Comment I Blame ... (Score 1) 25
... Larry Ellison!
Submission + - Is Google/YouTube ripping off advertisers? 1
Anne Thwacks writes: I have been on YouTube since it started, and I have never clicked on an advert. Not once. I was taught by my grandmother "if they need to pay for advertising, what they are selling must be terrible!" (OK, this was in the 1950's when food, clothing and everything else was rationed — but hunger is hard to forget).
However, If I go on YouTube, I am literally pounded with adverts, even though YouTube know I won't click. I am a pensioner — I can't afford to pay for the stuff, even if I did want it. But advertisers are paying for it — and I know its not cheap — my employers used to buy Google Ads.
Google Ads are pocketing the money — knowing it won't ever sell anything. How is this not theft?
However, If I go on YouTube, I am literally pounded with adverts, even though YouTube know I won't click. I am a pensioner — I can't afford to pay for the stuff, even if I did want it. But advertisers are paying for it — and I know its not cheap — my employers used to buy Google Ads.
Google Ads are pocketing the money — knowing it won't ever sell anything. How is this not theft?
Comment Re:Idiocracy is spot on (Score 2) 111
Clearly a problem world-wide.
Not so clear what to do about it, although education helps in some countries.
Comment My hovercraft ... (Score 1) 30
... is full of eels!
Comment Re:Link to the Report (Score 1) 59
I cannot find anywhere how they collected this data or the methods they used to analyze it
I will let you into a secret
It was made up on the spot by "AI".
Comment Maybe someone should explain to them ... (Score 1) 34
... you cannot send Guinness down an optical fibre at anything like the rate at which most civilised people would drink it!
Comment Credit scoring (Score 1) 53
Ought to be a crime under EU legislation!
Comment I'll consider using it ... (Score 3, Funny) 37
... when they get it on an 8" floppy disk.
Submission + - Does AI really exist? If so, is it in charge of YouTube? 1
Anne Thwacks writes: Today I watched a video about WW2 in which the the battle of the Atlantic was being fought by Yu-Bots!
I know some people have accents that are a little hard to understand, but the YouTube process for generating captions is about 20 years behind the rest of the planet — particularly in failing to recognise the context of videos and adapting its dictionary accordingly — you would thing that Russian and Ukrainian names and places would be recognised in videos about ware in Ukraine, even (especially) if not in British football chants.
I was led to believe there was a thing called AI — I can believe the Artificial part, but Intelligence? Not to much!
I know some people have accents that are a little hard to understand, but the YouTube process for generating captions is about 20 years behind the rest of the planet — particularly in failing to recognise the context of videos and adapting its dictionary accordingly — you would thing that Russian and Ukrainian names and places would be recognised in videos about ware in Ukraine, even (especially) if not in British football chants.
I was led to believe there was a thing called AI — I can believe the Artificial part, but Intelligence? Not to much!
Comment Re:Easiest way to help? (Score 1) 63
The preferred feature is "Nuke from high orbit"
Comment But will cost customers ... (Score 1) 32
... uncountable time and money!
Comment Re:Fine by me (Score 3, Insightful) 107
One of the biggest advantages is that it drives support for standards:
If you sell a phone wihtout a USB cable. or supply USB cables without knowing which brand it will be used with,
You bloody well better comply with standards!
Comment But what does Red Hat provide? (Score 1) 215
A way to sell your soul to the devil without having to use Google Maps to find a crossroad?
Comment Out Of Body Experience? (Score 3, Funny) 215
Does Windows really freak people out to that degree?
Glad I use Linux!
Comment what kind of robots are we interested in? (Score 1) 49
We want robots that can dance to the Contours!
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