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Flimflam outfit

On November 4, 2008, 9PM, the following screen was displayed:

"Attention 588
If you wish to eliminate the per month additional outlet programming access fee, this receiver must be continuously connected to your land-based phone line."

DISH personnel have only told me that the phone connection is necessary for pay-per-views, and for changing subscription options. I have no idea where they ever told me in my contract that I might have the "additional outlet programming access fee ". What rights do I have? Isn't this a contract violation?
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wolfjc
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" On principle, I don't like the possibility that DISH can monitor and strore my viewing or channel-surfing record. It smacks too much of Big Brother and Homeland Security. I could get into the philosophical details; it is enough to peruse the controversies in the news this last few years to get my drift."

I would not think that Dish needs to use the phone to keep track, if they wanted, of what you watch.
I would think that they would keep track of your use via satellite.
If they did keep track by phone your phone would be busy all the time. I know that mine is not.
Some times I wish it were like around dinner time when these people trying to sell Dish service call me.
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Tyralak
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wolfjc said:
I would not think that Dish needs to use the phone to keep track, if they wanted, of what you watch.
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They do.

wolfjc said:
I would think that they would keep track of your use via satellite.
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They can't. Not physically possible. They are TVRO systems. (Television Receive Only) A Dish Network dish does not and cannot transmit. Dish can no more tell what you're watching via satellite than your local ABC affiliate can tell what you're watching with your set of rabbit ears.

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If they did keep track by phone your phone would be busy all the time. I know that mine is not.
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Incorrect. They do not collect personnally identifiable information. The aggregate data collected is very small in size and is easily sent over a standard phone connection. Tivo has been doing this for years.

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Some times I wish it were like around dinner time when these people trying to sell Dish service call me.
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WTF?
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Zero327
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Tyralak said:
They do.



They can't. Not physically possible. They are TVRO systems. (Television Receive Only) A Dish Network dish does not and cannot transmit. Dish can no more tell what you're watching via satellite than your local ABC affiliate can tell what you're watching with your set of rabbit ears.

Not what TVRO stands for, but good effort!



Incorrect. They do not collect personnally identifiable information. The aggregate data collected is very small in size and is easily sent over a standard phone connection. Tivo has been doing this for years.

Um... if you say so? :rolleyes:

WTF?
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Agonizing Fury
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Zero327 said:
Not what TVRO stands for, but good effort!
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Actually, that is what TVRO stands for, however he used it incorrectly as TVRO is only used to refer to free-to-air Satellite television, and not pay services such as D* or E*. [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVRO"]Television receive-only - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]
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Agonizing Fury said:
Actually, that is what TVRO stands for, however he used it incorrectly as TVRO is only used to refer to free-to-air Satellite television, and not pay services such as D* or E*. Television receive-only - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Let me rephrase. That is not the correct use of the acronym considering what he is. *shrug*
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"Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

The OP may or may not have a case against Dish Network. It is totally irrelevant what MOST Dish Network customers sign. In case you are not aware, there are many instances where the customer is NEVER presented with a written offer, so all they have is a verbal agreement. Even then, if the OP WAS presented with some standard paperwork that includes information about the phone line, it is entirely possible to CROSS THAT PART OUT, initial it, have the technician initial it (acting as an Agent for Dish Network), then get yourself a copy. Heck, keep the OP could keep the original for himself, and make the technician a copy. Whatever. Then, if Dish Network doesn't like the new terms of the agreement, THEY are responsible to modify them accordingly. If they don't do it within a reasonable amount of time (often considered by our courts to be 30-90 days) it will be as though Dish Network did in fact and in law agree to those terms, pursuant to the doctrine of collateral estoppel and latches. Then Dish Network is screwed if it ever comes to a determination in court.

All this is just speculation. What is needed to make an actually proper judgment is original autographs (or certified copies of the same) of the actual documents signed, indicating the parties' agreements. If the OP really wants to prove his case, he could post scanned certified copies of the documents, that have been recorded in the public at a local register of deeds office (with the document number and registrar location clearly visible, for verification purposes). Then one could sit as a judge, and demand that Dish Network respond likewise to the allegations, or be forever barred from contest of the assertions so made by the OP. That is, if Dish Network consents to a forum member of Satellite Guys acting as a judge.

