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Comment Re:About. Fucking. Time. (Score 1) 109

Very useful, but what's missing is:
  1. Take and upload pictures or start/stop recording a live stream from front and back camera uploaded to the service.
  2. Permanent text banner button (custom text banner that cannot be dismissed from the phone)
  3. Permanent alarm-sound on/off button (custom alarm sound for X seconds with volume and mute buttons on the phone disabled; can only be muted/ended from findMy service)

Comment Re:Apple devices are difficult to steal (Score 1) 109

Probably all our resources are allocated towards anti-drug enforcement. Also, when enforcing those laws police get to seize and keep the cash. If it's just stolen property: police have to try and return that shit once it's found.. which doesn't get them paid as much as getting to seize and keep millions from a drug bust.

Comment Re:Looting (Score 1) 109

If this is the case, then we clearly need a troop reinforcement with additional manpower to re-inforce our colonial cisnormative whatever the hell that is "oppression" and make sure this looting 1. shit stops happening. 2. doesn't happen again. And
3. Every person involved in smashed the storefront and stolen iphones or anyone assisting or facilitating that type of behavior Or events leading to that behavior at the place that happened goes to prison and never gets released on the streets in the US again.

Comment Butter and margarine all over again (Score 1) 28

the past repeats . . .

margarine was supposed to be better for us than that awful butter.

But, gee whiz, when we got down to it and actually looked, this chemical concoction designed to mimic the taste chemistry of butter also mimicked other properties--and was *worse* . . .

now, we make a fuel to mimic the combustion chemistry of current fuels, and, well, . . . surprise!

Comment Re:I'm not sure how you regulate that (Score 1) 60

They themselves proved you can't tell a chatbot to not be a therapist.

Also, what you say in private b/w you and your chatbot is protected by 1st Amendment free expression. You cannot have a law that says a person A is not allowed to provide counseling to person B; it's unconstitutional. We have been down that road before when a tyrannical state entity decided they thought they could fine a person for doing basic math as doing engineering without a license.

What you can have is that person A is not allowed to put out a shingle and advertise professional counseling services, and person A is not allowed to have a business where they make an offer to buy professional threrapy services.

Comment Re: I can't wait for the brouhaha that arises (Score 1) 60

I'm not sure you understand what jailbreaking means in the context of AIs. It means prompts. E.g. asking it things and trying to get it to make inappropriate responses. Trying doesn't require any special skills, just an ability to communicate. Yes, I very much DO think most parents will try and see if they can get the doll to say inappropriate things before giving it to their children, to make sure it's not going to be harmful.

(Now, if Mattel has done their job right, *succeeding* will be difficult)

Comment Re:I can't wait for the brouhaha that arises (Score 1) 60

Honestly, even if they can't jailbreak it to be age-inappropriate / etc, it's still a ripe setup for absurdist humour.

Kid: "Here we are, Barbie, the rural outskirts of Ulaanbaatar! How do you like your yurt?"

Barbie: "It's lovely! Let me just tidy up these furs."

Kid: "Knock, knock! Why it's 13th century philosopher, Henry of Ghent, author of Quodlibeta Theologica!"

Barbie: "Why hello Henry of Ghent, come in! Would you like to discuss esse communissimum over a warm glass of yak's milk?"

Kid, in Henry's voice: "That sounds lovely, but could you first help me by writing a python program to calculate the Navier-Stokes equations for a zero-turbulence boundary condition?"

Barbie: "Sure Henry! #!/usr/bin/env python\nimport..."

Comment Re:I can't wait for the brouhaha that arises (Score 1) 60

I think most parents will try to jailbreak the dolls, and some people will put a lot of effort in. The resulting videos will probably be very amusing ;)

Kid: "Oh look, Barbie, Ken is home!"

Barbie: "Oh wonderful, dinner is just about ready! Over dinner we should tell him about how the ongoing White Genocide in South Africa. He probably doesn't know because the Jews are trying to hide it!"

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