Please create an account to participate in the Slashdot moderation system

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment Re:This is why surveillance culture is bad. (Score 1) 16

Whatever the government does, good or bad intention-wise, bad actors will always have incentive to use themselves.

That's why you don't want government backdoors in things.

Mike Pompeo would now agree with you. On the positive side of things, Marco Rubio will be killed in 2029.

Comment Re: Business works to increase profits. News at 11 (Score 1) 41

Is that now how it works for you?

Except for the obfuscation, which you ignore.

Let us say for one moment that the pricing system is so arbitrary and fucked up, the amount of money they syphon from their workers changes by the second. The worker noticed he is getting paid less for the same route and decides no ride for you. Ubers greed now affects you.

Comment Re:They should be honored to be mistaken for AI (Score 4, Insightful) 69

Problem is callers are conditioned to expect these prompts to be long winded and not have the information they need.
Logic at most companies seems to be that they can reduce call volumes and some 80/20 shit by going over the information 80% of callers are going to require, reading it out as slowly as possible, providing as many options as possible before finally allowing them to speak to a person.

But for a lot of people it's not worth their time. "You know what? I don't actually care about cable that much, just cancel my account"
I got a credit card once and they deactivated it the first time I used it and wanted me to call a 800#.... eeeh this thing is gonna give me $20 in rewards a year, I already wasted time at checkout applying for it. The only choice is to cut my losses. Into the trash it goes.

There's more and more shit i simply don't do anymore because the companies don't respect my time at all.

"Oh but the prices will be sky high if you get straight to a human CSR!"

Yeah don't care.

Comment Re:Indeed (Score 1) 27

am a big fan of PayPal, still use it now when I am buying something online not from Amazon.
I suspect Peter's wealth comes primarily from PayPal and an early investment in Facebook.
I have only recently heard about Palantir which I am suspect your quote is referring to.
If he can get ahold of the data it unfortunately is not private, but perhaps should be.
Just like Facebook, the issue is not someone collecting so called "private" data, the issue is people giving away their private data.
Cannot really blame Peter for making a business gathering it up.

You have no idea what I'm talking about do you?
Literally everything you posted here is the opposite of what I'm talking about, which isn't paypal btw.
Gotta hand it to Thiel, for a literal bloodsucking ghoul, he's sure good at keeping a low profile.

Comment Re:Indeed (Score 1) 27

Lol dude if you don't think GE was destroyed then you didn't google too hard. They went through bankruptcy,
Earlier this year boz declared that if meta horizon worlds and their ray-bans don't take off THIS YEAR. The company has no roadmap going forward.
Facebook had luck on their side that everyone at myspace cashed their check and sold it off to a stuffy old media company that had no idea what they were doing. If anything Tom must be much smarter than Zuck.

As for Facebook's other properties, they saw what was hot and could pay prices that don't make sense to turn down. I'm tired of people making heroes of these guys being the first to act on ideas that a bunch of people had and didn't act on because they're decent folks. Even right now those attitudes are hurting meta horizon worlds, dumping money into a pre-enshittified platform, they can't compete with vrchat which is at least holding off the enshittification until the IPO.

Comment Re:Idiot savants (Score 1) 62

I mean it's not like the fed chairman has ever declared anything that time proved wrong. Not that it matters much. Theyre already laying off people in anticipation that LLM can one day do their jobs. Dev teams were already turning into skeleton crews, tech profits have been good.
The need for tech labor has exceeded the actual demand for tech labor for some time and I hear it on the streets, ive felt it myself as stress mounts at work.

I tell you I've seen people churning out code that would have never flown in the past for a few years now.

Comment Re:lots of forking paths here (Score 1) 62

I remember elizabeth holmes being transparently grifty to a variety of people for different reasons but when you looked at therantos' board; Lotsa folks you'd think would know better with access to the levers that make the world work.

People shouldn't believe the ruling class' claims of competence. They're a pretty mixed bag and rather disappointing when you consider the massive advantages that population has when it comes to nutrition, training, and education.

Slashdot Top Deals

RAM wasn't built in a day.

Working...