And multiple myeloma sufferers. Biphosphonate does indeed have a bunch of side effects, notably odd pains, and normal dentists won't take you any more. I wonder how they solved that?
Posts by AVR
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Scientists suggest possible solution to space-induced bone loss
I'll see your data loss and raise you a security policy violation
US Air Force wants $6B to build 2,000 AI-powered drones
Criminals go full Viking on CloudNordic, wipe all servers and customer data
Bad software destroyed my doctor's memory
Tesla's Autopilot boasts, safety probed by California AG
A room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor? Take a closer look
Re: Even if its not a superconductor
Make it in sufficient bulk and current density at least won't be an issue; I think that'd help with magnetic fields too. Lead, copper, phosphorus and oxygen are fairly cheap. You'd probably want to bury black stony cylinders of lead/copper apatite rather than hang them as wires but that doesn't seem impossible.
World's most internetty firm tries life off the net, and it's sillier than it seems
Obscure internet boutique Amazon sues EU for calling it a Very Large Online Platform
Australia's 'great example of government using technology' found to be 'crude and cruel'. And literally lethal to citizens
Re: Accountability
Fortunately politicians aren't involved - prosecutors aren't elected in Australia, and the cases have been referred to them rather than going through any politicians. Aussie prosecutors do tend to be protective of those working in the criminal justice system but these aren't. We'll see, but the signs aren't bad.
Ariane 5 to take final flight, leaving Europe without its own heavy-lift rocket
Experts scoff at UK Lords' suggestion that AI could one day make battlefield decisions
Bosses face losing 'key' workers after forcing a return to office
Security? Working servers? Who needs those when you can have a shiny floor?
Small custom AI models are cheap to train and can keep data private, says startup
Existential dread time: One day Earth's oceans will boil. This exoplanet might reveal when
Not half a billion, much longer. A whole lot of rocks had to be oxidised before that half-billion years of oxygen building up in the atmosphere could even begin.
Thousands of subreddits go dark in mega-protest over Reddit's app-killing API prices
Insufficient Notice
Also of note, a month's notice isn't nearly enough time for those third party apps to make the required changes to set up or change their billing. Especially true of freeware, but even paid software will struggle to estimate how much they need to increase prices and roll that out in time.
A toast to being in the right place at the right time
Guess who is collecting and sharing abortion-related data?
Owner of 'magic spreadsheet' tried to stay in the Lotus position until forced to Excel
Strange things in dark corners
There was an old MSDOS machine used to control card access to the doors in the place where I got my first permanent job. Do not touch, it's far too important to alter in any way even if it's totally unsupported, etc. One day it crashed anyway and I was asked to take a look. I can't remember what I did to fix it, but afterward I did suggest removing the games (Lemmings Christmas Edition and a handful of others). I was assured that those games couldn't possibly exist on that PC.
New York AG offers law to crack down on backfire-happy cryptocurrencies
Nice for New York
Do the NY financial authorities have any particular ability to enforce rules on a crypto exchange run out of Florida, Japan, or the Bahamas? If all that's needed to keep their business sort-of legal is a web server across an appropriate border they're going to do that rather than comply.
Google sues CryptBot slingers, gets court order to shut down malware domains
Deplatforming hate forums doesn't work, British boffins warn
Automation is great. Until it breaks and nobody gets paid
Pentagon super-leak suspect cuffed: 21-year-old Air National Guardsman
Re: Why would he have access to any of that stuff?
Cast your mind back. The year is 2001, it's mid-September. A bunch of hijackers just used passenger planes as weapons. The intelligence services were forewarned, but the warnings never reached anywhere useful because they were too deeply classified to move fast. The shock and fear will scar America for decades.
One of the minor effects of the episode was making classified information more available outside the silos where it arrives. Audits to check that this isn't being misused would be a good idea, but would take a lot of organisation and money and just haven't been implemented on the literal millions of people with access to some kind of classified information.
In the battle between Microsoft and Google, LLM is the weapon too deadly to use

Not nukes
Many of the dangers of nukes were known well before the Manhattan project. Plus some which didn't pan out. They are after all bombs.
The dangers of LLM (which definitely aren't AI) aren't so clear. It may aid trolls, or be a troll, or enable infringing copyright? Whatever. You can ask it how to build a nuclear weapon and it'll make up a fake process for you? Not really a problem. The related tech which helps create deepfake images is more of a concern but still no nuclear weapon.
Defunct comms link connected to nothing at a fire station – for 15 years
Re: Money for nothing, it's the best
I had a friend who had a problem with an intransigent ISP which kept charging despite his requests to cancel the service & stop it. After a few attempts, going to the bank and showing them a bill and a letter (snail mail) cancelling the service then posting it got the bank to stop the bills.
Today's old folks set to smash through longevity records
Because that's something you can measure, and medicine has had problems with false claims made on the basis of unmeasurable things. Also aiming for keeping people alive as long as possible often (not always) has a side effect of keeping them well - the newer chemotherapy drugs used when my cancer came back for a second go were more effective (the cancer went away faster and hasn't yet come back again) and had less unpleasant side effects than those used the first time.
Microsoft and GM deal means your next car might talk, lie, gaslight and manipulate you
Humanoid robot takes a retail job, but not one any store clerk wants to do
If we plan to live on the Moon, it's going to need a time zone
Ford seeks patent for cars that ditch you if payments missed
The Pentagon is shockingly bad at managing its employee smartphones
Re: I never understand this
And then someone with weight to swing around demands that their device be unlocked so they can use it properly. Others want the same when they hear about it. Pretty soon you're operating at least three levels of access permissions across the organisation, and support is that much harder. I can understand wanting to skip that.
Marketing company chases Twitter for $7,000 over 'swag gift box for Elon'
SpaceX threatened with $175,000 fine for Starlink crash risk paperwork blunder
Water-hunting NASA cubesat won't reach Moon after total thruster fail
Australian government doxxed citizens who criticized illegal 'Robodebt' scheme
User was told three times 'Do Not Reboot This PC' – then unplugged it anyway
If it happens to one person it's no big deal. When you're dealing with even a small to medium sized organisation you'll get multiple people doing this. Anything larger and you need a procedure for dealing with them.
Yes, most people either don't read emails from IT or don't take them in, and a clear message on the screen isn't enough for some too.
ChatGPT talks its way through Wharton MBA, medical exams
Cleaner ignored 'do not use tap' sign, destroyed phone systems ... and the entire building
University students recruit AI to write essays for them. Now what?
Re: Critical thinking
Is gaining critical thinking skills the first priority of a student who wants a piece of paper for the job market? Or learning creative writing for that matter? The student might want these too, but they just as well might not care at all. An essay-writer (AI or natural I) fills their desires there.
Honestly, for many doctors collating symptoms and writing a corresponding prescription is the majority of their jobs and I expect some sort of automation to take a bite out of that soonish. Those doctors don't need (or at least use) critical thinking skills.
FCC calls for mega $300 million fine for massive US robocall campaign
Medibank prognosis gets worse after more stolen data leaked
Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams went down in APAC because Microsoft broke itself
My memories of Exchange servers are a lot worse than that. Some fairly catastrophic problems caused by putting too much into public folders for one, some really awkward problems relating to starting up a new server when the others went down in an earthquake, occasional slow synchronisation and message transfer between servers. It was a while ago I was involved with that admittedly.
What's that, Lassie? Boston Dynamics is suing its robot dog tech rival?
Invention?
If you take a look at US patent 11073842 it's hard to see any innovation. It doesn't describe how the robot generates a map of the stairs and climbs up or down it so much as it tries to write general enough language that any means of a legged robot (with a front-mounted camera) detecting and climbing stairs would be covered. Obviously Boston Dynamics have done this, but the means isn't in the patent. Using this patent offensively is being a patent troll.