Comment Re:Weighted average of multiple GNSS systems (Score 1) 39
You were credible until you said Obama and his body double. No US President has ever used body doubles.
Comment Re: What if you don't want or need credit? (Score 1) 50
You can tell if it's a debit or credit card by submitting the first 4-9 digits: https://stackoverflow.com/ques...
Yes, it is possible. You need to get a list of BIN (Bank Identification Numbers) which correlate to card type (debit or credit). You then can compare the BIN number, which is the first 4-9 numbers of the card, to that list which will tell you the card type.
Processors like Worldpay and Card Connect make lists like this available. I am unsure if there is a cost or not. I found this free one but you'll need to massage it a bit to consume it programmatically. This API also claims to be free.
Comment Re:'The Cloud' = 'Someone Elses Computer' (Score 1) 38
do you have any evidence for your claims? Or are you just making broad generalizations of doom?
Comment Re:Oh No. How Terrible. (Score 3, Informative) 10
An AI company who is completely dependent on mining every bit of data out there, copyright be dammed had another company who also is completely dependent on mining every bit of data, copyright be dammed violate their terms of service?
How awful.
No, wait, that's completely expected. It's sad that the best we can hope for is these companies get shut down by the courts because LLMs aren't fair use.
A court has already said that it is fair use for an LLM to be trained: https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
Otherwise you would never be allowed to learn anything from stuff you buy like books, music, and movies/tv shows.
What is not fair use is pirating the data, to then have the LLM be trained on it.
Comment Re:How does this involve Paypal? (Score 2) 34
It doesn't matter that a company is registered in a different country. If that company does business in a country, courts in that country can give orders that are legally enforceable, but only in that country. This is why paypal is on the list here.
Comment tipping? (Score 1) 3
If you tip, what is it going towards, if not helping to pay for the game's development?
Comment Re:Refusal only for the UK? What about US? (Score 1) 53
The FBI has tried for years to get Apple to add a backdoor to the backups that iphones, ipads, and mac's do. The difference here is that in the UK, it was made into an actual law, where as the US congress hasn't passed such a law for the US president to sign.
source: https://www.wired.com/story/th...
but apple will happily add a backdoor depending on the country who asked for it, such as china, where there is no way for apple to fight it: https://qz.com/618371/apple-is...
source: https://www.wired.com/story/th...
but apple will happily add a backdoor depending on the country who asked for it, such as china, where there is no way for apple to fight it: https://qz.com/618371/apple-is...
Comment Re:And it ain't good (Score 1) 34
> We're like the guy who drove around several blockades then drove off a bridge because his GPS told him to.
I remember that news story about the guy driving off a collapsed bridge. Claiming he did so only because his gps told him to is wrong. You're leaving out several key details:
1. it was dark out, so there was no way to tell the bridge had collapsed because the sides were still up
2. the sign indicating not to use the bridge, had been vandalized and removed because it was vandalized, and not there at the time of the accident
3. the bridge had collapsed in 2013, and google had been warned for years, but never actually accepted the change. They only reviewed them, and nothing further came from it.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...
I remember that news story about the guy driving off a collapsed bridge. Claiming he did so only because his gps told him to is wrong. You're leaving out several key details:
1. it was dark out, so there was no way to tell the bridge had collapsed because the sides were still up
2. the sign indicating not to use the bridge, had been vandalized and removed because it was vandalized, and not there at the time of the accident
3. the bridge had collapsed in 2013, and google had been warned for years, but never actually accepted the change. They only reviewed them, and nothing further came from it.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...
Comment Re:CryptPad's security claims don't make sense (Score 1) 17
You encrypt with the public key, and decrypt with the private key. Not the other way around.
https://www.cloudflare.com/lea...
Comment Re: Great. (Score 1) 32
Epic is the developer. That is their right to choose the payment methods they will accept. If they don't include payment methods their audience wants, then it will effect their revenues.
Comment Que the darth vader quote (Score 1) 22
"I altered the deal. Pray I don't alter it further."
Despite password sharing being theft and there being no contract. So yes, they can change it. And you can claim that you'll unsubscribe now, while never being subscribed in the first place.
Comment Re:ok, but still no toolbar (Score 1) 57
Check out ExplorerPatcher. It brings back the windows 10 taskbar with the tool bars feature. Be aware you'll need to add some exclusions with your Antivirus because MS doesn't like ExplorerPatcher since it's able to hide the ads that are in windows 11, starting with bringing back the windows 10 taskbar. Here's the link to it: https://github.com/valinet/Exp...
Comment This isn't new (Score 1) 93
This was being done back in Office 97. And Libre Office also does this during install. It offers to run an application as soon as you login.
The only difference now is it's a scheduled task instead of an application shortcut in your windows start menu startup directory.
Comment Re:Wish then luck (Score 1) 110
Hate to break it to you, but aluminum cans have a thin lining of plastic on the inside: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Comment Re:Wrong focus. (Score 1) 64
Because this is not Microsoft's fault. CrowdStroke also released updates for Linux previously that caused the Linux Kernel to crash: https://www.theregister.com/20...
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