Comment So am I a cave man ? (Score 4, Insightful) 26
I have never used an AI to write code. The code that I write I understand and am able to document.
Comment Re:Well done Germany (Score 1) 105
shut down their nuclear power plants before the end of their originally planned decommission date.
The shut down their plants as a result of the scare of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident, this is now seen as a mistake but at the time the big worry was escaping radiation.
Comment Well done Germany (Score 1) 105
please continue to reduce use of coal in spite of some other countries trying to burn more. Future generations will thank you.
Submission + - Google's $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propagan (dropsitenews.com) 1
Alain Williams writes: Publicly available government contracts show that Israel’s advertising bureau, which reports to the prime minister’s office, has since embarked on a mass advertising and public messaging effort to conceal the hunger crisis. The push includes the use of American influencers widely reported on last month. It also includes a high-dollar spending spree on paid advertising, yielding tens of millions for Google, YouTube, X, Meta, and other tech platforms.
“There is food in Gaza. Any other claim is a lie,” asserted a propaganda video published by Israel’s foreign ministry to Google’s YouTube video sharing platform in late August and viewed more than 6 million times. Much of the video’s reach results from an ad placed during an ongoing and previously unreported $45 million (NIS 150 million) advertising campaign initiated between Google and Netanyahu’s office in late June. The contract—which is with both YouTube and Google's advertising campaign management platform, Display & Video 360—explicitly characterizes the ad campaign as hasbara, a Hebrew word whose meaning is somewhere between public relations and propaganda.
Records show that the Israeli government similarly spent $3 million (NIS 10 million) for an advertising campaign with X. The French and Israeli advertising platform Outbrain/Teads is also set to receive roughly $2.1 million (NIS 7 million).
The existence of an Israeli Google ads campaign to discredit the UN’s primary aid agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, was similarly reported by WIRED last year. Hadas Maimon, head of public awareness for Israel’s diaspora ministry, stated during the March 2 Knesset hearing that, “For almost a year now, we have been leading a major campaign on the issue of UNRWA.”
“There is food in Gaza. Any other claim is a lie,” asserted a propaganda video published by Israel’s foreign ministry to Google’s YouTube video sharing platform in late August and viewed more than 6 million times. Much of the video’s reach results from an ad placed during an ongoing and previously unreported $45 million (NIS 150 million) advertising campaign initiated between Google and Netanyahu’s office in late June. The contract—which is with both YouTube and Google's advertising campaign management platform, Display & Video 360—explicitly characterizes the ad campaign as hasbara, a Hebrew word whose meaning is somewhere between public relations and propaganda.
Records show that the Israeli government similarly spent $3 million (NIS 10 million) for an advertising campaign with X. The French and Israeli advertising platform Outbrain/Teads is also set to receive roughly $2.1 million (NIS 7 million).
The existence of an Israeli Google ads campaign to discredit the UN’s primary aid agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, was similarly reported by WIRED last year. Hadas Maimon, head of public awareness for Israel’s diaspora ministry, stated during the March 2 Knesset hearing that, “For almost a year now, we have been leading a major campaign on the issue of UNRWA.”
Submission + - Florida plans to become first state to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates (apnews.com)
skam240 writes: Florida plans to become the first state to eliminate vaccine mandates, a longtime cornerstone of public health policy for keeping schoolchildren and adults safe from infectious diseases.
State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who announced the decision Wednesday, cast current requirements in schools and elsewhere as “immoral” intrusions on people’s rights that hamper parents’ ability to make health decisions for their children.
Florida’s move, a significant departure from decades of public policy and research that has shown vaccines to be safe and the most effective way to stop the spread of communicable diseases, especially among schoolchildren, is a notable embrace of the Trump administration’s public health agenda led by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist.
State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who announced the decision Wednesday, cast current requirements in schools and elsewhere as “immoral” intrusions on people’s rights that hamper parents’ ability to make health decisions for their children.
Florida’s move, a significant departure from decades of public policy and research that has shown vaccines to be safe and the most effective way to stop the spread of communicable diseases, especially among schoolchildren, is a notable embrace of the Trump administration’s public health agenda led by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist.
Submission + - Florida will work to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates in the state (apnews.com)
An anonymous reader writes: ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Florida will work to phase out all childhood vaccine mandates in the state, building on the effort by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to curb vaccine requirements and other health mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic.
