Comment Re:Backups? (Score 1) 42
To be fair sand is rough on floppy drives.
Comment Re: "Does anybody buy in" (Score 2) 133
It's quite common globally since long before "pervert glasses".
Image boards like 4chan often have threads with poster-supplied content. If you want to understand humanity, look to its vilest preferences.
Comment How effective is IR floodlighting? (Score 4, Interesting) 133
Unlike RF jamming IR floodlighting is harmless to communications.
What (theoretically of course) would be required for a discreet 360-degree IR flood zone of useful depth?
Knowing countermeasures makes sense in an irreversibly declining-trust society. What are the most effective? The least disruptive to legitimate (which means communication, not concealed photographic spying) uses?
Comment Without detailed information on storage (Score 1) 130
The parent is useless. Slashdot was once a tech site instead of this general news for the typical retard.
Anyone have some QUALITY reading material on the subject? We will never see that from the editors who really should be replaced by AI which would do a better job on a bad day than they've done for many years.
Comment Media bullshitted America for views. (Score 1) 118
Media bullshitted America for views since long before electricity.
Fear sells to the simpleton masses terrified of what they don't understand. US literacy is poor and comprehension terrible.
This will not improve because intelligence is not a choice.
Comment Your downvoter posted no argument. (Score 1) 118
So they posted none.
Creators are free to compete and create collectively or their own.
They sell their work for what the market will bear if they want money. If they wish to create for arts sake they are free to use AI to enhance their product with their professional insight, or ignore it and market their work on its own merits as determined by the customer.
The market will decide. Artists are free to create but not entitled to customers. Anyone is free to create for the joy of it. If they want money they serve the customer.
The vast majority of entertainment has always been trifling so what is really at stake when automating kitsch generation? If Great Artists are so great, they are free to prove it independently.
Comment Development does not require empowering AI (Score 1) 119
Development does not require empowering AI to do act upon anything important.
That's not really been part of the discussion because greed.
Submission + - First Agentic AI Data Breach Reported to Spanish Regulator (securityweek.com)
wiredmikey writes: Spain’s data protection regulator is investigating what may be the first reported personal-data breach executed through an AI agent. According to the filing, the agent allegedly chained together a successful login, vulnerability discovery, modification of personal data, and access to invoices.
Details remain limited, and researchers caution against assuming a “rogue AI” scenario. Still, the incident raises a consequential question for defenders: as attackers use agents to plan, execute, and adapt at machine speed, will traditional human-led detection and response remain fast enough?
Details remain limited, and researchers caution against assuming a “rogue AI” scenario. Still, the incident raises a consequential question for defenders: as attackers use agents to plan, execute, and adapt at machine speed, will traditional human-led detection and response remain fast enough?
Submission + - Why can't M$ get any UI/UX changes right? (pcmag.com)
golem100 writes: A couple weeks ago PCMag, and others, wrote articles along the lines of: "Microsoft Finally Backs Down: The Windows 11 Taskbar Update You've Been Waiting For". This is currently implemented with CU KB5120998 and since M$ has elected to defer "activation" of this feature--some two weeks later for most users it still needs to be enabled by the ViVe tool: vivetool /enable /id:59213768,61090762
Um, No...
The fundamental set of [lost] attributes that this "We brought Movable TaskBar back" lacks:
You can not control the position of the TaskBar on each desktop monitor--example: I have four displays on my desktop, three Landscape & one of which is in a Portrait orientation for reading documents.
With Windows7/8/10 you could position the TaskBar so that it was "Out of the way" and each display--on the right side of the right-most Landscape, on the left for the left-most Landscape display, & on the top/bottom for the Portrait. [same as my desktop on my Linux workstation]
Now you still get the same Taskbar alignment on all desktops.
You can not "resize" the taskbar. (well, you can--it has three sizes: too big, too small, and really way too small) For the previous three generations of the OS you could "Drag-Select" and resize the TaskBar to be the correct size for your needs on your desktop. [...just as I can on my KDE Desktop!]
With this implementation, 1/3 of the Taskbar real estate is consumed with "TaskBar-Tray Notification Icons."
Nobody asked for a partial, broken, re-implementation. The ask was: "Put it Back as it was!"
Dealing with M$ is pretty much like getting your 15 year old to do their chores on garbage night.
Um, No...
The fundamental set of [lost] attributes that this "We brought Movable TaskBar back" lacks:
You can not control the position of the TaskBar on each desktop monitor--example: I have four displays on my desktop, three Landscape & one of which is in a Portrait orientation for reading documents.
