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This article seems well below the usual standards of the BBC. It devolves into a soup of disjointed quotes under strange headings (all H2s) towards the end. Th
by CheckBlanket 6y ago
This article seems well below the usual standards of the BBC. It devolves into a soup of disjointed quotes under strange headings (all H2s) towards the end.
There's almost nothing worth reading here.
- shever73 6y agoIt almost looks like they published the outline instead of the actual article! It's terribly written.
- jacobush 6y agoI was ready to vote you down, but the article was hilarious at the end. Would read again, it's absurd comedy at the end.
- dajomu 6y ago"Wife teases"!
- dotancohen 6y agoWife teases? I could not believe that got left in there. Definitely a draft, and somebody had opened the wrong window when context switching!
- mint2 6y agoEqually strange is “Deer peering” as a tagline for a section. It Has zero connection to the actual subject matter, hacking and security.
- tweetle_beetle 6y agoWow, you're not wrong. I couldn't help but look up the journalist's name as it's the type of name that you might give a fictional parody character. I was surprised to see that the website of the BBC's first cyber reporter has so much horrible third party stuff on it - https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=joetidy.co.uk https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=joetidy.co.uk
- dkersten 6y agoCyber reporter? People still use the word cyber? In 2020?
- cakemuncher 6y agoThey're really good with the cybers.
- umvi 6y agoYes, and I'm sure people will be using it in 2077 as well.
- dkersten 6y agoAside from using it in the word "cyberpunk", the word cyber has drastically fallen out of use, at least unironically. The only people who I've personally heard using it since the 90's are people who don't really know much about computers.
- checkyoursudo 6y agoThere is a field of US law called "cybersecurity law", which technically does not refute your anecdotal point. (I worked in cybersecurity law for a while.)
- thaumasiotes 6y agoIt is very common in government use. Don't confuse falling out of use among your peer group with falling out of use in general.
- dkersten 6y agoWhen I say "personally heard" I don't mean just my peer group, but media and whatnot too. Government use seems consistent with people who don't understand computers though.
- alehul 6y agoAfter reading, I’m convinced that this must be a draft mistakenly published. Wow.
- Vinnl 6y agoSame here, but then I looked up the author's Twitter, who's promoted the article two days ago: https://twitter.com/joetidy/status/1312654705781338112 https://twitter.com/joetidy/status/1312654705781338112 Looks like this was really intended to be published. Weird, with all due respect. Edit: And it's not been accidentally reverted to a draft - it already was this way two days ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20201004160433/https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54378961 https://web.archive.org/web/20201004160433/https://www.bbc.c...
- polynomial 6y agoThis is amazing! How does a draft of notes accidentally get published as the actual story? Do they use shared editing software? Or was there a (bizarre) human decision in there, intentionally pushing this content live??
- jacobush 6y agoAnd promoting it on cyber-Twitter.
- branon 6y agoAgreed, something is seriously wrong with this article. Some of the images almost look like they were corrupted, others are very low-quality.
- conjectures 6y agoIs this GPT-3 written?
- russh 6y agoLooks closer to GPT-2.03234