Posts by jake

Re: When does misinformation become information?

Get a second opinion, as allowed by law. And a third, if necessary. Make noise. But in useful places.

Posting to YouTube and the like will get you nothing but cranks. If you're lucky.

As a side note, how "little" is Malcolm? If he's all THAT young, he's in the experimental group and Mavis's doctor automatically has access to all the data available, most of which will not be found on You Tube as yet as it hasn't been published for the simple reason that it's still being compiled.

Re: About fucking time.

The few remaining fanatic Trump supporters?

Re: When does misinformation become information?

Does Mavis have a doctor to talk to about her little one? You know, the people who have years and years of study designed exactly to put them in a position to be able to help people out in situations like this?

No, no, no, whatever was I thinking ... Obviously she must post it to YouTube, that way she'll get all of humanity responding to her, and she won't have any trouble whatsoever separating out fact from fiction. Especially all those facts the doctors, the WHO and the CDC are hiding from us law abiding citizens.

Honestly, the mind boggles ...

"Good on United Airlines saying get vaccinated or get sacked."

Some cities here in California are doing this, too. The largest city that I am aware of which is going to be implementing it is San Jose. Naturally, some will quit over this mandate. Including some members of the city's police department ... not just "civilian" employees, but also sworn officers.

It occurs to me that the fucking morons refusing to get vaccinated probably contain the small subset of cops who play fast and loose with civil rights. Perhaps this pandemic will bring about at least a little bit of decent change.

It's an ill wind & all that.

Re: video giant said that content making false claims that approved vaccines are dangerous

Of course alphagoo are not going to return it ... the advertisers got their money's worth, didn't they? In alphagoo's mind, they earned it fair and square ... it's the advertisers that paid for all the bullshit leading idiots down the garden path, so how can it be alphagoo's fault?.

They are money-grubbing capitalist pigs, answering to no one but the shareholders, and they can do what they like because nobody has done the one thing that'll stop them.

That would be leaving the entire system behind en-mass, if you were wondering. Won't happen, though, because people as a herd flock like sheep, with roughly the same IQ.

Next question?

"Probably because they don't have the economies of scale for their physical premises that companies with digital shop fronts do."

Note that there is absolutely nothing stopping them from opening a digital storefront alongside their brick and mortar store.

Re: It's really just begging the question.

"But in a non-competitive market prices are already as high as they can go so the tax is paid by the seller and reduces their profits."

Or, more likely by far, the seller stops making that particular product, either temporarily or permanently, and shifts those resources to another, more productive, product line. The shareholders demand it.

I've been in the biz for over half a century. I'm with you.

Most certification is (in my mind) a means unto it's own ... it only exists to provide the folks offering up the exams a job, near as I can tell. That and giving HR something to filter on ... and HR is almost as bloody useless as unions when it comes to IT.

I almost always trash c.v.s and resumes that lean heavily on certification ... After all these decades in IT, it's painfully obvious that there are those who can do it in the trenches, and those who can learn how to take tests by the numbers. People who can do things only by rote are mostly useless in real world problem solving.

Re: Reg Units

"With this being a UK site"

ElReg doesn't seem to think so ... "The Register is a leading and trusted global online enterprise technology news publication" is the way they put it.

Re: Cityfibre ... arghhhh

"the groundwork was subcontracted so not directly KCOM’s fault"

Eh? In these here parts, as a contractor, if I hire a subcontractor to do a job for me and the work done is shoddy, I am the responsible party. The people I do the work for yell at ME to fix it (which I immediately do, with apologies, not excuses).

Bottom line: If the work is done under my shingle, I am directly responsible.

_{Now ask me why I'm extremely finicky about my subcontractors.}

Re: Cityfibre ... arghhhh

As the old joke goes, if there are two barbers in town, always get your hair cut by the one who has the worst haircut.

Or as I like to put it ...

... Who is "we", Kemosabe?

Agree with the both of you.

But sadly it isn't going to stop Marketing from selling it, existing or not ... nor is it going to stop suckers from buying into it.

The only remaining question is whether or not I want to ignore my scruples long enough to make bank off this latest mostly useless fad.

Re: What is that depth information used for?

"even from a single image, there are probably tools that can reconstruct missing background information with a bit of AI"

AI paint by numbers? Lovely. I'm sure the user's mummys and grans will tell them how much of an "artist" they are and stick it to the fridge with a gold-star magnet.

Re: Progress, of sorts

Last time I checked, pR0n wasn't exactly what most people call "life sized".

_{Source: The common or garden dorm room and executive suite, mostly.}

Re: Mechanical failure

A few months. Wow.

