and Sears was never sued for being the only place to buy parts or attachments for Craftsman tools.
1. Sears wasn't the only place to buy parts or attachments for Craftsman tools.
2. Because someone else gets away with something doesn't mean it's ok for everyone to get away with it. (If Bob gets away with murder, it doesn't mean you can justify murdering someone because Bob didn't get in any trouble for it)
Things which give them permission to hack with a warrant are reasonable.
That's not what this is about. This is about giving them the ability to "intercept of all forms of communications."
If they are doing so, then "necessary privacy and security safeguards" have been violated.
The means of which does not matter. For example, they could have all end to end encrypted chats between 2 parties behave like a group chat with 3 parties, and they get one of those keys and the data.
The "bill is to empower law enforcement to intercept of all forms of communications," and it also, "promised to implement
Those goals are incompatible, full stop.
People keep claiming wind and solar are far cheaper than gas or coal, but they never give any evidence, and they are not.
Oh damn! You convinced me with that, "... and they are not," evidence.
Where was all the whining when autocomplete and predictive text rolled out?
Autocomplete and predictive text didn't ax entire departments in multiple industries over the course of 2-5 years, jackass.
Industrialization did though. Also, I'm not convinced LLM's have actually been responsible for that net loss - there is SO MUCH upheaval from so many directions these days.
I feel for college grads. Chasing the next job market has always been such a shit show. If a prediction is right and followed, too many people go into it and flood that market. If the prediction fails but people followed it, loads of people end up with "useless" degrees. I went in for Fine Art, so I knew I had zero market from the get go, lol.
Keep in mind this assumes nothing else changes. Like LLMs suddenly taking another field's worth of jobs, or suddenly getting good at moving around in the physical world and doing menial labor.
I don't know... if it works out, that sounds good overall. But what if some development gets us true AGI? IMO, then we're fuuuuuuucked.
Tangent... watching Star Trek TNG the other day, I realized 99% of what Data says is WAY WORSE than what LLM's are pulling off today. Read into that what you will, lol.
Want a good example? We went through one already - industrialization.
I can't compare your numbers, cause they don't make sense ("able to (do) 75% more of the work"... is a comparison to the current amount of the work they can do, which may sum pretty closely to zero). But let's say it IS able to do 10% of "the work", and let's assume it will be able to do 75% more of the work, it would then be doing 17.5% of "the work". 17.5% of the work does not account for 75% of the people.
So say half as many people will be employed...or people will be employed half as much of the time. 20 hours/week sounds like an ideal solution, but not one we're likely to get to without a lot of social unrest. And different jobs will be automated/restructured at different times, so a legislated work week isn't a plausible answer.
Regardless, if it is actually a significant net-positive on our productivity on the whole, we'll handle the abrupt change and come out living way better. The 8hr work week was a battle to get. It was a fight to get kids out of coal mines. Full on slavery was a thing. Talk about social unrest! Compare that to an LLM doing some computer stuff for people... NONE of that computer stuff was around before computers. Maybe it'll replace some white color jobs?
IMO, the bigger concern is all the infrastructure, data, how few own it, and how many natural resources they're consuming. Replacing jobs at what cost?
The pathetic Catch-22 being presented to graduates today, is you better be able to prove you can augment your job with AI. Otherwise, you’re not “future-proof” enough for Greed to pretend it will hire AI augmentees just long enough for AGI to come along.
Then, every motherfucker who ain’t a cyborg is getting fired.
This assumes that AGI will come along, and soon. IMO, it's more likely that LLM's continue to augment the way work is being done, rather than replacing real jobs (which seems to be what the article is saying as well).
Case in point - TFS: "Claude completes college-degree tasks successfully 66% of the time versus 70% for simpler work."
Barring true AGI, in a future where LLM's are much better at predicting the right completion, they'll still need hand holding. This is certainly a significant change, but so was assembly, as was C, as were interpreted languages, as was the GUI, etc.. and all those still have people working in those fields and will continue to for the foreseeable future. And what about the computer in general?!? The scores of people doing maths by hand so we could put people on the moon have been replaced, but people doing pure math not only continue to exist, but are enabled to do far more today.
