Comment Wait for it... (Score -1, Flamebait) 34
NB4 claims of anti-conservative bias
NB4 claims of anti-conservative bias
Oracle can't let this work without a hitch.
Last year, Oracle taunted Amazon into abandoning Oracle.
10/2/2017: Oracle's Ellison: Amazon & SAP Use Our Database Because We're Better
https://www.lightreading.com/e...
I'd say that two years is pretty quick for replacing and re-engineering a non-trivial chunk of your infrastructure.
This post is a perfect example of the garbage that the right-wing noise machine loves to produce and amplify. It's aggressive, dishonest, makes far reaching conclusions with no factual basis, feeds a persecution complex, and treats the left as some kind of boogeyman responsible for all that is bad.
Not only will they control everything you see they will also control everything you can say and do by threatening to cut you off from their increasingly mandatory monopoly for any reason they feel like.
Projecting is another strong suit of the right-wing machine.
FFS, the President of the United States just revoked the white house pass of a journalist, supported the action with a doctored video from an Infowars contributor, and threatened to revoke the pass of another journalist.
officially so you have no right to complain according to liberals....Ahhh America...land of the Free...
It's not liberals' fault that the right wing immerses itself in conspiracy theories and lies.
If the right wing would clean up its own house, a cartel of megacorporations wouldn't have to.
Your victimization is self inflicted.
I remember digging into the preliminary draft that's mentioned in TFA. Here are the two highlights:
NTP conducted the studies in phases, including several phases to determine the correct field strengths that would not raise the animal's body temperature.
They were exposed for 10-minute on, 10-minute off increments, totaling a little more than nine hours [of radiation over an 18 hour period per day] from before birth through two years of age.
First they had to figure out the "correct field strength" that wouldn't cook the rodents.
Then they cycled that just-below-cooking field on and off over the course of 18 hours per day, for two years, over the entire body, beginning (for the rats) in the womb
AFACT, there's nothing in the published materials that implies a relationship exists between the study and human health..
AI vision can do some things that no human can do. Quickly and accurately identify handwritten postcodes on envelopes was an early win.
The USPS has an office with hundreds of people, staffed 24/7/365 and all they do is decipher pictures the OCR can't figure out.
If those guys/gals can't fill in the blanks, someone at the sorting facility has to try and decode the address. From there, it goes to the dead letter warehouse.
The problems that "AI" are intended to solve tend to be so large that, if the algorithm is not hitting 99.999% success, there's still a non-trivial amount of work for humans to do.
The spoliation inference is a negative evidentiary inference that a finder of fact can draw from a party's destruction of a document or thing that is relevant to an ongoing or reasonably foreseeable civil or criminal proceeding: the finder of fact can review all evidence uncovered in as strong a light as possible against the spoliator and in favor of the opposing party.
E-mail/document retention policies are not a get out of jail free card.
If the company can "reasonably foreseeable" the documents will be needed, they're obliged to preserved them, lawsuit or not.
At the bare minimum, a judge will tell the jury to interpret destroyed evidence in the worst possible light for the destroyer.
In a worst case scenario, depending on your jurisdiction, destroying evidence will spawn a separate civil lawsuit or a criminal prosecution (fines and jail time).
Destroying evidence means you're stupid or hiding something much worse.
Microsoft's solution to insecure code was to graft on a layer of insecure security code.
They tried. But the hackers are trying harder and winning.
Again and again and again and again.
I wonder why banks would rely on a crypto currency like Ripple, of which 60% is held by the company and a further 20% is held by the founders.
The value of [coin] is completely arbitrary and doesn't matter.
If SWIFT wants to grab a million Bitcoin and declare that only those million Bitcoins will be part of their network, then who cares what "the market" thinks Bitcoin is worth? "The market" will treat those coins as if they're dead. Meanwhile SWIFT says 1 Satoshi = 1 US Dollar, making a SWIFTBitcoin worth 100 million USD and they're off to the races.
Except for the small problem that Bitcoin's throughput sucks, which is why various alternatives like Ripple have popped up. Ripple 'only' divides into 1 million drops, but the end result is still a finely grained transaction ledger.
Once you take away all the arbitrage pump and dump stock market hodling bullshit, it's easy enough to see why you might rely on a company like Ripple. All that matters is for the platform to be fast, stable, and have at least four nines of uptime.
Your cynical take on the insurance industry kind of makes me want to say "fuck it, hack all of the companies, all of the time, and let God sort it out."
The insurance actuaries can insist on audits
Target was certified as PCI compliant a few months before they were hacked.
They only problem is that the PCI audit would never have caught the memory scrapers that were used to infect Target's point of sale systems.
Most of the major credit card hacks in recent memory involve companies who've been certified as PCI compliant.
I'm not against audits, but it should be nakedly obvious that the audits we have are not the audits we need.
All of which is to say that having insurance companies cook up security standards doesn't mean anything will become more secure.
Once money is involved, it's no longer free speech, it becomes "commercial speech."
Commercial speech operates under a different set of rules, with significantly more restrictions.
"False or misleading" commercial speech is explicitly against the law.
There is some wiggle room for "puffery" (world's best hamburger.)
There is also some wiggle room as long as warnings or disclaimers are included.
Some warnings and disclaimers are what we'd call "compelled speech," because the government requires businesses to say them.
Compelled speech is pretty much the opposite of free speech.
What I think he's really talking about, when you read between the lines, is cross-marketing.
What he's talking about, when you read between the lines, is a dystopian surveillance state.
Even if it's all opt-in, the mere infrastructure to so intimately intertwine the online with the offline is inherently dangerous.
Not just because there is a risk of official abuse, but also because it'd be a big shiny target for hackers.
Even the companies who should be taking the most precautions still end up making thoughtless choices like tying in-air entertainment networks into avionics systems or in-car entertainment systems directly connected to the CANBUS.
It's not that this can't be done securely, it's just that it's nearly impossible that it would be.
Clickbait headlines are so formulaic... it almost seems like the first step in the clickbait war would be to nuke anything with one of those formulaic headlines.
I'm not sure that clickbait is inherently bad, so perhaps evolutionary pressure to create a better headline would not be bad either.
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It looks like the mobile website is already more responsive than I want or need.
Please continue allowing
The world is moving fast enough as it is, I don't need
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after and between lines!)
Uh.... To the left of the Preview button is a drop down menu.
If you dig around in your user preferences, you can set Plain Old Text as the default.
It automatically recognizes line breaks and will put html tags around any raw link you post (see below).
Speaking of preferences
I think I'm going to hang onto the [Fuck Beta] sig until the "classic" SlashCode is unfucked.
With javascript disabled, all these links show the exact same Slashboxes pref page
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And if our overlords are taking requests, please unfutz whatever it was that the previous slave masters did to the links.
Whoever thought that links posted under Plain Old Text should be truncated... they were out of their minds
It only serves to dirty up the conversation. I chose POT so I wouldn't have to type out any markup in my posts.
/Heck, consider defaulting everyone to Plain Old Text
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