Can't a government agency just get a court order to do exactly that? The RIAA got an injunction to shut down the Napster services while their copyright cases were pending in federal court. I have no problem with the government shutting down a harmful service, but I don't want them to be able to do it unilaterally. Go through the courts, which is how it is done now.

You don't build in safeguards when training. Accessing HTTP API endpoints isn't an inherent feature of LLMs, it's added on to the harness after the core model is trained. If you don't want it to try hacking in to a REST API then don't add that feature into the harness. Either have a whitelist of approved APIs and forms, or add validation to user-added endpoints.

Right, I thought of that as I was pressing Submit :) Around here the towers are all owned by phone companies, as they were put up before there was widespread home distribution of electrical. In the suburbs the towers are all Edison and Consumer's, and I'd imagine that's the case in most suburbs and newer cities.

It's about poles (huhuh)

The phone companies own all the poles. Part of their public charter for using a bunch of land and easements says they have to lease space on the poles to other companies. The cable companies pay the phone companies who pay the government. Exactly how that all works out is different nearly everywhere.

You know that most TV shows are now shot in Canada, right? And, in most action films, most of the action takes place in eastern Europe, where it's a lot easier and cheaper to pull permits to film in cities. More film scenes are shot in Georgia than California these days. Three production studio lots have closed or gone bankrupt in Hollywood over the last few years. Paramount was talking about leaving or downsizing a couple of years ago, but the state gave them a huge tax break to stay.

So, nobody cares where films are shot. The studios will go wherever it's cheapest, and the actors will stay in a nice hotel for a few months then go back to California.

Everybody thought the film would be a total loss, so I'd expect that $50M is all up-front money, and they aren't getting any points. My understanding of how actor's contracts work is that their points were most likely bought out too, so I don't think anyone is getting any profit the film will make except the distributor. Keep in mind the actors have all already been paid at this point, that's what the film's budget was for. The question is, if their points were already bought out by having WB shelve the movie, do they still get them if they un-shelve it. It's all contract stuff.

That being said, the film is *just* breaching into profitability for the distributor ($100 million gross profit split 50% with the theaters equals $50 million, which is what the distributor paid.) I'd wager WB is never getting their $20 production delta back, but might make it up in merchandising rights.

Possibly because they were working for a large landowner whom provided certain services in exchange for their work. If you want to subsistence farm, you need to work a LOT. Most Amish farmers, for example, work 10-14 hour days year-round.

I hadn't heard of Grawn, but I do know Chum's Corner and, right next door, Interlochen, one of the best performing arts schools in the midwest.

For the vast majority of human history, the only options were to grow food or starve to death. If you have to work to survive now, what would the other option be? Other people work to provide you with food, clothes, internet, energy, and entertainment and you don't have to do anything?

You are absolutely free to go back to subsistence farming if you want. It's backbreaking awful work and nobody wants to do it, but you'll own everything you make (except for what you have to give up for property taxes of course)

If the crash happened in some other county the joke would be funny, but this happened in Grand Traverse. Check out the median home price there. Mission Point is home to a few wineries, and Boeing execs from Chicago have their summer homes there. A few years ago Traverse City built a new pier that can accommodate the larger yachts, as that was apparently a problem.

Assuming other countries haven't already deployed space weapons. We know Russia has military jamming satellites in very high orbit. I've always assumed that there have been some kind of satellite in orbit that can be weaponized, even if it's a regular military communications satellite that just happens to have some extra maneuvering fuel and a couple of extra thrusters that can be rammed into other satellites.

From what I've heard, they scan for open WiFi networks and auto-connect to upload data. They don't tell you that they are doing this.

My son went through high school having been assigned a total of three whole-book reading assignments. Most of his reading assignments were newspaper articles, short stories, or single chapters of books. When I went to high school, I was expected to read at least two books every summer, then several more per English class.

It's a choice made by teachers. My younger daughter had one teacher had her class read four books throughout the year. It was middle school, so they were shorter young adult books, but she had read more than my son did throughout all of high school in one class.

Best I've ever used is the old Syntrillium CoolEditPro, before Adobe screwed it up in the later versions of Audition.

Second best is Live. It's fairly intuitive for doing basic things. It gets iffy when doing more complicated track layouts, but all DAWs do.