an AI model somewhere. If there is ever another Democrat president here in the states then Microsoft will get a very very tiny hand slap for illegally using the data without notice and go about their business with a massive trove of your information used to train the AI design to replace you at work...

"You will own nothing and be happy"

Or you can install Linux and potentially be a hell of a lot happier/safer/free.

Great for them. No great for home and regular business consumers who can no longer afford memory or storage anymore :(

Industrial espionage may help you with EUV lithography, but it sure isn't the main part of the problem.
(Actually, from what I've read recently, Chinese companies are going 3D before they get to EUV levels. That's another way around the problem. But you need to deal with a worse heat problem.)

Why would this be surprising? They know if is or has been registered right?

Exactly - how else would Microsoft be doing it? I would say this started in the Windows XP era where they tied your Windows activation key to the hardware IDs. Change your CPU and you might have to re-activate Windows. Or change your motherboard. Or change your network card.

Microsoft always hashed your hardware IDs to form a unique hardware ID they used to tie to your activation key. If you tried to install Windows XP on multiple PCs and use the same key Microsoft would notice and disable your key.

It's the credit card Network. And this is a slashvertisment.

They will pay about $2k a month on that for the rest of their lives... Their starting pay will be about $6k/mo more than that.

The math is not hard here.

You are just noticing it because there are people looking for it. It's the whole, you get what you measure thing. The fabricated data doesn't really do any harm and the people putting out the fabricated data don't usually go very far in their careers unless they get hired by an oil company or something to fake data. And in those cases everybody knows the data is fake we just pretend it isn't so we can drive big fucking SUVs with big cool noisy engines.

Science is about results that can be consistently repeated. The amount of money spent on that fabricated data isn't even a glitch in the system for our economy. We have hundreds of billions of dollars every year spend on propaganda to make you vote to raise your own taxes but a few billion a year on useless research mixed in with useful research and everyone is suddenly freaking the fuck out.

That's not an accident. Part of that propaganda budget I mentioned earlier is making sure you get angry at scientists. You are being manipulated in the most transparent and obvious way imaginable. It's up to you whether you continue to play along with that.

The free speech of scientists we're going after basic reality at this point. What's frustrating is this is a science and technology focused forum and it's amazing how many people chose identity politics over science.

The right wing is very much all about identity politics and not just about bitching about other people's identity politics. When you are in the right wing you are constantly having to express your right wing identity. That's why they're so obsessed with criminalizing abortion and going after gay people. It's a way to let everybody know they are right wing and part of the right wing group. It's identity politics only the identity here is right-wing extremism.

Hollerith cards would be funny, but the real joke would be if it was copied to those 96-column cards IBM invented for their updated keypunch. The square ones with the small round holes rather than the large rectangular ones.

Actually there was a period when most of the CDs I wrote failed. Switching CD writers fixed that problem. (I suspect timing was involved.) But I haven't had that problem in the past several years. (Not that I burn that many CDs, but it's several/year.)

Actually, that's the way science is *supposed* to be set up. But when results are difficult to confirm, the process can be quite slow. And when fake results are easy, they can drown the process in noise. You need the signal to be enough stronger than the noise, and the noise level has been rising.

Partially this is because of corporate science, which isn't shared. Partially this is because of "publish or perish". The addition of AI assisted fabrications is recent, but adds significantly to the noise.

We need better filters

It's a feedback loop. Calling him the reason is oversimplifying.

The question is, is the payment rate optional? You may expect to get a good paying job, but this may well not happen.

At the current time I would think taking on debt for a student loan would be a bad idea. I expect many expertises to become obsolete rapidly, and I don't feel like anyone really knows which of those it will be.

In America the government doesn't pay for the humanities. Private grants do. It's extremely cheap to get somebody a Masters or doctorate in the humanities. You basically just need to pay for a teacher and some rooms. And the rooms are mostly optional.

The real expense here is training doctors and advanced nurses and scientists. You can't do that with just a couple of guys and a room that gets used once a week.

So that's where the cuts got made because that's of course where the cuts get made.

The government here isn't interfering it's just cutting a check. In America the government traditionally avoids stepping into or having anything to do with school curriculum unless our religious nut jobs get involved. In which case they try to force whatever version of the Bible they like best on children.

As for market manipulation the market does a terrible job in educating people. The market focuses on short-term profitability so they can stuff as much cash into the pocket of the owners as it possibly can. You don't get good education out of that because education takes way the hell too long to pay off. What you get out of that is shitty diploma Mills.

There is a damn good reason we have governments and that's because the market can't solve every problem. The market does great with shit like hot dogs and twinkies. Things that people can live without and it can have a lot of competition. And even there the government has to step in and make sure that there is competition.