Comment Training omission (Score 2) 79
This "AI" seems to be severely lacking in training, in that no superior/invincible force (e.g. a party simulating law enforcement) showed up and demonstrated the downside to taking certain actions.
Comment CEO brain (Score 3, Informative) 87
2 weeks ago my large company you've heard of had a townhall meeting where the CEO, who had hitherto been quite levelheaded and sensible about the AI stuff, finally threw all-in with the AI boosters and encouraged everyone to use as much AI as we could, for every possibly use we could think of.
3 days later we were out of tokens and even the useful stuff like support ticket summaries were unavailable.
Comment Re:a picture is worth a thousand words... (Score 1) 88
Dammit, can't anyone make some stylish cyber-shoes? That looks like shit! Anyone who goes around upskirt-snapping with shoes like that, is going to get laughed out of the ballroom by all the snobs.
Comment But LEDs are still allowed, right? (Score 5, Funny) 88
Is it ok if I show up in regular glasses, but where an always-on LED is attached to the one of the corners? (I understand pervs are falling out of popularity, but that doesn't mean we need to abandon the whole aesthetic!)
Comment "Now there are n+1 standards" (Score 1) 45
Do we really have to reinvent the wheel every damn time?! It used to be that you just got Voight-Kampff tested, and the administrator of the test would sign your PGP key. WTF was wrong with that?!
Comment Does this end them sooner, or is it irrelevant? (Score 1) 38
My first reaction is that if one company is selling at half the price, that company will go bankrupt at twice the speed since every transaction was already a money-loser. Customers are absolutely the worst thing for these "businesses."
But is revenue really significant? I can see how neither reducing the price to $0 or increasing their price to 10x what it was, might not really have much of a different impact on the bottom line, compared to all the debt.
Comment Party like it's 1961 (Score 1) 91
Make IBM Great Again: go back to
Comment $23k toilet is outdated (Score 1) 93
Nobody remembers or cares that a B-2's toilet cost $23k, so the Pentagon is updating to a newer, better form of government waste that kids today will better understand.
Comment Re:It is not the LG monitor (Score 2) 122
Malware is any software that runs on your computer but is intended to serve the interests of someone else.
Calling it malware isn't so much inaccurate as it's unspecific. Not all malware is adware, but 100% of adware is malware.
Comment intellectual property (Score 2) 51
I don't think Google should be required to provide anonymized search data to rivals. Firstly, that's effectively their intellectual property.
Oh, I wouldn't worry about that. I'm sure the others will do something transformative with the data.
Comment Re:Racism in China is a whole other level (Score 1) 116
There was a violent crackdown in Beijing in June 1989. This is documented by eyewitnesses, journalists who were present, diplomats, hospital workers, declassified government documents from multiple countries, and later research. While the exact death toll is disputed, there is broad agreement among historians that hundreds, and possibly more than a thousand, people were killed when the Chinese military used live ammunition and armored vehicles to clear protesters and bystanders.
The protests did not begin as a violent uprising. They started as largely peaceful demonstrations calling for political reform, freedom of speech, government accountability, and action against corruption. In the final hours, some protesters and residents did fight back by throwing rocks, setting military vehicles on fire, and attacking soldiers after troops advanced into the city. That does not change the fact that the military used overwhelming lethal force against civilians.
There is no credible evidence that the Chinese government deliberately recruited ethnic minorities because they "hate Han Chinese." The People's Liberation Army is a national military whose units are drawn from across China. Claims that the crackdown relied on ethnic groups chosen because they were hostile to Han Chinese are not supported by credible historical sources.
The claim about mandatory two-year programs for all ethnic groups is inaccurate. China has implemented various education, labor, and relocation policies affecting different ethnic minorities, especially Uyghurs in Xinjiang, but these policies were not introduced as a response to Tiananmen Square. Researchers generally view those policies as part of the Chinese government's broader strategy of political control and assimilation rather than a measure to prevent another Tiananmen.
Finally, dismissing the Tiananmen Square crackdown by comparing it to other events doesn't address the historical record. Serious discussions should rely on evidence from contemporaneous reporting, archival documents, eyewitness testimony, and academic research, not egotistical, unsupported assertions from the Chinese Communist Party point of view.
Comment Re:Racism in China is a whole other level (Score 1) 116
I'm betting you go silent. That's because China isn't a free society. You're not allowed to talk about it.