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Comment Re:No the only issue (Score 1) 240

Next issue is how long will it be supported ?
7 years after last manufacture, so 8 years total if each year is a new model ?

I have a 2001 Honda Civic Ex and 2002 CR-V Ex, both 5spd manuals with 136k and 62k miles respectively. They're both in great condition. They don't have any of the modern electronic crap and I have trouble imagining that all this stuff will be supported on newer vehicles for 25+ years - or at least not inexpensively.

Comment Re:Doesn't it support it? (Score 4, Insightful) 97

Granted it's in a different discipline, but the instructor having to use AI to write backs up the claim that people are forgetting things by using AI. It's a bit ironic for other reasons, but still supports the point.

On the other hand, she was born in Bulgaria, so English is probably a second language, so getting help writing a piece to be published doesn't seem unreasonable. I imagine she also had other people review a more completed revision before submission.

Comment To be fair to the professor ... (Score 2) 97

To be fair, she's a Math teacher, not an English or writing teacher - Wilipedia says born in Bulgaria, so I'm guessing English is a second language - so her getting help from AI with the writing part is different than if it had helped her with any math in the article, which I couldn't tell from TFA as it's paywalled, and it's different than her math students getting help or answers from AI on math assignments - the thing they're there to learn. To round this out, students getting help from AI explaining and/or expanding on answers they've already solved themselves seems okay.

Comment Re:Just another grift (Score 3, Interesting) 149

99.44% chance that this is about sending more tax money to ol' musky.

Or just more business to 5G broadband from cell companies which is about 100-300 Mbps. I'm guessing cell companies prefer that as they don't have to install and maintain cabling to homes and businesses.

Comment Note to self (Score 1) 53

The service aims to quickly deliver packages of up to 5 pounds or less ...

Always order at least 6 pounds of stuff.

I wonder if they'll use these in places with military air bases. I'm a few miles from a Navy master jet base, with an Air Force base a bit farther away, and I doubt they'd be thrilled at having to track these things.

Comment Different responses (Score 5, Insightful) 215

It's unclear why X seems to serve ragebait to Democrats more often than Republicans. 404 Media speculates that it may be because there's more rightwing content on X overall or that Democrats tend to engage with posts they disagree with more often.

Republicans instead storm The Capital, assault police and threaten to hang the Vice President - then get pardoned by a Republican. Or conspire to kidnap governors... Yes, I'm painting Republicans with a broad brush, but a LOT of them aren't denouncing those people and keep supporting the party.

Comment Re:Beneficial use of the EM spectrum (Score 4, Interesting) 136

Spewing non-stop lies over the airwaves is not that use.

Probably why they chose to *not* air Trump's speech. MSNOW often states this as a reason for not airing Trump speeches live and/or in their entirety -- too many lies, misrepresentations and bullshit from Trump and those in his administration.

Comment Joke's on them ... (Score 2) 110

If you plan to just wait it out on an older AM4 or LGA1700 motherboard with DDR4, you'd better hope your memory holds out too, because DDR4 isn't safe from the fallout.

Hah! All my systems use DDR3 and DDR2, and I've got a bunch of spare modules in the closet. :-)

My Windows 10 system is a DELL XPS-420 I got from a friend with 8GB DDR2 and my Linux Mint system, which was built from parts, has a ASRock Z77 Extreme3 motherboard from a friend on which I put an Intel Core i7-3770 and 32GB DDR3. Both run great, btw. I have a few other old(er) systems, including a Dell PowerEdge T110 (unused) that has 32GB ECC DDR3 and the AMD motherboard from an HP a6130n with a Athlon 64 X2 (B) 5000+ and 8GB DDR2 that I'm using as my OPNsense router/firewall -- I switched to that when a bad "won't fix" security bulletin was announce for my D-Link DSR-250 as I had the system lying around, so it was cheaper and more flexible than getting something new/dedicated. All my systems have SSDs for the systems files and I've added SATA3 PCI cards to the systems with only SATA2 on the motherboard (except for the OPNsense system). None of them are powerhouses, but they're fine and do what I need them to do pretty well. As a bonus, from a home security standpoint, I don't think anyone would ever want to steal any of them. :-)

Comment Re:Can't wait for a story about failed anonymizati (Score 1) 50

You know it's going to happen - someone in charge of replacing/stripping all the names and replacing them with numbers, or whatever, is going to fail at some level. A bunch of PII will go into Gemini, and they won't be able to sue Spirit, because they won't exist, and Google will definitely make sure their contract excuses them from any liability.

It doesn't even have to fail. I would bet Google has enough other data that they use re-associate at least some of this data. How many people use Google services with their flight (or hotel) information for alerts, calendar, flight tracking, etc...

Comment Re:99.98% (Score 1) 120

and

"A correct alert was sent to the retailer, but was subsequently subject to human error in the way it was handled in store,"

So was the guy a shoplifter or not? Because apparently not and the human error was acting on the alert it seems. Sounds like the front fell off.

Exactly. You don't send an "alert" for a non-event. If the guy wasn't flagged, why was an alert sent? Doesn't sound correct to me. If the software just notes possible matches, subject to human review then say that, but it sounds like it's trying to do more or store staff is relying on it rather than thinking for themselves.

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