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Comment Re: Correct alert? (Score 1) 119

BOTH screwed up. The system shouldn't have made the match and the human should have done a better job seeing that the match was wrong. I'll go one larger and say the people who created the procedures screwed up because they didn't make allowances for the possibility of the first two screw-ups.

Comment Re:Trust But Verify (Score 1) 119

The problem is, people have been over-trusting technology since technology was invented. Consider the '70s when corporate representatives were so fond on the phrase "But the computer says...". Yes, you could hear the bold italics in their voice, as if it was the infallible final word on everything.

If THE COMPUTER says you shoplifted, rest assured, some dolt in a suit will treat that like God's own word booming from the clouds.

Comment Re:The storefront not the games? (Score 1) 48

Yep. Honestly native builds are what I really need to switch. I appreciate Wine and think its nice, but everything has enough little quirks and workarounds and such that I don't like using it for gaming.

And if I'm being honest, a big enough amount of my gaming is just hearthstone as a side diversion these days that if Blizzard released it for Linux, I'd switch for my main desktop tomorrow.

As it is I just keep 2 machines on a KVM. Windows when I'm gaming, Linux when I'm not.

Comment Because of technological advanmcement (Score 1) 165

It isn't about what China would find on the moon, but rather that the whole process would mean they are doing fundamental research and this would lead to advancement for them. Since the US is mostly doing "rent seeking" and much less advancement like that, this would lead to the US falling back in the tech compared to China. At least that's the theory, and why some on the US side are frightened by a tech China on the moon.

Comment Re:Perfectly acceptable. (Score 1) 68

The legal process is adversarial but it is not anything goes. Fabricating evidence and perjury are out of bounds for example.

I think this falls into that category.

OTOH, if the court DID use AI to make decisions, the whole court would invalidate itself, so there is some ethical wiggle room.

Comment Re: If this data is as valuable as they claim (Score 1) 43

They want to show something

And their viewers presumably want to view it.

I think there are a few reasons we have landed on the model we have.

1. People don't like unbounded liabilities. This is scary enough with regular web-hosting but given the huge size of video files, hosting them on your own website was frankly terrifying.
2. Most people (both viewers and creators) don't' want to pay actual cash for messing about online, so ad-driven services rule the roost, it's much easier to do that if you have scale.
3. Many of the major platforms ran at a loss for years and may still be doing so, at least in terms of direct profits. Afaict both Twitch and Youtube post revenue figures but not profit figures.

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