The 5mm Hg error isn't...too terribly bad, but 10mm Hg error or higher is unconscionable.
I don't think looking at it as 4% error is the most useful comparison. It might be better to compare the error with the distance between different blood pressure categories, which is generally a 20 mm Hg jump for systolic, or 10 for diastolic.
Someone with hypertension problems (i.e. the kind of person that might have a blood pressure cuff at home) would care quite a bit about an error of 10 mm Hg.
"Do the riskiest part of starting a business somewhere else. Then, when it reaches maximum future potential, bring it to Silicon Valley so we can buy it out from under you for a song and make a ton of money."
That's hilarious. You go right ahead and then come back and tell us your cool idea about a global infrastructure that can't be controlled by the organizations who build and maintain said infrastructure.
What are the chances I've slept with your girlfriend? There are effectively infinite potential girlfriends. If we take it as possible that I can pick up girls at all, we must assume that somewhere along the way I become a philandering charlatan, switching girlfriends regularly, and that over a truly infinite timeline, I will sleep with infinite girlfriends. So we must assume that yes, I have slept with your girlfriend, along with everyone elses, ever.
I don't accept the premise that we can establish a theoretical scenario describing the number of real vs simulated universes, postulate that we are a in randomly selected one of those universes, and then satisfactorily conclude that we are probably in one category or the other.
Wow, really? I mean, it's not proportional to gender population, but it's so much closer than what I expect to see everywhere else in the tech world. Good job, Amazon!
"AMX claimed that the two accounts were only used for debugging,"
No, you only use them for debugging.
Even if we choose to trust that you're not using these accounts for nefarious purposes (which we shouldn't), that's not the point. The point is that they exist at all, and just because you created them doesn't mean someone else cannot use them.
"Firewalls are supposed to prevent campaigns from viewing data gathered by their rivals."
Firewalls? Please. Anyone who knows anything about what a firewall is knows that firewalls do not do this sort of thing. Firewalls are 100% about controlling which ports are open or closed on a computer, and under what circumstances. They have nothing whatsoever to do with separating customer data, and anything you have that does that is called something else.
Listen, DNC: I know you need to give us a lie that minimizes your legal liability in these sorts of situations. Please prepare a plausible lie in the future.
The USA's continued cooperation with Russia on the ISS mission has been one of the many things that keeps me assured that we're not going to just completely devolve into war, because nobody wants to come to blows over that particular asset. And now we're trying to get out of ISS involvement "as quickly as we can."
1. The expected moral indignation of those in our population who believe prostitution is just bad. I don't think there's much constructive discussion to be had here one way or the other.
2. Prostitution is *heavily* associated with human trafficking, along with other behaviors that boil down to a girl being forced to sell her body, rather than wanting to. This is the reason that really matters.
News flash: companies are trying to sell you things, and most companies will lie as much as they can without losing face or legal reprisal to get you to buy their things.
I'm still glad the story is posted, but it's not even remotely surprising.
Someone should calculate how many people are studying / debating this issue and how long they've spent on it, and then see how many leap seconds each person on the planet would need to experience to match the time spent.
Thank goodness you speak for every advertising agency and website operator in the world. I guess we can expect a more balanced approach from here on out.
Protip: The CEO stepping down after a public embarrassment has never been anything other than a publicity stunt to save face. It does not represent remorse or an intent to change policy. At most, it means "we want someone who will do continue to do the same things we've always done but, somehow, will magically make these revelations stop happening".
I would be shocked if Biderman wasn't receiving a nice golden parachute along with it. Or at least silver.
I used to work for a company that, in a roundabout way, presented advertising to consumers. And, I mean...yeah, of course they waited longer than 100ms for everyone to get their bids in.
What many people don't consider is that while the primary ad presenter is getting bids, many of those buyers are doing an auction to their own list of buyers, and some of those do auctions too, etc., etc. So a lot of those buyers would take longer than the time limit we wanted to come back to us, but they were usually some of our biggest buyers. The ones that didn't actually buy many ads would get discontinued, because we didn't want to slow down load time for someone that never actually won the bid. But the big buyers, we would generally loosen the time constraints.
The wording of the summary and article make it sound like the advertisers are cackling and holding up their pinky finger, smiting the populace with longer load times for the monies. The reality is that they aren't thinking about your load times at all, most of the time. You are the product. Load times really only entered the minds of business leaders when traffic volume was dropping.
I think the idea is that the e-mail itself just contains HTML that makes a request to the Dmail server, and the server doesn't send back the actual message if it's been too long.
But yeah, that doesn't mean that the person can't copy/paste/screenshot something when they see it. It's self-destruct for the lazy/ill-informed.
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You're forgetting the old USA mantra: if it was good enough for Britain, it's good enough for us.
The 5mm Hg error isn't...too terribly bad, but 10mm Hg error or higher is unconscionable.
I don't think looking at it as 4% error is the most useful comparison. It might be better to compare the error with the distance between different blood pressure categories, which is generally a 20 mm Hg jump for systolic, or 10 for diastolic.
