Comment Re:first step... (Score 1) 25
The UK just agreed a "deal" with the US where the cost of medication will rise by at least 25%. The cost of living crisis is not going away, it's getting worse.
The UK just agreed a "deal" with the US where the cost of medication will rise by at least 25%. The cost of living crisis is not going away, it's getting worse.
Their model seems to be people who don't use a car enough to warrant owning one, but want the convenience of having access to one and are willing to pay a premium for it.
My latest pet peeve is when Siri violates basic privacy standards by compelling data collection that isn't necessary.
A couple of days ago, I asked it for a list of restaurants near a particular town where I would be in a couple of hours. Siri immediately told me I had to enable location services for that query. What? Why? My query didn't ask for a list of restaurants near me. I asked for a list of restaurants near a different town, and more to the point, I gave both the name of the town and the state.
I attempted probably half a dozen different variations of that query, including things like avoiding the word "near", and Siri failed in the same way every single time, so this isn't just a one-off glitch specific to how I worded the query. It's a general problem with the way Siri handles queries that involve location.
This violates the first rule of location services, which is do not ask for the user's location unless you actually need the user's location. If the user is asking for restaurants in Panama City, Florida, Siri does NOT need to know that the user is currently in Charleston, South Carolina. It's none of Siri's d**n business. And more to the point, if Siri actually tried to do literally anything with that location data, it would be pretty much guaranteed to reduce the quality of the results rather than increase it, so having the data is just an invitation for any AI that might be involved to do something utterly stupid.
Simply shaming Intel for seeking government handouts does not solve our problem - how to maintain a domestic industry including internal competition rather than government choosing the winners and subsidizing incompetence.
But your AI can hide all your bigotry behind a cloud! Then you can have it imagine excuses as to why a certain group is picked on by the system. Don't even need to make up lies for it anymore. Even if you are guilty from some bug leaking out proof, just donate to Trump. problem solved.
So it's not for you. You don't understand or need the use case.
And you've done nothing to explain what the use case is. As far as I can tell, the use case is "Someone who wants to use their phone to control the TV instead of the TV remote," which is a tremendous amount of technological overhead for such a negligible benefit.
It's way easier to point your camera at the screen and do an instant sign-in on the TV than it is to get your phone connected to the right Wi-Fi network and cast to the right TV, so the use case would have to be pretty compelling to make up for what a pain in the a** it is when it works, much less when it doesn't.
You're coming across as "old man yells at cloud", and about something you don't even use!
Major correction here: about something that I have tried to use on many, many occasions, but never used successfully. There's a difference.
I won't read or engage further as I for one only spend my time on worthwhile things and you seem stuck in the mud.
You won't read or engage further because you don't actually know any compelling reason to use it. If you did, you would have said what that reason was by now.
> Casting and the entire mechanism of having the device being casted to have to have direct access to the media source is idiotic and only exists because they insist on a extra level of weaponizing devices against the owners and policing what you can do with your own devices
You could have just said "I don't understand why that is needed" and saved yourself the effort.
The use case is extremely powerful. You want to direct a device to do something, rather than try to stream a 2160p video out of your phone over wifi. That's really not so hard to understand, surely?
Not really, no. If I wanted to use the TV to do all of the networking and playback, I would have just used the TV's app to do it. The number of hotels I've seen where the TV supported Chromecast or AirPlay streaming but did not have a built-in Netflix app are literally zero.
From my perspective, casting is a complete disaster by its very nature. It relies on the display device having full Internet access, which isn't a given. Literally every time I've wanted to do casting, it has been because the TV set's Netflix app wasn't working because of a network problem, and it couldn't get access to the Internet, so I was trying to use the phone's network connection. By shifting the network connectivity back to the TV set, it makes the entire system completely worthless, because the exact situations where it could be useful are the exact situations where it isn't.
I think their initial idea to use human brains to run aspects of AI was far smarter and more realistic than their quick jump to human batteries!
Sometimes the audience doesn't need to all understand the whole story; we try too hard to appease the lowest common denominator. It was such a stupid brushed over explanation, that I just assumed it was metaphorical rather than be too annoyed they didn't try harder and just confuse half the viewers instead of BS something that was actually confusing to most everybody outside of metaphors or the usual unimportant filler that really could just be skipped.
You don't need to know WHY Luke and Leia were siblings, WHY the politics created the conflict, WHY some people had magical powers, etc. Those details were unnecessary and their later detailing was not interesting so a lot of entertainment had to be invented around a dull cameo like appearance which hitched the new money maker to the old success. Now they seem to make even less effort to hitch it together; which is fine because cosplay is enough for most people. I frankly would like a good well made story and don't care what theming is used as long as it doesn't detract from either one... which often it does hack away from the source those hack "artists" depend upon. This is why I see AI as a threat to their livelihood.
I'm not a US lawyer, but I'd interpret that as they need to block commercial VPN services advertised for circumventing blocks.
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