In the event of no deal or a hard Brexit, please do come back after March and tell us how you, personally, are winning.
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UK networks have 'no plans' to bring roaming fees back after Brexit
Do not adjust your set, er, browser: This is our new page-one design
I took a look at it when it was opt-in. The comments in the discussion were overwhelmingly against. IIRC they even said it made the mobile version worse so there goes the main reason for the change. But no, someone ?marketing, decides to go ahead anyway.
Come the Third Glorious UI Revolution where years of commentards calls for OS and website design which follow early 2000 design guides will finally heard and the sins of the Second Unholy UI Revolution (consolidated desktop and mobile versions) will be declared wicked and banished forever, this website will be weighed in the balance and found wanting unless it can find The One True Register Style in archive.org. But I digress.
GDPR v2 – Gradually Diminishing Psychotic Robots: Brussels kills Terminator apocalypse
And they say that like it's a bad thing
some argued against the resolution in the European Parliament this week, warning that such a blanket ban on developing deadly weapons controlled by machine could impose unnecessary limits on artificial intelligence research
Just so I can understand this, someone stood in front of them and argued that unless an super intelligent artificial intelligence could be housed in the body of a killing machine, it would mean there would mean there would be fewer job opportunities at Cyberdyne Systems?
The grand-plus iPhone is the new normal – this is no place for paupers
You know all those movies you bought from Apple? Um, well, think different: You didn't
It does apply to Nintendo, they took down their Wii Shop Channel. Either you keep your DRM'd downloads (tied to your machine) on SD card or you lose them. If your Wii breaks or is stolen, tough luck. As the shop is closed, you can't ring Nintendo to get them to transfer your purchases to the new machine's account or a Wii U and download them again.
Re: It's a good idea to take things home with you when you buy them.
On devices within limited storage (why would we need more, it's all available in the cloud!), we are encouraged to buy, download, watch/listen/read/play, wipe, and repeat, with a UI that gives the impression these shiny trinkets which we believe we have purchased will always be there for us.
And DRM stops us from making a backup copy of what we believe we've purchased.
I guess this is commonly known as a scam.
Microsoft: You don't want to use Edge? Are you sure? Really sure?
Plex plucks media cloud service, sends users scurrying to exit
Re: Whew!
Er, Plex was originally a fork from Kodi a decade ago and it seems it hasn't moved on very much in the meantime.
I've looked at the website and I'm quite unimpressed with the Plex Perks (scroll down, click "Show me the Perks" button, click button and get told you have to have a Plex Pass to see that page, told to click "Go Premium" to see the goodies, click button and get sent back to the previous page) and the Plex Pass itself (scroll down to "Plex Features", the same feature can be explained in two or three different ways on the scrolling banner, and again can these features can be replicated with the appropriate Android app or Kodi plug-in).
Given Kodi, I really don't see why Plex is worth anything, let alone a subscription.
Safari, Edge fans: Is that really the website you think you're visiting? URL spoof bug blabbed
British Airways hack: Infosec experts finger third-party scripts on payment pages
Microsoft's next Windows 10 release creeps closer with a cluster of builds
It's been 5 years already, let's gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's bloodbath
Re: Nokia was a phone company that couldn't make the transition
Apple is hardly a risk taker or market leader either, but in the Jobs era they knew how to reduce their product portfolio to the minimum necessary (computers: desktop, laptop, pro desktop, pro laptop, phone: one version), use newish understood technology only after the rest had gone through the development pains to make it understood, knew what to include and what to leave for later, and used software to appeal the pros and design to appeal to the masses.
Cook has done too much cannibalising and not enough of what made Apple good under Jobs.
Re: I blame Nadella
but in the end he made the right call.
Depends if you define the right call as unveiling a Windows 10 everywhere strategy that only works if you define everywhere to be just the desktop.
There is Azure, but downtime is too high. However the CxOs who send money to Microsoft aren't that demanding, they put up with Windows, Office, and Exchange before and now they put up with Azure now.
On the other hand, the N9 was praised when it was launched.
Shame they dropped it for Windows Phone when they finally got it right.
Conspiracy theory?
We know the following:
1. The burning platform memo... no sane CEO who's in it for the long term kneecaps their current platform.
2. The N9 launch to restricted markets... no sane CEO who's in it for the long term kills their new platform.
3. In his breathless rush to dump existing and new OSes and switch to Windows Phone, he soured operator relations by insisting on Skype being bundled too.
4. As his CV shows, Elop's one and only idea before Nokia was engineering buyouts. Thus it happened with Nokia.
So, saying he was all in a fluster to get on board the Windows Phone train whatever the cost and get bought by MS is hardly a conspiracy theory. It's all on the record.
Maybe Nokia had dysfunctional internal bureaucracy, but it's no worse that Microsoft's stack ranking or any large corp I've worked in. In spite of that bureaucracy (which they themselves recognised hindered them and were trying to change) they still got good phones out like the N8, N9, E7, and N808.