With Windows7/8/10 you could position the TaskBar so that it was "Out of the way" and each display--on the right side of the right-most Landscape, on the left for the left-most Landscape display, & on the top/bottom for the Portrait. [same as my desktop on my Linux workstation]
Now you still get the same Taskbar alignment on all desktops.
You can not "resize" the taskbar. (well, you can--it has three sizes: too big, too small, and really way too small) For the previous three generations of the OS you could "Drag-Select" and resize the TaskBar to be the correct size for your needs on your desktop. [...just as I can on my KDE Desktop!]
With this implementation, 1/3 of the Taskbar real estate is consumed with "TaskBar-Tray Notification Icons."
Nobody asked for a partial, broken, re-implementation. The ask was: "Put it Back as it was!"
Dealing with M$ is pretty much like getting your 15 year old to do their chores on garbage night.
Comment Presumption of eternal suckage is mere grumbling. (Score 1, Troll) 118
No matter how many old men yell at clouds, tools improve.
Presuming AI will remain crude is odd for techies but Slashdot (by management, especially moderator intent) is no longer a tech site.
There are no inherent obstacles to effective use of AI. Successful movies already use computer-generated content aplenty. The Matrix is now very old news.
Comment The industry does not exist to support its workers (Score 1) 118
The entertainment industry exists for profit, not welfare.
The gaming industry is already larger than Hollywood and
animation (by any name) will only improve.
Scripts are "code". Interposing fewer humans between script and finished result lowers costs and democratizes production by reducing physical (including equipment and set) footprint.
As movies obsoleted theater so computers are obsoleting old ways to make video. That's a natural evolution, similar to how CNC machining obsoleted factory floors of manual standard and specialty manual machine tools. Those tools still exist and get frequent use, but not for mass production.
Submission + - Hackers Stole Flockâ(TM)s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks (404media.co)
alternative_right writes: While much of the automatic license plate readerâ(TM)s (ALPR) most sensitive storage remained encrypted and inaccessible, the joint analysis of the recovered data shows that software running on the device explicitly detects people as well as vehicles, license plates, and bicycles. The camera can produce dozens of images of a single passing vehicle and, according to several weeks of recovered logs, generated more than a million images. Its computer-vision software also sometimes isolated bumper stickers and other graphics, including, in one case, an American flag patch on a motorcyclistâ(TM)s saddlebag.
Comment Re:Ok, but⦠(Score 5, Insightful) 153
Considerably more difficult than you imagine. Between them, they have almost 70 command-line options or flags. Taking into account that many of those behave differently depending on the presence or absence of other flags, there's a couple hundred different code paths. Then you need to handle directories, files, sparse files, sym- and hard-links, on and across different filesystems, not to mention the various file-like things scattered around (pipes, streams, etc.)
It's not rocket science, but neither is it trivial.
Comment agencies (Score 1) 165
agencies can't be trusted to oversee themselves.
We knew that. But now we have proof.
Will anything happen because of that? Nah, I don't think so. A few token gestures maybe. A friendly mail to everyone saying to write better reasons, followed up by an informal mail that tells them to ignore the previous one.
This isn't a mistake. It's intentional. The more arbitrary and uncontrolled the police can act, the more it is feared, the more it is a tool for oppression and not a part of civil society, the more likely the cops will stand on the side of the powerful when there are protests or uprisings against the increasing oppression and economic divide.
Submission + - China's Top Spy Chief Warns AI Is a Threat to Party Rule (gvwire.com)
fjo3 writes: China’s top spy chief has warned that artificial intelligence could pose a direct threat to the Chinese Communist Party’s hold on power, in what is the highest-level and most detailed articulation yet of how Beijing sees the technology’s security risks.
The unusually blunt assessment by Chen Yixin, the head of China’s Ministry of State Security, is in contrast to the warnings dominating the AI debate in the United States, which have focused on the possibility that AI could slip out of human control or pose a threat to humanity itself.
In an article published Sunday in the state-run magazine China Cyberspace, Chen called for more party control over AI and stricter government oversight. This, he said, was necessary to protect political stability at home; to defend against increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks and misinformation campaigns from “hostile forces”; and to compete militarily with countries like the United States.
The unusually blunt assessment by Chen Yixin, the head of China’s Ministry of State Security, is in contrast to the warnings dominating the AI debate in the United States, which have focused on the possibility that AI could slip out of human control or pose a threat to humanity itself.
In an article published Sunday in the state-run magazine China Cyberspace, Chen called for more party control over AI and stricter government oversight. This, he said, was necessary to protect political stability at home; to defend against increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks and misinformation campaigns from “hostile forces”; and to compete militarily with countries like the United States.
