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[–] aiden@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

Even if they did that, there's a lot of talented engineers in China. It would take them no time to bypass that I'm sure.

[–] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 94 points 2 days ago

Very James Bond, I like it.

And then the cool twist where the bad guys figure out how to exploit it and uno reverse all the good guys computers. Man, that would be a fun movie. I'm glad we're not talking about real life or whatever.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 12 points 1 day ago

But they’re made in China?

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Absolutely not. Keep your tracking devices out of our products. If you want to shove a fucking GPS up your ass and give it to the government that's your choice, but you can fuck right off with selling more tracking services tied to hardware to the population who has no say.

[–] Jocker@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

US and their f*cking stupid politicians

[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Listen here pal, it's a lot more than just our politicians that are stupid.

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The man is a Democrat, a physicist and non-religious. Most have been in politics too long to come up with this dumb idea.

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago

Never trust a physicist on software. We have a special term at work, "Scientific Python". When we say it to a physicist, they wear the hat proudly, but what we mean is "incomprehensible garbage that breaks as soon as you give it any input other than the one thing they tested it with". If they want you to maintain it, the first step is to ask them to run it, look at whatever plot it generates, and write something from scratch that produces the same plot.

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, they don't even trust themselves!
Also just looking for falsification...

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 36 points 2 days ago

I wouldn’t trust any administration with this ability, but especially not the current one.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I can't believe it the government is stealing my ideas from a dystopian future setting I'm writing

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can you uhh put some good stuff in it for us common folks please

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sorry fam only suffering idk what to tell you

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's what the market wants!

What it CRAVES

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago

“(or if someone we don’t like is using them)”

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago

So then what happens when someone spoofs a GPS signal outside your AI datacenter? ... I think I like this idea.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

US approves of Israeli operation to turn electronics into bombs, so even with the golden pager gift, this politician just hasn't gotten the ultimate inspiration for manifest destiny thinking.

[–] Obelix@feddit.org 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How would something like that even work? Create a driver that phones home is somehow able to figure out the location of the computer by some method that is not easily defeated with a VPN? Even a GPS chip on the cards won't work in a datacenter rack

[–] kbal@fedia.io 14 points 2 days ago

It's perfectly simple really. They'll add a small AI module designed to detect Chinese language being spoken, levels of air pollution, and the scent of Chinese food, which will detonate an appropriately-sized self-destruct charge when a certain threshold is reached.

Nvidia products are just the start. Cars, sneakers, Coca-Cola — eventually every consumer product made in the USA will come with one. They're just working out how to stop them accidentally detonating in certain parts of San Francisco and New York.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They already managed to brick the defence industry. So now IT is next.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

This would be part of the defence industry

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Fuzz buster buster buster.