Comment Old-school option (Score 1, Insightful) 70
The car also comes with a deck of cards and box of clothes pins for the wheel spokes.
Or... you can just let the car sound like it sounds. If you want it to sound like a V8, get a car w/a V8.
Comment Re:Market demand makes them do it (Score 2) 59
There might be a more benign reason for it. In GDPR countries, if you turn it off they will probably need to delete all the biometric data. If you then turn it back on again, it will have to regenerate all the biometic data and re-scan every photo. If people toggle it too often, it's going to consume a large amount of CPU time.
You can confirm it by using an open source facial recognition tool, like the one built into Immich. Importing photos takes much, much longer if you have face recognition turned on.
Of course a more sensible way to do it would be to allow the user to toggle it whenever they want, with the caveat that if the turn it back on, it might take a long time to start working, or might only apply to new photos after the initial back-catalogue freebie.
Or they could just be being dicks.
Of course, the most sensible way would be to say "hey, you keep dithering on this setting, it's clearly not something you confidently want, so we're going to go ahead and shut it off and if you really want it back, you're going to have to grow a year older and wiser first."
Comment Hmm... (Score 1) 43
'Circular' AI Mega-Deals by AI and Hardware Giants are Raising Eyebrows
Given who owns/runs these companies, I'm thinking "Jerks in a circle" -- but... it seems a bit wordy.
Comment Re:This isn't even an online-retailer thing. (Score 1) 74
This isn't even an online-retailer thing, or an Amazon thing, this trick is as old as sales themselves.
Absolutely. What I'm taking home from all of this is:
Don't buy anything within a month before Prime Day because the price may be artificially inflated.
Don't buy anything on Prime Day because it rewards their price-manipulation.
But seriously, these articles keep coming up - and I supposed that's good - but everyone should always be price-conscious at all times. Buyer beware.
Comment Re:We've known this for years. (Score 3, Informative) 74
Seriously, why is the press only catching up on this now??
Here's an article from 2015, 'Fake' Sales Trick Customers at Major Stores, Study Says -- (link to study, Sale Prices Are Rarely Real Deals)
A consumer group says some well-known stores seem to have perpetual sales on certain items, so the “discounted” price is really the regular price.
I think I remember Haynes Furniture, here in Virginia, getting in trouble for this kind of thing a while ago.
Comment Re: No backup. (Score 1) 81
For the official to claim could not have when it could have is misleading. The why of it not having a backup doesn't get asked when the baseline is "couldn't have".
In almost every case when a problem arises, every outsider's answer to the problem is "it could have been avoided." You and others do not exactly why the problem was not avoided but do not probe into details.
Thanks for replying, but in two words, "don't care". Not about your comment, but about the direction it goes. I object to misleading verbiage. What the official said was demonstrably, provably, clearly false. That is bad and a problem and that shouldn't be allowed to go unchallenged.
The why of there not being a backup is beside the point. The speed at which government moves is beside the point. That you got crap Internet is beside the point. They may all be interesting points, but they are not relevant to the point I was making.
Comment The "Stargate Argentina" initiative. Hmm ... (Score 3, Informative) 7
OpenAI, Sur Energy Weigh $25 Billion Argentina Data Center Project
Interesting. Anything to do with Trump boosts Argentina's Milei with $20 billion lifeline? Just asking as OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman apparently donated (at least) $1 million to Trump's re-election campaign and there's also OpenAI's Sam Altman Flip Flops On Trump After $500 Billion Stargate AI Project.
Comment Re:because money talks (Score 1) 12
Anything worth doing is worth doing for money.
Which now includes being President of the U.S.
Comment Marketing music video? (Score 1) 12
Apple Doubles Its Biggest Bug Bounty Reward To $2 Million
Sir Mix-A-Lot: "I like Big Bugs and I cannot lie
Comment Re:Obviously ... (Score 1) 41
It's like the secret to flight: Simply miss the ground when you fall.
Ya, I think I read that somewhere.
Comment Obviously ... (Score 5, Funny) 41
He Was Expected To Get Alzheimer's 25 Years Ago. Why Hasn't He?
Comment First: Avoid bad marketing (Score 1) 38
Calling it "Snake Oil" is probably out.
Comment Re:Never been a better time to run linux (Score 4, Interesting) 103
Try Pop OS, its nice.
In the process of switching to using other system full-time that's running Mint... So far, have just been lazy. All my systems are (technically) too old to run Windows 11, but all run Linux (or BSD) just fine. Thank you MS for forcing me to switch!
Comment Hmm... (Score 1) 15
Amazon Installing Automated Medication Kiosks At Clinics
I can see the ad now...
Kiosk: I have processed that you are in distress, and I have prescribed anti-depressants. Compliments of the Galactic Federation - I mean, Amazon.
Patient: [consumed the pills] I feel better
Kiosk: Your debt is 7,000 Fed credits - I mean dollars. Report to the Ministry of Employment and you will be assigned a function.
Patient: I got a job!
Comment Re: No backup. (Score 1) 81
The government official never said they it could not be done due to cost. Everyone here jumped to that misguided conclusion right away. He said it could not be backed up due to size. My interpretation is their current backup solution could not handle the size and they would have to design a new one. My company can easily afford to build a new petabyte server. However installing one is not as easy as me ordering a massive amount of HDDs and doing it over a weekend. There are procedures to follow when it comes to that kind of infrastructure change. Being a government agency, there were probably additional constraints on solving that problem.
I agree the official didn't say it couldn't have a backup due to cost. And I demonstrated that size is not a prohibitive factor. That quantity of data can be backed up, and can be backed up easily. Could have had a backup. Not could not have had a backup.
For the official to claim could not have when it could have is misleading. The why of it not having a backup doesn't get asked when the baseline is "couldn't have".
Once we arrive back at could have had a backup system it's just about the reasons/excuses. I object primarily to falsely cutting off that discussion.
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