>It's one of the few segments in IT where you're not directly at constant risk of being replaced by an H1B.

Truth. One of the reasons why I keep gravitating back to defense work. Only since around 2004 or so; there's now this "government shutdown" nonsense, which is a bit of a vicious circle, because programs get fucked over, then you have to roll off the contract and find work on another. And sometimes, there isn't any. (happened to me at Lockheed), so some people have to cycle back into the private sector for a few years (which isn't a bad thing; because THAT is where you pick up new skills, to be honest). Then when some asshole "businessman" crashes the business and does layoffs (to replace you with H1B's), you're back on the street again, and you end up back in the "safe" sector: defense. Oh, and if your Clearance expires while you're in the private sector, then the contractor just pays the $10k (or whatever it is now) to re-do your investigation. This has happened to me twice now.

I remember back when we had chat bots like the Bonzi Buddy in 1999.
Now in 2024, we have the technology to run a full rendered chat bot, using local or online chat apis, but it still doesnt exist.
Tavern AI and other chat apps/services exist, but they are only static images.

Why no realistic person avatar for the desktop yet?

So this would have been perfectly fine if they paid for licenses to film the music video.

Its sad, dac/amps make headphones sound so much better. The LG phones had them, but LG is discontinued. Think the Sony and Asus gamer phones have them. Samsung tablets don't have headphone jacks anymore. But entry level samsung and motorola do. So the high end and low end users use wired headphones, but the middle class will gladly buy bluetooth?

Its strange, I can understand replacing sdcards since they could include a TB internally, but most are still cheaping out on internal storage.

But dac/amps are still light years better than bluetooth. I use one in my car to hook up my phone, its louder and better than bluetooth.

For a world with needs/options, removing a simple headphone jack seems very insulting to users.

Prob not a bad idea to keep AM around, since many rural communities still have AM.
Even better include HD Radio for AM, for better quality.

https://hdradio.com/all-digita...

As for cost, that doesnt really make sense, as they build everything in bulk for their car lines.
Its bad enough many cars dont include AUX jacks anymore.

Removing simple things that people use, to save a few pennies is kinda absurd.

I use IRC!

Why can't the FBI target these malicious bot networks? They seem to be only focusing on software sharing sites and torrent networks.

Seems crazy that Google has to do this in the lack of the FBI's action.

Since AI will be used as a tools in art, tools are allowed and copyright is retained. But whats the agreed amount to retain copyright under USCO?

AI generation will be filling in gaps, offering suggestions, fine tuning, filling in effects, etc. Media will handily adopt it to speed up processes.

Maybe it's the amount of prompts given vs the ai generation. If you describe the scene, the characters, the look and feel, and the dialog, but AI generates the images? Thats just giving a book a visual to your story.

I have favorite sci-fi authors, in the future I could see AI generating movies based off the books, maybe starting as Anime until the technology can generate a full movie, or at least a graphic novel to start. That should probably retain copyright.

I'm also expecting AI to be implemented in music, offer suggestions, make modifications, until it can fully generate music. The cross over from tool usage to humanless music generation is where copyright most likely should end.

Twitter went beyond banning the url from posts and comments, they used its child porn filters to exclude the new yorks times news article in private direct messages.

The way that the US Navy operates nuclear reactors.
It's not been accident free, but has been much safer. Because it's not operated on a for-profit basis.

yeah, but the risk is borne by innocent bystanders.

Not shareholders.
Not board-members.
Not idiot operators who don't vet the authenticity of replacement parts (or otherwise cut corners to save their costs).

>n that environment, a "safer" reactor just means they can get away with more cost-cutting to line their own pockets. Until we figure out a way to eliminate that, I'm not at all confident that even the most theoretically "idiot proof" reactor would actually be substantially safer in practice than the reactors we have today.

It's really THIS.

And we already have a way to eliminate that. Just not in the Civilian world. As soon as you try to run a nuclear reactor as a for-profit business where the costs are borne by others (like the people who live in the town that gets shut down after the plant explodes; they will not get their land back in their own lifetimes, but shareholders don't give a fuck) - it's a recipie for disaster. But operate a nuclear power plant as part of an Navy vessel; these folks mean business, and they do it right. And it's nowhere near profitable, compared to other means of electrical generation. (this is why the commercial industry is leaving nuclear power: it's not profitable unless the government gives them shitloads of money).

And the prevailing Milton Friedman attitudes of running business and informing Government Policy is what is responsible for the NRC being no longer able to do their jobs.

It's like the voice of millions of auto mechanics cried out and were silenced.

Only nobody ever expected a GM product to last more than 1023 weeks.

If they're suffering from problems, they should solve them.

For the corruption, maybe institute an actual justice system that punishes actual corrupt people, taking bribes, or using extortion. Rather than just jailing political opponents.

For the sanctions, they might consider honoring the treaty they signed to not invade or threaten Ukraine, or Crimea.

Things would be going much better for them, and their space program.