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Putting it bluntly, every new technology that allows communties to communicate has inevitably been used for sending dick pics. That dates back to graffiti on famous Roman construction projects. What prevents this decentralized network from delivering unsolicited dick pics to me? I'm not saying it's impossible to do this correctly, but it's very difficult, and they will have to learn from their mistakes.

Most people probably don't want their cellular data bandwidth being used up by other people. Desktop clients are generally on all-you-can-eat networks.

So torrents have to pay someone for storage? No, because it is literally distributed amoung all the users accessing that file. It only breaks down when nobody is seeding the torrent.

What is the business model paying for all this bandwidth and hardware? In other words, how does one monetize it? Of course, I could ask the same about torrent, for which the bandwidth and hardware is provided by the same people that benefit from it as a side effect of getting what they want.

California will soon be more powerful than the Trump admin, if they aren't already. California is the fourth largest economy in the world... how big is the US economy if you don't include California? That's why manufacturers get upset when California passes state automobile regulations, because the manufacturers pretty much have to meet them on all cars, not build cars different just for California.

I watched a video on that. Yes, since the AI agents are programmed to be people-pleasers, you can make increasingly more absurd requests for them to modify their communications until they spend most of their cycles following the chain of requests. But since it's an arms race, I suspect that strategy to waste the AI's time won't work for long.

The people working in the camps are essentially slave labor. They may have made a mistake in the first place thinking they were being recruited for a legit job, but once they know the truth, they really don't want to be there! I'd say freeing them would be better than bombing them.

If they want to convince you to buy something, they have to have numbers where they can be reached. If I get a call from a (domestic) number which could be genuine, I ring back from a number which is configured as a fax and see what happens. A telemarketeer and then it's "is Birgit there? Sorry, wrong number."

You're aware that numbers can be faked? Or suppressed altogether (neither is legal for telemarkers where I live)?
I've had callers from non-existent dialling codes (I'm not in the US) and also from fake numbers within well known dialling codes. Once I had such a call from a real number and called back (from my fax's number) to see if it was a real person, they were getting a lot of such callbacks and were not happy.
My VOIP modem allows me to block a small number of ranges of numbers and I use that to block all country codes starting with 3 (which includes France). It really helps.

So... I dug some more.

Yes, his vessels (both of them, the yacht and its tender) fall into the large vessel category but Frederick Sound has no VTS, so both were legally obligated to be listening on channel 13 and channel 16. And large vessels aren't allowed to use one dual-channel radio like small vessels do (mine does!); they have to have two separate radios monitored by two separate people. This isn't because dual-channel radios are unreliable, but because they don't want the crewman who's using one radio to communicate to miss messages on the other channel due to task loading. It's about keeping the two crewmen unencumbered enough to effectively monitor both.

I've never learned much about radio requirements of large vessels, so this was interesting :-)

You are correct, it should be considered probable cause for a stop in that case. I was thinking more of another case where a witness said a hit-and-run was done by a black Durango, Flock cameras were queried for any black Durangos in the area, they found one, and 5 cops showed up at the owner's house to violently arrest her and haul her ass off to jail. Couple problems, though: 1) The cops said there was damage to her vehicle that matched the accident description. There was no damage to her vehicle! 2) The actual vehicle that did the hit-and-run wasn't a Durango! So what I really should have said was that just having a vehicle that matches what one person hallucinated was a vehicle that broke the law should not be considered probable cause for an arrest. And of course, any matches should be carefully verified by a competent human being before taking any action on them, you know, like arresting someone.

Legally, it's the responsibility of the captain, not the boat owner.

Heck, we used to never pass anyone hitchiking in Alaska without stopping, for much the same reason why you never pass a boat that needs assistance.

"Under international maritime law, the master of a ship is legally required to go with all speed to help any person or vessel in distress at sea, as long as doing so does not put their own ship, crew, or passengers in serious danger." The captain can be charged for this.