I think that you're incorrect, that this WILL deter others, by giving the impression that we will catch them eventually if they commit murder.
There's also the idea that the criminal justice system in general pursuing crimes even if it takes a long time for the most serious ones, helps prevent people attempting vigilante justice.
I worked in K-12 education for a long time. And one of the things that genuinely shocked me is how much curriculum is in fact just sponsored by giant corporations.
The especially concerning/scary thing this time is that what the giant corporations want is to make computing seem like "magic." Make a wish into the wishing well that is AI, and what you will receive will be what you wished for
Never mind having the actual skill, talent, understanding, etc. to make your wishes come true yourself. Just pay, wish, and it will be yours
This seems like the antithesis of how anyone who considers themselves an educator should think.
And the really sad part is they're not just saying this to CS students. They're saying it to writers and journalists, artists, musicians
I remember cases of them digging out old bacteria samples from things like old wells, a couple centuries old, not 13k, but still resistant to a raft of modern antibiotics, more than many modern strains.
The easiest explanation is that we got most of our antibiotics by examining molds and such, and it isn't like mold and bacteria haven't been fighting for millennia already. The bacteria probably just encountered something similar enough to the modern synthetic antibiotics and had to adapt.
Ouch, I can definitely see wanting to fix the color/colour thing for consistency. Reminds me of a game on steam with ONE broken achievement. Digging into it, the developer misspelled the achievement originally - then on the LAST update, fixed the spelling in the code, but not in the hook. one character edited in binary and the achievement popped.
But I'd think that an alias would work - allow people expecting color to spell it that way, but not break already developed apps that used the old colour.
Thesis 1:
Cybersecurity companies are bloated and had a stock valuation premium created by insurance mandate (thou shalt contract with a cybersecurity company to keep your insurance premiums low) that will be going away.
Thesis 2:
People are freaking out, without basis, that #1 is true, when in fact the opposite is true - even with AI making code more secure, you will still need cybersecurity insurance, and the insurer is still going to mandate that you contract with an existing cybersecurity company in order to keep your premiums low, due to reinsurance rules. In fact, because of dumbshits using vibecoding, AND the use of automated tools to identify and chain vulnerabilities, domain specific expertise provided by a deep bench will be needed in the future.
Thesis 3:
Cybersecurity companies will be trimming headcount and employing more AI tools internally.
Thesis 4:
Instead of hiring a cybersecurity company, companies will staff their own cybersecurity departments.
Of all of these, I think #4 (companies growing their own cybersecurity departments) is the least likely. #3 is highly likely (there will be some reorganizing and continued adoption of automated tooling). And while #1 (companies will no longer be able to command a large premium) may be true in some cases, I think #2 (this is a giant overreaction, and the use of automated exploit chaining means you need more expertise in defense) is probably the most likely outcome. Building a system to ensure your code is foolproof just breeds bigger fools.
This is an interesting point (taxation, or licensing fees) that I'm not sure others have brought up before. However, it is a logical extension to the idea that once a review/ban platform is in place, you could then pay a "fee" to the right people to let you print the desired item.
Let's assume that they're not blatant enough to slap on something called a production tax. Instead let's assume they're going to pass an "Environmental Recycling and Recovery Fee" and a "Emissions Control Fee", because, California, which of course, are just another form of production tax.
But frankly they could just do that by slapping those fees on filament just like the music industry got a tax passed to tax recordable media.
"The Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 (AHRA) amended the United States copyright law by adding Chapter 10, "Digital Audio Recording Devices and Media". The act enabled the release of recordable digital formats such as Sony's Digital Audio Tape without fear of contributory infringement lawsuits. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I guess in the case you are proposing, then certain types of 3D printed shapes would be worth more than others? And who would define the prices, and who would get the revenue? I'm reminded of fraudulent music copyright takeovers on Youtube:
"The MediaMuv scam is not unique. YouTube scammers commonly claim a small percentage of song royalties, hoping to go undetected by targeting songs with multiple rights holders who likely arenâ(TM)t aware of how many royalties are being collected. However, MediaMuv was more âoebrazen,â Billboard reported, âoeoftenâ claiming âoe100 percent of royalties for master recordings or publishing.â
Through AdRev, MediaMuv collected royalties that belonged to other rights holders, who starting in 2017, began contacting MediaMuv and AdRev over MediaMuvâ(TM)s fake copyright claims that some believed were genuinely made in error."
https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...
Whenever a faceless entity controls the collection and disbursement of money, that pile of money is vulnerable to fraud.
Bingo.
It is too expensive for private interests to build such a system and then convince people to willingly use it.
