Since it is federal, can the pedophile in chief just delete it all? Will the courts stop him, ha.

Yes useful. I have played with it and used it quite a bit and explored its capabilities. Anything it produces must be checked carefully. Here are a few bullets. - It can produce decent code in obscure languages that actually runs properly. It can get you at least part way there. - Most of what it says about the capabilities of software products is based on manuals, which are not always correct. It is just scraping. - It can go in circles. Less now than previously, - Chatgpt searchs the internet - Its factual answers must be checked. Wikipedia must eventually put in protections so the AIs can't edit articles there. Somehow. - Since it can access the web, it could access a server to test its own code on real or simulated machines. Maybe some systems do this, just not chatgpt. Can it simulate a processor or execution of code? - Development of original algorithms is weak and unsteady. - Great at formatting text - tables and such for word or libre office - Pretty good explanations of physiics and math, just like wikipedia - Too verbose, tell it to be succinct - Many questions it is asked must be canned (like who is secy general of the UN) does it cache these, it does not like to talk about its internals. - Good answers for movies and music and recommendations - Better hotel and travel recommendations that yelp et al - Can it spell and grammar check? - Can it do algebra?

I'll keep my Leicas.

Guess what - just like the US almost half of the nuclear fuel in Europe comes from Putin controlled Rosatom. So building more nuclear plants will not make Europe any more free of Russian control than buying their gas. At the rate nuclear is progressing, we will be at 150% solar/wind/storage before any of these highly touted unproven technologies are proven. And BTW when they were built, they all failed dramatically. For example at Santa Susanna a Sodium cooled reactor, the first commercial reactor to meltdown in 1959. As for the cleanup, "It was meant to be done in 2017, and the soil cleanup has not even begun. Boeing, NASA and the Department of Energy all signed legal agreements to clean up the site, and unfortunately, they are now trying to come out of those promises. Instead, they are proposing to leave as much as 98% of the contamination on-site permanently." Every time these LA hills burn, more radiation is released. The rate of increase of wind and solar is currently about equal to one typical nuclear plant per year. Move fast and break things: the invisible yet infallible hand of the free market has spoken, nuclear is so totally dead. Except in countries like France, China, Russia and India that want to make more bombs and to keep their nuclear navies going.

About 42% of the Uranium in the EU comes directly from Rossatom which controls U production in Russia, Kazakstan and Uzbekestan. Annother 18% comes from Canada, some U production from there is controlled by Uranium One, also controlled by Rosatom. Rosatom is the Russian state-run atomic energy company that besides reactors makes bombs. Follow the money as they say. The situation in the US is about the same. Nuclear Power is not on the path to energy independence.

These devices are heating your house with 100% efficiency. OK, it's not much but it's $100 worth per year and no more than the cost of the electricity they use. If you are running AC while having these plugged in there is waste though.

The top reasons for China's success in South America. 1/ The US has treated S. America like a colony for 200+ years. 2/ The US has treated everyone S of the Rio Grande like shit for 200+ years. 3/ The US policy has been against solar power since forever and it remains in the balance. 4/ The US has supported murderous fascist dictators south of the border like Batista, Pinochet, Strossner (Paraguay), Peron, Menza (Bolivia), Videla (Argentina) and Trujillo. Look them up. 5/ The US has aggressively supported banks and corporations, often with the military, who oppress the people in the region. 6/ The Keystone Cops drug wars where the US sends the military into other countries to kill civilians and lets it's own rich and/or famous use drugs and brag about it, i.e. the late PJ O'Rourke, everyone in Hollywood, everyone in Silicon Valley and everyone on Wall Street.

1/ How can anybody be so stupid as to believe that any video, photos, data, writing, posts, etc, will not find it's way online if there is any way for someone to make money or get likes from it? 2/ Where are organs of state security in this? It has been said you can find nasty underage videos in mins. There is plenty of money and staff to do this, instead the police state busies itself watching legal demonstrators, union organizers, the antifa, losing a war on drugs and harassing/shooting Black People. 3/ Why are the super intelligent AI's not using facial recognition to process this material and flag underage actors and unwilling participants? Amazon, Fbook, Instagram, etc. know exactly how old all their users are and what they look like.

My experience in the world of SW (I am retired and live on the coast) is that everybody has at least three contradictory opinions on User Interfaces, then ask how we should use pure virtual classes on our next big project and the room empties. A more substantive answer includes the following points: - Google does not have to outrun the bear, it just has to outrun the competition. Check out the Yahoo mail user interface. - Google is sitting on billions because it does spend it's money on fashionable crap, maybe. - Nobody actually cares what the gui for a mail program is, just type "mail" into your terminal and you have it all - The goal is probably to destroy email anyway in favor of proprietary systems - Google could consume any troublesome startup in a ns if they wanted. - You are locked in so it does not matter to them But the authors comments are well taken. I do wish Google would figure out how to get the landscape/portrait orientation of a photo correct when attached to an email.

The title of the article suggests there is a tool available. Where? Gave fotophorensics a look and the state of the art does not seem too far along or maybe I'm missing something.

There are too many ads so just block them all as much as you can. Don't visit sites with obnoxious ads and don't use apps. No cookies, skip stupid videos of cats dancing to clue you into the trick banks don't want you to know that saves saves saves on your mortgage. So what if some billionaire makes a billion less? The whole online "experience" is becoming an electronic ad circular aimed at the stupidest. It once was easy to find useful, obscure and interesting information, today it is very difficult with all the stupid sponsored ads. Google "Byzantine Empire" and how many ads will say "Get Great Deals on the Byzantine Empire, only 3 left"? How about a second "virtual web" that is totally non-commercial?

I worked in SW development so this is something I actually know about. You probably know CM tools have the same religious attachment that editors and operating systems do. The level of people's advocacy highly amplifies the merits of any particular tool. First get the team together and canvass for opinions. Out of a dozen or so staff it is possible there is somebody who wants some CM duties and can do it. If the team is stuck with a choice they think is poor, the life of the project will be spent complaining about this choice. If anybody rants and raves and can give no better reason why they don't want a specific tool than "it sucks" they are a candidate for career change. It's not a group decision but the opinion of the group must be considered. Lastly whatever you choose (subversion is great) it is more important to use the tool well. Find someone on the team who wants to be an expert on the tool and has the skills to do so. Yes, there are people who want to do this. Given your team size, it is about a half-time job or a little less. Develop a plan for using the tools that fits your practice and don't count on vendor support for anything.

Consider Burning Man, a large temporary community that functions without money or barter.

"Scientists Invent New Way for Humanity to Destroy Itself" A few possibilities that come to mind are: - Using the vaccine against someone someone doesn't like. Arabs, Palestinians, blacks, Hindus, Israelis, White men in golf shirts. - Adding it other vaccines - only in certain selected areas of course. - Inadvertent contamination, intentional or not - genetic modification to include into food, etc. - release of the carrier virus into the wild using a common vector - Work begins immediately on an oral form

Look at the laptops from System76, I am using their old lowest end right netbook now and it has worked flawlessly for years. It was $250 with Ubuntu pre-installed. I have no connection with that company (or any other for that matter).