(Yet) another regulation the UK will need to abide by
if it wants to sell into the EU. Despite having zero input into it.
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When LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook et al started out, I created some bogus accounts so I could get an understanding. Those accounts have gone on to lead a far more interesting life than me.
Given that I haven't used them for years, the endless parade of emails I get from "people who know me" etc etc does really underscore how the value of these platform is slowly, but inevitably, sinking to zero.
What to do when we want to look at our computing history in a live fashion? We can archive all the current software and run in a (complex) future sandbox.
it suddenly dawned on that this is probably what nature has been doing for billions of years ....
Where's my noble prize ?
About 11:00-12:00am Saturday I noticed my GM had "gone funny" and wasn't updating my position.
Worked fine today.
Oh,. and WTF did they remove the speed limits when driving feature ? The ONE feature that HERE has and Google didn't for years. Then they did, tricked me into switching and removed it.
And do you know how crap Android Auto is without Google Maps as the default navigation app ?
Unless I built it and run it any communication system is compromised.
Right. Now we've established that, how do we proceed ?
Obviously by adding a layer of encryption around whatever the network will be sending.
In olden days, spies would happily use postcards to exchange secrets. The fact that intelligence agencies on both sides never twigged (?) seems reason enough to bear it in mind.
Obviously non receipt of an expected postcard was in itself a message.
Given I was running a pretty solid version of Ubuntu (I can't remember if it was Dapper or Edgy) at the time I had Vista foisted on me at work, it should have been the easiest sell ever.
And still they blew it.
Even now with Win11 creating schisms, where is Mint ?
I have a few FB accounts I created back in the day that are still active. Hell they get more friend requests than I do.
I wonder if they are saleable ?
The only fake accounts I have that are more active are with LinkedIn. Apparently these people who have never existed have a shed load of colleagues and ex-colleagues.
One reason why I remain sceptical about a lot of SM ...
of the UK telling the EU what it's job is. Apparently the UK has decided that it's OK for the UK to (re)join the Lugano Convention although the EC don't quite see it that way.
Now the UK is telling the EU that the UKs data laws are OK with the EU. Surely that's for the EU to decide ?
And without exception it's "smart" speed recognition system manages to see the "5mph" signs that are in the roadworks lane next to the 30mph stretch I am driving.
Which pretty much does it for anything "artificial" about trying to imitate (not simulate) intelligence.
"Is a wookie a bear ?" should be the acid test for anything purporting to be self aware.
As far as English law is concerned, I don't think anyone has ever actually sued on the basis they have quantifiable loss anyway.
Certainly in every story about peoples data being lost, I have never read of anyone being able to claim damages.
Maybe I don't read the right sort of newspapers ?
About 18 months ago, I was suggesting that autonomous cars would herald the end of private car ownership as a complex mix of factors started to align.
The immediate rebuttal from most was how much they needed to drive to get to the office and that it was impossible for them to avoid that.
Then 2020 happened and proved (what I knew all along) that office working is mainly by convention, not necessity.
The current shit state of electric cars could be fixed at a stroke if they were able to slope off autonomously at night to recharge somewhere sensible, and be back by dawn.
The trick to pork barrel contracts is to bid low, get the gig, and then when you've completely queered the pitch for anyone else suddenly double, treble, quadruple your fee.
So, if you want to make (say) £10 billion from a contract, you bid £3 billion. Get the gig (and politicians will love you as you allow them to appear as if they are saving taxpayers money). Run it for a couple of years and then turn around and go "oh dear, unless you pay us another £7billion, this project will fail".
Rinse and repeat.
I invite commentards to reply with UK government contracts in this vein, starting with Universal Credit.
Was (because I haven't tried since) how once summoned, the Google assistant needed a fucking keypress to go away again.
No big deal unless you are using your phone as a sat nav, someone says "OK google" and you lose your screen until an illegal keypress.