Posts by Just Enough 770 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Jul 2014
Your poll is going to be meaningless if you don't better define your terms. I had no idea how to answer the third question "Reality has a liberal bias" because it doesn't make it clear if it was referring to "Liberal" as used in American politics or "Liberal" as used in UK politics. They're very different.
Big tech will approach the problem of copyright breach claims like they always have done. They'll ignore the legal problems until challenged, and then they'll throw unlimited lawyers and money at it until it either goes away, or they get what they want. At no point will anything get rolled back or stopped. I'm afraid that authors of books and websites are about to find this out. Their work will be ingested.
The point is to set a precedence, and garner the person taking this action attention and publicity. Being the guy who "gave AI the same rights as people" will do no harm at all to his company.
He could easily file the patents with himself as inventor, and there would be no problem. But that is not the aim of what he is doing.
"Given the UK has historically provided plenty of protections and has secured multiple trade deals I fear I must disagree strongly with your deeply pessimistic view."
And the history of the current Government? One that they can be trusted to abide by? Anyone can secure a trade deal. A *good* trade agreement (and I mean good for the country, not for Tory interests) is a different matter.
"You haven't incidentally provided any references to the UK failing to meet its own treaties. There are sadly many for the EU and its members failing to meet its - e.g. allowing Greece into the Euro"
The UK were among those members. So you've just contradicted yourself.
I don't know how often I've seen this happen. User complains something isn't working, and when asked what the error message is, haven't a clue. It's not even registering with them that an error message is appearing, far less taking note of what it says and doing something about it. It just isn't working and IT support is clairvoyant and will know what the problem is.
Then once you stop them ignoring the error message, they say "Oh that. It's being doing that for months, I just click on it and it disappears." Like that fixes it.
"the police appear to have done everything correct here."
Is it not usual practice to investigate before arresting? They could have even asked him what happened as part of their investigation. I think he'd would have happily helped.
Otherwise, what's stopping anyone naming a culprit on zero evidence and getting them arrested?
As usual on The Register, it needs to be pointed out that NHS England <> "The UK's National Health Service"
You would have hoped by now that The Register journalists would have got the message that the NHS in the UK is not a single entity and each country of the UK is handling COVID vaccinations differently. But apparently not.
Never, ever, use your real date of birth. Not unless it's something like your bank where it may be a legal requirement. Other websites are only interested in me "proving" I'm an adult. Or rather, covering themselves if it turns out I'm not an adult.
The only possible downside to using a fake date of birth would be if they later ask you to verify your identity, by giving your date of birth. Then you'd need to remember what you said.
Facebook wants it to profile you for targeted ads, and also reminding all your Facebook "friends" something that is obviously not worth remembering themselves. I can live without both.
My current phone is an LG. It's the second LG I've owned and the best phone I've had in the last 20 years. Solid, dependable, does everything I need. It's well past time I'd usually upgrade, but right now I can't think of any reason to. And the thought of switching to the bloatware circus that is Samsung doesn't appeal at all.
So when she co-founded the Theatre of Black Women, she wasn't thinking of herself as a Black Woman? In 2014, when she was the keynote speaker at the Black British Womens’ Writing Conference, it was not because she was a Black British Woman Writer? When she was the keynote speaker at the Black Arts in Britain Conference in 2010, it wasn't as a representative of Black Arts in Britain?
When she lists all these things on her own website, it's not because she wants to be identified with any of this?
What's disgusting is you thinking you get to decide what she is, on her behalf, erasing what is clearly of significant importance to her.
Bernardine Evaristo is the first black woman and first black Briton to win the Booker prize. The book she won it for is mostly about the lives of black women. She founded the Brunel University African Poetry Prize and the Theatre of Black Women. She organised the Afro Style School for poets of colour. Being black and British seems pretty fundamental to her identity and her work.
Would you rather The Times had ignored all this?
The most important detail is missing from this report.
Will TikTok users still be allowed to be mean to little Donnie?
Let's face it, this is what this is all about. Trump hadn't heard of TikTok until it helped messing up one of his rallies. He did not care if it was spying on its users. He gives not a jot about security concerns. But it made him look silly, and Trump never forgets when someone hurts his delicate ego.
These retro computers mystify me. Sure, they'd be fun for about an hour of nostalgia. But after that, what have you got? A £300 computer with a tiny, tiny fraction of the capabilities of your mobile phone.
And the nostalgia is always bitter sweet. It's never as good as you seem to remember it.
Get an emulator, run it on the computer you have.
"trademark infringement does not require being a competitor of the brand"
Yes it does. No-one gets a "everything, everywhere" trademark. For it to be an infringement they have to demonstrate that the infringer is competing in the same market, so that consumers may be confused/deceived.
I don't care much if they don't understand it. Just as long as they have taken guidance from those qualified to understand it. MPs cannot be expected to be experts in all fields.
It's once they start to reckon they know it all and "have had enough with experts" that the trouble starts.
I can't imagine why Boris & Dom would want to delay. They, and their backers, are gagging for Brexit chaos because it'll provide cover for no end of "adjustments" to laws to suit themselves. Tweak to tax legislation here, little snip to employment rights there.. .. Just temporary, you understand, until everything is stable again. It's very important that millionaire investors are confident they can still make money, and equally important that workers work harder. Sacrifices have to be made for the good of the country.
However, you are right about Dom spinning it to their followers. If they'll buy "checking my eyesight", they'll buy any old bullshit.
Yes. Let's give Facebook a justification for their current tracking and an excuse for expanding it. That couldn't possibly be abused in the future because of their past rigorous record of observing personal privacy and data regulations.
If there is one organisation I'm less likely to permit tracking me than the Government, it's Facebook.
It's the same story as IT audits. Make sure there's something obvious for the auditors to find, and report on. Preferably something you've already told your boss about months ago. If the auditors don't find something to report, they're liable to inflate something irrelevant into an issue that they can report on. The last thing they want is to have nothing to report on, and nothing to justify their fees.
However, I'd hate anyone to think that this tale is just another example of Y2K panic where nothing happened. Nothing happened because a lot of time and effort went into ensuring it didn't.
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