I think it is also more important to mention who ACTUALLY wiped the phone. Samuel wasn't the one who entered the code that wiped it, the customs/board patrol agent + FBI were the ones in possession of the phone and the ones who entered the code from everything I have read. If they had felt so confident in the fact there was evidence in there in the first place, the data would have been first cloned with a forensic data scientist and then that cloned data used to do any searches, keeping the original intact and exactly as taken so anything could hold up in a court of law...

The poster clearly said "The wife", it's very possible they did not have a choice in the car purchase ;)

I had to add minimum paragraph and sentence counts to the prompts it uses to keep it from trying to write a few terse sentences each time.

I noticed this in Claude (from DDG). It invariably tries to shorten sentences or make them more compact and concise. Sometimes that can be good, but most times long-winded sentences are what are needed.

Carrier pigeons? RFC 1132 (my fav).

You'll get my 56k modem when you pry it from my cold, dead hands (ok, it's in the box behind me, with the 40-pin cables...)

and there is no way I can find to make it stop popping up giant intrusive ads for their other services every single time I open it.

Just like Firefox. There is no easy way to turn off being harassed by an intrusive pop-up telling me about a new update.

There used to be. It was a simple checkbox. But somewhere along the way someone had to justify their existence and removed that simple checkbox in favor of harassment.

You're an ideological asshole.

"Moral panic"? So, they're not building, or want to build, a lot of datacenters where there's been drought for several years? UTAH? Or that industrial farming as it's done in the US has been drawing down the aquifer in the Great Plains to where they were already worrying?

And, of course, you're posting from the basement, having never seen, much less driven by a datacenter. I have been INSIDE a "normal" datacenter, at the NIH, and would have loved earplugs, but I had to speak to the person I was working with. Look around, there's a ton of recordings of what it sounds like driving by one. AND the vibration.

All of that, of course, ignores the fact that in three years, all the installed hardware will be obsolete, and the entire innards rebuilt (if they have the money, and the crash hasn't happened). And the tax breaks they want will NEVER be paid for.

So bugger off, ignorant troll

Hell, no. A week or two ago, we were coming back at night, and my wife, in the navigator seat, hit the map... and I suddenly have this REALLY BRIGHT SCREEN in the middle of my dash, and it's dark out - I was havintg trouble seeing the road.

And, of course, I looked around, and there's NO WAY to stop "Your Sirius Trial Has Started" *every* time I turn on the engine. And there was the story on /. the other week about BMW showing ADS (do not own a BMW)...

Actually, *I* AM a socialist. And you're a "Democrat" like I'm the King of England.

You're an ignorant fascist who has NO IDEA what the words socialist (or communist, for that matter), and think it's a naughty word.

Why you're on sladhdot, "news for nerds", when you wouldn't be caught dead in the RW with nerds - you're so stupid that you're not getting paid to post this propaganda. Go away, and enjoy your $4.50/gal gas, and the price of a restaurant meal is 150% of what it was before your deity chased all the farmworkers out of the US.

Would like to add one tidbit because I've had this same conversation at work. The professor stated they used AI to help edit only after hundred of hours of writing. In other words, they did the heavy lifting and only used AI at the end to help refine what they had already done.

Is this any different than a human editor? If I write a book, do what I can to edit it down, then go to an editor who makes suggests, removes or reorders parts, and so on, is that any different than having AI do the same thing? In both cases you wrote the words. In both cases you went somewhere else to help edit.

If people claim that using AI to edit a work is "cheating" because it's no longer your work, then the same should apply to a human editor.

I first got an account more than a dozen years ago, because that was the only way to find someone selling their Worldcon membership.

Then it turned into the only way to get my kids to talk to me, and friends who don't check their email for two weeks at a time.

Then my first novel, and later my second novel were published (small press, fuck self-publish), and as a writer, I *had* to be there.

I LOATHE it. They're all "devops", meaning that they break things constantly and fix them (partly) IN PRODUCTION.

Training a chatbot on a song means that the chatbot can play the song. And anyone can ask said chatbot to play it, meaning it *is* distribution.

Now, about how much the musicians will get from this is another story.

You mean Stalin. You should get it right, even if the Russians paying you don't approve of putting down Stalin.

Oh, you mean like Faux Noise laughing about Pelosi's husband being attacked with a hammer? Or about the ASSASSINATION of the Minnesota legislator, her husband, and her dog?

First, you flunked elementary school English. If you hadn't, you would have written "DemoCRATS".
Second of all, you don't want your tax money going to politicized instittutions? You mean like 47 trying to not send money for disasters, etc, to states that voted against him? You mean like a POLITICIZED DOJ, that's going after HIS perceived enemies? Like attacking Fauci, while brain-worm eaten, drug user is head of HHS? Shall I fucking go on?