It's a real problem because that information is supposed to be used for oversight.

Any cop who misused the system should be disciplined, but we all know that only happens for not being abusive enough.

They eventually put some of that stuff in their stores and it was selling ok, but it was too late.

Aww, did I hurt poww waist feefees? Poww wittwe swowfwake.

Cop puts in a case number. Foreign system queries cop system, asks "is this a valid active case number?" Cop system responds "yes" or "no" and foreign system reacts accordingly. Rate limiting and fail2ban or similar prevents an attacker from using it to enumerate valid active cases, though that information is probably public and available via FOIA anyway.

Don't threaten me with a good time.

And meanwhile it's very clear that LLMs cannot cite their sources. When they claim they have done so, a review of the alleged citation generally reveals that it does not in fact support the claims, much like when using Google you find that the page does not in fact include the terms you searched for. And ironically, Google does both of those things to you, because IME Gemini's citations are almost never legitimate.

We have been talking about it here.

Same answer as your other bullshit.

Fuck off, coward.

You forgot to check the "post anonymously" box on your racist troll there, sport.

Because what it's doing is clearly not the same thing, and also because we have other words which are better suited to the case like "process". If you're not going to invent a new word, or borrow a word, then at least use the word which makes the most sense.

Oh yeah I forgot to mention MERLIN, that was what I wanted to write about first. You can buy access to MERLIN via a data broker if you are in any industry which has a legitimate business interest. The prime example is debt collection but there's also PIs and mortgage officers and so on that can look up that data. All you really need to get access is a business license and a credit card. It doesn't let you look up SSNs, but you can look up a ton of shit even without one, and a metric fuckton with. So basically any asshole could be buying access to your PII and would probably never get caught because there's essentially no oversight. It's been a while since I had MERLIN access, but last I did the broker I used just had a checkbox to affirm you had a legitimate purpose!

That's how accountable they are now. Databases of PII you have to pay to access are just as accountable. There's a field, you enter something into the field or not, you click the button and get the report. For example Equifax's service The Work Number has a field for a tracking number but it's completely optional. I can put anything or nothing there when I use it. (As a rule, I put in nothing, because I am not trying to leak the slightest bit of unnecessary information to Equifax. It's bad enough you have to tell them what your business purpose is. It is statutorily none of their business!)

That was certainly a fine example of talking past the point.

Yeah, you seem to have all the facts, but still don't get what the subject is.

Before the master gets his thousands of hours he is an apprentice and will benefit from union wages.

After the master becomes the master and no longer benefits from the union, he's benefited in becoming the master, he might never have got there otherwise, and he can give something back because all that he has was predicated on that.

Only selfish pricks would think otherwise.

Competition comes from competere "strive in common, strive after something in company with or together,".

Complaining about people achieving things which might benefit you because they are doing it partly for selfish reasons is some of the whiniest bullshit possible.

Rat shack could have embraced Arduino timely and it might have kept them alive long enough to get into 3d printing. Instead they pretended it was the 1970s for the entire time they existed, at least until they turned into the worst cellphone store.

The only sock puppet accounts around here are the ones used to mod me down when I know things or want people to be held accountable for supporting rapists. If you were actually part of the Slashdot leadershit you wouldn't reply, you'd just mod me down. The editors post stories which will get people riled up about politics constantly, and they obviously do it specifically to increase post counts and the do not give one half of one shit about whether there is a technical interest. All that matters is more arguments, more impressions, just like any other social media site.

I wish they would block sock puppeting. They could start by turning anonymous posting off again, since it is used almost exclusively for trolling. But when they do that, the comment counts dive even harder because this place now runs on the very same political arguments "you" (a sock puppet) are crying about here.

Every time a coward cries about sock puppets, iron becomes more irony.