Comment Re:Excellent if they find a use for it (Score 1) 22
Wait until you look at some old maps.
Wait until you look at some old maps.
There is also the middle option, where you dig two small shafts to the appropriate depth, then use pneumatics to "shoot" the cable from one shaft to the other through the ground, below roads, driveways etc, and then connect it.
Running underground cables isn't the panacea many think it is, however. On my shelf in the office, I have a fulgurite, which in this case is a lump of melted metal from a power line that was underground and struck by lightning. It's cool looking, kinda like an eagle's claw.
Meanwhile, in the newer section of my neighborhood, they got rid of the unsightly power lines in our back yards and replaced them with breakout boxes and transformers in the front yards. The phone ones are especially beautiful, tilting over, rusting away, and who wouldn't want a nice concrete transformer pad right there in the front yard? The aesthetics aspect was oversold, and when there is a lightning strike, the whole front of the yard is often dug up to find the damaged spot - it isn't always obvious.
The so called AI could not understand Scottish or some heavy accents. 2) Human, Operator and 00000's removed so you were in a phone hell loop 3) Unnecessary delay, keywords like Heart attack, car accident, critical, doctor, and barely audible help not escalated. 4) Outsourced, when service levels dropped below standard, the outsourced company got is own people to call in to bump up numbers and fudge performance statistics 5) Dont expect 000 or 911 to actually work, an outage caused by production non-testing caused 4 deaths. 6) Former call operators were 100% not asked to review or score the new system, or do any testing, just a cold switchover. 7) The list goes on. No automatic language detection. 8) redundant questions, like fire ambulance or police, when ambulance and heart attack were in the first ten words.
After listening to some 911 calls, I wonder how the AI system handles panicked calls. Sometimes the human operator has to do some serious calming of the caller to get anything intelligible out of the person making the call.
Just so we're clear, they have more arrests for speech, expressed opinions and unexpressed opinions (failure to visibly express a correct opinion in certain settings, i.e. people getting arrested for silently standing alone next to abortion clinics doing absolutely nothing but) than Russia and China for these kinds of offenses COMBINED.
Oh wait, that was previous decade. 2023 numbers suggests it was over five times combined China and Russia, and UK trend is upwards.
Most recent reporting suggests that UK may have climbed to having over 100 times arrests than China for free speech related offenses alone.
Not per capita. Arrests in total. Those two have a combined population that's over twenty times that of UK.
Not to stand up for the UK - which seems to be attempting to emulate 1984, just 40 years too late - but trying to show Russia and China as shining beacons of free speech isn't a very good comparison. Vladimir doesn't always arrest people who dare to speak, sometimes they just fall out of windows onto the street. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
I take it that death for saying the wrong thing isn't what you advocate for?
But to the topic at hand, a 911 system based on AI instead of actual intelligence AKA a human deciding what the problem is and responding correctly - well that AI system is a bucket of suck. It is the opposite of what those systems are supposed to do. People will die.
Lol... Apple is forcing you to run converters and you just take it up the ass. Copying files is not the same as copying files and running converters.
Apple forces nothing on me, and file conversion is a fact of life for professionals. If it is some sort of terrible imposition to you, copying the files in the first place is too much trouble, no matter the platform. It is as "difficult" as opening the program, control-A, then click okay.
You have a terminal case of being argumentative and the need to somehow be right. This weird discussion has lost any point other than to watch you squirm trying to be right, and entertain us. And your anal sex inclusion in the discussion is level 1000 creepy.
Just to repeat your downvoted post, I guess we have a Maggot with mod points:
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Sheinbaum earned a bachelor's degree in physics at UNAM in 1989, a master's degree in 1994, and a Ph.D. in energy engineering in 1995.
Contrast that to the USA.
Ask Stephen Miller. There are White Folk as far as his myopic eyes can see in America. The U.S. got rich and powerful because it welcomed (with hiccups) all races, nationalities, and creeds. Leave to the Maggots to turn that strength into something they hate.
"Why would this require an FAA investigation?" So the alleged administration can shake down Amazon for a "contribution" to fight "terrorist drones". The Fed. Gov. is being turned into a Mafia organization.
In contrast, the U.S. is cutting basic research simply because the alleged administration cannot see a trail of bread crumbs back to its pocket.
For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken