Posts by teebie

HPE to pursue $4B claim against estate of Mike Lynch over Autonomy acquisition

Re: What the Feds wanted

I imagine he took more of an interest in US Federal criminal prosecution than a person picked at random

Gartner mages: Payback from office AI expected in around two years

"Mainstream adoption of AI in the office and among employees remains around two years off, according to analysis from consultancy Gartner."

The missed the "and will remain, in perpetuity" after "remains"

Trump campaign cites Iran election phish claim as evidence leaked docs were stolen

Re: The research dossier was a 271-page document

A lot of the pages came from the DFS catalogue.

Keir Starmer says facial recognition tech is the answer to far-right riots

If you challenge someone from behind then you can't justify shooting them for turning round.

Google paying to be default search on phones is totally against antitrust law, judge rules

"That’s a slap in the face to consumers who chose Google because they think it’s the best."

Have a guess what verb in that sentence doesn't belong in a comment about what the *default* search engine is.

Here we go again with more AI crime prediction for policing

"predicts the solution to a judicial case in less than 20 seconds with a 96 percent success rate"

So there is reasonable doubt about every decision.

Inquiry hears UK government misled MPs over Post Office IT scandal

Re: "UK government misled MPs"

"so that goverment cannot interfear with day to day management."

Various post office ministers were told that they could not interfere with operational matters because of the Postal Services Act. There doesn't seem to be any evidence that the act stipulates this.

How deliciously binary: AI has yet to pay off – or is transforming business

"We're actually recommending to CFOs not to bother calculating the ROI, because you're not really going to be able to demonstrate that on your financials."

Forgive me for being sceptical of the person saying "It will be better, but just not in any measurable way. Buy our shit."

Life, interrupted: How CrowdStrike's patch failure is messing up the world

Re: Major crisis averted - just

The phrase to use in that situation is "move it along, future boy"

I don't understand why you would consolidate the two things that can get you home (money for transport, or a phone for cries for help) into one easily stealable item.

London council accuses watchdog of 'exaggerating' danger of 2020 raid on residents' data

Re: Don’t fire, don’t fine

"That would just mean that the responsible people start looking for jobs elsewhere to get a pay rise....."

'Tell me, Mr Exceo, why did you leave your last job'

'I was shit at it'

The graying open source community needs fresh blood

Re: Realization

"OS doesn't really make the world a better place"

Having viable operating systems and browsers that aren't controlled by Microsoft, Apple and Google does make the world a better place.

Privacy expert put away for 9 years after 'grotesque' cyberstalking campaign

"Garg then targeted [...]- the attorney [...] a Seattle police detective[...] the deputy prosecuting attorney"

I know this isn't the point, but this guy wasn't good at selecting his targets.

64% of people not happy about idea of AI-generated customer service

Last year Zen were the biggest of the non-shit providers, maybe you can reach 1% if you add them all together. So the share of the broadband market is a tiny niche of a huge market.

The size of the niche will be different in other lines of business.

https://www.uswitch.com/broadband/studies/broadband-statistics/

EFF wants FTC to treat lying chatbots as 'unfair and deceptive' in eyes of the law

"Is he trying to differentiate between info that is wrong as an honest mistake, and deliberate misinformation. And then claiming that if the wrong statement is made by a chatbot, it is *deliberately* misinformation, a priori?"

Is a wrong statement is given by a chatbot it is *recklessly* wrong. Whoever decided to use the chatbot either knew it would spew out a load of crap, or should have done.

You can't call information coming from a chatbot deliberately wrong, dishonest or an honest mistake - it does not have a mind that can be deliberate, dishonest or honest.

The idea that I am trying to get at is that companies shouldn't be able to avoid responsibility for their mistakes by getting a bot to make them for it, then claiming the bot didn't have mens rea, so there can't be legal consequences for its actions.

