This is an old problem too, The old driver could, in theory, let you bit bang any ports on the system. PCI ports, PCIE ports, and the LPC. Its also an opensource singed driver and developers tend to never update whatever version of the base driver so it never keeps up with the security updates.

I want to blame allot of people here but in the end its Microsoft's unwillingness to make some simple built in port api. Make it signed with some VID/PID. Have the vender tell the kernel what port it what's and have the kernel accept or deny it right there.

I just don't see why Microsoft killed off the direct parallel interface. The only thing I can figure is they were to lazy to abstract the interface from their printer spooler nightmare. You don't have any of these problems with the serial.

Yea this. You don't punch plates in prison anymore. Now that you can mask print them, states can do anything. Since driving is also in the state's wheelhouse, all the requirement's for licensing and registration is under their laws too. This is why centralization is a pain in the US. You need a federal mandate and they have to give money for the thing or the states won't lift a finger.

I hate to say but people do change. Age brings regrets. As you said he was a good programmer, but that didn't translate well into knowing the business. You get burned out one day, yell "Sure I will sell it to Microsoft for a billion" and then it leads into a deal. Facebook maybe is excessive but Zuck is trying his best with VR oculas matter how unprofitable it is. If you could see regret/mistakes after a decision, I doubt there ever be wars in the first place.

Still, ZeniMax though. Maybe it was the lesser of two evils?

I remember, as a kid, I saw the second Rambo movie first, then the third. I was told I wouldn't like the first one. I grew up on those knock offs and they were stupid fun. I saw the first Rambo movie maybe a decade latter and that line hit. I neve really looked up the Vietnam war at the time and it wasn't like school teaches you about that kind of thing.

What I don't get is how THIS MOVIE turned into the Rambo series. Hell it was even a BOOK first! Seems the author was pretty chill about the whole thing too. A good interview about it is here and he has some interesting antidotes. Like how American book stores were to liberal to carry his first book ("First Blood"). It really was more violent than the movie.

I have to agree. I haven't been to Vimeo in ages, but the idea of having your own private streaming service or hosting platform is interesting. Especially outside the TOS of YouTube, that changes on a whim. The difficulty is advertising your content though as while there are problems with YouTube's algorithm it does hit more often than not.

This. I guess Meta is finally getting smarter about catching bad publicity ahead of time. Say your a bad actor and load in every manager of, say a well known (evil) medical insurance company. How about looking up the Linkedin profile of the person that personally denied a family members cancer claim. Hell, load up evey person you have ever wanted to punch in the face.

To be honest though, I could really use this feature. I am constantly forgetting peoples names and other information. It be nice to have a heads up that says "This person loves RC racing" or "This person was from your high school" You can search pictures online with google with this at anyrate.

I can see this happening. Say they have the data and built a prototype. They need investors for research in production then. No one invests in R&D, especial in such an early idea. (Musk's crazy IPO withstanding) Maybe the research is going poorly now, but they have hope? Maybe the research is going nowhere and they want to just cash out? It really goes to the personality's of the people running the thing.

Just to add, even if it CAN be done the way to do it would have to be cloud based anyway. I mean, right now, some poor guy at YouTube goes though videos looking just for this stuff. All day, every day, looking and watching horrific videos of cp and violent content. Its one of the few AI uses that can save, at least a few people of PTSD.

So now, will the media companies AND device companies do this on each text message and photo sent? Who would be responsible in case of Android phones? The maker or Google? What about a horny 14 year old's sending dick picks, will he be reported straight to the government and have an officer the next day? Hell, how will the government even determine who is even at fault.

The only way you could even do something like this is to have a universal ID like they have in South Korea or to buy "special" phones that have both picture sending/receiving, only phone numbers on contacts can be used or received AND a whitelist of websites. All of witch becomes moot as soon as the child uses a home or friends computer:P

To be frank, you can lock all this with group permissions as well as off site git repos. This is all BEFORE you set up the settings in the AI. Those statements were also put in the comments that "shouldn't" be processed as they have no context to the code they are describing. I am not saying he should of done it. It hurts his reputation more than any awareness he is trying to describe. I am just tired of these "AI erased all my code and backup" when it was the users fault for being lazy. Lazy with automatic tools with sudo access.

  People are git cut and pasting free code right into their codebase without checking. Having AI write entire library's, Yet it always comes down to the same thing that I did back in the 90's, backup your shit. Preferable on devices where the vital rubber band that won't desegrated after 5 years:P

It WAS a meme stock. They really turned around turning themselves around after cutting costs and changing their main focus to collectibles. As for the buyout, I am thinking its more of a way to get eBay to sit down to a partnership or even a merger. I mean think about it. They are the first place you go to sell your games or used consoles. They have systems in place that calculate how valuable many of their items are.

You could even have them be a cosigner that handles the posting and shipping of your stuff for a fee or to just outright sell the stuff. They could also be able to use eBay network to get first dibs on products they want in their stores.

Hell, this might all be a big smoke screen to hide what they are really trying to do in the background. All the keyboard warriors are watching reddit while the real work go's on in the background. I mean sure. This deal would never work or even be approved. It doesn't mean some sort of deal wouldn't be profitable for both.

Its kind of different for what OpenAI did. They split off part of the company as a OpenAI Group PBC (profit benefit corporation). The idea being that the non-profit still does its non-profit work while the benefactory can do all the corpo stuff to get investments. Whatever reason he feels "betrayed" after he did his initial donation assuming they would stay purely non-profit. ChatGPT PBC is now just raking in cash with major investments with initial from Microsoft and Google as well as selling stocks to others.

I mean I don't buy it though. He is talking on the stand about the "dangers" of AI as a smoke screen. At the end of the day, he just never read the fine print when he donated and "just read the headlines" or "didn't read the fine print". I don't like either of them, Musk or the CEO of the SBC Sam Altman, but I am sure Musk is just pissed that Sam lied to his face. I mean, Musk is a brat, but Sam is narcissist to everyone he meets. He says he is doing AI for the "common good" but then goes to the US to sell weapons grade AI or to get UAE to invest in a fab plant. I really hope this goes to trial, the discovery is be drama filled awesome.

It feels like that AT&T built it more for themselves than the market. Looking at the maintenance manual, except for memory, it had no way to upgrade the. The screen was straight bitmapped with no vertical scrolling, the hard drive is a custom controller, and the the modem was built right into the board. Its like its custom designed to just run X . With all that said, it was using all off the shelf parts it should of been much cheaper if you remove the UNIX licence.

It feels like they wanted a workstation for their internal use and somone decided to try to market it.

I mean sure there are laws for many sports on this but its just a bad idea all around. Its bad for your physiology, for one. Win and you might start believing you can't lose. Lose and you have validation in how much money you lost. Not to mention you might go above and beyond risking your body or life to get that payday.

For me its more superstition that this seriously be a death flag.

Makes me wonder a bit though. It might be more that he is from Canada than anything. I need to look up who the backups were.

I get AI is a good buzz word, but these are LLM's. Hell the largest context I have seen is only a megabyte and that's barely enough for a love life of a few months.