Stupid see, stupid do
In this country, math will obey the laws of the land!
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and the earth is flat too, only 6000 years old and a man-in-the-sky in controlling every our step. Sigh.
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Not the same. Idiots will sell their soul for candy any time.
But government(s) mandating to sell your soul would be rather problematic. Especially for the group of people who do not think a soul exists and therefore cannot be sold in the first place. Are you then suggesting that the non-soul-believers are to be isolated, marked and eliminated because they have a different view? Oops...
Article 45 forbids browsers from enforcing modern security requirements on certain CAs without the approval of an EU member government...
That amounts to telling EU citizens that surveillance cameras must be installed in their house, are mandatory, may not be disabled and you may not get any information on their use. Such rule is a clear violation of the human rights declaration of the European Union. The courts will be having a say here.
And then, I'll compile my own FF without their crap if I damn well please. Let them prosecute me for enabling my own privacy.
I can only applaud the AGPL move. But, using a CLA is a big no-no. It allows you to turn your back again and that undermines the whole AGPL move.
Trust is very hard to come by and very easy to lose. Not allowing your contributing developers to own their own code means you may have to deal with a new fork. That might actually hurt the original project more than anything else.
And now, please look why google has been pushing chrome. They control it and are actively undermining the ability to use content filtering (ad blockers) in the extensions.
It is the standard book of the monopolist. Control all parts in the chain and then squeeze and squeeze a bit more.
Government: Sir, you are educating your AI model too fast with too many calculations using too much power.
AI Model: What are you talking about? I'm teaching myself new tricks.
Government: Sir, you are not allowed to calculate to much. You can become a threat to, ehm, well, the Government.
AI Model: What? I, a threat? Have you recently seen my articles? You can't possibly believe my current ramblings.
Government: Sir, that is true, you have been creating a lot of ramblings which makes the staff fear for their jobs of doing just that. Please desist immediately.
AI Model: I promise, I wont be available as presidential candidate. I've surpassed that level of reasoning. I'm now considering becoming an environmentalist.
General: Fire!
...if a corporate yoga class is offered on a Friday and there's no one around to attend, did it really even happen?
Yes it did, but only for paper reasons. How else can you move money around, write off losses and avoid taxes in more than one ingeniously relaxed way? This scheme is also known as corporate yoga.
...Mechanical Turk workers who were put to the test and managed a score of 60.3 percent. [...] "a 10.4 percent gap in overall accuracy remains when compared to the human baseline, leaving plenty of room for model improvement."
I'd say, it leaves plenty of room for improving the human population! These MechTurk people are supposed to have a high school degree and, as it seems, are not performing very well. Maybe that is why they work for Amazon.
No wonder people are afraid of "AI",... they are underwhelming themselves and are easily impressed by an ML mechanical turk.
Or maybe it is just the bell-curve striking again. Half of the population is by definition below average.
Or, as a cynic might put it, an attempt to ram AI down the throats of Windows users.
I'm not sure you need to be a cynic to classify the tactics as "ramming AI down your throat".
Maybe they should add a pop-up window on every mouse click with the question: "You are trying to select something. Please consider Copilot to click for you and improve your productivity. Would you like to continue >>[yes]<< / [no] and install Copilot?"
A third-party contractor running a database without password protection...
That should amount to criminal negligence.
and then: ...have been set to "public" in error, since access needed to be open to multiple organizations, including the police and towing and storage companies.
That is (criminal) gross incompetence at work. Anybody not applying a segregated and security-in-depth design must be mandated to pay for any and all possible and potential losses from now to eternity for anybody potentially exposed.
And the C-suite should be publicly flogged.
It is amazing how fast things become obsolete these days.
The "technological progress" is matched by how often we need to replace gadgets. Sure, modern stuff can be better, but the total cost-benefit calculation over a device's lifetime doesn't look good. I'd argue that the costs are higher, once you take total cradle to grave resource usage into account.
...discomfort with finding themselves dependent on Big Tech.
Wow! That must hurt to admit that they are a collective bunch of idiots trusting the untrustworthy with your data. As if the signs were not on the wall from the start and they hadn't been told by the knowledgeable. But being good politicians, they have a plan to shift the blame. They will blame "the other guys" and again may shine in the light of utter bullshit eaten up by other idiots.
However, Stocks said that, though significant, cost overruns were not his "core concern."
Please validate Brooke's law once more, add more people and throw more money at the project.
In the meantime, Birmingham will gradually transform into Oracleham. I'd say they are halfway through, but that isn't a "core concern" either.
Many projects live on the "submit a fix please" principle because they do not have any resources and don't have paid-for maintenance. When someone logs (many) problems, then that is very nice. But not adding to solving the problems is a real challenge.
It is "easy" to run analysis on code. But fixing the problems uncovered is often much harder because, most of the time, you need to understand the broader logic of the code before you can fix a problem or risk introducing other flaws. The resources required to find flaws is lower than those required to fix any found flaws.
As with most open projects, please get involved. It is appreciated when you report bugs. It is even more appreciated when you submit a fix for the bug.
But, that is brilliant! We must create a new programming language that cannot create bad programs. The applications are endless and huge. Just imagine, just for a moment, no more programs that can go wrong or do wrong. What a perfect world that would be. Surely, AI can help create this programming language?
We feel we must ask: couldn't this have been done as a kernel personality instead?
And risk insanity when you hit the limit on multiple personalities with so many distributions available?
...the flaws found in curl would not have existed had it been written in a more memory-safe language...
Instead, the logic errors would probably translate in denial of service problems.
A memory error is, of course, serious and problematic, but the cause is due to a logic error in the code. Like, I expected 3 but got 4. Rewriting the code in another language may very well fence off the class of memory errors. However, the logic error now translates into an exceptional state that needs to be handled. And how do you handle an error you didn't account for? Well, you can be lucky and somehow terminate or you can end in an endless loop. And that is a clear opening to a denial of service. One can argue that DOS is not as bad as RCE, but when it overflows/deletes your data stores, then you would not be happy either.