Spot on: the incentives are definitely aligned with the miscreants. Very few open source projects can or will pay for this kind of service, malware authors on the other hand… We could soon have (yet) another principal-agent problem.
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So you want to integrate OpenAI's bot. Here's how that worked for software security scanner Socket
Microsoft wants to stick adverts in Bing chat responses
Return of pay to play
That is what this amounts to: pay enough and the "AI" will make sure your products and services are served up in the answers.
As for the numbers: if I were Microsoft, I'd wonder about the sudden spike and how much of it is driven by bots and competitors finding out how not to do it.
Scientists speak their brains: Please don’t call us boffins
Re: Those who obsess over "gender" get themselves into a pickle
I'm trying to think as to whether English really does have "deep Latinate" roots. We certainly have a lot of Latin words but very little truly Latinate grammar. What we have is a Germanic language (Anglo-Saxon with some lovely Scandinavian simplifications) with many similar constructs, but huge differences in the detail.
As for French, it's another bastard language, being the language of the Francs, a Germanic group, with even more Latinate influence than English. You see this particularly in comparison with the significantly more Latinate, but also newer, Italian and Spanish. Both English and French contain lots of archaic terms and constructs due their long histories as official written languages of nation states, with Henry V of England (because there was also, of course, a French one) the first English king to swear his oath of allegiance in English, Honi soit qui mal y pense, indeed.
The good old Académie Française does indeed get to ponder over gendering, though some of the changes made do at least have theoretical underpinnings from French feminism, Cixous, et al. Somewhat typically French, it's important that the problem is discovered, analysed and resolved in theory. The real world can wait!
German is also getting a bashing from the time wasters with discussions as to whether students should be der Student / die Studentin or (double gerund) die Studierende and whether the previously theoretically masculine-only plural should replace by the "gender star" (you can't make this shit up) so that die Studenten gets to become die Student*innen, and whether this monster should be aspirated or not. If it's not, it's the same as the feminine-only plural. This is considered somehow more inclusive for the generic plural than the masculine-only one!
Anyway, genders in language only loosely align with animal sexes, which only adds to the confusion and misapplcation. But also, no doubt, provides plenty of reasons for yet more "research projects".
My head hurts, where's the Aspirin™ icon? I'll have a pint instead, here's yours.
Specious arguments are great for wasting time
And what a waste of time this suggestion is! Changing terms, pronouns, etc. are easy to suggst but they don't change anything.
If there is a problem with getting your girls in science then look at the society they grow up in, and work on providing role models or changing their perceptions of role models. Make boffin acceptable by making it accessible and even desirable, in the aspirational sense. There are now plenty of excellent female scientists in different fields who probably be happy if you call them boffins. But most importantly, it's obvious that they are successful scientists without sacrificing any of their feminity; a culturally specific minefield all of its own.
Look at societies which value science, such as the fomer Soviet Union, India and elsewhere in Asia and learn from how they approach the subject.
Apple patches all the iThings, including iOS 15 hole under attack right now
Re: Catalina users have been abandoned it seems
Actually, I don't have a car. But your comparison is nevertheless dreadful: if there is a problem with a car then the manufacturer is obliged to fix it: hence, the many recalls of various manufacturers over the years.
That I'm not running the latest version of Apple's OS is for a reason: I can't remember the last major release that didn't take at least three point releases to be stable. Add to this the significant changes due to ARM and the integration of IOS code, and the motto "never fix a running system" springs to mind. More importantly, my backup machine (MBP 2016) is no longer supported by Apple so I need to keep both machines on the same version in case one goes down. And, much as I like Apple's hardware, I've had hardware issues with all the previous three models: batteries, USB daughterboards, fans, etc.
I'm going to look at getting Open Core onto my backup machine.
Catalina users have been abandoned it seems
Will we forever have to suffer with the random bug shit? Currently suffering from a bug that seems to be related to Safari's plugin mechanism. The system quickly becomes completely unusable and a hard restart is normally required. And yet you ask why I don't update to even more dumbed down (and therefore vulnerable) versions?
