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Comment Re:"the quiver of different ways" (Score 1) 23

> That's what evolution is, the only question is how rapidly it occurs. Rapid evolution isn't a new discovery.

He's not claiming relatively rapid evolution is a new discovery. Abstract : https://www.science.org/doi/10...

The rate of useful change depends on a multitude of factors, one higher level concept is the idea of evolutionary rescue.

"genetic rescue vs evolutionary rescue" in google brought up some interesting information.

Comment Re:Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Qaeda, ISIS. (Score 1) 34

From the summary: "$1.7 billion in transfers to a network that was funding Iran-backed terror groups"

> Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Qaeda, ISIS ... I'm surprised that Slashdot didn't name the terrorist groups.

ISIS ?

"ISIS and Iran are staunch enemies. They are separated by deep ideological, religious, and political divides: Iran is a Shia-led power, while ISIS is a Sunni extremist group that considers Shiites apostates." - Gemini

"Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Deadly Bombings in Iran - The group, which has struck before in Iran, has a long history of division with the country" - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/0...

Comment Re:Well, that's the point (Score 1) 79

If I'm following the debate, it could work pretty well for Android and Apple phones, but on PCs a teenager could declare themselves an adult by reinstalling the OS or by installing a VM.

In other words, most minors probably couldn't impersonate an adult and the number of those that could would approach zero the younger they are.

Comment Re:Cool AI hype post, too bad reality is here. (Score 1) 41

> Both the article from mozilla [mozilla.org] and anthropic [anthropic.com] doesn't mention anything about a "test version of the browser", instead it specifically states the current/latest version of Firefox...

Right, those articles don't.

Claude found the bugs, and then tried to exploit 2 of them but...

"Anthropic’s team also asked Claude to build exploit code – the kind of tool a hacker would use to actually attack someone through a discovered vulnerability. While Claude did write two working exploits, it was only against a test version of Firefox. Firefox's real-world security defenses would have blocked both of them, according to Logan Graham, who leads Anthropic's Frontier Red Team — the group that tests Claude for potential risks." - https://timesofindia.indiatime...

So the summary's sources don't include all the information that could give us a clearer view of what's actually going on.

Comment Re:Well, that's the point (Score 1) 79

> "[T]hose deciding which age-based controls need to exist, and those enforcing them gain a tremendous influence on what content is accessible to whom on the internet."

Would that be avoided if there ways to make something like an adult setting at the OS level?

Are there ways to make that work reasonably well or at least better or with less problems that what's currently being used?

 

Comment Theory on the origine of Saturn's ring (Score 1, Informative) 3

From the Story

"Äuk and his colleagues used computer simulations to investigate what would happen if Chrysalis did smack into Titan ... around 400 million years ago, they found, the crash would've wiped away Titan's craters and made its orbit more elliptical. The altered path may have slowly pushed the trajectories of other moons, which then scraped against one another and left chunks of ice and rock that now make up Saturn's rings"

Comment Re:Backdoor (Score 1) 119

> In fact, w/o destroying Hamas, any talk of a Gaza reconstruction is meaningless. Gaza has its network of tunnels, and military bases ... relocate the Palis to other Arab/muslim countries materializes, and then the strip can be occupied (after reconstruction) by people who're not into jihad and aren't trying to slaughter Israelis all the time

I'm pretty sure more negativity about any Palestinians or Israelis isn't going to help.

I'd consider what Yair Lapid recently suggested, that the military phase had achieved what it could and that Israel must now "have the courage to try peace" or risk endless cycles of violence.

Comment Re: Whut?? (Score 1) 73

> Satirizing politicians is also illegal there

References ? Because what I've found that's not the case:

"There is broad scope here: political utterances or other expressions of opinion are generally protected even if they are polemical or exaggerated. The Federal Constitutional Court ruled that the statement “Soldiers are murderers” falls under freedom of expression, for example. In addition, satire – by cabaret artists or caricaturists, for instance – not only falls under freedom of expression, it is also protected as artistic freedom (Article 5(3) of the Basic Law). Case law emphasises that satire is permitted in order to provoke social debate through exaggeration, irony and provocation. Many German comedians sometimes make fun of politicians by means of crude jokes – without having to fear any sanctions." - https://www.deutschland.de/en/...

Comment Re:And how many went to H1B? (Score 3, Interesting) 106

> Those are H1A visas, which goes to seasonal workers, who work during the peak season, and then go back to their home countries when the season is over

Most of his hires don't look seasonal:

"the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery. The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering temporary workers including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and up from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term of office ended."

https://www.theguardian.com/us...

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