Comment Re: Summer vs Winter (Score 1) 192
Comment Re:When demand nears peak capacity. (Score 1) 192
They just turn off your water heater.
What good does turning the gas off to the water heater do....?
Comment Re: Summer vs Winter (Score 1) 192
If you can cope at 12C in a T-shirt
... up to you, I wear a real jacket and a scarf.
Ugh...had to get on ChatGPT and find out what the fuck 12C was in F.
Ok, so about 54F...roughly. That's cool...I guess depends a bit on how high your humidity is. In the New Orleans area, it can be 54F and very humid...if the wind is coming in off the lake it can be quite chilly....but if lower humidity, more into winter months,...that's not too cold...I'd be wearing a sweater or a jacket....not both.
Comment Re: Summer vs Winter (Score 1) 192
Last week it was high-90's and low 100's along the central coast (Santa Cruz & Monterey). It cooled down at night, but I also don't have A/C because I almost never need it, maybe for 3-5 days every 3-4 years it would be appreciated.
You can't get a couple window units to have AC when you need it?
You can put them up and take them down pretty readily......better than baking/roasting on those days when you really don't need to.
Comment Re:Pot meet kettle (Score 1) 105
I don't think training a model with copyrighted data is any kind of gray zone at all.
Running inference against such a model _might_ be infringing.
But I don't see the legal argument that model training would be.
Think of model training as lossy data compression. You provide an input, it produces a compressed artifact, and it can no longer reproduce the original when you uncompress it. It can produce _something_. It cannot reproduce the original.
On slashdot, we all agree that format shifting copyrighted works should be allowed and unrestricted, right?
If there is applicable case law here about how lossy a "reproduction" can be before copyright has something to say about it, that would be relevant. Do you know of any?
Comment Re:Pot meet kettle (Score 1) 105
I think you're repeating something that feels emotionally valid but in my experience, isn't factually (or legally) accurate.
I have found AI models to be frustratingly _obedient_ of copyright.
I'll be in a situation where I ask a specific question about what a document says, and the AI repeatedly says the work is copyrighted and it can't just tell me what it says _verbatim_, but it can answer specific questions for me in its own words (while telling me to check the original).
Two examples from my life are procedural questions about what Roberts Rules of Order would require in a given situation, and, what ASD STE-100 says about how to name/word things.
The applicable US law would appear to be USC 17 Sec 106 and 107, which on one hand limits derivative works, but on the other, allows fair use for purposes of teaching, scholarship, or research.
(USC references provided by AI, btw. Which I haven't read)
Comment Re: They distilled human knowledge (Score 5, Interesting) 105
I used to agree with you, and then oddly enough, about 25-30 years ago, I came across this signature on another regular slashdot posters postings:
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
(AI tells me the attribution is "The Red Lily", Anatole France, 1894)
Comment Re:No Balls (Score 1) 277
Talk shows have been exempt from the equal time law right up until 2026.
Not quite true....
NEWS shows are exempt.....talk shows and other entertainment shows most decidedly are not exempt.
Comment Re:Only 30%? (Score 1) 121
So, that means that 70% of drivers didn't express any interest in union representation. That means a minority of drivers are forcing their preference on the majority. Seems unjust to me.
Yep.
Unions like SEIU pull this carp all the time. And the politicians they contribute to help them do it.
Comment SEIU is a cancer (Score 1) 121
In Michigan, for example, they "organized" home care "workers"
How did SEIU do that, you ask, when state law says that the "employer" in this program is the disabled person himself? Why, they got the state Dems to change the law, so that solely for the purpose of collective bargaining, the "employer" is the state! Easy peasy.
For no other purpose though - they "cared" so deeply for these "workers" that they sure as heck were not going to make them true state employees, lol.
Most of the relatives of disabled people were like "WTH is this?" and threw the "organizing" ballots in the trash. So SEIU "won" the "election" to "organize" the "workers". (creating a worldwide shortage of scare quotes in the process)
Utter bottom feeding scum.
Comment LOL, more expensive! (Score 1) 121
Comment But ... but ... (Score -1, Redundant) 252
InvestigateTV reports that as a result of the Flock technician's call, "Three police cars ended up in the national investigative reporter's rearview mirror that Wednesday afternoon." Keefe told one of the three police officers who pulled him over, "There is an irony here that they're setting up these cameras that track all of our movements, that follow everywhere we go. But when I try to get video in public of him in public setting up a camera, he's afraid I'm following him?"
But
There are layers and layers of irony, I guess
Comment You did not think this through at all (Score 5, Insightful) 252
Comment Flock is building 1984 (Score 4, Insightful) 252
You can't have qualified immunity and Flock. Pick one. If you pick two, you end up living in a 40K style dystopia where "Innocence proves nothing".