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Comment Re: Corrected title (Score 1) 141

Looking an many insecure adsl modems and bios, they are coded and maintained in Taiwan, using American setup shims, and a good dose of open source code. China deserves to be banned for not making things open source, or at least a copy in escrow. I remember one govt upset about Israeli security software, and the answer was 'sure you can look, but only inside the Israeli embassy. Back in my day, critical systems were never connected to the internet, and anything with an eeprom never made it to the secure product list.

Comment Pretend Intelligence or PI (Score 2) 198

Forget AI, Pretend Intelligence or PI is the new go-to. Formerly GIGO Garbage In Garbage Out, Vs Expert Systems famous for negative returns. Just one correction, in space vacuum , it is very hard to dissipate heat, let alone feed power Hungary memory. This tells one we are close to worlds tallest building downfall.

Comment Re:Essential Travel Only (Score 0) 93

Fair enough. But those Microsoft conferences also have to be paired back to the bone. Besides, SIGNAL, ProtonMail and OpenBSD are changing spots as it were, and upping the game to add to the costs of breaking, and introducing distributed keys in different countries, that run counter to enough bribes will fix things. Presently mobile phone offerings contain a suspicious amount of CPU security bugs. Does anyone take apart all the unnecessary includes in the compile, and question why compiles failed?

Comment Re:Amazon will learn about shrinkage soon. (Score 1) 41

Shoplifters work in gangs. The only way to control theft is to limit exits between segments. Ikea is a good example. US shoplifters are more brazen. FaceID, and scales to measure their weight i/out is also an option. Someone in HK can tell others the size of the old Chinese Emporiums.

Comment Lasers are not the solution - another PR Stunt (Score 5, Interesting) 173

Lasers need a honking big power supply, think 20ft container size. Capacitors to drive it are juicy on radars, and the emf spike is triangulated. Overdriven lasers, wear out. There is a lifetime, and it is not huge, maybe a low as 100 shots. Weather and rain. 5km range, but 1 km would be more like it. Drones and glide bombs are SO cost effective in wiping out both tanks and container sized trucks. So basically expensive kit, restricted use. Probably best to guard Patriot like million bucks a pop systems. Best bang for buck is getting out of war and into peace.

Comment Re:Now asking for social media, email, phone numbe (Score 1) 224

I get some of this. But people who have visited before and caused no problems and say retired. it should be about risk management. There should be certainty before arrival. Tourists bring in money and jobs. Some say these new rules are hurting the genuine tourist biz. Better to remove guesswork out out the equation.

Comment Re:tipping = gratuity = discretionary (Score 1) 111

Subway and Macdonalds have made the board food prices smaller in size (the food as well). If I cannot see the price, I walk. I will get some transfer stickers printed, If the food is not in legal serving temperature range, please return it to the counter for exchange. I have an IR thermometer and use it.

Comment $32 Hour (Score 2) 111

Australian Restaurants pay $32 hr plus weekend and public holiday surcharges, and overtime. And put 12% into our superannuation guarantee. For some time, menus are often loaded with weekend and public holiday surcharges. Nothing is cheap, so a no to tipping, and I would report the restaurant on the spot if they did any ambush tricks. Now about who IS paid below average is service station telllers, and most salad bars. Franchisee owners #1 problem is rapacious rents and rent increases, not wages. Staff not turning up without notice, is perhaps #2, with insurances and utilities up there. Like America , Macdonalds sales here, are down 6-7% across the board, despite 30%PA increases on some items. A number of food places are now closed on Mondays.

Comment Motorcycles and Sidecars (Score 1) 206

Yet motorcycles have not been banned and the acceleration for a brand new rider is crazy. Yet a teeny car they want banned. where is the logic? And in Japan they have accident statistics over 40 years that prove them to be just as safe as other vehicles. There should be no problem for local driving. but not on highways where people do over 60. An electric merge engine might correct rude American drivers set on preventing orderly merges.

Comment Re:Fails From Australia (Score 1) 52

If there were AI trials on our emergency 3 digit line we would not be told. We do know the interim failures, false positives and false negative on the facebook age test was falsified for political reasons and had to go live to prove some idiots groupthink 'AI will do it'. For immigration and medical registration, AI is used, and has lots of flaws. Many times you can be switched to an unattended police station, which is more common than you think in Australia. It is also insulting to call say bank telephone lines 'AI' when they have simple keyword direction to other menu levels. While the accuracy of customs arrival autogates has improved, verifiable metrics seem hard to come by. Ambulance calls seem the best handled, but like the UK there is too much ambulance ramping.

Comment Re:UK arrests 30 people a day for speech (Score 1) 52

Agree, they have tucked the Harry Miller won appeal behind by word salad. Also the is a code of conduct where your lawyer or solicitor cannot ask questions or represent you fully by subpoenaing ALL the evidence, and full discovery is limited. That is code for saying you will NOT receive a fair trial. If you live in the UK please visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... so you can decide who NOT to vote for. One does not think there is an American site that does the same job, nor highlight broken election promises.

Comment Fails From Australia (Score 3, Informative) 52

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.

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