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Comment Ditch Wordpress (Score 2) 9

Only two things have made me want to delete word press are the idiot who runs the thing and breaks websites so he can blackmail people who use his open source software, and Wordpress addons. If I knew that anything other than basic functionality requires buying an additional addon then I would have just used Shopify, Squarespace, or Wix for any website and paid the $10/month.

Comment Energy is an eco-system (Score 0) 66

For those now claiming electric vehicles no longer help the environment because they have Tesla derangement syndrome, just remember that electricity needs an entire ecosystem built around it to succeed. You need both the power and the use of it to be environmentally friendly. Just installing solar doesn't do anything if you still have internal combustion engine cars burning fuel. Electric cars are a huge necessity to reducing reliance on fossil fuels.

Comment Re:Also Trump is about to put his youngest son (Score 0, Troll) 40

This is not true, but are you seriously considering Trump's highly successful business person to Hunter Biden who is a self described addict who is on video smoking crack and partying with girls who look about 10 years old and also who got caught literally saying he is giving 10% of the money from a deal to 'the big guy' aka Joe Biden??? Big difference.

Comment Re:Space junk (Score 1) 42

The amount of things in space are extremely small. You could have 100 million satellites and still not fill a 0.000001% of the sky. Think about how large the surface of the Earth is, now expand that further into space and multiple it by millions because you can have practically infinite parallel layers of satellites. Think about running into another boat out in the middle of the ocean but also being able to dive like a submarine or fly like a bird to avoid it. Starlink satellites are the exact opposite of space junk, they are active and useful.

Comment Re:Lets be Clear (Score 0) 70

This would mean a landlord wouldn't be allowed to own multiple buildings either because they would be setting the same price in the same method in multiple buildings. The only problem is when the are colluding to fix the price with a MAJORITY of the market, essentially holding a monopoly. Price fixing doesn't work without a majority.

Comment Re:Lets be Clear (Score 1) 70

The AI or algorithm software would have no knowledge of the other landlords prices, so it can't fix to any specific price. Also every building is completely unique and literally in a different location, even 1 block makes a huge difference in rents. By that logic using any information at all in the same manner that your competitor does would be price fixing, which of course it isn't. Both landlords can look at the public rents of their neighbors like an algorithm would. But for some reason because if it's an AI doing it that's now illegal?

Comment Lets be Clear (Score 1, Interesting) 70

There is prices being set by AI and then there is AI price fixing. Setting prices using AI would mean getting the public posted prices and setting a price that is similar then making some adjustments for various building specific factors. Price fixing, is where you control a large majority of the prices and set the prices to a minimum for the majority. As long as this law is only going after Price Fixing then this seems perfectly fine, however, I can see even in this article and summary that there is already some confusion being price setting and price fixing. It basically is saying that even two properties using the same algorithm, without even knowing each others prices is price fixing, which is outrageous.

Comment AI is a tool (Score 2) 41

Image generators are not selling copyright material, but they are selling an easy way to produce copyright material. It's like they are selling an advanced version of photoshop, but instead of drawing a perfect circle like photo shop allows, it draws much easier and faster. These productions should not be subject to copyright law whatsoever as they are only produced by the tool because of the user's actions. The copyright would still come into play when users use or sell that material.

Comment Re:Geostationary satellite are hard to upgrade (Score 3, Insightful) 21

Application level encryption (packet payloads) should still work although so maybe the satellites have nothing to do with it if applications using them don't bother to encrypt their payloads.

There should really be two levels of encryption. One level of encryption through the satellite provide and another level of encryption by the data sending, to protect their data from being seen by the satellite provider. This is a two fold mistake.

Comment Bubble Wrapping the World (Score -1) 47

Social media and AI blame is out of control. Social media is just another term for interacting with people through the internet. The blame on social media and AI is this generations way to blame "Rock music" or "Violent video games." How to interact with people should be something parents teach their children. The problem is these internet interactions are not monitored by parents and children are not in position to know how to react or respond in situations without a parent or teacher around. You can try as hard as you can to police the internet but there is always going to be a website that doesn't give a warning or a chatbot that you can download and run locally. The only answer is education by parents or teachers, not by making the entire internet a series of popup warnings.

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