For the record: You just ordered me to cause a very expensive outage

Re: "Norman" who is an electrical engineer by trade and during one phase of his career

Ohm my god it's a pun run

Google begs court for relief from Epic Games' Play Store demands

"the Play Store as it exists today is designed to distribute apps, not app stores."

Can this be dismissed as, prima facie, bollocks

After 13 years, Atlassian delivers custom domain names for Jira

"Doing so, he wrote, will mean users "can create links with a shorter, fully customized base URL that redirects your users to the full URL.""

Surely that was already possible?

Study finds a quarter of bosses hoped RTO would make employees quit

Re: Newspeak

"Giving a good performance"

You know, like an actor does.

Not a doer, an actor.

Screwdrivers: is there anything they can't do badly? Maybe not

Re: Not screwdrivers but...

I thought you were going to say that the washer had pinged to just outside the shop in Santa Rosa

Re: Not screwdrivers but...Today I learned

This solves a birthday present problem I was having

John Deere now considers VMs to be legacy tech, Ethernet and Wi-Fi on the brink

So they'll think it's a good idea to pay for something, but not really own it, and if it goes wrong they won't have any way to fix it, and will be entirely at the whims of their supplier.

They really don't listen to their customers.

Tesla self-driving claims parked in court

Re: Self-driving cars remain ...

I was going to say something like that. But much more politely.

Japanese scientists propose drug to regrow teeth, promise trials won't bite

Re: This could be big

"When did you last floss, AC"

"You...you were there"

You OK, Apple? Seriously, your silicon lineup is … a mess

"However, CEO Tim Cook now has investors breathing down his neck wondering how he missed the boat on this whole AI thing."

He missed out on bored ape NFTs too

Stack Overflow simply bans folks who don't want their advice used to train AI

Re: Overpaid

Plausible: yes

Correct: no

European Parliament votes to screw repair rights in consumer toolkits

"European Parliament votes that consumers can screw themselves with impunity"

Future Roku TVs may inject tailored ads into anything and everything when you pause

Re: On the plus side

Other times this wouldn't help:

to have time to read the clue that is flashed up at the screen

to get a good look at all of the pictures in the picture round in a quiz show

when somebody on tv pauses whatever screen they are looking at

When player 11 stands still

Despite two previous court victories, Tesla settles third Autopilot liability case

" arguing that any of his past statements about Autopilot could have been deepfaked videos, and thus couldn't be trusted or treated as evidence of liability.

Why the automaker ultimately chose to settle this matter isn't clear"

Because their lawyers are maniacs grasping at very silly straws?

Network Rail steps back from geofencing over safety fears

"ALO (All Lines Open) warning devices."

"ALO (Any line Open)."

Why does ALO have 2 different meanings.

Is it me, or is the first half of the article hard to follow?

Judge slaps down law firm using ChatGPT to justify six-figure trial fee

I'm afraid that simpletons will believe that the results that come out of LLMs are accurate, and that it will negatively affect my life and the lives of others.

I'm afraid that simpletons will believe claims about how other AI products work, and that it will negatively affect my lives of others.

I'm afraid that simpletons will believe claims about how other AI products work, and that money and time will be channeled toward the snake oil peddlers, instead of being used for something useful.

FBI: Give us warrantless Section 702 snooping powers – or China wins

"Wray cited an example he's used previously about how, last year, Section 702 of America's Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allowed the FBI to observe Chinese government snoops trying to break into an unnamed US transportation hub and take action."

Did he cite a reason that they couldn't have asked for a warrant to observe the spooks?

Alaska Airlines' door-dropping flight was missing bolts

"optional emergency door"

Well, that's alarming

"the plane performed as intended."

Perhaps not entirely

Return to Office mandates boost company profits? Nope

Re: No WFH - WTF

"Sir Alan Sugar was complaining recently about the move to working from home "

He was doing this on the new recently. He conducted the interview from home, rather than go into the office and be interviewed

CISA boss swatted: 'While my own experience was certainly harrowing, it was unfortunately not unique'

Re: Cop doesn’t even make the top 10 list of most dangerous occupations.

