Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Not a Genius move: Resurrecting war hero Alan Turing as your 'chief AI officer'

Re: Well, yeah.

To be fair that doesn't prove computers are intelligent so much as proving psychologists aren't

Simulation of a C suite with a copy of PowerPoint, a list of bullshit terms and a random number generator should be trivial

The Oxford English Dictionary (other dictionaries do exist) contains both entries for wuff and woof

But if you have a stupid (but lovable) dog that can't read

OpenAI slapped with GDPR complaint: How do you correct your work?

Re: She is best known for...

>What about [cis] men who lie about their gender identity to access these spaces?

Indeed, and sexual orientation has to be considered. I propose that to spare public morals, lesbians should be required to use the men's showers at the swimming pool.

For balance, gentleman of an 'Oscar Wildean' persuasion can use womens changing rooms at the gym. Where their finely toned abs, skin care and hair products won't cause distraction

>So what's the point of using it?

Where 'predict the next word based on last' is a good solution it works very well.

Write me a BSD socket server in Go, or write me an interface pattern framework in C++ and a Makefile is a lot quicker and easier than you looking it up ina textbook and typing it in accurately

Re: OpenAI claims to be true

>The front of Harry Potter says "This is a work of fiction, any resemblance to any person living or dead is coincidental"

How stupid are people? Although somebody on movies was asking if Dune was based on a true story!

LLMs write fiction, complaining that they get a fact wrong is like complaining that KJ Rowling didn't tell you the right departure time for the Hogwarts expresst

AI boom is great news for the nuclear power dreamers

Germany has the best solution for zero green energy.

Mine lignite, export it to Poland (thus creating negative carbon), burn coal and import power.

Unions happy, greens happy and plenty of reliable (if not quite cheap) power

NASA's Psyche hits 25 Mbps from 140 million miles away – enough for Ultra HD Netflix

Re: Weather conditions are for Earth

So decapitate would mean remove someones head and replace it with a different, but equally functional, head ?

Re: Weather conditions are for Earth

So that would be 're-orbit' technology?

Re: Where is the "corrections"link?

Or more usefully 1391152684 Brontosauruses (Brontosauri ?)

Re: Weather conditions are for Earth

If they can de-orbit geostationary satellites then they have technology which is valuable

UK lays down fresh legislation banning crummy default device passwords

Re: Oh no...

Lucky Goldstar (LG) has annual sales of $65Bn

But I assume you but your TVs from the English Electric Valve company

UK's Investigatory Powers Bill to become law despite tech world opposition

Re: Give me 10 lines by the hand of the most honest of men (Or his Internet usage)

>Welcome your new AI-powered Welcome your new AI-powered Cardinal Richlieu..

Anti-English, pro-French, pro-catholic, terrorist detected

Re: is crucial to keeping the public safe

Back in the 70s we had lots child abusers in the BBC and government and lots of terrorism - and nobody monitoring our home computers

So if we have lots of police monitoring our home computers we won't have any child abuse or terrorism

US Chamber of Commerce to sue FTC for banning noncompetes in most jobs

Re: what's a legitimate business decision and what's not

Then it makes no difference whether the employee or the company signs the contract.

The minion still can't switch jobs for more $$$.

Re: what's a legitimate business decision and what's not

There are some legitimate business reasons. If you are hiring a consultant or a contractor and paying $$$$ where $$ goes to the employee and $$ goes to the provider you might offer the employee $$$ to switch to contracting for you directly.

It would be impossible to operate a consultant business other than as a one man band

Re: Chains

Or we simply leave all employment law to the states. Then some states can solve the problem by offering lifetime employment that you aren't allowed to leave, with chains.

It will also be subject to the state's new $0 minimum wage

Australia’s spies and cops want ‘accountable encryption’ - aka access to backdoors

Re: Street Policing??

