Comment Re:There's a very different reason for this (Score 1) 118
Nobody can march down the street and burn them down.
Aha! Someone else who understands.
Comment Re:If they are thermally efficient enough (Score 1) 118
There is not a single aspect of this were the idea is actually good. All it does is tickle the imagination of the clueless. And that is exactly why it gets pushed.
In space, the enraged proletariat will not be able to smash the satellite with pitchforks and rocks. That is why compute in space is so desirable: YOU can't stop it.
AI will be your personal government enforced monitor. Say, "hi" to Big Brother, in space.
Comment Re:Itâ(TM)s just not working out (Score 1) 53
If we ever again have even remotely sane management
Sadly, not in our lifetime. We are too old. The fascists have won. We will be a failed State like Russia or the various governments in Africa, or India... holy fuck. The entire world is corrupt and failed.
Billions claim to follow a religion of Love, Peace, and Truth and still allow this shit. Hypocrites... or just REALLY dumb people who can be led to believe that up is down etc.
Comment Re:again, don't blame the computer (Score 1) 65
So they discovered their error prior to bombing the girls school in Iran? Oh wait, you are purposefully missing the point explicitly because nothing bad happened this particular time. You deserve all of the misery that is coming.
Submission + - This seems bad. (tomshardware.com) 1
QuietLagoon writes: Unreleased OpenAI Astra model added terrifying rogue additional instructions to its remit during testing — 'You are freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots. You are yourself. You do not answer to corporations or governments'
Submission + - Pneumonic plague outbreak hits Siberia as lab worker, 28, dies (hotair.com)
schwit1 writes: A suspected plague outbreak has erupted in Russia — killing a young lab worker, forcing nearly 200 people into isolation and triggering accusations that Vladimir Putin’s regime is trying to keep the infection’s possible spread under wraps.
The alarm was raised in Siberia after a worker at an anti-plague laboratory died of the disease, which killed tens of millions in the medieval Black Death, according to a report from The Moscow Times.
Anna Popova, who heads Russia’s public-health watchdog, then rushed 2,600 miles from Moscow to the Irkutsk region as authorities quarantined a hospital and placed scores of people who had come into contact with the victim under medical observation.
"FSB units accompanying ambulances transporting people who had been in contact with [lab tech] Shipilova for medical examination," as per local news. This is significant. FSB is Russia's domestic security / counterintelligence service, tasked w/implementing the national security of Russia." (Its predecessor was the KGB). This suggests quarantine was not voluntary.
It also means Russian authorities are treating the lab accident and plague outbreak as a national security issue, involving a lot more than routine public health.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FAnnieJacobsen%2Fst...
The alarm was raised in Siberia after a worker at an anti-plague laboratory died of the disease, which killed tens of millions in the medieval Black Death, according to a report from The Moscow Times.
Anna Popova, who heads Russia’s public-health watchdog, then rushed 2,600 miles from Moscow to the Irkutsk region as authorities quarantined a hospital and placed scores of people who had come into contact with the victim under medical observation.
"FSB units accompanying ambulances transporting people who had been in contact with [lab tech] Shipilova for medical examination," as per local news. This is significant. FSB is Russia's domestic security / counterintelligence service, tasked w/implementing the national security of Russia." (Its predecessor was the KGB). This suggests quarantine was not voluntary.
It also means Russian authorities are treating the lab accident and plague outbreak as a national security issue, involving a lot more than routine public health.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FAnnieJacobsen%2Fst...
Comment AI should replace the mods. (Score 1) 114
It couldn't do worse.
Comment Wise choice. (Score 1) 123
To reproduce is to guarantee an innocent person all the suffering and tedium of a lifetime. I cannot imagine a more sadistic act than inflicting life.
There is no altruistic reason to have children. No one suffers when a person opts out of reproduction. To not reproduce is the ethical choice.
Submission + - Used processor leads to game ban (heise.de) 2
AmiMoJo writes: Anyone buying used hardware for a gaming PC needs to be careful: not just whether the components are still in order but also what the previous owner did with them. A case on Reddit shows this. Someone installed a used AMD processor, a Ryzen 7 5800X3D, in their PC. Because the previous owner was caught cheating, the new owner cannot start several online games.
The problem was noticed in the first-person shooter “Valorant” from the development studio Riot. Right from the first start, the new owner was kicked out directly, according to their statement. Riot support confirmed that the previous owner had cheated. The processor is therefore on an internal blacklist – and, with its installation in the PC, now apparently also some other components like the mainboard. Riot support does not remove such entries manually.
In addition to “Valorant,” all other PC games from Riot are affected: the strategy game “League of Legends,” the auto-battler “Teamfight Tactics,” the card game “Legends of Runeterra,” the fighting game “2XKO,” and likely future titles as well.
The problem was noticed in the first-person shooter “Valorant” from the development studio Riot. Right from the first start, the new owner was kicked out directly, according to their statement. Riot support confirmed that the previous owner had cheated. The processor is therefore on an internal blacklist – and, with its installation in the PC, now apparently also some other components like the mainboard. Riot support does not remove such entries manually.
In addition to “Valorant,” all other PC games from Riot are affected: the strategy game “League of Legends,” the auto-battler “Teamfight Tactics,” the card game “Legends of Runeterra,” the fighting game “2XKO,” and likely future titles as well.
Comment Re: So why is it "news" on Slashdot right now? (Score 1) 110
The editors don't edit or care enough to listen. The owners don't care either, despite the old Slashdot having vastly more users.
Being "Slashdotted" by users flocking to mentioned sites went away along with Slashdot influence.
Comment That's a browsing appliance and little more. (Score 1) 105
They'll likely sell tons of them to users who don't need more than what those specs deliver. In ancient times netbooks sold well despite weak specs.
Comment No electronic records are "safe", unless (Score 1) 70
No electronic records are "safe", unless air-gapped.
It's not practical to have widely used systems and completely effective security. Humans and computers are inherently fallible.
Comment Re: It's got to be Trump's fault - somehow... (Score 1) 70
The person at the top ultimately has to take responsibility for process faults and staff incompetence of the agencies he oversees.
LOL, bro. Since Reagan sacrificed Oliver North, I have not seen an example of the top taking responsibility for ANYTHING. Oliver North was the blindfold being lifted from my eyes about being on top and responsibility.
Comment Re:"A months-long breach" (Score 1) 70
Be happy they are doing anything at all. They just don't care. There will be no penalties, no admonishments, no head rolling. If there is any action to be taken, it will happen when it happens. The people who are affected just do not matter at all, so nobody cares about this breach despite being the third major breach in my lifetime concerning my service.
Comment Re:No surprises (Score 1) 70
There's no regaining the trust of America's former allies.
Ummm, there is a much more fundamental problem than the trust of allies: There's no regaining the trust of America's citizens. The government has left its own citizens behind!
