You need to do something about antitrust law violations

And if you want that, then you need to make political trade-offs. You are going to have to give something up if antitrust is important to you. At least if you are a typical slashdot reader.

It's unlikely that folks are going to give that up so we're not going to see antitrust law enforcement or Linux on the desktop.

Because every single time Linux on the desktop is a threat Microsoft will take some office money and use it to give Windows away for free or less than free because of free support contracts. Extremely illegal but they've been doing it for at least 30 years now and getting away with it.

Christ I remember when the CEO of Acer had his drunken rant. Might have been Asus I always confused those two.

You got data and studies to back that up right? Because I guarantee you Jerome Powell has data and studies to back up what he said.

I don't care for the man, he told senator Warren he wanted 15 million layoffs and had zero plans to stop the layoffs once they started hitting. But regardless of what I think of him he doesn't do anything unless he's got data in front of him.

> won't create a nuclear winter

I already corrected that in a followup.

> It also won't irradiate us all.

If roughly 50 or more are hit, yes it will.

That the judiciary has had for as long as I've been alive at least that's used to curtail abuse of government power.

Donald Trump and the project 2025 goons running the show behind him are fully intending to use this ruling to negate birthright citizenship.

It does not matter what the law says. Trump can just deport people, including you, and unless you are very well off or you happen to wonder into national attention you are in for a world of hurt.

That wasn't true before this ruling. In the past, I.e yesterday, a judge could order a nationwide injunction on deporting people who are citizens.

Now every single individual person has to litigate in order to get an injunction and by then you're on a plane to El Salvador.

That is the plan project 2025 has. They are doing an end run around the systems designed to protect you.

Every single check and balance and every single institution designed to protect you from the government has been compromised. The voters were the final line of defense and they have failed us.

They will come for your house. For your property. There are at least a couple dozen billionaires vying to be the first trillionaire and they will seize your property to do it. None of them are capable men so they can't add enough value to the world to be trillionaires. But they want it. And so the only way they can get it is by taking what's yours.

I'm sure you've heard the phrase the banality of evil. That's what's going on here. It's a series of steps that lead to the kind of tyranny that ends in you losing your house.

Note that I didn't say it's a slope. It steps. One at a time one after the other. We've been doing this since Barry Goldwater lost and the right wing hooked up with the Evangelical extremists.

You're going to be homeless in your 60s. Maybe you're 70s if you're already 60. Or maybe you will live the American dream and die before they take it off. But at this point it's one or the other and you don't get to pick which.

Notice the word "current", you absolute tool. SpaceX is a leach that wouldn't even exist without NASA contracts and billions in government handouts. A disgusting modern example of socializing the risk and privatizing the profits. NASA provides a better return on investment.

Wow! I didn't know it was possible to be that stupid and uninformed and somehow able to still use the internet. Amazing.

Those are examples of private parasites siphoning as much public money as possible while delivering as little as possible. If you're looking for "fraud waste and abuse", look no further than the private side of so-called "public-private partnerships". Before you cry "efficiency", remember that every dollar of profit is a dollar that isn't going to provide the product or service our tax dollars are paying for. It is objectively impossible for the private sector to be more efficient than the government alone.

"What about innovation?" I hear you desperately cry. Computers, microchips, the internet, GPS, all-things space ... the post office alone is a near-endless font of innovation, quietly bringing efficiencies in delivery other services can only dream about.

Take the corporate dick out of your mouth and get a fucking clue.

They are downright claustrophobic. Itty bitty tiny windows designed to make it feel like you're in a armored car or something. I think it's because the focus groups say that makes people feel safer but I just find it miserable.

So even in the summary he is literally acknowledging everything you say but at the same time saying that the technology will continue to be worked on. And it will eventually become a job destroyer.

Remember he's not the one making that assessment. He is just reporting on the assessment. He is the head of the federal reserve. He has legions of minions running studies and numbers and taking that data and giving it to him. You aren't just hearing Jerome Powell speak you are hearing a metric fuck ton of analysts speaking through him.

A year ago every single AI picture had six fingers and now you can't tell them apart from real people unless you spend a bunch of time looking for specific small mistakes.

I saw an obvious AI video of a Asian man frying up underwear and honestly the only way I could tell it was fake was that in the background there was a guy with an umbrella that had a 2 ft Spike on top of it. But I didn't notice that until somebody in the comments pointed it out. I did obviously know that people don't fry underwear for street food but if it was a less ridiculous video and it first glance I wouldn't have caught that it was ai.

So all that in about a year.

What Powell is saying is that the genie is out of the bottle. And again it's not Powell saying that it's the legions of analysts providing him the data.

70% of middle class jobs lost in the last 45 years got taken by automation. Mostly factory automation and broad-scale process improvement that goes with it.

You know all those learn to code memes? That's why they exist. Economists know this but they don't talk about it except in these weird abstract terms that unless you are also in economist you would have no idea what they're talking about.

