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Comment My first computer (Score 1) 523

I built a "computer" in 1961 consisting of a motor, tin can, some relays, lights, a few switches and batteries. The motor spun the can around, which was "programmed" using masking tape. The can had a small charge on it, and a contact what moved up and down. As the contact would touch the metal, it would trigger a relay.There were "4" sensors on the can that would feed four relays. My second computer was a Heath Kit Analog computer!

Comment Always there... (Score 1) 91

Personally I think employee surveillance was always present. I spent a year at Capital One - my first venture in working at a major company. They would track everything you did - from entering and leaving the building, to your online chat sessions, even all your emails and not just your corporate emails. I started to realize how insidious this is and pushed the envelop until I left. While C1 is a very good company to work for you better be ready to sell your soul to the Devil.

Comment AI, really? (Score 1) 131

Personally I wish we would stop calling what we have as AI - it is in no way intelligent. What we have are algorithms that are pretty good at partitioning data. Period. I watch a baby grow to a child and no way does it take thousands of "data points" to hold a copy and drink from it. They suddenly read without training them to do so. That is what I call intelligent. We learn to infer and extract from the slightest amount of data, the serendipity of discovery and invention. That is intelligence. What we have in the current state of computer technology are just a bunch of tools to partition data.

Comment MS Devs are terrible... (Score 2) 41

Did anyone notice the comment about MS developers generate 70 bugs per 1000 lines of code? That comes to one bug per 14-15 lines of code. That is absolutely terrible! Over the course of my life I've developed systems that were thousands of lines long and had maybe one or two bugs! One was for a system deployed in a nuclear reactor system, it had 15 thousand lines of code and had only one issue (a 16 bit integer wrapped around!). If I had a developer that generated 70 bugs per 1000 lines I would fire him or her!

Comment Never work! (Score 1) 176

First, this is so totally stupid it shows how absolutely stupid Graham is! If someone really wants to send out child porn, take the original mp4 file and encrypt it. Take the resulting file and make a fake mp4 out of it. And if someone was to hash it and expect it to stop it, all one needs to do is create a tool that makes it so easy that you can encrypt the file over and over again sending out a new version every time. Do it a 100, 1000 or 10,000 times and you would never get them all. And I would love to see someone tell me they can create an AI system to figure out which files are child porn and which aren't just by looking at the file. About the best you do is look for continuity of the scenes in frame-to-frame. But that isn't a sure bet either. This is another attempt by a group of old stupid white guys that don't understand technology, and should have retired years ago! We really need term limits.

Comment Capital One Does it already! (Score 1) 108

This is a big so what!!! When I spent a year at Capital One they had all sorts of "software" on your laptop computers and your phone! They monitored everything - your email, who you connected to with Slack, everything! It made me realize that I can never work for a company that monitored you all the time, and put incompetent people in charge!

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