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  • Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty

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  • And that's the rub. It's been something warned repeatedly by the security depts of all sorts of corps rushing to "the cloud" (and adopting AI) but has received a deaf ear.

    "Do more and save money ... on somebody else's infrastructure". I'm the end, I'm a bit suspect of the saving money but as well, and the "well it's a CANADIAN/EUROPEAN datacenter" means jack shit in the face of the US Gov't and Corps

  • Photo radar is becoming increasingly common. That doesn’t make it any less infuriating

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  • They kinda do? I called in an old lady who had been playing pinball with cars at the local store, and almost backed into a couple pedestrians.

    Cop showed up, noted hey inability to turn her head even to talk with him much less check mirrors - plus the assortment of dings on her car - and pulled her license. AFAIK she wouldn't need a retest but she would need a medical note attesting to her ability to drive

  • Let's hear it, little lemmings.

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  • Ok... well we are discussing the fictive ability to speak with somebody who is dead. I'm assuming that whatever necromancy/chronomancy is involved included some sort of translation.

    Hell, if it's necromancy then the only thing we might get out of poor Leo is a "cerveeeeeeelli" before he lunges across the table :-)

  • EU cave in on vehicle trade rules will cost European lives as US pick-up trucks flood into Europe

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  • See here for a reference on the various options, most of which are drivable under a standard license. The big difference tends to be when you get into things with air brakes, which requires a special endorsement or the truly huge sizes. Most of the restrictions are based on the towing/hauling or hitch capacity of the vehicle pulling them though, as opposed to the license of the driver

    https://www.rv.com/rv/rv-classes-explained/

    Also, this is in Canada but my understanding is that the US is much the same

  • EU cave in on vehicle trade rules will cost European lives as US pick-up trucks flood into Europe

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  • Not "trucks" as in a commercial transport truck (often called "rigs" to differentiate), but a large pickup-truck pulling a fairly massive travel-trailer or 5th wheel, yes.

  • Let's hear it, little lemmings.

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  • I'd go for Leonardo. The others - while I understand things at a basic level - I'd likely not be able to understand most of their fields.

    Maybe Tesla but I'm not sure if the conversation would end up centered around some of the neat science stuff I could grasp or pigeons with laser-eyes ...

  • Let's hear it, little lemmings.

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  • As far as ones who actually did things there I'm not sure that Hawking would have even been physically capable at a point where he was famous.

  • EU cave in on vehicle trade rules will cost European lives as US pick-up trucks flood into Europe

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  • The EU has different licenses for cars and trucks? Cool!

    I've always found it weird that a standard license here lets you drive anything from a teeny tiny SmartCar to an F350 pulling a massive palace-in-wheels, or a near bus-sized motorhome (provided it doesn't have air brakes and is under 4600kg).

  • The average age of Disney princesses is 505y.

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  • Where did they get the ages from then? It seems to me most Disney movies explicitly don't mention age in any sort of direct manner

  • The average age of Disney princesses is 505y.

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  • I'm not sure Alice would even qualify as a Disney Princess, unless there's some lineage I'm unaware of. She's already one of the few without some sort of romantic subplot.

    Mulan... Aristocracy with a royal award maybe, but not really royalty either.

  • Why do Canadians online seem to hate Tim Hortons?

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  • And it pretends at being a Canadian staple when in reality it hasn't been Canadian in ages

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  • Yup. It was more my thought that a low power over could produce sufficient results while requiring less resources. Something that can run on a desktop computer could still produce a database with reams of believable garbage that would take a lot of resources from the attacking AI to sort through, or otherwise corrupt its own harvested cache

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  • Yeah that was my thought. Don't reject them, that's obvious and they'll work around it. Feed them shit data - but not too obviously shit - and they'll not only swallow it but eventually build up to levels where it compromises them.

    I've suggested the same for plain old non-AI data stealing. Make the data useless to them and cost more work to separate good from bad, and they'll eventually either sod off or die.

    A low power AI actually seems like a good way to generate a ton of believable - but bad - data that can be used to fight the bad AI's. It doesn't need to be done real-time either as datasets can be generated in advance

  • Air Force announces new policy to deny transgender troops hearings before discharges

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  • Or less people in the military likely to push back after they're all kicked out without trial before the next "but order" is made...

  • If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier?

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  • New product idea. A smart toilet which measures each load for weight, scent output, liquidity, girth, and length (compensating for water volume and pre-TP) before you flush.

    Forget competing with friends for Fitbit steps. It'll be "Suzy had one that required the poo knife, but Bobby's toilet called 9-1-1 for him so I think he wins"

  • Air Canada union says flight attendants will continue strike, defy government

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  • He should play "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" for the kids on a tablet while they drive!

  • Vintage

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  • Joystick and MIDI interface port

  • Thank you Tim Apple, who by the way is looking a little pudgy

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  • What LARP. Plenty of people are all about "the great class Revolution" but few are actually winning to risk the meat grinder it would actually take. It's also why they're banking big time on AI and robotics. Nobody to talk back or question if ordered to gun down a street full of "enemies"

  • Have you ever cried because of a video game?

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  • The actual ending? Mordin was pretty moving to me.

    "Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong"