Comment Re:Advances (Score 1) 29
Which hearing aid brand and model is that?
Comment What about alumnus? (Score 1) 32
Will that work?
Submission + - Tesla imports $29,000 USD ($39,490CAD) Chinese made Model 3 Premium to Canada
ArmoredDragon writes: After Canada dropped its 106.1% tariff on Chinese imports to 6.1%, (which is Canada's standard tariff rate for most favored nations) and raised 25% tariffs against the United States, Tesla moved its inventory manufactured in Fremont, CA back to the US and began importing its Shanghai produced Model 3 to take advantage of the lower rates. This presented a problem for the Canadian government, which currently has a 49,000 unit cap for Chinese vehicle imports, as Tesla already had all the necessary infrastructure in place to begin shipping and distributing cars, where the Chinese competitors such as BYD do not. By becoming the first mover, Tesla would consume most or all of the 49,000 cap before any other competitors have a chance to sell any units.
It's worth emphasizing that this is the premium version of the Model 3, not the newer but lower cost Standard version. It also appears to be made to the same specification as Tesla vehicles that were already being sold in Canada, including using the US EPA standards for EV range estimates, as opposed to the more internationally used WLTC or NEDC standards, or even the Chinese CLTC standard. Deliveries are expected to begin no later than June.
It's worth emphasizing that this is the premium version of the Model 3, not the newer but lower cost Standard version. It also appears to be made to the same specification as Tesla vehicles that were already being sold in Canada, including using the US EPA standards for EV range estimates, as opposed to the more internationally used WLTC or NEDC standards, or even the Chinese CLTC standard. Deliveries are expected to begin no later than June.
Comment Re:making its employees miserable (Score 1) 92
Since when did product longevity matter?
Comment making its employees miserable (Score 2) 92
Since when did employees matter?
Comment Re:TrumpRoach Says No Phone For You. (Score 2) 72
I'm amused at how petty that billionaire's make-money-fa$t schemes are. Selling steaks? Tennis shoes? Bibles?
What other billionaire does this to get richer?
Comment Re:Your not thinking in Binary. (Score 1) 53
The number "10" is highly suspicious in this context.
Now it's just a couple.
Ah, binary.
Comment Re:Prices are sticky (Score 1) 103
Yeah, in our money-obssessed world "ethics" is opt-in for businesses.
Comment The best verdict would be (Score 2) 59
for us to just forget him.
Submission + - Chrome silent install of 4GB AI model without consent gets expensive. (thatprivacyguy.com)
couchslug writes: Widespread unasked for downloads devour bandwidth squandering energy:
From the parent article:
"Two weeks ago I wrote about Anthropic silently registering a Native Messaging bridge in seven Chromium-based browsers on every machine where Claude Desktop was installed [1]. The pattern was: install on user launch of product A, write configuration into the user's installs of products B, C, D, E, F, G, H without asking. Reach across vendor trust boundaries. No consent dialog. No opt-out UI. Re-installs itself if the user removes it manually, every time Claude Desktop is launched.
This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. The file is named weights.bin. It lives in OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it.
The legal analysis is the same one I gave for the Anthropic case. The environmental analysis is new. At Chrome's scale, the climate bill for one model push, paid in atmospheric CO2 by the entire planet, is between six thousand and sixty thousand tonnes of CO2-equivalent emissions, depending on how many devices receive the push. That is the environmental cost of one company unilaterally deciding that two billion peoples' default browser will mass-distribute a 4 GB binary they did not request."
From the parent article:
"Two weeks ago I wrote about Anthropic silently registering a Native Messaging bridge in seven Chromium-based browsers on every machine where Claude Desktop was installed [1]. The pattern was: install on user launch of product A, write configuration into the user's installs of products B, C, D, E, F, G, H without asking. Reach across vendor trust boundaries. No consent dialog. No opt-out UI. Re-installs itself if the user removes it manually, every time Claude Desktop is launched.
This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. The file is named weights.bin. It lives in OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it.
The legal analysis is the same one I gave for the Anthropic case. The environmental analysis is new. At Chrome's scale, the climate bill for one model push, paid in atmospheric CO2 by the entire planet, is between six thousand and sixty thousand tonnes of CO2-equivalent emissions, depending on how many devices receive the push. That is the environmental cost of one company unilaterally deciding that two billion peoples' default browser will mass-distribute a 4 GB binary they did not request."
Comment Re:Conversely... (Score 1) 400
You're free to make up your own definitions for words, but it makes communication difficult.
BTW, does Wotan exist? Do you "not believe he does" or "believe he doesn't" ?
And what do you call your position?
Comment Re:Prices are sticky (Score 1, Troll) 103
Anyone expecting corporations to not try to make a profit and extract maximum value for their shareholders ignore that that's their fiduciary duty.
Fortunately they're exempt from any ethical duty.
Comment Re:Conversely... (Score 1) 400
atheism is the affirmative belief there is no deity
Monotheism is the affirmative belief that there is no deity but yours.
Atheism means not believing in any gods.
Comment Re:The Chinese Room argument is wrong (Score 1) 400
All computation is mechanical at its core
What about studies that indicate the possibility of quantum effects within the brain?
I'm going to venture way out on a skinny limb and suggest that all mechanical processes are subject to quantum effects.
Comment Re:What could possibly go wrong? (Score 4, Interesting) 176
You think migration is bad now, wait until "undesirable" people start mass migrating from unlivable areas.
It may go the opposite direction. If current water & agricultral "haves" become "have-nots" and vice versa due to changes in weather there will be endless wars as the "haves" try to maintain their position.
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