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  1. Re:Finding remote work is hard on IBM: Remote Working Is Great! (For Everyone Except Us) (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    yeah nah mate.
    Here ya go brudda, have a crack at dese
    http://alldownunder.com/austra...
    http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27888329
    http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html

  2. Re: They are doing this to go after the Rooters on Google's Upcoming 'Fuchsia' Smartphone OS Dumps Linux, Has a Wild New UI (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    > Google believes app developers should have that choice

    But it is my phone, right? I guess not...

    Your phone, but not your app. You bought a limited licence to use that app. The developer can limit where it's used, and you either abide or go without.
    I don't necessarily agree with the above (especially when it comes down to just geoblocking!) but that's the current landscape of app usage and the convenience of buying access to someones work.

  3. Scientific advancement should not be stopped or slowed down because it might put a bunch of low-level functionaries out of a job.

    Our economic model needs to adapt to the new technological landscape, and leave the Luddites behind.

    I would like to see AI involved in running businesses.
    Replacing 100 low level people saves a fair chunk of the bottom line.
    Replacing a CEO earning 500x those low level people ,well now that's some real money!

    Imagine if AI replaced some of your congress critters, how are the corporates going to buy one of those off - offer some green electricity? Licence maintenance paid for another year?

  4. In which case the user would typically not care about batteries in doing the Continuum thing - dock the phone to a power supply and external keyboard, mouse and hotel TV.

    I cannot believe we are still waiting for a phone with dock that runs Windows x32/64 natively at 'good enough' speed. With the right integration into Enterprise tools and systems, a single Windows mobile phone could replace desktops, laptops, tablets, desk phones and mobile phones . Heck MS could charge enough to recoup the lost revenue from Windows desktop OS and we'd still be ahead on device management and integration. So many other things could become easier to manage & track.

  5. Re:My experience on First Evidence For Higher State of Consciousness Found (neurosciencenews.com) · · Score: 1

    As a non-drug taker your description sounds like the two halves of your brain were not talking to each other and your consciousness was split into 2 separate threads that eventually joined again.

  6. I wish I had some karma for you. Well done.

  7. Re:"Robot Tax"? on EU Moves To Bring In AI Laws, But Rejects Robot Tax Proposal (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    It should be simply the company owning the robot earns company income and pays company tax at the normal rate.
    If I buy a robot for my own use (autonomous car, au pair, cleaner, it already attracts a value add type tax, plus the company that manufactured the robot will pay company tax.

  8. Re:Expensive on Google Fiber Sheds Workers As It Looks to a Wireless Future (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    We cannot determine the reason why Google fibre is too expensive for Google to rollout - their pricing model, municipal compliance, or other factors that don't apply to Australia...

  9. software often gets replaced by something that's better-written since it represents a security risk by confounding the business' need to properly control user access rights.

    When did you last try and use Adobe Creative Cloud software in an enterprise setting? Yuck.

  10. Re:They seem to misunderstand the idea... on Finland's Universal Basic Income Called 'Useless' By Trade Union Economist (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    As a workers union, the less workers in the union, the less power the union has - and the less money flowing into the union to pay them. UBI might send these people onto the UBI, along with a lot of other bureaucrats currently working in welfare & related organisations.

  11. I think you do not understand that checking far more recipients for fraud is going to be be harder than checking a few.

    A UBI would be payable at the same rate to all eligible persons. Eligibility should be as simplistic as possible so that data matching can be accomplished:

    * US citizen
    * alive
    * reached a certain age

    Your government already has this information scattered across numerous data sources.

  12. Re:**AA should be concerned on Google, Unlike Microsoft, Must Turn Over Foreign Emails, Rules Judge (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    Since making a copy of a movie does not create a meaningful interference with the account holder's possessory interest of the movie, surely it can't be worth all those lawsuits?

    Guess they would need to ping you for making that copy available (if you do, ie by BitTorrent), as that *does* create a meaningful interference - potential loss of income.

  13. Re:Trello + Jira = Awesome on Atlassian Acquires Trello For $425M (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    This is about where we are also - IT uses JIRA and business uses something else. Would be nice if the products could converge and still meet all those use cases.

  14. Re:Is it just me to worry about the new Amazon? on Amazon's Robot Workforce Grows By 50 Percent In Just One Year (siliconrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    No one has the cash to buy anything after being put out of work. Or the taxes get very high when people start turning to the er / jail / prison as there doctor.

    Thus why lowering corporate tax rates are ridiculous - personal income is going to be slashed by automation, so where will governments get their income from if corporate rates are dropped?

  15. Re:Will they only make car batteries? on Tesla Gigafactory Begins Production (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The biggest individual cost for electric cars seems to be the batteries. Elon wants to replace combustion based vehicles with electric. He will need tens to hundreds of Gigafactories to meet demand, plus is also prioritising Powerwalls. I highly doubt the general purpose battery market is on the radar yet.

