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Comment Re:"Solution" (Score 1) 307

The solution is to promote, vote for, and elect officials who believe in protecting rights and will nominate court officials with sane views on the 4th amendment and executive power.

Ideally, that would work; however, back here in the Real World (TM) there have been zero candidates of the type that you describe. I guess it is possible that some were, but we will never know.

Comment Re:Or just maybe... (Score 3, Insightful) 245

I don't know which idiots thought these systems were a good idea but I think they are worst development since the Pinto introduced an integrated detonator switch into the bumper.

It appears you are only capable of seeing things from a personal perspective. Let me educate you on WHY adding computers was and continues to be such a huge 'positive' impact:

The computer guys figured out 'DRM'. This feature allows the manufacturer to more fully control the entire car. What I mean by that is that there are not really ANY aftermarket stereos anymore. Additionally there are more and more parts that can only be provided by the manufacturer. Many of those parts are designed to have a short lifetime. Taken together, what all of this means is that the manufacturer now has a steady income in relation to repairing vehicles. Or, in other words, it is wildly profitable to abuse your customers with locked in parts replacement... but, there is an additional benefit, the cost to build the car is cheaper than with purely mechanical components but they can charge more because it is "more complicated".

In other words, it is profitable. The reason you can't see that is because you see it from your own perspective: Why would you want to fuck over anyone? You would be an honest merchant; therefore, you do not see how being sneaky and slimy will increase your profits.

Comment Re:Any way for both sides to lose? (Score 1) 115

The issue is that with the proper set of prompts, the entire copyrighted work can be coaxed from the AI, which is distribution. Even more problematic is that numerous prompts can evince portions of the copyrighted work, portions large enough to qualify as copyright infringement.

If the AI kept it to themselves, they could train on as much copyrighted work as they want... but then, they would not be commercially available.

You can train the AI that you use on anything you want, copyrighted or not. An AI that is to be used commercially can not be trained on copyrighted works because the AI regurgitates portions, or all, of that copyrighted material.

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 90

Guess what? If I happen to use a particular sequence of words, I get called out for using AI when I don't even know what the trigger words are! (I mention this because this type of thing happens to me a lot where I say a particular sequence of words and it triggers people in a way unknown to me previously)

In general, there are a lot of good and bad things.

(lol, CAPTCHA was 'flawed', same as your reasoning)

Comment Re:Yes, it's a good reminder... (Score 1) 72

You make it sound as if MS and the open source community work in the same way. In the last 40 years I have never experienced a open source OS like Linux or FreeBSD install software that I didn't request. If they had, all the tools to suppress/remove it are available.

As I just said to someone else using this line of logic: Explain SystemD...

Comment Re: Go to court ... (Score 1) 87

Not to mention there is potential diplomatic harm to the US-Japan relationship.

So what? The administration is hostile to all concerns other than their own. Japan received tariffs already. Japan will be used as thoroughly as they let themselves be used; therefore, they must speak up immediately, regardless of consequences as the consequences are guaranteed anyways.

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