Re: generally agree...
Its a little known fact that the original lyrics on "Killing in the name of" were about using 3rd party ink cartridges in a HP printer.
The original outro ran "Fuck you I wont do what HP tells me"
3872 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jun 2009
Since we all know the every GIF engine under the sun is pretty much worthless why is the CMA continually trying to make it look valuable?
Surely the best result for all of us is for Facecrap to have spunked a stupid amount of money on something that is fundamentally worthless?
McKinsey have probably recieved a large bundle of cash from FaceTwat to talk up the Metaverse and are doing do by redefining it as "Gaming on the internet".
In particular failing to mention the well publicised kiddy risks - especially wrt Roblox. And that before we get to the flying penises of Second Life.
Bzzt FAIL
You are mixing up the financing of the buyout with the buyout itself. Musk has a financial house of cards he is juggling to produce the funding to buy enough of the publicly traded twitter shares to take it private.
At a high level the buyout works exactly as you have articulated.
Since what they are doing - collecting images without consent is pretty much illegal in the UK - I'll doubt they'll care. They obviously dont give a stuff about operating in the EU or UK or they would never have gone down this route. BUT EU/UK citizens data will still be used to populate the training sets for their ML models.
Especially if you consider what they'd actually have to do to comply - which is to hard delete both the photos AND the ML models that were generated from them.
Never
Gonna
Happen
So I say again. What actual enforcement actions (that will work!) are open to the ICO? The only one I can think of is get them added to a sanctions list - but that seems tall ask for the ICO to achieve and I'm not sure the framework is in place for it. I think they'd have to write to one of the junior ministers in charge of the UK Treasury.
You downvoters are a bit naive on this one I think.
Meh.
Even then I'm unconvinced unlocking the iOS browser engine will generate the wild surge of innovation they suppose.
Its very Western, Capitalist thinking that change for change's sake is good.
Maybe a dull steady state with lots of known - and therefore avoidable - bugs is better than rampant "innovation" and "creative destruction"?
I know I've come to dread every Chrome for Desktop update. Something annoying generally occurs 1 patch outta 3.
Especially by the analysts BS rationale about speeds and charging. This is Apple. Multiple inventor or adopter of "different" connectors and protocols.
If they put their mind to it they could easily invent or promote something better just like they did when they were about the only big company to promote Thunderbolt or SCSI or Firewire.
Now as a BOM reduction exercise from Tim the master beancounter - as mentioned further up the comments - that I could believe.
(as an aside USB-C PD charging on the newish Ipad Pro is as brilliant as the standard USB-C on it charging is poor.)
Seems a very odd ruling to me. If the only "trade secrets are a bit of look and feel and some UX functionality copied from videos then 2Bn seems a bit steep. Especially when all these Workflow/load code tools tend to converge on the same paradigms and concepts.
Without knowing more this seems to be a typical "US Court system doesn't understand Tech" result.
And what happens when the laws and courts are effectively 50-60% owned by that person?
Anyone who doesn't realise we are witnessing a group trying to smother American democracy on behalf of an angry white minority (hint its not the left) and mostly succeeding is delusional.
Freedom of speech requires democracy, sometimes freedom of speech has to come second to the needs of democracy.
Frankly it's only American's that put freedom of speech on such a ridiculous pedestal. Rather like not flag burning.
I don't think the Holme's comparison is valid. She was a total fraud. Musk (the public persona) is more of a PT Barnum figure, but genuinely successful at multiple things he puts his mind to.
By comparison his peers like Bezos and Gates are one trick ponies. - albeit very successful ones.
I would take issue with much promised and little delivered. Yes he overhypes but none of the deliveries that Tesla and SpaceX have managed have been achieved by any of the incumbents in those industries.
(3 if you count paypal)
Cheapest Space Launch system ever.
Biggest Electric Car manufacturer.
Best Charging network.
Like it or not - he's a disrupter in the true sense of the word - not the VC bullshit sense of the world.
"Decisions like it is safer to go faster than the speed limit right now are potentially impossible for computers."
But thats a decision where there is always one answer - NO. Thats not even a binary question.
A "self driving" car that accelerated and braked smoothly and always obeyed the speed limits would be a quantum leap forward both for Safety and Climate change.
AND?
