Re: shiny!
2 omissions?
2a. Check that SD Write-Protect tab is set to Write-Enable/Off prior to insertion in to camera
6. Open pod bay doors, Hal
Posts by Steve K
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Astronaut took camera on spacewalk, but forgot SD memory card
Brit reseller Aria PC mounts appeal against £750k taxman VAT fiddle ruling
Monday 21st May 2018 15:37 GMT
Ignorance of the law is not a defence...
Aria has also argued that Taheri did not know enough about the deals to realise they were fraudulent, as well as asserting that he did not know what MTIC fraud was and therefore did not recognise the warning signs in his firm's suppliers
On this point I suspect that he will find that ignorance of the law is not a defence (i.e. that's why you have an external VAT Accountant if you don't have a qualified Finance Director/Controller in-house).
Industry whispers: Qualcomm mulls Arm server processor exit
NASA demos little nuclear power plant to help find little green men
Europe fires back at ICANN's delusional plan to overhaul Whois for GDPR by next, er, year
Brit bank TSB TITSUP* after long-planned transfer of customer records from Lloyds
Monday 23rd April 2018 14:18 GMT
Re: We're not in Kansas anymore, Tony.
Re your point on Banking IT, If you are in the UK then I would recommend the Horizon from 1977/78 on iPlayer.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01z4rrj/horizon-19771978-now-the-chips-are-down
I watched it the other night and it is fascinating looking at it 40 years later (having been around 10 when the program went out).
Steve
Yahoo! dismemberment! begins! as! Oath! offloads! Flickr!
LESTER gets ready to trundle: The Register's beer-bot has a name
Signal app guru Moxie: Facebook is like Exxon. Everyone needs it, everyone despises it
Wednesday 18th April 2018 07:50 GMT
Re: everyone dispises?
I completely agree with your sentiment on shadow profiles, but I don't think that your suggestion is workable. I speak as a non-Facebook user also.
How are you (as a non-Facebook user) going to know if anything is shared on Facebook about you?
It is unrealistic to expect that any Facebook user will have a means to filter their non-Faceboook contact when uploading them and also that they will use a codeword (e.g. notJohnFen) when mentioning you in their posts.
I think that the only way to do this is at a back-end level by Facebook where they match mobile numbers/emails with user profiles and anything not corresponding to a user is blocked from collection (not perfect as people change mobiles/emails etc.), and purged. I suspect that this won't happen without court sanction....
Pentagon sticks to its guns: Yep, we're going with a single cloud services provider
Don’t fight automation software for control, just turn it off. FAST
The law of run Nintendo consequences: Sega brings out mini Mega Drive / Genesis
Fear the Reaper: Man hospitalised after eating red hot chilli pepper
Buggy Verge crypto-cash gets hacked, devs go fork themselves, hard
AI can't help without your data, says Gartner, so share, share, share!
Friday 6th April 2018 07:45 GMT
Re: And how is Uber going to know you need a lift?
Renewing anything is fraught with difficulty.
Unless all insurance providers offer precisely the same cover and ask precisely the same questions then you cannot perform a valid renewal. If the AI has done it then who is responsible for errors/omissions which invalidate the insurance (similarly to the autonomous car situation).
If you have to double-check it then what was the point in the first place...
If a "Smart" AI fridge notices that I am out of Product A how does it know that I really want to order more of it? Maybe I now like Product B, or it is on special offer this week etc.
The list goes on.
Second-guessing human behaviour means that a lot of the time people will need to take a second go at correcting the AI for what they really wanted.
Wanna work for El Reg? Developers needed for headline-writing AI bots
Fatal driverless crash: Radar-maker says Uber disabled safety systems
Skip-wrecked! Boat full o' rubbish scuppered in Brit residential street
Fleeing Facebook app users realise what they agreed to in apps years ago – total slurpage
Uber's disturbing fatal self-driving car crash, a new common sense challenge for AI, and Facebook's evil algorithms
Saturday 24th March 2018 09:00 GMT
Self-driving Uber
..when he realised how important self-driving cars were to the business.
QED. So there you have it - Uber is indeed a taxi company and NOT a ride-sharing website.
I am also struggling to understand the economics here - all this LIDAR (particularly the sort required here) and real-time processing power is not cheap and then integrating that with a vehicle cannot be either.
This cannot drive Uber profits in the short-term at least simply because of the time required to scale up and also the cost of doing so - especially if a safety driver is required (equivalent to a man with a red flag in car history).
The real-time processing and sensor technology impressive as a demonstration BUT the 80/20 rule is in play here. It work up to a point BUT the remaining 20% will take a significant amount of time to solve - and probably won't be solved entirely.
"By the end of the year" is a pipe dream - what sort of pipe is left as an exercise for the reader...
UK's data watchdog seizes suspected Scottish nuisance caller's kit
2 + 2 = 4, er, 4.1, no, 4.3... Nvidia's Titan V GPUs spit out 'wrong answers' in scientific simulations
Elon Musk invents bus stop, waits for applause, internet LOLs
Hansa down, this is cool: How Dutch cops snatched the wheel of dark web charabanc
Friday 9th March 2018 16:57 GMT
Re: Caught Red Hansad.
You called? I pray I am not too early:
Apparently Musical Youth escaped this sting - they just passed the Dutchies on the left-hand side
"What's the difference between a tube and a daft Dutch person?"
"One's a hollow cylinder and the other's a silly Hollander. "
Thank you! Is that your chicken, Madam?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
