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Kent Sharkey wrote: this time for good
As opposed to for evil?
DD was right!
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There were questions raised when Amazon was promised $1.2 billion in subsidies to bring a new headquarters to New York City, and we’re asking them again today — because The Washington Post reports that Google has been using secret shell companies to nab millions in tax breaks as it expands its data centers and offices across the US. It can't be evil if it's not illegal, right?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It can't be evil if it's not illegal, right?
Specially if they do pay their "fee" to the right people.
M.D.V. 
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I'm past commenting on how these tech giants make a mockery of democracy by stealing the money that is supposed to support it.
We need to see prison sentences handed out. Normal people can be sent down for years for stealing paltry sums, so we need to see a few proportionately-correct decades-long sentences for amazon, google, and fb execs.
It's the only thing that will make them even consider stopping doing evil*.
* Although, if I get that executioner's job, I may be willing to expand their sentences a little.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Normal people can be sent down for years for stealing paltry sums,
In Spain there was a guy who got 5 years prison by stealing food to feed his family because he got scammed and additionally lost his job. In that time, there was a guy who robbed a security transport and only got 2 years, wrote a book and made a good money... Or a banker who only had to pay a fine (not sure if he at the end got in a room in a hotel low security facility) after stealing millions from their customers
I would really love to see that real justice start to be delivered to those who think they are above everyone and everything.
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World wide web creator Tim Berners-Lee has long wanted to change the way we share data. His startup Inrupt is trying to make this a commercial possibility Don't worry, I'm sure people will figure out how to ruin it again
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World wide web creator Tim Berners-Lee has long wanted to change commercialize the way we share data.
 typo fixed.
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Quote: The big idea behind Solid is that, instead of a company storing all your personal data on their servers, you would keep it on your own personal data “pod”, located on a Solid server. You could run your own server or host it with a provider, much like a personal website. You could then give individual apps permission to read and write to your pod. When you want to stop using an app, you just revoke its access. The data remains on your pod, and businesses making apps never have to worry about storing it, deleting it, or making it easily exportable.
Being honest... I find the idea pretty interesting and a better model than the current one, where we are just the product and have no control at all about it.
I would not care if he makes money with it.
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Nelek wrote: I would not care if he makes money with it.
Every other wanker and his auntie have made money out of the interwebs by doing bad things.
If Tim wants to make a few well-deserved bob by doing good things, I'm all in favour.
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Ads are responsible for making webpages slow to a crawl, suggests analysis of the most popular one million websites. The theme today seems to be "Totally shocking news"
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Can someone tell me what the last two-thirds of the article say?
I'm sick of waiting for the BBC page to load*.
* You probably have to be British to realise the irony -- and brutal truth -- of that.
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Plop another shilling into the donation box, that might help it
TTFN - Kent
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The cloud got cheaper, and faster. Not really a surprise, since the price of hardware trends to zero over time. But it's still the cloud, and that means it isn't exactly cheap, because it is, after all, someone else's computer that you pay for the privilege of renting. Whaaaaa? Slow down and explain that one again
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He's describing server-client relationships, which is what "the cloud" has devolved into, because greedy buggers couldn't screw people out of fortunes by following a truly distributed model.
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AI can write disturbingly believable fake news[^]
Quote: researchers soon realized that [Elon Musk's OpenAI] could be used for far more sinister purposes, like pumping out disinformation in large volumes
That article was written by an AI.
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Does this means in the end we do not need Mr. President Trump any longer for that? Or is he maybe ....
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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How intelligent is an AI capable of writing believable "fake news" ?
If we assume all news is "fake," are we more, or less, intelligent, ourselves ?
Let me get back to you on this in an eternity, or so.
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BillWoodruff wrote: If we assume all news is "fake," are we more, or less, intelligent, ourselves ?
What do you consider "news"?
I prefer facts that can be validated using other independant sources. The rest are rumours.
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Take Google's AI and have it translate a website.
'nuff said.
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JPMorgan Chase on Thursday unveiled a prototype for a digital coin system using blockchain, a first among major banks as disruption accelerates change in financial services. Is the trend officially over when the banks get involved?
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It's not a "proper" one; it's exclusively for use by the bank to transfer money hither and yon, and with no anonymity (banks aren't allowed to make anonymous transfers).
Given that, I really can't see the point of it. They can transfer funds electronically, already, so using a blockchain only adds another layer to existing operations.
So it's either a typical Great New Idea that only makes things harder, or they've worked out how to use it to fiddle international taxes.
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Microsoft has published a new preview release of Windows 10, build 18836, to participants of the "Skip Ahead" group. But it's not quite the preview that they were expecting to get. "In the year 2525, if man is still alive"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: the "Skip Ahead" group
I'm a member of a different group, that is also named with two words,
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AI is getting better and better at writing convincing material, and that's leading its creators to wonder whether they should release the technology in the first place. Hopefully it didn't write this story
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