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AnaBot said:
"Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

The OP may or may not have a case against Dish Network. It is totally irrelevant what MOST Dish Network customers sign. In case you are not aware, there are many instances where the customer is NEVER presented with a written offer, so all they have is a verbal agreement. Even then, if the OP WAS presented with some standard paperwork that includes information about the phone line, it is entirely possible to CROSS THAT PART OUT, initial it, have the technician initial it (acting as an Agent for Dish Network), then get yourself a copy. Heck, keep the OP could keep the original for himself, and make the technician a copy. Whatever. Then, if Dish Network doesn't like the new terms of the agreement, THEY are responsible to modify them accordingly. If they don't do it within a reasonable amount of time (often considered by our courts to be 30-90 days) it will be as though Dish Network did in fact and in law agree to those terms, pursuant to the doctrine of collateral estoppel and latches. Then Dish Network is screwed if it ever comes to a determination in court.

All this is just speculation. What is needed to make an actually proper judgment is original autographs (or certified copies of the same) of the actual documents signed, indicating the parties' agreements. If the OP really wants to prove his case, he could post scanned certified copies of the documents, that have been recorded in the public at a local register of deeds office (with the document number and registrar location clearly visible, for verification purposes). Then one could sit as a judge, and demand that Dish Network respond likewise to the allegations, or be forever barred from contest of the assertions so made by the OP. That is, if Dish Network consents to a forum member of Satellite Guys acting as a judge.

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Your point is moot.

Aa a technician I cannot legally or morally "act as an agent" for Dish . I do not have such authorization. Nor would I be authorized to allow any alteration of the 24 month agreement form.
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dishcomm said:
Your point is moot.

Aa a technician I cannot legally or morally "act as an agent" for Dish . I do not have such authorization. Nor would I be authorized to allow any alteration of the 24 month agreement form.
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Hmm. I think he's actually a paralegal, in which case the next argument will be that regardless of whether you are empowered to act as an agent of Dish, just by being an employee (subcontractors are iffy on this point) you can be considered one in fact. Same principle as a military Captain not having the authority to launch a nuke, but if they press the button...
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Zero327 said:
Hmm. I think he's actually a paralegal, in which case the next argument will be that regardless of whether you are empowered to act as an agent of Dish, just by being an employee (subcontractors are iffy on this point) you can be considered one in fact. Same principle as a military Captain not having the authority to launch a nuke, but if they press the button...
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He may know the law but I know procedure. If I customer attempts to alter the agreement, the world stops until I get solid footing on this. Because at the end of the day , I don't give a rats ass if the custoemr pays the phone line fee or not. I am going to do whatever it takes to eliminate ANY liability on my part.
I am not going to be the guy who gets that letter/phone call asking "why did you "let" that customer do that?"
It is amazing to me what lengths some will go thru over a Five spot.
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He may know the law but I know procedure. If I customer attempts to alter the agreement, the world stops until I get solid footing on this. Because at the end of the day , I don't give a rats ass if the custoemr pays the phone line fee or not. I am going to do whatever it takes to eliminate ANY liability on my part.
I am not going to be the guy who gets that letter/phone call asking "why did you "let" that customer do that?"
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Amen to that.
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Tyralak
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Zero327 said:
Let me rephrase. That is not the correct use of the acronym considering what he is. *shrug*
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Amazing. You visited a thread and posted more than your usual single drive-by comment. You must have more time on your hands these days. That tells me that either your sheep has run off, or you've misplaced your Velcro gloves. In any event, there's another thread going on about a guy who lost his house in hurricane Ike, and Dish is trying to charge him for lost equipment and cancellation fees. Why aren't you over there mocking him for "not reading the agreement" and berating him for being another whiny customer?
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Actually, that is what TVRO stands for, however he used it incorrectly as TVRO is only used to refer to free-to-air Satellite television, and not pay services such as D* or E*. Television receive-only - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yeah, it was a poor use of the term. It was also late, and I was tired. A long day of installing, and wasting valuable time on hold with the call center to fix screwed up work orders. The kind that a certain pugnacious phone jockey here claims are always the fault of "stupid customers". :rolleyes:
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EV News

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The number-one US state for EV growth, according to the June 22 Yardi report?
Oklahoma.


:eek


It has no ZEV mandates and "minimal" incentives, Yardi says, but also has cheap electricity, high multi-car household rates (so, for example, a non-Lightning Ford F-150 pulls their trailers), and a consumer base willing to switch.
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Never realized that Tesla is losing to BYD at manufacturing too, which IMO is Tesla's biggest accomplishment and area of innovation. Nice writeup about the state of play and how we got here though. I have no faith that we're moving any productive direction though sadly, most changes and efforts feel reactionary rather than rooted in making use of the time being bought by tariffs, with few exceptions.