DeSantis also announced on Wednesday the creation of a state-level “Make America Healthy Again” commission modeled after similar initiatives pushed at the federal level by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
On the vaccines, state Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo cast current requirements in schools and elsewhere as an “immoral” intrusion on people’s rights bordering on “slavery,” and hampers parents’ ability to make health decisions for their children.
“People have a right to make their own decisions, informed decisions,” said Ladapo, who has frequently clashed with the medical establishment, at a news conference in Valrico, Florida, in the Tampa area. “They don’t have the right to tell you what to put in your body. Take it away from them.”
The state Health Department, Ladapo said, can scrap its own rules for some vaccine mandates, but others would require action by the Florida Legislature. He did not specify any particular vaccines but repeated several times the effort would end “all of them. Every last one of them.”
Democratic state Rep. Anna Eskamani, who is running for Orlando mayor, said in a social media post that scrapping vaccines “is reckless and dangerous” and could cause outbreaks of preventable disease.
“This is a public health disaster in the making for the Sunshine State,” she said on the social platform X.
Meanwhile, the Democratic governors of Washington, Oregon and California announced Wednesday that they created an alliance to safeguard health policies, contending that the administration of President Donald Trump is politicizing public health decisions.
The partnership plans to coordinate health guidelines by aligning immunization plans based on recommendations from respected national medical organizations, according to a joint statement from Gov. Bob Ferguson of Washington, Gov. Tina Kotek of Oregon and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California.
In Florida, vaccine mandates for child day care facilities and public schools include shots for measles, chickenpox, hepatitis B, Diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis (DTaP), polio and other diseases, according to the state Health Department’s website.
Under DeSantis, Florida resisted imposing COVID vaccines on schoolchildren, requiring “passports” for places that draw crowds, school closures and mandates that workers get the shots to keep their jobs.
“I don’t think there’s another state that’s done as much as Florida. We want to stay ahead of the curve,” the governor said.
The state “MAHA” commission would look into such things as allowing informed consent in medical matters, promoting safe and nutritious food, boosting parental rights regarding medical decisions about their children, and eliminating “medical orthodoxy that is not supported by the data,” DeSantis said. The commission will be chaired by Lt. Gov. Jay Collins and Florida first lady Casey DeSantis.
“We’re getting government out of the way, getting government out of your lives,” Collins said.
The commission’s work will help inform a large “medical freedom package” to be introduced in the Legislature next session, which would address the vaccine mandates required by state law and make permanent the recent state COVID decisions relaxing restrictions, DeSantis said.
“There will be a broad package,” the governor said.
DeSantis also announced on Wednesday the creation of a state-level “Make America Healthy Again” commission modeled after similar initiatives pushed at the federal level by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
On the vaccines, state Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo cast current requirements in schools and elsewhere as an “immoral” intrusion on people’s rights bordering on “slavery,” and hampers parents’ ability to make health decisions for their children.
“People have a right to make their own decisions, informed decisions,” said Ladapo, who has frequently clashed with the medical establishment, at a news conference in Valrico, Florida, in the Tampa area. “They don’t have the right to tell you what to put in your body. Take it away from them.”
The state Health Department, Ladapo said, can scrap its own rules for some vaccine mandates, but others would require action by the Florida Legislature. He did not specify any particular vaccines but repeated several times the effort would end “all of them. Every last one of them.”
Democratic state Rep. Anna Eskamani, who is running for Orlando mayor, said in a social media post that scrapping vaccines “is reckless and dangerous” and could cause outbreaks of preventable disease.
“This is a public health disaster in the making for the Sunshine State,” she said on the social platform X.
Meanwhile, the Democratic governors of Washington, Oregon and California announced Wednesday that they created an alliance to safeguard health policies, contending that the administration of President Donald Trump is politicizing public health decisions.
The partnership plans to coordinate health guidelines by aligning immunization plans based on recommendations from respected national medical organizations, according to a joint statement from Gov. Bob Ferguson of Washington, Gov. Tina Kotek of Oregon and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California.
In Florida, vaccine mandates for child day care facilities and public schools include shots for measles, chickenpox, hepatitis B, Diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis (DTaP), polio and other diseases, according to the state Health Department’s website.
Under DeSantis, Florida resisted imposing COVID vaccines on schoolchildren, requiring “passports” for places that draw crowds, school closures and mandates that workers get the shots to keep their jobs.
“I don’t think there’s another state that’s done as much as Florida. We want to stay ahead of the curve,” the governor said.
