Posts by streaky

Re: why surprised humans beat a handicapped AI ?

why surprised humans beat a handicapped AI ?

Yep. I've been into Dota for many years and AI holds day job interest for me and I keep telling people that the bots are on easy mode right now and they're giving the best teams on the planet a good run for their money already.

By the way the more heroes in dota you learn the less complex the learning process. There's also comments I'd make about the AI having access to illusions and heroes that summon things you can micro and it being fa easier for the bots to do things with. I keep having nightmares about formation-flown treants and spiderlings.

And at the end of last year, MPs on the Public Accounts Committee said the UK border could be left exposed thanks to “weak contingency planning” – a particular problem if the UK leaves with no deal.

Funny because the independent non-political entity who audits this stuff says otherwise. Central thesis is wrong. But it's not politically convenient for media (or MPs apparently) to speak truth any more.

Re: Rofl

But your continued assertions, against a vast stack of publicly-available evidence, that Russia by technical means and those of financial corruption

Of course they have the means. We know they have the means - but I'm going to come to that.

did not try to influence the Brexit vote is just plain silly

But we're talking about evidence remember. The evidence we have publicly (nobody has spoken about military intelligence evidence but assumedly if it existed they'd have been shouting it from the rooftops - I have no problem believing that Novochok was the Russian state but the publicly available evidence is thin on the ground but we *constantly* hear about the attribution, if the security services thought that the Russian state had even slight involvement they'd be shouting it from the rooftops - we know about the civil service - and they just aren't).

It is by now beyond debate that just as Russia wanted Trump to win (because, duh, they've said so) and worked to try to make that happen (and failed, by nearly 3 m votes)

Of course. Remember what hard evidence we have is from the platforms they were using to push their ideology. It's the likes of Facebook and Twitter and others after being asked for evidence and taking another look at things they managed to produce data and create ways (and third parties have too) of tracking what Russian propaganda bots are doing. The truth of the matter is that on having looked multiple times nobody has found any actual hard evidence of this.

so it is conspicuously in Russia's interests to destabilise and weaken the EU

Yeah now we're in the crux of the matter. No it isn't. Outside the EU's instinct to appease we wouldn't be limited by the EU's thin sanctions regime and our sanctions would look far more like the US sanctions than the ones we're forced to have under the EU's "leadership" (using the word very loosely obviously). Outside the EU we can do many things that the EU simply doesn't allow and Russia knows this - they're either not bothered either way or not that stupid.

To pretend otherwise, or to claim they haven't tried damned hard to make it happen, is just ... fantasy.

If they tried so damn hard why is there no actual hard evidence?

could so easily search, as a start, for the UK Electoral Commission, follow its findings on Brexit

What has the Electoral Commission said about the involvement of Russia (which is what we're actually talking about) in the brexit referendum. Far as I'm aware they've said squat. That being said being a bunch of Momentum members I'm not particularly interested until the court cases (criminal and civil) are done - when that happens we can talk about the stunning impartiality of the Electoral Commission - because right now we only have accusations by a provably biased organisation.

You've been played like a fiddle. I've got my eyes open.

Re: Rule Britannia

a) Yes

b) What difference does it make? Why is it that the same people who are so eager to stay in the EU are the people with the biggest problem with foreign ownership of companies?

c) Are people actually pretending that before we voted to leave the EU British companies weren't bought by foreign companies?

d) It's all FDI and FDI is good.

Re: Just say No to Amazon

Many of the more 'important' tax havens are British protectorates

I understood what you meant, they're protectorates, we don't write their laws - they're independent nations. Stop trying to tag us with something that isn't us. I'm sure we could exert pressure, and we have been that's why the UK has a bilateral TIEA with some of these, but they're not the UK any more than Canada is the US.

Can't just throw our weight around, this isn't the 17th century.

Re: Ah, the tyranny of choice ...

A "soft" yubikey would add to the market take-up of this technology

Yeah and it'd be about as useful as SMS 2FA. Right reddit?

The point of a hardware token is you can't just pull keys out of them because they're isolated and usually have mitigations from physical attacks (spot the problem with a soft key). We've been doing this for decades and we have the solution. It goes on your key right, it's cheap and it's easy to use. Not sure why people need to confuse a simple problem.

Re: If you want proper Intellisense, use a statically typed language

C# is a nice language, but the statically typed bit and relationship to intellitype is pure unadulterated nonsense.

Re: Will they fund the specialist lawyers and digital forensics experts?

I don't see why it makes a difference to the courts process. You need that kind of thing in the police and CPS.

Any 6 year old looking at the statistics of how much the NHS is paying for paracetamol and other stupid nonsense that you can buy huge packs of for like 20p shouldn't have much trouble understanding why those rules are exist. Any other country in the world you'd be shot in the face for even asking.

As for refused referrals - maybe actually need one and you'll get one? 99.9999999% of things that happen medically on the NHS are because that's the right thing medically, excepting negligence, which again, happens all over the world. Only difference is in the UK you actually see the numbers. "devastating ignorance even among senior consultants" - my lord.

But I'm not convinced it would win at broader strategy and map management.

It's free to innovate. Evidence suggests it does. You can see from the 1v1 matchups some of the ways it does this, it's been known to do very weird things that work and pros are saying, y'know, I didn't even consider that.

Sure people managed to cheese it but eventually it'll learn to deal with cheese and then you're losing again.

Re: limit vaping to 20 watts

limit vaping to 20 watts

There's no issue with wattage. The problem is directly related to unregulated mods. You have an unreg mech mod and you short it it's going to be whatever the battery chucks out in a short. THAT is the problem. If you're going to regulate such a thing FWIW, keep it sensible, it has to be at least 150W. Minimum.Again the problem here isn't a regulated mod; it's unregulated ones.

Re: Government requests for people's data from Microsoft fell

Maybe there is no longer any need for it to be "requested".

No joke I'd assume that means this, it'd be interesting to do a statistical analysis of customer numbers of Microsoft, Google, Apple and a few others and compare it with volume of data requests to see if there's a relative change. If I was Microsoft I'd be doing this right now.

Re: F1 is a Car Crash

All in all it feels like a FIA PR exercise to the environmental lobby

I've said it before - there's a way out of this for F1 and the FIA and it isn't electric cars. It's HICEVs - essentially normal engines fuelled by hydrogen. It's wins for everybody; environmentally, for car makers, and for fans of racing. Doubt it'll happen because of the electric car cabal wasting everybody's time and money though.

The hell is a blackout?

On a more serious note of the 5 people that still actually use a landline 4 of them use wireless phones that take power from the mains anyway. The odds of that one person needing to call 999 is almost zero.

Re: GLAP

This is politics, not technology.

It's the technological implementation of a political will. And that implementation is embarrassing to banana republics.

Re: Still...

Which questions would you ask?

If we give you powers to force decryption via frontdoor (btw, no, it's not a backdoor) what's to stop people using crypto technology developed elsewhere that's outside the reach of said powers?

If the answer is "nothing" - protip: it's "nothing" - what's the net benefit to the US of you having those powers?

Protip #2: people stop buying Apple devices so, y'know, it's the opposite of a benefit.

All the wrong questions.

The answers to the questions that have been asked are effectively "because". In fact some of the questions that have been asked are essentially why aren't you decrypting things for fun and profit yet, you definitely should be. They're leading questions.

Re: Derp

It is not possible for the ICO to do a 'surprise raid'.

Hence my point that the ICO shouldn't have taken the lead. Data protection isn't the most serious of the allegations with this case. They can get a warrant later for the stuff the police have collected and separately prosecuted at their own pace.