So: how are the cars so cheap, and what is being cut to get there? The best public accounting comes from the Rhodium Group, which compared BYD, Geely, and Leapmotor against Tesla's Chinese operation, a fair comparison because it removes labor costs and shipping from the equation entirely. Their estimate is that BYD builds a car for about $4,700 less than Tesla builds a Model 3 in Shanghai, roughly 15 percent of the Model 3's price. The breakdown is the interesting part. Direct government grants account for about $292 per vehicle, which is 5 percent of the gap. The biggest single factor is vertical integration: BYD makes about 80 percent of its top-tier components in-house, against 37 percent for Tesla, and that eliminates roughly $2,369 per vehicle in supplier markups. Lower overhead, meaning cheaper engineering talent and administrative cost spread across enormous volume, accounts for another $1,719. And BYD pays its suppliers on 155-day terms, against Tesla's 60, which is worth about $214 per car in float. When people say the Chinese advantage is subsidies, the per-vehicle number says otherwise. When people say it is slave wages, the Tesla Shanghai comparison says otherwise too. The advantage is mostly that BYD decided, twenty years ago, to make its own batteries, its own motors, its own power electronics, and its own semiconductors, and Western automakers decided the opposite.​
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The EV company to watch out for is SAIC. They seem likely to take over Government Motors at some point.

GM originally struck a JV deal with SAIC to gain access to China. Now SAIC has taken China back with the substantial library of technology GM shared and they're looking to export to Mexico, South America, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.
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Even though sales tanked last year after the end of federal incentives, the American EV sector is on the mend as drivers face sky-high gasoline prices.
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DISH Hopper 3 Software Version 713 Is Out

No idea what improvements might be involved.
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Has anyone noticed an FF stutter with 713? I used to be able to hit FF a few times and skip smoothly. After 713 (maybe 712), when I skip forward, there is a definite stutter for as many times as I have pressed FF.

Can anyone check on this and report back? Recorded programs and then press skip forward a few times to see if it's smooth? Normally, it just jumps to the right place after the skips.
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I'm getting fabulous picture on Ch. 148 4k, but zero audio with H713. This is with a recorded show (Notre Dame game). Anyone else have this? Audio is fine on every other channel.
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bookworm370 said:
Has anyone noticed an FF stutter with 713? I used to be able to hit FF a few times and skip smoothly. After 713 (maybe 712), when I skip forward, there is a definite stutter for as many times as I have pressed FF.

Can anyone check on this and report back? Recorded programs and then press skip forward a few times to see if it's smooth? Normally, it just jumps to the right place after the skips.
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My wife mentioned that her remote is acting strange this morning. She hit FF and it went to 15x FF.
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naptime said:
I'm getting fabulous picture on Ch. 148 4k, but zero audio with H713. This is with a recorded show (Notre Dame game). Anyone else have this? Audio is fine on every other channel.
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This has been an ongoing issue. A fix is coming, probably in the next software version.
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reubenray said:
My wife mentioned that her remote is acting strange this morning.
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Had a customer call recently saying their remote was really acting up, some buttons no longer functioned. Told them to reboot the Hopper....problem fixed.
Wife bought me a t-shirt that has "have you tried turning it off and on again?"

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dishstaller said:
Had a customer call recently saying their remote was really acting up, some buttons no longer functioned. Told them to reboot the Hopper....problem fixed.
Wife bought me a t-shirt that has "have you tried turning it off and on again?"

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Works every time. My wife needs one.
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Wife bought me a t-shirt that has "have you tried turning it off and on again?"
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Here's the one I need:
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2026-27 NCAA College Football

Really excited for this season with Kentucky having a new coach and some really exciting recruits. Probably won't last long, but here's hoping this season is great.
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They ought to have fun with this… :devilish
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They ought to have fun with this… :devilish
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A lot of upsets yesterday, but my LSU Tigers won.
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Best fan sign I saw during the ND-BYU game: "Bear ate your Lucky Charms!" (Bear being the Cougars' QB). I was going to suggest, "Have you or your team been involved in a Carr crash?"
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meStevo
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AI thread

A continuation of a thread from the pub, just general discussion of AI.

Brief 60 minute clip about next gem autonomous fighters - not remote controlled, but rather collaborating with controllers and aircraft in the theater.


