Who gets to decide what's worthless?

Statistics do....

We track what jobs earn what...how many people get accepted in to what jobs on graduation....so, we only offer student loans to degrees that give the student the absolute highest chance of getting a good paying job, one what will allow them to pay off the loans in a reasonable manner.

From what I understand of the guy I'm not a fan and likely would like to see him nailed.

However, in this case...I don't think the govt has a case against him.

If they never got into the phone, how do they know there was evidence on there? How could they proved he wiped evidence if they had no clue what might be on there?

It also sounds like at the time, he wasn't under arrest? He had asked for a lawyer and had been refused?

He's not under any compulsion to give a password is he? They had the phone, nothing forced the authorities to trust anything he said....they could have tried forensics like they'd do if they had a safe and tried a safecracker to get in if the suspect didn't want to give the combination.

I just don't see the case they have....or if they do it has implications far wider for common citizens and their privacy.

You think only people that make millions pay back student loans?

No, please be serious.

BUT...we do have an incredible number of students that can NOT pay off their loans...hence all this call to have the US Tax payers pay their loans for them ie. loan forgiveness.

We need to quit giving out student loans and scholarships to people seeking worthless degrees....where these kids get into significant debt for fields that lead to jobs that do not pay enough for them to get that loan paid off....basically they become indentured servants for much of their adult life in a manner of speaking.

Let's met out student loans only to those pursuing degrees that are in fields that at least give them a fighting chance to earn enough money upon graduation and actually secure good jobs.

If you want to study underwater basket weaving, then find, do it on your own dollar, but no loaning of money to take worthless classes that do not need to meaningful jobs that earn $$ enough to pay the loans off AND lead to a happy level of livelihood and lifestyle.

You think influencers don't make money? Why do you imagine people keep doing it?

Sure I do....just like some people become multi-million dollar NBA basketball players, or earn millions doing Only Fans.

I believe that % of people after that goal that attain it are incredibly small.

Again, not massive enough success to risk hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loan debt they'll likely never pay off...

It's fair to say that small models are far less useful than large ones. They have some use, but ultimately are unsuitable for many tasks.

When you say "small models"....what size range are you talking about that you tested?

Well one thing that Apple is showing with their M chips....is that the shared memory structure is VERY capable of allowing individuals to run pretty large local models.....bypassing the need for most people to pay for Frontier model access on the clouds.

This also allows people to keep more privacy options as that their data needn't leave their private hardware at home.

I think growth in this area may lead to part of a bubble crash of the larger AI landscape.

This is already in the hands of of knowledgeable tinkerers....it won't be long till it is a click install app for the masses that have the hardware and Apple is already making that at prices MUCH less than buying NVIDA GPUs and windows.....

I don't know if this was by design or happy accident for Apple, but they got the leap on everyone with this.....we're just now seeing competitors come out with small AI designed boxes with this type of shared memory structure set up.

Are you saying gender isn't real?

I believe we have a LONG established class on this....Biology.

You really can't see why studying human social behavior and history could help in a job where you're dealing with the general public?

I don't see where "Gender Studies" would apply to any job really....no.

Either way, this "degree" in influencer...sounds like another one of those degrees that combined with a $1.50 will get you a cup of coffee (7-11 not Starbucks)....

I really hope to God there's no scholarships or Federal student loan money for this drivel.

I"m not against it being offered...hell, anyone should be able to study anything but stuff like this needs to be on their own dollar.

Let's tie Student Loans and such to degrees that actually stand a realistic chance for the masses studying it to EARN money after college with said degree.

Let's stop enabling kids to take on crippling loans to study things that don't give them a chance in hell of earning a living high enough to ever pay the fucking loan off, eh?

If even a quarter of what I've heard about Oracle's offerings being over-budget, never-on-time, never-on-spec shitshows is actually true,

In general this is NOT for Oracle services...this is site wide (for all of DOW) for enterprise database and other software licensing....

There are contractors for each branch and project that use and maintain databases and most of them are Oracle....lots of legacy systems and always something new on the horizon....but Oracle generally is NOT doing any work.

'79 928 says "Hello."

Ah...that sounds nice.

Do you still have it?

I lost my 930 in Katrina.....at one point on Google Maps I saw the black monster floating in my back yard....

:(

Reminds me of swapping out the radio in cars. Maybe people could bring that back? I did that on nearly every car I've owned.

Indeed I remember doing that...and used to LOVE to custom configure my cars audio system.

I research and save and save and get a new head unit, then save...get the amp, new speakers...etc.

I dunno...I guess today's youth isn't as interested in audio fidelity...but I sure miss it.

OnStar systems detect that a collision has occurred and dial 911 for you. The phone can't do this as well, though it could perhaps do it.

I believe iPhones do this too...?

I believe they call it Crash Detection.

Both of my vehicles are still stick shifts, a 5spd WRX and a 6spd Tacoma. You'll take them from my cold dead hands!

In my rather long life to date..I have never owned anything but 2 seater sports cars with manual transmissions.

Ok, the '86 911 Turbo Porsche "technically" had rear seats, but you couldn't fit more than a couple bags of groceries back there, so I don't really count that.

If I were to buy a new GM car...first thing I'd do (actually while researching the car)....is find out how to disable the fscking cellular connection and cut the damned thing off from the mothership completely.

I don't want over the air updates at their choice, nor telemetries, etc....

Hell at this point, I just may only be buying older cars if need be and keeping them in good running order.

I prefer manual transmission anyway....those are hard to get new. I'd love a new Vette, but a sports car with no manual transmission? A waste...