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£360 million?

That's just a little more than the post-brexit NHS bonus, is this a result of the current "inflation"?

Illustrated in 1982

"AI algorithms detect and analyse things like a person's eye movement, facial expression ..." it's documented extremely well in Blade Runner, you can see how well it works and how it tried to figure out if Rachel is a Replicant or a Lesbian ... in the movie AI is just Alien Intelligence.

It took more than 100 questions and they were only able to guess - watch the whole movie and you can imagine that you can figure out the answer at the end. Essentially AI chatbots seem to have all the same issues that Blade Runner illustrates for Replicants.

MY PC loves cookies!

I have it setup to deli eat them all when I close the browser on all my various PC operating systems. And as a result FF always runs well, my PC loves being well fed.

Good cooperation at last

This sounds like everyone is working together to get science working well without any political mess. It would be nice if this kind of cooperation continues in future, it's helping everyone learn a little more about our solar system.

Goodbye data privacy

I expect that they will start monitoring coat-hanger sales nationwide now, it's OK to buy guns but it may soon become a crime to buy a coat-hanger.

Warping from home

Oops, I wonder if that's a typo? Working from home is not as easy as working in the office in most circumstances but it saves the company all the money that was being spent to keep the office clean, warm or cool and decent. But if this is the way we're going will it fix the current issues that we are seeing? Will the government start promoting working from home in Rwanda as an excellent choice?

But the other side of this is that the Government is currently complaining about increases in worker pay and working from home will "fix" that for them, it might result in a lot of "working from home" jobs in the UK with workers employed by companies outside the UK because they are so cheap to employ - that could cause the unemployment rates to drop as fast as the wage rates. I am afraid that all of the current changes are going to suck badly.

So my password is still safe!

It's a strong xkcd password

My advice for Biden

If Biden were to pardon Julian Assange when he arrives, and return him home to Australia, then I think the world would start to compare Biden to Carter, essentially a politician with a good attitude. Assange basically only gave everyone access to information about many terrible actions organized by George W. Bush with encouragement from Tony Blair, and now Putin is joining the club.

Originally I thought Biden was a shitty politician but these days, watching all of today's political actions I'm starting to think he's good. "Good?" who knows, but look at all the other idiots today.

Thank you Katyanna!

Anyone coding in this environment, or a related one, needs to download and read the published paper, It's an excellent description and reading it will help everyone think about what they are doing and how it might (or might not) work. Understanding the environment and the way things work is a huge help when you are trying to get things working and coding. The paper is very helpful - that's a feature of so many published papers in every field you might have to work in... for example, this view is very helpful whether you like it or not (LOL): Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes. - Richard Hamming

GDPR+

I think that we are seeing the General Data Protection Regulation starting to work in Europe so it would be very nice to see it enhanced and have a vast effect on the current data theft world. I expect that it would create a very different Internet environment and generate a vast amount of corporate complaints ... but if companies are going to fight it then it tells you what they are doing every time you visit their websites and never click on data acceptance.

This is currently documented on Bruce Schneier's cryptogram website - https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/

"Why did it take five months for Microsoft to mitigate a vulnerability..."

When a bug is discovered, if it is fixed quickly then everyone is happy ... including anyone who's accessing the user data via the bug because when you fix something quickly then it's very hard to verify that you haven't just moved the bug somewhere else. I expect that when Microsoft saw the bug, the programmers started looking at all the other areas in the code that it might have affected, planning to try and implement a complete fix, not just the first of a few months bug fixes.

Sure, five months is an issue but it's much better than quickly creating a bunch of new vulnerabilities.

"rumors he left over a workplace affair"

LOL, that reminds me when I first had a "company car" in the early 70's and a week later the sales boss was getting his car repaired so he took mine in the afternoon, promising that I would get it back in the morning. It was not a big deal for me, only about 40 minutes to walk back to the apartment and when I got back to work the next morning he gave me the keys back, his car had been fixed.

But later that afternoon, when I got back into my car to drive home, I saw two high-heel shoe prints in the ceiling over the back seat - this was my first job so all I did was laugh back then.

Is this devolution?

Originally we were making all the chips and components in the countries using them to build the products but then corporate owners started to make much more money by selling all the manufacturing abilities to cheaper countries and buying everything we need with only a week or two deliveries to our markets ...

So originally we were "Farmers" growing everything we need to stay commercially alive, but now we're returned to just being "Hunter Gatherers" and so we're seeing the old problems these days. But it will all be solved when China gets the delays eliminated? If China does a Putin on Taiwan and everyone protests, then what will we see in a few years? We're just Hunter Gatherers these days having the old problems when we couldn't catch anything.

Intelligent Life exists

I believe that NASA is the sole evidence for the existence of intelligent life in the solar system, or even on this planet. Certainly there is some suspicion of "alien spacecraft" but mostly it's on social media these days and is only seen as visualization errors in the past. The only solid evidence for intelligent life on this planet, beyond NASA, is revealed by listening to Brian Eno everyday.

70 years ago we were told ...

"It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years." - John Von Neumann, circa 1949.