Posts by Doctor Syntax 40432 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2014
It's probably not on the syllabus so the teachers don't know how to use it. It was very striking that after KCL had its big outage and lost goodness knows how much stuff they got all arsey about people saving stuff locally. I suppose it didn't look good if users were doing a better job about looking after their work then IT did.
And while the CEO may not be directly to blame that's where the organisation's culture starts. If the CEO fails to appoint managers who take sufficient interest in security then it's ultimately their fault. However the CEO needs the board's backing so directors must expect to stand alongside the CEO in the dock.
I looked at your "very relevant link".
It's basically argumentative, not authoritative, in that it's almost the sort of thing that a defence lawyer might argue before a judge. Almost, because it would normally be supported by citations from cases that provide precedent. It would also be subject to arguments in rebuttal by the other side. In the end it would only carry weight if a judge agreed with it - and that would include falling for the notion of equating a record player with an ML training set. And outside the US it would fail at the words "First amendment".
"because they do have, legally, access to the images"
What T&Cs apply to that access. You may be legally allowed to view the image nd nothing else. You may not be legally allowed to copy and paste into some other work. You may not be legally allowed to scrape it into a ML training set.
"I wonder how many artists could define their own style?"
Why should they be able to? The answer would be along the lines of Louis Armstong's definition of jazz. I doubt that even the most successful human forgers would actually define in much detail the style of those they imitate, they just paint like them.
I think you may have missed the point of a ban. If it's illegal, and the ban reasonably well enforced, there's no reward for the attacker and no point in attacking.
Remember the point of bank robbery? Banks are where the money is. If banks had no money they wouldn't get robbed.
"Musk's bonfire of the staff means the new owner only needs to add back the costs they need without being burdened with the old corporate excesses of the listed Twitter."
It would be burdened by the law suits for all the old unsettled bills - or has he been paying them off in the interim?
"I suspect a lot of them leave their pages up even though they no longer post anything because they don't want risk angering their MAGA customers by deleting the page and calling attention to themselves"
Or they're maintaining a presence so that nobody can come along and impersonate them to their disadvantage.
"Problem is that companies don't like it when they have to lose hundreds of thousands of hours to their poorly IT literate workers relearning how to navigate a new system. This has always been the case."
And yet, in the long run, they will do this because as long as they're beholden to Windows, they will have to bend to Microsoft's whims. But suggest that they voluntarily take the hit once and enjoy consistency thereafter by switching to Linux and they won't do it.
It also seems easier to disable the "helpful" email scanning on Google than it is on consumer Outlook.
I'm sure Google will be glad it seems easier to you.
But as to the more general aspect - store locally on your computer and nobody gets to scan. It's perfectly possible. It uses to be standard and for some of us it either still is or the remote storage via NextCloud is no more distant than the office just upstairs.
"I've been hearing complaints about Win10's Start Menu for many years, and I've never quite understood them.
WHY are you even depending upon Win10's Start Menu by this day and age? Why are you stuck in a paradigm from the 20th Century??"
My comparison is with Linux running KDE and the earlier versions of Windows. The latter were sort of (but not very well) organised on functional lines. My KDE menu is (a) fairly well organised on functional lines by default and (b) I have complete control over reorganising it by means such as introducing functional areas and shoving less used stuff to sub menus which i take it is what you mean by fly-out menus. A default alphabetical menu as default? Who thought that was a good idea? It's about as good an idea as writing a sentence by listing what words you want to use in alphabetical order and leaving them like that.
And, because it's a Linux box that has a lot of stuff installed by default and more installable pinning isn't adequate. Yes, some stuff is there but I need room for the multiple desktop manager, the running applications system tray.
"Technology evolves rapidly and, at times, faster than legislation or regulations can adapt to the changes,"
What sort of excuse is that? AFAIK the operators have to have special permission to put them on the roads. This is something that should have been sorted out before that permission was granted. Maybe it is if trouble is taken to read the small print of the permit.
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