There are lots of technologies that have been superseded by newer technologies. But very often, the newer technologies don't cover well certain specific use cases.
Pagers are still in use in some locations, like hospital basements, where cell towers don't reach. The printing press is still better at printing very large numbers of copies, than computer printers. Paper is still easier to hand out at a lecture or meeting.
Faxes are not regularly hacked, making them more secure for the medical and legal industries, than email.
Many older technologies aren't COMPLETELY replaced by their newer counterparts.
This was a story because the victim was a prominent CEO. How many regular people were "caught" by this system for jaywalk on, say, sidewalks, and they just had to live with the shaming?
You know those "personalized" snail-mail letters you get in the mail, that are really advertisements? You might be tricked into opening the envelope, but the instant you see it, you know it's fake.
The same goes for resumes. I go through a lot of them. It takes me about 5 seconds to spot a fake. Your "machine learning" Web site isn't going to fix that.
Good resumes take time and effort. There are no shortcuts. The main points: 1. Keep them short, no more than 2 pages 2. BULLET POINTS 3. Not too many bullet points 4. Good English 5. Neat formatting
You follow those five points, you'll be ahead of 90% of the resumes out there.
When radio was new, people became addicted to it. When TV was new, people became addicted to it. Same for computers, modems, email, internet, Web, social media, etc.
Remember when you had to constantly tell your friends not to send you those email forwards promising free money from Bill Gates? People have moved on.
On social media, people were obsessed with photos of their restaurant meals, now it's selfies. Eventually, people will get bored with the petty stuff and start using it for what it's really good for: keeping in touch with not-so-close family and friends.
I type fast...and loud. My problem is, I can't really find a keyboard that's truly quiet, AND has good key travel. No, I don't like the chicklet keyboards, even though they do tend to be quiet. I want to know when I've pressed a key. But I don't want to know LOUDLY.
For now, I've settled on the Logitech K520. It's reasonably quiet, has a good feel, and has a good set of extra keys.
Subject: Important Information about your Amazon.com Account
Hello,
We’re contacting you to let you know that our website inadvertently disclosed your email address due to a technical error. The issue has been fixed. This is not a result of anything you have done, and there is no need for you to change your password or take any other action.
This notification seems highly un-polished, like it was written by some low-level programmer. It clearly didn't go through marketing, or through much review of any kind. It leaves lots of unanswered questions, even the kind that would normally be included in such an email.
My first reaction was that it was some kind of spam, because it was so poorly done!
Done correctly, it should not be necessary to trust intermediate third parties, in order to have a secure connection. Who knows who is carrying your packets between here and Romania! Who even knows if your packets are going through Romania, on their way to Texas! This is the nature of the internet.
Make it possible to establish a secure connection between two parties, and it doesn't matter whether you are using Joe Shmo's cell phone hotspot with an SSID of Denver International WiFi.
Sure, they have words, sentences, story outlines, distribution infrastructure. That's everything they need, right?
There are intangible qualities that AI can't master, and won't for a long time. Amazon can't even figure out what I want to buy yet, much less what I want to read!
Blockchain solves a very specific kind of problem: one which involves the need to have "anonymous" transactions stored in a public manner. In the business world, there are not very many real applications for this. Businesses want to keep their data private, not public. They want their transactions tied to specific people, not anonymous. Yes, I'm sure there are real applications for blockchain, but it's more or less the opposite of the mentality of most businesses. The fad was always just that: a fad.
Those merchants are having to pay for their lack of adoption. Based on Visa and Mastercard rules, if the merchant doesn't support chip cards, and there is a fraudulent transaction using the magnetic strip, the merchant is out the money. If the issuing bank doesn't provide a chip card, the bank is out the money. These incentives will talk more loudly than people preaching better security.
There are already a ton of codecs out there. On a PC, this is a nuisance when you run into a codec you don't already have loaded, and you have to go hunting for it on dodgy Web sites. On other hardware, you might just be plain out of luck.
The cable companies see the end coming. Already everybody who is savvy enough to cut the cord, has done so, or is thinking about doing so. The rest will pay whatever the cable companies demand. It's in their financial interest to raise prices! Where are they going to go?
It's kind of like old-style telephone service. Only older people still have it, and they pay through the nose for it. But these older people have no idea how to set up or use a VOIP service, so they are stuck.
You must live in California. In other places like Texas, the market for CS majors is so tight they are getting 2-3 job offers at a time, having to choose which one to take.
So why is it up to us to choose whether the grove wins, or the animals feeding on it? Isn't this what nature dues? Different organisms are always vying for growth, many times at the expense of others. It's how nature balances itself. Why is this bad news?
The article doesn't say anything about the technology, other than to describe it as "deep learning AI." What exactly does this mean? Is it a neural network? If it's not, it's not really "AI." Deep learning? Maybe, or maybe it's just brute force that runs on really powerful equipment. Can't tell from the article.
Google isn't in the on-site email server business, at all. Sure, they have GMail for Business, which one might argue is targeted to the same group of customers. But not really. GMail for Business is targeted at those who don't WANT to have their own on-site server.
I predict that no one will use Help for long, because they will be swamped by spam, and unable to send email because they find themselves on RBLs or because they aren't a trusted domain.
There are, no doubt, Amazon employees that have ALL KINDS of views about any given subject. "Amazon employee has an opinion about what Amazon does." Now there's a headline!
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There are lots of technologies that have been superseded by newer technologies. But very often, the newer technologies don't cover well certain specific use cases.
Pagers are still in use in some locations, like hospital basements, where cell towers don't reach. The printing press is still better at printing very large numbers of copies, than computer printers. Paper is still easier to hand out at a lecture or meeting.
Faxes are not regularly hacked, making them more secure for the medical and legal industries, than email.