But only cos the police have been forced out onto the street by encryption

If they were allowed to sit in the office and go through your phone messages to find things you had done wrong, or stories to sell tot he tabloids, they wouldn't' be out on the street endangering innocent members of the public.

Re: Assumptions -- No -- Never heard of them!!

>..what about "Innocent Until Proven Guilty"..

sounds like the sort of thing a guilty person would say

Anyway, if you're using encryption you are a criminal, cos using encryption is a crime

Re: Don't call me Shirley

>Surely they know that this will only allow them to spy on normal folk, businesses and thick crims?

No it will only be used against terrorists, organised crime and (checks notes) child porn

It won't be used against fly-tippers, school catchment area shoppers, dog-shit not-picker-up or the families of murdered children where you didn't bother to investigate cos the victim was black

Re: Assumptions -- No -- Never heard of them!!

So you simply make all those illegal. Afterall if you aren't using Facebook you must be a criminal

Re: Now just a cotton-picking minute

From a government that says it doesn't have to respect the rules of maths.

Why does it just make a law declaring prime factors to be easily solved and then it can break any encryption it wants?

Senate passes law forcing ByteDance to sell off TikTok – or face a US ban

Re: OK, let's follow this through then..

>Not much effort would be required to weaponize some propaganda and push it right in front of those eyeballs.

So sell it to Fox News (*)

* not legally news, for entertainment purposes only. Do not vote or operate heavy machinery after consuming Fox News. It is dangerous to exceed the stated dose

Re: Nobody needs $app

>You've never heard of NPR have you...

I don't listen to radio - it's how they get rays into your brain

Re: Mr Pin, tear down that (fire)wall!

>A ban on Chinese owned IT services by western countries would at least be fair, even if it's more about the money than the data scraping...

But what if the Eu decided that a ban on US owned social media sites spreading lies about eg. a referendum, means that they should have to divest their holdings in the Eu?

Re: OK, let's follow this through then..

> there will be some large institutional investors very angry with the US govt.

Some people (very smart people, the best people) might say that the reason for the switch to pro-TikTok stance by the former glorious leader of the USA might be connected to one of his billionaire funders being a bigger holder of Bytedance

Re: Mr Pin, tear down that (fire)wall!

for SOMEONE in ['caananites','jews',phoenicians','anglo-saxons','vikings','jews again','catholics','french','spanish','french again','jews (default option)','commies','arabs','cubans','iraq/iran (think these are the same?)','venuzuela','china','blacks','hey have you forgotten us ? (jews)']:

. $SOMEONE is bad because $SOMEONE != us, they do [list of bad stuff we have blaming strangers for since the bronze age]

. Anything bad happening to us is because of bad $SOMEONE who are evil and powerful and work in secret ways but are of course pitiful weaklings compared to us

>Speaking on behalf of Great Britain, we don't want America back.

Nothing wrong with America, parts of it are quite delightful. Some bits are downright majestic

The inmates current tenants however...

Re: Yet another win

Captain Darling : So you see, Blackadder, Field Marshall Haig is most anxious to eliminate all these German spies.

General Melchett : Filthy hun weasels, fighting their dirty underhand war!

Captain Darling : And fortunately, one of our spies...

General Melchett : Splendid fellows, brave heroes risking life and limb for Blighty!

Re: Law of unintended consequences

With AI everyone will have their own personalized social media platform with no other users. They will be in long heated arguments with a LLM which is also generating the ads for them to click on.

If we win this one can we force them to drive on the correct side of the road, use proper plugs and stop using the word biscuit wrongly?

Re: "..used ... to ... spread misinformation"

And yet people don't care that the national Enquirer is run by aliens.

Re: OK, let's follow this through then..

But China can't really do anything with my data.

The US government can read out a list of my Facebook posts if I'm court on a jury.

Or if I'm not blessed to be a US citizen, the immigration officials can look through a list of my Twitter likes to make sure I support his preferred Shitgibbon for president

Re: Nobody needs $app

>Surprised the CIA hasn't funded a competitor to it yet...

