I don't know. Those licenses always had terms, fine print, and EULAs. Many of which I an confident had clauses that allowed the vendor to terminate your write to use the software at least under certain conditions.

Just because they had not effective detection and enforcement mechanism does not mean the legal condition never existed.

Honestly that gets us into other odd questions like what is a sold license is it an authorized/authenticated copy, the split of paper the license terms are printed on? If you did continue to use the software after an action that should have triggered revocation but the company did nothing to stop you from continuing would that take us into "adverse possession" territory?

Honestly if the lawyers really want to have fun the whole world around selling boxed copies of software with 'enter your license key' from the disk sleeve could have become really strange had it continued.

This is the problem. The practical uses cases as I understand them pretty much fall into the same buckets we use NLP for now. If you don't want to use LLM or GenAI technology we already have a lot of really great ML/NLP tools that do a really really good job.

In fact a lot of these tools would do a better (or at least more reliable) job of about 70% of what I see companies deploying in the customer service chat bot space, they'd be much cheaper and faster too. I have tried to explain to several clients, "You know you could do all this with Google DialogFlow" but no they'd rather wank around building MCP/SEE/Agenic replacements for the REST services they already have, futz around with prompt design, and then figure out how to test for abuse cases all so they can pay for tokens..

By they time you chain down Gemini/CoPilot/GTP down to respond in corporate approved ways half of customers could not tell the difference anyway and most would probably enjoy an experience that is consistent focused and quick.

And so it seems to go with 2Brains here, seems like an expensive and complicated way to do things we have been able to do well with NLP for 15 years now. Using LLM at scale means an expensive and complicated pile of machinery, but what is attractive about using them places where they are not really needed is "Its what all the cool kids are doing" not the expensive and complex part... Good luck 2brains...

Oh for sure! Running any of the jailbreaks for iPhones has mostly meant installing a huge heap of packages from Gwd Only Knows Where

Useful for having a run-time environment to study an application from you do plan to use on an uncompromised device, perhaps for reusing older hardware for some other non security critical use case, but no frigging way would I consider using a jailbroken phone as my actual phone, with real contacts and access to real data and accounts I care about on it.

This is a case where regulation KILLED.

Basically this a was thing that was essentially marketed to wealthy tourists. It WAS done under a regulatory environment, and so those people had far more trust in it than they should have. I bet had they been forced to drag the thing out to international waters and do some sketchy bitcoin transaction to pay or whatever they would not have found takers!

Regulation of this kind of stuff simply does not work. What regulator has any experience inspecting a deep sea sub? - None.. What engineer could draft what appropriate safety standards are for something like this? - None at least not without completely stifling innovation.

Yes we know from the post incident analysis corners were cut compromised materials were used and engineers and officers on the project should have know better, but that is negligence and it is why we have torts.

Modern rail roading is a good example, we have a lot of regulation. Mostly it works, but there are still the occasional accidents. Pretty much every rule in the book has one or more corpses behind it, it isn't like someone say down and just wrote out the FRA's inspection schedule, we learned the hard way the inspection frequencies required to catch certain problems before they turn into dead bodies -> then -> we said ok everybody is going to do that.

Honestly the DOT (US or CANs) should have exactly one regulation covering something like this, something akin a product safety label that says, "the safety of traveling aboard a device of this class is not well understood, proceed at your peril"

I am fan of owning your own device so I generally consider a positive thing when this stuff happens, provide the exploit path requires physical device access that inst possible to do superstitiously, IE tether then thing and put it in DFU mode, with the full restart that implies, vs pairing some bluetooth thing or something and exploiting the running OS.

Yeah I get it it means it isnt secure to travel with it - fair argument.

This though is almost cruel to release. Most of the affected devices are old enough Apple will probably just move up their end of support plans for them. Probably harms more people trying to save a buck and hang on to old kit, than helps people who might like to play with it without the lock down..

They become what they attempt to prevent/regulate or get captured. The FDA seems to think it's main job is to protect Big Pharma. The FCC thinks it's there to prevent you from running a free wifi mesh (can't have that: gotta protect the children and stop the terrorists, ya know). The SEC, the FAA, the EEOC, etc.. they all do the opposite of their actual job. All the big agencies either get captured and turned into apparatchiks for corrupt corporations and/or their "regulation" does way more harm than good to the people they were supposed to protect.

The government is bad at pretty much everything it does. It's also a corrupt murder factory that likes to kill folks for a myriad of reasons. That's why it's better if we keep it small: so it gets fewer opportunities to cause problems.

It's a safety cult. That's a costly choice. I'm sure they can build their own Internet and invent all the things they've been failing to invent since the 1980's, ban the evil US trumper-technology (Trump writes all our software, now), and convert to pure red-armband EU FOSS .... any day now! In the meantime, less than 1% of EU employees actually have a 4-day work week and you can enjoy being raped by a migrant on public transport or have your head cut off in the street while paying sky-high taxes to wasteful authoritarian beurocrats instead. BONUS! Yay! Regulate me harder, daddy! So glad you banned America!

Problem solved.

Not sure what you're looking at. I am interested in the subject because I have a lot teachers public and private school in the family.

Most of what I see out there suggests to me there is essentially no correlation between changes in per-pupil spend and outcomes. If you go back to the 70s, you can't go much further back because you don't have a lot of comparable standardized test results before then, and stop pre-pandemic, what you see nationally anyway is educational outcomes are very flat even while (inflation adjusted) per-pupil spend jumped.

