QPORIT

A civil airplane and a military helicopter crashed over the Potomac. It was the fist major commercial airlines in the US in 25 years.

John Donne

Labels: helicopter, John Donne, Plane crash

# posted by QPORIT @ 5:40 PM 0 comments

MS Copilot has started appearing and BLOCKING whenever a new Word Document is started/opened.

It took several trial prompts using copilot to solve this. Here's the right prompt and an apparently correct answer:

HOW CAN I STOP COPILOT FROM BLOCKING ME FROM WRITING WHEN I OPEN A NEW DOCUMENT

COPILOT:

I understand how frustrating that can be! To stop Copilot from blocking you when you open a new document in Word, you can disable the feature. Here's how:

Open Word and go to the File menu.

Select Options.

In the Word Options dialog box, go to the Copilot section.

Uncheck the box that says Enable Copilot.

Click OK to save your changes.

This should disable Copilot and allow you to write without interruptions. If you're using a different Office app, the steps might be slightly different, but the general approach is the same.

Labels: AI, Copilot, Microsoft, MS Word

# posted by QPORIT @ 1:39 AM 0 comments

Congress, last year, voted a bipartisan bill to ban TIKTOK (controlled by the Chinese company ByteDance) from the US, as of Sunday, 1/19/2024, unless it was divested from Chinese ownership. The ban was challenged and went to SCOTUS. 

Unlike the partisan delay the GOP majority of the court imposed on the immunity case to assist T, the court, ruling extremely quickly, upheld the ban on TIKTOK in a unanimous decision.

This is a major decision on the conflict between free speech vs National Security (as a threat from potentially adversarial countries that own and control an application used by gazillions of Americans).

Here is the decision:

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 

Nos. 24–656 and 24–657 

TIKTOK INC., ET AL., PETITIONERS 24–656

 v. 

MERRICK B. GARLAND, ATTORNEY GENERAL

BRIAN FIREBAUGH, ET AL., PETITIONERS 24–657

 v. 

MERRICK B. GARLAND, ATTORNEY GENERAL

ON APPLICATIONS FOR INJUNCTION PENDING REVIEW 

TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT

[January 17, 2025]

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-656_ca7d.pdf

Labels: BAN, DOJ, MERRICK B. GARLAND, SCOTUS, TIKTOC

# posted by QPORIT @ 9:53 PM 0 comments

The Department of Justice (aka, the Department of Justice Delayed) has released the report of the Special Counsel Jack Smith.

It is a year too late, and a volume short.  (Release of Volume 2 on the Classified Documents has been delayed by Judge Cannon.)

The final conclusion of the report (p 137) is that "... the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial." 

HERE IS THE LINK:

https://www.justice.gov/storage/Report-of-Special-Counsel-Smith-Volume-1-January-2025.pdf

FINAL REPORT ON THE SPECIAL COUNSEL'S INVESTIGATIONS AND PROSECUTIONS 

VOLUME ONE: 

THE ELECTION CASE REPORT ON 

EFFORTS TO INTERFERE WITH THE LAWFUL TRANSFER OF POWER

FOLLOWING THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OR

THE CERTIFICATION OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTE 

HELD ON JANUARY 6, 2021 

Special Counsel Jack Smith 

Submitted Pursuant to 28 C.F.R. § 600.8(c) 

Washington, D.C. 

January 7, 2025 

Labels: 2021, Department of Justice, Jack Smith, Jan 6, justice delayed, Trump

# posted by QPORIT @ 5:25 AM 0 comments

In ancient times, if you had a problem with your computer or an application, the answer might be in the documentation. At that time, it was said that the cost and space requirements of the computer were dwarfed by the cost and space requirements of the documentation. If you could not find the answer in your wall sized bookshelves of documentation, a professional expert was needed, or the problem was just declared unsolvable.

Somewhat later, say mid 1990's, the idea of online help from someone sharing your computer screen on the young web appeared. (I helped invent one of  the first systems like that at IBM.)

Later, if you had a problem, Google started making it possible to google it.  If someone had encountered that earlier, you might find some kind of solution on the web. Still later, you might find an explanation posted on YouTube on the web.  It was still hit-or-miss, and depended on what was already written down or had been explained on some video that search could find.

Now, OPEN AI GPT o1 will listen to your problem, and coach you through the answer. If you have a problem, it will give you more detail.  The help can be amazing.  

One example: In a multi-page sign-on/registration for an application, I was stuck. The NEXT button would not light up. I asked o1 for help.  It explained how one of the terms on the page could not be seen unless the page was full screen, and that a button was looking for something quite different from what it seemed to me to be asking for. To make me feel better(?) o1 even pointed out that other people had the same problem!

The instructions from o1 were considerably more complete, easier to follow, and more correct, than the instructions from the application's own site!

I've had similar success getting HELP!!! using o1 a number of other times!

Labels: A history of HELP!, GPT o1, IBM, Open AI

# posted by QPORIT @ 3:37 AM 0 comments