Someone with hypertension problems (i.e. the kind of person that might have a blood pressure cuff at home) would care quite a bit about an error of 10 mm Hg.
I saw the headline and immediately came to the comments looking for this post. Thank you for not disappointing :)
I revile hatred and bigotry. Yet I love the internet.
How can these both be true? Oh internet, you are a sweet sweet mystery.
"Do the riskiest part of starting a business somewhere else. Then, when it reaches maximum future potential, bring it to Silicon Valley so we can buy it out from under you for a song and make a ton of money."
Still less infuriating than patents.
That's hilarious. You go right ahead and then come back and tell us your cool idea about a global infrastructure that can't be controlled by the organizations who build and maintain said infrastructure.
What are the chances I've slept with your girlfriend? There are effectively infinite potential girlfriends. If we take it as possible that I can pick up girls at all, we must assume that somewhere along the way I become a philandering charlatan, switching girlfriends regularly, and that over a truly infinite timeline, I will sleep with infinite girlfriends. So we must assume that yes, I have slept with your girlfriend, along with everyone elses, ever.
I don't accept the premise that we can establish a theoretical scenario describing the number of real vs simulated universes, postulate that we are a in randomly selected one of those universes, and then satisfactorily conclude that we are probably in one category or the other.
"Amazon: 61.0% male, 39.0% female"
Wow, really? I mean, it's not proportional to gender population, but it's so much closer than what I expect to see everywhere else in the tech world. Good job, Amazon!
"AMX claimed that the two accounts were only used for debugging,"
No, you only use them for debugging.
Even if we choose to trust that you're not using these accounts for nefarious purposes (which we shouldn't), that's not the point. The point is that they exist at all, and just because you created them doesn't mean someone else cannot use them.
For enthusiasts, the most relevant part of the live feed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
"Firewalls are supposed to prevent campaigns from viewing data gathered by their rivals."
Firewalls? Please. Anyone who knows anything about what a firewall is knows that firewalls do not do this sort of thing. Firewalls are 100% about controlling which ports are open or closed on a computer, and under what circumstances. They have nothing whatsoever to do with separating customer data, and anything you have that does that is called something else.
Listen, DNC: I know you need to give us a lie that minimizes your legal liability in these sorts of situations. Please prepare a plausible lie in the future.
The USA's continued cooperation with Russia on the ISS mission has been one of the many things that keeps me assured that we're not going to just completely devolve into war, because nobody wants to come to blows over that particular asset. And now we're trying to get out of ISS involvement "as quickly as we can."
Wow.
Two reasons:
1. The expected moral indignation of those in our population who believe prostitution is just bad. I don't think there's much constructive discussion to be had here one way or the other.
2. Prostitution is *heavily* associated with human trafficking, along with other behaviors that boil down to a girl being forced to sell her body, rather than wanting to. This is the reason that really matters.
News flash: companies are trying to sell you things, and most companies will lie as much as they can without losing face or legal reprisal to get you to buy their things.
I'm still glad the story is posted, but it's not even remotely surprising.
Someone should calculate how many people are studying / debating this issue and how long they've spent on it, and then see how many leap seconds each person on the planet would need to experience to match the time spent.
This board will not win me chicks. It will not help me find an almanac from the future. It will not make me Marty McFly.
No sale.
Thank goodness you speak for every advertising agency and website operator in the world. I guess we can expect a more balanced approach from here on out.
They had to go out of their way to change how the Windows Update code behaved to make that update checked by default.
Quick, someone check to see if there's an ark up among the rocks.
Protip: The CEO stepping down after a public embarrassment has never been anything other than a publicity stunt to save face. It does not represent remorse or an intent to change policy. At most, it means "we want someone who will do continue to do the same things we've always done but, somehow, will magically make these revelations stop happening".
I would be shocked if Biderman wasn't receiving a nice golden parachute along with it. Or at least silver.
That's an exceptional time lapse video. It got me hook, line and sinker! Bingewatching the rest of them now.
I used to work for a company that, in a roundabout way, presented advertising to consumers. And, I mean...yeah, of course they waited longer than 100ms for everyone to get their bids in.
What many people don't consider is that while the primary ad presenter is getting bids, many of those buyers are doing an auction to their own list of buyers, and some of those do auctions too, etc., etc. So a lot of those buyers would take longer than the time limit we wanted to come back to us, but they were usually some of our biggest buyers. The ones that didn't actually buy many ads would get discontinued, because we didn't want to slow down load time for someone that never actually won the bid. But the big buyers, we would generally loosen the time constraints.
The wording of the summary and article make it sound like the advertisers are cackling and holding up their pinky finger, smiting the populace with longer load times for the monies. The reality is that they aren't thinking about your load times at all, most of the time. You are the product. Load times really only entered the minds of business leaders when traffic volume was dropping.
I think the idea is that the e-mail itself just contains HTML that makes a request to the Dmail server, and the server doesn't send back the actual message if it's been too long.
But yeah, that doesn't mean that the person can't copy/paste/screenshot something when they see it. It's self-destruct for the lazy/ill-informed.
Oh. I guess it does mean what you think it means. Carry on then.