Lumberjacks are very axe-happy. Almost any job a lumberjack gets called to results in an axing.

Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse

"This particular study [...] doesn’t reflect the overall quality and helpfulness of Search for the billions of queries we see every day,"

Yes it bloody does. Go back to giving results that people want to see, not the results that you want them to see.

Boss fight between Donkey Kong champ and leaderboard org ends with settlement

Re: thereby increase the value of the company

The world record for the egg and spoon race for the year before they removed the egg and spoon race from the world championships, surely.

Former Post Office boss returns CBE to sender over computer system scandal

Re: Postage?

...she pays for the postage.

The post office clerk says she hasn't paid.

She pays for the postage again.

The post office clerk says she hasn't paid.

She pays for the postage again.

The post office clerk says she hasn't paid.

She is jailed.

England's village green hydrogen dream in tatters

Re: Yes, FUD is the loudest noise

"let the software do its stuff and forget about it"

You are aware that that sentence is terrifying? Or is the software not written by whatever company gave the cheapest quote.

You don't get what you don't pay for, but nobody is paid enough to be abused

Re: Jedes Schrift'l ist ein Gift'l

In Bootle they say "Every doxing is a toxin"

Disclaimer: this is a lie

Is it 2000 or 2023? Get ready for AI-anchored news. Again

"Channel 1 promised all AI-generated imagery will be labeled as such."

'adding "we are aware that the videos will be copied, the labels will be removed, and they will be reposted with claims they are real footage. But that's not our problem" '

"The LA-based virtual station claims all news it presents will be fact-checked by humans to ensure accuracy before being placed in the virtual mouths of its artificial newsreaders. "

Qualified humans? Or randos with no subject knowledge

Suffering from tab overload? Vivaldi unveils Session Panels

Vivaldi is the browser, a vivaldo is someone who uses vivaldi. As in <shouts from a cheap car with expensive alloys> "Oi, vivaldo, how are you enjoying your 4 layers of tab nesting. Ahhhhhh"

Or it's a typo, I'm not sure which

Tesla says California's Autopilot action violates its free speech rights

If you throw enough shit at a wall...

then hopefully someone will consider disbarring you for having shitty hands.

Google mulled offering paid-for no-logging private Search subscription

"Ultimately, we felt like the complexity of having to specify an arbitrary time frame made the experience actually hard to use by default"

Saying 'delete everything after 6 months' is difficult? That doesn't sound correct.

YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues

Re: Cognitive dissonance

Hmm, that is a true dichotomoy

Hang on, is 'true' the right word?

Ex-GCHQ software dev jailed for stabbing NSA staffer

Re: Stabby stab

These gun crimes ... how many of them are possessing a gun? Because the numbers of crimes for possessing something tend to go up when you make it illegal.

The aim isn't to reduce the number in a report marked 'gun crime' it's to reduce the number of shootings.

Re: Stabby stab

The only way to stop a bad guy with a knife, if a good guy with a narwhal tusk

Batterygate bound for Blighty as UK court approves billion-dollar Apple compensation case

Re: make it hurt

I came here to ask why this is being dealt with as anti-trust. I no longer feel the need to ask.

Just one in ten UK orgs have significant AI investment plan

Alternative headline

Snake-oil peddlers are barely fooling anyone.

After nine servers he worked on failed, techie imagined next career as beach vendor

Re: Sorry, is it just me ?

"he attempted a repair of that machine.

It did not."

'It did not' meaning 'the machine did not repair'

But it does seem wrong. Maybe because the subject changes between sentences ("he attempted to see if the machine bounced. It did not" would be fine), or maybe it's because of some other susiedentery that we all know, but can't express.

Windows 11: The number you have dialed has been disconnected

"Ten INESSENTIAL new features you ARE ALLOWED to know"