When you dig down to individual states, and/or mega districts (LA, etc) you mostly see that again outcomes stay pretty flat even in periods, even when major reforms (big increases in spend or cuts were made) even as you scroll forward a decade or on the outcome side to account for student experience.

From what I can see within a very wide-band of education spending, there is little impact on outcomes. Critics will find all sorts of exceptions but as I said in my previous post usually they end up being outliers to begin with. Sure you increased spending and scores did go up but it was in place where they were well below the curve to start with. Or people will say see see they spent even more money and scores dropped, but you look into and it was a place that was previously over performing, suggesting other factors probably are in play.

Yeah honestly British and American literature were some of my favorite subjects in high school because we got read things like Jane Eyre, Emma, Frankenstein, Gatsby, Huck Fin, Red Badge of Courage, etc.

All of those are great because the language is pretty accessible even for a contemporary audience and you can absolutely immerse yourself in any of them. Never felt like work..

Rand was a good writer, but she went off the deep end and forget that her audience was sophisticated enough to consume more than comic-book like obviousness and really would have like see real people integrating some of her philosophy into daily life, in a way they could relate to somewhat.

Atlas Shrugged kinda sucks..there is no getting around that. However i suggest people who don't like Atlas Shrugged actually read "We the Living", Rand herself contends that her philosophy was not fully developed and expressed in that book, maybe that is true, but succeeds where Atlas fails in that it reads like a real novel with characters you can believe, and experience some empathy for/with.

The funding inequities though are a distraction.

The underlying reality of MPLS is that they are compared to most urban education districts well resourced and have consistently seen real spending per student increase while conventionally measured outcomes continued to deteriorate.

The story of American public education for the last half century or longer is that real financial investment in education has consistently increased, and outcomes consistently been flat or deteriorating. Of course there are exceptions, but mostly in places that were already exceptional, in that they had especially poor performance, lack of funds, impossibly generous funds to replicate elsewhere etc.

This is a problem, and if we are going to solve it we need to recognize that money is not the driver here, the statistics are pretty clear about that. Unless and until edu-political-industrial complex is will to face the answers must lie in social, technological, environmental, pedagogical theory and practice, and elsewhere it will only get worse. It will probably only get worse because all of those things are pretty well wrapped up in our identitarian politic of the present era, so any sort of rational facts based discussion is impossible.

The difference between the tik/tok generation though and those before it is this.

I might not know how to the things described but if I wanted to know, I could sit and read long form document that explores those topics in detail and retain the information long enough to put it into practice. Even if I could not immediately store and recall all the minutia about some detail of post and beam barn framing, I could at least remember there was a discussion of the sub topic and roughly where in the material it probably can be found for review.

I am not confident some of the tik/tok generation is able to do this. If they don't get the dopamine hit from something happening almost instantly they lose interest. Its like when you buy a self assembly product that the first instruction is to read all instructions before starting, it is important to begin with the end in mind. We have a generation that has been so conditioned on just 'search it' and get instant answers they have no ability to study a topic. If you take the time to read 'Your Barn from pick and shovel to standing seams roofing" before you pick up that pick and shovel you might just be able to make some strategic choices, on the hand if you tik/tok every step, you'll be doing 'where do I go from here" every step and probably don't get as fine a result, and can't avoid costly mistakes.

Make it about morals if you like. However the reality is the data would have been gathered some other way. Harvested from AR see the product in your room, and navigation aides probably.

There is a bigger reality about data that I think every needs to come to terms with and integrate into the decision making at levels. That is

1) Any data aggregated and stored absolutely will be used for activities that fall outside the original purported intents for gathering the data, be that entirely innocently, because the stated intents were bold face lies from the beginning and every shade of grey in between.

2) The fact of running a connected anything more or less necessitates gathering of data. If its on the internet a lot of the activity are in someones logs somewhere at some layer of infrastructure for reason operational, legal, development, accounting, etc - no promises of 'we don't log' blah blah will really hold up. Again even honest well meaning operators might not really know what their PaaS provider really stores about that 'api gateway' and that might silently change for day to day too.

3) Anonymization of data is usually a joke. If you really obliterated enough identifiers on records to anonymize information it would no longer have any analytical value. "We anonymize our data, means we stripped off the names, addresses, and tax-ids also we pinky swear we won't try to join the dataset with any others that are likely to one again uniquely tie a set of records to definite individual we might even ask the people we sell the data to nice to not do that as well'

4) The value of the promise in three is worth about as much as the bytes it took to describe it. If the data is in any way interesting or valuable it will be sold, and the entities that 'own' copies will be sold, any restrictions on title to that data and even its providence will be lost, perhaps even intentionally using the transactions to launder it so that isnt subject to whatever privacy policy terms some idealist might have snuck in when the business was start up. If it is anything actually juicy nobody will be able to identify what party even has liability or get any court to agree to it, if it is data like name, age, and ssn everyone in the world already knows anyway maybe some class action against an Meta or and Alphabet might succeed so the prosecutors office can look like they helped with something everyone will get a check for $10 and 6moths of credit monitoring, the company will consider it a cost of business.

- The only real solution here is for the public to continue to reject things like flock cameras, and consumers to stand up and demand devices that work offline and without creating some kind of 'account' - fat chance either really happens.

Wrong,

The clowns are the ones screaming about Iran, while posting their stupid I stand with Ukraine stickers.

For Ukraine allowing Russia to continue attacking Ukraine is not ok, for everyone else, it is irrelevant because Russia is basically irrelevant.

Every bit of American treasure spent in Ukraine is WASTE if you're an American. Iran you can argue at least they have been interfering without other FP objectives.