And most of what appears on food photos is not food or barely food coated and glued with random varnish, paint, woodwork glue, sawdust, hair dressing gel...

Wrongdoing at least since 2014.

Now 2024 and the U.S. FTC will order Avast to pay $16.5 million and ban the company from selling the users' web browsing data or licensing it for advertising purposes.

1. Cease selling user data, they already sold it multiple times = no big deal for them.
2. $16.5 million will appeal and pass the bill to paying customers and is likely a portion of the 10 years profit on wrongdoing.
3. Persons in charge may not be made personally liable for this.
4. Shareholders are entirely safe, maybe a little dent that will be erased with a press release like "We are committed to protected our users' privacy... blah, blah..."

People need better education and be opened to the World while they are not too old with a fossilized brain. For those politicians it is over. Save yourself while you can and save your relative and people you like by helping them get an education to the World diversity. This is the only long term way to win against those sick fossils.

It seems that while the Constitution of the United States of America contains provisions relating to secularism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... this is perhaps not as clear for the multiple States of the US federation.

This is the problem with the absence of secularism in one state, with the diversity of religions and the cultural melting pot as in the United States. If laws are drawn up and applied on a religious basis, they inevitably penalise those with other religions (or no religion at all) and other cultures.

Countries with Islamic governments mitigate this problem by having only one official religion.

My personally preferred system is that of France and its secularism, deeply rooted in its constitution.

It's pure folly that's at work here.

On the one hand, those in charge of defining and enforcing laws are bent on penalising and criminalising more and more anything that does not fit in with their religious convictions, while at the same time maintaining a supposedly open attitude towards the practice of religions other than their own.

On the other hand, we have a world facing a serious crisis, killing each other over ever-increasing consumption and population, with diminishing resources and the inevitable decline that will go with them.

And while part of the world lacks everything, people are spending crazy amounts of money to have a child at any price, with a profusion of technology.

It's a state of affairs that's really hard to understand for a French person like me, who was brought up in a secular republic founded since the French Revolution on the separation of powers and above all of religion and the State.

It's a dramatic observation I'm making, of a world that is losing itself in its generalised madness and no longer even manages to respect itself as humanity.

Add a form with an "I am not a robot" check-box and marking buses, boats, store-fronts, street-lights... ;O)

I am sick of this dumb (insert environmental bullshit word) excuse of the day to try to pump some funds and divert attention from more imminent and hot crying issues.

It could be useful in a trial setting as a screening tool for study population enrichment. A big problem with clinical trials investigating treatments for dementia (and in particular, Alzheimer's) is that either (1) the intent-to-treat population contains too many participants who don't have the disease; or (2) the patients who have the disease are at a stage of disease progression that reduces intervention efficacy.

We've conducted trials in the apolipoprotein-e4 population, for example, and more recently, have used PET imaging results, but a blood-based biomarker with even moderate predictive power would be a tremendous help, because the ability to detect these patients at an early stage of their disease could very well translate to clinical evidence of a treatment's ability to stop symptomatic disease.

But I agree that without extremely high sensitivity and specificity (like, > 99% and > 95%), and without treatment options, such a biomarker would not be useful diagnostic information for the general population. I have hope that we are getting closer to nailing down Alzheimer's pathology.

Independent parallel programming might have caught the error. Just have two individuals create independent implementations of the same calculations. Neither can see the other's work. A third party views the outputs and checks that they match. If not, they have to find the error. I don't think that would cost 10x the amount.

There's no such thing as 100% accuracy. Errors always happen. It's just a matter of how much error one is willing to accept, and if the stakes are high enough, you do a cost-benefit analysis to see whether the effort to bring the risk down outweighs the cost.

In this case, it seems like there was a single point of failure, which as we all know, is not good practice.

Thank you so much for reading it in depth and provide a layman comprehensive summary of the issue.

Very good question!

I remember in the 70's and early 80's it was common practice to have carpets with a special cut-out shape to fit the toilet base and sometimes even synthetic fur on the outside of the lid. This was obviously a trap for bacteria and particles. Another time with other rules.

I feel no nostalgia for this overuse of carpeting in the wrong places, but fact is that we had no worse health, maybe even better health than nowadays. Possibly related to sane exposure to bacteria overall.

The EFF probably has not enough volunteers and funding to expand this to the whole World. Although it would be very useful and appreciated as surveillance is not specific to the USA.

Even in Europe those tight privacy policies are under constant attack and evaporate like snow in a sunny spring day.

France's government passed laws to allow AI-assisted facial recognition to be used massively "because" of Paris Olympics. And these are likely to stay after the Olympics. See: https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

EVs pollute more nano particles because of more weight and subsequent tire wear.
EVs batteries production and disposal is highly pollutant and they need replacement before the vehicle end of life. This can potentially shorten the whole vehicle affordable lifespan.
EVs uses a lot of online computerized, monitoring, maintenance and upgrades. Support and online computer tech create a very short term obsolescence. This also greatly impairs the second-hand market and sharply shorten vehicle life.

A lot of people uses 15-25 years old vehicles. It is clear that there will be no affordable, still supported 20+YO EVs which rely on battery replacement, online computer systems and working/responsive servers to support all tech and software.

I predict that most EV sold today will be junk by 10-15 years. And this is one big nasty waste and pollution source.

I also predict that we will deal with more critical problems than EVs mobility in the near future. EVs will be the least of our concern when we will be battling for water, food, energy or just our lives and the already growing world-wide wars, revolts and oppressive governments trying to mitigate those while protecting the happy few privileged super riches from the growing mess.