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Comment Re:What people do with AI isn't the issue (Score 1) 21

As many as possible :-)

Companies will continue to replace flesh-and-blood workers with AI-LLMs (manufacturing will of course continue to add more and more robots, probably AI-LLM driven ones with machine vision) as much as possible, with just a few people left to troubleshoot when an AI-LLM screws up.
Believe me, if they could come up with a way to automate flipping burgers and tossing some frozen fries into a deep fryer at Burger King, they would.

Anyone remember Chaplin's "Modern Times"?

Comment Too bad... (Score 1) 150

they didn't ask people who live in the Frozen North (TM).
We could've told them that battery efficiency drops a lot in the cold. Even if you plug in the block heater, the battery having enough output to crank is a shake of the dice.
More so with big Li-Ion batteries like EVs have... sure, you can turn it on and have the heat pumps thaw the battery, but then you use up mileage from last night's charge.
Up North Here (TM), before leaving for work, we go out and start the car, go back in the house, drink a cup of coffee, grab our lunchbox and head to work... by then, the engine is warmed up, the heater is blasting.
How long would it take an EV to thaw the battery?

Comment Cool! (Score 1) 166

Spruce Goose V2!
Really, though... the thing looks like an American-made copy of Russia's A-90 Orlyonok.

Too bad they can't reuse blades from one turbine on another... one manufacturers blades will have a slightly different hole pattern for the bolts, and probably some kind of key notch for locating (and most likely, the blade pitch is different).

Comment Re:Really??!! (Score 1) 150

How about all of them?
Because of deals with Big Oil, research into (and even possible production of) hydrogen or alternate fuel vehicles never went anywhere. It's only recently that EVs and Hybrids have come to market... and every President (at least since Big Oil became a thing) has been in Big Oil's pocket, and Big Oil always has lobbyists in Congress and Senate, along with a little lining of the ol' pockets (be glad you don't live in Texas and find oil on your land... they'll just swoop in and buy your land for pennies).
Gee, the climate crisis has been recognized as far back as the hippie era.

Comment Re:Please pass this!!! (Score 2) 81

Well... if Mastercard has it's corporate office on US soil, and I call about an issue, that call should be handled by someone on US soil (where they pay the US minimum wage for a call center)... so, they'll just move corporate office to India, then send cards to Americans from some card maker on US soil, and they should get tariffed or taxed for all the money that gets sent to corporate in India.

Considering the jobs report was almost a million below what was initially reported, maybe if some of these jobs were done on US soil, then the economy would be in better shape.

If it's made in USA of foreign sourced parts, those foreign sourced parts have tariffs on them.

Comment Re:I have no faith in this succeeding (Score 1) 64

Ironically... it's well after my 12 hrs. is up, I only counted six total, so I'll put my 5 Dollars Monopoly money in 'Free Parking'.

Paranoia? It's more of being sick of always seeing that every single thing that is wrong is only Trump's fault... as if no single decision that any single other president made has ever happened, while any good thing is attributed to other people who weren't ever even Presidents.
If you're going to say something is (for example) Trump's fault or that he is guilty of something, back it up with data from reputable non-biased sources (yes, multiple non-biased ones), otherwise it's like you're back in school writing "your gay!" on someone's locker.

Comment Re:I have no faith in this succeeding (Score 0) 64

Ahh... yes, the "everything is Orange Man's fault" crowd.
Be right back... gotta make some popcorn and grab a brewski!

Anyone wanna place bets on how many anti-Trump or Republican posts we reach in 12 hours (within 20 of your pick, either way)? Starting now... 10:47PM CDT.
I'm putting 5 Dollars Monopoly Money on 75

Comment Re:$25.70? (Score 1) 155

Next time you buy a bottle of water, check the back... they list where the source is.

Theory: the ones that are 'imported' are maybe local water with certain percentages of stuff added to make it like the source from whatever country. Shipping water from Peru to the US would cost more than the return would be, I would think.

Comment Re:Oh, the irony ... (Score 1) 70

Only if you're a subscriber :-)

They should put up a page on their site where you can check if your information was in the breach, and if it was, give you, free, more than a year of monitoring (like 5+ years).
It shouldn't be too difficult to find who it was that did the "unauthorized access of a third-party application storing customers' personal data"... why is the information stored by a third party? It should be stored on a rack of servers in the broom closet, behind like three firewalls on battery backup (like 24-hours at least of run-time), and the instant someone outside the company tries to get in, the firewall should notify the C-suites and the network guy.

Comment Oh... cool (Score 1) 4

So, ban the vaccine, everybody gets COVID, then nobody can go anywhere (and lots of the more vulnerable people die)!
What's next... ban flu vaccines, tetanus shots, rabies shots, MMR vaccines, cold medicine, vitamins, prescription medications?!
I could see banning the current vaccine because a newer, better (with less side effects) vaccine has been developed.

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