Comment So what's it good for? (Score 1) 63
"OpenAI also included scores from AI benchmarks showing similar performance from watermarked and unwatermarked text. But it notes that textGrain "does not guarantee reliable detection," and says text watermarks don't verify accuracy, determine who owns the text, measure how much a human contributed, or prove human authorship. "
Oh, I see, it is good for Company Misdirection: "OOooooo.....look at that Blibbering Humdinger in the window" (to reuse a Luna Lovegood phrase).
Comment Re:Can we extract? (Score 1) 59
Or consider why you don’t hang out with 19-year olds to have intellectual conversations ripe with common life experiences and perspectives
I literally do.
Comment Re: Oracle PeopleSoft seems like the Need SSN just (Score 1) 17
It's hard to believe that a Jordanian teenager learned the PeopleSoft vendor integration API well enough to exploit it.
Probably somebody whose dayjob is related.
Maybe he was just Vibesploiting, but it seems less likely.
Comment Re:Headline and article disagree (Score 1) 39
Comment Re:Groundwork for censorship (Score 1) 113
No, you're confusing the definition of censorship with what restraints on free speech are constitutional.
Oh, now you are trying to nitpick?
You are the one who said, "Censorship means suppression of speech or expression by a governing authority." which is a really dumb thing to say, otherwise "government censorship" or "self-censorship" wouldn't be terms.
Comment Re:Plague is a problem in Russia? (Score 1) 65
We have bubonic plague infections every year in the United States. Very, very few, admittedly, but it's not like it's been eradicated. So there's still benefit in studying it.
Comment Re:Perhaps of interest (Score 1) 88
The SF Democratic machine is all in on Flock [missionlocal.org]. That might have something to do with the Flock being in the SF Democratic Party.
The more I hear about this so-called "SF Democratic Party," the more I'm convinced they don't speak for the majority of SF voters. Seriously. They seem to be some strange, centrist organization that no voters belong to and nobody knows where they get their money from.
Comment Re:You need this for an emergency (Score 1) 198
It [AM radio] needs to be forced as standard equipment.
Why? What good is it for me? I don't speak Spanish.
Comment Re: On par with MS Teams (Score 1) 66
We've seen how well it has worked out for us here in the US...[rolls eyes].
Comment Re:I quit stealing cars (Score 1, Flamebait) 88
Less targets means less of that type of crime.
Comment Re:Pay people better (Score 1) 191
Comment Re:Well above the ocean [Re:Uh HUH] (Score 1) 83
Let me be perfectly clear about this: I am insulting you. I am calling you out as either being such a plonk that you keep old copies of People magazine around just in case
Either way, you are a plonk. Your memory is reliable and truthful, mine is full of lies.
Comment Re:Well above the ocean [Re:Uh HUH] (Score 1) 83
Yah, right, like I keep sources of everything I remember from 30 years ago. Uh huh. You of course, being perfect, do keep such sources, instead of just googling and reporting the results which confirm your own bias.
Comment Re:Crazy idea here... (Score 1) 89
I do not think shifting the time zone back to the 1950's Jim Crow South is physically possible, although they are dong their damnest to try.