The story links to the WSJ article, but that article doesn't link to the report. Google doesn't seem to have it either. Anybody got a link?

Here's another aspect to consider:

The investigations and teeth-gnashing were justified, and she should have been held accountable for it; if you or I had done anything similar we would have been in prison in about 45 minutes. But alas, nothing happened.

Now "the other side" is doing it, and "our side wants accountability" is just as hypocritical. That is plenty of hypocrisy to go around to all sides. BOTH parties need to be behind bars, but as long as accountability is a lost cause in DC, this will continue to be a problem.

How long until this administration kills off NIST? Any bets?

I'm not disagreeing with you; I think I agree with your basis idea that businesses shouldn't get a R&D free ride at taxpayer expense, but your comments raise some questions.

If the business risk to researching and developing some new drug or technology is very high with the chance of success and profit very low, do you think a business will take on that risk? That's why the government which, for better off for worse, has no target profit in mind takes on high-risk research that may eventually yield success and benefit the public. GPS is an example of this. Do you think that any commercial entity would have had the resources to develop this technology?

Second question, feeding off the first: If a new technology/drug/etc is developed by the government, who else is going to commercialize it for the benefit of the public?

Is there no third option, European based tech?

I mean if I was in Europe and offered these "options," I'd look for homegrown too

I saw what you did there...bravo!

Signed,
Tux

I'm in agreement with you re: typing vs. handwriting. I've tried to go paperless several times in my work notes, but always go back to the black Moleskin notebook and flags to highlight to-do items. Even with search functions in apps like OneNote, I tend to remember where I wrote something and can find it faster ("it was halfway down on the right side page back in Octoberish...ahh there it is.").

What basis did this Thayer guy claim he could claim copyright? The AI system allegedly created the "art" "spontaneously" without his input so why does he think he can claim copyright?

I also tend to doubt either word applies here, "spontaneously" or "art."

"Trying the ad capability out" is testing it in a lab under controlled conditions.

This is "seeing what we can get away with."

Who didn't see this coming?

Or explained explosions caused by anti-ship missiles and/or torpedoes.

Make it very clear to the ship crews: screw around with the cables and it will be the last thing you ever do.

I was thinking the same. "If you need a free office suite, you could just use LibreOffice and not worry about ads."

CowboyNeal would approve.

Isn't "tedious, undifferentiated tasks such as learning codebases, writing and reviewing documentation, testing, managing deployments, troubleshooting issues or finding and fixing vulnerabilities" part of development? I don't do much coding anymore, but developing code involves all these things, not just entering lines of code into a project.

There is already an optical form of archiving--print.

Archive copies of data should not be working copies. Archive copies are meant to be put somewhere safe so they can be recalled if needed. Want searchable digital copies? Those are working copies, meant to be poked and prodded and searched. If they get corrupted or run into a technological dead end where they can't be converted to a new format, you carefully re-scan the archive copies. The archive copies go back into protective storage and the new digital copies go out into the world.

Printed forms of the data aren't convenient to search that's for sure--but properly made (archive-quality ink and acid-free paper, etc) and preserved they can last centuries. And you don't have to worry about the file format being impossible to read by future technology. We have already seen that digital archives can disappear like a fart in the wind.

Paper isn't perfect but in my experience proves to be a better archive vehicle of anything that can be preserved on paper than anything digital.