Many older technologies aren't COMPLETELY replaced by their newer counterparts.
This was a story because the victim was a prominent CEO. How many regular people were "caught" by this system for jaywalk on, say, sidewalks, and they just had to live with the shaming?
This kind of mistake is precisely why we (mostly) have due process in the United States.
You know those "personalized" snail-mail letters you get in the mail, that are really advertisements? You might be tricked into opening the envelope, but the instant you see it, you know it's fake.
The same goes for resumes. I go through a lot of them. It takes me about 5 seconds to spot a fake. Your "machine learning" Web site isn't going to fix that.
Good resumes take time and effort. There are no shortcuts. The main points:
1. Keep them short, no more than 2 pages
2. BULLET POINTS
3. Not too many bullet points
4. Good English
5. Neat formatting
You follow those five points, you'll be ahead of 90% of the resumes out there.
When radio was new, people became addicted to it.
When TV was new, people became addicted to it.
Same for computers, modems, email, internet, Web, social media, etc.
Remember when you had to constantly tell your friends not to send you those email forwards promising free money from Bill Gates? People have moved on.
On social media, people were obsessed with photos of their restaurant meals, now it's selfies. Eventually, people will get bored with the petty stuff and start using it for what it's really good for: keeping in touch with not-so-close family and friends.
I type fast...and loud. My problem is, I can't really find a keyboard that's truly quiet, AND has good key travel. No, I don't like the chicklet keyboards, even though they do tend to be quiet. I want to know when I've pressed a key. But I don't want to know LOUDLY.
For now, I've settled on the Logitech K520. It's reasonably quiet, has a good feel, and has a good set of extra keys.
The entire text:
Subject: Important Information about your Amazon.com Account
Hello,
We’re contacting you to let you know that our website inadvertently disclosed your email address due to a technical error. The issue has been fixed. This is not a result of anything you have done, and there is no need for you to change your password or take any other action.
Sincerely,
Customer Service
http://amazon.com/
This notification seems highly un-polished, like it was written by some low-level programmer. It clearly didn't go through marketing, or through much review of any kind. It leaves lots of unanswered questions, even the kind that would normally be included in such an email.
My first reaction was that it was some kind of spam, because it was so poorly done!
Done correctly, it should not be necessary to trust intermediate third parties, in order to have a secure connection. Who knows who is carrying your packets between here and Romania! Who even knows if your packets are going through Romania, on their way to Texas! This is the nature of the internet.
Make it possible to establish a secure connection between two parties, and it doesn't matter whether you are using Joe Shmo's cell phone hotspot with an SSID of Denver International WiFi.
Sure, they have words, sentences, story outlines, distribution infrastructure. That's everything they need, right?
There are intangible qualities that AI can't master, and won't for a long time. Amazon can't even figure out what I want to buy yet, much less what I want to read!
Robocallers have already moved their call centers to Canada, Mexico, or anywhere else, where US law doesn't reach. Good luck collecting those fines!
Robocallers have already relocated their call centers offshore, where US law doesn't reach. Good luck with collecting those fines!
To make their patent applications foolproof, they could patent the process and design "on a computer."
Blockchain solves a very specific kind of problem: one which involves the need to have "anonymous" transactions stored in a public manner. In the business world, there are not very many real applications for this. Businesses want to keep their data private, not public. They want their transactions tied to specific people, not anonymous. Yes, I'm sure there are real applications for blockchain, but it's more or less the opposite of the mentality of most businesses. The fad was always just that: a fad.
Those merchants are having to pay for their lack of adoption. Based on Visa and Mastercard rules, if the merchant doesn't support chip cards, and there is a fraudulent transaction using the magnetic strip, the merchant is out the money. If the issuing bank doesn't provide a chip card, the bank is out the money. These incentives will talk more loudly than people preaching better security.
There are already a ton of codecs out there. On a PC, this is a nuisance when you run into a codec you don't already have loaded, and you have to go hunting for it on dodgy Web sites. On other hardware, you might just be plain out of luck.
This is not a bug, it's a feature. It sells more Mac hardware.
When my father was a kid in the 1940s, his farm family used Sears catalogs in the outhouse for toilet paper. Yes, they hated the glossy pages too!
The cable companies see the end coming. Already everybody who is savvy enough to cut the cord, has done so, or is thinking about doing so. The rest will pay whatever the cable companies demand. It's in their financial interest to raise prices! Where are they going to go?
It's kind of like old-style telephone service. Only older people still have it, and they pay through the nose for it. But these older people have no idea how to set up or use a VOIP service, so they are stuck.
...are on slashdot!
You must live in California. In other places like Texas, the market for CS majors is so tight they are getting 2-3 job offers at a time, having to choose which one to take.
Well, actually, "shxt" was exactly what the researchers WERE looking at!
So why is it up to us to choose whether the grove wins, or the animals feeding on it? Isn't this what nature dues? Different organisms are always vying for growth, many times at the expense of others. It's how nature balances itself. Why is this bad news?
The article doesn't say anything about the technology, other than to describe it as "deep learning AI." What exactly does this mean? Is it a neural network? If it's not, it's not really "AI." Deep learning? Maybe, or maybe it's just brute force that runs on really powerful equipment. Can't tell from the article.
Google isn't in the on-site email server business, at all. Sure, they have GMail for Business, which one might argue is targeted to the same group of customers. But not really. GMail for Business is targeted at those who don't WANT to have their own on-site server.
I predict that no one will use Help for long, because they will be swamped by spam, and unable to send email because they find themselves on RBLs or because they aren't a trusted domain.
This smells like a slashvertisement.
There are, no doubt, Amazon employees that have ALL KINDS of views about any given subject. "Amazon employee has an opinion about what Amazon does." Now there's a headline!