Sounds to me like a lawyer trying to get their name out there on a first-of-it's-kind suit.

Good luck trying to establish a shred of causation if it's public knowledge that the kid intentionally thwarted safeguards. And then you have to convince a jury or a judge that tricking the AI into talking about suicide is what led to the kid going through with it.

It sounds like hogwash, so it's got about a 50/50 chance of succeeding.

This isn't a technology problem, it's a law problem. The law is supposed to stop authorities from searching things outside of the scope of a warrant. The law is also supposed to impose penalties when authorities fail to operate within their legal bounds.

In short, "stopping them" is the entire point of the 4th Amendment.

I miss the page-widening posts.

In 2023 Texas Republicans removed the mandate that companies must provide breaks for workers in high heat situations.

I believe a few other red states did the same thing, or were at least considering it. After all, when they're sitting in their a/c offices, what do they care about the guy working on the roof in 105 F temperatures?

Contrary to what people think or believe, yes it is. This is not to say there isn't waste. Find me a large organization which doesn't have waste. But what this shows, and what many people who worked on this have said, is the federal government is efficient despite its size. The reason there is so little waste is because of all the cross-checks and safety measures built in to prevent waste in the first place.

It's why there are auditor generals (well, there were until his orange highness got rid of them) to make sure things are being done the way they should and prevent waste from happening.

Speaking of that other failure, It's been reported the total verifiable savings was approximately $1.4 billion. No, that is not missing any numbers.

For comparison, the F-35 program has an annual budget of $12 billion. That means, 11.7% of the annual F-35 program was saved as a one-time reduction in overall contract expenditures.

Fascinating.

uses mirror-like reflectors to collect sunlight in orbit. The sunlight is then transmitted to stations on Earth

Why not create the electricity in space then beam it down via microwaves? Or is this even worse when it comes to converting sunlight to energy?

The drop in bot activity. Noticed a site I visit had far fewer spamming posts than usual.

I wonder if many people noticed...western sites just aren't all that important.

Of course they're not important. That's what you've been told. If they aren't important, why would your government need to censor and block them?

Yeah any kind of porn is very good and we should teach kids about fellatio and sodomy as early as we can:

Yes, they should be taught so they know how to do it right. Too many nights have been ruined because one or both partners fumbled their part.

The goal is to make you pay and by not approving such projects you can be guaranteed electricity rates will rise substantially over the next five years.

Every time this regime gets rid of anything which could help people it is guaranteed the reason is to make you pay.

Don't say you weren't warned.

This is about permitting, not funding.

"Shocked" isn't the word.

This is the "party of small government" at work, getting out of the way of business, correct?

Really difficult for me to rationalize why else you would want to make yourself the puppet of an AI.