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Comment Opt out of all FOG DATA SCIENCE data sets (Score 5, Insightful) 62

by gardyloo (#66101392) Attached to: Nevada Police Can Now Track Cellphones Without a Warrant

"Opt out of all FOG DATA SCIENCE data sets"

What -- exactly -- does that do, how quickly, and what are some of the side-effects?\

Underneath, it says "You will be removed from all our data sets." And yet I doubt that very much. Surely there will be an entry in a database somewhere saying "Device identifier ________-____-_____-_____-_____ requested removed date-and-time _____ from IP address _____", etc.
And does that only retroactively remove data? Suppose they snarf up another dataset, bought from someone else or collected by themselves. Is that data also removed from their datasets, or does another removal request have to be made?

Comment Re:"Research" = modelling (Score 1) 73

"Science is about a specific process: you make a hypothesis, you set up a test of your hypothesis, you test it, find it true or not and based on that your hypothesis becomes a scientific theory or a rejected hypothesis."

That's the junior-high version of science. The one done poorly on cardboard. It's sad that people still trot out the whole "it's a process" trope.

And yet that one sentence makes more sense than the rest of the post.

Comment Forced politeness (Score 1) 124

by gardyloo (#66011562) Attached to: Burger King Will Use AI To Check If Employees Say 'Please' and 'Thank You'

is not politeness. What this plan *may* do is rotate out people until the ones who are genuinely polite get to the customer-facing positions. It may also devalue politeness to the point of being worthless. Regardless of the mechanism behind the scenes, people are going to be suspicious of whomever is interacting with them.

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