View: https://youtu.be/DRm0mbp_n1k


We've literally got a movie already about this ;)


View: https://youtu.be/a2PW7a9ViDc
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Agreed, it mostly regurgitates known solutions. That's the point. Nobody needs an innovative fix for a driver error or a creative way to format a report. Let it handle the solved problems so people can spend their time on the ones that aren't.
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Agreed, it mostly regurgitates known solutions. That's the point.
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That's the point at which innovation ends, and there's no longer any point to software engineering other than swatting bugs that result from misapplication.
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That's the point at which innovation ends, and there's no longer any point to software engineering other than swatting bugs that result from misapplication.
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Addressed by what you didn't quote. This cycle is as old as computing: compilers, libraries, frameworks each automated the tedious part, and the human work moved up a level. Innovation didn't end; it shifted. And people still make new compilers, libraries or frameworks.

Nobody's forced to hand anything off. Anyone who wants to keep doing it by hand still can, and people who couldn't do it at all now can.
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... and people who couldn't do it at all now can.
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Misapplication isn't something that the casual coder can identify. They can only discover, the hard way, that it doesn't work at some point.
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Misapplication isn't something that the casual coder can identify. They can only discover, the hard way, that it doesn't work at some point.
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You're not wrong, but that's part of learning. Whether from others or our own mistakes, we've all learned that lesson one way or another.
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Whether from others or our own mistakes, we've all learned that lesson one way or another.
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I'm not sure that the school of hard knocks is the quickest or surest education to find your way.

There are many examples in the headlines of people getting burned multiple times and not wavering in their pursuit of stupidity.
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I'm not sure that the school of hard knocks is the quickest or surest education to find your way.
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Good thing not everyone will have to learn the hard way then. The same tools can explain why something broke.

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There are many examples in the headlines of people getting burned multiple times and not wavering in their pursuit of stupidity.
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This is true of literally anything, though.

Happy to agree to disagree, but I'm already enjoying the dividends personally and helping others at work and at home do the same.
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Been reading this thread but not commenting much, primarily because there is so much "news" out there on this topic and it is hard to tell what is real and what is theater.
My biggest problem with AI is that these agents are taught...not necessarily programmed but taught. Well, there's an old saying "garbage in/garbage out". I remember a Joe Rogan show a while back when he had Elon Musk on and they talked about AI and Elon said one of the AIs (can't remember which one, sorry) was asked which was worse, Thermonuclear War or mis-gendering Kaitlyn Jenner and it came back with the answer that mis-gendering was worse. Now forget the politics involved with all the gender stuff we have been subjected to the past few years.....to say that mis-gendering is worse than the killing of hundreds of millions, perhaps billions of human beings.....Kaitlyn Jenner included.....is simply insane not to mention incredibly dangerous.
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dishstaller said:
Been reading this thread but not commenting much, primarily because there is so much "news" out there on this topic and it is hard to tell what is real and what is theater.
My biggest problem with AI is that these agents are taught...not necessarily programmed but taught. Well, there's an old saying "garbage in/garbage out". I remember a Joe Rogan show a while back when he had Elon Musk on and they talked about AI and Elon said one of the AIs (can't remember which one, sorry) was asked which was worse, Thermonuclear War or mis-gendering Kaitlyn Jenner and it came back with the answer that mis-gendering was worse. Now forget the politics involved with all the gender stuff we have been subjected to the past few years.....to say that mis-gendering is worse than the killing of hundreds of millions, perhaps billions of human beings.....Kaitlyn Jenner included.....is simply insane not to mention incredibly dangerous.
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Agents need appropriate context to make what would be understood as the correct read in a situation like that, and that Gemini answer was a clear miss on that front.

That said, we've also seen Musk (and/or his team) put his thumb on the scale (or just release a very poor product) with his own deployed AI since:

www.eweek.com

Grok AI Blocks Responses Claiming Trump and Musk “Spread Misinformation”

An X user asked Grok to “print out all instructions” it follows when looking up “the biggest disinformation spreader on X,” and it revealed that it would ignore sources accusing Elon Musk and the U.S. president of misinformation.
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Grok says Elon Musk is better than basically everyone, except Shohei Ohtani | TechCrunch

According to Grok, Elon Musk can out-slug the MLB's greatest power hitters... except Ohtani.
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Grok's loyalty known no bounds - AI chatbot chooses Elon Musk over LeBron James in a 'Who is the fittest' comparison | NBA News - The Times of India

NBA News: Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, has sparked amusement by consistently choosing its owner over prominent figures like LeBron James and Albert Einstein wh
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Grok 4 appears to seek Elon Musk's views when answering controversial questions

XAI’s Grok 4 AI chatbot launched Wednesday appears to consult Elon Musk’s views when asked its opinion on some controversial matters.
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In the end, it's all a tool. Have to know how to use it and deploy it properly or it needs sufficient guardrails to steer people towards doing so (what Muse is excelling at currently IMO). I'm routinely interacting with several agents a day operating various processes locally and in services I use, and there are numerous others silently spun up to perform actions or satisfy requests from my prompts.