The state “MAHA” commission would look into such things as allowing informed consent in medical matters, promoting safe and nutritious food, boosting parental rights regarding medical decisions about their children, and eliminating “medical orthodoxy that is not supported by the data,” DeSantis said. The commission will be chaired by Lt. Gov. Jay Collins and Florida first lady Casey DeSantis.
“We’re getting government out of the way, getting government out of your lives,” Collins said.
The commission’s work will help inform a large “medical freedom package” to be introduced in the Legislature next session, which would address the vaccine mandates required by state law and make permanent the recent state COVID decisions relaxing restrictions, DeSantis said.
“There will be a broad package,” the governor said.
Comment When was it that we were told ... (Score 2) 91
that AI would never be used in war or to kill humans ? It was not very long ago.
Comment T-Mobile CEO needs to attend the next Trump ... (Score 1) 23
$1million donation dinner. This ruling will then be toast thanks to an executive order a week afterwards.
Comment Re:Issue is not limited to MS Store (Score 1) 149
When you do an update, you may be replacing files that are in-use, e.g., system libraries. On Unix, you can do this - programs already running continue to use the old library on disk whose reference was deleted, while new programs will use the updated library. However this can lead to issues since now you can have programs with a library mismatch - one program is using an old version of the library, while another program is using the newer version, so you need to restart the programs using it. And sometimes this can lead to bigger problems like file corruption if the file format changed and programs are using a mix of the and new libraries.
No, that is not how it works, Shared Object files (.so) have
version numbers in the name. When you update you install a new file with a
different name. Example: my shell (on Debian Trixie) uses
You can have several different versions of the same library installed at the same time, programs use the one with the same major number that they were compiled against. When no more programs depend on an installed library file the package manager will get rid of it.
A trimmed example on my machine:
$ ls -l
lr-------- 1 addw addw 64 Aug 19 23:08 7fb34e2b5000-7fb34e2c4000 ->
$ cd
$ ls -l libtinfo.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 323142 Mar 6 16:01 libtinfo.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Mar 6 16:01 libtinfo.so -> libtinfo.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Mar 6 16:01 libtinfo.so.6 -> libtinfo.so.6.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 220464 Mar 6 16:01 libtinfo.so.6.5
Comment Re:Who pays the tariffs ? (Score 1) 108
There have long been all manner of reasons for cost increases (raw materials; labour charges; transport costs;
"Supply chain absorbing cost increases" are weasel words used by politicians to convince the public that things will not be so bad. "Efficiencies will be made" is another - over the long term this is false.
Submission + - Microsoft storing Israeli intelligence trove used to attack Palestinians
Alain Williams writes: The tech giant developed a customized version of its cloud platform for Israel’s Unit 8200, which is housing audio files of millions of calls by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, a joint investigation reveals.
The Israeli army’s elite cyber warfare unit is using Microsoft’s cloud servers to store masses of intelligence on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza — information that has been used to plan deadly airstrikes and shape military operations, an investigation by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and the Guardian can reveal.
The Israeli army’s elite cyber warfare unit is using Microsoft’s cloud servers to store masses of intelligence on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza — information that has been used to plan deadly airstrikes and shape military operations, an investigation by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and the Guardian can reveal.
Comment Who pays the tariffs ? (Score 4, Insightful) 108
It will be paid by those who buy the chips within the USA. It will not be paid by those who do not live in the USA. Trump either does not understand that or thinks that USA citizens are too stupid to understand.
Even if the chips were to be made in the USA building the fabs will take longer than he has left as president.
Comment Re:US (Score 2) 152
The UK is going that way as well - for businesses and some individuals, many individuals can still submit a tax return on paper of on-line (web). It is slowly creeping to engulf more people.
Comment Re:Next up, a declaration that pi equals three (Score 1) 155
Hell, even my ICE car vs an EV being mandated is not going to shorten your life in any statistically revlavent manner.
Your one ICE car will not make a noticeable difference but the collective emissions of the approx 1.5 billion cars is making a significant contribution to: the climate crisis; air pollution that causes asthma; etc - which will kill millions. So regulations on every one of us is to benefit everyone on the planet.
The trouble is that self interested twats like Trump do not care - they are rich enough to avoid the problems and stupid enough to not realise how it will harm their grandchildren. Most of the MAGA crowd just worship their orange god and do not evaluate critically what he says.
Comment Re:Just like humans: How we train them. (Score 2) 55
A human starting out programming will write code that has all manner of bugs in it, including security bugs. S/he will have to fix such bugs as they are reported -- this is how they learn what does/does-not work and, over time, they get better. The problem with AI is that it does not get this feedback and so does not learn & get better.
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