Comment Re:You need this for an emergency (Score 1) 36
And as for emergencies just buy a radio. Don't force me to spend an extra couple hundred bucks on my car radio or more . .
Odd to hear this take coming from you. Out of curiosity do you feel the same about other mandatory things included for safety purposes that also add to the cost of the vehicle? Normally you're quite keen on arguing for the government to force people to buy something you consider to be for their own good or to even go further and suggest the government deliver that thing itself. Not that I expect this to change your entire worldview, but the next time you want to go off about someone who'd prefer the government not to force decisions they don't want on them, you remember this.
Comment 71% incorrect (Score 1) 48
One city found that Flock was incorrect 71% of the times it identified felonies. But they did claim they installed the flock cameras using non-standard methods to avoid certain privacy concerns.
Flock likes to claim a 99+% accuracy under 'ideal' concerns.
Comment Re:Uah no (Score -1, Flamebait) 88
and is secure because it doesn't rely on a JIT compiler
Is this what Claude told you to put in your comment?
Comment Re:TPM Suspicion Intensifies (Score 1) 113
You've failed to understand the concept of a secure enclave.
He said, while failing to understand that it's for controlling our use of our computers. Eyeroll all day.
If the user has no control over it, then it's for the control of the user.
The idea as presented as being in the user's benefit is that the user can control it, but applications cannot.
Comment Object permanence (Score 1) 17
Is it holding it between the index and middle fingers? "Got your gene! I got your gene!"
Comment Not just a dupe (Score 4, Funny) 55
This version has a dumber headline, so it's like a whole new story! Three people didn't like it!
Submission + - Pneumonic plague outbreak hits Siberia as lab worker, 28, dies (hotair.com)
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.
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Comment as usual (Score 1) 52
which eventually led to a vehicle search and charges of possessing drugs with intent to distribute
Yeah that's some old shit. Anyone look at the case enough to know what the evidence was? Was it just quantity or was it packaged?
Comment Re:Damn... (Score 3, Insightful) 52
America had a republic until Lincolns' War of Northern Aggression.
Oh look, it's the hipster maggot come along to tell us all how great slavery was.
Comment Re:If they are thermally efficient enough (Score 1) 115
If one spends a lot of money on something, it is kind of save to assume he has done his math.
No, it's reasonable. It's not safe.
The other part of that is that you're not necessarily doing the same equation, they may be solving for something something different.
Comment Re:Damn... (Score 1) 52
the us has been fascist for a very long time
The US has been oligarchic and authoritarian all along, and has behaved towards some other nations much like a fascist nation would do, but in general has not subjected the general citizenry to full blown fascism. It's been horrible to everyone other than landed white males all along, though.
Comment Re:Elections are cheap (Score 1) 37
by Anonymous Coward on 10-03-26 5:36 (#66361058)
And you presumably are
What? Presumably are what? No one can hear you over your cowardice.
Comment Re:Interesting (Score 1) 115
It's just a matter, or question, of scale.
If you can recognize that, then you should be able to do the math and figure out why it won't work. A quick napkin-based computation is sufficient. If I can do it, you can do it.
Comment Re:If they are thermally efficient enough (Score 1) 115
If we had reasonable regulations then a data center could go anywhere and not be a problem, but since we don't, they can only go into unpopulated places with lots of water and power without causing harm. Normal DCs can just go into ordinary commercial zones because they use, while elevated, not completely obscene amounts of power and therefore water. And to return to the topic, this illustrates why AI DCs don't make sense in space, because cooling is harder in space than it is here.