I was wondering about that too. You can read everything on Project Gutenberg on a tablet and even a phone. Then there are all the kindles out and about.

Should they count reading Slashdot? Or do they only count novels? They did say reading for pleasure so I assume they do not mean technical manuals Mr. Scott not withstanding.

My daughter spends an awful lot of time reading fan fiction on her phone, does that count?

So many questions come to mind.

"How is storing in the cloud "improving" security? "

It improves the security of Microsoft's dividends and stock price. Whose security did you think they were concerned about?

Surrendered to the FCC for nothing or sold to some company that wants them? Easy decision. Dish sold the lease since it turned out they could not put the frequencies to a beneficial use.

No, but you have your own equivalents, plus MI6.

Someone got your truckers bank account a few years ago, or have you forgotten?

My ASRock motherboard is doing just fine. But I am not a gamer. I don't even have a video card. The Ryzen 4600G does just fine.

Updating my Windows 8.1 bootcamp partition just to run my EPROM burner is more suffering than it's worth.

All the forms are online in PDF format. I download them, fill them out on the PC, print them out and mail them in. My taxes are somewhat complicated running 9 - 11 pages depending on events.

It's not all that hard. The instructions are quite complete.

Both political parties love to use the tax code for social engineering. That's the root cause of the overly complex tax code.

Augmented Idiocy.

Will the IRS accept the AI hallucinations as correct? If not, then who gets the liability for mid filing your taxes, you or Microsoft?

My bulletin board has a Hagar the Horrible comic where Hagar is arguing with a tax collector. The last panel shows them standing in front of a wheel of taxation (like the wheel of fortune). Life is following art again.

Lithium injections for treating Alzheimer's was in the news a few days ago.

There is nothing stopping US Big Pharma from investing their own money in the research.

Normally on Slashdot there is some objection to a private company taking public money to develop something then also patenting the results and charging monopoly prices. Socialist the risk and privatizing the profits? Sound familiar?

Punctures through the tread are usually repairable. Punctures in the sidewall are not.

The tread is still going to wear out and the tire will still need to be replaced. I'm not seeing much advantage here.

This is from the conclusion of my dissertation from 1997 on using a neural network control system in mineral prcessing.

"Overall, it is now evident that neural networks have been trained haphazardly at best. There is almost no discussion in the text books or with the commercial programs about how to gather a good data set. Usually, the advice is limited to getting all relevant operating modes, or to just get as much as data as possible. This work has pulled together concepts from several sources that together can guarantee to a given confidence level that a neural network can be trained. However, this did not solve most of the operational problems with neural network controllers.

Neural networks cannot run across a change in ores, or more generally, they cannot remain valid when the underlying distribution changes. Since neural networks work on pattern recognition and have no a-priori model from which to work, they have several weaknesses when applied to industrial processes.

They must be trained on all possible combinations of inputs, or they fail in unpredictable ways when they encounter a new condition. In simpler terms, they are not particularly robust."

Unpredictable failure modes (the models are non-linear, you don't know what they are going to do) are not compatible with mineral processing or chemical plants in general.

Current AI researchers threw hardware and electricity at it. The models are much bigger, but still fail the same way.

How much polysorbate 80 do you find in nature? Not to mention the old reliable coal-tar dies. And don't forget the trans-saturated fats the government said were good for you up until 2002.

By the way, I have a chemistry degree. If I have to look it up it probably doesn't belong internally.

Agreed, they should be labeling it as Advanced Meat Substitute.