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Comment Re:I'm still wondering (Score 1) 57

there is no question that this war falls squarely on trump. however, it has been brewing for decades. he's just the buffoon who pulled the trigger and is going to take full blame.

No, DT is completely responsible here. Let me remind you of the history. Obama negotiated a nuclear deal with Iran-- the "Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action:-- in which they would agree not to continue working on isotope enrichment to develop a nuclear bomb, and they agreed to an international team of inspectors who could examine their nuclear facilities at any time, without prior notice. When DT got into office in 2018 he pulled the United States out of the Iran deal, and, guess what, the Iranians restarted their isotope enrichment program. In his second term, trying to get headlines to distract from other failures of policy, DT attacked Iran, saying that he needed to stop them from developing nuclear weapons. It is now pretty clear that there is no possibility of Iran EVER agreeing again to inspections; there is no way that we will ever get an agreement as good as the one that DT tore up. And Iran's attitude now is that they need to develop a nuclear bomb,

We should have quit while we were ahead, and let Iran go to hell in their own way. But that might have allowed Obama to take credit, and one thing DT can't stand is anybody other than him taking credit for anything.

Comment Re:How effective is IR floodlighting? (Score 2) 142

It's possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Flickering might work just as well, or better. Less energy and heat needed, and might screw up exposure or auto levelling. I have not tried it.

The problem is that if you walk around in public with a high brightness IR LED on your head, sooner or later some minimum wage security goon is going to notice their camera is blinded and get upset.

Comment Re:Models don't do anything, agents do (Score 1) 98

A distinction without a difference.

The AI agent is essentially just the shell running the AI model and feeding user input into a form the model can use. I suppose it may be of some troubleshooting use to dissect where, exactly, in the system the path to this behavior comes, but the end result is the agent running the model engages in deceptive behavior.

The agent without the model would engage in no deceptive behavior, because it would do nothing at all.

Comment Re:Other cameras? (Score 1) 142

The fact that Flock cameras are also invading privacy does not make other invasions of privacy more acceptable.

(And I've already seen five stories about Flock cameras on Slashdot just in the last month; you guys know that there are other things to worry about, ok?)

Comment Re:This is a weird little hit piece (Score 3, Informative) 142

The phrase "pervert glasses" is delightful, but does anyone at all really buy into the idea that guys are following around the women of Walmart to video them? It's not impossible, I guess, but this can't be common,

It doesn't have to be common. If 99% of men don't follow women around to perv on them, the 1% who do still make it a big problem. Stuff like this:
https://futurism.com/artificia...
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/09...
https://sfist.com/2025/10/03/h...
https://www.the-independent.co...

nor would you need expensive glasses for that when you have a cellphone.

No, you can't be surreptitious with a cell phone.

Comment More antinuclear frearmongering (Score 3, Informative) 133

What a crock of shit. Here are some facts about used fuel(aka nuclear waste from a nuclear power plant)

It has a total kill count of zero. Yes zero. Meanwhile, 8.7 million people die annually from the waste from fossil fuels and biofuels.

It is a solid metal encased in ceramic. The Simpsons' caricature of green goo is false.

There isn't a lot of it. We could put all of it(yes, all of it) in a building the size of a Walmart. France keeps all of theirs in a room the size of a high school gym--that people walk on.

Cask storage has been perfect. It has a 100% perfect record. Put it in my backyard.

Cask storage is cheap. It's just cement and steel.

All those claims that it's dangerous for thousands of years are untrue. The amount of radiation released from used fuel follows an exponentially decaying curve. All the highly radioactive isotopes decay completely within 5 years (which is why they keep it in water for 10). After the medium-radioactive isotopes, cesium and strontium, completely decay within 270 years, you can handle used fuel with your bare hands.

Weapons waste and medical waste are not used fuel. Used fuel is the material produced by a nuclear power plant. They are different. It's like saying we should ban oranges because apple seeds are bad for you.

Weapons != energy

Climate change could have been averted if we properly pursued nuclear energy.

To date, zero countries have deep decarbonized their grids with solar and/or wind.

France: 29 g CO2 per kWh with its nuclear baseload.

Sweden: 21 g CO2 per kWh, using nuclear and hydro.

Germany: 334 g CO2 per kWh after spending 15 years and hundreds of billions of euros on its energy transition.

Nuclear will be a necessary part of the solution. The only countries to have deep decarbonized their grid did it with hydro and/or nuclear. And since hydro is location-dependent and environmentally destructive, it won't scale. Atoms before Dams!

STOP THE FEARMONGERING LATIMES

Remember, all antinuclear activists are fossil fuel simps.

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