We know wha I:m going to say. They aren't the victims. A good photographer can selectively expose part of their film

Using AI support bots is less useful than having no support representatives at all

Out of Interest, does anyone on Slashdot know when Microsoft will complete Windows 11 and release it to the public. I appreciate we are well into beta testing now. I guess the problem is Windows 10 goes EOL in October which is going to leave a very small window for acceptance testing and organisations to roll out the final version of Windows 11

Users shout "we want the ability to manually update because we no longer have faith in you, Microsoft"

Microsoft hears "we want more shit broken MS products like copilot advertised on the login a screen"

As a YouTube premium member, the worst thing that's happened to YouTube is the inane shorts, and I'll continue to aggressively down vote any shorts and leave foul comments on any of these tool bag's short format videos. And I understand, the majority of the people on the planet are morons and derive great entertainment from mindless content, but why not make a special site for those special people.... Like Tik Tok?

Claude is without a doubt the original chatbot. I think I first used it in 1991. Seemed revolutionary at the time. Spent hours talking to it. His vague understanding of what was being input and his meandering stories always illicit a chuckle. My only question is why has it taken so long to create a new version?

Unfortunately someone signed up to Facebook on my behalf. Is there a terms of service I should know about? I didn't request that the account be set up, I was just handed the keys one day. I can't give away rights when I am not the agent and I haven't been presented an agreement

Back in the 90s Microsoft recommended that, under no circumstances, should you store passwords or pre-authentication information in cookies. You would have to be unbelievably incompetent and reckless to write a web service to work that way since its reasonably trivial to steal the contents.

Yet, here we are, and Microsoft as usual is able to demonstrate why it made those recommendations so many decades ago.

Thank you. I think this is really a key aspect to Elizabeth Homes' personality faults. She is a reckless human that cares nothing about people and everything about her public perception. She will quite as happily create a life to make a point as she will impact lives to make a buck. I'm sorry, its not the media thats painted this lady as one of the worlds greatest monsters, its her own actions.

But rather than a picture of an actual black panther on the drive, its just some weird furry guy in a bondage cat suit. What am I missing here? Why would anyone want this?

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I find this hilarious because Microsoft frequently carries scams on its platform (MSN, scammers are supported by Bing as being trust worthy - not in Google, just Bing and its subsidiaries such as Duck Duck Go), and does nothing about those either.

Microsoft is complicit in their involvement in assisting fraud through its Internet platforms such as MSN via scams masquerading as news items, supported by Windows, Bing and Microsoft Edge that defaults to all of the above. Its fair to say that they have a financial incentive to continue to support fake news in as much as they support fraud. They are two sides to the same coin.

Good job, Microsoft. Not only are you refusing to label 'fake news', you are actively creating it!

And yet all they have to pay is $2.30 in damages per impacted individual. What a complete failure of the legal system! A fine of $2.30 per user that you literally lost the physical device that contained the data!

With penalties like that, there is no incentive to even hire a cybersecurity team, or even invest in padlocks! You know, it would likely just be a net profit for Morgan Stanley just to auction their own disks and then pay this measly fine each time, and as it stands, I wouldn't rule out collusion, or at the very least, wilful negligence in this case as it stands.

Often in computing, compatibility is highly desirable as it means you can launch a product to market with an existing software library to leverage which gives businesses a tremendous marketing edge.

To me the latest gen Sony consoles, for example, are handicapped by the library of PS5 games, but fortunately PS4 compatibility comes to the rescue.

Similarly, Creative Labs wouldn't have been as successful with Soundblaster had it not been able to implement OPL2/OPL3 used by Adlib which already had an extensive software library, and this is likely a better comparison as we're talking about 'optional accessories'. Today, sound cards aren't considered 'optional' on computers, but at their introduction, they absolutely were.

And if you go one step lower, in electronics, compatibility is premium. There is a reason everyone doesn't go and design their own version of USB - its a lot of extra cost to make uniquely incompatible chips that all perform the same function.

Sounds to me like Sony are just admitting that their implementation in PSVR1 was such hot garbage that they decided it was entirely a dead and and they've restarted from scratch.

First computer I had was the C64, shortly followed by the C128. I still have them. I regard the C128 as one of the most successful failures in computing. It could effectively natively run multiple computers (6502, 8502 and Z80 instructions). As far as I'm aware, near to nobody wrote any software of considerable merit (except maybe C128 GEOS) for C128 mode, and because the C64 disk drives used a variable track length, you couldn't use any native CP/M software without managing to transfer the software from fixed track disks used by nearly everyone else.

Oh, and Commodore made the disk access on the C128 vastly faster than the C64, but it could only be used in C128 mode which had no software with which to load faster.

Oh, and the speed improvement to 2MHz in C128 mode was rarely fully utilised because the video chip couldn't draw anything when running faster than 1MHz using the VIC chip. The C128 also had a hi-res video chip in it that had no sprite support, so was useless in anything but text mode (although it could run at the native 2MHz)

So you were effectively paying for a vastly more complex computer that was only good at running C64 software, but because the C64 was so incredibly popular, the C128 was still more or less successful even though it never really punched above half capacity.

I'm not exactly sure how Disney is able to justify a cost increase to watch a bunch of old animated movies. As a parent, its a very minor convenience to watch Disney animation via their website rather than just using the collection of movies I've already downloaded over a decade ago.

Disney offers absolutely no value with any of its other content on Disney+. The Star Wars and the Marvel stuff is all terrible. Nobody is asking for it, and to be honest, none of it is age appropriate stuff for my kids.

Its as if Disney has abandoned its core product of animated (which people want to pay for) entertainment in favour of a whole bunch of content that I'm not really comfortable with showing my kids due to the way Disney needlessly positions its values over the requirements of the story.

It certainly feels as though Disney is asking every subscriber to cover the cost of their new garbage rather than allowing us just to pay to access their legacy content which should effectively cost them nothing to stream.

And that leads to what I can only consider complete confusion over what the Disney product is offering, leading back to that value proposition. Who is it meant for? It seems like it would traditionally be aimed at kids, but then they put a bunch of confronting social commentary in their shows that parents will have difficulty justifying providing access to, and they have shows like the Predator (Prey) which is something I don't want showing up when my kids log into Disney. Who is this for?