* Posts by SundogUK

1368 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Nov 2012

Tesla Autopilot accounts for 70% of driver assist crashes, says US traffic safety body

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Re: Mathematically Challenged

"...because companies required to log it are only reporting accidents, not the total number of vehicles produced or on the road, nor the mileage driven by each vehicle. In addition, the research said that some crashes can be reported multiple times due to submission requirements, and that data may be incomplete or unverified."

This basically means the study is completely useless. So of course el reg turns it into a hit job against Tesla.

Japan makes online insults a crime that can earn a year in jail

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Snowflakes. The world is full of fucking snowflakes.

Twitter shareholders to vote on Elon Musk's acquisition

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Re: Emperor has no clothes moment ?

Can you sell adverts to that account? No? It's a bot.

Majority of Axon's AI ethics board resigns over CEO's taser drones

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Re: This isn't a solution...

"...automatic assault rifle..."

Cretin.

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Re: Get better arguments.

I don't necessarily agree with all of that but it's still about the most sensible comment I have read on this issue, ever.

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Re: Fully against the idea, but

"How many times have we seen the same staff casually hosing down students with pepper spray..."

Never.

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Re: How many employees will it take?

No one knows how this would work in practice because they haven't done the analysis yet. I would guess it would involve two or three drones per school, controlled from a security post, so that in the event of an active shooter incident the drone could be sent in to zap them. It would never be hundreds of millions of drones.

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Re: Follow the money

This surprises you?

Amazon investors nuke proposed ethics overhaul and say yes to $212m CEO pay

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Re: And next week

Because in a free society if people don't like working somewhere, they can leave.

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Re: Too easy to vote the default

"click here to use your vote more morally" and I'm guessing you will determine what is moral?

Florida's content-moderation law kept on ice, likely unconstitutional, court says

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Multiple studies by left-wing researchers addressing this issue say right-wing folk aren't being censored.

FIFY

FTC urged to protect data privacy of women visiting abortion clinics

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Re: People?

Why would 'women' be incorrect?

Amazon puts 'creepy' AI cameras in UK delivery vans

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Re: it's law in the UK! But it's under review by the UK Gummin't!

I simply assume the journalists are lying about stuff like this. They abandoned honest objectivity years ago and they're all Labour voters now.

Supreme Court urged to halt 'unconstitutional' Texas content-no-moderation law

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Re: I love the freedom mob in the US.

False analogies. If the Texas law remains you will always be able to complain about what people say, you simply won't be able to stop them saying it.

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Re: Tucker: Black lives don't matter

I don't think a single thing you have just said is true.

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Re: Gaping hole

By definition judicial execution is not murder.

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Re: Gaping hole

Compared to what? California and common sense?

Tech pros warn EU 'data adequacy' at risk if Brexit Britain goes its own way

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Re: Hmm

I was definitely talking about leaving the single market. That was the point. I most earnestly wished for a WTO deal.

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Re: Inadequate approach to data adequacy

"..in the latest election parties wanting a united Ireland won more votes than UK Unionist parties."

This is not true. Sinn Féin are the only party wanting a united Ireland. You are dishonestly adding the Alliance Party to this total when their manifesto is deliberately neutral on a united Ireland and in fact, individual Alliance voters lean more Unionist.

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Re: Inadequate approach to data adequacy

A hard border between NI and the Republic does not break the Good Friday agreement, so bring it on.

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Re: Inadequate approach to data adequacy

"Why should the EU agree to creating a huge back door?" Because the alternative is going to be a hard border between NI and the Republic. The sooner the better as far as I'm concerned.

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Re: How all the invested parties never, ever see value in there being less regulation...

The main purpose of regulation is to protect incumbents and keep out new players.

Open-source leaders' reputations as jerks is undeserved

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Re: Offensive and poorly thought through

I don't think this is true. There is a level of abstraction in something like math (beyond 2+2=4) which a fairly large proportion of the population is simply not capable of. A lot of the problems we see in our schools are because we insist on forcing these kids to try to learn something they will never be able to manage.

Appeals court unleashes Texas's anti-Big-Tech content-no-moderation law

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Re: "Two judges of a three judge panel – all Republican appointees"

At least it's honest. The UK judiciary leans significantly left but they still claim 'impartiality.'

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Re: Only a sith deals in absolutes

That is exactly what they had in mind. 'Shall not be infringed." It's pretty bloody simple, isn't it.

Palantir summons specter of nuclear conflict as share price collapses

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"Donald Trump, who was impeached twice and continues to be unable to stop his inane thoughts from spilling out of his alleged brain."

