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Comment Re:Algorithm (Score 1) 233

I don't think anyone is implying a sinister causation.

I did. By those who confound a correlation (fewer Google ads for jobs being shown for women) with a causation (SEXISM). The paper's authors have no way to determine the size of the ad pool being displayed to each sex which completely invalidates their conclusion. Being innocent & yet accused of sexism is clearly sinister in my book.

The problem is these tools only comprehend data aggregates and not human beings, and that can be both self-reinforcing and self-limiting. Whether it's Facebook, Google, news sites or whatever, we live in an increasingly strict reality bubble where individuals are simply not exposed to things they're not expected to have an interest in. As we pass more and more control over to automated filtering tools, the more this will be a problem and the less well informed we'll be. It's effectively automated corporate sponsored self-censorship.

Meh, I see no point in having to put up with feminine hygiene product ads & my wife really couldn't care less about ads for network equipment.

Comment Re:Wonderful... (Score 1) 64

What part of Apple being previously unable to work around a client forgetting a recovery key didn't you understand? Apple clearly did NOT have the keys or they would have been able to do something for the forgetful & ambiguous claims that Apple could always work around a lost recovery key are bull. There are claims that there is alien technology in iPhones that feeds on your soul -- do you believe that too?

So, now Apple saves these keys somewhere. While you believe that the only way to get to this info is through Apple's procedures, the point I made that went completely over your head is that the mere existence of this info in a database on an apple server makes it vulnerable & not on an individual level. Social Engineering isn't someone calling Apple support -- It's working on someone that has DBA access to that database. Now that the recovery key is no longer ONLY in our hands we could all wake up one day to learn that someone worked around the safeguards that Apple put into place.

Yes I do trust Apple (up to a certain limit). However, having read into just how RSA & others were hacked, I'd really have preferred that the recovery keys were never saved anywhere other than where I decide.

Comment Wonderful... (Score 5, Insightful) 64

Some random guy in the internet has a hack attempt on his account get blocked by his use of 2 factor ID. Instead of being grateful the guy complains on twitter that he is too busy to have correctly backed the recovery key he was warned he was would have to safeguard.

Clearly, Apple's procedures up to now avoided having the backdoor of saving the recovery key. That was OUR responsibility. Not saving it meant that Apple could NOT be social engineered or hacked into revealing it.

Some random guy complains that "it's not his fault his account was hacked" & that he "deserved" his account back. He eventually finds a screenshot but calls for Apple to change the system to add a backdoor so that they can recover any account they want.

The attack wasn't random guy's fault but it was his fault to not save his recovery key. More importantly, any social engineering or leakage of everybody else's accounts that occur due to Apple backdooring their 2 factor ID WILL be in part his fault. Way to go there, of course your convenience is more important than our security...

Comment Re:Algorithm (Score 5, Interesting) 233

Probably even simpler: There are more ads specifically targeting women (shoes, makeup, etc) than for men making their ad pool larger and thus automatically diminishing the opportunity for ads for of high paying google to be shown.

But of course that won't stop someone with a spreadsheet & a mission from finding a correlation & implying a sinister causation.

Comment Re:Good deal! (Score 1) 1307

So you don't want to soak the rich, just implement policies that will in effect soak the rich. Nor do you want to impoverish everyone but you advocate economics that will have precisely that effect. You're truly another example of the the schizophrenia needed to believe in the communist dialectic you continue to post.

So which mass media is lying to me? L'Humanité? Rue 89? Le Canard Enchainé? Marianne? Do you perhaps wish to buy a hint before again incorrectly assuming you know where I get my info? That my English is better than yours does not mean that I watch Fox

Yeah, austerity is theft, refusing to let the Greeks blow through a few billion more of our money is terrorism & any information that detracts from your worldview MUST be propaganda. I hear you. Believe you? Nope. I refuse to be led quietly into the modern day Yezhovshchina your policies would lead to.

Comment Re:Good deal! (Score 1) 1307

Whereas your position is yet another rehash of "Soak the Rich" that worked so well for the fUSSR that they won the Cold War & the USA imploded.

The Greeks, all 11 million have voted. Now it's the turn of the 489 million in the rest of the EEC who, while not wanting to implement it, have been planning for a grexit if necessary. Greece has yet to hit bottom. Given how few ressources they have, their refusal to implement real reforms & their antagonism of everyone able to help it's going to be painful for them -- rich, middle class & poor. I already see stories of a nascent wave of expatriation for those who can.

& here you are hoping that "it spreads globally". How typically leftist of you to hope that everyone becomes poor.

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