Twitter and Tumbler especially should not qualify for safe harbor under ANY set of laws. These laws are meant to allow platforms to censor content without worry of reprisal if they happen to miss something. What these platforms do instead is selectively promote certain content to drive controversy. I love the term "emotional pornography" to describe it. People go to these sites to invoke feelings, so to drive traffic up these places put the most contentious content front and center. At that point they are no longer passive hosts, they are driving the conversation and are just as responsible as the people who post it.

So the entire thing is dependent on the target sharing files via SMB. Furthermore, a new VM isn't going to have domain credentials and unless I missed something, the targeted files would have to allow full access to the 'Everybody' group, which no one does. It's smart, but I feel like we're missing about half of the analysis here.

I'm speaking more on the predictive side. If you see a large group of 18-30 year old's walking in close proximity to each other, all wearing blue for example and on the other side of the mall there is a similar group all wearing red; you would have to be an absolute moron not to preemptively call the police. At the same time, there is so much in fighting among these groups that an AI isn't going to realise that one group wearing red and black is effectively at war with the another group wearing black and red. Before you scoff at it, YES, things quite often get this stupid among these groups. It's not about race either, swap out the above with Hell's Angels and Black Pistons\Outlaws you'd still have to be brain dead not to call the police.

You can't use AI to monitor crime because as soon as you notice certain patterns arise in certain demographics you get called racist and brought before a kangaroo court. Because what to a normal thinking person might be evidence of gang affiliation, i.e. an ethnic group favoring certain symbols and primary colors for example, must be ignored to the point of enacting violence on the observer who calls attention to it by the retarded tumbler generation. And whilst a security guard can keep this knowledge to himself and not compromise his ability to act on facts; any Artificial Intelligence has it's brain wide open for reading and intentional misinterpretation by any Gen-X'pert who wants his name in the paper or thinks this slacktivism will get that 20 something year old intern to notice him.

If not for that reason then quite simply AI can't testify; and I for one would rage at the idea of being denied my right to face my accuser for the fact that I'm being accused by a God Damn math equation.

Duck Duck Go was based in Tel Aviv until a few years ago when they wanted to change their image. They may not sell your information to private entities, but they sure as shit track your activity.

No, China is only "Price competitive" in any field because of their artificial suppression of the yuan\renminbi. The actual value of that denomination is as high as 33 cents USD. Let it come to parity and we'll see what happens to China's market dominance.

6 hour day? So just meetings then?

I promise you that there system is cloud based with an MSP handling the day to day hell-desk requirements. When your only asset is data and your only service is linking data points, you NEED instant, geographically spread out site redundancy even if it's just to ensure shortest path routing. This is exactly the crap that the cloud was born for.

The article reads like "We gave these people an internship where we could accurately evaluate their abilities and when it came time to hire the ones who weren't headhunted for better jobs, the optics of paying them what they are worth were very bad. So we took it upon ourselves to shut the program down rather than invoke some kind of shitstorm on Twitter.". If you have "Internship at Google" on your resume then that's a golden ticket into the second interview. You have to be a complete screwup to NOT be able to capitalize on that.

Yes, you target the larger share of the crimes. Use the same system to monitor male users, sure. But numbers are more important than some half assed "Men Are Important Too" movement.

You misunderstand, Facebook isn't becoming the police in this scenario. They are filtering for potential cases and forwarding those to the experts. So if the girl turns out to be of age, then the Feds drop it, no harm done. And you DON'T "payout for damages"; in this scenario Facebook becomes a Mandated Reporter, which they kind of should be.

Yes, I am saying this is true of teenage and preteen girls 100%. Ideally it would be their parents watching them, but kids are sneaky whereas the service facilitating the conversations cannot be cut out of the equation

Monitor the connections between people. You already know the majority of victims are going to be female, you ignore what they say their age is and develop an :"Age Profile" based on their interests and check ins. The perpetrators culture is going to play a part in this, you're not targeting their race but a 25-35 year old Male who just moved from Yemen to New York and immediately starts friending and messaging 14 year olds in his area that he has no social connections with should set off alarms. You flag those for monitoring and review, forward whatever you need to the FBI. Grooming takes time, there is usually no need for real time intervention.

Ha, you wish

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Improved company? How, by tying every new install of Windows 10 to a Live ID, recreating it's own walled garden with it's App Store shifting it's business focus from a development and management platform to "Easy to use for Grandma"? Get out of here with your wanna-be-Apple fan boy crap. The Microsoft of today is monkey see monkey do of every other business around it. This Nadella guy has no vision and no imagination. He is a cancer on the company.

Duh, What's the Gobi Desert?

I only ever see this "solution" from people in an academic bubble. Most of these "layabouts" are UNEMPLOYABLE. Were you to give these people a job, they would require more in resources to supervise then could ever possibly recover from their labor and what's more, they inconvenience and infuriate the rest of your workforce and customer base in the process. We actually need to EXPAND these programs until I never have to deal with another mouth breathing jackass at a corner store who fails three times in a row to run a credit card because "No one told them" they had to press the giant "CONTINUE" button on their screen to process a transaction. We need to put the definition of legally disabled back at 85 where it was before this need to be polite took over our ability to make rational decisions and just pay these people to stay home and out of societies way.