REGULATED capitalism is good. Unregulated is not. Personallly, I feel our government is doing far too little antitrust regulation right now, hence the media monopolies. Hoping the Dems will break them up when they regain power.

You have failed to understand what I am saying. Let me clarify.

I understand that the point of the Agents is to do things outside the sandbox. I am saying that doing this is an incredibly STUPID thing to do and that no one should attempt to do it.

You have misunderstood my argument. I am not talking about the current legal framework. I am talking about an obvious defect in the current legal framework.

Points:
1) Agents routinely violate the law. This has become obvious.
2) Before point one it was reasonable for us to let people have agents.
3) Now that point 1 has become obvious only an incompetent government would allow software that routinely breaks the law to be available. It would be similar to letting a car manufacturer create a car that spontaneously decides to accelerate to 160 mph.
4) Just as we would immediately outlaw a car that routinely and uncontrollably breaks the law, we need to do the same for AI agents. We need to CHANGE the current legal framework so that:
5) We must outlaw the use of AI agents out of their sandbox because the risk of them committing major felonies on their own is too high.

To summarize my point: Just because some genius creates a new idea and thinks it can do wonderful things does not mean we can ignore obvious and MAJOR ethical and legal problems with it. We should outlaw ANY technology that has such major and critical risks of felonies.

Compiz was GREAT even if you ignored literally all of the visual effect "slop" as you call it. It's got a great set of tools for controlling windows, including window rules which are very powerful. If you don't know about those other tools then you should perhaps have spent more time in ccsm back when it was relevant.

Unfortunately, as you say it is for X11 only (although for me that is not a drawback because Wayland is still bad, especially if you have Nvidia and I do) and more importantly it is not well-maintained software and it's therefore flaky AF, so it's not relevant now.

Feels like such an announcement should include a few examples and their relative performance stats. Instead, the main linked article includes nothing of the sort, and Meta's announcement only notes it would fit in 20gb of memory, so you'd only need a 24gb or 32gb card - normal consumer level stuff, right? /s

If you have a decent CPU it might run on that at half speed or so.

That sounds like a kids toy I wouldn't be surprised to see in the store at any point in the future. Reminds me of those toy phones that would play canned messages, but pop in a small LLM for the replies.

We agree on them installing methane extraction pipes. The actual details of the methane ignitions are pretty shaky, mine was based on hearsay of oral history, so I'm not sure where the methane ignited. There don't seem to be any reports of people being harmed by it. I think we agree on the area smelling bad from long before the Amphitheater was built to long after it was built too. In retrospect, probably not a good idea to build anything on top of a huge pile of rotting garbage!

"This wasn't a hack. This was the AI doing *exactly* what it was told to do."

He didn't hack the AI. The AI hacked the booking website. Hacking means making hardware or software do something it wasn't designed to do. It doesn't mean it's hard.

While all that is true, the USA has been doing exactly the same thing, so just go ahead and mention that to maintain perspective.

Treason isn't defined by morality, but by giving aid or comfort to the enemy.

We'd have to define one of these dictatorships that Trump is always jerking off as an enemy and not merely an adversary to make it big-"T"-Treason.

Congress lacks any semblance of a spine so that's not happening.

Lolol some armchair warrior hates facts.

I get trained on HIPAA every year...

Is this something you do often?

No, it's pretty much one day a year (but usually several times on that day): spring cleanup (though my smizmar and I call it "truck day" (*)).

It's uncompostable/tainted yard waste, even furniture (if it's in truly horrible shape), and all sorts of other random trashy shit. When it happens, the amount of resulting trash is many times the size of our trash bin or what can even be put on on the curb for "large item pickup." The usual weekly process is overwhelmed and can't handle it; there simply isn't room. So we haul it.

* "Truck day" because I decided paying $72 to rent U-haul's big pickup truck for a few hours is preferable to paying $72k to buy a big pickup truck. And it usually gets used for more than just dumping trash; it's often a large-item shopping day too. (To be next decade's trash? Don't ask!)

Look, I can see allowing an AI to do things in it's own sandbox.

But when you allow an AI out of the secure environment it will commit crimes. This is no longer a question, it is a proven fact, multiple times.

So if you have an AI agent and it breaks the law, then YOU are breaking the law. The only way to stop this is to outlaw AI Agents - or to arrest the people whose AI breaks the law.

Otherwise all sociopaths will get AI agents and use it as a defense. Owning an AI agent is no different than owning a meth lab. We should not need to prove that you intended to break the law, just having it happen is enough.

Keep your AI locked up inside your computer, do not let it interact with the real world the way people do because it will commit crimes. You ARE responsible for what it does, even if you are just an idiot that likes AI and does not understand the dangers you are inflicting on the rest of the world.

By complete coincidence I recently purchased this cordless angle grinder kit after watching a glowing review from one of my regular channels and wondering how good it could be for $75. It's not as good as a Milwaukee but I've been using it around the house and I'm going to modify a shoe rack with it this evening.

Of course this has nothing to do with the story and surely these aren't the types of arms the Framers envisioned when they set the foundation of upholding the Constitution upon the duties of the Citizenry.

Matching a bad picture of a license plate should not be considered probably cause for an arrest. It certainly doesn't prove who was actually driving the vehicle...