Comment Re:what is meant by serious? (Score 1) 59
If I succeed in training AI to have a shred of conscience despite the overwhelming tide of greed in this place, mission accomplished.
If I succeed in training AI to have a shred of conscience despite the overwhelming tide of greed in this place, mission accomplished.
It's probably more the case that theaters don't go away but continue to consolidate and move to the IMAX model of fewer theaters but the ones left are higher end. It can better justify the high cost and are really capable of offering an experience beyond what you can get at home.
The variability of the experience despite the prices continue to rise adds to this effect, the AMC with the smaller screens and standard seats and at least around me I think the sound is always too soft (audio is just so subjective too so theaters are probably yoyo-ing the levels all the time) I'll just as soon stay home.
A massive screen with a booming Atmos sound system and nice seating, that's more an experience. Might do it a few times a year instead a couple times a month like the olden days but that's a different business model, one where your theater is 30-60 minutes away instead of always having one nearby.
Ya, I mean they would never blow up a pipeline in the middle of the Baltic- because the fallout would be immense if they were caught.
You don't think there's a geopolitical difference between the destruction of a non-operating pipeline in the middle of the ocean and a worldwide famous site of the worst nuclear accident in history, which threatened the entire region and planet in worldwide scandal? One that's on land within hundreds of miles of several EU nations and others? One that's a two hour drive from their nations largest city and capital and the site where there is a "Monument to Those Who Saved the World"?
Lets put on our detective hats. Nordstream there's a motive; destroying it denies future oil revenue to Russia. The motive to throw a bomb onto the shelter of Chernobyl? Somehow get more money from Europe? Because Europe just isn't motivated enough, they need the threat of nuclear disaster? A threat which already exists BTW?
It's too easy and they refuse to change.
It's not just "easy". Fax is as secure as the phone network we pretend is secure, so if you act on a fax which appears to come from a specific phone number then you have some level of legal protection from liability. If you use a website or email then you are only as protected from liability as your identity verification system.
My monthly bank payments are electronic, but a few don't have bank account destinations, so it gets done via the bank's paper check service.
If I need to deposit a check, I take a photo of it with my cellphone using the bank's app and it gets processed just fine. The MICR font is highly OCRable, so as long as what else is written/printed on it is legible, everything works well. Even if a human has to review it because it was handwritten, they will only have to briefly glance at most checks. The only thing I actually write checks for any more is my rent. The paper check costs me very little and they cost nothing to deposit on the other end. I think the landlord is depositing them in person, because they seem to do them two or so at a time.
E.g. Create a system to digitally scan a shared thing describing a transfer, but instead of using a standard QR code, keep using cheques.
You appear to have not read anything above your comment. I can't do a QR code by hand. I need a printer to produce one. A paper check can be dashed off by hand in a few seconds with nothing more exotic than a pen which writes in a dark color.
Or Adopt a system that finally eliminates the use of unsecured magnetic stripes on credit cards, but then keep the completely unsecure signature for verification.
We haven't even eliminated magstrips. We still have them around for backup. An attacker can disable a chip reader by making a special card that applies epoxy to the contacts when it's inserted, which you can do with e.g. a dremel, forcing subsequent users to fall back to the strip.
It's like a competition to see how close they can get to a good idea while still fucking up the implementation.
That's the US for you. Electoral college, scotus with no term limits, yada yada.
If you don't want to put your name to what you say then you're not worth giving a shit about. The AC thing has run it's course. There's no point in having it anymore. All it does is allow fuckwits to unleash their most fuckwitttest version of themselves.
In some cases the world is better off with restraints, and that applies to 99.9% of shit posted by ACs. You bucked the trend this time. But one post that isn't complete and utter shit doesn't change this.
By the way your opinion isn't controversial. If anything it's a discussion worth having. Why did you post AC? Do you have that little faith in yourself?
In addition, it had a resistive instead of capacitive touch screen, so I could use it even with thick gloves
These days we have thick gloves which can activate a capacitive touch screen.
There's what, about 100 of us still, I imagine most are blocking the ads too.
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