if you can't just record your own screen which requires no circumvention -- because in the past the data was encrypted -- that means to use anything anywhere ever you must know if it had previously been encrypted.
This is such bullshit.
"You can have it, you just can't obtain it" is such a bad idea to ever have in law.
but entry pc price is going up too.
Who else remembers 1channel, FlixNet and the others?
Ah... happy days. At one point almost everything that had ever been screened or broadcast was available to anyone with a Raspberry Pi and a copy of Kodi with a few choice plug-ins. I'd gladly have paid $50 a month to have access to all that stuff but now, with the destruction of that piracy vector, much of the content is no longer accessible and what's left is fragmented over a dozen different streaming services that all want to empty your wallet.
Hence I now just watch my collection of hundreds of DVDs and BuRay disks that I bought for a song when the video-hire stores started shutting dow and which I've ripped to my NAS.
Out team of ~8 (pentestesting & VA) were unanimous about Copilot being crap and Claude being the top dog. So some higher ups OK'd a Claude Teams package for work. To bypass the CorpSec tards, we use it from our lab environment that has its own unmonitored link and IP range.
Anthropic/Claude is just so far ahead of OpenAI/ChatGPT and MS/Copilot it's not funny.
Spacex is far along with developing by far the cheapest way of getting stuff into space, because within a year they will have a FULLY reusable launch system that is also the most capable ever. Competitors are about a decade behind.
Blue Origin’s new Glenn made it to orbit on its first launch, and recovered the booster on the second launch. Starship has not made it to orbit yet. New Glenn 7x2 can lift more to LEO than can Falcon Heavy for a partially reusable launch. (If you throw away the Falcon Heavy, it can carry more to orbit than New Glenn).
So SpaceX has competitors that are in some ways ahead.
There are minority investors in both companies, and what happens to them and their shares of the combined company matters to them at least until the whole house of cards comes tumbling down.
With that said, the whole "AI in spaaaaaaaace" bit seems even more insane than terrestrial AI. Where is all the heat supposed to go?
The only place it can go. Out through large radiators. The Space Shuttle would have had to immediately re-enter the earth’s atmosphere if the cargo bay doors didn’t open up; its radiators are inside those doors. The radiators on the International Space Station are smaller than the solar panels, but still the second-largest external feature.
I laugh at you all!
A Nigerian prince has contacted me and advised me that I now own ONE BILLION BTC which is being kept in a chest in that nation's treasury. All I have to do is send him 4Kg of gold to cover the costs of the paperwork and all that BTC will be *mine!!
Those of you who speculate on crypto and precious metals are all fools -- only *I* am onto a sure thing.
I shall laugh at you and ridicule you when my container-load of BTC is delivered next week. Hang on, apparently another 1Kg of gold is required because of inflation. No problems... prepare to be humiliated you crypto and bullion fools!!! The wealth will soon be mine!
I'm a Finn and I do mind!
Finnish homes don't traditionally have cooling AC, because it hasn't been necessary. In the past, we might get a few days over 30 C (with high humidity) in the summer. In recent years, we've experienced much longer heat waves, such as a few weeks in a row. Consequently, a lot of people have fitted air heat pumps, and those can also be used for heating in the winter using reversed flow direction. But even now, cooling AC is rarely installed in new buildings, because apparently the design/construction companies are full of climate change deniers. Office buildings usually have proper AC, so those with traditional indoor jobs don't suffer that much from daytime heat.
Paradoxically, global heating has also caused colder winters in some sense. Right now we're in a middle of an extra long cold spell. This is apparently because global warming affects polar regions much more, and the polar vortex/jetstream/something has been disrupted. As a result, we get weeks and weeks of the same extreme weather, be it summer or winter. I won't even go into the possible disruption of the Gulf stream, which would cause further cooling up here.
I've always thought active cooling in large scale is kind of idiotic, because you're pumping the heat out into the atmosphere, thus resulting in need for more AC. While it might not contribute that much to actual global warming, the local effect is quite noticeable in cities such as NYC. Somehow, people in the Middle East and elsewhere have figured out better cooling solutions centuries ago, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . There are also basic building methods that reduce the need for AC, such as painting the outside walls white, sensible positions and sizes of windows, and using awnings on them. Growing trees to shade the buildings also helps a lot in a number of ways.
Where is all the money for this UBI going to come from?
Tax the rich?
Yeah, that's not working now so I don't see it working just because UBI is a thing.
The sad reality is that AI is likely to cause major financial stress, regardless of whether there's a bubble or not. Once AI improves worker productivity by a huge amount there will be job losses. That loss of jobs means less money in the economy to purchase goods and services. Reduced demand means reduced profits for the companies that employed AI in the first instance.
Net result: huge economic contraction and a situation where nobody wins.
The oft-described utopia where nobody ever needs to work again (are you listening Elon) is better described as 100 percent unemployment -- with all the heartache and financial difficulties that brings.
So the question is whether to spend the capital dollars on a plant to turn electricity into fuel, or spend those same capital dollars converting or replace the internal combustion engine with batteries and an electric motor. They have a long way to go to make the economics of this air+electricity to fuel machine a better choice than converting to batteries and electric.
It doesn't matter if you use water to cool in a closed loop system. The problem is only if you're using fresh water and just heating it up and dumping it and pulling in more fresh water.
So in this case, it's completely irrelevant.
What the world *really* needs is a good Automatic Bicycle Sharpener.
