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Comment Re:Anonymous accounts are easy to identify (Score 1) 39

The headline is not incorrect. It just doesn't contain the entire summary. You therefore made the assumption that the verb "identify" applied to the wrong thing.

Just like your original comment didn't say that you were talking only about the headline. That was supposed to be inferred by the reader by your context. Maybe you should have set forth your entire argument in your subject line.

Comment Re:This constant assumption that dark matter is ri (Score 1) 68

Dark matter, whatever it is, is known to be true. So far, nobody has found any interactions with electromagnetism.

My point was, a lot of people point at that situation and say: "We can't see it! So it must not exist, and you are stupid and ignorant for hypothesizing that it could exist!"

Comment Re:This constant assumption that dark matter is ri (Score 3, Insightful) 68

You mean that you just don't believe in any measurement that is not made directly using the electromagnetic field.

If there are measurements made via the gravitational field, you don't believe it unless somebody figures out how to replicate the measurement directly using electromagnetism. If there is a physical phenomenon in this universe that simply never interacts with the electromagnetic field, well then it just will never exist for you.

Comment Re: "All lawful purposes" is a lie (Score 1) 122

They might be responsible for the user using their tool to cause a meltdown under some legal theories, so they explicitly put that in the contract to make sure.

Likewise, I'm sure Anthropic doesn't want to get hauled in front of a Nuremberg-style tribunal one day for facilitating crimes against humanity. So they avoid going into that zone. This has never been a secret, so I'm not sure why the Pentagon is having a panic attack about it all of a sudden.

Comment Re: "All lawful purposes" is a lie (Score 1) 122

If Anthropic violated the terms of any contract that has already been agreed to, the gov't would have said that.

The government is obviously trying to void the terms of a contract they've already agreed to, however. Otherwise, they wouldn't have their panties in a wad about Anthropic not "letting them do stuff".

Consumer or not, there is a contract. The biggest difference is that the consumer doesn't get to negotiate and has to scroll it in a tiny text box. The EULA for the software in a system I just bought said that I can't use it to control nuclear power plants. That was the vendor's subjective preference.

Comment Connectivity (Score 1) 159

United notes that it will offer customers who forget theirs a free pair of wired earbuds. "Don't worry if you forget your headphones for your flight," the airline states on its website. "If they're available, you can request free earbuds." You'd better hope your device still has a headphone jack...

My device still uses a pneumatic jack like the old-school airliners. I hope they still have those stethoscope thingies on board, otherwise everyone is going to be listening to my scratchy loop of lounge music.

Comment Not me! (Score 1) 96

I've got the cheap version that uses the anti-lock brake optical sensors to try to guess if the tire is flat. No RF sensors required.

I get a false positive and have to recalibrate a couple of times per year, but that's a small price to pay to make sure nobody is tracking me!

(Now I just have to figure out how to work around having those big high-contrast unique ID numbers screwed onto my front and rear bumpers.)

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