So... then all these drug discoveries will be patent free? Because other areas say that AI isn't patentable/copyrightable. So....

Gig economy apps in Europe/UK all have tips the same as the US does. They're just as prominent and constantly hassle you for them. While you won't expect tips if you order directly from a pizza place, if you use one of these 'apps' it's becoming quite common/standard.

'algorithms' these days are horrible. Half the time after watching something I go to my history to purge it just because I know what it'll do to my recommendations.

Instagram is the absolute worst though. Click 'not interested' or report and block 500 'marketing/affiliate/otherpyramid' scam accounts and it'll just server you up 500 more. About the only thing that I've seen it be remotely responsive to is keyword matching things you click on (but not what you like), just the fact that you've clicked on them in your recommended feed. Which leads to situations like:

Why are you showing me this?
You just clicked on something exactly like this!
Did I like what I clicked on?
No.
Did I comment on it?
No.
Did I subscribe to it?
No.
So why are you showing it to me?
You clicked on it!
But didn't I also click 'I'm not interested'
You're just playing hard to get. Your feed is now nothing but this, enjoy!

wtf? It's not like the Getty images watermark prevented those images from being used to train AI to the point where some generated images included blobs of white in a similar pattern. So... this will do what exactly?

There are actually people who upload government issued photo ID to Facebook?? As soon as Facebook felt that my real name wasn't Jus D'Orange, they made me change it. I was Jus de Pomme for a week until I got locked out and needed to upload ID. Haha no. So my account has been locked that way as the only thing you can do upon logging in for the past five? years. Makes it the most secure account I "have". Can't even delete the account instead since that's deeper in settings

Fry: So you're telling me they broadcast commercials into people's dreams?

Leela: Of course.

Fry: But, how is that possible?

Farnsworth: It's very simple. The ad gets into your brain just like this liquid gets into this egg. [He holds up an egg and injects it with liquid. The egg explodes, covering him and Leela in yolk.] Although, in reality, it's not liquid, but gamma radiation.

Fry: That's awful. It's like brainwashing.

[Leela wipes the yolk from her hair.]
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?

Fry: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines and movies and at ball games, on buses and milk cartons and T-shirts and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No, sir-ee!

The Infosphere is great :P

So having RTFA and watching the video on his presentation, his initial concerns were reported to the vendor and a 90 day window to fix the vulnerabilities was given. The 90 day window lapsed and the story on the vulnerabilities were published in the media. As that applies to the initial vulnerabilities found, I do not know if that applies to the current data injection or if a new window was applied for this vulnerability, however, the presentation showed that there were 2900 and change devices active in 2019. The data injected to write pwned was applied to any device not active in 2019 which three months into the year seems like a fair assessment of a device that is no longer in use. I'd like to hear your suggestion on what more reasonable option is present on bringing attention to these issues. Like most things, it should be a matter of "trust, but verify" so this guy verified and found an issue. A government agency also investigated these devices, however it seems their investigation was not as through as this.

Yeah what's missing from the discussion is that this statistic is sales by revenue. So sure streaming is >75% of revenue (wtf is that 3% synch amount I saw? https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.macrumors.com%2F2019...) and digital sales are 11%.

Vinyl and CDs is 12% (ok mainly just vinyl) because a record costs $20. A CD costs $10. iTunes store is $9.99. My favourite band launched preorders of their newest album coming at the end of this month and they had 500 limited edition coloured vinyl for $22 which easily sold out within a day. So something that costs more makes more revenue. Hmmm.... (now doing the math that chart is 101% as it's rounded to the nearest percent so the difference is literally a rounding error)

It's a good thing that the recordings are obfuscated in Swedish. We'll never be able to decrypt that

If I had one of these photos, I wouldn't have been banned from Facebook. That and had a name that wasn't "Jus D'Orange"

Please resist your government, but Apple is teh evil for resisting the good ol' US of A

Like anyone of any importance at a bank could be reachable by a random outsider on a Sunday. And given how little most companies care about security, I would be surprised if anyone would actually respond.

wut? High bandwidth? It's a single character. Maybe a mix of a few characters. And the emoji are built into the fonts so there's no bandwidth there either. But k

I guess I don't understand it. I'm a pretty bug guy so why would I want to race to get on a plane just to sit in a cramped seat for longer? I wait around the gate until final boarding call just because that is less stressful and more comfortable. All the yahoos have already fought over whatever it is they do and I can just walk in, sit down and have the shortest wait until takeoff.