Posts by david1024 249 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Apr 2015
Since I don't want my children's PII and restrictions on their computer, I'm not parenting? Maybe I parent so that I don't need an OS-Based nanny?
Try this on for size: Obviously, since you think the state needs to nanny, you've got your own parenting issues and your parents were bad. (See how dumb that type of conclusion is and how damaging it is to society?)
Be careful of that name-calling and wild speculation.
So, if you can't self-certify age... The state is going to have to support some kind of Internet service (and that won't be a juicy dos target). Or maybe license 3rd parties to do it.
This seems like a way for cloud-type computing to attack standalone machines -- you know, because the cloud knows best. I don't see any cloud/virtualization vendors not wanting to promote this. This has the side effects of making old OS and computers illegal? So we need new ones or move to cloud?
I say go for it, implement this fast and let it fail hard as the clown show it is.
Was Intel that still won't support ecc for non server systems-started this nonsense in the 80's iirc.. Systems with ecc are noticably more stable in use. I learned that in the 90's.
And those cheap ram sticks you found? They are going to be very unreliable. But not every bit flip or error causes a crash, maybe a texture here or there is a pixel off, etc...
Lemme translate for ya.
They are going to start actively breaking SharePoint now so you'll migrate off of it to OneDrive and since OneDrive has become a meme, they are going to put things in place to hide the name and start trying to steal your data in new ways using that tech.
That's the value proposition they make to you. You get to make a lot of staff redundant, save that money while they take good care of you with the plans that the folks you sent home made for you. Now it is a few years later and you don't have those folks at the table with you and can't find any help besides the tech vampire that's bleeding you and selling you who knows how much more than you are able to use?
But you did save all that money a few years ago, right? Maybe that AI vibe thing can get you out of this mess, just up the subscription for that... Just like a drug addiction...
Overall electromagnetic requirement changes are over-estimated. Most likely they need to test the design, and when it passes, recertify the example parts at the proper maintenance window. Noone is spending ro that inflated #.
The estimate basis is if they need to redesign and replace all of the altimeters. Which is not likely at all. Just more 'scary orange man' hand-wringing in a world that just doesn't exist. Just stop--and get back to tech as tech.
Any tool can be misused. If you only think small, as in reducing costs is my only goal and not growing the business... AI, or just about any tool, will initially get your head count down as you push that agenda as managers make everyone scared and leave.
But the tool, used a better way, gets you more production and increased revenue from your existing resource pool and can make you more competitive as a company.
Another way to say it is that new/growing companies would be benefitting from accelerated growth and stagnant/declining companies would accelerate in the cut costs direction. (It is the classic zero-sum vs rabbit-attack approach)
This is a great way to explain how to use AI:
"I think as an assistant," says Murray, "AI is indispensable. But it is not an authority."
However, that does mean fewer heads as the ones you already have get more efficient.... But if that's just increased velocity, that means more work can be done and more contracts satisfied. Getting more heads finding that extra work that the team can now take on becomes important.
AI should be growing businesses and increasing quality, not eating the young.
The speed of task completion isn't a thing. I start it on my way out a few days a week and it finishes and redocks around my second cup of coffee at work. It vacuumed while I went to work or did something else. The iRobot problem is one of tech. The Roomba was possible because of falling tech prices and availability of cheap parts. They were just the integrator.
Once everyone figured out how to integrate similar parts for a similar benefit (and China used their magic tech acquisition ray on it) iRobot was doomed... As was any non-Chinese-based integrator.
No surprise who owns the high volume tool manufacturers these days... TTI, stanly black and decker, and etc..... iRobot was just a smaller situation that was easier to track as opposed to the 15-20 brands under TTI/S-B&D various umbrellas.
The CLOUD is always someone else's computer. And that means you get the access they provide, not what you need or think you are owed...
I hope things work out well in the end, but it would have been a non-event of he'd have been self-hosting the important things and tied that appley-id to more than apple.
You can trust apple, but not in the way he wanted.
American (not be confused with AA) domestic carriers beat the customers to it and treat passengers as wet-cargo to be sandwiched in as tightly as possible.
So, the BA folks have it right in that treating folks better has limited value when accountants are designing your planes and processes to be cheap for corporate users' outsourced travel agents (already algorithms) to book. The market is really already there without AI in the states.
But not just the customers. The victims of the failures. Workday was firing pregnant women when they had their children, dropping vacation... Etc...
It promises outsourced hr, and if you discount the costs of the lawsuits, and the retraining of lost employees.... it is a lot cheaper. Those 10% failures just didn't fire all the folks employees could complain to that could spot the problems that would have been too expensive to fix. Yay for saas hr.
