Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26130 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
1: Twitter is under a 20year FCC order for being naughty. Musk fired the group responsible for monitoring compliance. The potential fines start at $bn
2: He loses defamation lawsuits from every major company in the world after people post parodies under a blue checkmark that means Musk literally verified them.
3:The site goes down permanently because he fired the sys admins on a site where whistleblowers have already said there are core servers that they couldn't rebuild if they went down
4:all of the above simultaneously
It would depend on the amount of code it emits
My phone's auto complete is based on a list of what words most commonly follow other words - that's from analysis of a large number of copyrighted works n English.
If I type "it* and the phone suggests "is" I haven't violated copyright of every author who ever wrote "it is". But if the phone writes " was a dark and stormy night "and I use that in a novel I'm on shakier ground.
It's going to involve 1000s of meetings where everyone is very polite and calls everyone '-san' but nothing is done because it has already been decided that it isn't going to happen, but everyone is waiting for the other side to drop out first to save face.
More than a dozen Japanese organisations are involved, so there are factorial(12) combinations of this.
All the organisations (including IBM) are basically in managed decline, so they are all just waiting this out for grants and to be seen to be doing something by their superiors
It was from a world's fair in the 1880s (ish) in Chicago.
They needed a founding hero in a city with a large Italian population.
The viking colonies in Newfoundland weren't known back then and the first landing in the actual USA was a British expedition by John Cabot (ironically also an Italian) which didn't sell as well to American patriots.
The obvious solution is a sun-synchronous polar orbit. This will sweep over the UK from the Seven to the Firth of Forth in a diagonal line each day.
During this few minutes it will beam a laser death-ray line of free and non-polluting energy along the ground track.
All we have to do is build a large solar receiver approximately along the line of the Danelaw and we can not only get a burst of energy once a day - but we can keep those southerners out.
VR is currently shit and expensive and useless for anything other than a few technical roles.
But if you imagined what mobile internet would be like in 1991, you might think of a 16char LCD display with stock tickers
Even when Apple launched the iPhone they didn't have apps because they were afraid it might drop calls - and a mobile phone that couldn't ensure 100% calls would be unthinkable.
Without those abuses he would have lost even more.
Heard about the social media company that doesn't track any of its uses, provides no data to advertisers and allows others to influence the politicians? No because they never made it.
He should have done more. In return for pushing a certain president to the top of everyones feed he could have got tiktok banned, cos Jinna, and be in way better shape.
If Apple hadn't spent all that money on iPod and then iPhone it would have made $bn more profit in the years before iPhone launched.
Without metaverse Facebook is just the next AOL, it's where granny and a few conspiracy nuts hang out. Of course if everyone just goes with tiktok videos they are screwed anyway
>I know it's not efficient.
There's not a lot of difference in efficiency between heating a big wire wound resistor and heating a bunch of semiconductor junctions.
Although a system manager who was properly qualified, having a CS degree rather than my physics PhD, informed me that we didn't need cooling for a rack full of servers because "there might be half-a-dozen 1200W PSUs, but they are gold standard 95% efficient so the whole rack only wastes a tiny bit of electricity as heat"
>Electric vehicles typically weigh considerably more than their ICE equivalents
Average USA car weight in 2020 according to the EPA = 4,156 a BMW i3 = 2,635 lb
According to Tesla:
4,766 lbs – Model S Plaid
4,561 lbs – Model S Long Range
4,416 lbs – Model Y Long Range/Performance
4,065 lbs – Model 3 Long Range/Performance
3,582 lbs – Model 3 Standard Range Plus
So this is a perfect reason to up the price.
$20 for a blue check mark, $100 for bronze, $1000 for silver and $10,000 for gold
Then if I see a post (which I don't because like all el'reg readers I'm not on twitter) from a famous person or a global brand and it doesn't have gold I know it's a con.
