Posts by Rafael #872397

Boffins warn that AI paper mills are swamping science with garbage studies

Re: Drain the bottles

And this: my academic institution demands that we open-access all publications (errm, good for them) - for which privilege, mainstream publishers charge $$$ on top of their already-exorbitant publication fees. My academic institution also does not provide funding to cover open-access fees. That is, presumably, supposed to come out of our grants (thanks, guys).

Just like here in South Bananistan. So I can choose to pay 2000+ CHF for a publication ("without publishing, how do we know your work's value?") in a Moderately Desirable Publishing Institute's journal or I could use the money to fill 3/4 of a small bathtub with Jameson, which is way more useful, at least in my lab.

US Copyright Office found AI companies sometimes breach copyright. Next day its boss was fired

Re: ...put Tesla's trade mark where it would put the company into disrepute.

Don't worry, Elon is already working on this.

And where is the "and where is Elon's salute picture" icon?

US Transpo Sec wants air traffic control rebuild in 3 years, asks Congress for blank check

Re: highly regarded AI

SAD! Reagan was popular and a genius, but not as popular and not A STABLE GENIUS THAT PASSED THE MOST DEMANDING BRAIN TEST that exists. This mess is all Biden's fault.

Re: Amazing ..

They'll probably mix some cloud, blockchain and AI and work a way to get SpaceX involved and, trillions later, we will have something... different, at least.

(no, I didn't bother reading the details; all I need to know about Drumpf and gang's spending is the cuts to science and the increase in spending in golden trinkets.)

People find amazing ways to break computers. Cats are even more creative

Well...

On Call has no idea how he identified that tiny indentation as a cat bite, rather than the imprint of another creature's teeth, or the result of some other pointed object meeting a laptop display.

Does Walt have a cat?

Trump promises protection for TikTok, for which he has a ‘warm spot in my heart’

Re: Censorship on foreign produced movies

Then he will order someone -- DOGE's Big Balls? -- to inspect each packet coming into the USA...

Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act

What, no backronym? May as well call it the Conditions for Operation and Verification of Frivolous Embarrassing Foreign Entertainment!

TAKE IT DOWN Act? Yes, take the act down before it's too late for online speech

Re: ...because nobody gets treated worse than I do online. Nobody.

Have compassion for that small, fragile, tiny-handed man-child!

The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers

Re: How fat is Kim Jong Un?

If you can recruit from the whole of the USA and don't have to supply a desk at your office, that gives you more developer for your buck

What about buying computers from a guy in a van in a parking lot?

Hey Google, if Chrome is going to be single soon, OpenAI is interested

(cough)Musk(cough)

America's cyber defenses are being dismantled from the inside

Re: Surely

I'm sorry, Lil' Hands Donnie needs all the money he can save to buy golden trinkets for his new crib.

US to slap up to 3,521% tariffs on SE Asian solar imports – especially you, Cambodia

Just waiting for the first...

....One... Hundred... BILLION PERCENT TARIFF!!!

ICE enlists Palantir to develop all-seeing 'ImmigrationOS' eye to speed up deportations

Re: Operating Sytems and the Gullible

It can do all these things... if it uses A1!

White House confirms 245% tariff on some Chinese imports not a typo

Re: Rare earths

"Nukes give heat, right? Hold my Diet Coke."

-- Convicted Felon

Re: Today I bought cheese from the supermarket for $10

Obligatory XKCD

CVE program gets last-minute funding from CISA – and maybe a new home

Re: Chaotic fu**wit continues to cause chaos.

Trump needs to save the money to Make America Golden Again.

Meta to feed Europe's public posts into AI brains again

Re: Hah

We've changed the terms and conditions and if you continue using it you'll be deemed to have accepted., soon to be followed up by Pray we don't change it any further.

Team Trump readies national security card to justify taxing Americans for foreign chips

Re: Taxiffs on everything.

Considering most (all) of Trump's sychophants call him a genius instead of a convicted felon explains a lot...

White House budget proposal could beam NASA science back decades

Re: Hands up...

The best bible that is, people keep saying. Each kid in each school will get one. In pink and gold or camo edition for the Truly Patriots!

(any doubt God is dead, or at least hiding)?

Tech tariff turmoil continues as Trump admin exempts some electronics, then promises to bring taxes back

Re: US companies did this to us

Right now, the 0.1% is pointing fingers at China, Japan, the EU, Canada, Mexico, and anyone but themselves or their flunkies.

The problem is that a large segment of the population (40-ish %?) believes them.

Pentagon celebrates snipping 0.58% from defense budget in IT, DEI cuts

Nah, a quick visit from those companies' CEOs to Mar-a-Lardo for a "fundraising dinner" will fix everything.

Icon for "have a flunky check their pockets for change"

Ex-Meta exec tells Senate Zuck dangled US citizen data in bid to enter China

Advice requested on whether I should join the Facebook, or not.Advise an Old Codger, please

By all means! You'll be able to keep in touch with many relatives you haven't seen or missed in decades, read about strangers' strong and well-informed opinions on politics, and get some advertisements created just for you.

If you're really lucky, some nice-looking foreign ladies will try to get into a close friendship (and maybe something more!) with you, and some Nigerian princes will make you rich! What's not to like?

