Once in a while now you see stories about youngsters choosing trade schools over traditional colleges. That is classic market action. Demand and indirect subsidies drive up the price of something to the point where it is no longer a perceived value, and consumers seek alternatives. I work in IT but my degrees are in unrelated fields, if I was looking at high university debt in today's market I would definitely be looking at alternatives.
I encountered this while trying to implement fingerprint access at a hospital. Most of the older surgeons had no fingerprints after years of scrubbing their hands before surgery. Non-optical scanners were a bit better, but we still had a few who could not be read. In those cases the docs had to use their username/password to unlock the various workstations around the hospital instead of using the fingerprint scanners.
I think he is referring to the need to provide some sort of verification to a CA to get a certificate the browsers will accept. Take this line from TFS:
In reality, the https:/// part of the address (also called "Secure Sockets Layer" or SSL) merely signifies the data being transmitted back and forth between your browser and the site is encrypted
A false statement, the primary purpose of SSL/TLS is authentication not "merely" encryption. Now, how that authentication (of the site) is performed, via a list of browser approved CAs, has a lot of problems. But what it is supposed to do is assure you you Citibank.com site is actually Citibank and not a fake citibank.com hosted on some thief's server.
You are right that it is no where near the scale of what China is implementing, but credit scores get used for a good number of non-credit decisions such as getting a job.
There's a longstanding myth in the open-source world that projects are driven by a community of contributors, but in reality, paid developers contribute the bulk of the code in most modern open-source projects
The same sort of argument was made many years ago when Nessus went closed source. The fact is, open source is not necessarily the right tool for every problem. This isn't some new phenomenon as far as I can tell.
I think he is right, perhaps for different reasons. We are a long way away from making the "monkeys in a can" model of space colonization workable. If we ever had sufficient technology to get there safely in significant numbers, supply the needed raw materials, manufacture or transport the needed equipment, manipulate biology to deal with various poisons and other environmental factors, etc. etc. I don't think we would be especially interested in terraforming and living on Mars. At that point we probably won't even be human anymore and will have no interest in living on Mars
Most of the paid antivirus packages come with more than the original file inspection. HTTP inspectors, system cleaners, identity theft insurance, etc. There are all sorts of value-added things in there which Defender doesn't do.
I'm saying I believe that the data as held by DeepMind likely will not be shared. An "anonymized" subset of the data has probably already been shared multiple times.
The central conclusion of the study -- that oceans are retaining ever more energy as more heat is being trapped within Earth's climate system each year -- is in line with other studies that have drawn similar conclusions. And it hasn't changed much despite the errors
I believe it to a point. There is a certain class of identifier which has no value for Google, such as name and specific street address. So a lot of medical data (and other kinds) are shared widely (not just with Google) after being 'anonymized' by removing the very specific identifiers. This is done for statistical analysis and a host of other reasons. But de-anonymizing isn't overly difficult if you already have other data to match against. Which Google and thousands of other organizations do.
There's nothing in the story about sharing data, just the technology. DeepMind said "Patient data remains under our NHS partners' strict control, and all decisions about its use will continue to lie with them. The move to Google does not affect this." The knee-jerk hysteria of privacy nuts is sadly counterproductive, even fewer will listen each time until eventually they are left shouting at each other in an isolated room. Or has that happened already?
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It's unclear how ethics enters into the discussion, TFA never mentions ethics. It seems the submitter just gratuitously added the word.
Once in a while now you see stories about youngsters choosing trade schools over traditional colleges. That is classic market action. Demand and indirect subsidies drive up the price of something to the point where it is no longer a perceived value, and consumers seek alternatives. I work in IT but my degrees are in unrelated fields, if I was looking at high university debt in today's market I would definitely be looking at alternatives.
It is a truism that when you subsidize something you get more of it.
Chinese gamers love Steam... the global version of it, anyway. There are an estimated 30 million Chinese users playing games on the platform
For China, 30 million is just a fringe user base. I think it would be accurate to rephrase as 'not very many Chinese gamers have even heard of Steam'
I put all my chips in on becoming a /. influencer.
I encountered this while trying to implement fingerprint access at a hospital. Most of the older surgeons had no fingerprints after years of scrubbing their hands before surgery. Non-optical scanners were a bit better, but we still had a few who could not be read. In those cases the docs had to use their username/password to unlock the various workstations around the hospital instead of using the fingerprint scanners.
here is how the business execs heard the conversation Engineer: A customer is using the services we sold to them. Exec: Great!
In reality, the https:/// part of the address (also called "Secure Sockets Layer" or SSL) merely signifies the data being transmitted back and forth between your browser and the site is encrypted
A false statement, the primary purpose of SSL/TLS is authentication not "merely" encryption. Now, how that authentication (of the site) is performed, via a list of browser approved CAs, has a lot of problems. But what it is supposed to do is assure you you Citibank.com site is actually Citibank and not a fake citibank.com hosted on some thief's server.
haha yes you are correct
I agree, the Sculpt keyboard and mouse are far and away the best Microsoft products I have encountered.
Because some paywalls only take effect after viewing N articles, and the submitter may not even realize.
He never heard of the Roman Empire it seems
You are right that it is no where near the scale of what China is implementing, but credit scores get used for a good number of non-credit decisions such as getting a job.
I'm sure this ban would work just as well as the previous ban on "exporting" encryption.
bigger screens and more cameras
This sounds like a minor upgrade to me. Unless they have somehow put a bigger screen in the same space, that's been done already.
Maybe because it is all a big Ponzi scheme?
There's a longstanding myth in the open-source world that projects are driven by a community of contributors, but in reality, paid developers contribute the bulk of the code in most modern open-source projects
The same sort of argument was made many years ago when Nessus went closed source. The fact is, open source is not necessarily the right tool for every problem. This isn't some new phenomenon as far as I can tell.
I think he is right, perhaps for different reasons. We are a long way away from making the "monkeys in a can" model of space colonization workable. If we ever had sufficient technology to get there safely in significant numbers, supply the needed raw materials, manufacture or transport the needed equipment, manipulate biology to deal with various poisons and other environmental factors, etc. etc. I don't think we would be especially interested in terraforming and living on Mars. At that point we probably won't even be human anymore and will have no interest in living on Mars
Most of the paid antivirus packages come with more than the original file inspection. HTTP inspectors, system cleaners, identity theft insurance, etc. There are all sorts of value-added things in there which Defender doesn't do.
I'm saying I believe that the data as held by DeepMind likely will not be shared. An "anonymized" subset of the data has probably already been shared multiple times.
The central conclusion of the study -- that oceans are retaining ever more energy as more heat is being trapped within Earth's climate system each year -- is in line with other studies that have drawn similar conclusions. And it hasn't changed much despite the errors
I believe it to a point. There is a certain class of identifier which has no value for Google, such as name and specific street address. So a lot of medical data (and other kinds) are shared widely (not just with Google) after being 'anonymized' by removing the very specific identifiers. This is done for statistical analysis and a host of other reasons. But de-anonymizing isn't overly difficult if you already have other data to match against. Which Google and thousands of other organizations do.
There's nothing in the story about sharing data, just the technology. DeepMind said "Patient data remains under our NHS partners' strict control, and all decisions about its use will continue to lie with them. The move to Google does not affect this." The knee-jerk hysteria of privacy nuts is sadly counterproductive, even fewer will listen each time until eventually they are left shouting at each other in an isolated room. Or has that happened already?
This story belongs in the pages of "Chicken Poop for the Soul"
Learn to eat lentils and you won't have to suck up to the king. -Diogenes