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Comment Re:NOT REQUIRED TO COMPLY (Score 1) 43

If it was a secure government facility, I would also turn that around to say their auditors are welcome to visit as long as we could conduct full background checks on every single of them. Also they would not be allowed to bring any recording devices into our facilities and strip searches would be required before and after.

Maybe somewhere there is a facility or SCIF that requires a strip search to enter, but I've never been in one and I never heard of such. I doubt that a bunch of BSA auditors would ever even know about the existence of that kind of place anyway, let alone need to enter one.

But the DoD procurement process also is pretty slow an thorough. They don't purchase until the vendor has the cleared support staff available to service the software. If that includes auditors, you can bet that will be in the contract. When I had to be in those kinds of facilities for a previous job, there were people from the likes of Adobe, Oracle, and Microsoft coming in and out all day and they all had CACs.

If a contractor or sub signs a contract they can't legally comply with because of their government obligations, then that's on them. They need to break the contract with the vendor, stop using the offending software, pay whatever penalties, and then be left scrambling to meet their government obligations.

Comment Re:Fill this niche (Score 1) 191

Sounds like we need a new streaming service which only streams songs which are in the public domain.

There are commercial services that you can subscribe to that include a license to play the music in public. You only need to be paying ASCAP, BMI etc directly if you are just playing from a Spotify playlist or MP3 server or something.

Comment Re:AGI is jargon for 'REAL artificial intelligence (Score 1) 61

Beating a chess master was once thought unthinkable but it happened almost 30 years ago.

That's because we used to think that playing chess well required a sentient human-level intelligence. It turns out that no, you just need a good algorithm and a boatload of data. It's not that the goal posts for AI have moved, it's that our understanding of the problem domain has changed. Chess just isn't a good litmus test for general intelligence.

I don't think we really have a good scientific understanding of what constitutes "general intelligence", but we know it when we see it, and I think most people would agree that LLMs and "generative AI" ain't it.

Comment Re:So the ruling class isn't going to allow that (Score 2) 40

If a hospital goes from 100% funded to 88% funded it very well might 100% close. Also medicaid disproportionally funds care in small towns and rural communities, so the effect is not evenly distributed. People with limited mobility and ability to afford travel/relocation might see services they depend on to survive disappear.

Comment Re:Illegal fireworks (Score 1) 112

I live in Boston and if you are in one of the unofficially designated "safe zones", mostly municipal baseball/soccer fields, then the cops and FD turn a blind eye to alcohol and fireworks ordinances on and around the 4th. I'm sure if it got out of hand they would shut it down, but I've seen folks set off some pretty serious ordinance without any incident. Mostly people just bring coolers and enjoy watching the 5 guys who decided to blow a couple month's rent on fireworks go to town.

Comment Re: Not a plan every nation can emulate. (Score 1) 250

Airplanes don't go to a lot of the places you might want to drive to in the US. You'd have to fly into the nearest airport, rent a car, and then drive to your destination. This would take much longer and cost more than driving there directly. Do I wish that we had a better rail network that went everywhere I would want to go, yes of course, but we don't, and won't in my lifetime.

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