In order to be able to read and replicate a journal article you really need an advanced degree or to do all the work it takes to get one. That demographic skews fairly heavily in one direction. Masami Tsuchiya only had a master’s degree and he built an entire functioning chemical weapons factory on a fairly limited budget. That was way back in the 90s too. The worst things you could do now are 10x easier and could wipe out millions or billions.
He’s saying we should codify war crimes as crimes in the constitution so in order to not commit war crimes presidents would need the precision targeting Palantir would provide. That’s the exact opposite of what the title implies.
As is often the case, the EU has placed appropriate guardrails on driver monitoring systems, which the US and others would do well to follow;
Driver drowsiness and attention warning and advanced driver distraction warning systems shall be designed in such a way that those systems do not continuously record nor retain any data other than what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed within the closed-loop system. Furthermore, those data shall not be accessible or made available to third parties at any time and shall be immediately deleted after processing. Those systems shall also be designed to avoid overlap and shall not prompt the driver separately and concurrently or in a confusing manner where one action triggers both systems.
There’s absolutely nothing in the specifications about contacting police or keeping black-box recordings. The only outside contact functionality was EMS contact when the vehicle had to pull over to the side of the road due to unconsciousness and detected other signs of a health emergency. Even that had loud audible warnings and a countdown timer before dialing.
If shitty governments take something that would save tens of thousands of lives globally every year and turn it into a surveillance system that’s the fault of those governments. The manufacturers entire focus has been on reducing fatalities and injuries among road users.
I worked on this a bit. Some of the tricks they had were changing the AC to blow colder air when drowsiness was detected, increasing the blower speed, increasing brightness on the dashboard, and turning the volume up or turning the radio on. They even had turning the radio on and selecting music to combat drowsiness. So I guess you’d get sleepy and then your car would automatically started blasting house music.
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It was posted on Usenet in 1992;
I saw a tweet that started with “BREAKING:”, what more do you need?
I am not voting for anyone in the 2028 primary who does not agree that the US should comply with International Criminal Court arrest warrants. If the subject is no longer in government, they need to be dragged onto a plane and sent to stand trial.
The graphs in the paper show the temperature 1 km away from the data center being 8°C higher and attribute that to heat emitted by the data center. That should start the alarm bells that something isn’t right with this paper.
Here’s a post going into the problems with it;
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I had all kinds of feeders. They were great and I loved looking at the wildlife, but they dropped a lot of seeds on the ground around the feeder. That attracted mice and the mice decided they should build homes near their food source. They decided the best place to live was inside of my cars.
They ate through the wires going to the brake lights, left seeds everywhere, got into one seat and ate the occupant detection sensor, ate 3 seat belts. I managed to fix the seat belts for ~$300 and the brake lights I spliced back together. Sensor is still shot and I’m not sure I even want to mess with disassembling the seat.
I got an Asian pear tree, a Nijisseiki specifically, a few years ago. Asian pears are usually really good, particularly the expensive ones that come in little pear bear bras. When you have your own tree though, you can harvest at absolute peak ripeness without having to worry about them going bad. Absolutely amazing fruit. Chill it in the refrigerator for an hour or two before eating so it’s cool but not cold. Perfect dessert.
I’ve been thinking about employee stock options lately. The original idea was that options would vest as a result of executives increasing the stock price through good business practices. Now though, so much of the market is occupied by index funds that major companies’ stock prices will rise just for treading water as everyone keeps pumping money into retirement accounts comprised largely of index funds. So instead of a reward, they just become a way to skirt income taxes as long as you hold the stock long enough. The article mentions buybacks as well, which can also inflate the stock price guaranteeing options vest.
half the year it feels like my feet have been stabbed because they get so cold (slippers are not enough)
Get some down booties. It’s like your feet are cocooned in a loving embrace of warmth and comfort.
I could use an 8k 42” OLED monitor for work. I’d need a 130” TV for 8k to be noticeable given the distance I sit from the TV.
If you haven’t already done this: wipe all the apps and run the cache-cleaning or whatever it is in the system menu. That should get it back down to where the memory and storage aren’t at 100% and fixes most of the problems. I’ve kept my 2017 Samsung usable that way. Also, if you have a pi-hole you can set it to use that as the DNS and block the advertising domains, retaining most of the smart functionality without all the crap.