Hello,

I never understood this requirements. Plenty of computers can NOT work that way.

Some computers do not have internet access.
Others are used as control devices for machinery. At that point you do not log in as yourself but as "the operator".

Plus, if a computer is used to control heavy machinery, you DEFINITELY do NOT want it connected to the internet!

One example, I am an amateur astronomer and use a >100K$ telescope (controled by a windows 11 computer). There is no way I want to let anyone potentially get access to this computer, so no internet connection!

Cyrille

Hello,

I looked at that a while ago in the context of voting systems. And yes, you can perform any operations on fully encrypted data. The flow is: user encrypts, sends data to system, system performs algorytm, system sends data to user (might be an other user) and decryption happends there...

Problem is it's slow...

So, they are proposing to solve the slowness...

Great.. But it woulf still be faster to do the compute on your own computer on unencrypted data!!!!

This seems like a solution looking for a problem!

Cyrille
Actually, they are some existing problems. In the case of voting for example, the problem is 'how do I add votes without knowing what the votes are'...
The subtelty here is that you have multiple user submiting data which needs to be agregated, and then decyphered at the end as a total...

I have a pixel 8,

And god, do I have a beef against it !!!

>I slid the phone across a desk and felt oddly satisfied that it could
> glide as neatly as a figure skater

This is just plain stupid, when I take my phone in my hand it feels so sleepery and insecure that I had to purchase a protection to put around it.
That protection is to make it "stick in my hand" more than to protect it from the fall...

Why would the make fragile, handheld devices easy to drop?

Grrrrrrrr

It might also be worth pointing out that once the rightholder has won that case, it will make it easier for him to go after the other offenders and slowly close the most gaping loopholes...

With regard to the "a 10 year old can get around it" comment... The reality is that most 50 year olds can not... in the same way that a 10 year old can go through a fence hole to grab an apple in someon's garden, a 50 year old can not...
Also, the 10 year old might do something illegal on purpose, but a 50 year old might realized, because he is blocked using the most obvious way, that this is illegal and it might be enough of a deterent to NOT look for an illegal sollution, even if he can find one.

Cyrille

Hello,

Amateur astronomer here, and I just want to say thank you!

Traditional Nasa projects are insanely expensive (10B for JWST for example).

But others have managed to do much more with much less. The European Extermely Large Telescope (39m) will tick at around 1 billon (only)...

With Starship (wouch could have taken up the JWST withotu having it folded!) it would be darn easy to send a Hubble class telescope (2.5m) in space. And Making 2.5m mirrors this days is a peice of cake (way under the million mark)...

So, yes, I have no doubt that 500 millons can found 4 télescopes, including one in space (especially if they use common design).

While you are at it, would it be possible for someone to convince Musk to put a couple of smaller telescope (like a 20 or 25cm class) in some starlink? Something that amateur astronomer could rent for picture time? This is something that is already done on Earh, but It would be awsome to be able to take pictures from "up there"!

Cyrille

I fail to see how cooling will work.

Cyrille

How about using Copyright laws? You are compying the gene I created! You are guilty!

I seem to remember a TV show with a girl that was a genetically created clone. And at one point they discover an ascii text in her DNA which is a copyright notice...

Now, could you enforce a contract signed by a "parent" on the child once adult? Probably not...

Cyrille

Hello,

This is surpising. I do not know anyone who has downloaded a single app from the win store...
So, why woudl someone need to download MORE than one? :)

Hello,

Once you train AI to understand that what is said is not always what is meant, it might be able to attack the problem of helping men understand what women want/mean when they say thinkgs like : "everything is OK!" or "no, don't worry, I will do it!" :-)

Cyrille

Hello, French guy here...

Germany (and spain for that mater), which you both hear boasting about "renewables", are only able to pull "ecological stunts" because when they are in the hole they know that they can rely on France to sell them nuclear electricity...