Yet when they bet everything on Windows Phone, which neither end users nor operators like, they stopped being successful. What should we blame, the bureaucracy or Elop? If you're still not sure, look at his CV after Nokia.
Using Python in Visual Studio Code? Microsoft has new toys for you
Official: Google Chrome 69 kills off the World Wide Web (in URLs)
Re: Why not take it a step further..
There you go:
New Google Parent Company Drops 'Don't Be Evil' Motto
And it's not The Onion.
AI biz borks US election spending data by using underpaid Amazon Mechanical Turks
"With Captricity’s cloud-native Data-as-a-Service platform, the FEC is able to upload scanned filing reports into designated folders securely hosted in the cloud via Amazon S3 [...] The images are then automatically extracted from each folder and uploaded to Captricity. Deep learning algorithms sort and capture the data from all of the documents quickly, securely and with 99.9 percent accuracy."
So now Deep Learning is a Perl script going through directories, calling an OCR program for each file in that directory and then sending the text file output to Mechanical Turk.
A real shot in the Arm: 3% of global workforce surplus to requirements
So, did anyone believe them two years ago?
Softbank promises stronger ARM: Greater overseas reach and double the UK jobs
The Japan giant has committed to “at least” a doubling of ARM’s existing UK workforce, in addition to continued investment in the country, in addition to overseas expansion over the next five years.
ARM’s UK headcount, mostly centred in Cambridge, numbers around 3,000.
Nokia reinstates 'hide the Notch' a day after 'Google required' feature kill
Post-silly season blues leave me bereft of autonomous robot limbs
Today’s favourite is Foodvisor, an app that counts your calorie intake by recognising a photo of what you’re eating by using “AI algorithms”. It’s meant to “help people eat healthier” – if not write grammaticallier – and they’re calling it a “Shazam for food”.
Judging by the results in the photo, they're calling it "Not Hotdog".
UK.gov's no-deal plans leave HMRC customs, VAT systems scrambling to keep up
Re: A total waste of effort to support a transparent bluff
Of course the EU won't be around in its current form 30 years from now. It was different 30 years ago* and it will be different 30 years from now.
And if you're worried about extreme parties, I have move confidence e.g. Germany will survive them than the UK. You see a far-right demo on the news but don't see loads of other demos in town squares all around Germany. In the UK the Tories have lurched to the right following UKIP and UKIP have just lurched to the right once again. If there's no deal, the UK is going to turn into a populist hellhole.
* that was when the UK more-or-less came up the Single Market, the EC adopted it wholesale, and it became the world's biggest market.
Re: A total waste of effort to support a transparent bluff
Following Brexit too much as I do, I really don't know if May's plan is to turn the Chequers proposal into a EEA + CU deal at the last minute or crash out with no deal. Those are the only two options, a FTA won't fly because a North Sea border is politically impossible.
Things like May not letting MPs see the impact assessment of no deal before the final vote isn't a reason to be cheerful.
Canny Brits are nuking the phone bundle
Nope, the NSA isn't sitting in front of a supercomputer hooked up to a terrorist’s hard drive
As the article says:
it’s no secret that encryption has become a problem for police. It’s not necessarily that they can’t break it at all – every system has its design weaknesses and vulnerabilities - but they can’t do it presquickly [sic] enough to conduct surveillance on enough targets for that to make a difference.
And you have to have a reasonable definition for 'enough'. They're complaining at the moment because it's not reasonable. If it were (e.g. restricted to criminal suspects), we wouldn't be having this discussion at all.
Anyway judging by the current governments in US, the UK, and Australia, TPTP seem to be threatening their own wealth and power.
Do you really think crims would do that? Just go on the 'net and exploit a Windows zero-day?
Thunderstruck: Azure Back in Black(out) after High Voltage causes Flick of the Switch
Skype can now record your 'special moments' in front of the computer
So how does this work?
1. You hit record, everyone gets notified, everyone has to answer yes, recording starts?
2. You hit record, everyone gets notified, recording starts there and then, if they don't like it they hang up?
Sounds like the second one meaning Microsoft Don't Get Privacy (again).
Microsoft sharpens its claws to cut Outlook UI excess, snip Ribbon
Meet the Fockers
Purchasers of Office 2019 will, alas, not get the new toys because, let's face it, Microsoft would really really like you to climb aboard the Office 365 train.
There's someone in MS who knew very well what they were inflicting on the general public with the ribbon but they did it anyway.
Well I'm going to stay on local Office and learn to love the ribbon after a decade. That'll learn 'em.
Heart-stopping predictions from AI doctors could save lives
Software dev-turned-councillor launches rubbish* chatbot
No room left for doubts
However, Rouse's decision to use Facebook, rather than setting up his own app, as the MP for West Suffolk did, is perhaps a canny move, given the privacy concerns the Matt Hancock app raised when it launched.
Yes. With Matt Hancock's app you might have had privacy concerns, with Facebook Messenger you know you've got privacy concerns.
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