Consider this: your face reflects light, just like a license plate. How many cameras owned or "operated/controlled" by the government would it take to violate your privacy?

Here is what it says: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,[a] against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

What does "secure in their persons" mean to you?

Comment So Flock too? (Score 4, Interesting) 63

"“Even so, law enforcement would also have access to the cellular records of countless individuals, the vast majority of whom were merely passing by a location at the ‘wrong’ time.”

“That is an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment,” the judge concluded."

So would not the same logic apply to Flock cameras?

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