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Comment Re:What if ChatGPT is wrong? (Score 1) 59

It'd be one thing if ChatGPT was trained on the law, given all jurisprudence to digest (with the ability to restrict everything to a particular country) and able to be directed to lend significant weight to that over any and all other Intarwebbynetz content. It's quite another to include so much of the garbage out there.

Side note: four days ago, someone posted over at that alien site that he'd asked ChatGPT to write a message in the style of a bookFace MLM hun trying to recruit, with emoji. The result was indistinguishable from the real ones. The story grew legs long enough that two days ago the response was a serious message about the dangers of the corrupt business which is MLM.

Comment Not sure I want answers (Score 3, Interesting) 38

I want to know which services they were using &/or applications. Either they service (or app) they used has shit "encryption" or there's now more than the last number sieve used by RSA/PGP. Thing is, I'm really glad that criminals are stupid/ignorant. I'm a huge privacy (and Free Speech) advocate, but with some incidents over the past 25 years or and only made possible by breaking encrypted communications (like this kiddie-abusing senior Met officer or [pdf] these shitbag, would-be bombers, and which aren't just dog & pony shows designed to take away more of our rights.

These and others weren't just suspects harassed by police but have been proven cases further investigated and found guilty based on overwhelming evidence, I find myself no longer the complete absolutist I used to be. Which is why I don't know if I want to know what they used for "encryption". Not so much as /.'s ever-beloved security through obscurity so much as the fact smart people will figure it out (and already have) but most criminals are dumb and I don't want to help them.

Comment The only 'vet' people care about fix their pets (Score 1) 83

> People in the science community don't just go, 'Oh that's great!' when some scientist, you know, publishes their results. No, you go in for this big period of peer review. It's got to be vetted and checked.

The science community, sure. And look at how well people are listening to that community and to others actually knowledgeable about anything. You can't get the Dunning-Krugerites out there to pay attention for 30 seconds to listen to driving directions they asked for and you think they'll actually make the effort to vet their spoonfed news provided by companies and orgs with a profit motive to make it as sensational as possible

We'll have those flying cars long before that ever happens.

Comment Re:Pretty Simple (Score 1) 160

It wasn't lousy internal security, it was a company violating all terms on a server which is open to the public, which also got its customers to act illegally for it, scraping the content servers for documents, patches and updates which they would then diff and repackage as their own updates. And SAP knew that's what TomorrowNow was doing when they bought them.

The difference between what TomorrowNow did with Siebel software and what Larry did with Red Hat Linux is that RHEL is open; Siebel doesn't have a line of FOSS code in it.

Comment You have to be kidding! (Score 1) 199

People are proud of a 1Mb connection? What's the latency? Even here in Germany a provider would be ashamed to show his face if he couldn't do at least four times that for a fucking rural area!

A year and a half ago, 100 times that speed was considered good and in a year and a half from now Korea expects to have ONE THOUSAND times that fucking speed. I know people in US states who can still only connect with a fucking 33.6Kbaud modem.

Robotics

Lego Robot Solves Bigger and Harder Rubik's Cubes 63

kkleiner writes "It was only two months ago that we saw Mike Dobson's Cube Stormer Lego robot that could solve any 3x3 Rubik's cube in less than 12 seconds. You would think that there was only one person in the world crazy enough and talented enough to pull this off, but now we have found someone else that is just as amazing. The latest Rubik's cube-solving Lego monstrosity is called the MultiCuber, and although it's constructed out of nothing but Mindstorms components and a laptop, it can solve 2×2, 3×3, 4×4, and 5×5 cubes all in the same build! As if that weren't enough, a larger version solves the dreaded 6×6 Rubik's. We discovered the MultiCuber when its creator, David Gilday (IAssemble), wrote us an email to brag about its puzzle-solving might. Consider us impressed, sir."

Comment Here in Germany it's sensible (Score 3, Interesting) 281

A company can require a cert as a condition of employment but if they require maintenance, they must foot the bill for time to learn/study and for the (passed) testing (no paybacks for the failed attempts). It's a matter of "reasonableness", "human rights", working hours laws and social justice, the latter being very important here.

Unless there's something in the contract explicitly putting all the burden on the guy needing certs (nearly impossible and unenforceable), the company pays to maintain. If you think that's bullshit, remember that the company itself profits from that maintenance and a n experienced worker.

Games

Re-imagined Silent Hill Announced 63

Konami has announced that a new Silent Hill game, titled Shattered Memories, is due out this fall for the Wii, PS2, and PSP. "While the game shares its twisting plot with the original PlayStation game, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories takes a different path in many, many ways. Characters can be approached but will offer different responses and be found in different places, while new clues and gameplay paths can be followed." The Wii version will make full use of the Wii Remote, taking the role of both phone and torch, as well as being used to "pick up, examine and manipulate items to solve puzzles along the journey." According to the Opposable Thumbs blog, the choice not to develop for the PS3 and Xbox 360 was due to the development costs associated with those consoles.
Security

Vista's Security Rendered Completely Useless 415

scribbles89 sends in a story that originally ran in SearchSecurity; it sounds like it could be a game-changer. "While this may seem like any standard security hole, other researchers say that the work is a major breakthrough and there is very little that Microsoft can do to fix the problems. These attacks work differently than other security exploits, as they aren't based on any new Windows vulnerabilities, but instead take advantage of the way Microsoft chose to guard Vista's fundamental architecture. According to Dino Dai Zovi..., 'the genius of this is that it's completely reusable. They have attacks that let them load chosen content to a chosen location with chosen permissions. That's completely game over.'" Update: 08/08 14:23 GMT by KD : Changed the link, as the story first linked had been lifted without attribution.

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