I seriously doubt it would have taken someone who knew what they were doing more than a couple minutes. Busted fittings or cracked lines are an easy diagnosis, as are cracked fuel rails (or float bowls), bad injectors (or power valves) screwed up fuel pumps, clogged filters, split or pinched O-rings, and etc. Either spot the leak, or the bad injector (is that port on the exhaust manifold hot? No? Your injector isn't working) or find the section that doesn't hold pressure. Etc. It's hardly rocket surgery.

As a side note, autopilot for boats have been around for over half a century. The unit I pulled out of my Monterey Clipper was a 1970's system based on LORAN C and made by Raytheon.

Re: Censorship (not)

I think you b0rked my parser.

Please try again?

Re: Censorship (not)

Sure, in the sense that stepping in cat shit is marginally worse than stepping in dog shit ... and all in all, I'd rather step in horse shit than cow shit or that of the two carnivores.

But they are all still shit, and I avoid stepping in any of 'em.

Re: Virtue signaling

Screw the charity, my question would be "is it still a church?" ...

Re: Fog of War

"When every state can make up their own rules on elections how is that NOT a mess?"

How would you propose the Federal Government force the States into one method? Last time I checked, that is not only against their remit, it also would not be Constitutional.

So we muddle through.

"Unless of course you think it right that people across the road from you in a different state can have different rules on how, when, where and even IF they can be elected?"

Doesn't bother me a bit. The individual States have different laws for many reasons ... but those laws can be, and often are, changed. Don't like it? Do something about it.

And frankly, it's not the disparate methodologies used by the various States that is the problem, rather it's the bad actors involved, gaming the system for their own nefarious purposes ... Gerrymandering being the obvious worst example, followed by lobbyists. Get rid of those two and the US will be a much happier place overnight.

Re: Fog of War

Before I answer this, what percentage, exactly, is "Practically half the country"? And how did you derive that figure?

Re: Censorship

No. It would not.

Clearly ...

... I was talking about bob's comment/opinion "in the virtual world of teh intarwebs, this would include web sites." None of the laws (and later opinions based on them) make any comment on so-called "social media",

Also, which "civil rights act" are you talking about? There have been many.

Take note that the laws of the mid 1960s protects people based on race, color, religion, or national origin. A quarter century(ish) later, in 1990, they added disabilities to that list. Nowhere does any of them say anything about political bent (nor should they![0]).

Also take note that the laws only describe physical access.[1]

And another note, the law specifically excludes private clubs and religious organizations. One could rather easily make a case for Facebook et al being either, or even both.

[0] IMO, religion shouldn't be included in that list .... religion is a personal choice, like politics or bathing. It is hardly something that you are born with and can't change.

[1] One exception I am aware of: I personally use Lynx as my browser of choice a good deal of the time. When I run across web sites that don't play nice with Lynx, I usually drop a note to the operator asking if they are aware that their site isn't accessible to the blind, and that is illegal under the ADA. Most of the time they actually fix it ... to a degree. Eventually.

Re: The real problem is liability protection.

"Yes, FB&co are legally gaming the system by straddling multiple legal positions."

FTFY

"Private property opened to the public is not the same as private property that is "private". And in the virtual world of teh intarwebs, this would include web sites."

Cite the law(s) that state this.

Or, in the words of my people, "Post proof or retract!".

Sure it would ... We wouldn't have to split the Rio Grande's water three ways anymore ... Half for New Mexico, half for Mexico, and none for Texas.

Re: Texas is the test bed for all sorts of craziness

And the GOP did how well, exactly in the last election? Mid=terms are coming ...

Still haven't developed a sense of humo(u)r for yourself, I take it?

Fortunately ...

... the folks in ACTUAL charge of the nukes have had their sanity checked, double checked, and in fact are checked out on an ongoing basis.

Unlike Trump. Or indeed Biden.

Re: Texas is amazing...

It doesn't matter one jot what Texas thinks is the law ... Federal law ... err ... trumps state law in this matter. And the Constitution trumps Federal law. The rest is just fantasy.

California's not really extreme ... but the nutcases who grab all the headlines make it seem like we are.

Re: To be considered "elite" you can have WHAT percentage failure rate?

"They must just be making everything up as they prance about"

Well, yes. Thus it ever was, since humans settled together in the first crude cities to make the growing, protecting and harvesting of beer grains easier and more efficient.

Wait ... you didn't honestly believe that politicians actually know anything at all about the shit they prattle on about, did you? Shirley you know that they will say anything their handlers write for them in the hopes of getting their meal ticket re-elected, right?

Re: 10 Year National Strategy on AI ?

Or take a leaf out of IBM's book:

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On the diagonal, of course.