Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 2
One fact checker rates this "mostly true": https://www.factcheckradar.com...
Submission + - Feds Want to Drop Requirement for Autonomous Cars to Have a Brake Pedal (caranddriver.com)
sinij writes:
Braking distance regulations would stick around, but the physical pedals would no longer be required for cars designed to be exclusively autonomous.
I would want any autonomous car to have emergency brake and/or shutoff.
Comment Re:Typical (Score 1) 125
So your take is that consumers want data collection in their vehicles and buying cars based on that? These anti-features have nothing to do with consumer choice, nobody wants them.
Comment Re:Cool! (Score 1) 125
Next do Ford, GM, and Tesla.
This is not limited to US-based manufacturers. Toyota and Subaru also does this and AFAIK they are Japanese companies. KIA and Hyundai does this and they are Korean.
Comment Re:The best outcome... (Score 1) 125
The best possible outcome would be for consumers to be able to buy an EV with no data collection spyware, subscriptions for existing features, and mandatory over the air updates. If this becomes an option due to this Connected Vehicles Rule, then US-based manufacturers may have to stop their anti-consumer practices.
Comment Charging for it? (Score 1) 1
What is also outrageous is that Springer charging 39.95 for digital versions of Planck's papers. Parasites.
Comment Good requirement (Score 1) 108
I had a major storm that shut down power for days. Everything went down, including cell service. cable, etc. Only my DSL and landline phone kept working because of legacy laws that required telephone lines to be operational in such cases. I can take care of my own house, I have backup generator, but only teleco can take care of communication infrastructure and they won't unless mandated by law, as doing so costs them money.
Comment Re:Pony up (Score 1) 204
Again, you are failing to understand why people like Slate.
Bolt has telematics collection via OnStar that is very involved to disable. While Bolt is cheap, it is like most modern EVs is not repairable outside of dealerships. So Bolt is F on privacy and C- on repairability.
Bolt has telematics collection via OnStar that is very involved to disable. While Bolt is cheap, it is like most modern EVs is not repairable outside of dealerships. So Bolt is F on privacy and C- on repairability.
Submission + - Max Planck Slapped With Paper Retractions by Suspected Rogue Algorithm (science.org) 1
He Who Has No Name writes: Being a titan in the history of physics, the 1918 Nobel Laureate in Physics, having the smallest rational physical measurement (the Planck Length) named after you, and being deceased for 79 years is all apparently still not enough to prevent your work from being threshed and hit with retractions by an algorithm. Science.org has a succinct article that explains it:
"In early May, Yves Gingras, a historian of physics at the University of Quebec (UQ) at Montreal, was browsing Retraction Watch, a website that catalogs fraud, data manipulation, and other scientific sins. He noticed a link that read, “Retractions by Nobel Prize winners.” Were there really Nobel laureates whose papers had been withdrawn from the scientific literature?
After clicking, Gingras froze. “That’s impossible,” he recalls thinking. The fourth name on the list, with two retracted papers, was Max Planck—a legendary pioneer of quantum mechanics and the 1918 Nobel laureate in physics. Gingras had never heard a whiff of scandal about Planck, who was almost as widely revered for his character as his physics. In 1933, for example, he bravely confronted Adolf Hitler over Nazi Germany’s discriminatory laws against Jews."
The Springer Nature, the current-day owner of the journal Naturwissenschaften in which the papers were published 86 years ago, appears to have set an algorithm loose on their library, hunting for plagiarism and other reasons to retract papers... and failed to tell it to leave historic cornerstone works and authors alone.
"The retraction of the second Planck paper, published in 1940, left Gingras and Khelfaoui even more baffled. It also cited copyright violation—yet the piece had never appeared elsewhere. Then Khelfaoui noticed something that added to suspicions that an algorithm was at work. [...] In November 1940, philosopher Aloys Müller criticized Planck’s views in a Naturwissenschaften piece titled “Naturwissenschaft und reale Außenwelt” (“Natural Science and the Real External World”). A month later, Planck responded in print—and used the exact same title. This, Gingras and Khelfaoui suspect, caused Springer Nature’s copyright bot to retract the paper as plagiarism decades later, even though the contents of the two essays differ markedly."
However, apparently feeling like they had to retract the paper was not enough to fully dissuade Springer Nature from still selling it, in its retracted form:
"Gingras was especially incensed that Springer Nature deviated from the normal practice of merely slapping the word RETRACTED across the digital version of the paper while still allowing scholars to read the text. Instead, the publisher posted a blank white page with the cryptic phrase, “This article has been withdrawn due to article violation.” Springer Nature is nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95."
