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Comment Re: Begun, the AI price wars have... (Score 1) 39

Medium to big corporations with large tech departments remember vividly how Broadcom screwed them on VMWare pricing and they're not going to get caught in the same bear trap with AI.

How do you reduce VMware to a "trap" when it worked fine for 20+ years? Two decades for a competitor to answer VMFS, Vmotion, and a control plan that doesn't suck.

I don't know a single soul that regrets using it in all that time, because we knew then what the competition looked like, and we sure as hell all know what it looks like now. Sorry man, but "there's nothing better" is not a trap. Things change and we're looking for alternatives and they still suck, as they always have, so it's suck vs pay more. I do not regret that ride while it lasted, not one bit.

I can say the same for the current state of affairs with AI, where your argument is even more flawed. There's little to no cost for switching. There's the best, and it's not expensive, then there's cheaper that sucks. There's no trap... cheaper more suck options is right there.. and we don't want it. If the best costs a lot more, and it may someday, I still will have ABSOLUTELY no regrets enjoying it while it lasted. What an utterly bizarre way of looking at these things.

Comment Re: Emergency... (Score 4, Interesting) 78

The whole reason these came about to begin with was WIPO was penalizing the US for not allowing online gambling within its borders. That's part of a treaty obligation, so federal law is going to win here. Nothing NY does can change that, the best they can do is delay it.

You mean WTO? And we lost because *drumroll* we in fact allowed gambling online within our borders.

Nothing says we have to allow remote gambling or gambling but we did have exceptions carved out for fucking horse racing. Then we explicitly allowed those across states and online.

Mitch mutherfucking McConnell
https://www.bloodhorse.com/hor...

The treaty obligation does not change federal laws that leave gambling regulation to the states. The WTO was basically we allow it here we must allow it there. We didn't sign a treaty to allow gambling everywhere, and the U.S. doesn't have mandatory legalization of gambling, where ever in the fuck did you get the idea it did?

Comment Re:People coming around (Score 1) 110

Every post but yours is political slop - they don't care that the topic is about the weather or where it is going.

Slashdot is end stage political dumpster fire.

It's not fair to blame /. or any other forum where smart people hang out and the same shift happened. It's not a stage in their life, it's a phase we're all going through.

It will continue for as long as the anti-intellectual populism that is causing it continues, and it will carry over to anything that might replace /. You know why the topic of the weather is polarized, but if you need it spelled out, pass the black sharpie. At this point it's physics, reverse the anti-intellectualism and you'll depolarize science and the places that talk about it.

Comment Re:Just... wow (Score 1) 119

Considering those gamers living in momma's basement and maybe working at 7 eleven or Walmart might have clocked in more hours playing video games which nowadays are not too different from an actual simulator used by Boeing or Airbus

Please.. JFC, stop. You need to sucker under 30s preferably with no family into a high-stress government job that gets exciting in the most horrible ways, so you target "gamers".
Everyone can stop trying hard to make a connection, it's a recruiting strategy. You could make up an even better bunch of fluff for targeting people exiting military service too. I'm sure they do try, and I'm sure that demographic already knows the game too damn well or they would have made their numbers there.

If the Marine Corps run ads in Call of a duty you morons would be talking up modern drone warfare and controller thumb twitch. Sure, join to become a drone pilot, it will be a rose garden. They'd only do it because something changed and they thought they could find a large enough group of young people there that could pass a minimum fitness test in a few months that might be worth the ad spend. It's marketing, a numbers game. Sorry not sorry to piss on everyone's fun.

Hey if you recently graduated from high school and kind of feel like you suck at life call a Marine Recruiter. Do it to turn your life around, not *snicker* drone pilot... but you could totally be a cool drone pilot and get laid all the time too. Do it.

Comment Re:I don't understand why this is considered... (Score 1) 181

What exactly do they owe you?

The summary states that Reddit owes the OP a reason why the user was banned, as well as a complete, untruncated copy of the user's posting history.

Can you cite the law that says so?

The summary states that the relevant law is Article 17 of the EU's Digital Services Act.

Comment Re:But why did they have access to the Internet?! (Score 1) 70

Probably because that is how they are sending data and receiving instructions. This sounds a lot more serious than they are trying to make it. Potentially it means that an enemy (China) could locate your "stealthy" drones and destroy or mislead them.

I'm sorry, your stealthy unmanned drone whose sketchily sourced webcam expects a wireless connection to the whole internet so that it can receive instructions to compromise the bespoke internal network ... and hack the drone's mainframe? Hey don't blame me, you started turning this into a bad action movie plot.

This probably isn't the supply chain attack you're making it out to be, this is stuff you should expect and check for when sourcing components for the drone you're building in your garage, like the earliest phase of development. No offense to the Royal Navy, I mean a lot of drones are built in garages these days, this whole story does not surprise me in any way.

