For me 99% of the time it comes up with stuff with, at best, 50% relevancy.
Google has - in view - become much, much worse.
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This from a fun article first publised in PCW magazine in December 1985:
5th Generation — Artificial Intelligence (Al)
6th Generation — Artificial Dishonesty (AD)
7th Generation — Artificial Stupidity (AS)
8th Generation — Artificial Libido (AL
9th Generation — Artificial Omniscience (AOS)
10th Generation — Artificial Omnipotence (AOP)
There is something I don't get.
Perhaps someone can enlighten me.
The aircon system in a data centre breaks down casuing temperatures to rise and - presumably - IT equipement to either start shutting down or failing.
So HOW is this the fault of "legacy IT systems"?
Unles one is counting the HVAC as a "legacy IT system".
The failure was the HVAC and, by extension - unless they run their own data centre, which I doubt (if anyone knows please do tell) - the mob who run the data centre for failing to either maintain the HVAC or have adequate backup HVAC provision.
Not the IT. The IT failing was a symptom caused by the HVAC not working.
Well....
In the flats where I live in the UK we lost the TV signal for the entire block for best part of a week a while back.
Why?
Some utter moron twat of a Sky "engineer" came to install a Sky Q upgrade for someone. He needed a 13A socket to plug his shiny new shit into - oh none free.
Rather than go to his van to get a short mains extension block out to create some more sockets (not great but it is all low current stuff) he just unplugged something else. His shiny new shitty Sky Q was working so he duly fucked off.
Leaving the entire communal terrestrial aerial distribution system fucked with no power until the landlord called in the company that maintained the system. Fixed in 10 miniutes, entirely avoidable and all because of some Sky "fuckwit" so-called "engineer".
Let's hope they do better than this lot:
https://twitter.com/Tweetermeyer/status/1542625065144946688
https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/cruise-driverless-cars-blocked-traffic-for-hours-tuesday-night/article_57e8d2c8-f8c4-11ec-b99d-33fd6c31cb3e.html
https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2022/07/01/first-details-on-paralyzed-robotaxi-fleet-in-san-francisco/
What those not in IT often fail to realise, or simply don't like when it is explained to them is this:
IT is NOT there to provide what they want. IT is there to provide the IT tools needed for them to do their job within a budget the business is willing to pay. That and what they want are, more often than not, two completely different things.
And then there are those (not in IT) who go and buy things like this off eBay (for £2,500) without doing even the most basic research. Even a few minutes on Google would have found this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4QJRLsVtys
And yes the one they bought turned out to be virtually identical complete with virtually identical USB memory stick.
Oh and it really DOES STINK!
That latter part "If, however, the subscription is an ongoing payment by you for the service then it's a somewhat better chance..." depends on the manufacturer (or whoever they may have subscontrated the subscription bit out to if they've done that) playing ball.
Do you know of any who have "played ball" or have the just said "Tough. It is proprietary - sod off".
"I said I’d try elsewhere and got a Foscam on Amazon."
They (Foscam) are going the same way.
Instead of updating the firmware in their NVRs and cameras to support other browsers than IE, they pushed their own subsctiption service or "Foscam VMS" - God that is utterly, utterly SHITE!!!!
Foscam VMS is one of the most dreadfully shite bits of software ever. Plus Foscam keep using dodgy ssl certificates for their cameras and NVR with no option to install your own - when they aren't being "revoked".
Well, what a surprise... NOT.
Simple solution - NEVER buy so called "home automation" or "security" products which rely on a subscription/or account on the manufacturer's (or anyone else's) systems just to bloody work.
They WILL dump you in the shit and not give a damn about the now useless hardware you are left with.
It just means nobody else can decrypt your data.
But then NEITHER CAN YOU if the person/organisation which has physical control of the hardware your precious data is on CAN'T or WON'T let you get at it.
And that is the point.
If your business depends on being able to access that data you are, not to put too fine a point on it, fucked.
"Bullshit. I run several interlocked businesses using Linux. It's actually easier, and takes less of my time, than doing similar in Windows."
