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Comment take a look at the RSA trade show floor map (Score 1) 62

You can get a pdf of the south expo floor plan here:
https://www.rsaconference.com/...

Exabeam booth was #555

So the adjacent booths may be part of the RSA coronavirus cluster:
Unisys, Thycotic, KnowBe4, Signal Sciences, Siemplify, were all within about 15 to 25 feet of the Exabeam booth.

Knowing whether the infection spread from that both is now just a waiting game.

Comment Re:What is "ethical" (Score 1) 93

'Ethics', like our laws, are what we collectively decide that they are.

So-called 'AI', which has no cognitive ability whatsoever, being just computer algorithms, is entirely incapable of 'ethical behavior' except by mere random chance, because it is incapable of making conscious decisions about anything whatsoever.

no cognitive ability whatsoever?
I'm not sure what you mean here, AI is an attempt to develop cognitive ability.

There are theories that humans are generally unable to make conscious decisions either, and we just rationalize them afterwards. I'd have to agree there there is some merit to this theory. Particularly if on what people like and don't like. It's rarely an articulated decision.

Comment What is "ethical" (Score 1) 93

Really, without a clear and agreed definition of what is ethical this is meaningless.

There are people who think ethical behaviour is unethical, and unethical behaviour is ethical.

Until we get agreement on what is ethical, this type of pledge is meaningless.

I think it's completely ethical to use AI to identify whoever rings my front door, others think this is unethical.
Some people think using AI to find mineral and resource deposits is ethical, some think this is ethical.

Killer robots are an AI ethics nightmare, they can be both far more ethical, and far less ethical than current weapons.

Comment We're in different situations (Score 2) 99

Actually if you're in a different situation, you can have a different value.
If 2 people look at the same stock, but they have different time horizons, risk tolerances, costs of capital, discount rates etc it they could end up with different valuations.

Whats right for me, might not be right for you.

There are valid reasons for options.
But if someone wants "free money" by taking advantage of someone elses bad strategy, more power to them. Squeezing inefficiencies out of the market is a good thing for most investors.

My strategy is much simpler, buy a profitable and/or growing company, that will pay me money. Just make sure you pay a fair price.

Comment Executives debated corporate strategy (Score 1) 74

Uh isn't that what we pay them for?

They should be debating all of it.

Companies that don't discuss and debate their strategies end up missing out. Many great companies have failed or at least suffered greatly from failure to reconsider their business assumptions.

Comment Re:Has Slashdot become a Fake Media Outlet? (Score 1) 206

Calm reasoned thought?
That's a silly idea.

I've been watching the media for a long time (see userid#), and the current swarm of ignorance and arrogance (a terrifying combination) has really taken hold in popular culture and a large amount of the tech industry.

If "green energy" takes 10x as much labour, it should cost 10x as much.

This is a BIG problem, unless they see Green energy as some sort of fancy make work project for society.
The Matrix was not about how it is a good idea to use Humans as a power source.

Comment Unknown unknowns (Score 1) 384

The vast majority of people don't have the drive and/or the means to actually go out and investigate places where there are alleged strange phenomenas (eg UFO flaps) occurring, or where strange land formations appear on google earth/maps (eg Antarctica). Until more people do and document what is there or not there, we will only have what looks like a crap artist production and hearsay.

Don't get me wrong, I would love to go on an expedition in the Antarctic to investigate those mountains that kinda sorta look like pyramids and bring back proof that they are just mountains (or actual pyramids!). But I'm not rich, and I don't have easy access to the ship and aircraft (and people to sail/fly those for me) that I would undoubtedly need.

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