Posts by Chris G 6754 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Oct 2007
"Google is also taking steps to improve privacy in its Android ecosystem. "
No it isn't, Google is taking steps to limit access to private data from advertisers and others using it's platform so that it can sell that data to them in one form or another because google is still slurping for itself at the same rate.
What else would it do with all that lovely data?
This week I have mainly been making a cold smoker, tested it with some streaky pork and then cooked the pork in the oven. My wife and I sat in the evening sun with some of the best smoky pork I have ever had, washed down with ice cold corona.:-)
Here in Spain too, since the latter half of February there have been otherwise relatively normal people with carrier bags rummaging around the hedgerows and field margins picking asparagus.
You have to get your eye in to spot the edible shoots and wear leather work gloves because the mature plant is very spiky.
Nice to see and hear Ian Dury, he was one of the best singer/songwriter/poets ever in my opinion, and a good musician to boot.
Based on the examples given in the article, there are no labeling errors, the fault lies with the simplistic software and it's lack of ability to encompass enough parameters. A human would have little problem in making sens of a a 'bucket of baseballs' encompassing both a number of baseballs contained in a bucket or a bucket containing a number of baseballs.
The errors in these cases at least lie with the programming.
So we have an SA (Semi Autonomous) vehicle controlled by an AI that has to be watched by an HI (Human Intelligence) who will be told when they need to take over control of the SA from the AI by another AI that is also watching the SA?
I think I may be able to save some time and money here.................
All I can say is Fuck'em!
What right does a school have to dictate one' s hairstyle?
Way back in the early sixties, three of us at my school started growing our hair longer than the 'normal' short back and sides of the day.
Our headmaster gave us an ultimatum, 'get your hair cut, I will cut it or you will have to wear a red ribbon in your hair at school'.
Two of us opted for the ribbon, the other guy went for a trim.
You wouldn't believe the street cred we got from wearing ribbon and the old boy could back down because he had made the threat in school assembly.
Uniformity and conformity in the military has its place, in schools not so much.
@osakajin, since with this tech everybody is effectively a disturbance in the force, your Faraday suit will not hide you. You will still be detectable.
The idea is not dissimilar to military uses of electronic intelligence (elint) so what is needed is a counter intelligence broadcast to fool or jam the Wi-fi around you.
This sounds like something that may well be abused from the first moment abuse is possible, by all the usual data slurpers, Google, Facebook, governments et al.
One thing that could help against commercial abuse is if we all had ownership of our data as a constitutional right, so that each time an entity wishes to use it they must gain your express permission to do so.
I can't imagine Michael Gove trying to be charming, sounds creepy to me.
I also can't imagine Vax passports being run efficiently, considering that vaccination does not mean you can't catch vivid, does not mean you can't be a spreader and in addition the levels and reliability of regular testing have neither the infrastructure or a short enough response time to be effective.
Still it would create jobs, join the sanitary plod anyone?
An example could be the flying boondoggle that is the F35, been modeled to Hades and back several times over and what have they got?
"Lockheed Martin F-35 deficiencies: two fewer in 2020, 871 issues remain."
The Technoking may be a bit of an arse at times but SpaceX has gone out of the box in many respects and IS moving forward, more than can be said for the SLS/Boeing circus.
I see no problem with Marmite crisps or crackers and have on occasion put Marmite with butter on to digestive biscuits ( though they are a snack for the desperate).
The first time I was ever invited to a family Thanksgiving meal in California, one of the ingredients of the roast turkey dinner was mashed squash with a layer of marshmallow roasted in a tin, looked odd but was actually not bad.
So1from what I see on the video, is a multi axis pick and place robot on a mobile base.
Not what I envisaged for the 21st century.
I don't see these as anything better than the automated warehousing pioneered by Sainsburys in the nineties just more complex to build and maintain. The ones on the video looked similar to the standard industrial unit used for windscreen placement right down to the vacuum pads.
Just wait though, until all the industrial robots come fitted with full AI and they begin to unionise :]
I think the need for unions is becoming stronger by the day, not so much for disruptive actions such as strikes and walkouts but more more having the collective strength to fight against the lawyers of more and more companies that seem determined to make Scrooge look like an amateur.