You're seriously suggesting that the conceit of a single world wide internet trumps the ability to hobble war mongers from war mongering?
Your argument doesn't hold water. There are multiple worldwide financial transfer networks. They work just fine.
I'm not sure the "architectural purity" of the current Internet is a valid argument tbh.
Ericsson didn't have to do anything. There is no universal rule saying a region has to have a mobile network so badly its worth bribing actual terrorists to get things done. After all the infrastructure would have benefited them anyway so strategically they probably could have negotiated a deployment without a hefty bribe.
The opportunity to build a EU hyperscaler has been and gone. There is zero chance of them being competitive with Oracle and Ali let alone the big 3.
They would be better off bribing approaching MS or AWS or GCP (please no) to set up a duplicate ownership model in the EU. License the technology from the Mothership but total network and company segregation from it. Like Gov.cloud but EU.Cloud.
Stop spending peanuts on tech boondoggles and start hiring to replace the 93k NHS vacancies, plus the next 100k who are approaching burnout.
£37Bn on T&T - cant even be arsed to fund the NHS properly - even with an 12Bn NI rise. There is a point at which it becomes ideologically led destruction of the NHS in favour of their Tory donating mates.
No-one except Web 3.0 darlings with megascale are building on Hadoop anymore. Because old school relational (MS, Oracle) and new skool relational (Snowflake) are good enough to cover off most Lake use cases as well these days.
Besides there have been a couple of Hadoop as SAAS/Managed Service products around for years. BlueData and Cazena/Cloudera SAAS.
As much as I dislike to admit it - its your "common sense" again the experience and expertise of a top tier Judge for which these matters are one of his specialties.
HPE being a gang of clowns and Auditors either not doing their jobs or doing them incompetently doesnt stop there actually being Fraud committed - which is what the Judge has ruled.
@David12.
It's complicated, and mostly one of outlook. The EU believes fundamentally in data privacy for individuals - the US doesn't. At the practical individual level you are right - there's probably not a lot to choose between them. Both the US and EU governments have stepped over the mark - but arguably its habitual in the US compared to EU.
Its different in terms of magnitude and the differing treatment of EU citizens. EU governments - more precisely their security arms - are more constrained in what they do whereas the NSA/DoJ have a history of bulk hoovering and mass interception (and getting caught). There have been multiple instances of US Govt overreach that got the EU riled up. The Microsoft email case for example. US border cell phone seizures. Their habit of gaining secret access to data centres using FISA laws also doesn't endear them to the EU. Basically if you are an EU citizen in the US you have much less data rights than a US citizen and that pisses the EU off.
Lastly the thing you have to realise is the Spirit of GDPR is really cool and hard to disagree with, however compliance to every last inch of a bunch of legal rules written by lawyers with only a faint grasp of technology is virtually impossible even before you get to cross border data exchanges.
Which is why nearly everyone sensible takes a risk based approach, but on the one end you get Facebook and AdTech firms actively abusing it, others keeping their heads low (Telco's & SMS triangulation), and people like Max Schrems - whom I admire but is a bit of a fundamentalist on privacy - who will use any tiny clause of GDPR to go after Facebook and anyone else he fancies.
HTH
The operation of the service as described seems like a breach of GDPR to me.
At no time has my network provider sought my consent to provide my location to various unsavoury third parties. (The rozzers/emergency services are fine imo)
Telco Commentards - just how widely accessible/queryable is the SS7 protocol?
Feels like a class action is in the offing.
"You don't seem to understand that STEPS is a DEMO of ITER and closely related, while ITER is much too big for just one European country."
I get that STEPs is an ITER evolution, you've misunderstood my point.
STEPS should be funded to overtake ITER ASAP
ITER is not too big for any 1 country. At 45-50Bn its basically 1.5 Track and Traces (37Bn) but over say a 5-7 year timeline rather than the 1-2 of T&T. Even 100Bn is peanuts to a G7 Government. It's just about willpower.
The best thing we (UK) could do is start a Fusion "Arms" race. This collaborative effort is bullshit post WWII defence contractor thinking, more about spreading Pork around than achieving a goal.
Unfortunately I doubt any single government in the West has the balls to think this way anymore. I suspect China will get excited about it at some point and make us a laughing stock.