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Comment The technology is already there (Score 1) 116

The capability is already there on these platform; it’s being used to identify audio and video for the purposes of protecting IP and generating and directing advertising revenue.

So the question is not wether it’s technically possible but whether these providers can be made to behave responsibly.

Comment Re:Evolution at work (Score 1) 138

You’re missing the most obvious source of population growth in countries where fertility rates are falling (don’t feel bad; most people do): mortality rates are also falling; the population is ageing: the real effect is obvious but often missed: more people are living longer and making the population (live people) larger. The effect is even more marked in developing countries where life expectancy is growing faster. You can not predict population growth from reproduction rates alone.

Comment Not a food standards issue (Score 1) 313

Seems like most people here has got the wrong end of the bread-stick. This is not about food standards at all, or even ‘government regulation’ as such. It’s a tax break thing. The government exempts certain bread products from sales tax to subsidise their production and consumption (not an uncommon public health/anti-poverty technique used across the world on staple goods). This bread doesn’t meet the required standard; no subsidy for you; end of story. I’m surprised they even tried; probably means they have (their custormers’) money to spend on speculative legal action?

Comment The economics are against it (Score 2) 177

The big problem with this is that storage is too cheap. ie. it's cheaper to keep buying more storage than to spend the time deciding on what to retain and what to delete.

And this was a point made 5 years ago, not by me, but a senior exec from storage division of a technology giant developing new ways of increasing hard disk capacity!

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