Posts by veti 4489 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Mar 2010
Make sure delivery drivers are entitled to employee benefits, and are paid a fair wage.
Require drones to carry owner identification and third-party insurance.
Make shippers financially responsible for disposal of their own packaging.
Basically, make sure Amazon is paying for its externalities.
This "a few months" figure is exaggerated. As previously reported on El Reg, the breakdown happened in mid June. Let's optimistically guess that it was back in port by the end of the month - but that would have been a convenient port, probably not its home. Then arrange for it to be towed back to Plymouth... I can imagine it likely didn't get home till August.
Then conduct the autopsy, check and recheck all the systems, compare the physical evidence with telemetry to see how the monitoring worked... Let's say, two or three days before management had their comprehensive report.
Then give management time to ask followup questions, talk to insurers and sponsors, and finally come to an agreement about what to announce to the press and public...
Yeah. Seems about right to me.
Biden is a tragically poor president, but he can't be blamed for the astonishingly weak position he inherited from Trump. Which included the Afghan debacle, the Huawei nonsense and the Iran fiasco - all disasters engineered, essentially from nothing, by Trump.
(The same Trump, incidentally, who instituted the biggest peacetime federal economic intervention since the space race, by bailing out farmers affected by his own suicidal trade wars.)
Biden was selected, nominated and elected on a platform of just four words: "I can beat Trump". Nobody talked or cared about anything else. And such was the depth of loathing for his predecessor that that was enough to win the biggest popular vote in US history.
Would be more useful to put it at the other end of the country. Come 2024, there's going to be a lot of slack in the power supply for the lower South Island, and Amazon could improve its green cred by soaking up some of that. Shifting all that extra power to the already overloaded Auckland network is a lot of avoidable inefficiency.
You seem to have a strong opinion about what "integrity" and "reason" involve.
Unfortunately you're talking about politics. Compromise and concession are the name of the game. If you can't accept that, then either stay out entirely or go full Trump.
Personally I respect Clegg for having the guts to do what it took to get some of his goals enacted, even though it meant sacrificing other goals. That's how democracy is supposed to work.
They don't know nor care what cookies are. To them, the problem is the stupid banner that gets in the way on websites until you click something to make it go away.
The banner isn't telling them anything they care about, so it's just an obstruction. They know it's something to do with cookies, whatever they are. But if the banner disappears, as far as they're concerned, problem solved.
That's not completely irrational. It's ignorant of course, but we're all ignorant of things we don't care about.
That would set many forms of scientific research back about 30 years. Pretty much all medical research, for instance, requires publication of exactly this sort of data. If we're no longer allowed to read that data, every country in the world will have to retest and recertify every drug or treatment or vaccine for itself.
Well said. And don't forget the time it will take you to work out how long the attackers have been in the system, and therefore how far back you have to go for a safe backup.
There's a lot of simplistic piety about backups, but the painful truth is that against a really determined attack, they are of very limited value.
"We already pay IT a buttload to maintain security and backups. And, like every other department in the company, they are always asking for more. Threats to the business range from criminals to competitors to hostile influencers to rogue presidents to lockdowns to technological advances to changing fashions, any of which could put us out of business within a couple of months, tops. What makes this threat so special, and why can't IT manage it out of the handsome allowance we already make to them?"
Oh yes, prosecutors. Now there's a tribe dedicated absolutely to the relentless pursuit of truth. </sarcasm>
It's an adversarial system. Defenders are supposed to do everything within the law to help their clients, while prosecutors do everything to damn them. Neither one is supposed to give a damn about "truth".
Last time the redcoats were there, they burned down the White House and the Capitol.
As for the Taliban, they've demonstrated their ability to kick Americans (and all their allies) out of Afghanistan. Just hope they don't take it into their heads to visit the homeland again, because last time that happened they dealt a blow that has left America still dizzy 20 years on.
We don't know exactly what trademark they're asserting, nor how they describe it to retailers. But if they didn't make it crystal clear that only specific, enumerable combinations of Greek letters are covered - and those only in specific contexts - they are absolutely to blame.
This is a two part challenge.
First, define "thinking". Describe an experiment, with an observable outcome that would convince you that a machine was thinking. If you can't or won't do that, then you're only really arguing with yourself. (We used to have the Turing test, but machines blew through that years ago and it convinced precisely nobody.)
Second, tell us why anyone would want a machine that does whatever it is you just described. If the spec says it acts like an average human, isn't it easier just to hire an average human for that?
I don't see what problem that would solve. You're still trying to describe an entire garment with a single number, when there are many more variables - diameter of cuffs and sleeves and collar, length of sleeve, length of shirt, etc.
Even the "78cm" will be measured by one label around the shoulders, by another around the chest, a third will measure the average all the way down the shirt. There will still be enormous differences between shops.
Yes, but to look at it slightly less cynically: obviously this is in the category of attacks they've thought about, and made sure their tool could handle it. They were probably thrilled to see it in the wild, and have been gathering reports and examples until they reached an impressive sounding number.
How does it stand up against a team of graduates from Llamedos University, mentored by some jaded middle-aged code monkey who's failed to get promoted to anything better?
Sure, Indian shops can produce bad code. But they didn't exactly invent the practice, and they sure as heck don't have a monopoly on it.
Two? Bah. Around here, the developers feel cheated if they can't put at least four new houses on an old lot.
In I'm sure unrelated news, both the water and power companies are whining about the need to upgrade their infrastructure, which is apparently why they still can't give me an actual read every month even after changing the meter.
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