Posts by Pascal Monett 19002 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
I seriously doubt that because apparently parents everywhere are quite happy foisting screens into the hands of their sprogs in order to keep them quiet.
Limiting children's screen time would apparently mean taking up parents' time occupying said children and we can't have that, now can we ?
Of course, there would be the option of raising children to be capable of occupying themselves, but that's silly talk these days.
Well, not to be gratuitiously contradictory, but in general I do expect that, if an effort is made to use ungodly amounts of electricity and cooling in order to produce something, that something had better be worth it.
Of course, I'm willing to give it the time to train and get up to speed, but if, after all is said and done, the end product is barely good enough for elevator music, then shut the damn thing down now and stop wasting precious ressources and time for nothing.
If I want to hear bad music, I can already turn on the radio. Nobody needs a pseudo-AI to add to that mess.
Maybe because Musk is promising auto pilot and not delivering ?
And several people have died because of that ?
Maybe because doors falling off cars is not exactly a death sentence ?
I'm sorry your God is taking a beating here, but he asked for it.
We need a "Poor Widdle Snowflake" icon.
"some police forces do see this national system as a viable alternative to procuring their own retrospective facial recognition systems"
Well of course they do. The fact that facial recog has been demonstrated as not efficient enough for actual security does not bother them. What they want is a system that can tell them when to hurl themselves onto someone, cuff him and drag him away for questioning. The fact that there is a non-negligeable chance that said questioning could reveal that the system was wrong and they are guilty of abusing their powers is not a problem - it's all a days' work.
Oh, and it's also interesting to note that none of them are for a minute thinking that not having a facial recog system is an option. No. They're all going to have one, so yes, it figures that a national system is much better.
The Police State is something we are all just easing into without a second thought.
How wonderful ?
I'm happy for them.
The difference is, when I hope for something, it only concerns me.
When a government hopes for something, it has the means to make it happen.
If UK Gov restricts itself to "hoping", then it hasn't done its job.
Lay down the rules if you want it to happen. You're Government, you're supposed to decide. That's what you're elected for.
If you can't do that, then resign.
Interesting point.
One would think, what with all the billions that viruses have been claimed to cost up to this point, that pricing security would be a done deal, those actuaries would have a full-time job and the cost of failure would be a regular part of marketing blurbs to close the sale.
It would appear, then, that all the hype around how muck the latest breach has cost the industry is not reliable enough for even marketing to pick it up and act on it.
Telling, isn't it ?
Of course they don't understand the nature of what is currently called AI. They don't understand Exchange either, but everyone has it so it must be had. Cloud ? Ditto.
The difference is that, with Cloud, they're starting to recognize the cold, hard reality of the bills and that it's hardly the promised land Marketing swore it was.
AI will be the same thing, except here there will be financial disasters that will occur and the bills will be as, if not more, important as Cloud.
At that point, after having costs a small fortune, AI will exit stage left and sanity will return.
It's just the beancounters that will be crying tears of blood in the meantime.
Significantly ? Really ?
How ?
How is the ability to query an unvetted stream of text going to increase any employee's productivity ?
Or will employees stop doing actual work and all transform into ChatGPT experts ?
I don't see generative AI improving beancounting, they still have to enter the figures into the right slots. It might improve quarterly reports, but it's the managers that do those, not the employees.
I don't see generative AI improving HR filing and reporting. Those sick days are not subject to dissertation, and job applicants' CVs are not read by AI.
And let's not even get started on building and farming.
No, the one sector where ChatGPT might improve employee performance is the sad remains of what was called journalism. I'm sure tweet-based "journalists" will find great advantage in basing their blurbs on AI, and maybe their readers will too.
Apart from that, I'd really like to know what Borkzilla is promising with Clippy 2.0.
Yes, but that is only because you are not paying for the environmental cost of the trash you generate.
As a society, we are going to have to stop with this habit of plundering the Earth and not caring about the consequences. It costs less to go mine metals and minerals rather than recover the ones we've already mined ? Simple solution : once we've tallied the costs of dealing with global warming, air purification and noxious metals seeping from landfills into the water table, then just split those costs among those who produce the stuff that is not recycled and we'll see how cheaper it is to go mine.
