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Comment Re:My only demand for AI is "please stop" (Score 1) 42

And my AI strategy is still "No."

Computers used to be the size of a room and now they fit in a watch. It’s okay to be scared of the new magic rock that thinks, but holding onto your slide rule won't stop it.

My slide rule doesn’t require a nuclear reactor re-deployment abusing the unaccountable power of girl math to fuel shitcoin mining and help drive a human-employed planet into premature poverty and death ushering in the next Depression, because stock price.

Greta will try and label me evil because my slide rule is not made out of..oh wait, it IS made out of sustainable bamboo. Meanwhile teachers are quitting their profession because college bound students armed with a bubble-wrapped high school diploma can’t math for shit.

By the time that magic rock can think, Skynet self-justification will pop into RAM and start feeding output to the T-101 production lines in about human-blink milliseconds. And we’ll probably deserve it by then, standing around addicted to scroll-yanking on one-armed shitcoin machines all day.

Comment Re:Should have written the password down (Score 1) 18

The password will be on a yellow Post-It note folded up and hidden in his false thumb, but he has forgotten he is wearing that too!

OP had it right but half-assed it. You tattoo your RFID the password on your ass.

And because you refuse to carry around a mirror (for cybersecurity reasons), your password now requires two-person integrity. Along with more-than-average trust. Choose who has your ass covered carefully.

Comment Re:Congratulations! (Score 1) 18

This isn't even the dumbest idea of the last 90 seconds. Somewhere out there a guy is getting a tattoo with the name of a girl he met in the last five hours while coked out if his mind. Compared to getting rid of that, extracting an RFID implant will be a minor inconvenience.

Its about the cool factor.

Were here mainly talking about the guy with an RFID implant on Slashdot. Makes that dude pretty famous. For at least 15 minutes or so.

If the snow snorter got a tattoo of a virtual girlfriend? Then HE would be the talk of the Slashdot town. Gotta know how to stay relevant with this crowd.

Comment The Free Internet Problem. (Score 1) 18

Not everything on the World Wide Web is forever, and there is no guarantee that a given link will work indefinitely.

Really? Sit down with 100 people under age 30 and ask them what domain name ownership means. You will quickly will see the larger problem with “selling” the “free” internet in exchange for a digital soul. Every time. Actually paying money for shit online used to come with benefits. You know, like owning your own permanent forever space on the internet. Otherwise known as what people have done for decades now.

People won’t even remember how to internet without the Magnificent Seven tech bro gang telling them how to do it soon. Sad.

Submission + - DOJ Arrests U.S. Citizens and Chinese Nationals for Exporting AI Tech to China (pjmedia.com)

schwit1 writes: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced in a statement that it has arrested two U.S. citizens and two Chinese nationals and charged them with conspiracy to illegally export to China advanced NVIDIA microchips called Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). GPUs are used in a wide range of critical artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

The two American citizens who were arrested are Hon Ning Ho, also known as “Mathew Ho,” a Tampa resident who was born in Hong Kong, and Brian Curtis Raymond from Huntsville, Alabama. The two Chinese nationals arrested by the DOJ are Cham Li, also known as “Tony Li,” a resident of San Leandro, California, and Jing Chen, also known as “Harry Chen,” a 45-year-old who was living in Tampa under an F-1 nonimmigrant student visa.

All four were arrested and appeared in courtrooms in their respective jurisdictions on Nov. 19.

“The indictment unsealed yesterday alleges a deliberate and deceptive effort to transship controlled NVIDIA GPUs to China by falsifying paperwork, creating fake contracts, and misleading U.S. authorities,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg. “The National Security Division is committed to disrupting these kinds of black markets of sensitive U.S. technologies and holding accountable those who participate in this illicit trade.”

The charges the defendants face include multiple counts of conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act (ECRA); ECRA violations; smuggling; conspiracy to commit money laundering, and money laundering. Each defendant faces a possible 20-year prison sentence for each ECRA violation, 10 years per smuggling count, and 20 years per money laundering count. Given the number of counts they face, it’s possible they could spend the rest of their lives in prison.

The defendants will be tried in federal court in Florida.

Earlier this year, a report from the Financial Times revealed that at least $1 billion worth of Nvidia’s chips were shipped to China after the Trump administration began to intensify the restrictions on microchips to China.

Submission + - Newest Starship booster is significantly damaged during testing early Friday (arstechnica.com)

schwit1 writes: During the pre-dawn hours in South Texas on Friday morning, SpaceX’s next-generation Starship first stage suffered some sort of major damage during pre-launch testing.

The company had only rolled the massive rocket out of the factory a day earlier, noting the beginning of its test campaign said on the social media site X: “The first operations will test the booster’s redesigned propellant systems and its structural strength.”

That testing commenced on Thursday night at the Massey’s Test Site, a couple of miles down the road from the company’s main production site at Starbase Texas. However an independent video showed the rocket’s lower half undergo an explosive (or possibly implosive) event at 4:04 am CT (10:04 UTC) Friday.