For whom the bell polls: Twitter voting is for Blue users only now
Microsoft promises it's made Teams less confusing and resource hungry
Watch for schema design in graph database rollout, business user warns
BOFH: The Board members are looking very ill these days
Winnie the Pooh slasher flick mysteriously cancelled in Hong Kong
Free-Teams-gate: Docker apologizes for shooting itself in the foot
Google: Turn off Wi-Fi calling, VoLTE to protect your Android from Samsung hijack bugs
Re: Apple
I know Apple has security issues, but they patch things rapidly.
While Apple might have fewer security issues than Android, they're patching speed is really poor. They just sit on the reports until after releasing the update. Where they do excel is getting people to install the latest versions, even if this means buying new versions of their apps.
Re: Good luck with that
Depends what your priorities are. Packet based stuff allows more efficient use of spectrum than connection-based stuff and data outstripped voice on mobile networks over a decade ago.
Also, this doesn't mean that other methods couldn't be, or haven't already been, hacked.
Ellison's healthcare obsession carries risks for Oracle
Cerner will lose them business
Spoken with a few people who are very keen to move off Cerner since Oracle bought it.
Long term, commoditisation of some of these markets is going to happen and that will affect margins in a bad way. Regulation might also, at some point, wake up the hidden cost of Hotel California clouds and make getting your data back easier and cheaper.
Watch Reg vultures wrap their heads around Silicon Valley Bank collapse
There are two problems with your assumption: firstly, does the government have the resources to do the work required to turn a profit? I reckon not. The sale transfers assets but also any liabilities. Yes, money can be made on the dea – look at the sharks circling a possible auction of the parent company – but it's by no means guaranteed.
Secondly, the legislation invoked effectively seized the asset of a foreign company, in this case the US FDIC, and not that different to some of the seizures of Russian assets. But definitely not a good idea to play fast and loose with something that belongs to the US. The seizure and subsequent sale was justified as the best way to protect customers from a bank that otherwise would have to cease operations while everything gets sorted out.
Shock horror: asset and liabilities mismatch can lead to funding problems
I always get this the wrong way round but the basic problem was long term assets (loans to customers) financed by short term debt (bonds as security). Banks do this to try and make money on the carry trade but problems started as the market value of the bonds fells they held as interest rates rose. This should really only be an accounting problem because the bonds will be paid at face value when they mature, but only if the bank isn't overleveraged. But it was, because everybody expected the era of cheap money to last forever and therefore valuations (the banks assets) wouldn't change much.
The solution, or so the bankers tell us, is to stop raising interest rates…
FTX inner circle helped itself to $3.2B, liquidators say
ReMarkable emits Type Folio keyboard cover for e-paper tablet
Re: Good reasons, or just reasons
All I can say is: lucky you. I had to rely on Planet for support and it was a fucking nightmare. Familiar enough to anyone who's worked for such cashflow-based businesses.
If Andrew Orlowski had not interceded, I would probably have never got the German keyset I needed.
It's a pity because the device had so much potential.
Re: Good reasons, or just reasons
Apart from software issues, the Gemini also had major hardware issues. I had to take it apart quite often and inevitably the display cables suffered, the display became unusable and the thing died. Software problems had turned it from a promising device into a brick. Planet is an example par excellence of an underfunded company.
Google taps Fastly to make cookie-free adtech FLEDGE fly
Re: Am I reading this right?
Not just that, the browser stores the data. As this is all a cookie does, it's still a cookie and will be slapped down by the courts.
I think it's a sideshow and that advertisers switched to using finger printing a while back: no cookies required, no personally identifiable data stored, good enough…
Microsoft: Patch this severe Outlook bug that Russian miscreants exploited
Solution often as bad as the problem
At least, judging by the problems our sys admins are having with SCEP (certificate management) since problems last year. We've had access completely bricked at least once and certificate deployment broken (used via MMD to provide secure access to mobile devices) more than once. Not only is this inconvenient, it's bloody expensive to track down and fix.
