Comment Microsoft pushing Win11 (Score 3, Insightful) 60
Activision isn't making the calls here, Microsoft, which bought Activision, is pulling the strings in order to try and push more people to use Windows 11.
Comment Re:Oh no! (Score 1) 24
Almost like $100 billion in stock buybacks and firing engineers was a bad idea.
"What?! NOOOOoooo! Those stock buybacks created create value for our shareholders! It's unjust to judge us for the consequences happening today based on our causal actions of yesterday because that could make us lose money!" - every CEO ever
Comment Re:Do farmers actually use these satellites? (Score 3, Informative) 128
Do farmers actually use these satellites?
Per TFA:
"NASA and others have turned this happy accident into an incredibly valuable set of maps of plant photosynthesis around the world," explains Scott Denning, a longtime climate scientist at Colorado State University who worked on the OCO missions and is now retired. "Lo and behold, we also get these lovely, high resolution maps of plant growth," he says. "And that's useful to farmers, useful to rangeland and grazing and drought monitoring and forest mapping and all kinds of things, in addition to the CO2 measurements."
Comment Re:Do farmers actually use these satellites? (Score 2) 128
I would be very surprised if farmers didn't rely on climate data that comes from these satellites.
Submission + - When facial recognition goes wrong (bbc.co.uk)
Bruce66423 writes: 'A man who is bringing a High Court challenge against the Metropolitan Police after live facial recognition technology wrongly identified him as a suspect has described it as "stop and search on steroids".
'Shaun Thompson, 39, was stopped by police in February last year outside London Bridge Tube station.
'Privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch said the judicial review, due to be heard in January, was the first legal case of its kind against the "intrusive technology".
'The Met, which announced last week that it would double its live facial recognition technology (LFR) deployments, said it was removing hundreds of dangerous offenders and remained confident its use is lawful.
'LFR maps a person's unique facial features, and matches them against faces on watch-lists.'
I suspect a payout of £10,000 for each false match that is acted on would probably encourage more careful use, perhaps with a second payout of £100,000 if the same person is victimised again.
'Shaun Thompson, 39, was stopped by police in February last year outside London Bridge Tube station.
'Privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch said the judicial review, due to be heard in January, was the first legal case of its kind against the "intrusive technology".
'The Met, which announced last week that it would double its live facial recognition technology (LFR) deployments, said it was removing hundreds of dangerous offenders and remained confident its use is lawful.
'LFR maps a person's unique facial features, and matches them against faces on watch-lists.'
I suspect a payout of £10,000 for each false match that is acted on would probably encourage more careful use, perhaps with a second payout of £100,000 if the same person is victimised again.
Comment Re:ChatGPT is being interviewed (Score 1) 107
Next week they will be reading quotes from an AI-embodied twitter post.
Comment \o/ (Score 1) 107
A new plateau of creepiness - I salute you AltOne!
Comment Re:Drone Curfews (Score 1) 68
There'll be the drone equivalent of SWATting where haXx0rrZz use cloned cards to order 100 deliveries scheduled at the same time...
Comment Re:American drone dominance? (Score 1) 68
> Isn't that already the case. #BaristaSlam (Hah! Joking - joking - baristas.)
We need an app so baristas can track which coffees to spit in...
Comment Re:People will oppose this (Score 1) 68
Presumably this is going to clear the way for flocks of drone snoops to watch everything we do when away from a screen.
Comment \o/ (Score 1) 68
Why the fuck would I pay for a coffee from starbucks then pay to have it delivered by drone rather than simply walking over to the kitchen?
Y'all have investor-induced mania. Noone wants seventeen spoons of five different types of sugar with their coffee.
Comment Re:Unlikely. (Score 1) 43
AI isn’t a bubble
You're not entirely wrong because it's more like religion. See also: TESCREAL
This isn’t speculative—it’s the new normal.
That in and of itself is speculative.
Comment CEO lies to investors. (Score 3, Insightful) 81
Lie by omission: you can't get hired without a degree because their HR bot will filter you out.
Comment Re:Availability (Score 1) 74
Unfortunately that seems to be the tactic used by many businesses now. Taki Udon is another one, and RMC come to think of it.
Comment Re:So... (Score 1) 55
Years late but OK. Do they work?
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