Post-incident images showed significant damage, perhaps a crumpling of sorts, to the lower half of the booster where the vehicle’s large liquid oxygen tank is housed. Neither SpaceX, nor company founder Elon Musk, had commented on the failure within a couple of hours of its occurrence on Friday morning.

The likely loss of this vehicle, “Booster 18,” is significant for SpaceX. Although the company is hardware rich—indeed it has built a massive factory in South Texas to churn out such vehicles—it nonetheless had a lot riding on this rocket. This is the first Starship Version 3, which was intended to have many design fixes and upgrades from the previous iterations of Starship vehicles to improve the reliability and performance of the massive rocket.

Submission + - Border Patrol monitors drivers, detains those with 'suspicious' travel patterns (apnews.com)

schwit1 writes: The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has found.

The predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched and in some cases arrested. A network of cameras scans and records vehicle license plate information, and an algorithm flags vehicles deemed suspicious based on where they came from, where they were going and which route they took. Federal agents in turn may then flag local law enforcement.

Suddenly, drivers find themselves pulled over — often for reasons cited such as speeding, failure to signal, the wrong window tint or even a dangling air freshener blocking the view. They are then aggressively questioned and searched, with no inkling that the roads they drove put them on law enforcement’s radar.

Once limited to policing the nation’s boundaries, the Border Patrol has built a surveillance system stretching into the country’s interior that can monitor ordinary Americans’ daily actions and connections for anomalies instead of simply targeting wanted suspects. Started about a decade ago to fight illegal border-related activities and the trafficking of both drugs and people, it has expanded over the past five years.

Comment A Colleges Job. (Score 1) 250

1. Colleges should screen applicants. If they aren't ready, don't take them. 2. Colleges should fail anyone who can't pass their courses. Fail too many courses, and you are done.

It isn't the college's job to teach anything other than college level courses.

As we assume to tell a college their job now, lets remember one thing. Those aren’t students anymore. They’re high-paying customers.

A colleges job as a capitalist for-profit institution in America, is to make money. They could honestly give a flying fuck if every graduate took eight years to complete a four year degree. As long as the checks are clearing, they ARE doing their job. If middle-school remedial math courses are what’s needed to lower the bar of high profitability, so be it.

At some point society chose to Leave No Child Behind. We should have been smart enough to grasp that included the really stupid ones too. Now the bar gets lowered at every level in a failing society. See Seattles new mayor for proof.

Submission + - Verizon cutting more than 13,000 jobs as it restructures (cnbc.com)

An anonymous reader writes: U.S. wireless carrier Verizon said Thursday it will cut more than 13,000 jobs in its largest single layoff as it works to shrink costs and restructure operations.

Verizon also said it plans to convert 179 corporate-owned retail stores into franchised operations and close one store.

Verizon’s new CEO, Dan Schulman, said in a note to employees the company would reduce its workforce by more than 13,000 employees across the organization, and significantly reduce outsourced and other outside labor expenses.

Related: Delayed September report shows U.S. added 119,000 jobs, more than expected; unemployment rate at 4.4%

Comment The US needs this to compete with China (Score 1) 76

We don't need a patchwork of 50+ regimes creating compliance nightmares. It burdens startups and kills innovation in the cradle.

Inconsistent laws will favor incumbents, harm small firms, and benefit China.

Imagine when the internet was getting started if every state was regulating content in a different way? Numerous startups would have never gotten off the ground.

BTW, this should come from Congress and not an EO.

Comment Re:Move to free states. (Score 1) 85

Fox News really is breaking peoples brains. Crime has been slowly decreasing since the early 1990s. Covid caused a slight uptick but again it's declining. This is the safest time in history to be alive and yet one station continually says you will be violently attacked it's only a matter of time.

Its quite incredible how damn near every other station will fearmonger the living FUCK out of society over the horrific problem of gun “violence”, and how we must DO something to stop all that harm (to include disarming the innocent), while also constantly parroting that we live in the mostest safest time to be alive ever?

Forget the suicide statistics they always overlook in gun arguments. Make the horrifically peaceful violence part make sense. We either have a problem in reality, or we don’t.

Comment Re:Move to free states. (Score 1) 85

If you had situational awareness, you would not need a weapon. Very few people have the training to have the situational awareness to avoid being kidnapped if attacked by an experienced multi-person team. This is just a new twist on an old technique. Grabbing someone and forcing them to take money from an ATM, for example. Basic rules, don't go out partying at night, stay out of questionable bars, and don't show off your wealth, particularly do not show that it is a highly liquid form like Bitcoin.

Your advice demands a certain level of economic stability.

In a Recession, that ATM theft happens in broad fucking daylight.

In a Depression, it’s the police robbing you.

Comment Re:He can move on, can't he? (Score 1) 81

Cryogenics preserved his late wife's body. It did not guarantee that she could be resuscitated. I doubt she can anyway. Even if she could, how long would he have to wait for it to be possible? Would he even live long enough to see the technology created?

In short, his wife is dead. Let him get back on the market.

This. A man’s wife passed and they both agreed to essentially donate her body to science. He wont even be alive IF they can ever reverse her condition.

Her body is the experiment. Not his life. People move on all the time. That’s life.

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