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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
on Thursday February 12, 2026 @12:27PM (#46991834)
I think we're at the stage where we want the AI to be truly agentic, but they're really loose cannons. I'm probably the last person to call for more regulation, but if you aren't closely supervising your AI right now, maybe you ought to be held responsible for what it does after you set it loose.
Re:How far can you jump from a swing?
on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @07:59PM (#37315836)
Who said the parents did any letting, or even knew you were jumping from a swing back in those days?
Re:Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms
on Friday March 03, 2017 @11:57AM (#13784168)
You could take home a pi, keyboard, and mouse though. Assuming you have a TV you can plug your pi into.
Re:Maps that show the anatomy of America’s vast infrastructure
on Friday December 02, 2016 @09:40AM (#13088834)
Ever driven through any of California's oil fields? Drive through someplace like Taft, and you'll see that the number of pipes just there on the property probably dwarf the amount of pipes moving that oil across the country.
Re:California has legalized recreational marijuana
on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @02:47PM (#12913925)
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/legal-734790-marijuana-op...
Under Prop 64: "Employers can still enforce their own drug policies, including firing workers who test positive for weed."
Which is as it should be, a business owner ought to be able to make decisions about what employees to hire or retain.
But will we see being a marijuana user becoming a protected class against which you can't discriminate?
Re:iRobot says robot vacuums now represent 20% of worldwide vacuum market
on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @11:55AM (#12901811)
I've got an old Dyson Animal vacuum, and I'm always impressed with how full of dirt the canister gets. So I've got high hopes for a robotic Dyson.
That said, the reviews trickling into Amazon kind of deflate those hopes: suction is great, but otherwise it seems to have all the kinds of problems that all the robot vacuums have.
Definitely not something I'd be willing to plunk down a thousand dollars for. Here's to hoping the next version is a marked improvement.
Re:Using Rowhammer bitflips to root Android phones
on Monday October 24, 2016 @01:16PM (#12780765)
> Apps owning their own data in Android should make you happy, not sad, because it's what prevents a malicious app from hoovering up all of your Tinder messages, or your financial data from Mint.
That's well and good, but it also prevents YOU from hoovering up all your data.
Re:‘Five Second Rule’ for Food on Floor Is Untrue, Study Finds
on Monday September 19, 2016 @10:28AM (#12531690)
Wouldn't the napkin be touchin the table then? Or do you ask for a fresh napkin so you don't have to use the one from the table? And ask about the storage of the napkins and silverware, in comparison to any cleaning solutions or other chemicals?
Re:Fancy Dorms Aren’t the Main Reason Tuition Is Skyrocketing
on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @04:51PM (#12501103)
Aren't they able to cut funding like that, because there's a willing supplier of loan money for the students?
Re:All New Amazon Echo Dot
on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @01:47PM (#12499456)
The trick is getting your neighbor to call your wife Alexa, to trigger the Dot to wake up and listen.
Re:To tell someone they're wrong, first tell them how they're right
on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @11:12AM (#12488951)
If you have no meaning, how can you have any to give?
Re:The Dropbox hack is real
on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @10:45AM (#12398675)
If you control the email address that the stranger registered to their Apple account, you could initiate a password reset, change the password, then login and change the email address to something that's not yours.
You probably just locked the stranger out of accessing their account though, so you probably shouldn't do this, unless said stranger is signing up for all kinds of services using your email address, in which case maybe they deserve it. :p
Re:Malware that uses USB drives to covertly jump airgaps
on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @02:05PM (#12392393)
That's almost a megabyte per day, more with compression.
Re:Is projecting a message onto the wall of a building a trespass?
on Thursday August 18, 2016 @09:37AM (#12312358)
You the property owner can turn off your radio, sure, but what if the radio is broadcasting fart sounds? You wouldn't want to have the reputation of the business where customers could turn on their radio to hear fart sounds, would you? Or embarrassing facts about you or your business, maybe. Or worse. Hitler speeches?
Re:Startups, let’s act: Make Nov 8 a Holiday
on Monday August 15, 2016 @04:34PM (#12293205)
It's definitely open to coercion and intimidation, so in some respects I'd consider that a "major" flaw. But is it a widespread enough problem to rule out the paper ballot? Is there a systemic problem of spouses voting for differently-minded spouses, or employers requiring their employees to turn in their blank ballots, or things like that?
Re:The perils of being your own doctor
on Thursday August 11, 2016 @11:23AM (#12268955)
> Doesn't checking that basically immediately defeat the therapy itself? I.e. placebos work as long as you don't know they're just placebos.
Not necessarily: http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/placebos-w...
Re:Trial by Jury, a Hallowed American Right, Is Vanishing
on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @10:05AM (#12254540)
Is it a distinction between civil and criminal trials? I was a juror on a civil case in CA and we were allowed to submit questions.
Re:A linguistics tool to help you simplify your writing
on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @04:11PM (#11817740)
You sure that's not passive? Exhausted: drained, used up. By what? Sounds passive to me.
Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income
on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @05:00PM (#11810195)
> If someone wants to not work and live in a bad part of town. No offense, by why do you care?
Sounds like "basic income will cover rent in the bad part of town" means that safety isn't covered in "basic"?
Re:A new Curl logo
on Friday May 27, 2016 @10:49AM (#11786386)
What about Postgres Cue Ell?
Re:First Friendly Contact with the Sentinelese
on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @11:43AM (#11714554)
Not the best analogy. The anthropologists aren't trying to root out wrongdoers in this tribe by surveilling the whole lot of them.
Apple Ends Support for QuickTime for Windows; New Vulnerabilities Announced
Can't tell if testing my gullibility or you actually believe your phone does this. :-/
Re:America's High School Graduates Look Like Other Countries' High Sch...
on Friday March 11, 2016 @01:43PM (#11268619)
Are you serious? Seeing and hearing everything doesn't mean understanding everything.
Re:Why Understanding Space Is So Hard
on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @10:00AM (#10980287)
Does anyone have a good way of explaining to a layman how a dimension can be small?
Re:“Subject: Urgent Warning”
on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @12:47PM (#10932360)
Wait, are you saying the bad dude is Facebook, or the hackers who got into her account?
Re:IBM to Acquire the Weather Company
on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @05:02PM (#10467382)
The barometric data is only useful if you know where the reading was taken, right? So you're sending (at least!) pressure + location to their servers. Probably some identifying information as well.
Re:Aphantasia: A life without mental images
on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @04:46PM (#10155571)
Me too. I had the trunk at the bottom. :-p
Re:Coca-Cola Funds Scientists Who Shift Blame for Obesity Away from Ba...
on Monday August 10, 2015 @09:49AM (#10034527)
Tea.