You sound like one of those:
"I can solve it with Linux, now what is the problem?" type of guys.
That essentially sums up your response. Knowing absolutely nothing about our business, needs or problems, you claim you can "solve it" with Linux.
Here's a hyothetical to illustrate the "lack of thought" in your comment.
Purely hypothetically we say "we have a problem" and you come back with your "I can solve it with Linux, now what is the problem?".
We then (hypothetically) reply "The problem is, you are alive and we want you dead. Fix it for us please".
Can you?
I'd never trust any so-called IT professional that claims they can solve a problem, particularly using Linux (or anything else) without even the slightest understanding of the client's situation and problems.
Aluminium phone cables have far more problems than that.
Ask any BT Openreach engineer. BT tried this out a number of years ago and current BT engineers see them as "a bloody nightmare".
Like that utterly shite CCA network cabling (allegedly Cat5e/Cat6) - CCA, Copper Clad Aluminum. Look at it the wrong way and it breaks.
I have had cabling companies try to install that - because it is cheaper - and didn't like being told to rip it all out and replace it with pure copper.
"Trackpad that if works..."
If wish they would just STOP turning tapping on by default. I absolutely hate that!
Yes it is fine for those that get on with it. For the rest like me, it is bloody dangerous. Randomly selecting, dragging and dropping God knows what to God knows where because their shitty "gestures" crap can't tell the difference between me lifting my finger and placing it back down to continue moving the mouse, and tapping.
STOP IT!!!!
The fundamental issue with patents is, and has always been, the strength of them depends on your ability to defend them.
This comes down to one simple fact, especially when the USA is involved - how deep are your pockets.
The deeper your pockets (or someone else's pockets who is willing to help), the better the lawyers you can afford to keep the other side in court and/or buried in legal stuff until they run out of money.
Quite common in installations with BTW (back to wall) toilets and the (concealed) cistern hidden behind the rear wall of the cubicle.
You either need to have "maintenance" hatches in every cubicle, which can potentially be opened by unauthorised people to give access to nice hideaways for illicit materia/itemsl, bombs etc.
Or you have a maintenance "gang way" running behind all of the cubicles giving access to all the otherwise inaccessible cisterns, water and sewage services. And electrical control gear for those "no contact" proximity flush things.
The problem here seems to be that someone forgot about the security of the maintenance areas.
I have that in the flats where I live.
The delay between the holding magnets de-energising (fail safe rather than fail secure) when the door release is pressed and the magnets re-energising can be a little too long at times.
Result - the door can "bounce" off the door jam and the closer then doesn't close it back to within "grab" range of the magnets when they re-energise. Thus the door remains "unlocked".
Precisely.
This "call", if enacted, would have as much effect on the use the Chinese state puts such technology to as an empty 500ml plastic bottle on a road has at stopping a 40 tonne truck. Absolutelty bugger all.
These politicians are doing it "to be seen be doing something" even though in practical terms it is utterly useless - pure political image.
And what have they done about the use of facial recognition and biometrics in this county? Strangely quiet on that one.. Especially when it comes to doing something in the one country they CAN do something. And they have done bugger all.
Strange that.
The harsh reality is that it is THEIR country, not ours.
Things here in the UK are sufficiently falling apart that UK MPs should be concentrating on the issues here in the UK.
If UK MPs have the time to do this, then their are NOT doing their job here which, BTW, happens to be the one they are being paid to do.
What ever one thinks of Hikvision's products, compared to a lot of crap that comes from China but still gets sold/imported to the UK, at least they are not downright electrically dangerous (as lot of said crap is).
So why are they targetting Hikvision but doing bugger all about all this other stuff? Quite a lot of which are fire hazards or potentially lethal.
"Eh? It's not gov.uk though is it, it's opposition parties & back benchers"
Doesn't matter which side of "The House" they sit on. They are there to run the UK for the good of the UK people, Not to look out for the interests or rights of citizens of some other country.
(Red) Ken Livingstone was (in)famous for that BITD.