Posts by Chris G 6754 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Oct 2007
The final line was exactly what I was thinking while watching the video, the entire grid is one robot.
The complexity is a hurdle to overcome in designing it from the start but that complexity is why it works.
Plus, as clever and complex in appearance it may serm, the overall system is relatively dumb in AI terms.
"Sadly, when bad actor vendors will happily cripple projects like JEDI even when their bids lose on their merits, it makes it hard to hold down costs or get anything done.
Perhaps, if those bad actors spent less on litigation and more time as well as money, on ensuring the quality of their output, everyone would be happier.
As it is, I suspect they will milk any contracts they do win, until the cash cows are dried and wizened.
I would like to be a fly on the wall at Oracle right now!
History constantly repeats itself but each repeat has subtle differences.
In this case, instead of Xerox renting copiers and making the client pay extra for toner, paper and a bloke to polish the drum, it's server rental and maintenance.
Still with the lock in and inflated hidden costs tied up by a contract written on stone, I assume.
"Not only will this service improve the victim experience and satisfaction with the service"
The system will allow victims to learn how and why they were robbed in a seamless and efficient manner and leave them secure in the knowledge that when and if the white collar perps are ever caught, that they will learn something useful like baking bread or making number plates while they are in their open prison.
I can only wish them all the luck in and out of the world, the more people and countries that go into space the better for science and man's outward looking.
I am 70, when I was a kid I thought by now we would be a lot further in manned space exploration than we are, never realised space had to demonstrate a profit back then.
Now the profit might be down to who gets a flag/corporate logo on it first.
The actual issue boils down to a government minister whose behaviour and therefore his character, is patently dishonest.
To his family, his constituents and the country on whose behalf he was paid to act.
In the past, people have lost their heads for less.
Even his resignation was dishonest, giving the impression this relationship was something new when he had already bugun to live with his aide.
That may be 'root of all evil' central but diversification in disruption is the way to go.
Just look at some other major players and how they treat their employees and customers while wallowing in ill gotten gains.
As I mentioned elsewhere, one particularly wealthy individual who owns a penis shaped rocket, bears a striking resemblance to Aleister Crowley.
Other representatives of hell on Earth are available.
An app where telemarketing organisations and their numbers are listed and updated in a similar way to anti virus, which will block them from calling your device, might work.
Of course I have zero idea how to apply such an idea, maybe someone has.
If such a thing existed, I would subscribe to it.
I am certain the offer is more about bearding Branson than giving a well deserved seat to a pioneering woman.
In other news, the other day I came across a pic online of Aleister Crowley, I thought it was a pic of Bezos until I read the caption.
D'you think they could be related?
If you peruse some of the absurd rubbish on the internet, including flat Earth, free energy and End of Days and the Book of Enoch quotes, the population is just as likely to be swallowed up by idiotic fads and beliefs as it ever was. The human race must have a gene for it but the gene is expressed more strongly in some.
I bet if you plastered it everywhere, you could get a cult of St Digitus the Infungible a decent following in a couple of weeks of Twittering and Feacebooking, especially if you have an App for it.
"That we track ourselves willingly shows us just how far our feelings about privacy have been transformed by the pandemic."
That is quite an assumption, the majority of people I know are reluctant to give anything more than is absolutely necessary in terms of private data, although I do know a fair number of the 'If you have nothing to hide' variety. But they will be the first volunteers for Soylent.
most of the restaurants I go into, have a QR code on the table, and they are mostly to save them having to walk out and hand the client an infectious menu, I just tell them I don't have a phone with me so give me a bug spreading printed menu.
They are all plasticised and wipeable with hand sanitiser anyway.
Interestingly, my neighbour after going to a sushi retaurant twice and using the QR, began to get ads for the place popping up when online.
So far only Castilla la Mancha insists on QR codes the rest of us don't.
It may be time for a change in how the law s are administered, willingness to pay the fine or settlement should be considered an admission of guilt that should by virtue of the admission be treated a little more leniently than if a defendant insisted on arguing in court, still being found guilty and having cost the court time and money, the admission of guilt being recorded as such.
Make the penalties for a guilty verdict much harsher.
There are dozens of trading apps advertising everywhere, including via Youtubers, they make it so easy to trade and many claim low or non existent commissions.
Yesterday the FT had an article pointing out the £100million a month these no commission apps are making in commission.
Trading is easy, and so is betting on the gee gees, you will probably make about the same profits too.
Exo-skeletons for schoolkids are an excellent idea. With the right AI and full exo-skeletons children can be subtly steered in the right direction, no looking out of the window or daydreaming instead of writing and with a well designed shock system, teachers can admonish children remotely, transhumanism at work!
"Stewardship of global collective behaviour"
The title of their paper tells you everything you need to know about the authors.
A bunch of academics who think they know better than the masses and how the masses should be steered.
If they really want to improve society, they may want to consider putting their weight behind the genuine improvement of educational standards, teach critical thinking and always asking questions rather than accepting everything one reads blindly on trust.
Of course good citizens shouldn't question too much though, should they?
The problem with studies that make and publish opinions about who the top polluters are makes people who don't live in those places, complacent.
I have mentioned before, when sailing in the Med' and other places, if you are doing the morning watch from 04:00 to 08:00, the sea is often like a mirror, super calm, at that time you can see beads of plastic floating on the surface every couple of inches.
Multiply that up by the whole of the Med' let alone the rest of the oceans and how much plastic is on the surface alone? Then consider how much more has sunk and is slowly releasing a slew of unnatural chemical additives into the environment.
Bob mentioned he doubts the US and the West dump plastics in the oceans but when you allow for the fact that many garden and potting soils for drainage contain styrofoam beads along with all the other microplastics that drain into the rivers and oceans, then we in the West are far from not guilty.
Even the lint that is released from modern synthetic clothing amounts to significant amounts of unwanted plastic in the environment, then there is tyre and brake dust that accounts for over 550,000 tons of ocean micro plastic pollution each year according to the EPA. Presumably EPA figure are for the US only.
We all have a lot to answer for.
Going by the carrier bag full of waste plastic generated by shopping for a week's worth of food for two of us, the World has way too much plastic rather than enough.
The same depackaging process produces almost as much carton.
All this just to get the product from the producer to the shop and then the consumer.
Obviously, when you actually use the goods there is another layer of plastic, carton or metal waste produced.
One of the worst plastic offenders is expanded polystyrene as it is difficult and costly to recycle, there needs to be research to either improve the recycling process for it or find an economical altrrnative.
I am curious to know how much packing from Amazon goes to landfill each year, at some 2.5 billion packages due to ship this year, that is a lot of cardboard and bubble wrap.
Particularly when Amazon has a habit of sending tiny items in large boxes full of padding.
I think the various monopolies commissions around the world should get together and dismantle amazon and regulate the hell out of what is left.
I think for tracking it only needs something like an Apple Tile hidden in a ex/partner's car.
Stalker ware wise, enough people leave their phones lying around, I have no idea what is involved in the installation of stalker ware but if it is as simple as installing and app.....
Volume icon?
Oh, I thought that was a feature to see if you are paying attention.
I would like the indelible weather widget to bugger off though.
Whatever else they come up with, I suspect bloat and features you could never have imagined you needed will still be a thing.
The article is wrong about rectal crystals, a lingam stone is more highly recommended for balancing and realigning chakras.
Lingam stones are elongated pebbles found in the Narmada holy river in India, brown, they look like a polished turd and are about as useful.
For a modest pecuniary donation to my personal chakra realignment fund, I can give you a therapeutic slap that will jolt enlightenment into every chakra at once.
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