Nvidia paid $1M for Mar-a-Lago meal, US later scrapped AI chip export crackdown

Re: Updated Speech

"Nixon resigned because he was a SAD LOSER! Many people are saying I am the STABLEST GENIUSEST president of ALL TIME!"

Signalgate solved? Report claims journalist’s phone number accidentally saved under name of Trump official

Re: Cockamamie

There is a better explanation here.

(Where is the clown's icon?)

Trump fires NSA boss, deputy

Re: as we saw

"Always, we’re going to let go of people we don’t like, or people we don’t think can do the job, or people who may have loyalties to somebody else," Trump said on Air Force One, adding, "he noticed I have tiny unmanly hands".

Revenge of the nerds: Teachers, professors sue to undo Trump science funding cuts

Re: So how come when people are polled that record numbers are saying the US is on the right track?

Many people are saying that this is the best government ever and that the president is a very stable genius. They even want the brilliant president's face in a 100 dollar bill! Anyone who disagrees is a loser. SAD!

/s just in case...

OTF, which backs Tor, Let's Encrypt and more, sues to save its funding from Trump cuts

Re: Idiocracy was a documentary

President Camacho was way more entertaining.

Political poker? Tariff hunger games? Trump creates havoc for PC industry

Re: "President Trump's ongoing trade war ..."

The best drive-by-shoot-yourself-in-the-foot! Beautiful drive-by-shoot-yourself-in-the-foot! Many people are saying this. Not even Lincoln or Kennedy had a drive-by-shoot-yourself-in-the-foot as gorgeous as that one.

OK, Google: Are you killing Assistant and replacing it with Gemini?

Re: Heavy Metal Detector

From the article: In your correspondent’s experience it would often struggle to interpret the above request for info about metal gigs. -- what did it do? Ignored your request? Asked you to speak again more clearly? Suggested Barry Manilow concerts?

FTC's $25.5M scam refund treats victims to $34 each

Re: I would only want a pound .....

Sic Jason Statham on them!

Is NASA's science budget heading for a black hole?

Re: All part of the plan

Hey! Watch out for heresy -- many people are saying that only a special type of bible has the whole, biggest truth. Trust me on that! The greatest bible ever.

Trump says US should kill CHIPS Act, use the cash to cut debt

Re: Sounds like Fidel Castro

Hogo Chavez too. Is there a pattern?

Lenovo teases solar-powered and folding screen concept laptops

dedicated AI dashboard, AI rings

Next: an AI shift key, AI USB cables, AI screwdrivers to replace the AI batteries....

US Cyber Command reportedly pauses cyberattacks on Russia

Re: War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength

Finally those capitalist pigs will pay for their crimes, eh? Eh comrades? Eh? -- Austin Powers

California goes ape with bill to crown Bigfoot official state cryptid

Re: Florida also set to announce its own official state cryptid

The truth is out there!

> The fact that with billions of quite powerful cameras in everybody's pockets

In my experience, most people who take lots of pictures with cell phones take photos of themselves with the front camera.

So, unless Bigfoot is in the same duckface* group picture it will continue to be elusive...

Grok 3 wades into the AI wars with 'beta' rollout

Re: Ye gods

Depending on the data used for training the answer will start with "many people are saying that..." and end with "... trust me on that".

Have an obligatory Tom Tomorrow!

Re: For certain values of "truth"

I know a very stable genius that may disagree with you.

Aw, come on. Musk is/works for the Department of Government Efficiency, not for the Department of Grifting Everybody. It's all legit! He won';t associate users names and credit cards with the questions they ask, for sure.

Trump’s cyber chief pick has little experience in The Cyber

Re: as what they’re told isn’t evidence based and is done entirely for the ‘feels’.

“Because I have common sense, OK?” - Famous Florida Felon

Google confirms Gulf of Mexico renamed to appease Trump – but only in the US

Re: Leader of Trumpistan only!

...does anyone else have an ever so slightly visceral reaction to things like, "leader of the free world", or "leader of the Western world"...

The same reaction I get when I remember that he described himself as a "not smart, but genius....and a very stable genius at that!".

Re: FTFY

Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco to be renamed in English American like Jesus spoke.

Re: Next Trump executive orders

Then he signs the next executive order renaming Mars to Planet Trump.

(and from under his desk Elon Musk whispers, "May I suggest Planet X"?

Trump's Dept of Transport hits brakes on Biden’s EV charger build-out

Just use rods to the hogshead! American as f*ck, and compatible with the age of the felon in charge.

Musk's move fast and break things mantra won't work in US.gov

Re: Destabilising and breaking things *is* the goal, not their failure state!

The US government, on the other hand, is 248 years old. I don't see an IPO coming anytime soon. -- please don't give them ideas.

Trump admin seeks to reclassify federal CIOs, opening door to political appointees

What, no love for the bearded little guy that keeps running around Trump's heels?

You know something's wrong when Clippy fills you with nostalgia for simpler times

Feh!

For truly unbridled horror bring back Microsoft Bob!

Google torpedoes 'no AI for weapons' rules

Re: Would you like to

I don't think they will treat this as an opt-in program...

OpenAI, Microsoft urge judge to toss out Musk's 'fact-free' lawsuit

Boo.

No picture of the Musk Salute with a caption like "Elon Musk asks the judge a question"?