Comment Thank you for the heads up (Score 1) 6
I now am dependent in part for my livelihood on paypal. Going to check my contact info there now.
Comment Bose (Score 2) 21
Buy Other Stereo Equipment
Better Off Something Else
No highs no lows it must be bose
Comment Re:Nothingburger (Score 1) 59
Only one of the exploit chains requires LFI, there's other paths of triggering the exploit
Comment That's easier to do (Score 4, Insightful) 124
Before you go public, as you control all the shares. What's SpaceX going to do? You think Elmo is going to give up the shares, or is he going to issue 73 million more and dilute the price?
Comment Like so many other things... (Score 2) 6
Paypal used to be a useful tool that did useful things. Now it's just a way for rich people and con artists to extract money from others who apparently don't know better. It's infuriating how many nonprofits are losing truck loads of cash to paypal as the fees continue to climb. The ones I'm involved with switch to Zelle a while back for the majority of all transfers and that has been a huge step in the right direction though of course not without its own set of tax weirdness.
Comment Letters of Support (Score 1) 56
Sounds like 46 more targets of investigation.
Comment Re:What do you actually get from the newest consol (Score 1) 70
That sounds a bit circular there. The argument is to get the newest hardware to run the newest software, but the newest software is specifically written only to run on the newest hardware - actual benefits of the hardware be damned. Certainly Sony and Microsoft wouldn't be selling these newest consoles if there wasn't money to be made doing so (regardless of where the profit actually lies for them).
It's just a hugely diminishing return at this point from my perspective. 2nd generation consoles -> 3rd generation consoles was a tremendous leap. 3rd generation -> 4th generation was a tremendous leap as well. 4th generation -> 5th generation was a bit less of a leap than before. 5th generation -> 6th generation was still significant but still smaller than before. We're now in the 8th and 9th generation of consoles, and not only do many people find the 8th and 9th generation titles indistinguishable from each other, many people have a hard time seeing benefits of even the 9th generation over the 7th generation.
Obviously the whole bit still makes a ton of money. Obviously folks don't care what I think of it. I'm going to say it anyways. Maybe I'll go yell at a cloud after lunch.
It's just a hugely diminishing return at this point from my perspective. 2nd generation consoles -> 3rd generation consoles was a tremendous leap. 3rd generation -> 4th generation was a tremendous leap as well. 4th generation -> 5th generation was a bit less of a leap than before. 5th generation -> 6th generation was still significant but still smaller than before. We're now in the 8th and 9th generation of consoles, and not only do many people find the 8th and 9th generation titles indistinguishable from each other, many people have a hard time seeing benefits of even the 9th generation over the 7th generation.
Obviously the whole bit still makes a ton of money. Obviously folks don't care what I think of it. I'm going to say it anyways. Maybe I'll go yell at a cloud after lunch.
Submission + - IMF Warns of the real AI threat: Debt (imf.org)
databasecowgirl writes: Along with the dangers of continuing cyberattacks, the IMF reports that the threat of an AI market crash is putting the global markets at risk.
Three salient risks could trigger a sharp tightening of financial conditions and market turmoil. Weaker or less durable investment and profitability in artificial intelligence could lead to a correction in AI-related asset prices, amplified by rising leverage and concentrated exposures. Resurgent inflation or fiscal concerns could drive a sharp rise in sovereign bond yields, with potentially broad repercussions across financial markets. Meanwhile, increasingly sophisticated cyber threats pose growing risks as finance becomes more digital and interconnected.
Three salient risks could trigger a sharp tightening of financial conditions and market turmoil. Weaker or less durable investment and profitability in artificial intelligence could lead to a correction in AI-related asset prices, amplified by rising leverage and concentrated exposures. Resurgent inflation or fiscal concerns could drive a sharp rise in sovereign bond yields, with potentially broad repercussions across financial markets. Meanwhile, increasingly sophisticated cyber threats pose growing risks as finance becomes more digital and interconnected.
Comment It wouldn't matter (Score 3, Insightful) 236
Unless they're secretly training on all your chats despite them saying they're not.
Comment Re: mostly mash-ups of existing techniques (Score 1) 136
Leave the 1800's weavers be, they had a hard enough go of it.
You could, instead, attempt to actually answer any of those questions. Because I'm noticing a severe lack of answers forthcoming and instead the masses are resorting the screaming insults and burying their heads in the sand. VERY disappointing from a 6-digit.
Comment Re:Yes because despite what cowards think (Score 1) 69
As a footnote, I'd add my surprise if people weren't already war-driving protests and getting a log of everyone present. At least to the extent they have a log of your phone's ID, which you can bet your ass they can tie to your ID if you've ever handed out your phone number or purchased anything or logged into anything with your phone. Leave it on airplane mode or put it in a faraday bag.
Comment What do you actually get from the newest consoles? (Score 1) 70
I'll start by saying I've never owned a console from Microsoft or Sony. I've seen them, I've seen game demos in stores, etc, but I've never owned one.
To me as one random consumer I fail to see the drive to upgrade from PS4 to PS5, or from the previous XBox to the newest. The games don't look that different. For that matter, it doesn't seem that the two consoles are really offering much difference from each other either. Both consoles are primarily hawking the newest Quake look-alike, or the latest professional (or college) sports titles. I see very few games for either that don't fit into one of those categories.
In other words my argument here is that they have sold to their core market already, and the demand has dissolved for the rest of the public. Even if we ignore the cost, the benefit is no longer clear to many people. Why upgrade to the newest console, other than to say you have it?
To me as one random consumer I fail to see the drive to upgrade from PS4 to PS5, or from the previous XBox to the newest. The games don't look that different. For that matter, it doesn't seem that the two consoles are really offering much difference from each other either. Both consoles are primarily hawking the newest Quake look-alike, or the latest professional (or college) sports titles. I see very few games for either that don't fit into one of those categories.
In other words my argument here is that they have sold to their core market already, and the demand has dissolved for the rest of the public. Even if we ignore the cost, the benefit is no longer clear to many people. Why upgrade to the newest console, other than to say you have it?
Journal Journal: Which side of the abortion debate is racist again?
My current job has me driving quite a bit; on the order of around 25,000 miles annually. I get a lot of time to myself to think while I'm driving, and I see a lot of billboards. I noticed something a while ago about all the anti-abortion billboards though, that I have yet to see an exception to.
Comment Re:mostly mash-ups of existing techniques (Score 0) 136
LLMs, by definition, cannot usefully contribute to anything that requires more than rearranging existing data. Rearranging existing data is their only function.
....THIS is what gets upvoted on Slashdot these days? Woooooooooow.
Y'all are going to have to explain how they show more creativity than humans.
How they can solve problems that require reasoning. Go ahead and simply ask it one. Or make up a new puzzle and ask it that. To any level of depth you wish to make it.
Or how they can solve things where brute-forcing the solution would take longer than the heat death of the universe.
Do any of you have any evidence it "put puzzle pieces together" to find novel cancer treatments?
Seriously guys, obvious neo-luddite mindrot propaganda? From people of your caliber? Your ID length?
Comment Re:you cant be serious. (Score 2) 220
Strike one, which is just shitty journalism: The linked news article doesn't link to the study. So no, this here slashdot article isn't putting out a paper that spells out what they did.
The University of Limerick has a page dedicated to it which links to the actual paper.
Go for it.