However, if they convince government to do it for them, using taxpayer money, then it would be trivial to then layer on additional "protections" that benefit their pocketbooks.
Imagine if John Deere was able to say "You can't plastic print these parts, because they are a public safety hazard to people using John Deere equipment, and we don't want people counterfeiting and selling these parts." This would of course also ban farmers from printing their own parts and enforce the lock-in that has expensive equipment stranded in fields and crops rotting as you wait for a service technician to show up.
Went under oath waymo admitted they were in the Philippines.
Waymos are not "remote control cars." The human operators you reference can't control the cars directly. They "give advice" in anomalous situations, such as unusual obstructions.
Happens all the time. A friend spent a full year flying back and forth from Southern California, staying in hotels, to meet with a cross-company team to figure out how to use the new software they'd licensed from a Perot company. After the full year (or more), they decided the software just wasn't going to work out, so they scrapped the project and the whole effort was for nothing.
The interesting model, though, is driving. Most of us think that this has been a complete failure. Musk set out to do it and failed, like many of his other enterprises. What we missed is that in fact there is a company that has delivered "full self driving" [youtube.com] by limiting the problem so it doesn't need intelligence.
There are at least two fully autonomous robotaxi companies operating in San Francisco. Waymo, in particular, has been wildly successful and is winning business away from the likes of Lyft and Uber. It will even give you a ride to the airport now.
If you've ever seen a larger scale unaccelerated Minecraft explosion, it crawls to a halt. Worlds are made of millions of cubes which can be entirely stored entirely in the GPU, reducing memory pressure. The GPU also works out which cubes to render much quicker.
I've been learning OpenGL lately, hoping to switch to Vulcan eventually.
To my understanding, the biggest difference is that OpenGL was designed in the 1990s and does all rendering calls from one CPU processor, a reasonable limitation at the time, while Vulcan allows calls from many CPUs simultaneously, allowing much quicker rendering.
I believe that Minecraft's slow rendering would benefit a lot from such a change.
I also believe very few Minecraft mods would be affected because they don't render themselves directly.
Yes, homelessness is a bad thing. How is rent control supposed to eliminate it though? It tends to result in LESS housing available, which is the problem.
As for "handwave", you mistake me considering it mostly off-topic, and thus summarizing, not that I was "handwaving" it. Consider that I did mention that there are "other ways" to help keep rent prices and speculation under control. That makes your "current underregulated state" missing the target, because I already said that the current state sucks - and it isn't because of underregulation.
Since you insist, keeping in mind that this is still a summary - my slogan for solving housing problems, price and availability, would be "Build Build Build!"
If you build enough housing, then proper competition can take place, keeping rent prices down. With enough housing, it is available so that people aren't homeless. With enough housing, the speculators cannot drive the market, and a bubble is not created.
Keep in mind that I'm writing this off the cuff, a select listing of things places could do, in no particular order:
1. Cut down on the approval process. Some places have numerous committees that all need to be satisfied before construction can start or proceed. In some areas, construction can be halted by a single letter of complaint, until the committee involved meets and votes it as irrelevant or otherwise rejects it.
2. Cut down on non-safety requirements. Minimum size per unit, parking minimums, that sort of thing. Also get rid of zoning that limits housing density. In areas with housing shortages, denser is better.
3. Don't kill projects by requiring a percentage be "affordable". Building new housing tends to free up older housing to be "affordable". Rates I've seen vary between 30 and 60%, though it can take time, especially if the area is in a particularly extreme housing shortage.
Given that this is a new bill, it may not even make it out of committee. Sadly, there are people who elect idiots who engage in performative legislation. Whether that be anti-abortion legislation that was automatically unconstitutional until recently, or things like this. There are people who don't think. There are even worse attempts in history, like the move to legislatively define PI.
I mean, most of us here recognize that trying to have 3D printers recognize "gun parts" is a bit like trying to have current robots implement Asimov's 4 laws of robotics. Which always had the problem of requiring intelligence levels above humans themselves to actually implement. At which point the machine is smart enough to work their way around them.
That said - I believe, along with most economists, that rent control is a very bad policy. It destroys housing. Foreign real estate speculation can also be addressed without explicit blocks. There are other ways to improve rent prices and to keep real estate speculation down to a dull roar - foreign or not.
I mean, a functional firearm can be made with two pipes and a nail. That would actually be more powerful and longer lasting than most plastic 3D printed guns.
"DOJ" in this case refers to the California Department of Justice, not the US Federal Department of Justice.
Text of the proposed California Assembly bill is here:
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