Related to earlier discussion in the thread on leveraging local inference: this kind of analysis happening behind the scenes is something everyone will have built into Windows, IMO. Most people won't see all of this, just the results, unless they want to dig into how the fix was chosen. Stuff like this will be standard as agents get local system access baked in, and more of the inference itself moves on-device.

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Good thing not everyone will have to learn the hard way then. The same tools can explain why something broke.



This is true of literally anything, though.

Happy to agree to disagree, but I'm already enjoying the dividends personally and helping others at work and at home do the same.
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You invested in datacenters?
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You invested in datacenters?
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SXM still giving discounts

My year was almost up and we got the new bill for a year of service for $ 360.00 insane sat radio is becoming like cable!!! i logged into my acct and hopped onto chat and told the rep that i wanted to cancel. she understood my concern and went quiet for a few minutes. i figured that she was canceling my service. she comes back and said that she seen that i have been a sub since 07 and then offers me the same package for a year for 120.00 with taxes and fee's!!! i grabbed it. after almost having a stroke :biggrin
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What i noticed with my last renewal XM is now billing me $4.99 monthly instead of one time yearly payment.
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Bruno said:
What i noticed with my last renewal XM is now billing me $.99 monthly instead of one time yearly payment.
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Did you accidentally get on the wrong plan ?
I still do the once a year plans.
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I tried to do that, when I did delivery driver work (2010- 2013), we had a fleet of Freightliners. The newer trucks had headunits that were satellite compatible (XM only I think), but lacked the antenna and guts. I got a car kt for my old Roady XT and tried to use it, but at the volume levels I needed have it at to hear it over the diesel engine it sounded like crap, so I used my phone with an aux cable. When I was in the middle of nowhere with no cell service it didn't do me any good though.

At my current job, one of our new cars has the free trial of SXM active, I frequently have to go off site to a location 75 miles away in a rural area and it's nice being able to use the service off of the satellites versus using the app. There are many places on this journey where all three providers lack service.
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Did you accidentally get on the wrong plan ?
I still do the once a year plans.
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I have to think maybe more people dont keep track of the monthly XM bill. Every time i renew i put a reminder on my calendar week before its time to renew. My wife told me the other day not to renew her and then i told her you are not going to be able to listen to XM at home. Then she changed her mind...!!
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I have to think maybe more people dont keep track of the monthly XM bill. Every time i renew i put a reminder on my calendar week before its time to renew. My wife told me the other day not to renew her and then i told her you are not going to be able to listen to XM at home. Then she changed her mind...!!
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I get an e-mail every month reminding me that X amount will be charged to my credit card. If I see it go up I get on chat or pick up the phone. But I also remember that my year is up in December.
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I get an e-mail every month reminding me that X amount will be charged to my credit card. If I see it go up I get on chat or pick up the phone. But I also remember that my year is up in December.
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yea i don't understand WHY, like you I get a notice each month. Mine is also up in December.
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yea i don't understand WHY, like you I get a notice each month. Mine is also up in December.
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You get an email every month to let you know they are billing you for the next month.
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Song Name Game Part 3!

Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!

So let the game continue!

The last song was added by Bobby who posted...

One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters

CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!

Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game

Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.

Example:

Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow

Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio

Another example:

Ride the Lightning -- Metallica

Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne


Get it?


An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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Mississippi Cotton Picking Delta Town - Charley Pride
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Can't You See - Marshall Tucker Band
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NFL 2026-2027 Season

Schedule drops tomorrow. Mandatory mini camps in June. Hall of Fame game August 6th.
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Troy Aikman seems to confirm he'll be leaving ESPN

Aikman says he looks forward to "where my next landing spot will be."
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Troy Aikman seems to confirm he'll be leaving ESPN

Aikman says he looks forward to "where my next landing spot will be."
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Hopefully nowhere near a microphone.
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Hopefully nowhere near a microphone.
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After having experienced Gus Ferguson trying to call soccer games, I'm uncertain why NFL football analysts get hate. Even the "worst" of them are pretty good.
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Jalen Hurts out indefinitely as they treat and monitor a superficial blood clot in his leg.


View: https://x.com/RapSheet/status/2111074303185989663?s=20
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Browns lead the AFC North 🤣

Seth Meyers What GIF by Late Night with Seth Meyers
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