Posts by Chris G

Re: They can’t charge for it anyway..

I don't consider myself to be a vindictive type but if IPv6 drained the swamp that is Feacebook and it subsequently imploded, I would find that quite entertaining.

Re: Yawn

"The intelligence demonstrated by this is extremely artificial."

It's not intelligent is the biggest problem, it is just a tarted up version of a logic gate, I suspect the average hamster has better decision making intelligence and far less likely to run you and your autonomous vehicle into the path of a speeding juggernaut.

Re: Pizza toppings

As I mentioned elsewhere today, pineapple on a pizza is a travesty, however, some years back a workmate informed me that his pizza that he ordered from a local takeaway included two toenail clippings. Possibly added mistakenly thinking he was a foot fetishist but enough to keep me from ever going near the place again.

I am sure worse things have gone into or on takeaway food but I don't want to think about it.

Re: What part of that so people have issues with?

Frankly, if the 18 who left were so tetchy, the company is better off without them.

It wasn't as if he was trying to ban their political and societal beliefs, just concentrate on work at work.

What is it that has so many people permanently triggered and ready to go off at the drop of almost any word?

Re: Think of the children ('s spending power)

The year my mocks came up was the first year a calculator was permitted in the maths exam.

Other than that, no phones, no copiers etc only a book of maths tables and a slide rule.

I had a coloured sand filled glass lighthouse my girlfriend's mum gave me.

I and my girlfriend were involved in a near fatal car crash in the early seventies and she was convalescing at a place they rented in Seaside IOW.

Since my car was wrecked I bought a German made Diana scooter for twenty quid and used to ride down every weekend. I remember the monument but nothing about St Catherine's Point.

I do remember the cream teas on the island though, I wish such a thing existed here in Spain.

Re: So, it's a bubble?

"E.g. back in the day, people used to put stuff in an sealed envelope and post it to themselves; as long as the seal remained unbroken, the mail date-stamp was considered proof."

So that would be Schroedinger's Copyright, since the proof that the work was first and original is only valid if the seal is unbroken, so the work has an equal chance of being first or not or first and subsequent.

Re: The smart TV watches you wherever you are in the world

My Hisense is plugged into the satellite box and the Grundig has a terrestrial antenna connected, if the two of them get more than a couple of hours a month in use I would be amazed.

"to create and distribute wealth"

I think that notion lost ground before the turn of the century, it certainly has since.

Corporate morals seem to have got to the level of a playground bully with an "Aww I wanted that" attitude backed up with a team of avaricious lawyers.

Re: I'm a word wrangler...

You may post as AC but I recognise your writing style and enjoy your 'named' posts too.

Can't see why anyone would downvote this post.

Re: "quickly offer its customers new, personalised products"

If experience is anything to go by, you will find unexplained charges in your monthly bills for things you have never agreed to, heard of, seen or used but apparently have in the contract you haven't signed.

If a sales drone/customer support from Vodafone ever calls you never use the word yes in the conversation at all as it will be used as permission to go ahead and supply you with some rubbish that you don't want.

Re: It is not a dog

If it can't lick it's own balls (other parts are available), it ain't a dog.

Re: Is someone in the room? Are they OK!?

@CuChullain

There is some good guitar work on the album but the rest is irritating to me especially the voice of Demi's Roussos.

From that period I preferred Ramses' Space Hymns.

Re: AI

AI doesn't worry me nearly as much as many of those who wish to employ half baked possibly not fit for purpose AIs for almost every problem or function they don't already have a solution for, a fair percentage, even if they do have a working solution still want to replace it with an AI solution because AI....

You are not alone in not knowing how they work, few people employing 'AI' have much of an idea of what an AI is and whether or not what they think is an AI actually is, mostly the accurate part of the description is Artificial, the Intelligence is frequently questionable.

Re: Ethics

Imprison the AI!

Corporations in the US already have status as an individual.if I understand it correctly.

I am guessing that status is likely to be extended to AIs in the future, particularly if they act autonomously it will become more likely.

Re: European websites

Of course, one must remember that European does not include the UK.

Even before the UK was out of the Union, British sites usually in my experience made a point of ignoring GDPR as much as possible concerning cookie consent and of course still do even though Britain is still theoretically constrained by GDPR.

It's about about time for a Cookie Free Website Association with a big badge at the top of the entry page.

Re: We're Missing Two Things

That actually boils down to one missing thing; if all advertisers had ethics they would only tell the truth.

I wonder if many in Big tech who bandy the word ethics around, know who Immanuel Kant was, or for that matter what deontology is?

Re: Not "divisive and discriminatory", but essential

Fear of needles shouldn't be an issue, there is at one functional vaccine that can be taken orally.

Though it will be poo pooed in the West as it is Russian.

Re: The technology could create around 38,000 new jobs...

I would love to see how they arrive at these figures, they always sound to me like 'Think of a number' strategies.

I bet if pressed the minister will have zero to back those numbers up.

I can see this technology being disruptive though, mostly when a car decides to change lanes due to a couple of random electrons.

Re: The rest of the story

"And of course it is nothing to do with having received Indian government approval for our $5.7Bn investment in India last year."

Re: It's not just an IT scandal

I was referring specifically to the Fujitsu scandal a a legacy.

Re: Typical commie behaviour

Was that the September 2020 executive order that was accompanied by a government announcement of $25Bn in subsidies with a max of $3Bn to any one investment in new tech?

The main difference between the two would be who pockets what, how much and what is the penalty if caught.

Re: 6G

@vtcodger

I wasn't aware of any of that, I'm in!

I like blackjack and a nice young lady at my shoulder while I am playing is always nice.

Will there be any decent bourbon at the tables?