Yea that's what scares me the most. Someone connecting the internal logic to the debug "thinking verbose" output. Being able to manipulate the thought process console output would be scarry crazy.

I have to argue that point with Putin being "capable and intelligent". He spent better part of 20 years installing yes men throughout the government to the point where the officers on the ground were just plain bad. Not to mention he had heavy government ties when it switched to the Republic.

I rather someone be "capable and rational" and listen to advisers that have experience rather than say "Oh we can rush it like the Germans did!"

Not arguing your wrong I am just glad we got to this point. I just want people to see there is money in it so someone can keep investing. Just seems we got plenty of engineering talent just sitting around for something like this but its beaning squandered away because they can make more money owning a Wendy's

I can believe it. There is a reason why superstition is rife on sailors but not in shipyards. You can build a ship the best you can but doesn't stop a random iceberg or bird to sink it all. You cannot fight chance but you can feel better about it.

Yea but could you imagine even doing this 20 years ago imagine the cost being close to just over a million? I am not saying its not more of a publicity stunt though. I want to see like some random ass, "I got $4 million from my aunt ,when she died, and currently living off that trust" numbers. I am not saying they are making a profit as even with 11 passengers, even $4m a person seems a bit low.

This is like when the first cars were on the road where you had to get them custom built and hire a mechanic. The amount of money needed to own a Learjet AND a pilot on call per year is easily one trip.

The Oculus Rift started like this but it took Facebook money to make it cheap AND good enough for the masses. I am not saying this is good or bad. Just eh. The real question is what happens AFTER Jeff Bezos. There is nothing in any business book that says a rocket company will ever be successful so I have to assume he listens closely to any safety issues. I cannot believe any other CEO/CFO would do that or just start cutting.

I have to agree here. Tor or FreeNet get bad raps but they undoubtedly have this goal. True internet privacy is such a high bridge to get to nowadays. You practically have to air gap a separate computer though a firewall just to make sure that computer isn't spiting out things you don't want. People say "sure use Linux" and I do, just you cannot trust even Linux browsers not to have some JavaScript backdoor or some flaw, etc.

I just wish this wasn't some weird contentious issue. "Bad people" who really want to keep under the radar won't use the net and the ones who do know how to hide their activities to begin with. Its like the whole anti-gun culture here in the states. Most of the yuppies I know buy them and they go right into the closet or go off on shopping sprees when something popular hits the market. The only time anyone says something is when a shooting occurs in a school and its always because of multiple failures of everyone involved. The time there DOES need something to be done about it (like checking gun conventions) both sides gaslight each other till the media blitz dies down. Same thing happens when we hear about some idiot drug deal off Telegram goes off.

Meh. Sorry for the rant. Back as a kid I was on FreeNet in the discussion forms and met lots of interesting people before the form app broke. Every few years I think about starting it back up again and feel the barrier to entry of real anminty is getting higher and higher.

All these tags are just RFID serial numbers. The problem is the pet registry's are all online and maintained by the company that makes the chip. That is the company itself holds the pet information not any central database.

In theory you could mint an NFT using that RFID tag with a contract that states the owner can mint new NFT's with updated contact information. On the can so not thinking to hard on this however.

There are WAY to many issues. Like its a PUBLICLY accessible database of a bunch of emails/phone numbers/address etc. You can get around this using some kind of messaging protocol that links to the NFT or some other contract shenanigan's. Its just not worth it in the end. If the user loses their wallet, they cannot update their info and need to replace the chip. This is one of these industries where the tech NEEDS to be install and forget AND be cheap.

At this point its not even being about ethical. Even if he was to turn around at this very moment he would be kicked out or law suited by the shareholders. Anything he says WILL be taken out of context, bad or good. That fact remains that Facebook is about collecting and selling personal data full stop so even hinting of a policy change would do something to their stock, employees and make news.

I am not saying I like the guy, never met him personally and only thing I cheer for him is keeping the Oculus alive. However even this fact he gets nailed for "supporting something that isn't making money".

