Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 21384 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
> I should only be expected to pay what *I* use, nothing more.
The problem is that the cost of supplying you with water is >90% fixed costs whether you use a drop or not
So if there is no standing charge the rate/volume is going to be really high - screwing anyone with families.
Fortunately it benefits old people living alone, who vote, so expect the standing charge to go away.
Unfortunately it IS a good method of communication - if only it wasn't owned by a fsck-wit
Traffic alerts, forest fires, train / ferry delays, lots of applications where you want potentially millions of people to be able to subscribe to a lot of information services in a single app with low bandwidth and some level of authentication of the sender - not really anything to replace it for the general public
So he's currently facing a $Bn lawsuit from Eli Lily after an 'approved' post said that they were making insulin free - Twitters defense is that the 'approved' blue checkmark doesn't mean approved.
He's now saying that unless they pay $1K/month then Eli Lilly's approved gold checkmark (which presumably does mean approved) might go away, leaving only the blue checkmark posts from scammers
I bet the judge is going to love that
You can make current high-Tc in bulk, the problem is you can't make wires. Currently you either cast the HTs material in situ or you scatter powder onto tape, either isn't great. It's why they weren't used for ITER
Currently this material seems to have very low (100mA) critical current and very low max field - but if those are just due to it being a lab bench mix rather than a refined product
> smart bombs, drones or cruise missiles won't destroy the IP
Just hope the smart bombs do preserve the calibration settings and software licenses for all the suppliers systems - they need to be pretty smart bombs.
This isn't like capturing the VW plant in 1945 and getting a chap with a pipe and moustache to restart the production line
Unless they broke some protected class ie. you would say that cos you're gay !
The possible cases are fiduciary duty, ie. the directors knew the AI project was a waste of shareholder's money. Or they knew the product would be likely break some law
The most likely is that he is hoping for a quick $1M + NDA to basically fsck-off and keep "Google+Evil+AI" out of the headlines
Don't catch fare dodgers - it's never worth it.
Our glorious people's transit system got a consultant to say were 'losing' $3M/year to fare dodgers - in a system where <50% of income is from fares, most is subsidy
So they were going to install a $30M oyster-card style system with barriers
Of course they weren't going to just use Oyster, they were going to build their own system - cos we're special
When the cost reached $130M they stopped publishing cost figures 'for commercial confidentialy'
It finally worked, except they now had to hire staff at every station to assist disabled or people with luggage etc through the gates and they had to introduce a flat fare across the system cos it couldn't deal with the bandwidth of people tapping out at the end of the journey
>Blue Origin has got people into space (but not orbit) repeatedly.
Getting into space is easy, you can almost do it with a balloon. You can do it with an air-air missile fired from a fighter
Getting into space, turning 90deg and accelerating to orbital velocity (8 km/s) is a mite more challenging
Horizon is arguably horribly inneficient but it's predictable.
You don't move for a job and find the grant is only for another 6months and then the research councils are all rearranged or the next budget cuts research spending or universities are moved to a new ministry or the university loses overseas students and needs to save money
Except they proved at the last election that if you say Brexit and wave a flag all the traditional labour votes will switch to you.
If the Tories had a plan - they might be thinking of a US republican model where all the working class voters vote conservative and labour is left with just media graduates and anybody black in the cities.
>LILO was a PITA but otherwise, all was good.
At least it was comprehensible - compare to EUFI that needs a Shaman, 2 Rabbis and the ghost of Aleister Crowley to understand
The dos-box config menu at least fits on a terminal screen, unlike certain enterprise Linux's that require a 4K monitor to be able to click the OK box at the bottom
My only complaint with xfce (at least on previous mint) is that the file manager seems to only do one thing at a time. If you do a drag and drop of a big bunch of files, it freezes on browsing any other folders until that finishes. This is on a reasonable (by 10year old standards) i7 box
>Other jobs would find it nearly impossible to successfully implement
What are the odds that they have carefully air-gapped all the developers, who only work on internal tools that would be no use to anyone else, in case they click on a dodgy link.
But all the finance / marketing / HR / reception / sales / office staff have internet because they need it for their jobs, and they would never click on spam and all they have access to is HR, finance and sales data so nothing worth stealign.
>where even my temporary code needs to reside on a remote server,
Except if your remote server is Google cloud and the Google cloud is in the same room - you are OK
>Things will get very interesting when someone uses a LLM to create the lyrics to a song, the record companies will ensure this goes to court…
Or you can use this vast corpus to find out which song lyrics have occurred in previously published books
I'm guessing most pop songs don't consist entirely of brand new sentences
Some of the larger record companies are going to be a little reticent about going to court to claim a fragment of a song re-appeared in a LLM, especially after they spent 70 years claiming that their artist precisely copying a riff from some unknown artist wasn't an issue
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