The Mi Box is just an Android TV box, so you can run Kodi and use whatever network sharing method you like.

We can build wind and solar farms or if we put them next to cities we don't care about nuclear power plants so it's at least possible to meet energy demand even if it's unlikely as long as the right wing are in charge since as always who's going to pay for it right?

But you can't magic water out of the sky. Climate change is fucking up the water cycle. So we are in a drought and that is probably going to continue.

Data centers want fresh clean drinkable water and they want to fill it with deadly chemicals because that's the cheapest way to cool their data centers. The chemicals are necessary to prevent the water from gunking Up their cooling systems however it means you can't recycle the water. The data center could recycle that water but that costs money and they are already blowing through it like crazy.

Even if individual people still have water in their pipes, which is by no means a guarantee anymore, farms are going to be short on water and that means food prices are going to go up. And that means the price of everything goes up because you have to pay people enough money that they can eat enough calories to at least survive or they start to get violent.

And yeah I'm sure there's a bunch of people who own guns looking forward to occasionally getting to shoot somebody in cold blood. Most people I know who own a lot of guns think that sounds awesome.

But when it's not just the occasional punk kid but is a systemic problem what you're going to find is was hungry people find themselves a demagogue and organize themselves into a military and they come at you. And your stash of knock off AK-47s isn't going to stand up against a organized military force of any size.

Remember you have to shoot every single one of them but they only have to shoot you once.

If only there was a Wikipedia page abo-oh, wait.
Enforcement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Detection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Do you know how I found this out? Hint: it wasn't by asking AI.

Aren't they Wallmart's own brand, as in innately shit?

I've liked Panasonic TVs before, but now they have sold the business to a Chinese company I will have to properly evaluate one when the time comes. My main Panasonic is from 2012 and still going strong. It's used as a dumb display with an Nvidia Shield, which Nvidia has replaced twice outside of warranty. Their hardware may be unreliable crap, but at least they give you a replacement for free.

Honestly, if you don't care about games, get a Mi Box, not a Shield.

If you don't have a Wallmart account, it becomes a dumb TV, which is a significant improvement for many people.

Until it hallucinates and adds something that wasn't there or changes the meaning significantly. In my experience, AI is really good at screwing things up in ways that nobody expects. And if the people making the changes aren't subject-matter experts, but are just doing drive-by edits to try to make things more digestible, they might not notice the errors if they are subtle enough. Allowing any random person to do stuff like that could potentially cause a lot of damage really quickly.

Until it steals the chart blatantly from somebody's published book, and Wikipedia gets sued for copyright infringement. Wikipedia isn't just trying to protect itself from erroneous data. It's trying to protect itself from liability. With user-uploaded content, the user can self-certify that they have the right to upload it, and apart from user incompetence, that's usually going to be good enough. With AI-generated images, it is impossible for a user to know for certain whether what they are uploading is infringing, and would be hard to later prove which AI generated the diagram to transfer the liability to the AI company.

But the biggest risk, IMO, would be asking it to make a chart with numbers from some table. It could manipulate the numbers, and if someone isn't checking closely, they might not see the error, but the incorrect chart could easily mislead people. AI-based chart generation seems way more likely to introduce errors than a human copying and pasting the table into a spreadsheet and generating the chart with traditional non-AI-based tools.

And after a few months, people will complain that the content is constantly wrong, the editors over there will give up trying to keep the error rate under control, and anyone with a clue will come running back to Wikipedia.

Trick that never works.

But I am personally offended by the original sloppy and vacuous Subject, apparently motivated by the lust to FP because of something Colbert said that made the rest of us laugh. Probably at the actual Insight, to be contrasted to whatever idiocy that motivated some moderator to designate such an FP as insightful.

A hug? Thanks? Or no thanks? Mostly seems like it's too late for that trick to help much.

I'd propose a solution approach, but the moderators have already declared this a no-Funny zone.

The conservative right wouldn't have voted for Harris anyway. That's not why he won.

He won because the Democrats care about whether their candidate stumbles across words and speaks incoherently, so Biden was pressured to step down, and Harris was forced to step up at the last second, with nobody really knowing who she was or who she stood for, thus limiting her ability to bring voters out.