You can't get him out of your head, can you?

Google Docs crashed when fed 'And. And. And. And. And.'

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Re: rhino in which case the "bad tempered" is redundant.

I grew up in Africa and where we were, hippo's were the number one killer. (After the mosquito, obviously.)

Facebook deliberately took down Australian government pages during pay-for-news negotiations: report

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Re: "Facebook making sure its actions were so impactful"

In other words: no law was broken but i'd like to put them in jail anyway because... reasons. Sounds pretty like the Chinese to me.

Microsoft, Apple, Google accelerate push to eliminate passwords

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Re: It's def about money. Just not yours.

Your pathetic immaturity sings out load, millennial.

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Re: And then your fingerprint scans get stolen.

Yup. Nobody is ever getting me to log in with a bio-metric identifier. Sooner or later someone's going to crack quantum computing and all those hashed bio-metrics are going to be 'plain text.'

Twitter buyout: Larry Ellison bursts into Elon's office, slaps $1b down on the desk

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Re: "be less strict in content moderation"

As long as the "moderation" aligns with your ideological world-view.

Datacenters in Ireland draw more power than all rural homes put together

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Re: Tax Haven

Good. The world needs more tax havens.

Elon Musk wants to take Twitter public again 'within 3 years'

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Re: Libtards meltdown

Straw man. No one is suggesting Twitter should not moderate for illegal content. Musk is contending that Twitter moderates a lot more than that and in ways that deliberately suppress opinions that don't kowtow to the progressive/liberal viewpoint in the US. And he's right.

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Re: WTF

I take it that, since you're so smart. you're richer than Elon Musk? Oh, no...

Mozilla browser Firefox hits the big 100

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Pale Moon is better...

Elon Musk set to buy Twitter in $44b deal, promises stuff

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Re: Stupid decisions that have led to him being the richest man in the world?

Where did I say that everything he's done is amazing?

Where did I say that I worship him?

I pointed out that he is the richest man in the world (which is a simple truth) and that I'd like some of whatever he's got that made him so.

And you think he's a 'walking shit stain'? Projection, maybe?

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Re: Popcorn time

Stupid decisions that have led to him being the richest man in the world? I could do with some of that stupid.

Elon Musk says he can get $46.5bn to buy Twitter

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Re: Ah, the beauty of having all the money in the world

"Herd mentality" - lots of people doing stuff I disagree with.

"Convince enough people that your election was stolen and they'll be invited in to your seat of government." - FIFY.

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Re: The remaining $25.5 billion will be financed by Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Barclays...

"...they're betting the money on such a loose cannon as Musk?"

Who just happens to be the richest man in the world right now?

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Re: Ah, the beauty of having all the money in the world

"The shares are massively over-valued." - In your opinion. Since the value of the shares is exactly what people are prepared to pay for them, your opinion is irrelevant.

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Yeah, that's a category error. A share price is simply the price people are prepared to pay at this point in time. If more people want those shares, demand increases but supply remains fixed, so the price will go up. "Justified" has nothing to do with it. This is economics 101.

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Re: Next Monster Raving Loony candidate for President

Well, that's a rather pathetic straw man.

There are nearly half a billion active users of Start news feed, says Microsoft

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Re: Fixed it for you

"...on other user machines." You and me both.

USA's plan to decouple its tech with China lacks a strategy – report

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So the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace doesn't actually want the US to decouple from China then? Guess they've taken the payoff.

US Army may be about to 'waste' up to $22b on Microsoft HoloLens

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Re: Can this equipment be used in diplomatic negotiations to avoid war in the first place?

Di you honestly think we are NOT trying to talk things out? Sometimes the opposition doesn't care and you have no choice but to start shooting.

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Re: It's not wasted

"...relieve the Ukrainian people from their suffering." Well, yes. You are no longer suffering if you're dead in a nuclear holocaust.

British motorists will be allowed to watch TV in self-driving vehicles

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Breakdown by road type: it's all motorways which are vastly more safe than urban driving.

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Hubris is SOP for every government.

Netflix to crack down on account sharing, offer ad-laden cheaper options

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Re: I haven't had a downvote in a while

Damn, you got me beat. 23 years and counting. The only streaming I have access to is Amazon and that's only because I am on Prime for the free delivery (Ironically, mostly for mountains of CD's and DVD's.)

Brave, DuckDuckGo to unplug Google's AMP where possible

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Re: Heres a suggestion

https://noscript.net/