Comment Re:This is a bit too new to tell (Score 1) 181

We have automation everywhere when it suits the right people. e.g. that speeding ticket you received for going 12 km/h over the limit? No human ever so much as saw that. Full automated process. Takes 6-12 weeks. Why? Because otherwise you might still remember how fast you were actually going or that you weren't even in that street on that day, and fight it. Same principle here: The slower the bureaucracy, the more people will just give up and go away. It's a self-regulating system to reduce the number of inquiries to the amount that the public servants can comfortably process.

My dudes, the system, our system(s) aren't perfect. I'm with you, the issue is the volume of shit courts have to deal with, and the solution is not super high speed automated dispute resolution systems to deal with even more automated speeding tickets, it's to lower the volume of bullshit, and less speeding tickets that do nothing good for anyone.

But complaining about getting in front of a judge to discuss how The Internet Moderators have treated you, what the fuck are you doing with your life. Again, the problem is volume, and no, sorry, the answer is not super high speed global legal frameworks to mediate petty internet moderation disputes. Kindly go the fuck away. *looks around* you all should be mature enough to take this literally thirty year old advice, go to a different channel, change your nickname, or turn your fucking computer off. It all still works, it still applies as well now as it did back then.

I sincerely wish the open source Android backgammon engine announcement dude the best of luck, but IDK, here's some more 30+ year old advice, try an email list, or try advertising on Slashdot.... ...... .

Comment Re: Landfills are such a bad idea (Score 3, Insightful) 177

Yes, the left's belief that raising taxes can solve all problems, is bad.

Nobody thinks taxes solves everything, and there is definitely an entire party platform built on _never_ raising taxes. The opposite of what you think isn't what they think, that's some kind of projection, which conservatives are famous for.

You have to pay for nice things, for anything. Sometimes you can solve a problem by buying less nice things. Conservatives are intensely focused on cutting nice things, increased spending on wars... Every. Single. Time. and of course in the face of cuts and overall increased spending - lowering taxes. Not even leaving them be to pay for SOME of their spending but paying LESS while spending more. It's become as predictable as the sunset. I can play out both sides of this until I turn blue, it always points to bad faith arguments about fiscal responsibility, and a concerted plan to repeatedly shock global energy markets and funnel money to energy and defense, and leave the rest of us to pay for it. It doesn't look like anything else.

Comment Re: Landfills are such a bad idea (Score 2) 177

so we are only optimizing for economic output consumption - f*** the planet

Bro that's capitalism, what drives our GDP. When we try to do it responsibly by adding in environmental costs the magays cry communism or socialism or antifa.

What part of this tariff scheme targets environmental planet anything policy, none of it, because that would be antifa.

MAGA arguing to retard the economy to save _the planet_ with inflation is just about the dumbest thing I've heard in 24 hours. These days, that's an achievement, bravo DarkOx.

Comment Re: Neglected to remove alert (Score 1) 162

The police are absolutely going to use any tool they have access to. The legislators need to be the ones who fix/limit/remove the cameras.

They will, they won't. Start blaming the fucking tool already because you're stuck with it.

I've worked with monitoring and alerting software of different stripes long enough to see the same pattern, the tool is somehow blameless for data quality issues when we all know damn well the data quality problems can be traced back to UX design of the tool. We're stuck with it anyway and that's the go-to defense. I've seen too many people give software, the tool, a pass because getting accurate data in and maintaining it, owning it, is the hard part. Well no, fucking, shit, the tool's developers know that, and bad software design is always the user's fault, we're always holding it wrong.

Who owned that data entry, for a suspected murderer, with what, plates and no description of the car or driver? That's like setting a bear trap in a busy campground. Don't worry, it's for the bear! I'll just mark a X on this bubblegum wrapper with some squiggly lines, and forget about it. Were they watching it, does the tool enable that, does it enable the level of ownership that is required for anything that dangerous? Were they aware of the first police response? Was the second team of responders days later aware of the first team's response? Was the owner of the alert? Bad data entry? .. and this information system is fine right, don't blame the tool. Bullshit.

Comment Re:Who's providing the "incentive" to do this. (Score 1) 167

If you are treating Windows devices as much like chromebooks as possible (autopilot deploy into S-mode; fairly draconian setup) you can get away with not too much IT; but at that point you really have to ask yourself why you are using Windows devices.

Most of the things you actually need windows for don't play all that well with that level of lockdown; and between chromebooks being cheap and defaulting to that level of lockdown without additional effort and the low end Apple stuff being nicer than wintel hardware that costs the same it's a bit tricky to make a strong case for running Windows systems as 'edgebooks'. You can; but it's not a super compelling option.

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