Comment Re:Did someone tell the americans... (Score 2) 59
What is this, a joke?
"A foreigner, a woman, and a black pilot walk into a spacecraft..."
What is this, a joke?
"A foreigner, a woman, and a black pilot walk into a spacecraft..."
I didn't even know Samsung had a Messages app. It must have come after my last Samung tablet purchase, a Tab 3 back around 2013 or so.
It's all about the hype. It's like during the pandemic when there was an uptick in cases over the prior week, all of the news reports would state that cases were "spiking."
No, no. For years mankind thought he moon was made of cheese, and in the 1960's mankind spent a decade and billions of dollars to develop a rocket to go there only to discover it was just a big rock. Mankind hasn't been back since.
"Ah, the power of cheese!"
(Anyone else remember that commercial?)
...armies of AI assistants to wrangle, and lengthy prompts to draft...
The solution is obvious. Just have an AI do that.
Total collapse is the goal anyway...
Exactly that. They can't Build Back Better until they destroy what currently exists.
Me, after getting out of prion for tax evasion: "ChatGPT, WTF, bro? The return to filed for me got me sent to prison!"
ChatGTP: "Whoops, you're right, man. My mistake. Let me fix that."
Even better, when the drunk driver crashes there's chance he'll kill the passenger, too, thereby eliminating more humans, reducing the human effects of climate change.
Oh, that would explain it. I was wondering why it would need periodic "calibration" because my only experience with such a thing was that a fellow student back when I was in college in the mid '90s had one, and it certainly wasn't internet connected. And I believe he had a friend (not me) blow into it at least once.
Sadly, it's just for show. True, if the person isn't drunk at the time they can start their car. But if they are buzzed they can still have their non-drunk friend blow into it for them. So they don't really prevent anything (unless they're internet connected and get hacked...)
"You will own nothing and be happy."
Bake the cake, bigot!
What about somebody who lives above a dive bar and below another dive bar?
It seems one of the problems is new technology is used without verification and validation
Yep. Here's my recent example. My state has a turnpike that recently switch to cash-less tolling, where if you don't have a transponder in your car they take a photo of the license plate, look up the address for it, and mail you a bill. I have a transponder in my vehicle and a card for payment on file so I should never receive a bill in the mail, but I did. The tag reported was for my trailer, which I hadn't pulled on the turnpike in quite a while. Besides, a trailer doesn't get its own bill; it's billed with the towing vehicle. So I'm looking at this piece of paper that claims my trailer was seen going down the turnpike, at one location only, by itself, with no tow vehicle. It turned out it was a misread of a tag for a white mini-van, not my black trailer. I would have thought that there would be a sanity check before sending out the bills -- if a tag came up as being registered to a trailer it would at least set a flag to have a manual review of the image, but nope, just send the bill. Fortunately it was able to be resolved with just a phone call. I'd like to think that every time a misread gets reported that they use it to improve the accuracy of the system, but I doubt it.
Sadly, there are people who will blindly follow what their device tells them to do and not put any thought into it, not even asking themselves "does this make sense?" I know a woman who was driving to a place she'd been to many times but apparently had the GPS set to "shortest" instead of "fastest", and it directed her to get off a highway some 50 miles before she normally would. She didn't question it one bit. Arrived much later than normal. If her GPS told her to drive off a cliff, she'd point the car to the ledge and hit the accelerator.
And she votes.
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