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Comment Re:Summer vs Winter (Score 1) 174

Seeing some very negative prices in the mid west (I think that's the right term) states too. Not even free electricity, people are being paid to use it.

Can you get a tariff that pays you to use energy in the US? Here in Europe we have some, and if you play the game right with a home battery your energy can be pretty much free.

Comment Re:eh (Score 1) 49

I'm glad that they made the pre-orders fair. I'm not after one, but too often they open in the middle of the night (for Europeans) and by the time we are awake are sold out or all the "early bird" deals are gone. I hate that, I'm not paying more that someone else just because they found out about it first, or I had to be asleep so I could work the next day.

This way where there is a large window and then the queue order is random is much better.

Comment No they aren't (Score 1) 3

This is just a camera that makes sure the driver is looking forwards out the windscreen, and doesn't have their eyes closed or looking down at their phone for extended periods. The data isn't sent anywhere or recorded, there is no spying.

There is plenty of shit to be angry about, without making up more.

Comment Re:Task is cheap (Score -1, Troll) 72

He seems like a real scumbag but it's worth keeping in mind that the people who told us that have a massive incentive to pin their crimes on a scapegoat.

Since we pretty much know that FTX was the #1 donor to a party's political action committee with money laundered through Ukraine, he would have been smarter to wait for that conflict to conclude.

The people who benefited from the crime also prosecuted him which is never reliable.

It might not be FedSlop but unless it is proven that both parties didn't benefit we shouldn't trust this government either.

We do know that Ladybug Graham got $18M straight into his bank account from Ukraine so there is certainly smoke.

It's only since a dead man can't sue for libel that people are willing to print that nugget now.

Comment Re:Who will pay for this? (Score 5, Insightful) 32

Not in a Corporate Democracy.

The people who would prosecute OpenAI want to use OpenAI to maximize their power and wealth at your financial and legal expense.

Remember when they tried to extradite Gary McKinnon for twenty years for looking at a spreadsheet when he accidentally got RDP access to an unsecured NASA desktop with a simple Perl script? Intent is not relevant for prosecutors (mens rea should be an element in a Constitutional case).

The legal basis is there but the will to power is not.

Two systems of courts for different classes of people (yet again). It would be an error to call that a Justice System.

n.b. the Culture War psyop is there to try to convince you that the classes are something else.

Comment Re: credibility (Score 1) 122

Is this actually true? I watched both Gamer's Nexus videos and while they mention that LG TVs can for nearby wifi networks, probably so they can geo-locate you, they don't actually connect to them or use them. Doing so would be very, very illegal in many countries.

I hate to defend LG, but there is enough to hang on them here without what appear to be unfounded claims.

Comment Re:Oh my god, they work? (Score 1) 121

Sounds like they don't work, it built a solver. Which is good news because once AI can easily defeat them they will go away and hopefully be replaced by something less annoying.

On a related note, website security is another nail in the coffin of IPv6, because it seems to hate IPv6 addresses. I often get blocked with it, switch to IPv4 only, and get right in.

Comment Re:Unpossible!11! (Score 4, Insightful) 132

The irony of all the climate change deniers claiming we would have to destroy our economies to address it, and now Trump is actually trying it. Meanwhile the commies are turning it into an economic boom with massive increases in both manufacturing and cheap energy to power the manufacturing.

Comment Re:How long until the scams begin? (Score 1) 22

You are forgetting that the alternative to a passkey is a password.

Passwords can be stored in a password manager, where they have the same protections as a passkey. Or they can be stored in your brain, which will result in you either re-using them or forgetting them.

Therefore passkeys are the better choice, because they avoid things like stupid per-site limits on password complexity, have more bits of entropy than most websites allow in a password, and are overall a better experience for the user, while being at a minimum equally secure as passwords.

And if you don't want too allow them to be exported, get a hardware security key like a Yubikey and store them on there. Or just don't authorize export from your phone (it needs you enter your unlock password/biometric, apps can't just take the data).

Of course, you can still use 2FA with a passkey. You can even use a password as one of your authentication methods.

Comment Re:I can explain away Dark Matter/Energy in 4 word (Score 1) 87

There are corrections to gravity that include the current size of the Universe as s term that gives extremely small differences in calculations but explains most observations.

It has a certain allure from an Information Theory perspective and is extremely parsimonious in ask.

But funding is for finding wimps and axons and evidence of mysteries that use the old equations so you are called crazy if your simple theory threatens that gravy train.

Some people say useful physics is too dangerous to fund and we're better off wasting time and money.

Twenty years ago Dark Energy seemed like a good idea to me. So did Supersymmetry. Most new ideas that can be tested and used or disproved probably should be. That LHC found no Supersymmetric pairs is a good thing.

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