Most of all, it will "prove" that closed-source software is safer to deploy on critical infrastructure, since no issue will be associated to it.

It's called marketing. An algorithm is worth x$, but when branded as AI, you decuplate the percieved value...

I've even seen M$ rebrand an inventory sorting algorithm as AI!!!

False! If the individual happens to be rich, they'll also get rewarded.

Stupid comment: the US would NEVER spy on Germany!!!

... and then comes formatting issues: commas are use as decimal separators, dates are formatted in different was, depending on the desktop where the CSV or tab-separated file is generated, text values that look like numbers (item 00315) are stripped of leading zeroes.

Excel is a terrible data exchange source. That's it.

... insurers?

The average Canadian Liberal voter should already be aware of the slimeball Trudeau is, given his Finance Miniter's woes of the last few weeks, as well as his rejection of a motion that was meant for the Canadian parliament to act on tax evasion (motion M-42, presented by Gabriel Ste-Marie).

If it was to be done by people, it just wouldn't have happened... And the world would be poorer from these great new masterpieces.

This really shows how much algorithms enrich our lives!

As it goes, in order to make a revenue, skills is not what will be required, but capital.

Canada's system mixes executive and legislative power in such a way that when the party's in power, it can do anything... And very often, the opposite of what their electoral platform stated. (For example, the current Canadian PM, Justin Trudeau, was elected on the promise that he'd change the electoral process, and now says that it's not a priority anymore, since he's so popular!)

We're a software company, not a taxi company.

Actually, Uber accepted to become a taxi company (and get a taxi licence) in Québec. So THEY ARE a taxi company (that also has a software division).

... Most DVD-Rom drives allow you to change the region DRM only 2-5 times. In other words, you must buy specific equipment by region. Most people will just give up and satisfy themselves with Disney crap, giving up on broadening their culture.

In the end, I did the illegal thing: bought a cheap DVD player with a region hack and... hacked it!

This shows again how copyright laws are a nuisance to the spreading of culture. (Although I could hear the argument of those who claim that karaoke soundtracks are not the richest cultural expression.)

When I emigrated, I wanted to bring some DVDs from home (Europe) to my new land (America), but then I couldn't play them on local equipment because of region-DRM, once again meant to protect "copyrights" for products THAT WERE NOT AVAILABLE anyways in America!

These laws must be rebalanced in order to allow dissemination of culture across country borders. Diversity enriches the whole community, whereas those laws are made to enrich just a few.

After trying to consolidate all my emails on Outlook and then losing a couple of years of archives because of a file corruption, in 2007, I did just that: set up an IMAP server (Dovecot), using MailDir format (which saves each e-mail in its own file). A regular job rsync's everything to another machine for simple backups.

Everything's was then migrated on a Plug Computer (low performance, but excellent power consumption).

The whole setup, from installing Debian to having the server running took less than 4 hours, using online guides.

No matter which party wins, it will be signed. Libs, NDP or Conservatives will all bow down to banks and big money.