  16. Yup. Win10 uptime is well under a week, figure 3-5 days before a reboot. Typically a reboot that happens while the laptop is closed and your snug in a rug sleeping. Got the uptime up to 3-5 days by realizing I could restart Windows Explorer when it crashed, which it does 1-2 days in. Win10 is the buggiest, most unreliable PoS I've run in decades.

    My Win10 install is a clean install, and is restarted whenever needed for updates. Can't remember the last time I had to manually restart. Windows explorer doesn't crash.
    I suspect your hardware isn't up to scratch.

  17. I've only driven a few times in SoCal (I'm an Aussie), but we've passed police every time watching the freeway not giving a damn that the traffic is freely flowing at 70-75 mph.
    I think that's a sensible attitude to have in regards to where their time should be spent.

  18. Re:I predict a lot of misunderstandings about BI on Finland Will Give Some Unemployed Citizens a Basic Income (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    This is what rich people already do - companies and trusts that pay their way, their take home pay can be inconsequential.

  19. Re:What I want to see... on Audi Cars Now Talk To Stop Lights In Vegas (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    if...the person in the car behind ... isn't paying 100% attention (they looked up for a second and saw the light was green, then look back down)... seems like a recipe for disaster.

    You are correct, anytime where you aren't bothering to look at where your vehicle is heading could lead to disaster.
    looking up at the road then back down again - (at what?) - just seems like poor driver behaviour.

    Saw this recently in person, when an emergency vehicle with just flashing lights - no siren - was turning across an intersection in front of me. I could tell traffic was moving strangely and slowed down, then stopped when I saw the emergency vehicle - as did the car next to me. Unfortunately the driver of the car behind that person wasn't paying attention (yes it was a green light, why would anyone stop?) and ran into the back of her.

  20. Re:Net worth is over $86 trillion!!! on Bitcoin Could Rise By 165% To $2,000 in 2017 Driven by Trump's 'Spending Binge' and Dollar Rally (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Stop it with the debt crap! And stop comparing the spending of money against the GDP instead of our overall total value!

    Let's say you own property worth $1,000,000, you have $200,000 in total debt, and you make $180,000 a year. Would you worry about spending an extra $20,000 this year?

    Those numbers are the US economic numbers translated to personal terms.

    The NET worth of the US was over $86 trillion at the end of last year. That's value minus debt folks. Get real.

    Federal income of $3.2T
    Expenditure $3.7T
    Deficit $0.5T, ~ 15% overspend.

    If I'm making $180k, spending $210k and add another $20k on top of that to make $230k? Yes, I would be worrying about that.

    Fiat currency is of course different to a home budget, so your analogy doesn't really work.

  21. Re: What hacking? on Sysadmin Gets Two Years In Prison For Sabotaging ISP (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Your assumption is incorrect.
    You do not have authorised access after you are fired, regardless of whether you can still get into any systems, physical or otherwise.

  22. So that your thumb can reach the far sides / corners more easily.
    Of course that's if it's curved so that the edges are closer to your hand than the centre of the screen...
    Which is the complete opposite of the S7 Edge.

  23. Re:You buy what you value on Scientists Believe There's Finally A Cure For The Common Cold (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    No it isn't. I value air but I've never paid a cent for it. .

    How much have you paid for clean air though, via taxes, regulation, and enforcement of those regulations?

    Because when you don't pay for clean air in certain locations, you end up like Shanghai...

  24. Re:its not just an oopsie on Reddit CEO Admits To Editing User Comments Amid Pizzagate Malarkey (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone who suspects that ANY big wig at Google/Reddit/Microsoft cannot simply go in and change things as they see fit for profit, legal or political reasons is deluded.

    Data stored in services these companies run is used as legal evidence.
    Reddit has publicly demonstrated that they can and will edit posts by users, and it cannot be determined if a user did or did not not post that content.
    This can now be used to discredit any content on Reddit from admissibility from legal matters.

  25. Re:Why not Windows 10 Mobile on x86? on Microsoft's x86 on ARM64 Emulation: A Windows 10 Redstone 3 Fall 2017 Feature (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The idea is that x86 mobile with Continuum would allow single device convergence, though it could cannibalise existing Windows OS licensing & SA in the enterprise. There has been a movement towards Windows user licensing, so theoretically an x86 mobile phone that hooks up to an enterprise domain could require Windows SA and retain that income stream for MS. Would need a good dock for external monitors & peripherals. Useful also if they have voice smart switching between 4G, wifi, and ethernet via dock depending on location context.
    We have a significant number of users where a single device would be sufficient, and it wold also provide extra business continuity functionality. IT asset management and cost management may be significantly simplified too.