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Comment Re:Element Pro is not Open Source (Score 2, Insightful) 61

Because anything not at the whim of Trump and his gang of degenerate thugs will offer more national security then counting on the US.

It's already the case that European government are moving their physical gold reserves out of the US because they know that Trump might steal it. It's clear that besides looting the US Treasury for his personal gain, he's turned the entire country of Venezuela his personal piggy bank.

Are you stupid enough to think that just because Microsoft is a huge financial entity that he won't use it to get what he wants? We all know that anything that MS controls is riddled with back doors ans this administration has already used them for financially corrupt reasons.

This is a permanent change. Post Trump no county in the world can trust the United states on anything. We make China look honest.

Comment Re:Open version. (Score 3) 11

I understand almost none of it, but sometimes I plow through things like this to try and get a bare glimpse of what's going on.

It's a theoretical study of the interactions of phonons, i.e. quantized vibration in condensed matter. If the phonons have handedness then pseudo-particles can form have eight fold symmetry. They suggest known physical system with these properties and how they might be detected.

That's all I've got. Sorry no pussy jokes. Maybe this time I'm the grownup in the room.

Comment Be prepared to show your work (Score 2) 9

Ever since deep-fakes became practical, artists and others should know they may be asked to show their work.

These days that means keeping all intermediate materials and revisions. If possible, time-stamp them in a way that is very resistant to being accused as being faked. There's 20th century precedent for creating immutable, time-stamped records.

Should artists have to prove a negative - prove they didn't use AI? Whether they should or not, the reality is these days they do, and any artist paying attention to the world should know this by now.

Comment Re:Could be worse (Score 1) 19

This is pretty standard when someone leaves Microsoft.

The management above the person leaving sends a nice message about them and their work and NEVER tells the truth about _why_ they are leaving.

At the upper levels I don't think there's really any sincerity about anything said, one way or another. This is just how corporate America operates.

Comment Nextcloud Talk? (Score 3, Interesting) 69

Nextcloud has done great work in terms of EU-Soverignty and offering credible replacements for all the pieces of the the Microsoft stack.

Nextcloud Talk works well for video conference meetings.

MS Teams is a pretty terrible piece of software. The design of it is bad, and the implementation is bad.

Any software that tries to copy it will also be bad.

If you haven't spun up a nextcloud AIO instance yet for your organization(s), you should try it out.

Comment Will they confiscate non-MS laptops? (Score 0, Troll) 19

Maybe it will be some sort of involuntary trade-in, where after they seize your Mac or (gasp) Linux system you will be handed a shiny new top of the line Windows machine. How can you complain with such an obvious trade up for Freeeeeeee!

BTW, is it legal to use Linux to do official business in Washington state? Asking for a friend.

Comment Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen (Score 1) 2

If the seller knows the chip cannot be used for all of the normal purposes a typical buyer would expect it to be used for, that's a material defect. Failure to disclose could be grounds for a refund and for additional damages if his other components were blacklisted as a result.

Now, if the buyer got it third hand and can't prove the person he bought it from knew or should have known of the problem, he will be out of luck.

Comment Re:"A months-long breach" (Score 1) 70

Log reviews are the kind of thing that an automated tool would be good at pointing out things that "don't look normal" for further human review.

Unfortunately, a well-skilled adversary will know to only do things that look "normal enough" to get flagged as "normal." Doing so will fool even a skilled human reviewer if they aren't specifically looking for the adversary's specific technique.

Comment Re:They worried about Florida Man (Score 1) 49

I always like it when Republicans claim to be "pro-life" yet go out of their way to kill women and children. In Texas, since their abortion ban, the rate of maternal deaths has increased and several women have died because hospitals refused to perform a medical abortion because the doctor and hospital might get sued.

Who was telling them that if they treated ectopic pregnancies they might face legal repercussions? Is that what the law actually said?

I believe you'll find it was the people who opposed the law who waged a campaign of disinformation to try to convince people that women would not be able to get life saving care. Turns out there are actual dangers to lying to slander your opponents when it's about what kind of medical treatment is available.

So lesson learned, going to be very careful not to mischaracterize in the future right?

Which just goes to show they don't care about people and this lawsuit should be thrown out. They can't claim AI might endanger peple because of a "hack" while at the same time letting people die from a preventable disease.

Look at Pennsylvania. Over 900 measles cases so far this year, with 4 dead in the past month. One was 18-years old, the other 40-years old. The other two were children below the age of 5. And this doesn't take into consideration any other damage people suffer from measles such as deafness.

The article OP cites is about a policy study for a policy that no one has so far enacted or voted for. How does that become proof that "they don't care about people and this lawsuit should be thrown out." How did you extrapolate the "they"? How did you manage to impart motive into every member of that collective based on an unfulfilled hypothetical? How did that lead to being able to seek an injunction on AI? Have you established it is the same "they" in question? And when the "they" has a position you don't like it become a prohibition on any action they could possibly take? How does that work in general?

Pennsylvania has a democratic governor, democratic house, democratic senator, voted for Obama, Obama again, and Biden. Their measles outbreak is laid up as a Republican failing? Why isn't Florida much worse then? Canada has been having thousands of cases to they point they lost their measles elimination status. Who is in control of Canada?

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