Hell the very fact that he cannot even walk into any meeting without it getting leaked kind of makes me wonder about the work enviroment there.

Yea I have to agree with that settlement. Qidi and Creality, while not really bottom of the barrow, requires quite a bit of community support when things go wierd. You do have Ultimaker out there, but they seem to hunt for the high end market, priced WAY beyond what Prusa did and with less features. Prusa just works out of the box but the style is a bit older.

Then you look at the Bambu and out of the gate its flying. Take it out, put it down and print WITH the AMS. It shows the market had been waiting for a "take out and print" printer for a while. Its just.... no reputation? I have the Mk2.5->Mk4 MMU3S, and I have to say with the years I have been with Prusa has been good. I have seen a lot of these fly by night 3D printer companies who make a good printer, but then jump ship once it gets hard. I am not saying Bambu is like that but the Prusa Core One looks like it will give them a run for their money.

I don't think its that bad. I have seen them and they are just large TV's on their sides made into doors showing adds. I am betting also that with as fast as Walgreens removed them they may of not had much skin in this game. Won't know till the quarter though

I can see how the marketing meeting went. There are many people who go in just for a drink or something quick and sometimes linger around the frozen food section on what to get. So why not show them an add!

...except it covers the ENTIRE FUCKING DOOR so while the TV does show you what is behind the door in colorful displays, you don't exactly know if they are out of that product till you open the door. ITS WHY YOU HAVE GLASS DOORS IN THE FIRST PLACE.

I am sure that the real drama was not putting in the doors, but the week after when Walgreens said to themselves "ah crap, we fucked up" and was trying to find a way out of the contract.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4638/text

There is a bunch of very strange things in here. Like "Expanded Command Notifications to Victims of Domestic Violence", "Investigations of Sexual Assaults in the National Guard". There is one about having defense counsel having to put, in writing, requests to the court, witch I would think would of already been in there?

The best part? Its Section 559 "In General.--Beginning not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall ensure that all newly commissioned officers of the Armed Forces receive training on the Constitution of the United States prior to reporting to their first operational assignment." ... How bad is it that a college graduate doesn't know this? Honestly this whole part around that is scary. I mean I am really wondering is something is happening or if this is all just worrying.

Well that's my point is the companies that use the tech won't feel a thing. You already see it in Google's search results and Copilot from Microsoft. These are products right now working. Now they might not buy as MUCH hardware next year but you can be sure they will keep all this going. None of the big corps are going to need any kind off bailout, but there will sure be a lot less jobs soon from all the splurge.

I mean the pitch is perfect. Anyone who has used ChatGPT knows how janky it is but you see the potential. Image generation isn't perfect but damn is it "good enough". Code generation does have some strange bugs BUT most of that 5000 lines work! We just need the hardware! And the people! Oh, maybe a nuclear powerplant or three! Oh you have lawyer insurance right?

I mean will it all crash and burn like back in the 00's? Nah. Both Google and Microsoft are invested. The tech IS janky but it can solve so many problems for THEIR particular needs. This isn't where "general tech" is the thing and investors were throwing money at anything that had an ethernet port. I will say, though, many of those small startups that didn't get sold immediately are going to crash and burn.

I always felt this was the most realistic outcome. Data was just "assumed" a person and went to Starfleet and got accolades. Just some asshole called out the legal question. I feel like that was always a sham court though as the judge just wanted enough to say "he's a person, stop trying to take apart our officers."

As for this AI question, I think the Judge is correct that no one owns it. The fact is all current AI's are created by outright stolen content and who the hell knows what kind of lawsuits will be made from that if someone could own any of it. The only real answer is if AI's can get sapient AND we have some method to 100% prove they can (like some kind of mathematical model or complexity etc). In that respect the AI wasn't "stealing" it was "learning".

Again, the bar is high for that last one. You cannot even guarantee stable networks for more than a few hard questions at most.

God, looking at that dip between March-April in 2020. I just wish companies didn't layoffs more organically instead of just firing everyone to make quarterly reports.