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Comment And they need this why, exactly? (Score 1) 35

by Kargan (#61290952) Attached to: US Banks Deploy AI To Monitor Customers, Workers Amid Tech Backlash

FTA: "Chase aims to gather data to better schedule staff and design branches, three people said and the bank confirmed."

Yes, please enable digital tracking of all citizens, including assisting the government and law enforcement in locating "fugitives", so that you can schedule your staff's shift times more effectively. Great tradeoff! /s

Comment Yes, because the warehouse workers... (Score 4, Informative) 70

...all just need to work harder.

URL:https://www.npr.org/2019/11/27/783223343/amazon-warehouse-employees-face-serious-injuries-report-says

URL:https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/29/amazon-reportedly-downplayed-rising-injury-rates-at-its-warehouses.html

URL:https://revealnews.org/article/how-amazon-hid-its-safety-crisis/

Submission + - Nikola Issues Copyright Takedowns Against Critics Who Use Rolling-Truck Clip (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Nikola has issued copyright-takedown notices targeting critics on YouTube who used clips of the promotional video in which a Nikola prototype truck was seen rolling down a hill. Nikola last month admitted that the promotional video of a supposedly functional Nikola One electric truck moving along a highway actually consisted of the company's vehicle rolling downhill. This week, Nikola "forced the removal of several critical videos from YouTube, saying they infringed its copyright by using footage from the company," including the truck-rolling-downhill video, the Financial Times reported yesterday.

Sam Alexander is one of at least two financial commentators who had videos removed by Google subsidiary YouTube at Nikola's request. He says that four of his videos were taken down. "The claim is from when I showed 30 seconds of their Nikola One in Motion footage, which is what they put on Twitter and it's of their Nikola One rolling down the hill," Alexander said in a YouTube video he posted Wednesday. Alexander said he believes his videos should be protected as fair use under YouTube's policies. He used the 30-second clip of the Nikola One in videos that lasted 10 minutes or more, he said. Alexander said he put the words "Source: Nikola" in the corner when he played the truck clip and played his own audio over the clip.

Submission + - SPAM: Garbage Can Traced To Source of COVID-19 in New Zealand 2

Submitted by Thelasko
Thelasko writes: In early September, a man left a "managed isolation" facility after completing his two week stay in quarantine. A week later, he tested positive for COVID-19. New Zealand public health authorities have been working hard to work out how this man came down with COVID-19 after completing quarantine.

Now it appears another individual contracted COVID-19 while taking out trash in the isolation facility, and passed the disease along upon exit from the facility. With all of the discussion surrounding how COVID-19 is transmitted through air, this appears to be further evidence that it is transmitted through surface contact as well. This is the second time New Zealand health authorities have traced the spread of COVID-19 to surface contact. Remember to wash your hands!
Link to Original Source

Submission + - Publishers Worry as Ebooks Fly off Libraries' Virtual Shelves (wired.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: After the pandemic closed many libraries’ physical branches this spring, checkouts of ebooks are up 52 percent from the same period last year, according to OverDrive, which partners with 50,000 libraries worldwide. Hoopla, another service that connects libraries to publishers, says 439 library systems in the US and Canada have joined since March, boosting its membership by 20 percent. Some public libraries, new to digital collections, delight in exposing their readers to a new kind of reading. The library in Archer City, Texas, population 9,000, received a grant to join OverDrive this summer. The new ebook collection “has really been wonderful,” says library director Gretchen Abernathy-Kuck. “So much of the last few months has been stressful and negative.” The ebooks are “something positive. It was something new.”

But the surging popularity of library ebooks also has heightened longstanding tensions between publishers, who fear that digital borrowing eats into their sales, and public librarians, who are trying to serve their communities during a once-in-a-generation crisis. Since 2011, the industry’s big-five publishers—Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Simon and Schuster, and Macmillan—have limited library lending of ebooks, either by time—two years, for example—or number of checkouts—most often, 26 or 52 times. Readers can browse, download, join waiting lists for, and return digital library books from the comfort of their home, and the books are automatically removed from their devices at the end of the lending period. The result: Libraries typically pay between $20 and $65 per copy—an industry average of $40, according to one recent survey—compared with the $15 an individual might pay to buy the same ebook online. Instead of owning an ebook copy forever, librarians must decide at the end of the licensing term whether to renew.

Submission + - 550 Million Chinese Traveling in Biggest Holiday Since COVID-19 (cnn.com)

Submitted by hackingbear
hackingbear writes: As October 1 arrives, hundreds of millions of people in China are expected to pack highways, trains and planes for the National Day holiday, one of the busiest times for travel in the world's most populous country. In a sign of the government's confidence in keeping the virus under control, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said last week that domestic travels can be arranged "as normal" for the upcoming holiday, given all cities in mainland China are marked as low risk for the coronavirus. The expected 550 million trips during the 8-day holiday will be a much-awaited boost to Chinese economic recovery. "I think China has (the virus) under pretty good control," said a 29-year-old traveler flew from Guangzhou to Shanghai. "I'm wearing masks and bringing alcohol wipes with me to clean my hands, especially before eating — although in Shanghai, few people wear masks now." More than eight months on, China's restrictions on domestic movement have all been lifted. Officially, some cities still require passengers to produce a green health code on their smartphones at train stations and airports to show they're safe to travel, but implementation can be lax in practice. China has not reported any locally transmitted symptomatic case since mid-August, and is rigorously screening overseas arrivals and workers at risk of exposure to the virus.

Submission + - Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked code into a working OS (zdnet.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 source code that was leaked online last week on 4chan has been confirmed to be authentic after a YouTube user compiled the code into working operating systems. The codebases of both operating systems are incomplete, as they lack the Winlogon component and various drivers, but the code is authentic and can be compiled into a somewhat-working OS.

"Certain files, such as the kernel and the Explorer can be compiled easily. I have tried some programs from the compiled source of XP, and it seems that they are identical to the retail versions of Windows," NTDEV, a US-based IT technician, told ZDNet.

Comment Nope (Score 1) 109

I work at a callcenter. We close down, we don't make any money, just like a restaurant or a retail store, and it would make even less sense than for one of those sorts of establishments because its a secure facility, not open to the public.

I can't see the owners/management making the decision to just not bring in any income at all for any period of time.

Submission + - Mozilla lays off about 70 employees including senior staffers (zdnet.com)

Submitted by Kargan
Kargan writes: The Mozilla Corporation, maker of the popular Firefox web browser, has had better days. According to a TechCrunch report, in an internal memo, long-time Mozilla chairwoman and interim CEO Mitchell Baker announced the company would lay off approximately 70 employees. This story was rapidly confirmed as laid-off Mozilla staffers announced their departures.

Why the layoffs? In a blog post, Baker wrote: "Mozilla has a strong line of sight on future revenue generation from our core business. In some ways, this makes this action harder, and we are deeply distressed about the effect on our colleagues. However, to responsibly make additional investments in innovation to improve the internet, we can and must work within the limits of our core finances."

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