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Comment Re:Double speak (Score 1) 18

There is no way to balance mass surveillance with "privacy, security, and the freedom that we enjoy in this country"

Count the sheer number of audio and video recording devices connected to a worldwide network within 100 feet of you. Right now.

Any desire to maintain “balance” was lost long ago. Around 1949 to be precise. When the fucking instruction manual for 1984 was written.

Submission + - Pneumonic plague outbreak hits Siberia as lab worker, 28, dies (hotair.com)

schwit1 writes: A suspected plague outbreak has erupted in Russia — killing a young lab worker, forcing nearly 200 people into isolation and triggering accusations that Vladimir Putin’s regime is trying to keep the infection’s possible spread under wraps.

The alarm was raised in Siberia after a worker at an anti-plague laboratory died of the disease, which killed tens of millions in the medieval Black Death, according to a report from The Moscow Times.

Anna Popova, who heads Russia’s public-health watchdog, then rushed 2,600 miles from Moscow to the Irkutsk region as authorities quarantined a hospital and placed scores of people who had come into contact with the victim under medical observation.

"FSB units accompanying ambulances transporting people who had been in contact with [lab tech] Shipilova for medical examination," as per local news. This is significant. FSB is Russia's domestic security / counterintelligence service, tasked w/implementing the national security of Russia." (Its predecessor was the KGB). This suggests quarantine was not voluntary.

It also means Russian authorities are treating the lab accident and plague outbreak as a national security issue, involving a lot more than routine public health.

https://x.com/AnnieJacobsen/st...

Comment Re:Fuck you Larry Ellison (Score 1) 47

One party gave us brain dead then word salad, and your upset with one personality in the other party. You mad a single clown at a passable circus, vs the carnival that let the lion eat the front row, and then upped ticket prices because a great show will happen again. Think you forget the trumps were rich before anyone got involved in politics, the Bidens only got rich when they had tied down jobs because of the old mans power on senate committees. Trump has 2 more years, the democrats being worthless pieces of shit continues since Bill Clinton figured out how to "influence people".

Comment Re:This shit needs to stop (Score 1) 18

..Students in higher education are supposed to specialize in a subject, not in a fucking company.

You sure about that? Follow the scholarship money yet? Just how sponsored, is that degree based on millions of campus funds “donated” out of the tax-deducted goodness of a mega-corps bleeding heart?

Be careful what you ask for. Education coffers, just might get it.

Comment Playing vs. Reading..? (Score 1) 37

Perhaps after 165 million games played there is little substitute for the real thing. But given how AI (and humans) often learn a game to the level of building strategy, is there a reason these AIs weren’t merely trained by first reading every Stratego strategy book?

I’ve not heard of a single Grandmaster that has ever reached that level by simply playing the game of chess. They read about it. A lot.

Comment Re:SI: Subpar Intelligence (Score 1) 64

I think SI is a fine title because despite all tricks it can do, it still fails in basic ways that even idiots don't. As such, Subpar Intelligence is the title it has earned. I don't need anyone telling me about hypothetical futures because I'm talking about right-damn-now.

Right-damn-now, is ToddlerAI.

A four-year old little fuckshit who isn't mature in any way. Easily persuaded and often delusional. Can be triggered by bending over Madagascar to abuse nonsensically in an asinine-flavored sentence with little more than an educator testing integrity.

Comment Re:Twiggy returns. (Score 1) 105

..I replaced the hard drive and battery as it was of an era where things like replaceable batteries and hard drives were a thing. That one even had two slots for hard drives.

Repairing capable hardware to extend the life of tech and create an actual sustainable product?

Why that's certainly no way for the Go Green Generation to fill landfills with fashionable addiction and crash a stock market with a Magnificent amount of corrupt capture..

Comment Re:Dumb and McDumber moves. (Score 1) 161

Maybe that's actually a measure of how bad the inflation is.

The electronic price price tag on the grocery store shelf is updated in HFT real-time now, tied directly to the price-per-gallon of diesel fuel at the pump.

Inflation has no fucking idea how to measure the economy anymore when it has become that corrupt.

Submission + - SpaceX Set To Receive $84.5 Billion From Anthropic In AI Capacity Payments (wccftech.com)

An anonymous reader writes: With AI giant Anthropic gearing up for its IPO, the firm has entered into agreements worth billions of dollars with SpaceX, according to documents viewed by Reuters. The revelation casts more light on both companies, following SpaceX's SEC disclosures following its IPO and the nature of the contracts which allow Anthropic to cancel the agreements with a three-month notice. The deals come as Elon Musk aggressively expands his data center capacity to bring more than a million GPUs online by the end of this year.

Submission + - California scientist emerges as possible Tylenol murders suspect (sfgate.com)

schwit1 writes: A man found dead in a church halfway across the country may have suddenly unlocked the key — quite literally — to one of America’s most famous unsolved crimes.

But although he had a successful career, working at one point for Lockheed Martin on a NASA-related project in New Mexico, Betkouski had a reputation for making unsettling comments. Former coworkers told Cooper that Betkouski spoke of how to commit a “perfect crime,” had a “history of volatility" and referenced cyanide as an ideal way to kill without detection. He also mentioned putting poison in over-the-counter medication, an especially worrisome comment coming from someone who had worked in multiple drugstores.

“It was said that Dr. Betkouski attempted to obtain some type of pills or capsules from a pharmacy in the Las Cruces area,” Cooper said at a press conference last week. “He said this would be for an experiment. For reasons not fully understood, Dr. Betkouski created a disturbance at the location and the police were summoned.”

Less than three months before Betkouski killed himself, a national terror was unfolding in Chicago. In late September 1982, seven people took over-the-counter Tylenol for their usual aches and pains. The capsules had been opened and filled with potassium cyanide, killing the people who took them.

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