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Comment Re:This is why you have offsite backup (Score 1) 121

Answers like this seem to ignore the realities of what a business actually runs on. They didn't go bankrupt because they couldn't recover an Excel file in someone's oneDrive. The summary even says they locked access to internal systems. You need backups of virtual servers, cloud hosted environments etc.

It's hard to imagine that a proper backup solution implemented correctly wouldn't have made a difference in this case but unfortunately we'll never see enough detail to know what the attackers did and thus how extensive and effective the security measures were.

Comment Re:Meh (Score 1) 68

The market currently values activity around AI. I share your view that this is likely to be a bubble at least to some extent but it doesn't stop it being true. I think the wider context is important though. Apple has become gigantic and has done so while becoming almost a one trick pony. Half their revenue is iPhones, half of what is left is services, meaning everything else (Macs, iPads, watches, Vision) is a quarter of the company. iPhone innovation from model to model is pretty modest and that's a risk both in terms of slowing sales and in terms of leaving a larger gap for a competitor product to go for.

Comment Re:Meh (Score 1) 68

You can already use ChatGPT via Siri...

Siri is poor for anything beyond the level of sending messages or setting reminders; clearly this needs to be improved but I don't want Apple to rush in a wider solution without controls around data and privacy. I think Apple made the mistake of pinning improving Siri on a wider AI initiative and when that initiative has not delivered it has left Siri looking ridiculously outclassed.

If an AI tool is going to have access to my notes, my calendar, my emails, my messages, my photos etc then I have a far higher bar for security and privacy than I do for something that can answer questioons based only on what I provide to it in my question or specifically in that app.

Comment Re:some doubts: (Score 1) 265

This is an oversimplified position. Yes there has been extensive work done on finding counter-measures and tactics to deal with drones, as there always is when new tech is integrated into warfare. However, it is very difficult to say with confident what things would look like if both sides hadn't begun heavily using drones or if neither side had; at the bare minimum the fact they are heavily utilised by Russia implies the Russians think they are beneficial vs just investing in more conventional equipment.

Comment Re:Fully autonomous (Score 1) 265

They're already doing it, and it's common enough that there have been news articles covering the types of software and hardware being used. Sure the current application is manually designate a target with the AI then directing the drone the final relatively short distance, but I guarantee they already have, or imminently will have, the capability to give a drone image data, send it to a location, and have it search for and target a match because the resources to do so aren't prohibitive even at this scale.

Comment Re:I mean no shit Sherlock (Score 1) 55

It might be about it but that says more about the naivety of the people proposing it. There is literally no reason to expect there to be less scams when we rely more heavily on private organisations instead of public organisations. Fundamentally corruption is about what society will accept, and when you have a society that is willing to put someone as obviously corrupt, regardless of any opinon on policies, as Trump in charge it's painfully obvious that you'll have corruption in whatever system you implement.

Comment Re:Testable Hypothesis (Score 3, Interesting) 315

You say it is better by almost every metric then list 3 of which today is better in 1...

The home ownership figure is commonly used to simplistically. Home ownership in the 1950s was low for older people, home ownership now is high for older people. I'll bet a considerably lower proportion of people at the age to have children own houses now than in the 1950s.

In general I agree that today is a better time than the 50s; not least because the 50s properly sucked for minorities, but I do think there is an element of truth in the idea that it may have been more appealing for a typical, white, couple in the 50s to have kids compared to now.

Comment Re:Houses (Score 4, Interesting) 315

It's not that simple, although I'm sure that plays a part; if it was then there would be a clear positive correlation between wealth/income and number of children in the population and there isn't.

Having children is a choice; that choice has become easier as contraception has become more accessible and effective, and as society puts less pressure on women to have children or be seen as a failure. We're also decades from the point where it was normal for an adult to be reliant on children to support them, at least financially, in old age.

Comment Re:AGI is jargon for 'REAL artificial intelligence (Score 1) 61

As a genuine question: Do you think if you sat a real person down and made them respond to queries in the same way that ChatGPT etc did do you think the majority would be judged as having 'general intelligence'. Your post is right but it doesn't contradict the one you are replying to, if anything you reinforce their point that what we would have guessed were things that would prove 'intelligence' in the past became seen as flawed measures once computers could achieve them.

Plenty of people do really stupid stuff and fail at questions a decent proportion of children find easy. Do these people not have 'intelligence' or instead is it that we increasingly see 'intelligence' as being about how something operates rather than the results it achieves?

Comment Re:This is why (Score 1) 67

Then I really hope you don't get to speak to many people and the people you do speak to are incredibly unimportant. It's been common knowledge for possibly more than 10 years now that SMS/phone based authentication has some real security flaws that can't really be engineered out by users or companies using it.

Comment Re:Why only for cities and companies? (Score 2) 65

No one's going to rent your car directly so there would still be at least one corporate in your scenario (the platform). The government in this case is referring to things like public transportation providers, for example bus style transportation, which is already commonly run by governments in much of Europe.

Your scenario just doesn't make sense so apparently consumer ignorance is at least as much a risk to a solution as anything about governments or companies. The times you're likely to reserve your car for use will commonly align with the most demanded transportation times with the largest profits, the platform can make bigger profits by not having to pay you a profitable margin to use the car, and engaging with thousands of individual car owners comes with so many other headaches (is the car safe, clean etc).

In short, you're free to do exactly what you say but don't expect people to be lining up to invest in your idea and don't rely on 'greedy' corporates to do it for you.

Comment Re:Sounds like a good lawsuit (Score 1) 60

Good luck. Defamation law in the UK is extremely limited, and there would be two obvious issues with trying to make bank off this 1) unless she can evidence some form of malice in their actions then the store that reported it can likely rely on the defence of honest opinion and 2) even if they won the UK legal system doesn't award compensation beyond damages and the provable damages for this will have been neglible. The few times we have seen big awards for damages in the UK it is because the defamation was public causing harm to reputation with associated costs which isn't the case here.

The shop that falsely reported her for theft might be liable to be fined by the ICO for misuse of data but she would not be compensated in that scenario.

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