Any new cult demands you leave the old one. Hussein knew this, he just thought people would care.

The systems are used to do things like: Evaluate whether unemployment claims are fraudulent

Personal anecdote... a few years ago, I was selling my house, and once the sign went up outside, a heap of people started using my address for unemployment (California EDD) fraud. I would get about 10 to 12 EDD paychecks each week, and the fraudsters would show up to rummage through my mailbox. They'd even knock on the door to ask for "their" mail. The second week I got a bunch of paychecks.

I tried reporting this to EDD, but their automated fraud reporting system only accepts employer fraud, not employee fraud. The few people I reached on the phone would dodge the question saying that it was someone else's job. I was pretty frustrated with that, so I called my state representative's office, and after a bunch of calls, her office concluded that EDD didn't have a mechanism to investigate employee fraud; only employer fraud.

It's interesting that they are paying for AI to detect this thing that they didn't care about enforcing.

It's subservience, not fear on CBS's part.

Good on Colbert for bringing a little Streisand effect to the party.

Zenni eyewear: the urban surveillance countermeasure you didn't know you need.

-or-

Why the feds and Wal Mart hate Zenni eyewear.

maybe there is an actual explanation for HDMI Forum’s decision that I am missing.

HDMI has never been an open standard (to the best of my understanding anyway). You've always needed to be an adopter or a member of HDMI forum to get the latest (or future) specs. So it's not like they've just rejected a new idea. The rejection is fully consistent with their entire history of keeping the latest versions on lockdown.

Standards organizations like HDMI Forum look like a monolith from the outside (like "they should explain their thinking here") but really they are loosely coupled amalgamations of hundreds of companies, all of whom are working hard to make sure that (a) their patents are (and remain) essential, and that (b) nothing mandatory in a new version of the standard threatens their business. Think of it more like the UN General Assembly than a unified group of participants. Their likely isn't a unified thinking other than that many Forum members are also participants in the patent licensing pool, so giving away something for which they collect royalties is just not a normal thought. Like.... they're not gonna give something away without getting something in return.

I was a member of HDMI Forum for a brief while. Standards bodies like tihs are a bit of a weird world where motivations are often quite opaque.

Skip the olive oil. If you're buying it on a beans and rice budget, its gonna be fake olive oil anyway. Just use corn/canola/veg oil.

Not really silent so much as waiting for the new talking points.

They should just mandate that the child pornographers set the evil bit. It would save the EU leaders the trouble of learning how cryptography works.

Since that name is now burned, maybe we could start a new organization to fight fascism. And to let the world know that we've reached a point of fascism we can't turn back from, we can call it Turning Point.

It'd be fun to let them wrestle with calling brand Turning Point a terrorist group.

Sorry for being an idiot, but what is an agentic OS?

Agentic OS is a buzzword that's meant to imply that the OS is (or has) an AI agent doing useful things for you in the background without you explicitly asking it to do those things (ie an agent working for you). For an agent to be useful, (they say) it has to know and learn everything it can about you, your life, your friends, activities, contacts, work, and so on.

The tradeoff is pretty extreme though. Everything you do on the PC is watched, analyzed, catalogued, and retained by MIcrosoft (and possibly whoever they choose to share the info with, which is likely every government that asks). The features that do this are generically called client-side scanning and Microsoft has a few specific variants you can read about called Copilot Recall, and Copilot Vision.

I bought one a bunch of years ago. Maybe 10 years. It worked fine. Did it's thing. Then for no reason google chooses to kill it. Fool me once.

The license is royalty free. AOMedia requires it's contributors to contribute royalty free, and AOMedia has worked hard to ensure it doesn't infringe anyone else's IP, but that doesn't stop other companies (some patent trolls) from asserting "You can't do xyz without infringing some obscure patent I own." These companies (like Dolby) target the companies that license AV1, and say "You've infringed my IP. Pay me $x per product that implements AV1, or I will sue you for much greater damages." So AV1 really is licensed royalty free, what we have here is a third party that isn't part of AOMedia (that really liked making money the old way) trying to extract revenue on dubious claims of patent essentiality.

The fun part is that nobody really knows (or cares) whether AV1 is really infringing any IP. They know that the threat of litigation is likely to induce enough people to just pay that the whole charade is worth it. And perhaps ironically, the companies like Dolby want to litigate even less than the companies they are threatening because litigation tends to be a winner take all thing. If they lose, then nobody pays them; not even the companies they bullied into paying. The video codec IP world has operated this way for decades. This is what AOMedia hoped to change. It's Governing Members are some heavy hitters. If they were to defend AV1, they could easily out-muscle players like Dolby. That might happen, but these sorts of things play out over a very long time horizon.

Some kid with a high capacity clarinet playing Pumped Up Kicks probably. Praise Jesus.

And before GTA VI.

Love it. Lol.

I read one where the wifi password at a bar was "YouGottaBuyADrinkFirst." So... customers would ask for the password, then buy a drink, then ask for the password again and be like "oh... you crafty bastard."

It's because nobody but Disney has that data, and they stopped sharing sub numbers because it fucks with stock price too much.

Talkin out their ass seems to be Newsweek's brand identity these days.

It's bonus depreciaton, not expenses, and it's a business tax benefit, not an individual tax benefit.

Businesses can, and for a long time, have been able to deduct aircraft expenses. Nothing has changed there, and it's not unique to this turd of a president. The return of bonus depreciation lets them depreciate faster, but again, depreciation is not new. It's reasonable to removed about that, but you have to get every fact wrong to make that complaint.

We elected the imbecile, impeached him, witnessed his commission of countless crimes, then gave him immunity, then elected him even harder.

It's no Sanctuary Moon, but still a pretty good show. :-)

What a dumbfuck; doesn't realize everybody is against him.