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Comment Re:They aren't the problem (Score 1) 55

Yes. Chatrie v. United States (No. 25-112), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6â"3 that law enforcement's use of a Google geofence warrant to acquire a person's historical cellphone location data constitutes a "search" under the Fourth Amendment.

That was a ruling on a search which required a warrant, and the ruling states that the district court itself found that the warrant was invalid as it violated the suspect's fourth amendment rights. It would seem to apply except that these are warrantless requests. It also specifically references Carpenter v. United States' determination that such a request as in Chatrie is able to look into the past, which makes possible surveillance which was formerly impossible and was therefore unexpected when the relevant laws were written, but the flock requests we're discussing are for recent information. It remains to be seen whether this court would apply the same logic to these similar but different specific uses.

Comment Re:All war is total war (Score 1) 63

When Russia started this they were not expecting a war. They were confident that the Ukrainians would welcome them.

That's certainly what Putin said, but it's not clear why you would believe it when they went into Ukraine with military vehicles, not with a brass band and a parade, unless... have you suffered some major head injury recently?

Comment Re:Trump - the gift that keeps on giving (to Putin (Score 1) 63

Personally, I don't believe that Trump is an active Russian asset, controlled through blackmail or some other means.

So did you miss the part where after Deutsche bank dropped Trump, his kids told us they were doing all their banking with Russia? Trump was broke, all of his properties were fully leveraged, then Putin rode in on a white horse (and no shirt) and saved his bacon.

Comment Re:I was just saying the same thing today (Score 1) 63

That was 80+ years ago and they still haven't changed. They learned nothing over the decades

Every time someone who knows something disagrees with Putin, they're defenestrated. This results in a lot of window-based loss of intelligence, and the rest learning not to offer any. This is not really a new mode of operation, it being cheaper to open a window than to pay for poison, but seems to have ticked up in recent decades.

Comment Re: They priced themselves out of the market. (Score 1) 61

I was under the impression that you were nominally on what we would call "the left" and that "vertical integration" was one of the seven deadly sins, economically speaking.

I'm not talking about what would be best for society, I'm talking about what would be best for Sony.

(On another note, from an economic rather than political point of view, if you look at how AMD and Intel have functioned over the last 10-20 years, AMD's choice to divest their fabs seems to have been a very good decision on their part

It does seem that way, since they probably would have expired otherwise, since they weren't able to execute. And neither can Intel. But since TSMC was able to advance process technology, we know it was possible, and therefore it would have been even better for AMD if they had been able to do that instead of divesting.

Comment Re:Documentation (Score 1) 49

While I agree that AI is not truly deterministic, that doesn't mean you will get widely divergent results from teh same data.

Widely? No. Divergent? Yes. Run the same query multiple times and you'll get different answers. The more input you give, the more subtle the differences are likely to be, but there's always a chance it will go completely off its nut and follow some line of "reasoning" that goes someplace utterly unrelated to what you asked for. This is less likely in special-purpose models, but never impossible.

Comment Re:Documentation (Score 1) 49

not to review techical documentation to identify design issues

But this is exactly where AI can actually be useful — so long as you don't depend on it to identify all of the design issues. It can review mountains of information and find things in it you might not have caught. You just can't assume that it will catch everything it "should" — that is, what it should be capable of catching is not necessarily what you are capable of catching.

Meanwhile, that periodic report has requirements, so you're going to have to ask it to write the report, then to review it to see if it met the requirements, then to review its own statements about whether it successfully met each requirement, because it won't do any of that sanity checking without being told to do so.

Comment Re:Stop hooking standalone things to the internet. (Score 2) 50

That's only even half of the stupid. There's no sense in a refrigerator even being able to be set to a temperature above about 70 F, as there's really no scenario in which you'd want to do that. You would just turn it off. Why on earth do they even allow these insane input values?

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