I got news for you.

That system already existed. It was already in place.

The threshold just got much lower.

I disabled Bitlocker and Secure Boot on my system. That calmed Pro down a bit.

Someone a while back managed to train a model to insert ads. It literally would spit out an advertisement for his website without prompt and without knowledge it did it. He did something down inside the model to do this.

Now just wait until the instructions and prompts to destroy systems are tokenized and embedded in the model..where it might be harder to locate and notice.

You lock everything behind a paywall...then tell me I need to pay $15 to subscribe because I used my free articles for the month.

I'VE NEVER BEEN TO YOUR GODDAMN WEBSITE BEFORE!

At some point people will literally be too poor to pay attention because everything will demand a dollar.

Guns.

If Visa or MC said they didn't want to process gun payments; the government would step in and say no.

But anything short of that....it doesn't. If they decided they didn't want to process payments for a company because they disagreed with their policies; then there is literally nothing that can stop them from doing it. The company will cave. The government will say it's their first amendment right to violate your first amendment rights.

Actual IMAX is neat. What they put in most theaters is a watered down version of it. Sure...the local imax screen might be a little bigger; but it's not on par with their original product. They didn't invent 70mm...maybe they came up with the idea of running it horizontally....but I'm pretty sure that's only a thing on the actual legit IMAX setups; not the junk in your local theater.

Remember THX? IMAX is the new THX. THX was a certification, technically. Sure...it was sound. It was all the rage in home audio for a while. You don't hear much about it anymore. Why? Well Dolby came out with a new branding for whatever format...so did dts...and even Imax was touting both it's improved visual and aural experience.

When you start seeing IMAX branded/certified stuff for the home; it's over. There's a good chance that any competition will drive them to it.

On the flipside....every movie theater within an hour of me no longer exists and I'm not about to drive an hour and pay $50 for something I'll be able to watch at home in a few weeks for $15. If they go back to the 1 - 2 year home release and even longer streaming....then I guess I'll just go back to losing interest in movies waiting for the home release.

I mean if you're an engineer and you're pushing carts at walmart...you might be employed; but it's not anything your degree helped with. How many of those people aren't included.

The size of peers vying for the same job just increased...many of those peers stand out from the recent college grads just by the fact they've got experience. Would I hire the recent college graduate or the guy with 15 years experience. They're both willing to work for the same money. I'm going with the guy with the experience. That's just business sense.

That guy is only in the market because his previous company laid everyone off. If he hadn't been in the market...I'd have probably hired the college grad because they wanted less money.

That is the unspoken stuff people ignore. They assume that's not going to happen because "the world doesn't work that way". Well...it does. I got out of business because I'm not enough of a heartless piece of shit. I don't sit around and try to think of ways to take employee's pay.

When I owned my business...I got blamed for everyone else's turnover. Literally everyone else was wanting to blame me, directly....because I paid more than they did. They paid their people minimum wage....I paid $12/hour. They cracked the whip on their employees....I told mine when they were done I didn't care what they did as long as the customers got taken care of. They'd barge in my store during down hours and yell at my employees for not working then yell at me like they owned the place. My work environment made theirs look bad...and they expected me to treat my employees like garbage so they didn't look as bad. Also wanted me to pay them less because "it was unfair to them" to have to compete and "you could be making so much more money if you reduced your staff and paid them less."

You do the math and say 94% chance of success. I say you should put the pencil down and look at more than just one snapshot of a number from a point in time. It's not going to tell a story...and it's not going to predict the future.

"Your AI does. It did the work. You just ordered it. But since we don't allow artificial participants, you'll get nothing and like it."

There are a lot of industries it will take over before it's ready. Customer service for example. Every call center operator is frothing at the mouth to fire every single phone agent they've got. "People are a liability. They cost too much and they're not perfect enough." is the mentality I hear from the executives...the people that cut the checks.

Customer service already sucks across the board for most corporations. They will not be hurt if they put broken AI in place of people. It already sucks. They will dump money in to the research if it means...down the road. "They're going to be pissed at a person. They can get pissed at the robot".

When you have an industry where the people already can't properly do a job because there are people making it difficult at the top...and people are still coming....then what's the point. They can slap faulty broken AI as a CSR and at the end of the day...tell the person "well what you want is not in line with company policies".

We've...already been doing that. What do you think voice prompts are? No, it's not LLM...but it's the same level of artificial intelligence as an RPG...a tree based system. The reality is...if someone got a computerized voice asking them what they wanted rather than telling them to press something.....even if it totally screwed up, the customer would be immediately more satisfied in the outcome.

The difference with calculators or chess computers is you still needed an understanding. The calculator is not going to do algebra for you...it's just a very fast counter. You still have to punch in the instructions. There was still a level of knowledge.

GMaps has destroyed people's abilities to navigate. Holy hell you must not deal with people who don't know which way to go at an intersection till the GPS tells them. Or who don't know how to use maps other than navigation. They don't. People of a specific age do not know how to read a map. At all. They can't navigate either.

Waymo shouldn't count. I for one do not trust an autonomous auto-driving vehicle. I know how bad technology is. I mean...literally...you're citing a technology that's literally at the point of eliminating an industry while trying to say it's not. Why? Because it hasn't? That's only because some states are smart enough to say no and a lot of people are smart enough to say "i'm not paying for that".

People can adapt...to a point...but when you start eliminating large portions of industries...it's not good. If an executive can code an app talking to AI...he won't hire programmers. If a call center can handle all of it's calls with a couple of AI bots...they will fire the 1200 employees they have.

If you don't stop that drip now...pretty soon the damn busts.

This all fails. Everyone gets replaced with AI, no one has a job, no one has money to support companies.

It's just they get to screw us first.

We need an AI ban. This is not going to be a good thing for society. It already isn't. People are going to die because of bullshit decisions made by AI...likely already have. When the black box is making the decision and no one lets you look in the black box....is there really a black box?

We're all fucked. Congrats. It's only going to get worse before it gets better.

"All things happen through god"

Therefore...literally...science is invalid. Why did the sun come up? Rotation of the earth? no. God hung it up there.

Just put an optical reader above the laser. Problem solved.

This is why you will soon own nothing. Oh, you'll pay for things; and pay dearly, but you won't own them.

And if you don't own it, they can control what you do.

Actually not if it's unlocked.

My gas station rewards are a barcode I scan with the app. When they added NFC at the pumps...every attempt to scan the barcode resulted in Wallet seeing the NFC and activating the default payment.

It was literally such a horrible design and so annoying that I entirely ditched NFC payments.

Turns out I have 5 total ports among 4 laptops.

The oldest of my machines is an envy X360 from like...2017. It's just standard USB.
My gaming rig is Super Speed and Display Port - I would not expect a 290W laptop to charge over USB-C PD.
My Inspiron 7390 2-in-1 has dual Thunderbolt USB-C, it also only does USB-C charging so it gets TWO ports.
This Dell Inspiron 25 from last year does charging and data.

I think now that AMD is doing Thunderbolt (or something similar)...we'll see more Thunderbolt support, rendering this requirement moot.