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Comment Re:Idiocracy (Score 1) 154

ou are agreeing with whoever goes on to win.

Or you're disagreeing with with any of the candidates who could possibly win. The presidential candidates of both major parties not only approved of a genocide, but both were committed to use our tax dollars to fund and arm it. I couldn't vote for either one.

Comment Re:Seems reasonable (Score 1) 62

Ship From Vendor - they'll give the vendor your delivery name and address, kind of necessary
Payment Processing - they'll give the payment processor your name and credit card number, again kind of necessary
Alexa and Ring Emergency Response - They'll give the police your name, address and emergency type, rather necessary as well
Etc.

They don't sell your data. Ever.

Comment Re:Translation: They want more money for the data (Score 4, Interesting) 62

I worked at Amazon for 9 years, and security of customers' data is the top priority. I could literally access Jeff Bezo's personnel file with lower permissions than I could access your purchase history or your Ring or Alexa data. We had to complete a refresher course on data protection every year.

Comment Re:Dude is gonna induce a depression (Score 2) 128

The Democratic "leadership" is fine with it. They can give their corporate and billionaire benefactors everything on their wish list, and if voters complain just say, "We'd love to help you, but those meanies on the other side of the aisle won't let us. Maybe if you send us more money we'll try harder!"

Comment Re: The only reasonable move (Score 2) 146

You don't live in a country that has been under continual full bore economic, propaganda and terrorist attack by the biggest economy and most expensive military/intel organizations on the planet for half a century. Like Cuba, the fact that the country is still intact, unified, and free is a huge testament to its people and its government. You may not like their culture or their government, but it works for them and we have no right to force anything different on them.

Comment Re: 99.98% (Score 1) 121

I used to get classified emails from Fatherland Security for a while, after I had worked at the Coast Guard base upgrading their security system. That was my introduction to what a joke that entire department of the government was, their "alerts" are pure fiction written by someone who has a lot of imagination but no knowledge of infrastructure.

Comment Re:99.98% (Score 1) 121

and

"A correct alert was sent to the retailer, but was subsequently subject to human error in the way it was handled in store,"

So was the guy a shoplifter or not? Because apparently not and the human error was acting on the alert it seems. Sounds like the front fell off.

Facial recognition software doesn't actually "recognize" your face, it selects a series of points the algorithm thinks important in a pattern and matches them to other patterns in the database. It's the same technology, though less advanced, than fingerprint readers. Until better filters for the patterns were developed there were a lot of false positives in the fingerprint readers as well, and I suspect this will be the case with facial recognition software as well.

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