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Comment Re:I'd take it (Score 2) 136

In the long term being a dental hygienist (in the USA) is going to suck just as much as being a nurse at a corporate hospital. The same PE firms that destroyed our large clinics and hospitals are buying up the dental practices and turning them into scam machines that sell people fillings for cavities that don’t exist. Give it ten years and dental hygienists will be working six days a week for less than what Buc-ee's pays.

Comment These clowns are clueless. (Score 1) 102

If Alphabet thinks that people in Maryland, Virginia, and DC are going to leave off their air conditioning in August for a paltry payment to keep data centers running then they're fucking insane. Not using much power when it's 105 degrees and humid outside is not something most people will do so Gemini can summarize other people's email.

Comment This has been around a while (Score 4, Interesting) 141

The DOD/DOW have been working on this for a while. They discovered, early on, that the device had a propensity to cause permanent nerve damage.

It's very unlikely the US have fixed that, as they'd largely sidelined the work as a failure. However, at 36%, Trump needs something he can call a win, no matter what the long-term consequences.

Comment Re: Synergy (Score 1) 138

Theyâ(TM)re synergizing paradigms. A goal of many tech companies in the 1996-2000 era. Elon might finally achieve the dreams of the companies that brought low the NASDAQ. Or the market will finally realize that heâ(TM)s full of shit and TeSpaceXSI is just as overvalued as Worldcom.

Comment Our product is dangerous! Regulate free AI! (Score 1) 55

They wouldn't be talking about this stuff if they weren't trying to scare people into giving them regulatory capture.

Instead, the people running the AI need to be charged for any crime it commits and go to federal prison. Then these random little "rogue AI" incidents would stop instantly.

Comment They have nowhere else to go. (Score 1) 223

When it comes to cars that most people could actually use Tesla has nothing to offer. Chinese car makers are light years ahead of Tesla. And CATL sodium ion batteries that blow away Tesla's batteries will be in Huawei cars next year. The USA is the only country that will keep China out of its markets, especially now that Trump has shown the world what a Middle East shit show does to their petrol powered economies. But Tesla is fucked in the USA because the ruling party in the White House and half the states is owned by Big Oil. All Tesla can do now is dream up stunts that will prop up the biggest meme stock's silly share price

Comment Re:A good step, but... (Score 1) 32

Sure, go far back enough (and yes, I was on computers at that time) but surely he's not saying, "Man, computers were better when you could only run one process at a time, and the operating system let you do literally anything" etc etc and if so, the answer to that is, you can still do that if you want .. you just can't do it *inside* somebody else's software architecture. You still own the hardware, do whatever you want.

Comment Re:A good step, but... (Score 1) 32

huh? it's trivial to write any code you want and run it on your phone

But with respect to your "dawn of the PC era", unless you wrote the operating system, you couldn't write and run code that could do anything and everything your computer was capable of - only code that could do what the operating system would permit you to do.

That's no different today.

Comment Where to begin (Score 2) 105

First, they are refrigerators. They do not need to be connected to the internet and should not be, period. You want to remotely manage them? Use anything but the internet.

Second, why would you make them remotely accessible FROM ANY IP ADDRESS? Do you not know what a firewall is? A whitelist? Conditional access?

Third, why the fuck would a REFRIGERATOR need the ability to COOK anything? Did someone forget the difference between Fahrenheit and Celsius and give them a max temp of 50C when it should've been 50F?

Fourth, vendors should be held liable for this shit. Manufacturers who provide always in fully connected devices should not get a "get out of liability free" card by saying "you should always upgrade to the latest firmware" and should be held accountable for producing REFRIGERATION units that can be turned into OVENS.

Fifth, and finally, as per the norm, I did not RTFA so maybe it mentioned this, but I'm willing to bet there were default passwords still in use. Yet another thing manufacturers should be held liable for. It shouldn't be possible to hook it up and start using it without configuration that requires setting reasonably secure credentials.

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