Canada of all places. It is huge, and EV's have terrible range, and cold, which will limit range even further. I've driven across it - this is a plan to strand people in the middle of nowhere in the freezing cold. It can be done, of course, over time, with technological improvements, and sufficient infrastructure, etc. Anything is *possible*. But this is way too agressive, and rural Canada is a terrible, and dangerous, testing ground for this technology.

If you don't believe in the source of the money, say no.

It's a feature, not a bug. LLM's mimic language based off of statistics. They have no way of evaluating facts. If you constrain them by facts, you will hobble what they are good at, which is prose. They are creative by nature. They are liberal arts. If you want facts, I hear Google does a pretty mean search engine.

Academics steered towards useful research. Students want to do something impactful. These companies are giving them the chance.

If I ever need Anonymous to take a stand for my rights, I will shine a Guy Fawkes mask onto the clouds. Until then I am more than capable of managing what I do and do not want to stand for. Do not presume to speak or act for me.

Meh. Nobody is perfect.

That is not even close to the message being sent. You can hate whoever you want without consequence. However, if you kill someone without justification, you will die. That is the message. Not that hopeful liberal garbage you quoted.

The guy is a scumbag who deserves to die. I don't see the controversy. I am Canadian by the way.

In my experience, this is not even remotely true. Whether a program works or not is often binary, or broken into binary components. Stylistic marks do exist, but only minimally, and I have never seen a failing grade based on style.

I seem to remember in the past slashdot had more level-headed responses than knee-jerk "how dare you" responses. Or maybe I am remembering things wrong. Or maybe I am on tumblr by mistake?

Yes, all of these things you mentioned have resulted in less software jobs. Oh wait.

Anyone hear of it?

Seriously. I believe I have heard every single argument from either side about a thousand times, and that was just this morning. Agree to disagree already. Maybe find another hobby that isn't a complete waste of time. If I did happen to have an interest in someone's belief one way or the other, I would ask about it.

Time is relative too. If you and I are in the same room we appear to be in the same "time" the same way that the Earth appears to be flat, because the difference is too small to notice. But the "time" of you or I or any given particle is as distinct as its space. Of course, the ramifications are not quite that simple (because of time's arrow, etc), but it seems well within accepted theories.

At least, that is my take. I am a physics hobbyist, so it is entirely possible that I have completely misinterpreted the underlying theory. If I did, uh, well, sorry, and best of luck with all that photon stuff!

It should be a fine, like $100, that can be charged to the owner of the IP, a lot like automated speeding tickets. Enough to be a deterrent, but not enough to ruin anyone's life. Like speeding, we know that it is technically wrong, but sometimes we want to do it anyway and run the risk of getting caught. And like speeding, piracy will never be eliminated.

The other thing it would do is eliminate these type of shakedowns. Because there is the risk that one day it is a not so sensible judge, and people's lives are ruined because one time they downloaded a Steven Seagal movie or Paul Blart Mall Cop.