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Comment What when something breaks ? (Score 1) 162

In a data center the repair tech needs to walk past a few racks to replace what is broken. With this setup s/he will need to drive somewhere, fix whatever, drive back - assuming that the remote diagnostics were correct and that they brought the right parts first time. Then there is access: "we are having a kids' party today, beware the supersoakers."

Comment What is the purpose of it all ? (Score 1) 69

Hosting a web site costs money, using an AI to do something costs money. What is the reward for spending this money ? I have a feeling that most of it is not what one would call good. Reasons that come to mind:

  • * Spreading a political/similar message or confusing someone else's message
  • * Generate clickbait to earn money from Google/...
  • * Persuade people to buy something which might be real or a scam

There must be more that I cannot think of now. What do you think ?

Comment Standard location for 'absolute' time measurement (Score 4, Interesting) 19

With highly accurate time measurement the location matters as there is one environmental factor that cannot be shielded: gravity. So depending how far you are in the earth's gravity well time will flow at different speeds. So: is there a standard position or do we just accept that these clocks will measure slightly different times ?

This does not matter for almost all of us, it will not affect my decision as to when I eat my breakfast - I will not notice.

Comment Re:Disallow stock trading / betting for certain le (Score 3, Informative) 71

What's your plan? Make them turn it all over to a financial advisor? I'm not clear how that would completely eliminate the issue.

In England senior members of the government must put their stocks into a Blind Trust. While not perfect this goes a long way to avoiding insider trading.

Comment Well, what a surprise .. (Score 4, Insightful) 18

who would have ever thought that such a thing would happen ?

Put valuable data somewhere and of course the crooks will try to steal it, and they did. This is the sort of information needed to blag their way into bank & corporate accounts, reset email passwords, access tax records and no end of similar things. This will cause mayhem for the 19 million French men & women.

May this be a warning to those planning similar systems in other countries: either do not do it (fat chance of that) or invest in proper security that is frequently pen-tested.

Submission + - Billionaire backer sues Trump family's crypto firm over alleged extortion (bbc.co.uk)

Alain Williams writes: The Trump family's World Liberty crypto venture is being sued by one of its billionaire backers over allegations of extortion.

Justin Sun has accused World Liberty of an "illegal scheme" to seize his WLFI tokens, a cryptocurrency issued by the company.

Sun alleges the firm, co-founded by US President Donald Trump and his son Eric Trump, has "frozen" all of his tokens and stripped him of his right to vote on governance issues.

Comment Re:Still working the only way it can! (Score 1) 70

Why would evolution no longer apply to us ? OK: our technology, medicine, etc might mean that some pressures might be reduced but they are still there and others will appear. Eg: we do not need to be as strong, so weaker people are not so selected against, so more weaker people survive; our modern diets are causing health problems, so there will be pressure to better cope with them; ...

Comment Another reason to not buy Sony kit (Score 4, Insightful) 81

The message seems clear: If you want these features you must buy more recent models. But I ask myself: how long before these new models have features removed to get me to buy even newer stuff ?

Presumably these TVs were marketed as having these features - so, in some jurisdictions at least, this would be illegal.

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