The guy is probably thinking more of a Pris Stratton from Blade Runner.

Personally I have seen the blanket RTO mandate makes little sense for some employees. If an employeeâ(TM)s coworkers are not geographically located anywhere near them, then RTO means they have to fight traffic to drive into work for an online meeting. During the pandemic one thing that happened was team members were not organized by location as much.

Yeah, lots of employees are just commuting so they can do meetings on Zoom all day, rather than being able to do the exact same thing remotely.

Of course, one thing I have noticed is people's hours have changed - it used to be there were people in the office at 7:30AM, now a lot of places people don't get in until 10AM or so. So they are "in" the office but rarely spend all 8 hours there. Maybe they do 5-6 hours and then go back home, bypassing rush hour traffic.

Speaking of classified information, we knew the Germans knew about the potential of fission - and they were ahead of us for a while, having achieved the first fission in late 1930's Germany. So there was no question that the 1930's Germany government was going to pursue this as a weapon. Knowing this, we did our best to impede the German effort. Fortunately we got the results first. In retrospect, the basic concepts of fission are simple. Uncontrolled fusion not quite so simple, but nothing a high schooler couldn't understand

Now back to AI problems, it is pretty obvious (or should be) that using it, a lot of different completely open source and innocent facts can be put together for some horrible intentions. Even before modern AI or the internet was used, there were cases of people using library books to piece together and make some nasty products. Or even just figuring stuff out independently.

I don't quite disagree with you. But how to police this is a big problem. The question then becomes, what should be banned? And what should be banned even if we don't know what knowledge will end up as part of a problem? And banned knowledge shows the bad guys what is very interesting. I agree it is a big problem, but problematic knowledge can come from sources that in themselves are not a problem. And we don't know what we don't know.

And I know I'm no help in the matter.

Looking at the stuff he posted, it looked more like drunk finger fumbling than not knowing how to spell. The typos were adjacent keys on the keyboard, an example is "qilll I go to jail" The Q happens to be right beside the W on a keyboard, than it would read "willl I go to jail"

The guy is still an idiot.

While yes, the kid wasn't all that smart. It's not terribly new. I recall a case where a young lady went online to I think it was Facebook, years ago, and bragged about robbing a convenience store, and flashing the bills around that she stole.

Criminal stupidity. Pretty common to most criminals

I've had some issues with kids who try to tell me they only use chat. No telephone, no in person meetings. No Dana, only Zuul. No, just no. text messages, can be used for a few things, but they aren't the main way of communicating. And no sensitive or proprietary info ever. Yes, that has been a problem.

Sad, and creepy. Probably a response to the gestalt of the previous decade or so, where especially young men have found themselves as social and media pariahs. Yet being human, they have a desire for connection. So here's an AI chatbot that doesn't put them on blast for approaching it. They understand that for modern women, the same approach is flirtation if she finds him attractive, and sexual harassment if she isn't. So after getting humiliated with rude rejection from humans he checks out of that game.

He then opts for a safe, if creepy love affair with a chatbot. And that is sooo messed up.

You don't want a trailer - because you don't want to push the tow vehicle if someone runs into it.

It's for roadwork that moves at a slow pace - because you can either close a mile of road to paint it, or you can keep the road open, and paint the lines, but then you have the problem of dealing with live traffic. The crash vehicle needs to travel behind the work crew at a sufficient distance so if someone crashes into it at highway speeds, it will not hit the road crew ahead.

Drive by wire is quite hard - and you need instant reactions when it gets hit. An autonomous vehicle could react instantly when hit by slamming on its brakes or swerving to avoid running into the work crew ahead. Drive by wire systems don't have such reaction times and thus likely to present a hazard.

Also, $1M isn't really expensive for this kind of equipment. It doesn't need a lot of intelligence - basic ADAS systems cover 99% of what it needs to do (literally "follow the work crew ahead at a distance of 250ft") and "slam on brakes when hit and avoid road crew". LIkely also some bit about turning towards the side of the road if the 250ft runs out if it was hit by say, a semi.

(and honestly, $1M is cheap compared to the hospital costs for a work crew)

Buy Slashdot from its shitty, penny-pinching owners.

The site supports Unicode just fine. It's supported Unicode for decades.

The problem is Unicode support is more complex than just saying "we support UTF-8" and done. Especially for a system that allows arbitrary user input.

You can tell when someone writes their own comment system because their website is unreadable. This happens because people realize they didn't sanitize their inputs, and sanitizing Unicode inputs means making sure users don't input things that screw up the site. Unicode is full of this - from control codes like RTL and LTR overrides, to character decorations where you can put accents and such on characters. (Unicode is a system designed for universal human input - so some languages use character sets where you haev a base character, then apply docorations based on context that modify the character. Well, Unicode doesn't limit how many you can stick on and if you do it right, you could have a user comment be 1MB of a single character with so many decorations the entire page is... black).

In the early days, it was easy - users who did this were quickly spotted as non-robust renderers resulted in many systems crashing.

Slashdot took this to the extreme and decided to whitelist ASCII characters only. Then they did the clever thing and stripped the high bits off everything you input to limit you to ASCII input. Back when it mattered because it was quicker to strip the high bits off than to check if every character matched.

One of the complaints that employers have about GenZ kids is that they have a lot of trouble communicating, because they use chat-like language in their work. As well as the so called "Get Z stare". Ask a simple question, and they just stare at you, expressionless.

I personally think it is based on a stress response. Going from college and its safe space atmosphere, and lack of judgement of some groups, and prejudiced judgement of others, discouragement of competition, and where opinions are more important that facts - getting thrust into the real world, where performance is the metric, and where a person's opinion cannot withstand actual facts.

The collective "we" have failed these kids badly by well meaning but stupid attempts to both shield them from adversity, plus give them some idea that as a better brand of humans, they were going to come into the real world and change it to a world they were trained for.

Working a career in university, I can note that experiment failed badly.

Let's use this example as an example. I completely understand what you are saying. I sure as hell share your concerns. But I have no idea of how we stop it. At what point do we say "Not allowable for research!"? Making it impossible to do any research that might result in a nuclear weapon would require elimination of atom and astro physics. Simple things like determining how stars obtain the massive amount of energy they use leads one to how the atom works. Basic research into particle physics would have had to be criminalized. The worst part is we would have to have a sort of prescience, knowing the results of the research before the research happens.

So where should we have stopped? Rutherford first spit atoms in 1919 when he bombarded nitrogen gas with alpha particles, and ended up producing hydrogen gas. Almost certainly had no idea where that was going to go. Added to knowledge

In 1932, Cockcroft and Walton split lithium nuclei using protons from a particle accelerator. Okay still "innocent" enough. Added to knowledge.

Then Nuclear fission was discovered in December 1938 by chemists Hahn and Strassmann and physicists Meitner and Frisch. Added to knowledge. And a pucker string moment.

At that point, given the energy that was released, people in their fields knew 2 things. the immense power released would make a devastating weapon.

Further research by Fermi in 1942 using Chicago Pile-1 showed that the same physical process could be a tremendous source of energy for power generation by creating a controlled reaction, as well as devastating destruction.

The research went where it went. Knowing which research would result in horrible weapons, and which would result in peaceful purposes like power generation using the same simple physical process was going to happen at some point.

Also, lowered air pollution - things like catalytic converters and such lowered the amount of NOx and acid rain producing chemicals from the air, which had the effect of cleaning up the air. But that also meant less sunlight was being reflected into space.

So yeah, the effect is relatively minor, and anyone who's lived in LA or Beijing probably can tell you smog days suck, but it's also an unexpected side effect of cleaning up the air so you can breathe.

Airpods basically ran all of those off the market. I'm not entirely sure how or why because it was a 30 to $50 headset versus a$200 pair of airpods but not long after airpods head all the decent cheap Bluetooth headsets disappeared. Motorola still makes one but they're kind of crap and then there's the off-brand weirdo Chinese stuff where the batteries last 60 minutes if you're lucky.

There's plenty in the $50-100 market. Anker SoundCore headsets are extremely well regarded for their price, for example. And there's plenty more along the lines. They aren't going to match those Bose or Sony headsets that cost $500, but at $50-200, they're surprisingly competent.

The good Chinese brands have basically replaced the market - basically all Bluetooth stuff is done in China so that's where all the expertise is now.

Stick with the well known Chinese brands like Anker and you'll probably find a set that's cheaper and works better.

Your doctor actually writes anything? In my experience, in the US, everything is entered directly into a computer system. All my prescriptions are sent electronically to the pharmacy, and my records are available electronically on the doctor's website.

Depends on the doctor.

I've had prescriptions where the doctor wrote it up on the computer and then printed and signed it. My cardiologist writes it out on a custom prescription pad. The prescription is on the computer as he references it when he writes it out, and I'm sure he could print it out but he chooses not to.

I suppose the problem is just how many printers are needed - some doctor's offices only have one printer so the doctor prints it out but after consultation you have to wait another 15 minutes for the prescription. Others had a printer in the exam room, so they could print it out immediately and sign it and hand it to you.

And like anything involving printers there's always the fun of running out of toner, ink and paper during the consult.

Of course, they could also just electronically send the prescription to the pharmacy as well, but I guess a few people might get flummoxed because they don't know which pharmacy they want to use.

You dipshits and your inconsistent theories on free speech.

sigh, I must be getting you pretty angry at this point. So now I'm not only less intelligent than 75 percent of the population, I'm as you put it, a dipshit. The 25th percentile is around an IQ of 85. Dipshit is a combination of Dippy and shit, probably originating in the 1960's. Anything else?

So you agree that the teachers being fired for not using preferred pronouns had their first amendment rights violated.

Oh my dear Damn Oregonian, where on earth did you get the idea that I would claim such a thing is "no problemo". It is a problem. It is just a different group and different restrictions on speech. You are definitely barking up the wrong tree.

While I am heterosexual, I have long championed gay rights, which I simply define as human rights. Even way back in high school, the hoods knew better than to mess with the gay kids, if I heard about it, I'd pay them a visit. Same with anyone getting bullied. I have great issues with bullies, either the traditional kind, or the modern crybullies.

I'm a supporter of trans people as well, although I do think some of the people leading the trans rights movement have gone overboard, which has led to pushback. Today, many in the Trans community have turned against the Lesbian and Gay communities, and vice versa. That has nothing to do with individuals however.

I fear you are having arguments with me in your head Damn Oregonian. People who do that always win their head arguments.

If I might be so blunt, your inability to frame a discussion without pointless profanity, name calling, invalid and specious claims, and insults, makes for a person to determine that your style of discourse is not terribly impressive. But you do you, homie. We just decide who has the high ground.

Given PowerShell is at 7.5 right now, deprecating the version shipped inside Windows might not have been a bad idea. (PowerShell is also open-source and available for Linux, macOS and others as well).

Heck, even the Windows 10 PowerShell was constantly reminding you probably want to install PowerShell 5 when you invoke it.

Same goes for WMIC, since everything it does is doable via PowerShell since WMI APIs are still available and PowerShell can interface with them directly.

It's really about removing ancient versions of software that are no longer maintained by the Windows team and replacing it with software that is maintained by a separate team - PowerShell is now maintained outside Windows, and WMIC was for when PowerShell didn't exist or was poorly understood. Nowadays people aren't using batch files or CMD scripts, they've moved to PowerShell scripts.