Comment Re:Little risk compared to... (Score 0) 24
Remove it with HiJackThis (carefully... you can nuke your system with that one), Spybot S&D, Malwarebytes.
There's tons of stuff to remove the garbage Windoze installs by default (including Powertools).
Comment Re:AI sandbox (Score 1) 24
Once you sandbox every app (especially AI stuff) at the OS level... what does that leave you with? How much RAM or processer time?
Are you 1,000% sure that that (that you have) AI can _never_ escape it's sandbox?
If a single place isn't that sure, it doesn't count.
Comment Re:Little risk compared to... (Score 0) 24
Well, if the parent's did the whole 'parenting' thing... I would think they would check out the device and remove the spy stuff.
Well, if the school did the whole 'school' thing... maybe the kids wouldn't be doom scrolling TikTok in class.
Maybe the kids could learn addition, subtraction, multiplication, division... how their folks learned it.
If I had a kid, I'd have to relearn all math just from that one thing, just to help the kid with their homework.
Comment Re:It's not funny because it isn't a joke (Score 1) 24
There's a solution... don't use AI... don't give it your data, your logins, your personal details.
An AI chatbot has absolutely no business "diagnosing" any inch of anything.
'I have a few skin tags on my neck'... AI diagnoses it as throat cancer and I end up in major surgery (and, of course... it's a remotely-controlled robot doing it; don't worry... it'll be AI-controlled soon).
Comment Re:Chinese spies (Score 1) 105
Which bar do we find these gals at?
I'll give the chick 'state secrets'.
Comment Re:AI sandbox (Score 1) 24
Maybe, just maybe... don't give AI your data, don't let it onto your device.
If it doesn't have access to all your data, it can't harm you... that's up to the user, though.
Comment Re:Now witness the power (Score 1) 74
We live in the real world, not comics.
And, so... nobody else ever _at all_ did anything to hamper progress.
And, it ain't a single-sided thing... both sides are guilty of hampering progress. That's what massive contributions from 'Big Oil' does.
How many solar panels and wind turbines are you gonna need to offset 4 trillion kilowatt/hours of power usage (and keep it steadily available day and night)?
Comment Re:What a bunch of blithering idiots (Score 1) 24
Aww... you're giving me hints about reading stuff... *huggles himmy32*!
(BTW... it's a lower case 'o', not upper-case)
Any data that any AI outfit gets is stored and used to train the worthless thing... did you really expect Twitter or Facebook to _not_ store your data for _other_ usage? That's all covered in the ToS and EULA.
If I feed it a story I wrote, that story isn't mine anymore.
So... might be a good idea to not give it all your passwords and access to every bit of data about you.
Comment Re:COOL!!! (Score 0) 74
I dunno... would a bunch of construction equipment driving over your corn (or whatever) field to plop a massive wind turbine that does actually pay you a cent (not to mention the footprint of a single one is like 80x80, and the next one would be like 20-30 meters away (turbulence) because they have to be spaced right) help you at all?
Wait until some company comes along and plants solar panels on your entire field... and the first severe storm, they bill you for the replacements... not to mention, how do you harvest your field with all these solar panels in your way? Sure, put them on higher poles so you can mow the wheat or whatever... higher they are, easier it is to topple them.
Comment Re:Fjords guitars and Linux (Score 1) 18
But, it's an option that's been around for a long time.
There was never 'no options' for FOSS, it's just that the user didn't prefer the option.
Same with Window$... some people prefer doing everything in Premiere or Vegas... I prefer Vegas for video stuff, Audacity for audio stuff (have tried Premiere... couldn't figure it out).
Comment Re:Simple solution... (Score 2) 53
Exactly... you want to plop a DC (data center, not the other place) here, also build some power generation system.
The locals don't pay for a single thing, no tax breaks, no hand-outs... Anthropic (or whoever) foots the entire bill themselves.
Not to mention, the entire community should have input into the decision... not just “But the plans were on display ‘On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.’ ‘That’s the display department.’ ‘With a flashlight.’ ‘Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.’ ‘So had the stairs.’ ‘But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?’ ‘Yes,’ said Arthur, ‘yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying “Beware of the Leopard.”
Comment Re:Gas turbines (Score 1) 53
Y'know, we used to use that NatGas for heating, cooking hot water... miss those days.
But, let's go ahead and use all that NatGas for generating power once we convert everything to electric-only... drilling for oil that we don't use anymore gets us more NatGas.
Of course, the prices are gonna go up... someone's gotta make money.
Even if your area has a huge solar array, you're still gonna pay.
(And, you'll pay dearly)
Comment Re:What a bunch of blithering idiots (Score 1) 24
A big part is Anthropic (and every single other AI outfit), but a big part is also on the users who gave the AI access to everything.
The users should know better, and if they don't... what happens to the data they share is their fault (read the ToS and EULA).
Comment Re:COOL!!! (Score 1) 74
"can easily share land with other uses like agriculture" Of course, minus the additional road to get the installation vehicles and service vehicles in there, and the big concrete pad.
Same with solar... if you raise the panels on poles high enough to get a normal combine under them, that makes them so much easier to tip over under a strong wind... how do they stand up to a tornado?
Of course, we're talking about the US. Go ahead and block basically all shipping ports with wind turbines stacked as densely as possible.
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"The United States consumed about 4.20 trillion kWh of electricity in 2025 and roughly 101 quadrillion BTUs of total primary energy, making it one of the world’s largest energy users."