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I believe in that case it was smart vibrator that phoned home info like device temperature and vibration intensity. [0]: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/14/52012349…

I'm talking about bandwidth; connection speed . The streaming stick in the article turns off its proxying feature while the user is actually streaming because the proxying feature …

>> rent the user’s Internet connection out to strangers. > Harm to the user: none^ Well, they are losing some of their bandwidth. They might not notice, but something which is righ…

"Royal Executioner" is a job. "Bioweapon engineer" is a job. "Baby seal clubber" is a job. I could go on.

No. "Intentionally", "willfully", or "knowingly" are prerequisite states of mind for crimes defined by the CFAA.

How long before an agent steals their human tester's nude photos and extorts them for the answer key?

It seems like bug hunting might be the one area where AI is actually making the world a better place.

> Count Binface I did not expect this to be a real person. Is he with the Standing At The Back Dressed Stupidly And Looking Stupid party?

The "More" button changes to a "Stop" button when clicked.

And run the whole thing in DOSBox.

Seems like a case for HTTP 451 (Unavailable for Legal Reasons) rather than 404.

The company involved here is apparently based in Washington, DC, which has a "Ban the Box" ordinance that limits employment background checks for most kinds of jobs. And apparently…

I would blame the email over Outlook.

For some reason it fails to generate anything for me most of the time. https://halupedia.com/shortest-hose-in-the-world [fail] https://halupedia.com/new-england-rock-worm [fail] ht…

OTOH, a free trip to the depot and back is actually more than you'd get from a traditional taxi service under the same circumstances.

I'm the opposite: I'll take a centralized, strongly-typed registry over 'stringly' typed dotfiles scattered across the entire filesystem.

Rather, I suspect viral copyleft is why this lawyer is focusing on the the GPL. It's the only(?) FOSS license that can force a proprietary codebase into the open.

> It is totally infeasible for me to check every single GPL project on every code hosting platform to see if the code Claude etc produced is too similar. I would say that choosing …

Is "learning" the correct term? Or is it "plagiarism"?

They probably focused on the GPL because of its viral copyleft features.

Yeah, I thought the main character was a little too insistent about... repopulating. On the other hand, if we're feeling generous we might say the author was intentionally confront…

If you enjoy this story, you might enjoy the short unpublished novel, "The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect"[1] by Roger Williams. A story where 1990's humans invent a 3-laws-compl…

> they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the sh…

I find that 99% of ads are blocked simply by disabling Javascript. Does that suggest that disabling Javascript is unethical? Or does it suggest that those blocked advertisements we…

Hugged to death? https://web.archive.org/web/20260329052632/https://gladeart....