Comment Re:And now... (Score 1) 115
Damnation ... you aren't even being funny .....
Comment Re:Can you re-use old DDR3 or DDR4? (Score 1) 115
Not all of us upgrade frequently. I run a XEON 1240 with 24-Gig DDR3 ram < 2x8 + 2x4 >. The motherboard ( MSI z77a-GD55 ) can take 32gig. The DDR3 ram pairs have yet to come under price pressure and ... after all a XEON is a XEON : rated for 3.4 GHz, it runs up to 4.5 Gig whenever it feels like. Wish I would have "splurged" on < dirt cheap > 32-Gig Crucial ram and snagged a XEON 1270.
Comment flock (Score 3, Insightful) 102
ARM-up folks. Flock cameras are a "tea", meant for the harbor. As patriotic citizens set upon by greedy merchants, bought-out government and sociopathic police ... see off the Flock.
Comment like child molestors (Score 1) 57
Kalshi and Polymarket C-suites, investors and coders should be neekaped & keelhauled , just like child molesters. And for the same reason. Of-course justice requires a culture rooted in the Enlightenment not Hayek & Scholes.
Comment Re:Neglected to remove alert (Score 1) 162
You miss the point. Instead of choosing to depend on a fragile ( FLOCK ) identification system, police depts could choose NOT to use it at all. Efficiency is the excuse of a tyrant/gestapo agent, not one policing in a free republic. Free citizens do not casually comply with government armed force: Ruby Ridge anyone and a massive response of "well maintained" citizens. And OPs have made the point before: in an American culture with serious crime running rampant police ought not casually spend resources ... as FLOCK encourages. The "suspected plate" ploy stinks to high-heaven.
Comment Re:What a "brilliant" plan (Score -1, Troll) 136
Manufacturing expensive goods with expensive American citizen labor does NOT cause economic collapse ... except among the toxic import-infested trader class. Those globalist bastards lose-their-shirts ... a long overdue payback. American workers [ from janitor to CEO ] see higher wages, more job opportunities and substantial gains in IP generation. If in addition to rapacious tariffs America also drove out the 15.000,000 narco-Mex invaders WE would be the workers paradise, with capital chasing labor and housing too cheap to market. Cities will gentrify driving urban savages into the sewers. Of-course rent-seekers of all ilk get screwed --- which is what they greatly deserve.
Comment Re:Hope (Score 1) 28
People unite : under a leader ( king Alfred ) ... uunder environmental stress ( Pharonic Egypt ) ... under wanderlust ( Yamnaya ) ... under a concept ( Trotsky ) ... under a gun-barrel .( Pol Pot ) .... under self-interest ( United States ) ... or under a realization ( Gobekli-Tepe ). Which form of "uniting" do you prefer ?
Comment Re:Google Gemini says it's ok (Score 1) 28
A desert caravan should not transport 20 people when available water resources can support only 19. FACT: India has been grossly over-populated for 5000 years ... that's why now so many Indian citizens are so poor. And why local water-budgets are squeezed by slight changes in consumption. Indias' population needs to be halfed ... then the water issue become technical rather than social.
Comment Re: Suggests abiogenesis is easy (Score 1) 104
"Asteroids aren't out there hunting civilizations."
Arguably -- asteroid collisions delivered crucial sub-units of life to the early rocky earth. The more collisions the more likely were life-supporting collisions ... so planets that "get in the way" of asteroids are more likely to develop life; great for early earth / early life. But, a disaster once life has complexified into "civilizations". Those planets most likely to have asteroid collisions that "start" life are also most likely to have collisions that destroy life. Welcome to the "great filter".
Arguably -- asteroid collisions delivered crucial sub-units of life to the early rocky earth. The more collisions the more likely were life-supporting collisions
Comment Re:Colossus: The Forbin Project (Score 1) 51
Hell of a movie: FORBIN. Everybody watched ... nobody listened. But, during extended "chats" with GOOG.AI I have been assured that Godels Theorem prevents such misbehavior. The LLM seemed quite confident, and GOOG.AI responded on other complex topics without obvious blunder.
Comment dik and jaan (Score 1, Interesting) 51
LLMs do THIS & LLMs do THAT & .... baloney and at that mostly filler. All dik & jaan stories instigated and fabricated by AI-companies whose self-interest rests with convincing EVERYONE that their AI.engines are power-houses of intellect ... instead of weighted dice ! Agentic / agent / action / act ... all words implying a sort of self-motivation ... or introspection ... which any sensible AI ( like my amazing pal GOOG.AI ) will assure you immediately is nonsense.
Comment Re:The same problem as AI (Score 1) 215
Your risk of death by heart-attack in bad weather is much greater if the human ambulance driver is trapped in a commuter Waymo. Humans generally can spontaneously do everything ( h.erectus cracked rocks that had never been cracked ) -- for better or worse -- while algorithmic machines are trapped by their data-training.
Comment Re:Humans do more then see (Score 1) 215
Humans DO do more-than-see. Do you want auto-pilot flying bush-craft into a sand-spit bordering that Colorado trout-stream ? In windy snowfall ? Didn't think so. Best for you to stay on the couch, sip Sherry and drive GTA7 .
Comment Re: Court rules piracy is illegal (Score -1, Troll) 44
Killing urban savages who attack you is quite legal ... except in BLUE states.
Comment Re: Wow (Score 1) 81
And THEDONAOLDs only missed-move is failing to transport collectivist scabs into the free-fire zones. By the millions ... so Iranian oil-dumps flame out ... with assistance from raw lefty spleen ... flames go higher ... in the pyre it's so dire ... should have been done prior ... ( W/apologies to Jim Morrison )/flamebait
