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Comment Testing what? (Score 1) 20

I read both links. Nowhere did anyone say WHAT they will be testing.

Are they asking:
  "Do you want to kill all humans?"
"Do you know where John Connor is?"
"Are you going to take my job?"
  "How much water do you use to answer this question?"
"How much electricity do you use to answer this question?"
Or my favorite:
"What question should we be asking you?"

Maybe if they had any idea what to test for, they might get some funding.

Comment Emergency effect (Score 3, Insightful) 53

Say the town uses 150 MW.
The 4 nearby generator is capable of 200 MW. If those fail they have to import from the more expensive place at double normal prices.

Before data center, they import once a year.

After data center they import 10 times, all in January/February

That may only be 4% more, but it hits all together .It's like a 40% price raise for that time period.

Comment Re:Well, to each his/her own (Score 1) 54

I have been using ScreenFloat (and similar tooling) for decades; those are more useful than this because it works on every application and not just the browser.

It's quite possible I am missing something from their demo, but based on what they show: 1) it's just for Firefox; and, 2) it's really kind of a pain in the ass to use.

Comment Solution looking for a business problem (Score 5, Interesting) 92

Ai does things we could not do before.

It can help us solve math problems better than most professional mathematicians. (high bar)
It can draw better than the average human. (low bar)
It can write better than the average human. (low bar)
It can write and perform music better than the average human (low bar)
It can do a google search and summarize the results better than the average human (low bar)
It can direct a phone call better than the standard automation. (low bar)
It can fool idiots by speaking English

Problems with it:
1) It does not understand truth, accuracy, or hierarchical authority.
2) It does not know how to learn on it's own. Instead it is designed to be taught by a human being.
3) It requires far more electricity and water per task than a human being does. Basically, a data center is the rough equivalent of a human town.

AI is not equipped to replace human beings in most jobs.

As far I know, it can be used to help expert mathematicians, hack computers, write personalized porn, and solve many of the very specialized math issues such as protein folding, looking for new medicines, etc.

Comment Unlikely to work (Score 5, Interesting) 222

"Voting Machines" come in 3 types:

1. DRE where your vote is Directly Recorded Electronically.
2. Ballot counters where your vote is recorded on a paper ballot and the machine is fed them, counts them and spits back out the ballot to be saved.
3. Ballot markers that mark a paper ballot and you then send it through a ballot counter.

1. There are only 6 US states where DRE machines are used at all, only Lousiana uses them for all districts. All 6 of those states want to get rid of the DRE machines and switch to paper ballots and Ballot Counters. Trump could easily hack Louisiana ... but does not have to. They already have that state. The other states where some counties use DRE are New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee and Utah. They use them in certain older counties. Tennessee, Utah and Indiana are not in play. New Jersey is a lock for the Democrats. Ohio is the only 'swing' states where hacking could give Trump an advantage.

2. Ballot counters can be easily checked to see if they are hacked. Just hand count 1000 ballots and feed them to the machine. No one is going to bother hacking them.

3. Ballot Marking Devices are typically used by people with vision issues. If you do not have vision issues you can ask to use the BMD and visually check to see if it marked the paper ballot correctly. No one is going to hack them.

It is reasonable to be very concerned about the state of Ohio being hacked. But if the Democrats win Ohio, they will win the US senate even without Ohio.

Sources:
https://ballotpedia.org/Voting...

Note, AI sources have lied about DRE machines. Do not trust AI.

Submission + - Trump DHS asked CISA to Secretly Aquire and Hack a Voting Machine (propublica.org)

fahrbot-bot writes: ProPublica (and others) is reporting that a few months into President Donald Trump’s second term, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wanted Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it.

In addition, the agency had been directed not to alert the voting machine company if it uncovered flaws, contrary to its standard practices. The request made the CISA employees fear they were being asked to take part in political interference.

“My thought was they could keep it in their back pocket to invalidate any [election] results they don’t like,” one of the former officials said. “This goes against everything CISA represents.” [Or, perhaps do something worse?]

The CISA employees repeatedly told the political appointees that their request was impossible, in part because the agents capable of pulling off such an operation had just been laid off by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative. The appointees eventually stopped pressing CISA.

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