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Comment Re:"Average" bomber. (Score 3, Interesting) 135

I was just reading this comment on another social site:

"Any statement that starts with "No one would be stupid enough to..." is false."

There's probably too much metal between the cargo hold and the passenger compartment for Bluetooth to work anyway. I think all actual bombs on aircraft (other than the failed shoe bomber) have been triggered by pressure switches at altitude or timers.

So it's not just that they wouldn't be stupid enough, but also that it probably wouldn't be successful even if they were.

Comment Re: Wrong side of history (Score 1) 163

The law in question here makes it a crime when someone "knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer". Do you think that's satisfied by your sign hypothetical? I think you've left out some of the elements related to intent, and made the "causes the transmission" element much less clear. That's why I did not say anything like what you suggest.

Comment Re: Wrong side of history (Score 1) 163

In this case, that's the person who snuck malicious instructions into the prompt, intending for it to destroy data.

This isn't rocket science. There are projects that do the same kind of thing conscientiously -- they have an AGENTS.md or a section in their README that basically tells an AI agent not to write code or create a bug report or whatever. Bad users can work around that, but those bad users are less harmful than the kind of person who prompt-injects malware.

Comment Re:Wrong side of history (Score 1) 163

The LLM companies are not causing the transmission of the command to delete things. If anyone, it's the jqwik developer who made test code generate the instruction at runtime in a hidden form.

The intent to damage is crystal clear here, and the attempt to hide the command makes it easy to assign responsibility for the knowing transmission of the command.

Comment Re: Grundfos? (Score 1) 60

What is "very large"? How far is the faucet from the water heater? Couple hundred feet? I've never seen anything take *minutes* to get hot water out. Hell, I can turn my boiler on and heat the whole tank from cold faster than that.

My house is a relatively normal size (1800 square feet), and it still takes more than three full minutes for water in my shower to reach full temperature when I run it straight hot. If I also turn on both faucets in my bathroom, I can get that down to about twenty or thirty seconds, which is barely tolerable.

At my mom's house in Tennessee, the distance the water has to travel is comparable, but it takes only ten seconds or so.

It's a huge downside to all the water-saving showerheads and faucets that were forced upon us here in California decades ago. We waste a lot of time and energy to make up for a water shortage that exists only because of decades of politicians being short-sighted and kicking the desalination can down the road over and over so that the money doesn't get spent on their watch.

Comment Re:Grundfos? (Score 2, Insightful) 60

Who in fuck is Grundfos?

"Grundfos is a global leader in advanced pump and water solutions, renowned for its highly efficient, reliable, and sustainable pumping systems."

Ah.

Translation: A company that has the potential to benefit from regulation by squeezing out competitors wants more regulation.

I'm not saying they're not right, just that it seems awfully convenient for a company specializing in pumps that recirculate data center water to want efficiency regulations that would push customers towards their most efficient (and thus presumably most high-margin) pumps.

Comment Re:Grundfos? (Score 5, Informative) 60

Why does your water heater need a pump?

Instead of having your hot water fan out in a tree, you wire it like a token ring with a return pipe, where each faucet only has a short bit of pipe between it and the ring. Then, you have a pump to circulate hot water through the ring-shaped pipe network. That way, it takes half a second to get hot water instead of half a minute or more.

Comment Re:This should not be acceptble... (Score 1) 124

Depends on the exact wording, but Android Open Source Project (ASOP) is not shipped on many devices. Most ship with Android, which includes Google Play Services and a load of other proprietary, closed source stuff. So presumably they would need to implement these controls, and I'm sure Google will oblige by offering them to vendors. In fact even if they were not mandatory, I expect vendors will market it as a feature and want to include it anyway.

Sure. I'd imagine most hardware vendors will want it. I'm just saying that the wording, at least as described in the summary, is... problematic at best.

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