Posts by W Donelson

From MIT in 1971, here is a 4 line story showing how hard AI really is:

1. John goes into a restaurant

2. He orders lobster

3. He pays his bill and leaves

Now, what did John eat?

No AI is remotely close yet to answering this, even 50 years later, but it's easily answered by a 4 year old child

Was he stripped of pension?

I won $50 off a business partner from this quote, 35 years ago!

He said "significantly advanced", I said "sufficiently advanced". Sweet.

It's still the fastest Apple iPhone at the lowest Apple price

It's still the fastest Apple iPhone at the lowest Apple price, perfect for my son who likes the smaller phones.

Astonishing and wonderful. I started programming in 1969, and knew of much of the early coding done there.

April Fool.

But remember the Saturn V is STILL the most powerful launch system ever built.

Designed by America's finest in the 1960s!

There is still very little "intelligence" in so called A.I., even after 50 years.

From MIT in 1971, here is a 3 sentence story showing how hard AI is:

1. John goes into a restaurant

2. He orders lobster

3. He pays his bill and leaves.

Now, what did John eat?

No AI is remotely close yet to answering this question, easily answered by a 4 year old child.

We're still catching up to the NASA of the 1960s in many ways

The Saturn V rocket could lift 261,000 lbs into low earth orbit. 1960s engineers and technology, almost unlimited budgets.

Blah blah smoking gun dead body Bojo.

The reality is that Bojo thinks he and his cabal can make a fortune by collapsing the UK economy and selling off the wreckage to the Americans.

And it's already too late to make trade deals: NO ONE IN THE WORLD TRUSTS US ANYMORE.

Why would I need an app for this? My brain has been perfectly capable of doing this since I was about 10 years old.

"And said lifeforms include us humans on Earth"

but not for long. Hothouse Earth will wipe away civilisation, soon.

Good intentions, scary result probably.

I would bet these are trial runs, as part of a larger plan to disrupt the UK.

Of course, Brexit is doing that already.

Screwing the rich gets jail

Screwing the rest of us gets an award

Totally a scam. A lottery, not a challenge.

Sounds like a trial run to me.

All moot.

Big business would never allow passage of this act.

"The Internet Monopoly.

As of December 2016, more than 129 million Americans have only one option for broadband internet service in their area – equating to about 40 percent of the country.

Out of these 129 million customers, about 52 million are forced into obtaining internet from known Net Neutrality violators."

https://sites.psu.edu/netneutrality/2018/02/28/the-internet-monopoly/

Not to mention (still) upcoming Brexit

The pre-Brexit effect/drop in the value of Sterling confuses everything, and makes all calculations a bit suspect.

Just wait until REAL Brexit happens. I hope you all have boats.

We are both gods and fools.

Everything the GOP does is for bribes and campaign money

Trump is jettisoning all parts of America that don't contribute campaign bribes. Period.

A clear breach of Due Process (taking your printer away)

Yet another GOP scam to pay for the $2 trillion giveaway to the rich

Shameful.

The best cable of any kind in 50 years

I’ve been using computers and their endless cables for 50 years now. Without a doubt, the Lightning cable is the most reliable and easiest to use of any of them. Hands down.

The wanker who destroyed the United Kingdom. Why isn't he in prison?

Theresa May's Tory Brexit plans, direct from Looney Tunes!

- "How to jump off a cliff without falling."

Who will OWN the A.I. is the real question

A.I. could free humanity...

... but when the super-rich and corporations OWN all the A.I. and robots (already), and replace almost all jobs (more and more), what will you do?

The rich are NOT going to feed and care for you....

Bet on it.

OMG what? El Reg slandering Apple again?

What a surprise.

It's not the A.I. it's WHO OWNS the A.I....

A.I. could free humanity...

... but when the super-rich and corporations OWN all the A.I. and robots (already), and replace almost all jobs (more and more), what will you do?

The rich are NOT going to feed and care for you....

Bet on it.

It was a work of genius

This object-based language opened the world to thousands of non-programmers.

A work of genius.

Lawyers are delighted they have HUGE rich corporations to sue now, instead of poor you.

Lawyers are delighted they have HUGE rich corporations to sue now, instead of poor you.

This is ONLY about stopping the young and labour voters. Period.

This is ONLY about stopping the young and labour voters. Period.

Easier spying though.

Just the trip ONE WAY to Mars shortens life twice as much as previously thought. There is no shielding existing or imagined which can block these rays.

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-collateral-cosmic-rays-cancer-mars.html

Any companies or people still capable of paying taxes after Brexit are going to be paying them in another country.

The criminal founder is reflected in the structure and behaviour of his corporation, forever.

A triumph of algorithms over human beings. Sick America.

There will be no security until CEO's feel pain personally. Period.

RAISE TAXES ON THE RICH. RE-INTRODUCE CAPITAL EXPORT CONTROLS. TAX OVERSEAS EARNINGS UNDER PENALTY OF PRISON.

Raising taxes is PROVEN to increase local investment. Tax cuts send money overseas.

Awesome research!

Looks like low-earth orbit mostly, for manned missions.

Cosmic rays recently determined to be TWICE as damaging as previously thought. Mars is out.

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-collateral-cosmic-rays-cancer-mars.html

Duhhhhhhh... Cosmic radiation, idiots.

We have NO protection from cosmic radiation, and are unlikely to have it anytime soon. In fact, recent studies show cosmic rays are TWICE as damaging as previously thought.

Go to Mars, get cancer.

Only low-earth orbit and the moon offer manned exploration opportunities.

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-collateral-cosmic-rays-cancer-mars.html

Republicans only listen if you have donations.

This Is the Long Game of the Republican Coup d'Etat

A tax "reform" scam to borrow a Trillion dollars from the young, give it to the rich in return for never-ending campaign donations for the GOP.

Then they dismantle social security, pensions, healthcare, wages, cripple government revenues and end democracy in America.

btw- They WILL BE FIRING Mueller soon. Sorry.

The Atlantic - The Long Game

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/12/the-long-game-of-republican-economics/547721/

The New Yorker - The Gutting of the Welfare State

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-next-step-in-the-radical-trump-gop-agenda-gut-the-welfare-state

What makes you think we will have a civilisation, much less cars, 20-30 years from now?

Go after Appleby directors' tax evasions.

Fan boy here for Apple. PAY YOUR FECKING TAXES

I love Apple products (for decades now) but....

Godddam PAY YOUR TAXES YOU RICH B'STARDS

There are many YouTube videos comparing iOS 10.3.3 with iOS 11 on iPhones going back 3-4 years or more.