We've already got Artificial Charisma...

In other words, grunting pan-flute upwards but absolute mist pointedly because gravitational fodder of spool children (the darkest submarine), before we flabbergasted.

Dude, the format "in other words, [stuff that bears no resemblance to what was said]" doesn't convince anyone of anything.*


* Except when I do it.

+5 Insightfunny.

"Public officials claim the blackout of mobile internet service in the capital and other regions is part of a security effort to counter "increasingly sophisticated methods" of Ukrainian attack..." Know how to fix that? Recall the troops back to the Russian side of the border. Aside from loss-of-face, virtually every aspect of Russian life would improve as a result.

I did point out it's only a little smug, and that trucks aren't emission-free, but your point is taken.

INARS (I Am Not A Rocket Scientist) and obviously it got into testing, but I'd want a long, long test period before I'd entrust anything important to those. Metal modules are an understood quantity, and when they leak, the failure modes are also understood and repairs are usually easy enough if you can find them. A metal module will retain shape and rigidity even if it's unpressured and even if it has a golfball-sized hole in it. I don't know how you repair a depressurized, flopping and clingy waterbed bladder.

Again, I totally recognize that people who are qualified - as I am not - will have considered all of this before they could be deployed, but until then... I wonder.

With these LitterConstelations(TM), the good news is that they won't impact our long-term access to space because their orbits are so low. The crap from a collision would de-orbit within a few years. The bad news is that they'd de-orbit through the altitude IIS is at. Now, space is big. Really, really big. But math is math. Increasing low-likelihood/high-consequence odds isn't wise.

I think the country they think this is is one of 29.

That said, I confess to being more than a little bit smug, already owning an EV and living where basically all of our electricity is either hydro-electric (natural waterfalls, not dams) or nuclear.

While the price of everything is going to go up because trucks & everyone else aren't.

Turn in your nerd card.

First up, YRO. This guy used home-NVR footage as the basis for three music videos. Which he posted online. As protest against police abuse. That's interesting to (some) nerds in several ways.

Second, there's a header for Entertainment which this could also have been filed under.

It's never been cool to be deliberately overly reductive about the mission statement and purpose of Slashdot but it's even worse when you're wrong.

Just to be clear, cop-beating is not okay, in court or out. Unless it's consensual.

I find it interesting how 30+ years ago with Star Trek we were very excited be the idea of computers knowing everything. Captain Picard could ask the computer where someone was. Everyone was inputting log entries and diagnostics scans and Tricorder readings. Almost every character had their literal sub-atomic-level patterns read for transporter use. We mostly thought all that was so very cool.

It says a lot that the tech-bros have ruined that vision by being untrustworthy. Privacy and data-ownership should've been respected from Day 1 and accords drawn up that any person, corporation, or nation who violated them would face dire consequences.

Which problem - exactly - does that solve?

You're getting moderated into oblivion, which is too bad because it's a funny typo/pun combo.

The correct, acceptable and official term is "Microsoft-Sanctioned Slop Content Generated At Consumer Expense From Pirated Source Material." MSSCGACEFPSM. Easy.

Because nobody at the C-suite level actually does anything.

The only real qualification is "won't leak the secret that they don't do anything". Outsiders are risky. Mostly they just slide existing execs between C-suiteheart deals, slowly refilling the supply from the bottom up, in low-visibility positions. It doesn't matter if she knows anything about what Microsoft does, just like it doesn't matter if she worked somewhere that failed.

And here, I was thinking...

This is an opportunity for some VacuFans site specializing in amateur voyeur foot-fetish content. Let people opt-in for the cameras only and think of the unique perspective these things must have. Cash money. Probably.

That's both reductive and premature.

We know that a writer (singular) violated policy by using AI to generate a (very important) part of a story he wrote.

This is - to me - akin to finding out that a sportsball team cheated in a game. Did they cheat more than once? Don't know yet. Are more teams cheating? Don't know yet. But the matter is under investigation. In the interim, it seems reasonable to watch sportsball. If the investigation results and consequences aren't satisfactory, then it's time to stop watching sportsball and maybe start watching women's sportsball.

As recently as this afternoon it's been made clear things aren't over and aren't being slipped under the rug. HR is doing its thing.