Posts by DryBones

Re: ambiguous?

The best Reg article headlines are an ongoing battle between tongue and cheek.

Re: They knew what they were getting into. I say let them crash!

To turn it the other way, did you just say "You should pay us money, even though we don't keep your private or payment information the slightest bit safe, and are looking into how we can sell it to drug makers without getting sued out of existence,"?

We wouldn't tolerate this from a store, you need to show cause on why we should tolerate it from facilities where we go when things actually are a matter of life and death.

Re: In fairness

Hi. As a human, I can understand, "Pedestrian was hit and propelled into the path of another vehicle." And I will bloody well see it happen. And I know to stop, check, see if I can reverse off them.

Not, you know, pull to the side while dragging them beneath. This is all basic kinematics and object persistence.

Re: UHC

Which is what the Republicans and insurance companies orchestrated, and are quite happy to have you think this is as good as it gets.

It's manifestly false, and much more efficient and affordable healthcare systems around the world demonstrate this.

From what I've been reading, in the EU they do not. Because they performed operations that were not explicitly authorized by the user in order to do their fingerprinting. Which makes the operation of their blocker-blocker illegal.

Re: No videos until you consent?

I do not.

If they can't work out how to do things without pissing people off they deserve to fail.

Re: The patent system is not fit for purpose.

I hope not. The concept that, "The microphone that has the input at the highest amplitude s probably the closest and therefore the correct one" is classified as Fucking Duh, and should not be patentable. And no, nifty bits about normalizing and going between different mics doesn't make it novel. That's called calibration, and should be done in any device that provides amplitude.

Re: Don't like the way you are framing this

Why does Sweden have some of the lowest excess mortality? They weren't idiots like USandians. They actually listened to their government, took some precautions, got vaccinated. The US? Much more scared of needles than guns.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/opinion/sweden-pandemic-coronavirus.html

The CDC said that when the size of the particles that transmitted the virus wasn't properly understood. Cloth masks helped. But they were not as effective as surgical masks, which were not as effective as N95 masks. If you had been paying attention, you would have seen the studies going on about propagation and droplet size and airflow modeling, trying to get a grip on the actual dynamics.

Re: Worry less.

Well, that's some hilarious friendly-fire.

Re: History repeats

You should have told them their implementation was shit, and to fix it.

Except the user's credentials can be exported along with the data. Whoops!

Re: "Being able to switch provider easily is an important part of a competitive market,"

Reverse the charges and report them? Wonder how fast they'll find the answer if their access to the system is threatened.

Re: "he would have walked away from the takeover deal if he could"

Oh please.

That line is trotted out too often by those unwilling to actually consider complicated situations, nor the simple fact that the rich people don't actually have their best interests in mind.

Re: Safe Primes 10,000++ Decimal Digits Long -- What's The Problem?

Because what works in your use-case doesn't work everywhere, and isn't being used everywhere.

I seem to recall multiple Alexa video pranks for just that sort of thing.

Re: Peak China?

Go look up 'whataboutism'. You may or may not do it, but this means you can no longer claim to be ignorant of what you are doing.

So the downvotes are butthurt that they don't have the same situation, when they could instead be congratulating this person on having an experience where the hard work is rewarded.

Re: AI going to be used during an upcoming legal hearing to defend someone in a real case

Yes and no.

Acquaint yourself with the concept of "perjury".

Lawyers can talk, unless under oath. And anything submitted in writing is typically sworn to. Hazards of violation include censure and loss of license to practice law.

Which is why a certain spate of court cases in 2020 sounded and resolved very differently in court than the braggadocio heard outside it.

Re: ".. but also mislead the local and overseas netizens, ..."

That sounds like the opening of a piss-take, sending the new apprentice out to get a bottle of gender fluid.

Re: ...And if the warning sign is in the wrong language?

And this is why iconography is a thing. Needed a drawing of a faucet and a crossed-circle, then.

Re: Invalid comparison

In other words, it was created by folks that were afraid "the government was out to get them", and didn't anticipate that also meaning "the government won't save them".

I seem to remember a few smart contract exploits that drained funds. And since the way they set it up was they were legal contracts... those independent-minded souls had no actual valid recourse.

You're so close to getting it. So very close...

To being complete and utter bullshit.

"Read both sides of a story and make up their minds." Oh wow, you must not be at all familiar with the "bury them in lies and propaganda" strategy that's been running for the past... oh, at least 30 years. Either wise up or stop trying to pretend to be so stupid. Shutting the flow of lies to a trickle isn't censorship, it's flow control.

Twitter's applied the ToS inconsistently, all right. They should have been banning a lot of right-wing nutcases MUCH SOONER. But didn't. So there you are.

Nobody with a brain missed Elton's hypocrisy, it screamed from the rooftops. There's no concern for safety. They made shit up. Proof: Said journalists are back on Twitter just as fast as there were off it. There's no weight to it, just a capricious owner with poor emotional and impulse control.

Re: This is a bad take

Why has Apple got an Ads service, again? :)

Re: Stop Kowtowing to Megalomaniacs

So, funny thing about Steve Jobs.

I haven't looked into this extensively, but I recall reading about how he was quizzing the product engineers about the iPhone, or iPod or something or other... And one poor fool was telling him what it was supposed to do. And he tore them a new one because it didn't do ANY of that.

If we want to say that all Steve Jobs did was make Apple products do what they said on the tin, we also have to remember that at the time that was all it took for them to be better than 95% of the other offerings in the markets.

I've said before that Apple weren't magical, they weren't innovative. They just weren't willing to suck. And that's all it took.

Re: twitters dead

Know what'd be better than and stop the hysterics?

Action. Actual, effective, decisive, action.

Still waiting.

Re: No Surprise

So why doesn't that work both ways? It does, if folks actually had the guts to do it. Do Western companies know how to fabricate chips or not? If they do, do it. Make fabs, make chips. Stop depending on a nation that wants to steal all your tech and drain your funds by selling you what they made using what they stole. It's cheaper because they stole it.

Re: In the interests of quality control

Anybody that says this is a good idea has no actual memory of how often games crash / glitch, get hacked, network connections go bad, bathroom runs, etc.

I'd challenge the best player to survive a day in this. It does not matter your skill when the premise that the 'die in the game, die in real life' begins from is 'there are no errors in coding and no interruptions of service'.

And we're right back to the company using SpamHaus not providing a bounce email like SpamHaus recommends. Again, not SpamHaus.

Re: What?!?

Respect must be earned.

It was not.

Re: Twitter, et al, were by far the worst manipulators in 2020.

Go take your medication. You seem to have forgotten it again.