It could but it would have to be paid through an existing aerospace/defense supplier

It would cost $40-50bn for no reason

It would spout right wing propaganda

People would spot it immediately

Microsoft really does not want Windows 11 running on ancient PCs

Re: Alternative

>I suspect you'll find the majority of businesses dont need anything beyond Libreoffice..

I'm sure the only thing holding back my business is missing the new PowerPoint features which will be enabled by SSE4.2 instructions

White House tweaks HIPAA to shield medical files of those seeking reproductive care

Re: Is our info or not?

Even Cthulhu is a bit miffed

US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V

Re: Next week's news

Switzerland should also stop nuclear weapons by banning other countries from using E=mc2

iPhone sales dive 19.1% in China as Huawei comeback hits Apple in the high end

Re: Flat-out lie about lying flat

>if China was not so relevant to mankind's current challenges such as global warming. Thankfully India is coming to take over.

China - we burn mega tonnes of coal and don't give a @#$& about the environment

India - hold my Lassi

Good

We can't have these foreign phone makers spying on our youth, stealing their data and polluting their tiny minds

Tesla asks shareholders to reinstate Musk's voided $56B pay package

Re: An example of a cognitive misfire :o

As someone said: we hoped Musk would be the new Henry Ford, it turns out Musk IS the new Henry Ford

>No one needs that kind of money

He has several wives and a Twitter to support

Re: An example of a cognitive misfire :o

>People buy cars based on the price and reliability of the vehicle.

So all Porsche drivers have one for their daily commute around the Nurbergring?

Buyers of RangeRovers, G-Wagons, Cayennes and Lamborghini-WTF-are-we-building-an-suv all chose them as the most cost effective method of transporting a 5year old 2miles school in central London?

People buy new cars 99.9% for the image.

The set of people who want an EV and the set of people who love and admire Musk do not intersect.

The set of people who love and admire Musk, drive a truck and want an EV version that doesn't look like an F150 isn't huge either.

It's like VW deciding to cash in on the hippie popularity of the Beatle by producing a commemorative 1930s edition with Swastikas

Re: Fuck that!

The move to Texas might end up hurting them.

Delaware has a LOT of case law so your lawyers have a good guess at what the answer is going to be before going to court. Texas is going to be roulette.

Delaware is small enough that the value of having companies registered there is a major source of income, the Switzerland of the US corporate world, and so no other local industry is able to sway them. Telsa, do you think Texas Oil and Gas companies are going to have any local influence on decisions handed out to a EV company?

Then there's politics, if a certain interestingly hued individual doesn't like you then ....

I wonder if it ends up hurting perfectly good Texas companies. If companies move to Texas to take advantage of a MAGA-friendly administration, are all companies registered in Texas going to be assumed to be doing it for political favors? Is it going to be the equivalent of your leaking oil tanker being registered in Liberia ?

Re: Charitable lot

But the shareholders have to assume that the company will pay a dividend in the future or the company has no value.

Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to explain 'addictive and toxic' new app

Re: True, but...

A logical solution from the logical people

Re: Finally Euorpe united

Because when talking about global software companies it's simpler to just say "Europe" and ignore an unimportant little island off their coast.

Re: Is social media 'lite' as addictive and toxic as cigarettes 'light'?

It sounds a lot like the complaints people have about everything new.

"Modern" art was degenerate, going to destroy youth and lead to total collapse of society into debauchery and madness

Google laying off staff again and moving some roles to 'hubs,' freeing up cash for AI investments

Better than Googlers.

Makes sense not to pay SV salary for bean counters, especially if they are counting beans from outside the USA

Software glitch saw Aussie casino give away millions in cash

Re: Association with Criminal Groups

And they managed not to go bankrupt

Judge refuses to Ctrl-Z divorce order made by a misclick

Re: Does this mean the system is flawed and was designed to be abused by the state?

Under the new system you can go to the Post Office and their computer system will divorce you