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  1. okalb

    Trump

    The Central Park 5 have filed a defamation suit against Trump. https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/21/politics/central-park-five-trump-defamation/index.html
  2. If you trust the answers that you get from AI, I recommend asking it this simple question: How many Rs are in the word strawberry?
  3. This is exactly what I have been working on. Microsoft Purview is part of M365 (depending on licenses). Purview is Microsoft's data governance product. If all of the exfiltration settings are configured correctly. It can be relatively well protected. The problem is that is is also very easy to misconfigure it and not realize it. The project I have been working on is training for internal MS security engineers on how to properly configure their customer's environments to allow the use of Copilot, while protecting confidential data from being leaked. We have had to rewrite many of the standards and best practices along the way.
  4. I have spent the last 8 months working on a Data Governance project. One of the biggest parts of the project is the integration with AI. It took me at least a month to repeatedly explain that when we talk about data governance and AI, it isn't about "integration with" but about "protection from." I have found it very difficult to get management to understand that the biggest concern of AI in a corporate environment is protecting internal corporate data from leaking into the AI learning model and your confidential data becoming part of the model. The introduction of "AI" to the masses has changed a lot of the concepts and previous best practices concerning data governance.
  5. I just received my FL absentee ballot. There is an amendment to protect abortion rights. For each amendment there is a description that gets added. Here is the text of the amendment and the text of the description. Anyone see anything wrong with this?
  6. Looks like the shooter's father will be going to prison. https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/06/us/colin-gray-georgia-shooting-suspect-father-charges/index.html
  7. okalb

    Trump

    At the convention in 98 was the first time I saw him. I asked someone who it was and the reply was, Oh, you don't know Windbag Knothead the third. A whole lot of years later and it seems not much has changed. People are still saying it. Not me mind you, I have nothing against those kind of people. I am just telling you that is what people are saying. If you need me to explain it to you, you are obviously too clueless to understand.
  8. Status as a natural-born citizen of the United States is one of the eligibility requirements established in the United States Constitution for holding the office of president or vice president. This requirement was intended to protect the nation from foreign influence.[1] The U.S. Constitution uses but does not define the phrase "natural born Citizen" and various opinions have been offered over time regarding its exact meaning. The consensus of early 21st-century constitutional and legal scholars, together with relevant case law, is that natural-born citizens include, subject to exceptions, those born in the United States. As to those born elsewhere who meet the legal requirements for birthright citizenship, the consensus emerging as of 2016 was that they also are natural-born citizens.[2][3][4] I was born in another country to an American father. I was born with US citizenship. I did not need to apply for anything except a passport.
  9. The cloud is just someone else's computer
  10. If your are going to poke fun at the "college educted" (sic). Maybe better spelling would help make your point.
  11. okalb

    Tim Walz

    Facts mean nothing to them
  12. And yet you back someone who supports Russia over the US and Authoritarianism over democracy.
  13. I am an American living in South America for about 5 years now. One of my close friends down here sells real estate and often asks me to help him when he dealing with foreigners. This weekend, I had lunch with a couple that were looking to buy a place from him. They are a very nice couple probably in their late 50’s early 60’s. They live in Central Florida. I proceeded to tell them important things about my experience relocating and warned them of the good/bad/ugly things they may run into. I generally avoid political discussions with strangers, especially in a case where I am doing a favor for a friend, and he stands to make a large commission that his family needs. About halfway through lunch, they asked me some questions about the political situation down here. As I began to explain how things work, I was met with the “Well, anything is better than what we have with Biden and Harris in the US right now”. I was shocked because nothing in the conversation up until that point had led me to believe that they were “that kind”. They then proceed to tell me that the reason that they are looking to buy a place down here is in case Harris wins and they need to escape the US. They seem to be under the impression that if she wins, they will lose all freedom and the US will become a communist country under the Dems. They want an escape plan! The loss of touch with reality blew me away. I see people like that on the news all the time, but talking to them left my jaw hanging wide. I couldn’t understand how anyone could believe that it is the Dems who are trying to take away people's freedoms and turn the country into an autocracy, but that is what they believe. He worked in IT until his retirement (not sure what she did). They both seemed like reasonably intelligent people until that part of the conversation. The level of delusion is amazing. The other thing that occurred to me is that these are people who want to shut down the southern border and keep out the brown people, and yet, they see no hypocrisy in the fact that they want to buy a place in South America to escape. They were also the typical foreigners that complain about the lack of people that speak English here and complained about several other things regarding the local culture.
  14. I am just going on what google tells me. I don't even live in the US anymore much less AZ, but my understanding is that in this case, the special election would be held at the next general election cycle.