I think folks with multiple personalities or talking voices / thoughts are basically multitasking. Their brain is acting like multiple independent mini-brains.

The more that centralized AI turns into crippleware, it will allow local AI to flourish. Even if open models are not as good, the mere fact they won't be crippled will make them better in many use-cases.

Up to $7 bn, the same way I get up to 100 Mbps. It's always one-tenth of the advertised figure.

I'd love if we'd confuse everyone by also creating a www TLD. Maybe also a http and https TLDs.

You need say "Warp". OS/2 Warp.

5-digit slashdot id or shorter is old man territory! /s

Another loophole is to outsource to private contractors. The state/city/municipality still gets their sweet delicious federal funding, and their private contractor does the dirty work of running the license plate readers.

Another loophole is to feign ignorance. Most states and cities operate under the protocol of "if we're not caught, then it's not illegal" (of course, this only applies to THEM not to YOU). So they can keep doing surveillance, but clandestine. And just never use it as admissible evidence in court. But they can continue to use it for investigation and tracking, but deny it. And they're willing to risk this tripwire approach to legal theory because all state and city officials operate under qualified immunity, or even total immunity. So there's never any consequences if they're caught after the fact of violating the law. They get a slap on the wrist, and told to stop doing it.

I get DOS'd often. I have an email address that is very a common name, and people when drunk THINK it's their email address and attempt to "recover password" too many times until my account is locked. It happens about once a month, and is very annoying.

Because China values North Korea as a buffer state between it and South Korea. And China is a veto-wielding permanent member of the UN Security Council.

East Germany unified with West Germany because of the Soviet Union's acquiescence. And the USSR, now Russia, is also a veto-wielding permanent member of the UN Security Council. All 5 veto-wielding permanent members of the UNSC must agree before any planet-scale action is taken.

I don't see any wording in the law to provide a gap between successive 5s ads, so companies are free to just string together 20 of these 5s ads and capture you for 100 seconds.

Legal code is like Software code. Intentionally leaving backdoors in it means it was theatre all along.

Your nerd pass is hereby rescinded.

So, let me get this straight.. The TVs will monitor you. But the monitors won't monitor you. Brilliant!

Musk didn't attack Trump. Instead, he attacked Peter Navarro (Trump's economic advisor and tariffs architect) for being a "moron" and "dumber than a sack of bricks". Trump's Whitehouse spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt responded to their spat by saying "Boys will be boys, and we will let their public sparring continue."

I *wish* I made those quotes up or they were from The Onion. No, those are truly their quotes!

France is also at the brink. At any point, Le Pen may win. Then what? Gypsy around from place to place whenever there's a far-right head of state?

Who owns the output of 1990s word processors with spell and grammar auto-correction?

Who owns the output of photos made in photoshop using advanced distort filters and other algorithmic manipulations?

Who owns the music that have gone through auto-tune?

In none of these cases was it "oh, the folks who made the software own the output!"

In none of these cases was it "oh, the folks who run the hardware in the cloud own the output!"

In all of the cases, it was "the folks using the software were the creative ones. The software is, on its own, inert."