Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment Re: Well of course Amazon doesn't want "AI" helpin (Score 1) 57

If only all online stores had parametric search like McMaster-Carr or even good old Newegg.

Agreed, but for that they would have to collect more metadata, or they would have to spend processing time automatically generating it (and likely getting it wrong.) This is why I use eBay for shopping over most other sites, though I may not purchase there depending on what deals are available at the time.

Comment lol and also lol (Score 1) 57

"Continued access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon's Conditions of Use, to which our customers have agreed..."

When you are telling your customers "you agreed you wouldn't do that" the writing is on the wall, you are going away. Too bad it's going to take decades.

Comment Re: Technocracy is Democracy's evolution (Score 1) 74

Complaining to me does nothing.

I'm trying to get people on to the bus. Running next to it for a block or two shouting about how complaining to you does nothing does nothing.

Crony capitalism is devolving us towards corporatism

Crony capitalism is what you think is called corporatism.

Comment Re:Why just there? (Score 1) 58

Five Eyes is not home baked mass surveillance of citizens. It's a sharing program of specific surveillance between states. The UK does not give Australia or the USA access to it's 10s of thousands of cameras just because they are in Five Eyes.

Five eyes is specifically a spying program where allies spy on your citizens and then give you the data in order to get around citizen surveillance restrictions. You're going to have to know that in order to understand the argument.

Comment Re:So is anything good? (Score 1) 63

And people who are genuinely knowlegeable about these things, and have years of experience on top of that, tend to be less focussed on the desktop environment.

Having decades of experience with "these things" is why I have strong opinions. I express them without guile because I'm not trying to trick anyone into anything.

Slashdot Top Deals

The amount of beauty required launch 1 ship = 1 Millihelen

Working...