He won because the Democrats weren't clueful enough to get Biden to fully step down and make Harris the next President immediately, which would have given the public months of seeing her actually lead the country.

If he really was struggling, then he won because Biden did not step down and let Harris take power before people started questioning whether he was fit to be in office.

He won because Biden did not recognize that he would have a hard time running again and allow an open primary.

He won because the Republicans were able to paint it as a coverup of Biden's feeble-mindedness, and the Democrats weren't able to show people that struggling mentally when you're physically fatigued isn't inherently a sign of dementia.

He won because Democrats had too much class to use the dementia card on Trump, either first or in retaliation.

He won because too many people conveniently forgot what a disaster he was during his first term, and too many people gave him a pass for the economic damage he did, and the folks prosecuting him for crimes were way too slow so it was still going at the next election.

He won because Kamala Harris was a center-right Democrat who tried to put on progressive clothes to get votes, then swung back towards the center again to get votes. Her time as a prosecutor draws into question her progressive bona fides. That meant the left didn't come out to vote.

I really don't understand why the only two women candidates that Democrats have run have at least appeared to be at the authoritarian end of their party. That doesn't win the presidency unless you're running as a Republican. Both of these candidates were mistakes. There are plenty of women in the Democratic party who would have been better choices.

In short, there were so many things wrong with her candidacy that it's hard to count them all. Gender and race were likely not a meaningful part of why she lost, or at least there are so many other confounding factors that it would be impossible to pin it on either of those.

Congratulations. You have fed the troll and propagated its vacuous Subject. You can collect your prize... In Canada!

Japan's postal service uses lots of electric vehicles, both vans and motorcycles. Seem to work well enough, so I'm not really getting the target of your Funny. The YOB appointed a guy with a vested interest in destroying the postal service, and he seems to be accomplishing his mission.

Solutions? On Slashdot? ROFLMAO.

But what if we used email to make postal mail more convenient? A user-controlled linkage between email and physical address? Naw, that trick would never work.

And this is the only comment moderated Funny on the rich target story? Seems to be evidence that your joke is too true to be funny.

I actually have a funny idea about a solution, but it wouldn't be funny to waste much time on it given the current state of the Slashdot. But going for brevity, I think much of what ails us is confusion between "free" in the monetary sense and "freedom" in the important sense of allowing for new and innovative thoughts. From that perspective, the First Amendment needs a rewrite. Something to distinguish non-profit free speech from for-profit free speech with the profits subject to taxation. Dare I say progressive taxation? Or how about a higher tax rate if the profits are based on proven lies? Some of the tax revenue could even be used to compensate victims when the lies hurt people... Then consider it in light of copyright... With a higher tax rate for plagiarism? And what about persistent liars who aren't in it for the money? Religious fanatics come to mind. Already lost in the complexities. Yet another simplistic solution joke "trick that never works" in here somewhere.

Oh yeah. About the story. Reddit must be making money somehow or it would have gone away by now. But I've never found any value there, even before the AI slop arrived. I've looked the website many times going back many years, but I am unable to remember any examples of good or useful information that I got there. Some of it sounded interesting, but generally the more interesting the less plausible.

But at least it wasn't used for welding.

I concur and still remember many details from The Soul of a New Machine many decades after reading it. Makes me feel used up to hear that he's gone. And my age now feels too close to his...

Most recent of his books that I read was called Mountains Beyond Mountains about Dr Paul Farmer, another great man who died relatively young... Turns out I haven't been able to find any of his other books locally, which surprised me.

The USA wants your missiles to go to military targets, so we can either intercept them or handle the damage. We don't want them hitting daycares. So we want accuracy from our adversaries. If anything, it's easier to intercept. But we're not Russia. We'd rather see our soldiers die than babies.

You can say whatever you want in a vacuum, but you have to compare superpowers to superpowers. I'd much rather be a civilian in a nation attacked by Israel than Iran. At least with the USA and Israel, civilian casualties are a mistake. With Russia, it's part of their plan. They intentionally bomb civilian infrastructure targets. Iran endorses terrorism and killing of civilians and funds groups to do so...on a scale that civilized nations cannot match....so again...pull your head out of your ass.

Nations need to be judged compared to PEER nations, not in isolation.