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Comment Re:Abuse by Game Devs (Score 0) 25

What about an Early Access game that promises several features you really want and then abondons those promises and just releases as-is?

You bought it Early Access. You don't get to consider your purchasing decision as a promise of the future. If you sunk more than two hours into playing it then you got some entertainment and your money's worth. Early Access is a risk you take to play an unfinished game. And there's no coincidence the abbreviation for Early Access is EA, both are equally likely to be turds.

Perhaps with early access games half the purchase cost should be held by Steam

No. If you want a finished experience, don't buy it in early access. If you are open to an unfinished experience then your ability to refund *after playing for a significant period* should be limited. You got what you pay for. You were entertained. If you weren't, well you should have refunded it earlier.

Comment Re: Still has to pass court (Score 2) 113

Obviously not. The Constitution applies to the government of the United States. It applies to the U.S. GOVERNMENT everywhere in the world. If a U.S. LEO meets an American in Mexico, the Constitution still applies. If a U.S. LEO meets a foreigner in Arizona (or mexico for that matter), the Constitution applies.

Comment Re: That's just tech (Score 1) 149

If they weren't doing virtualization, that might explain why the cloud brought spend down. A few big servers running everything in virtual environments would have increased utilization enough to get prices below cloud costs. If IT is run badly enough, nearly any change will be for the better.

Also, doing everything on Windows didn't help costs or reliability any.

Comment Re:If anyone can buy them, ... (Score 1) 112

Iran's attack demonstrated a serious hole in the way that anti-missile/drone tech has been developed. Patriot, Iron Dome, etc. systems have been deployed under the assumption that there will be only a few targets which need to be handled at a time. Instead what we saw was that Iran launched less than 400 devices, between missiles and drones, at two targets (an air base and the Mossad headquarters), from over 500 miles away, after it warned the US several hours ahead of time. The IDF says that it spent around a billion dollars to defend against the attack and at least a dozen of them got through, it's unknown how much the US, UK, France and Jordan spent attempting to intercept them before they reached the border but I'd be surprised if the total weren't at least that high. Now the IDF says that their air defense systems need replenishment, too.

I guess the lesson everyone learned is that if you launch 1,000 missiles and drones at a time (and Hezbollah alone is estimated to have ten times that many on hand) the country's air defense system will be entirely overwhelmed.

Comment Re:Solving many a crime (Score 3, Interesting) 37

If the enhanced image leads to other evidence, they might crack some cold cases.

As the person who has been responsible for responding to law enforcement video requests and occasionally (three times) testifying as to that process and their authenticity, it's exceptionally rare (never personally seen it) for CCTV footage alone to convict someone. Most of the time it leads the police to a suspect, usually because someone they know recognized them (not for nothing that the police frequently publish these videos/images) and then the idiot convicts themselves by talking to the cops (pro-tip, never do this). Less frequently it leads to other witnesses and/or evidence that gets them convicted.

Most of the time it doesn't do a damn thing because the crime in question isn't worth the police resources to follow up on, even if you have something pretty damning, like a legible license plate.

If AI enhancement results in more arrests for crime, I'd wager it comes about largely through the police releasing the enhanced images to the media, with the suspect(s) then being outed by their friends/family. Cops go talk to the suspect, he's an idiot and thinks he can outsmart them, and ends up saying incriminating things. Same as today, it'll just be higher quality images on the local news.

Comment Re: Still has to pass court (Score 2) 113

Read the thing. I clearly refers to its validity within the United States, it was never meant to be applied to extra-territorial domains. It was intended to apply to non-citizens though, since at the time new immigrants made up a large portion of the population. I really can't conceive of any reason why you wouldn't want the Constitution to apply to non-citizens within the US, unless you think that abusing people without your luck to be born in the right place is a good idea.

Comment Re:another example (Score 3) 122

It's a generalization but it's all over the internet and in the most disparate fields: India management means problems...they need to update their way of teaching and their overall approach to society if they want to be appreciated and welcomed on the world stage.

This is some racist ass bullshit and the people modding it up should be ashamed of themselves.

If you want to condemn India for something, condemn them for copying the worst parts of American capitalism.

Tell me, how many Indians do you see here? I count zero. You might be able to claim one, if you discount the fact that Ms. Amuluru is a natural born US citizen, about as Indian as I am German, but whatever, even if you include her I doubt very much she was a decision maker when it came to the aggressive cost cutting -- err, I mean "optimization" -- that lead to this, this, or this.

Comment Re:Solving many a crime (Score 3, Informative) 37

it can make these less well than a competent human.

Not true. An AI can unblur much better than a human, especially with video where the AI can look at multiple frames simultaneously.

All the current hype AI has brought us is texts that sound good

If you believe that, you're not paying attention.

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