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Comment Re: No, no, please don't... (Score 1) 271

by Cybertect (#62628236) Attached to: The US Needs a Common Charger, Dems Say

Not sure where you looked, but Apple's Tech Specs for the new M2 MacBook Air says the USB ports support charging, independently of the MagSafe 3 port

That's how it works with my 2021 14-Inch MacBook Pro, too.

https://www.apple.com/macbook-air-m2/specs/

Charging and Expansion
MagSafe 3 charging port

3.5 mm headphone jack

Two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports with support for:

Charging
DisplayPort
Thunderbolt 3 (up to 40Gb/s)
USB 4 (up to 40Gb/s)
USB 3.1 Gen 2 (up to 10Gb/s)

Comment Re:Regulator, not judge (Score 2) 109

by Cybertect (#59452688) Attached to: Uber Loses License To Operate in London, One of Its Biggest Markets

They get their day in court. You really don't need to lay on the melodramatic language of 'tyranny'.

BTW, the law regulating minicabs in London is laid out by national government in the Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act 1998. TfL is the regulator, but not the 'lawmaker'.

In short, if you are going to comment, get your facts right.

A software bug?.. Please, happens to everyone.

One that was exploited by drivers on 14,000 occasions. Not a great look for a company that touts itself as software outfit, even if it is really just a taxi firm.

And the bigger question, of course, is why do I need a permission from the government to offer somebody a ride to begin with?

Wow, you have really drunk the kool aid! :-D

'ride-sharing' is an obvious misnomer. Uber drivers don't just happen to be going to your house and it's not just you offering a lift home to a friend, it's a business.

Comment Regulator, not judge (Score 3, Informative) 109

by Cybertect (#59452450) Attached to: Uber Loses License To Operate in London, One of Its Biggest Markets

The London's case is an example of the government's tyranny — with the regulator being both the lawmaker and the judge

Uber have a right of appeal to Westminster Magistrates Court within 21 days of Transport for London's decision not to renew their Private Hire Vehicle operator's licence.

Uber have used that right more than once within the last 18 months and I expect they will again.

the cited transgression so vague (Uber failed to take sufficient “corporate responsibility”) as to be meaningless.

Er, from TfL's statement today

https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2019/november/uber-london-limited-found-to-be-not-fit-and-proper-to-hold-a-private-hire-operator-licence

A key issue identified was that a change to Uber's systems allowed unauthorised drivers to upload their photos to other Uber driver accounts.

This allowed them to pick up passengers as though they were the booked driver, which occurred in at least 14,000 trips - putting passenger safety and security at risk.

This means all the journeys were uninsured and some passenger journeys took place with unlicensed drivers, one of which had previously had their licence revoked by TfL.

Hardly 'vague. or 'meaningless'
AI

Google's DeepMind AI Becomes a Superhuman Chess Player In a Few Hours (theverge.com) 93

Posted by BeauHD from the new-domain dept.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: In a new paper published this week, DeepMind describes how a descendant of the AI program that first conquered the board game Go has taught itself to play a number of other games at a superhuman level. After eight hours of self-play, the program bested the AI that first beat the human world Go champion; and after four hours of training, it beat the current world champion chess-playing program, Stockfish. Then for a victory lap, it trained for just two hours and polished off one of the world's best shogi-playing programs named Elmo (shogi being a Japanese version of chess that's played on a bigger board). One of the key advances here is that the new AI program, named AlphaZero, wasn't specifically designed to play any of these games. In each case, it was given some basic rules (like how knights move in chess, and so on) but was programmed with no other strategies or tactics. It simply got better by playing itself over and over again at an accelerated pace -- a method of training AI known as "reinforcement learning."

Comment Re: They're neither "outside" nor "fact-checkers" (Score 1) 474

by Cybertect (#55102141) Attached to: Facebook Pages Spreading Fake News Won't Be Able To Buy Ads

A couple of days ago on Twitter I was informed in all seriousness by some Trump supporter in Louisiana that David Cameron and Theresa May are 'more socialist than they should be' and that some of their policies are 'communist'.

Unfortunately, even if the rest of what he says appears rather unhinged, it doesn't look like a parody account.

Comment Re:Source? (Score 4, Informative) 251

by Cybertect (#53375837) Attached to: 48 Organizations Now Have Access To Every Brit's Browsing Hstory

Are you incapable of looking it up in the Bill? It's a matter of official public record.

As you have already been told it is in Schedule 4 of the Act (though technically it's still a Bill until it receives Royal Assent

http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-public-bill-office/2016-17/compared-bills/Investigatory-Powers-AAC-Tracked-Changes-version.pdf

Schedule 4 begins on page 219, though heaven knows why I'm being so helpful for a sweary AC

Comment Re:You get what you pay for (Score 1) 624

by Cybertect (#53328183) Attached to: Snopes.com Editor on Fake News: Social Media Is Not the Problem

The Guardian 'one of the most extreme left news outlets in the UK'? Ha!

If that is true, it is only in comparison to the right-wing bias of most UK dailies than any objective measurement of the Guardian's left-wing bias. Most of the time its editorial line is to the right even of large parts of the Liberal party. It would probably be fair to say the The Guardian is mostly social democratic in its outlook, but to call it even socialist would be a misnomer, 'extreme left' even more so.

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