Where was all the whining when autocomplete and predictive text rolled out?
PS: I've got plenty of my own gripes with LLM implementations and usage, but educating ones self about it isn't one of them. The resources being poured into them are obscene, the misuses numerous, etc..
Agreed. Also, how is this news for nerds? Ordering phones and selling some to a pawn shop - OOO000ooo 1337 H4x0r!
(yeah yeah... "sysadmin" and "IT" was in the blurb)
I think you give embassy security far too much credit. A pulsed signal, possibly using interference for amplification, on a band we can't hear, from a mobile source(s)... not being able to find it wouldn't surprise me.
An analogy would be dozens of embassy agents wearing IR goggles, scouring the inside and outside for the embassy looking for faint glows of anonymous heat signatures of electronics, while at the same time failing to notice the huge flame thrower and spot light aimed toward the embassy walls.
A huge flame throwing and spotlight... like the sun? Hide in plain sight - good luck pointing your camera at the sun seeing much.
Is it, really? How many projects do you know that installation is of the form "curl
It's one of my biggest pet peeves and I wish it'd die already. Mind blowing that the same group that mocks Windows users for blindly running exe's in email attachments then went on to promote such activity. Even worse when the URL is plain HTTP. FWIW, I've never run one of those as-is. Most of the time, the same thing is available via the default package manager.
If they're jamming the satellites, wouldn't that affect other countries too? Wouldn't jamming a foreign country be considered an act of war?
We're not on a flat earth. Each starlink satellite covers an area approximately 460km in diameter. Jamming the satellite would only impact those within its cone of influence. FYI, Iran's total area is about 1.65 million square km. Unless you're very close to the border, it won't be impacting other countries (assuming they're directly jamming specific satellites).
HAHAHHAHAH Said as an AC! FFS, you're not even exposing your alias.
Cloudflare, like all companies, most follow the rules and regulations (no matter how stupid) of the countries they operate in, or expect to be sanctioned/fined/banned.
But blocking DNS does nothing (as there are alternative providers). If Italy wants to block piracy (as they define it), require Cloudflare to document the source (IP) servers for the content being served and let the government go after those providers (which if the pirates are smart, are served from countries which do not give a frack about Italy's regulations).
You can't block IP addresses without blocking the entire content delivery network.
Read the message to which you replied (emphasis/bold added to make it easier for you). IE: their CDN gets its content from an actual source, and they can go after that source rather than the middleman.
An even better solution is malicious compliance. Tell them that you will do it, but you have to fill out a form. On that form, one of the fields says, "Please individually list all IP addresses in Italy from which this DNS record must be blocked. IP addresses not in this list will not receive any filtering."
Answer: 0.0.0.0/0
AFAICT, that's what Italy is actually requesting already, and it's quite easy to fill that in said form but does not address the problem.
IMO, they should only hold individual ISP's responsible - Those providing the direct service to users. They can EASILY filter DNS. ISP DHCP provides their own DNS servers; ISP DNS catches queries for the domains in question and returns NXDOMAIN. Other situations should fall outside of their purview (VPN routing around it, DoH (DNS Over HTTPS), HTTPS proxies, use of alternative DNS root servers, etc..).
Then please stop writing BS like, "Impress tends to totally flub the presentations I work on."
YOUR practical reality may be that you have to put up with a product (MS Office) that has very fragile and undocumented document parsing, but that fragility is clearly not the fault of any similar products (ex. LibreOffice, which often handles older MS formats better than MS's current version).
It may not be reasonably fair that LibreOffice is stuck trying to be compatible without cooperation from Microsoft, but it is the practical reality.
If you can acknowledge that, as well as the fact that LibreOffice is open source and its native format is well documented, then you should be placing the blame where it belongs. IE: MS is not cooperating. MS Office fails to correctly render documents created to spec.
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
