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Submission + - Your browser is avoiding IPv6 (test-ipv6.com)

Submitted by ourlovecanlastforeve
ourlovecanlastforeve writes: When you use the Internet, a connection is made between your computer, and the service you're connecting to. To connect, you have to have the other side's IP — Internet Protocol — number. And, when you connect, they see yours, so they can send traffic back to you and your applications.

The Internet protocol that we've been using for the 1990's and the 2000s, has run out of these unique numbers. We can keep going, but with some limitations, by sharing multiple machines with one number. Often times, we do this at home or at work.

Comment Re:I'm sure they did (Score 1) 52

Former call center rep checking in: Yes.

You have to meet certain metrics even when those metrics are outside your control.

The way they work it is by saying "we understand you can't get the customer to do xxx on every call, that's why we don't require 100% compliance."

And then in the same breath they say "how you perform with regard to these metrics directly impacts your ability to get promotions and in a situation where there are layoffs these numbers will be used to decide who stays and who goes."

In my career I have personally witnessed supervisors adjusting metrics to retain employees they like at multiple call centers.

Submission + - FCC chief Ajit Pai thinks now is a good time to joke about net neutrality (dailycaller.com)

Submitted by ourlovecanlastforeve
ourlovecanlastforeve writes: Under a normal presidential administration, little-to-no attention is ever paid to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.

Of course, there is nothing “normal” about the Trump administration.

Ajit Varadaraj Pai spent most of his life as a little known corporate attorney and bureaucrat. Pai, who was appointed to the FCC by President Obama, was made chairman of the commission by President Trump. Since his appointment, Pai has become a near household name for his crusade against Obama-era internet regulations. Pai’s quest to end net neutrality regulations has made him perhaps the most hated, infamous man on the internet.

Comment No they all suck (Score 1) 254

My ex-partner partner is an executive at a company that specializes in fitness bands.

Over three years I scientifically tested every band on the market with the help of several engineers.

I can say with tested certainty that they are all garbage.

The way they work is that they inject photons into your skin (shine a green light) and then measure how many of them come (light density and spectrum) back and how fast.

Also a lot of the Chinese bands have a fake green light that does nothing and they are just pedometers.

The problem is that your skin and the device move around which causes noise.

The noise is significant enough that the signal coming back to the device is unusable most of the time, so to compensate for this, manufacturers have their software take the good data and try to guess based on it what happened during the periods where noise prevented a usable reading.

What this means to the consumer is that most of the data they see in the end-user app is a low-confidence guess.

Comment Re:Thanks for the value Dell! (Score 2) 140

I hope you're not posting from your phone then, because your phone's modem contains an encrypted OS that runs separately from any OS installed in ROM which is closed source and closed vendor, so you can't even look at the binary blob. And if it thinks you're trying to tamper with it, it'll reboot your phone.

Submission + - PayPal Says 1.6 Million Customer Details Stolen in Breach at Canadian Subsidiary (bleepingcomputer.com)

Submitted by Kargan
Kargan writes: PayPal says that one of the companies it recently acquired suffered a security incident during which an attacker appears to have accessed servers that stored information for 1.6 million customers.

The victim of the security breach is TIO Networks, a Canadian company that runs a network of over 60,000 utility and bills payment kiosks across North America. PayPal acquired TIO Networks this past July for $238 million in cash.

Submission + - Google's AI Built Its Own AI That Outperforms Any Made by Humans (sciencealert.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: In May 2017, researchers at Google Brain announced the creation of AutoML, an artificial intelligence (AI) that's capable of generating its own AIs.

For this particular child AI, which the researchers called NASNet, the task was recognising objects — people, cars, traffic lights, handbags, backpacks, etc. — in a video in real-time.

AutoML would evaluate NASNet's performance and use that information to improve its child AI, repeating the process thousands of times.

When tested on the ImageNet image classification and COCO object detection data sets NASNet was 82.7 percent accurate at predicting images on ImageNet's validation set. This is 1.2 percent better than any previously published results, and the system is also 4 percent more efficient, with a 43.1 percent mean Average Precision (mAP).

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