"In early May, Yves Gingras, a historian of physics at the University of Quebec (UQ) at Montreal, was browsing Retraction Watch, a website that catalogs fraud, data manipulation, and other scientific sins. He noticed a link that read, “Retractions by Nobel Prize winners.” Were there really Nobel laureates whose papers had been withdrawn from the scientific literature?
After clicking, Gingras froze. “That’s impossible,” he recalls thinking. The fourth name on the list, with two retracted papers, was Max Planck—a legendary pioneer of quantum mechanics and the 1918 Nobel laureate in physics. Gingras had never heard a whiff of scandal about Planck, who was almost as widely revered for his character as his physics. In 1933, for example, he bravely confronted Adolf Hitler over Nazi Germany’s discriminatory laws against Jews."
The Springer Nature, the current-day owner of the journal Naturwissenschaften in which the papers were published 86 years ago, appears to have set an algorithm loose on their library, hunting for plagiarism and other reasons to retract papers... and failed to tell it to leave historic cornerstone works and authors alone.
"The retraction of the second Planck paper, published in 1940, left Gingras and Khelfaoui even more baffled. It also cited copyright violation—yet the piece had never appeared elsewhere. Then Khelfaoui noticed something that added to suspicions that an algorithm was at work. [...] In November 1940, philosopher Aloys Müller criticized Planck’s views in a Naturwissenschaften piece titled “Naturwissenschaft und reale Außenwelt” (“Natural Science and the Real External World”). A month later, Planck responded in print—and used the exact same title. This, Gingras and Khelfaoui suspect, caused Springer Nature’s copyright bot to retract the paper as plagiarism decades later, even though the contents of the two essays differ markedly."
However, apparently feeling like they had to retract the paper was not enough to fully dissuade Springer Nature from still selling it, in its retracted form:
"Gingras was especially incensed that Springer Nature deviated from the normal practice of merely slapping the word RETRACTED across the digital version of the paper while still allowing scholars to read the text. Instead, the publisher posted a blank white page with the cryptic phrase, “This article has been withdrawn due to article violation.” Springer Nature is nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95."
Comment Re:Pony up (Score 0) 204
So you saying younger people are too stupid to value privacy and right to repair and only "the crotchety old fucks" value it? What a dumb take.
Comment Re:Pony up (Score 1) 204
This is exactly what I want. Unfortunately, it has only 2 doors. Hope near-future mod to convert it into 4 door vehicle.
Comment Hope it succeeds (Score 1) 204
I am really tired of gimmick-galore screen overload modern vehicles. Slate is a breath of fresh air in being basic. I hope they make 4 door version next.
Submission + - When AI Becomes Judge, Jury, and Appeals Court (medium.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A Medium article explores the growing use of AI for account enforcement and moderation decisions on large social platforms. The author argues that the real issue isn't AI making mistakes—mistakes are inevitable—but the lack of meaningful human review when those mistakes occur.
The article describes an account suspension process in which an AI system made the initial enforcement decision, an automated appeal upheld it, and human support representatives were reportedly unable to revisit the case because it had already been marked as resolved.
The broader question raised is one of governance rather than technology: if platforms increasingly rely on AI to make decisions that can revoke access to social networks, communications, communities, purchased hardware ecosystems, and digital identities, what level of human oversight should be required?
The article also discusses the concept of "blast radius" in system design, arguing that centralized digital identity systems amplify the consequences of false positives when enforcement actions cascade across multiple services.
What level of human review should be required when AI systems are empowered to make decisions with significant real-world consequences?
The article describes an account suspension process in which an AI system made the initial enforcement decision, an automated appeal upheld it, and human support representatives were reportedly unable to revisit the case because it had already been marked as resolved.
The broader question raised is one of governance rather than technology: if platforms increasingly rely on AI to make decisions that can revoke access to social networks, communications, communities, purchased hardware ecosystems, and digital identities, what level of human oversight should be required?
The article also discusses the concept of "blast radius" in system design, arguing that centralized digital identity systems amplify the consequences of false positives when enforcement actions cascade across multiple services.
What level of human review should be required when AI systems are empowered to make decisions with significant real-world consequences?
Comment Re:Indefinitely abandoned the original design (Score 1) 214
No, core of marxism is not true. It is not all about power and viewing the world through that lens resulted in deaths of millions last century.
Comment Indefinitely abandoned the original design (Score 3, Insightful) 214
To me it is clear that Wikipedia Indefinitely abandoned the original design long time ago and this just another confirmation of the fact.
