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The sixth century called and they want Yemen back (click....bzzzz...)
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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.
My new TV tells me it's a 'Smart TV'.
I have not connected it to the internet and never will.
It does what I want to quite nicely using the 1950s technology (antenna) in the attic.
That's my idea of 'Smart'.
I quite agree with the author's concerns about data and the term formerly known as privacy.
It's a shame more people don't care - perhaps then something would be done about it.
I just read somewhere that people are leaving FB in significant numbers.
There may just be home for humanity after all.
Here's one to a world without "social" media. (beverage of your choice, of course.)
So, all the matter we see (and still don't see, but think we can detect) magically comes into existence, organizes itself into (nearly) intelligent, sentient life on a planet that just happens to be rich in water and other ingredients required to support life
and surrounds itself with unique invisible barriers that shield its occupants from nasty radiation
and pops into a remarkably stable orbit around another magically self-generated source of energy which emits sufficient but not excessive energy to sustain said life. And the whole affair runs like clockwork.
Like those absurdly simplified odds?
Someone mentioned Occam's razor.
Accept that an intelligent being beyond our puny understanding created what we see and are and everything false neatly into place (excepting Facebook).
"Smithers, are we still pouring dollars into that chip plant on Taiwan?"
"Why, yes, Mr. Burns, per your instruct..."
"Good God, man, don't you know that plant and the rest of the island will under Chinese control before you can say 'bite me'?
We might as well just sign a check to chairman She!"
"Uh, I think you mean chairman Xi, sir."
"I don't care what her name is, just find us another place to make our chips, pronto!"
Just grabbing the Mackintosh on the way out the door...
"Solar power collected in space has the advantage of being unaffected by weather or that pesky thing called "night"."
This is not my area of expertise, but it seems to me that for this to work, the gizmo in the sky must be geosynchronous above the receiver gizmo.
If that is the case, won't both objects be in the dark at night?
Mine's the one with telescope that doesn't see as many stars at night as it used to in the pocket.