
Elaborate?
"The Telemetry is skewed. They only get stats from basic users. Advanced users turn it off...."
Really?
How?
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Can someone with a legal background please explain why these companies are allowed to make no admission of guilt (they are paying the fines because they are fine specimens of humanity at its best - we all know that)?
I get the courts, well the attorneys anyway, want to get the case settled, but it seems to me the public's interest is coming in last.
PS: Wanna make a packet in the computer industry?
Go to law school.
This will be really nice.
Until there are more than a few of these buzzing around.
And bumping into things like power lines, buildings, drones, and each other.
Then again, the costs of buying, insuring, and maintaining them, not to mention liability coverage, will likely limit their numbers.
Mine's the one with the matching hard hat.
... at least some of the satellites put up were for the benefit of humanity; weather prediction and all that.
Who decided it was a good idea to allow zillionaires to do so as a means to make profits, manifestly without considering the downsides to everyone else?
Mine's the one with a bit of disgust in the pocket.
I'm not the first to make this observation, but it's worth repeating;
I don't run Windows because I want to run Windows, I run it because the programs I want to run aren't available for anything else.
So, no, the velvet-lined handcuffs aren't coming off anytime soon. They didn't look or feel like handcuffs when I first put them on...
A bit tired of the parade of Linux users announcing how long they've been it.
Sorry.
Congrats to you for avoiding/escaping the Windows trap and all, but that's not helpful to the lot of us that actually do stuff on these stupid things.
If you'd care to list what you actually run/do on Linux, it would be more interesting, possibly even useful.
Approaching retirement here and I would love to spend my golden years wrestling with another OS, but may well decide to just get on with it and do useful things instead while cursing Micrsoft under my breath.
(Mine's the one without so much MS in the pocket.)
Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.
Been driving VAG vehicles since 1985. After learning this, there won't be another.
Sadly, what one car builder does, another seems keen to do as well.
Does anyone honestly see any of this as improving things?
(other than profit margins)
Sent from my touchpad whilst driving and eating a sticky-bun.
Mine's the one without a VW key in the pocket. --->
Better than which humans, specifically?
The ones paying attention to traffic, weather, and road conditions? Not so much.
The ones checking their 'smart' phones, balancing their checkbooks (I witnessed this firsthand) or doing their makeup? Unquestionably.
Could the real problem be a societal one rather than a technical one?
what it is we're celebrating?
India: first country to put a machine at the south pole of the moon.
India: country with more smart phones that flushable toilets.
Have you been to India in the last five years? More than a few blocks from your hotel?
Mine's the one with the extra dose of reality in the pocket. ----->
Can someone with the technical chops to understand this stuff please elaborate on why it appears to be so difficult to definitively demonstrate whether anybody's kit is sending data to an unintended destination?
Or are they all in the employ of the [insert secret government agency name here]?
"But they are incapable of reasoning and cannot tell fact from fiction – making them unsuitable for specific tasks like providing financial advice."
should read:
"But they are incapable of reasoning and cannot tell fact from fiction – making them unsuitable for any meaningful task except political speech writing."
Mine's the one without so much AI in its pocketses...
...during the part where they explained how particles of matter, e.g. galaxies, etc. are increasing in velocity from the "Big Bang" instead of decreasing.
I'm no genius, but I do know when to say "I don't know".
Then again, I don't get paid to come up with ideas that make no sense at all.
Mine's the one with the number blocks in the pockets...
... and the idea of DaaS from anyone (especially Microsoft) is repugnant beyond description.
Sadly, I use my computers to do things (I do not own any games, consoles, etc.) that require certain pieces of software, almost none of which are currently available for anything other than Windows.
I hadn't even considered the printer issues others have encountered.
What are people like me to do?
Apart from asking software vendors if they wouldn't mind awfully to stop fixing bugs and adding features to create a version of their software for the handful of us Don Quixotes, pretty please?
Like those odds? Me neither.
Is this a bridge too far for Microsoft? Philosophically, yes. Practically, I fear not. And they know it.
I have seen the future, and it is sad.