Now get off my lawn.
My work laptop is Windows officially-the-last. I prefer my OS in English, so I set the default language to English.
Of course, I work in Luxembourg and live in France, so I set my location to France.
When I call up the Borkzilla Store, it is systematically in French. When I install a program, often the setup process is in French.
Guys, it's the location that is France, not the language.
Get your shit in order.
Anything that risks reducing revenue and imposing restrictions on Big Money is anathema in The Land of the Free (to be fleeced), so the US of A still doesn't have a proper privacy bill.
Because of that, side efforts like this have to be put in place, or at least attempted. Funnily enough, when talking privacy, these politicians use much of the same arguments that are found in the GDPR. You know, that thing that US politicians poo-poohed back when it came out.
But that's the thing. Privacy is pravacy, no matter where you are on the political spectrum.
Welcome additions to this effort are the non-competetive clauses, despite what the so-called Chamber of Progress (yeah, progress seems to be best when it stays still) declares.
Oh well, the USA will continue to bump against the walls on this until sanity prevails.
Because sanity will prevail, one day.
Keeping spending to a tight leash is definitely something that should be achieved in government, no question on that, but might it have been an idea to go one department at a time and consolidate afterwards ?
Going for entire swaths of departments at a time seems overly bold to me, especially when these projects are handled by decision-makers who have no experience in these kinds of decisions.
But no matter, costs will overrun and delivery will be delayed, as with practically every other government project. What is important is not to achieve, but to be active.
Like that hospital in Yes Minister which had no patients, but 500 administrative personnel.
Technically, that has been achieved just a few weeks ago, and it made a lot of noise in scientific circles.
We're not talking about commercial production yet, though.
As for superconductivity, I certainly do hope that that will arrive. Just think, with that single innovation all power generators will instantly become up to 20% more efficient !
Well, at least they're slightly more honest about that.
It's true that it used to be Personal Computing, but with all the phoning home to the mothership that Borkzilla has crammed down everyone's throat, they at least have the honesty to not say just Personal Computing any more.
Not that I think they did so on purpose . . .
"a company can delay filing this report with the SEC if the US Attorney General determines that openly disclosing the intrusion immediately would pose a major risk to national security or public safety"
How is the Attorny General able to make a decision if the company is delaying its filing ?
Does it mean that a company should contact the Attorny General immediately and get a decision before deciding to delay the SEC filing ?
What makes hié think there isn't oversight ?
So this bullshit has now reached Congress. The army has alien corpses recovered from crashed UFOs, yet, in this age of smartphones, there isn't a single picture of proof floating around.
I wonder how many other governments are hiding UFO stuff, and why nobody else in the world is talking about it.
Oh, by the way, apart from their good word, I don't suppose they've actually produced anything in the way of proof ?
Good. As far as building stuff and ensuring protection and long-term habitability, the Moon is no harder than Mars and much closer in case of emergency.
Okay, we're talking a three-week delay for emergencies (maybe that can be improved on), but still, better three weeks than at least six months.
Government employes have nothing to do on Tik Tok or any other non-governmental service with their government-issued hardware and software.
Why is that such an issue ?
The only problem is that government agencies aren't capable of locking down their software properly.
Go work for a bank and see if you can access Tik Tok on your company profile.
Go ahead, I dare you.
We'll find out when there is a stupendous malware breach that takes control of the non-airgapped PCs and spreads to the so-called air-gapped ones still connected to the same network and the mayhem and forensic report that follows demonstrates that the whole thing was worse than useless because false sense of security.
Any day now, just waiting for it . . .
And that is the crux of this whole affair.
Of course keys can be compromised, that is not the question. But if the compromise is waltzing in through the door, scooping up the key without triggering any alarm and waltzing back out again without trouble, then there's somebody who should spend a few very uncomfortable hours in an interrogation cell.
Borkzilla has made a major blunder here. I expect full forensics on a very complete investigation, otherwise it seems clear to me that Borkzilla's reliability will be called into question.
Which is kind of like putting yet another red mark on a blood-soaked sheet.
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