Google Search is not the only search engine, and it's really rather shit nowadays.
Google is essentially threatening to restrict access to a service it's neither the only one nor the best at providing. If nothing else, it'll force the students and teachers to investigate better options - something they might not have done otherwise. Not a smart move on the part of Google...
Welllll, I didn't say it was Waymo that killed taxi service in San Francisco. No, that would be Uber and Lyft.
However, a lot of people -- particularly women, for reasons -- increasingly prefer Waymo.
I read it as "Data Centers Are Being Powered by Gas Giant Planets" and I said to myself, "Hmmm, I never thought of that one..."
AI lets any cretin who can click a mouse shit out a social media app in 5 minutes.
That's insane money for a screensaver. And even more so today in the age of AI, when a monkey with a keyboard can ask AI to create the same thing in minutes.
The VW Beetle, you mean.
True it was designed under the direction of Nazi's. The nazi's developed jet technology too and many other things. Do you avoid modern commercial flight too?
It was developed to be an affordable and practical car. And it was an affordable and practical car especially in the post war economies. The beetle was popular despite the Nazi connection, and was produced for decades afterwards, in the millions. There is no connection whatsoever with being a Nazi and driving a beetle.
The cybertruck was not designed as an affordable and practical car. And it isn't one. And unlike the Beetle, which pretty much nobody legitimately associates ownership with support for the Nazi's who were long defeated before all but a handful were built. The Cybertruck and its owners live in the still ever present shadow of Elon Musk.
San Francisco has a strong Waymo presence (I think we were the first market to get public access to them). But we also believe in public transit; in fact, the Bay Area just voted for two important transit measures that will increase costs to taxpayers and property owners, but are designed to make up for badly needed funding from the state and federal governments that just isn't forthcoming anymore. The alternative, we were told, was massive cuts to buses, light rail, and passenger rail across multiple cities and jurisdictions. I guess we decided that wasn't what we really wanted. But there's still room for Waymo, just like there used to be room for taxis.
Can you use your desktop computer to withdraw cash from your account or deposit a check? Even if you have a scanner, I don't think that the bank's website is capable of that.
Some banks allow it. They give you a one-time code to take to an ATM.
I misspoke. ATM Chip and Pin cards is the threshold not mag stripe readers. chip and pin is way more secure than mag stripes, but chip cards can still be shimmed (skimmed) with the right equipment.
How is a PC "more vulnerable" than a phone?
A PC is not necessarily more vulnerable than a phone in theory. In practice it is much more vulnerable.
On a phone you are conditioned to a banking app. The odds of you getting a malicious or fake banking app for your bank is pretty close to zero. The app delivery system is far from perfect, but its not full of fake malicious banking apps for my bank.
On a desktop you are conditioned to use a banking website. Being on a fake website for your bank is just one convincing phishing email away or one malicious google result away for a very large number of people.
The mobile app also has a phone number etc, and is generally more traceable, so its possible to incorporate additional checks into the banking app to verify that the account is being accessed from the mobile associated with the account. Similar checks on a PC are possible, but setting them up is more complex, and "device enrolment" tends to be weaker.
Is a phone (which certainly CAN be secured to high levels but in my experience rarely is) inherently more secure than an atm card and pin that only the user knows?
You stick a card into a device you have no control over (and its not a smart or secure card it's just got a mag stripe with some machine readable information on it, easily skimmed and cloned), and then punch your PIN into a keypad somebody else owns in a world full of cameras, and you trust neither the cameras nor the keypad is recording it?
Phone payment systems are incomparably more secure. They can generate one-time use card numbers for transactions for specific amounts, and can have authorization on the phone side of the transaction (ie send a text to confirm a transaction or notification through the banking app) for the user to confirm it. If you skim the code you have nothing. If you record the user unlocking their phone, you have nothing unless you steal their phone. This is worlds more secure than an ATM card.
I have been using ScreenFloat (and similar tooling) for decades; those are more useful than this because it works on every application and not just the browser.
It's quite possible I am missing something from their demo, but based on what they show: 1) it's just for Firefox; and, 2) it's really kind of a pain in the ass to use.
Thanks, I think we all knew this.
True, but the term originates with computer science research that was trying to get a computer to do something that comes so naturally to a human.
Quite. Scientists and researchers have been using the term AI to describe this collection of technologies and algorithms since the 1950s. The field has (arguably) made great strides recently. Most of the current scientists and researchers have been perfectly content to continue to call it AI. But no! Now we're going to let somebody who was born stupid, dedicated his life to staying stupid, and now is seemingly in advanced stages of dementia tell us what we should call this field? What a bunch of bootlickers these tech execs are. I hope Trump has the good sense to walk through a cattle field before he asks these losers to get their tongues out.
No thanks on the light-up Apple logo for me. I think it started with the Powerbook G3 (I had one, it was a great computer) and it was sort of obnoxious even then. I'm not paid to be a light-up billboard everywhere I go.
No thanks on the laptop touchscreen, either. I understand it on something like a Surface tablet -- almost -- but most of the time I used my Surface with a keyboard, like a regular laptop, and never touched the screen. I think ramming touchscreens down everybody's throats was just a gimmick Microsoft came up with, both to A.) convince everybody that Windows 8 worked equally well on laptops and tablets (it sure did); and B.) once again, everybody needed to go out and buy a new laptop, even though their current one worked and served their needs just fine.
Matter cannot be created or destroyed, nor can it be returned without a receipt.