France does have issue with it's power generation (a lot of it self inflicted on overly agressive regulatory rules, not technical ones BTW, such as: the river is hot, so you can't use the water to cool down the plant, with a "regulatory temperature" that keeps being brought down, regardless of the fact that that temperature is a perfectly normal temperature in summer...).
France also does time nuclear upkeep for when it does know that it will have energy from others...
But these are perfectly controlled and planned things. which is the oposit of what is happening in Germany or Spain.

Cyrille

Hello,

Easy, if you live in Texas, or the US in general, it's most likely normal grid operations..

Here in France (unless you are in Spain), it's an attack :-)

Cyrille

Hello,

World citizen here (I have multiple nationalities and have lived on 4 continents)...

This is actually a great idea... For the rest of the world :-)

Movies is one of the MAIN way the US is exporting it's view of the world, it's "values"....
Movies ARE propaganda! And NO other nation has been as successful as the US at using said propaganda....

I live in Europe and I am DEAD TIRED of US movies (blockbusters mostly)...
Such tariffs will cause counter tariffs and we will see LESS of these crap movies here!

So, I say: go ahead, let's isolate the US from the world from a (movie) propaganda standpoint, it will only make things better :-)

Cyrille

Hello,

I was recently listening to a hearing of international chemical companies CEO at the french parlement...

Some very interesting exchange happened there where representatives will ask questions.

One representative asked about "returning some manufacturing to France" for "strategic reasons". This included molecules for medicine and some needed base products...

Later on, another representative (ecologist) talked about PFAS...

One of the CEOs answered (and I paraphrase) :

"Fluor is an element that forms VERY strong bonds and anything that has, or use Fluor is, or decays, for all intent and purpose, into a "forever chemical".

Fluor is present in over 40% of the medicine that we talked about earlier. And will be used in the manufacturing of another 20% of it.

As an ecologist, you want products that last. Fluor is one of the main components to make product last. Remove it and you get "low grade" plastics that decay faster.

We understand that PFAS are not good, but having them has a measurably huge effect through products that could not be done without them and through the quality improvements that they allow on other.

I guess our job is to make products that allow manufacturing of other products, your job as citizen representative is to find the balance between different conflicting needs and wants. In this meeting we are trying to give you the information that will help you understand what is at stake.
".

Interestingly enough, this answer was kind of candid in the delivery (the guy was an old school CEO who went up the rank), and really hit the nail on the head highlighting the difficulties of making such decision and I hope that, in Mexio as in France politician will take the time to think hard and long before deciding where to place the cursor.

Cyrille

Hello,

Actually, European MD have the same issue. Even worse...
Here in France a visit to the doc cost less then 30€ for around 20mn with the doc (of which you end up paying less than 5 after insurance).
This is a 90€ an hour for the doc who has to pay for the office he works form, supplies, computer software, potentially secretary, car for house visits...

They work long hours and late in life (as their studies are long)...

They do need to make more money (and are often fighting the government for it). But they do not seem to be "perverted" by bad intensives. In fact, they are more likely to refuse patients than the other way around because they don't have enough time...
Maybe it's a question about number of doc vs number of patients...

Cyrille

Hello,

Except that if it can "write the documentation" out of your function prototype, then it means that the function prototype is self explanatory enough and does not need documentation.

Let us take a function:
int addsTwoNumbers(int a, int b);

Adding 6 lines of "documentation"(*) above that reads:
// There is a function called addsTwoNumbers
// this function will take 2 inputs
// The first one called "a"
// and a second one called "b"
// The function will return the result of the addition of these 2 numbers

This is 100% worthless as it did NOT give any more information. All it did is diluted the existing information, making it longer and harder for me to get the information that I need...
Furthermore, let us say that I have 20 similar functions (add, sub, mul...). Before I could present them in a pack of 20 declaration (20 lines of text), make it easy to "find" the needed function, nicely fitting on one screen...

Now, with the extra documentation they will take over 120 lines, making it a lot of screen and making finding information quite hard...

So, I do not see the advantage of IA here...

Cyrille
*: yes I know it says '6' lines of documentation and they are only 5 lines there.. But tell me this is not "business as usual" for AI to make that type of mistake :-)