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But mostly I think the entire discussion needs more consideration of the supposed economic safety and profitability of producing cheap sequels, which is most of how I'm interpreting this story. Another example would involve the publishing industry, but Amazon has made that moot...

Why is this moderated "Funny" rather than "Informative". Or maybe Slashdot needs a "Historical" mod?

I know that Slashdot can't fix anything these decades, but I wish the Funny tab would show any post that has received at least one Funny mod point... "Dream on", said the old fool.

Best of the three jokes but I was hoping for more. A previous Huang story was quite productive of Funny.

Only joke? And a rather weak effort.

The story had so much potential for Funny.

No, so I guess that means I agree with you on that part of it? I think the problem is that we basically surrendered on the idea that we could detect the gun irrespective of whether it was smoking or not. Not sure if "we" should be limited to America or extended to the rest of the world. Or maybe even extremely limited to security experts.

Maybe I need a disclaimer that I am not an official security expert of any sort, just a somewhat educated bystander. My initial approaches involved considering hardware features that would be of use in supporting software-based attacks in the least traceable ways. In other words, the device would not contain any sort of gun until AFTER the target was identified and appropriate attack software was downloaded. And even better if the software would go away whenever not needed... However we seem to have reached a similar sad state of affairs via our smartphones, so WtH.

I think that's the aspect I was wondering about, ownership versus actual driving.

I'm feeling surprised by how many electric cars I'm seeing these years. But I still don't like it when the electric cars quietly sneak up behind me. Too whiny?

I don't think you need to sound so apologetic in your Subject. You're just preventing propagation of the sock puppet tripe. But maybe it's better to be explicit about it? I just think it's better to ignore AC with substance, including a relevant and nonvacuous Subject, whereas yours is a metasubject.

On your actual topic, even the Chinese are standing on the shoulders of giants? (But that may have been intended as a personal attack on Hooke.)

I predict the AI sock puppet will respond in three... two... one.

And done.

Funny coincidence, but I'm just finishing a political sociology book focused on Japan. Gave me some new insights into the "level" problem. Short summary is that humans' high level programs are pretty much similar. I like writing as an example for the high-level programs, and you can find published authors representing almost any group of people. But at the low level most of the programs don't care much. For examples, the heartbeat and digestive programs don't even accept interference from on high. However some of the low-level programs are quite gender specific: (1) Ovulate each month until pregnant. (2) Nurse baby. (3) Resume ovulation ASAP. The ASAP was predicated on many of the babies dying quite quickly, but these decades many mothers override Step (2) with commercial formula as a high-level intrusion. (However rereading that made reminded me that modern medicine does include many high-level interventions into our lowest level programs...)

My vote for funniest but the story had a good crop.

Gimme Funny! Have to say it explicitly since Slashdot's sense of humor is so residual and twisted these years.

Leaving the Subjective joke behind because I still can't write funny, the story does make me nostalgic for the old days when Huawei seemed to be a relatively good source for my electronic toys. High performance and low prices. My dangerous assumption was that the non-Chinese security experts were still able to assess the security and privacy threats and therefore Huawei wasn't going to play any games that could be detected. There was a transitional period where the issue was unclear and Huawei might have been able to get away with claims like "It was just a joke" or "It's just a bug and we'll fix it" or even "The subcontractor did it", but the current context is different. I'm not assuming any more malice than I expect from American companies, but the problem is that America has surrendered and gone all in on the position of "We're sure it's dangerous to the point we can't even estimate how dangerous it is!" Sort of like AI?

I must have bought ten or fifteen Huawei devices over the years. I still have two that are "alive" and might be phoning home. Fortunately I'm of no interest to China so I don't care. But as regards this new made-in-China computer, I'm off the fence. Don't see and can't even imagine any path to trusting it. Can you imagine a reason to buy it, especially if it seems to be a great value?

That was my main reaction to the story, which was actually interesting enough to keep me reading all the way to the end. I'm mostly focused on time these years, as in time >> money, but the details about how long this has been going on were pretty surprising.

Not surprised by the ineffectiveness of the slow humans in getting any attention to the matter. But that's also an ancient problem. All things support are classified as costs to be minimized. Most profit from ignoring complaints and hope they go away or at least become moot.

My own theory of support when I was doing the work was hilarious. I thought support was my opportunity to make customers happy while learning more about their real problems. Sometimes I even learned about the services we needed to offer, which upper management found even more hilarious. Suffice it to say I didn't last so long in the customer-facing role... (And no, it didn't make me feel better just because the company went away after I walked. There was a time when I hoped we were building something that would last.)

Funniest joke of a pretty good crop, but reminded me of the joke about the first priority of the new Congress. Legislation for the de-Cheesecake-de-Factorization of the White House.

(I personally think they should go for a bunch of high-popularity low-complexity single-focus bills with the double goal of trapping any surviving YOB supporters so they'll get weeded out next time while pressuring the YOB to start using an autopen to handle all the unpopular vetoes.)

What we think about electricity prices is a purely subjective metric, but the objective metric is profit and that has no limit, so the masters-of-the-universe building more AI will obviously be driven to use as much electricity as they can get without limit. And to heck with the price effects on the natural idiots fighting against artificial so-called intelligence. Figures don't lie, but liars figure. Now with AI support!

Weak joke, but the recent one I liked was that Ukraine decided the election behind the scenes when they took out Putin's data centers before they could ramp up for this year's international election interference.

My personal problem with the genAI chatbots is that they are too good at telling me what I want to hear and I don't want to hear that! But everything is a personal problem when you look at it that way. I think I need to start identifying as a crazy old fool. (Where are those cries of "Hear, hear" coming from?)

I'm pert' shure he thinks that giving a thumbs down gesture while trying to lock eyes is violence. Gawd forbid sticking a note under the wiper asking some obscene question like "Do you approve and support starving children to death?"

Just joking. I'm sure you can't get insurance for any Tesla without proof of security cameras. LOTS of cameras. The way the laws work these days, raising the wiper to tuck a note under it would surely be some form of assault.

Thanks for the Interesting mods though I was sort of expecting sarcastic Funny. Not surprised by the uninteresting negative mods, but if Slashdot could afford to fix anything, then a sock puppet detector feature should start by looking at the possible inhumanity of negative moderators of Musk-negative comments. Obviously? What else does Elon want his AI to do?