With many businesses, you could easily merge HR with normal Resource Management as the humanity becomes less significant.
A level 5 allegedly autonomous vehicle will still not be anywhere near the complexity and potential of a level 1 human, while I think that much of the sensory functions that are being developed for autonomous vehicles may be useful additions to a piloted vehicle I don't believe a truly autonomous car is anything like as close as the marketing wonks and other fans would have us believe.
How much of the electronic kit we use daily, has failures, glitches of one kind or another, or the software suddenly develops gremlins?
Most of these items that develop faults, we can belt with a hammer, take to a service centre or call out a technician, not so easy when you multi-ton item is doing 70MPH on a motorway.
I have yet to hear anything about an equivalent to the annual MOT check for autonomic systems either, particularly as there are no standards that can so far be applied to such systems.
How do these systems deal with black ice, aquaplaning and other severe weather that can occur unexpectedly?
Back in the days of getting an envelope with cash in it each Friday, I was working for an outfit that had just been taken over by a French services company.
About four weeks in, one obsequious little toe rag came around with the pay packets and an A4 clipboard with a sheaf of papers on it. He wanted each of us to sign and date the piece of paper with the amount of pay printed on the top.
Being naturally nosy, I looked on the back where I saw a load of fine print, when I started reading it, them TR tried to insist that he 'didn't have time for that'.
The fine print was the company trying to get us to sign away our rights under Transfer of Undertaking laws, it ended up costing the company money paying off everyone not to pursue legal action.
I didn't last there very long, I found a new job as quickly as possible.
This sounds an interesting concept but there are so many challenges to overcome before it would be a practical method to apply drugs or other treatments within the body.
I think other systems such as engineered viruses or viral particles that target specific organs or cell types are likely to beat this to the punch.
"For over 20 years, we have consistently emphasized the need for organizations to collect and use data about program performance to help inform and measure organization operations and results."
Why the hell would any pork barrel recipient pay any attention to such emphasis?
It could lead to someone being answerable for lack of performance.
I had seen a couple of remarks recently about a bridge to NI, I thought people were just being facetious, I am shocked to see it as a serious consideration.
The Irish sea often seems to act as a funnel to concentrate storm surges running up it. A couple of years back one of my clients who has a house not far from the beach in Southern Ireland facing into the Irish sea, had all his windows broken by a wave that ran several hundred metres up the beach.
If they build the bridge, I want to be the first to walk backwards to Ireland across it at Christmas to honour Spike Milligan.
"eg please keep the door to the staff room closed at all times (because otherwise the aircon goes into overdrive and somehow trips the telephone system)"
Sometimes it's not easy to explain, of you apply your example to a school, the teachers don't want the pupils to see them chain smoking, drinking alcohol and scratching their nuts.
Although in this case it seems clear that Fartface
was just trying to protect its reputation in the face of an avoidable failure.
So, according to the marketing wonks who made the video, substituting a real dad for a cyborg at his daughter's wedding is an answer to stop the old fool from steering his wheel chair over her dress?
Or did I not understand the video?
The idea of full real time telemetry on your personal vehicle is a wet dream for both data slurpers and police states.
Then we let anyone have access to it because training is hard and expensive to implement properly for our staff.
I have been to in house training sessions at councils where everyone knows everyone, is given a pamphlet or a printout and then have a nice chat for a bit before going back to work tem minutes before knocking off time.
That's how seriously a lot of things are taken.
On more than one occasion, I have looked for articles that previously were available for free online, only to discover they had been pirated by the likes of Elsevier and others who are able to game search algorithms do that they show up at the top of a search and the free version is umpteen pages further away.
If Scihub is rattling their cages, good on them, science anf human knowledge should be open and free.
I can follow most accents in the UK but have a complete mental block with Geordie and I met an Ulsterman once who spoke with such a strong accent at warp speed that at first I wasn't even sure he was speaking English.
Fortunately, my mate was from Belfast so he translated for me.
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