Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading!

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment Re:Earth is in no obligation to support human life (Score 1) 49

Advocating that society should be engineered towards resilience is not a new thing, it's what keeps us safe from earthquakes, for example.
You have no guarantee that we can stop global warming. I happen to think we will not. Too many politics, laziness and complacency.
It is not an unreasonable demand, what we try to build better insulated houses, further away from the sea. Just in case.

Comment Earth is in no obligation to support human life (Score 1) 49

We should spend more time getting ready for the fact that, even though we created global warming, Earth has warmed and cooled of its own volition in the past and is not contractually obliged to hold a comfortable temperature range or a certain sea level. Species adapt or die. Stop building in floodplains maybe?
Now that we know the ice caps can melt and raise sea levels to a certain height, maybe we should go live in a high place.
What are you going to do if the sun suddenly warms up in an unexpected way, are you going to try cooling down the sun?
Shouldn't we at least have a plan B in case we can't immediately fix this?

Comment Innocent until proven guilty etc? (Score 2, Insightful) 34

In my country court proceedings are secret, as their disclosure can harm ongoing investigations, or simply violate someone's constitutional right to privacy.
Accusations are not convictions. And even if you were convicted of something that's no one else's business. You pay your debt to society, you have the right to a clean slate. Never hear of the Right to be Forgotten laws?
If the US does not protect its I'm sure that one day it will get finally get rid of the media circus bullshit and let people have their dignity.
You're the record holders for bible-thumping, how about "Judge not lest ye be judged" etc.

Comment NFTs are bullshit (Score 1) 25

Why would I need a cryptographic ledger thingamabob, whatever the hell that is, in order to buy and own an image? It's as if people didn't buy and sell images all the time, for instance in stock photos websites. Not that I am terribly fussed over a wallpaper image being used by someone else, legally or otherwise.
When will reality catch up with the cryptobros?

Comment Technophobic professor is doing it wrong. (Score 1) 241

Ask them to generate text with ChatGPT and analyze each assertion, explaining why it's right or wrong based on the officially recommended reading material, with citations and accurate page numbers etc.
Use your own book or another one that is not entirely mainstream so GPT won't have heard of it.
Grade them on how well researched something is and on the quality of their critical thinking and argumentative skills. GPT will not usually give you multiple citations for the same thing.
Memorization is for USB pens, not people.
I use AI to generate code in my day to day job (I'm tacitly expected to use Copilot in order to be productive, that's why they're paying for it)

Slashdot Top Deals

If this is a service economy, why is the service so bad?

Working...