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Comment Hacking into the system (Score 1) 274

"... Mondelez International ... will introduce so-called 'smart shelves' into store checkout aisles ... identify shoppers age and sex, and will then use that info to deliver demographically tailored advertisements ... will ... monitor how long customer's watch each ad

>cd /local/mnt/SmartShelf
>cat logfile
02-Mar-2015 11:45:23 New subject detected; Age: 20s; Sex: M; Ad chosen: 22756
02-Mar-2015 11:45:47 Status: Failure; Code: 10
02-Mar-2015 11:46:39 New subject detected; Age: 60s; Sex: F; Ad chosen: 66563
02-Mar-2015 11:46:59 Status: Failure; Code: 22
02-Mar-2015 11:52:02 New subject detected; Age: 10s; Sex: F; Ad chosen: 74453
02-Mar-2015 11:52:47 Status: Failure; Code: 15
>cat err_codes
10: Subject oogling Cosmo girl's boobs
15: Subject distracted by texting
22: Subject fumbling with checkbook

Comment Re:the difference (Score 1) 473

by charlesj68 (#44949705) Attached to: Popular Science Is Getting Rid of Comments

What if that "popularity contest" served as a valuable pressure-relief? What if there exists a class of users who benefit from the outlet of physically "Liking" or "Unliking" something they see expressed? These likes and dislikes are always available, but they do not contribute to the Score for a comment. Maybe they combine into some sort of Heat value that can be used to identify Hot comments.

Could it be that having such a system available reduce any tendency towards using the moderation system for Agree/Disagree purposes?

Comment Re:Cows (Score 1) 171

by charlesj68 (#43547817) Attached to: An Open Letter To Google Chairman Eric Schmidt On Drones

Personally owned flying robots today have the power to change the balance of power between individuals and large bureaucracies in much the same way the Internet did in the past.

Are not these words from the same people that are buying laws to be created so that their unconscionable actions of shear greed are not actionable?

Are you implying that we're being fleeced?

Submission + - Obama's "Jedi Mind Meld" (guardian.co.uk) 3

Submitted by d4nimal
d4nimal writes: This will sound like nails on a chalk board to all Star Trek fans: President Obama notes that he's tried everything to connect with congress to stop today's federal budget sequester, but he cannot perform a "Jedi mind meld."
Canada

Submission + - Canada Launches ACTA Bill (michaelgeist.ca)

Submitted by TrueSatan
TrueSatan writes: In an utterly craven move the Canadian government has launched a bill http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&DocId=6013262 to bring Canada into full compliance with the discredited, US led, ACTA agreement...an agreement to which most of the world does not agree. To further pressure the acceptance of this awful bill the US, on the same day, released their Trade Policy and Agenda Annual Report http://www.ustr.gov/sites/default/files/AnnualReport Final2013.pdf that calls on Canada to comply with ACTA obligations. For ACTA to take effect it would require six signatures from the major economic blocks and it appears to have no remaining possibility of getting them yet the US, and now Canada, continue to push it forward.

The Canadian bill features claims based on spurious health and safety concerns that have been thoroughly debunked by a US report http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-423 , Despite these claims being so dubious they remain a cornerstone of the Canadian bill. Similarly the claimed losses due to counterfeiting ($30 Billion US) stated in the bill have also been debunked and were plucked from thin air as 3-4% of US/Canadian trade http://cacn.ca/PDF/4-JMyers-CME.pdf without any substantiation of why the figure should be applied.

    The Canadian bill seeks to give border guards an unprecedented level of control without the possibility of judicial oversight and with any contentious decisions being at the whim of copyright holders discretion...guilty until proven innocent and with no chance to prove oneself innocent.

Despite a lack of evidence to suggest that Canada is a major source of counterfeit product the bill puts at risk fully legal parralel import of generic items..pharmaceuticals for instance see https://sites.google.com/site/iipenforcement/acta-section-analysis.

  The bill would also change copyright infringement from a civil dispute to a breach of criminal law.

Pity Canada if this bill is enacted!

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