Ordinarily, this would lead to at least the threat of legal action. But this is software and Microsoft only has to promise to fix things in future updates. And, remember, recent changes in their support policy means they won't answer questions if you're not running the most recent version of the product, even if your version is still officially "supported".
Enter Tinker: Asus pulls out RISC-V board it hopes trumps Raspberry PI
Re: Wrong
Probably true, who's going to pay for you to continue designing chips if your secret sauce isn't secret? It's not the greatest business model. I suppose some fabs with their own design labs could afford to do this. But it's difficult to see why they would want the overhead and what the benefit for them would be.
Re: Wrong
Due to, some might say massively flawed pandemic policies, supply chains are buggered. For chips this means that low volume, low margin chips like the Broadcoms used in the RPis that supply is severely constrained, especially if you are intending to sell at a fixed price, while car and consumer electronic manufacturers refill their inventories. Supplies are improving across the board but it probably won't be until the end of the year before things get more or less back to normal.
Re: Yikes.
Yes, well, blame the article for the misleading comparison. Difficult to beat the R Pi for general tinkering devices. But for prototyping specific domains things might be different.
Most people won't care about the architecture, as long as it's well supported, and it won't affect the end price, either. ASUS has possibly switched archs purely because that's what is available at the moment in what is still a highly constrained market for low-end silicon.
Requiem for Google Reader, dead for a decade but not forgotten
Re: RSS
I have "Want my RSS" to expose the feeds and use Vienna to read them. StackOverflow allows you to subscribe to particular topcis like this.
RSS is limited, too limited to be useful for press releases, but it is piss easy to parse. Except for the inevitable extensions for longer articles which generally include images, multiple headings, etc.
Meta chops another 10,000 employees, closes 5,000 vacancies
One third wiped off value of GitLab shares, Wall Street didn't like weaker outlook
Re: The fundamental problem with being publically traded
Publicly traded companies must at least abide by the, admittedly few, rules of the stock exchange. These include announcements which may effect the share price, which is why Musk was censured by the SEC. He knows the rules and it's more than a little disingenuous to try and defend him.
Nowadays, there is very little difference between public and private companies, with many flipping between the two purely for accounting reasons: go private to load up on debt (and make dodgy acquisitions like SolarWorld), go public to get more money from the retail suckers.
Numbers
So we can assume investors are disappointed that losses aren't yet a multiple of turnover like a proper unicorn? I think GitLab has probably got a chance in the niche, non-cloud market. Especially, since Atlassian fluffed things so magnificently. The main product benefits from clear focus and a decided lack of feature creep.
The UK's bad encryption law can't withstand global contempt
Silicon Valley Bank's UK arm bought by HSBC for 1 British pound in rescue deal
Re: Hong Kong Shanghai Bank Corp
It used to be held in trust (for the savers and debtors) by the government. The government decided it could sell the bank and keep the money. Technically a breach of the trust and illegal, as the Scottish courts determined. But that's okay, because at the time the government could get the House of Lords could overrule any court decision it didn't like. They haven't been able to do that since the Supreme Court was introduced, but the current lot much prefers the law of "do what I say not why I do" and is looking at ways of removing the supremacy of the Supreme Court. And all in the name of democracy, which has come to mean anything we like and nothing you do.
Yes, Samsung 'fakes' its smartphone Moon photos – who cares?
The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 as a Linux laptop
Check out Codon: A Python compiler if you have a need for C/C++ speed
Re: Definitely a subset
Both exec()
and eval()
exist because they are necessary. But you are unlikely to ever use them your own code, I certainly haven't in over 20 years. Monkey patching can be essential in tests and can be occasionally be the right tool for the job.
The problem with all languages is the abuse of features for the wrong reason: I've seen people using comprehensions for flow control because it saves a line. It also makes things impossible to debug.
Python's great advantage is that helps millions of non-programmers get stuff done. Generally, quickly, safely and correctly.
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