Because thoughts and prayers don't pay the rent? If they did enhance the quality of the community, they would be patroned at a level that sustains them. If you simply enjoy knowing a local bookstore exists as a storefront in your downtown district, maybe you could rally the community to subsidize their economics like a park or swimming pool, and perhaps you could even rent books for nearly free - just stamp the back.
"GPT-4o is now available as part of Azure OpenAI Service for Azure Government and included as part of this latest FedRAMP High and DoD IL4/IL5 Authorization."
...we have everything setup in Azure but are weary to start using with CUI. Our DoD contacts think it's good to go, but nobody wants to go on record as giving the go-ahead.
Ah by “it” I meant OpenAI commercial. Azure OpenAI can handle CUI Basic.
They also have a deployment on SIPR rated for secret.
Anything higher, you need a special key but AWS Bedrock has Claude up on C2S.
That being said both Azure OpenAI and AWS Bedrock suck for many reasons and they will by default extend your system boundary (meaning you need to extend your ATO). Also, for CUI, it has the P-ATO from JAB, not many agency specific ATOs, which means you will probably need to submit it thru your agency sponsor.
Gotcha. We happen to be on government Azure as a contractor, which took years to secure (and one reason our execs want to be beyond sure everything is locked down)
Have they given a reason for being hesitant? The whole point of IL4+ is that they handle CUI (and higher). The whole point of services provided for these levels is that they meet the requirements.
Think of all the trivial ways an image generator could be used in business, and there is likely a similar use-case among the DoD and its contractors (e.g. create a cartoon image of a ship for a naval training aid; make a data dashboard wireframe concept for a decision aid).
I agree. It seems like hardly anyone got to experience the fun part of the prank - the number of people who actually saw INSERT 5 CENTS on their VFD panel was probably close to zero given "By 8:30am it was chaos". So for 99.9% of people the entirety of the prank was a dry email stating campus was going to start charging for printing, which was true.
For 99.9% of people, the funny of the prank would only hit later. Ie, upon finding out it was a prank, and hearing about the "insert 5 cents" part that they probably didn't see with their own eyes. Plus the retraction, and 2nd retraction. And reactions of other staff who fell for it (and caused chaos) before 8:30.
And then extra value upon retelling all of the above to others.
Someone relating that sequences of events to me as funny, especially if they said it was only funny after the pileup, would significantly adjust my prior as to dark triad characteristics in their psychology.
"prank" = IT guy sent campus wide email saying some printers will now charge $0.05/page
"that they probably didn't see with their own eyes" = they did not check physically very every printer on campus to verify none of the printers had the characteristic, the only way to falsify what the IT guy said, that some printers had a characteristic.
"Plus the retraction, and 2nd retraction." = 3x the time wasted for everyone on campus
"And reactions of other staff who fell for it" = people who believed the dry email from IT
"(and caused chaos)" = chaos isn't funny
"And then extra value upon retelling all of the above to others." = It sounds like we're assuming the relayer would get value from relating this, but the extra value is to the listener, it'd only harm the relayer.
As a listener, now I know that I have to verify 100% of everything the relayer tells me. They think a good prank is when you leverage your professional role to lie and cause chaos, which is justified because those poor sheep were complaining about something they didn't even verify with their own eyes. i.e. thousands of people should have gone through an absurdly onerous verification rather than trust communications you make in your professional role.
7:28 New Campus Policy printing now costs 5-cents per page
8:34 Re: New Campus Policy - April Fools! Printing is free.
9:14 Re: Re: New Campus Policy - Printing is still free, for now.
Absolutely.* Does that shed any light, here? They're not claiming it is a triviality, instead, quite specifically, they are claiming the funny part is chaos and the number of people who reacted differently.
This seems more like an epidemiology paper than a physics paper. They probably could have modeled it after the Zaire Ebola virus, with a mortality rate of 90 percent.
If clothing is needed in a disaster situation, I don't see how a new retail sweatshirt and jeans would be much more impactful than a used sweatshirt and jeans, given people have enough sense to not donate clothing with non-cosmetic issues - i.e. faded ok; rips/holes not ok).
Furthermore, if you have some money to spend on the effort, buying new cloths is a really poor choice among the options for spending it, for all the reasons they mentioned: organizations on the ground know what items and quantities are needed, often buy in bulk with discounts and, if possible, purchase through businesses local to the disaster, which supports economic recovery.
So the thing is, you need someone to sort donations. Not just for quality but for what they are, so that you can send appropriate things to appropriate disasters. A retail sweatshirt and jeans might be exactly what North Carolina needs, might be barely passable for right now in Los Angeles, and would be less than useless in Los Angeles six months from now. You also have to have someone go through all the donations to figure out what is and is not a non-cosmetic issue and discard the useless because, as someone whose spouse worked for Goodwill, I can tell you that you can not count on people to have sense enough not to donate damaged and useless goods. Then you have to have someone physically get the things from where they were donated, filtered and sorted to the disaster. A whole network of someones, actually, because there are a lot of places a donation can originate. Trucking stuff into a disaster area is a challenge as well, and may be impossible depending on the nature of the disaster in question and where the stuff is coming from. A new sweater is no better than a gently-used but fully functional one if a sweater is what's needed and they're both already on-site. But for a disaster response that's scaled nationally and designed to respond to minor and major disasters of disparate types with varying needs, cash is 100% king.
I don't know. Either things that people say they want are paramount, or not. Unless they are starving, people would say no to "used food" like a hamburger with a bite taken out of it too.
I suppose it depends if you are trying to help with people's wants or needs in a disaster situation. If 10 new sweatshirts and 100 used sweatshirts get airdropped into a disaster area, and all 10 new shirts get taken and 0 used shirts, then FEMA is right, cloths are not needed. However, if the cloths being new help people psychologically cope with the disaster, that's certainly a factor to consider.
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