The future is under the sea. Microsoft's underwater data center blazed the path, and now China is going to try it out with wind power. Space is really for sensors and communication (and maybe interceptors eventually). Here's a competing platform article on the Chinese effort: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cnina-deploys-wind-powered-underwater-data-center
When the folks get angry enough a successor will arise. Same as GM/Chrysler/Ford created Honda/Toyota/Nissan and they on turn created Hyundai/Kia.
For computers, IBM created MS, and we are waiting to see what's next. The shear volume of money and systems, I think, hampers movements these days vs the 80's/90's.
Windows needs to be called xonfuse-ows. Where did it actually copy your file? And will it be there later? Was it reliably copied? How would you know as they hijack content to OneDrive and even command line tools are hoodwinked.
A prime feature of any OS is the ability to copy files. It is broken by design in win10/11.
But if all you want is something to watch cat videos and influencers with, I suppose win10/11 are a step up from android/iOS in that regard.
The solution to this 'problem' of non-human generated music is digital signatures...
The same as it is for photographs and images..... The same as it is for spam texts and calls and emails. Let them create the slop and let the market decide how long to finance it. The signature will let me pick AI music that I like or deselect and just listen to humans... Or a blend.
Pki solves all this with curated, trusted entities signing/attesting to the genuine-ness of the source of the material we see/hear. Not perfect, but it provides authentication for trusted sources. All we need is a red/green indicator or a hollow/filled dot for authentication status. Right now, I have no choice, I get a bucket dumped on my head and have to filter with no tools.
The key here, pun intended, is that everything is signed/marked--not just the modified or machine/AI content. This only works if _everything_ is marked.
Space is hard. NASA says so, it is continuously re-proved, and humans remain fragile.
While China has a good backup/contingency plan in place and seems to be using it effectively--it is always a good thought exercise to explore what would it take to rescue with non-Chinese (US/commercial in this case) assets.
How many of these passwords were for throwaway accounts that users were not routinely using?
I know I don't put much thought or care into a throwaway account password, and I bet bots and click farms don't either. And I have way more of those throwaway accounts laying in my digital wake than ones I really use... So how reliable is this approach of using compromised accounts? Still fun, but I don't think the data tells the same story today it would have a decade or two ago.
Noone thought that maybe a skip from 7 to 11 might work out since they'd had the 7 machines so long out of support? 300+ mill replaces a lot of hardware... That's going to need to be re-replaced now for an inflation adjusted swag of 450+mill. I can install 7 today if I needed to, not like it is illegal. Get waivers and pocket routers to give that old OS some protection and accept the risk as you go to win11 (or Linux or whatever)
That's the head that should roll for this.
Yes, and this was the problem Xerox faced, losing the name. Regulation and lots of litigation by Xerox let them keep the name and educate the public, but the Internet is much larger than the newspaper/magazine pool Xerox was swimming in during the 70's and 80's.
TBH, why even call it teleconference or videoconference?
What we actually do has nearly nothing in common with the activity, hardware, and infrastructure used when the terms were created. We share screens, remotely control virtual whiteboards and even computers, and have text chat all during these events that use digital IP pathways.
Videoconference is not what we are doing anymore. It is zooming or skyping.
Same with the text messaging... We send audio and video and shortcuts to launch zoom or Skype. There's end to end encryption options and groups with voting. And sometimes you need to install or update a client software to do it..
so, English, not having a word, steals the name and turns that into an adverb/verb.
Excellent video from ifixit. This is why I buy from them whenever I can even if the price isn't the lowest, they pay back triple the difference with information and a trustworthy supply chain.
One: who carries keys anymore and this device? The phone _is_ your key, unless you aren't flexing hard enough. The proles (like me) that still have keys can get a case.
Two: the increases screw count and internal rigid assemblies add stiffness you don't get from glue. While there are drawbacks, it is much stronger and easier to work on than glued construction. We've all gotten good at the glue, but screws are superior in every respect except cost/labor.
The only comment I have on the design specifically is to notice the big F.U. from apple on the spaghetti mess they made of the USB design. There's no reason to integrate the connection into the flex like that. (Especially with the obvious sale on internal connectors that was obviously going on during the rest of the design)
Supposing everything in the article is true, Amazon is training the next set of 'old heads' on their customers' dime... They have offloaded that expense. They will lose negligible numbers of customers. This is the benefit of being the leader/default option, and they are taking that money. And you'll pay--same as me while they train folks and when they get expensive, it'll be time for another round. :(
Lots of folks use notepad. Even if you just strip formatting with it and never compose with it--it is super handy. None of the things I use notepad for would be enhanced by AI, unless you let me dial in how that paste from excel looks. Of course, they likely want the AI's telemetry and don't care if I actually use that AI.... MS needs to use it, not us.
