* Posts by ecadre

9 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Nov 2016

Take a 14-mile trip on an autonomous Scottish bus starting next month

ecadre

Re: The Scot's revenger for the voice-activated elevator

Or look up the real case of Birmingham Council, when they installed an automated phone system that couldn't understand the local accent.

Director, deputy director, CTO of Free Software Foundation quit after Stallman installation

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Re: Stupid is as stupid does

"The open software movement must ..."

RMS isn't a part of the "open source movement", so that just goes to show what you know. And the last paragraph is utterly offensive and vile. WTF has that got to do with anything?

Microsoft begs you not to ditch Edge on Google's own Chrome download page

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Re: AI warz

They're no "AIs", that's just marketing fluff.

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Re: "with the added trust of Microsoft"

Oh, I trust Microsoft ... to screw anyone for their own benefit.

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Clippy sought asylum and now lives in GNU Emacs ... look it up :-P

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Re: Pot, kettle...

Wow, so Microsoft own your computer then?

Microsoft, GitHub, OpenAI urge judge to bin Copilot code rip-off case

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Re: I don't see the problem

There's no such thing as "AI" in this process. That's just advertising propaganda. What there is are human created algorithms that are taking code and then ignoring and breaking the terms of their licence to redistribute it for profit. If the output of this Microsoft operation is not derivative code, then then words no longer have meaning.

Botched Microsoft update knocks Windows 8, 10 PCs offline – regardless of ISP

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Re: Re:There is a Microsoft theme song in there.

... unshare and despair

Opera debuts free VPN built into desktop browser

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To those speculating about why the BBC does not offer its programming outsite the UK ... it's got nothing to do with geographical licensing, production companies etc etc etc.

The BBC operates under a Royal Charter. According to the terms of that Charter the BBC is not allowed to offer licence payer funded services outside of the UK (World Service radio aside, which used to be funded by the Foriegn Office, but funding was offloaded onto the BBC during the last Charter renewal process).

The BBC can sell its programming at commercial rates to other broadcasters. This is how BBC Worldwide/America etc operate.

BBC TV and radio are not just another subscription service. They are provided "free to air", in fact the BBC is not allowed to use things like encryption to obfuscate its free to air services.

Want to change this situation? Look out for the public consultation during the next Charter renewal, but only if you're British (it is after all the British Broadcasting Corporation), and don't put any hopes on the Beeb justing ending up like some kind of Netflix.