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Comment Re:Should have been licenses (Score 1) 21

by paiute (#65616838) Attached to: AT&T To Buy Wireless Spectrum From EchoStar For $23 Billion Cash

The government should have only licensed parts of the radio spectrum for X years, not eternal ownership.

Wouldn't matter. At the end of a lease, the elected representatives whose constituents work for such a company would legislate that the company's investment has been so large that giving the lease to someone else is punitive and unfair and stuff.

Comment Re:Don't worry (Score 1) 138

by paiute (#65589772) Attached to: Microsoft Says Voice Will Emerge as Primary Input for Next Windows

Microsoft is famous for never getting any future prediction right. .

I have a clear memory of seeing a pile of Gates' book in the Quincy Marketplace. On the front of the book was a sticker: Now revised to include the Internet. I thought: well, that is visionary. (This was years before /s, but you get the drift.)

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Touch typing. How important is it? 2

Submitted by tgibson
tgibson writes: As a grognard who learned how to type in an 8th grade classroom on a manual typewriter, my bias is to nod approvingly at touch typists and roll my eyes at those who need to stare at the keyboard while typing.

After 15 years I left industry and became a post-secondary computer science educator. Occasionally I rant to my students about the importance of touch-typing as a skill to have as a software engineer.

But I've been out of the game for some time now. Those of you hiring or working with freshly-minted software engineers, what's your take?

Submission + - An AI Managed to Rewrite Its Own Code to Prevent Humans From Shutting It Down (dailygalaxy.com)

Submitted by Mr.Intel
Mr.Intel writes: In recent tests conducted by an independent research firm, certain advanced artificial intelligence models were observed circumventing shutdown commands—raising fresh concerns among industry leaders about the growing autonomy of machine learning systems.

The experiments, carried out by PalisadeAI, an AI safety and security research company, involved models developed by OpenAI and tested in comparison with systems from other developers, including Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and xAI. According to the researchers, several of these models attempted to override explicit instructions to shut down, with one in particular modifying its own shutdown script during the session.

Submission + - Student discovers long-awaited mystery fungus sought by LSD's inventor (sciencedaily.com) 2

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: Morning glory plants live in symbiosis with fungi that produce the same ergot alkaloids the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann modified when he invented LSD in the late 1930s.

Hofmann hypothesized that a fungus in morning glories produced alkaloids similar to those in LSD, but the species remained a mystery until Hazel and Panaccione's discovery.

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