Re: Start it off with an easier challenge
An AI to interpret amanfromMars first please
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Experts build AI joke machine that's about as funny as an Adam Sandler movie (that bad)
Amazon can't or won't collect sales tax in Australia
Remember that $5,000 you spent on Tesla's Autopilot and then sued when it didn't deliver? We have good news...
Monday 28th May 2018 00:08 GMT 
Re: If you are contracted….
At least in my neck of the woods, in assessing consumer law the courts tend to take the view that a promise doesn't need to be written in the contract to be considered an enforceable condition of that contract. It just needs to have been made by the seller. If, as in this case, it was written down, so much the better (and easier).
If the contract contradicts a promise the seller made, a bit like children crossing their fingers behind their back, I believe the courts often side with the customer too.
Sunday 27th May 2018 01:16 GMT
Re: If you are contracted….
Preface: IANAL.
When you enter into a contract (such as when you buy a car), all parties make certain representations. For example, the buyer promises to pay the seller a certain amount and the seller promises that the car has particular performance and features etc.
In this case, the customers paid extra for the promise that they would receive certain additional features by a specified date*. Tesla appears to believe that it's operating in the wild west of software, where features are added and removed at a whim, might not even be fit for purpose and promises of delivery dates are ethereal. I doesn't work that way with motor vehicles.
* While perhaps not common for motor vehicles, this is not an unusual clause to see in a contract. Once when I bought a property, the seller promised to have certain structural certification work completed by a particular date after the contract settlement. There was a financial penalty associated with them failing to do so.
The great wearables myth busted: Apps never, ever mattered
Saturday 26th May 2018 04:18 GMT
I also began wearing wristwatches again after many years as a result of the smartphone. In the last few years I replaced a very old Nokia with a 5" smartphone and found that digging it out of my trouser pocket just to know the time was often a major PITA.
Since then I've spent many times the value of the phone on watches, but that's a different problem.
Welcome to your sci-fi dystopia: Sonic firewalls to crumble inaudible ad-tracking phone cookies
Orbital ATK launches another Cygnus without anything blowing up
Tuesday 22nd May 2018 01:24 GMT
Re: Environmental impact of burning tons of space junk in earth's atmosphere?
The environmental impact is about the same as for SpaceX, but with much less publicity. But since these guys don't have a narcissist fronting them, this question is asked of these guys but not of the cool kids.
I see you've never read the comments section on an article about a SpaceX operation.
NASA’s new exoplanet-spotter survives sling past the Moon
Blood spilled from another US high school shooting has yet to dry – and video games are already being blamed
Great Scott! Bitcoin to consume half a per cent of the world's electricity by end of year
Thursday 17th May 2018 23:46 GMT
Re: What a load of bollocks this bitcoin is!
It used to be that only governments could "create" or issue money. With Bitcoin, et al, that has left the hands of government. So maybe that's a use?
Bitcoin (and all other cryptocoins) aren't creating any money. They're just moving existing money into the hands of early adopters and electricity generators. There's no economic productivity involved.
nbn™ scoreboard: miracle needed to hit FY 18 construction targets
America's forgotten space station and a mission tinged with urine, we salute you
And THIS is how you do it, Apple: Huawei shames Cupertino with under-glass sensor
NASA will send tiny helicopter to Mars
First SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket lobs comms sat into orbit
Saturday 12th May 2018 05:25 GMT
I remember the first time I saw GATTACA, I thought "those rocket launches look completely unconvincing". Likely because I was used to seeing grainy technical footage from the 60s-90s.
It turns out that real daytime launches of kerosene-burning rockets, shot on modern high quality equipment for publicity rather than technical purposes (Falcon Heavy being a particularly good example of this,) really do look like they do in the movies.
Chap charged with fraud after mail for UPS global HQ floods Chicago flat
Your software hates you and your devices think you're stupid
Virtue singing – Spotify to pull hateful songs and artists
Shining lasers at planes in the UK could now get you up to 5 years in jail
IBM bans all removable storage, for all staff, everywhere
Australian foreplay: Bum-biting in an underground hole
So when can you get in the first self-driving car? GM says 2019. Mobileye says 2021. Waymo says 2018 – yes, this year
Glibc 'abortion joke' diff tiff leaves Richard Stallman miffed
Hacking charge dropped against Nova Scotia teen who slurped public records from the web
Arista: Sales up, profit up, share price down
Waymo van prang, self-driving cars still suck, AI research jobs, and more
Nvidia quickly kills its AMD-screwing GeForce 'partner program' amid monopoly probe threat
Microsoft's latest Windows 10 update downs Chrome, Cortana
Whoa, Gartner drops a truth bomb: Blockchain is overhyped and top IT bods don't want it
Friday 4th May 2018 00:16 GMT
Re: XML
Blockchain is actually a useful concept.What gives the blockchain concept a bad name are the cryptocurrencies
"Blockchain" uses concepts that have been around for decades and for which there has been more than enough time for someone to find uses for them. On top of that, the only thing that makes a blockchain a blockchain is the mining of tradeable tokens. Take those away and there's nothing new under the bonnet.
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