And we can't all just go be plumbers because at the end of the day plumbers have been relying on two things to keep themselves employed. A strong White collar working class that is pretty well paid and can afford to hire plumbers and growing cities so that there are new markets for them to start businesses and since you don't really make all that much money as a plumber if you aren't running your own business.

This represents a fundamental shift in our work culture and we are simply not ready for it as a society.

C-level employment is essentially the ruling class. You don't replace your ruling class like that.

We aren't going to deploy it to get rid of the people who tell us what to do and make us work longer hours for less pay. That's just not how capital works.

And make no mistake AI is capital. It's a thing that you own that generates wealth. It is definitely capital.

And it's going to be owned by a very small subset of people because as more and more AI slop makes itself into the general world the only people who will be able to keep their models trained or going to be people who own platforms where they can monitor people using devices and keep track of who's a person and who is an AI swap bot. So by it's basic design AI is something that is going to be held by the top platform holders and therefore a handful of billionaires and big shareholders.

I just do not think we are ready for this. It's a third industrial revolution and if you dig into the history of the first two it did not go well for workers. We didn't get back to full employment until we had world wars.

I guess though if we kill off 20 or 30% of the working population entrenches again that would solve the employment problem. Since we're going to have to rebuild everything we just blew up. Again if you know your history you know that the reason America is where it is, is because we were the only country with a functioning manufacturing Base Post world war II because we were the only country that didn't get bombed into Oblivion.

When my OnePlus 13r did not come with Facebook pre-installed. I understand why companies do that even without a kickback from Facebook. You've got a lot of old grandmas that get confused when the apps they use aren't just there. And confused Grandmas call support and cost a lot of money

But it was nice to see it not there in the first place all the same. Ever since those stories of Facebook getting caught listening through the microphone without you even so much as logging in I have wanted it off my phone first thing. Having them trying to use my photos to train AI doesn't exactly make me want to install it more.

I like how the mod trolls were just waiting for me to respond. Keep it coming guys keep it coming. I've got more rage than you have mod points.

And the majority of people here agree with me because they know. Even the ones that voted for Trump agree with me they just don't like to talk about it or about voting for Trump.

And to be fair yeah I am kind of just screaming into the void at this point. Trump winning the election means it's all basically over. Democracy has been fundamentally undermined and it's extremely unlikely that it will survive the next 4 years.

But don't mistake bitter rage for trolling. Trolling is when I am trying to derail the conversation. I'm not I'm just fucking angry at you morons for setting fire to America because you hate trans kids or a terrified you're going to have a few too many beers, drop an n-bomb and lose your job when somebody records it. AKA woke.

I do not for a moment believe that the people here didn't vote majority trump. I know you guys I've been around here long enough you're exactly the kind of self-important libertarian types that declare themselves libertarian but vote Republican every single fucking election.

My kid just got in a hell of a lot of trouble with the IRS because an employer of 2 months didn't give them their W-2 and my kid, being a dumb fucking kid, just kind of blew it off and moved on with their lives. Thanks to Trump they have not been able to get to the IRS to call them and have them Force the previous employer, who is refusing to give my kid their w-2, the W-2.

So now it's a huge fucking mess. Now admittedly my kid is a dumb kid but all kids are dumb kids. So my kid instead of coming to me a few months ago and asking me to sit on hold with the IRS for them tried to solve it themselves, because again all kids are dumb kids I was too at that age, and so now they have the IRS making all sorts of threats and threatening huge fines all because Donald Trump fired 2/3 of the IRS agents but not so many that there isn't anyone there to try and audit my fucking kid.

And you wonder why I am screaming into the fucking void. This isn't trolling I am genuinely fucking pissed off and I'm going to make damn sure every fucking one of you dipshits knows it.

And I'm not going to give this form up to you TDS screeching morons.

Also Trump is going to steal your house is in about 4 years. Enjoy homelessness I hope it was worth it. And remember I mean what I say and I don't say it by accident. He is coming for your property and he will get it.

If they accidentally forget to put a tower in, they're gimping themselves

Who is "they"? The vendor would set up phones initially and test them. If by chance the phone can't find ANY usable towers, the phone can prompt the user for the option of having their phone ignore the registry (along with a stern warning).

Not a show-stopper, just need a decent Plan B.

not to mention some companies do cross-sharing agreements which would need to sync.

I don't see why that's a problem. Vendors can include all registered towers even if a user's plan won't permit usage of some. The authorization for such towers would simply fail and the phone would try the next one. (A priority ranking for towers can be included, and be based on the user's provider plan so it can make smarter guesses.)

It's a reasonable idea on paper, but cellular networks weren't built with centralized tower authentication in mind -- especially not legacy protocols like 2G and 3G

Okay, but they should require it for new or overhauled towers to start heading in that direction. Maybe give the industry a window of 5 to 10 years to add it.