I don't know who Jim Crow is. Look, I was just curious and wanted to obtain more information. I find it difficult to differentiate between various types of literature which mostly overlap each other. There's an entire genre of literature containing both violence and sex (there was that well known author during the 80s-90s, I forgot his name, my parents used to read his books when I was a teenager - and I did too without their consent). Now, it's not erotic literature per se but it has plenty of sex scenes. How would that fare against "erotic only" literature? Are they thrown in the same bin? What if there's a "mostly erotic but with some shooting scenes" literature going to be categorized? Will it borrow worst categorization from both subgenres?
IANAL but this reeks of discrimination. A private business can't discriminate against certain categories just because it's a private business. However... Amazon could go ahead and completely ban erotica literature as a whole, which is not discrimination, it's policy change. But right now they're basically saying "you can sell your books here just like everyone else but you won't get the same treatment as everyone else" which is the definition of discrimination. Similar to "you can ride the bus but not in the "whites" section".
If it only were so simple... I did report it. They said "we will look into it". Nobody else reported it though (I assume they already had Facebook installed themselves or didn't care otherwise). The solution which came from one of the Mobile department guys: "Don't configure it if you don't want it".
No, it is way weirder:) I am Romanian, my boss is Danish, I work in Romania for an US corporation, and most of my direct customers are from the States. Somehow this all works very well.
Same here but there's another reason. If he calls me during off-hours, it means the situation is indeed dire (be it technically or politically) AND he will make sure that I get double pay for that day.
System app, preinstalled by carrier. Can't uninstall. i can disable it but it re-enables itself every time a patch comes along. I have this nagging feeling I'm fighting my phone. It's a company-issued phone so I'm stuck with it until June.
I had used other streaming services in the past, and Tidal had been installed for a couple weeks. I also had been using PCRadio extensively, for at least a couple hours daily,
They still have to listen and decode all the time. Rather, what I think they do, is have a multi-step approach.
First, establish on-off times. When should the app listen? That's based on your habits. Are you more talkative during evenings? When are you searching for stuff on your phone? When do you use this or that app? Then the app starts listening for 30 seconds during certain times, triggered by previous analytics data.
This literally happened to me last week. I had subscribed to Tidal for a few days and was talking to a colleague about it. He said he had been using a Romanian streaming music service from Vodafone called Zonga. I never looked it up on my phone, we were just talking, he literally said "I was using Zonga but gave it up because it didn't have the music I wanted" and I said "You should try Tidal, I found most my favorite music on it" (we're both metalheads). Then we both minded our business until a couple hours later I receive a notification on my phone from the Vodafone main app advertising Zonga. It was the first time ever I had received a Zonga notification on my phone, and the first time in months I received a notification from the main Vodafone app.
Might have been a coincidence, and I'm a down-to-earth person, always trying to look at things objectively, but we both agreed it was quite disconcerting and a little bit scary to see that happen.
It would never work. There's an endless number of ways text can be changed to fool automatic matching, same with images. Add some fuzziness to the image in certain areas, change a letter here and a letter there and you're good. The list of bannable words would expand so much that it would drive normal people away because they won't be able to talk to each other anymore.
And that's why they've been unsuccessful so far, only succeeding in pissing off customers. English isn't the only language in the world, you know. In Romanian, "cum" is a very common set of letters and has absolutely no offensive meaning. Alone, those letters mean "how". There's also the word "precum" meaning "just like" or "similarly to". In the Philippines, "porn" is a common part of the name. There are people called "Wanaporn", "Siriporn", "Pornsak", etc. India has lots of names containing "Shit" in them, I had a colleague called "Sumana Shit".
I'm currently playing a mobile game which replaces "cum" in chat by stars, it's very difficult to talk to another Romanian player because of the constant "***" showing up instead of words.
Furthermore, people always find new and creative ways of slightly changing words so that a human can understand what's being said but automatic matching has no chance. "Fkc y00" or "Sk me ck" for example.
So yeah, I could say it IS rocket science. Actually, rocket science is more likely to succeed.
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I don't know who Jim Crow is.
Look, I was just curious and wanted to obtain more information.
I find it difficult to differentiate between various types of literature which mostly overlap each other. There's an entire genre of literature containing both violence and sex (there was that well known author during the 80s-90s, I forgot his name, my parents used to read his books when I was a teenager - and I did too without their consent). Now, it's not erotic literature per se but it has plenty of sex scenes. How would that fare against "erotic only" literature? Are they thrown in the same bin? What if there's a "mostly erotic but with some shooting scenes" literature going to be categorized? Will it borrow worst categorization from both subgenres?
WTF. They are not created in similar manners.
So how does that apply to the rest of the world?
Simply untrue, but hey, you+'re welcome to continue believing nonsense.
Those were not coins, they were tokens. They don't need to be mined or anything, they're just made up.
Define "protected group".
IANAL but this reeks of discrimination.
A private business can't discriminate against certain categories just because it's a private business.
However... Amazon could go ahead and completely ban erotica literature as a whole, which is not discrimination, it's policy change. But right now they're basically saying "you can sell your books here just like everyone else but you won't get the same treatment as everyone else" which is the definition of discrimination.
Similar to "you can ride the bus but not in the "whites" section".
If it only were so simple...
I did report it. They said "we will look into it". Nobody else reported it though (I assume they already had Facebook installed themselves or didn't care otherwise).
The solution which came from one of the Mobile department guys: "Don't configure it if you don't want it".
No, it is way weirder :)
I am Romanian, my boss is Danish, I work in Romania for an US corporation, and most of my direct customers are from the States.
Somehow this all works very well.
Make sure you take a look at PCRadio, I found it to be very good in terms of radio station availability and variety.
Same here but there's another reason. If he calls me during off-hours, it means the situation is indeed dire (be it technically or politically) AND he will make sure that I get double pay for that day.
System app, preinstalled by carrier. Can't uninstall. i can disable it but it re-enables itself every time a patch comes along.
I have this nagging feeling I'm fighting my phone. It's a company-issued phone so I'm stuck with it until June.
It's a work phone, provided by the company. I don't have much choice on the matter.
Thank you for this, wasn't aware of the article.
Gotcha.
I didn't accuse, I just stated what happened and it shook me a little.
Experiments start from a series of assumptions, e.g. "this happens, let's find out why".
So how do you differentiate success from a false positive? Maybe a false positive is what happened to me.
You can't repeat the experiment unless you know exactly how the algorithm is working. You might simply miss one trigger and yield false results.
I had used other streaming services in the past, and Tidal had been installed for a couple weeks. I also had been using PCRadio extensively, for at least a couple hours daily,
They still have to listen and decode all the time.
Rather, what I think they do, is have a multi-step approach.
First, establish on-off times. When should the app listen? That's based on your habits. Are you more talkative during evenings? When are you searching for stuff on your phone? When do you use this or that app?
Then the app starts listening for 30 seconds during certain times, triggered by previous analytics data.
What if you have no choice?
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This literally happened to me last week.
I had subscribed to Tidal for a few days and was talking to a colleague about it. He said he had been using a Romanian streaming music service from Vodafone called Zonga. I never looked it up on my phone, we were just talking, he literally said "I was using Zonga but gave it up because it didn't have the music I wanted" and I said "You should try Tidal, I found most my favorite music on it" (we're both metalheads).
Then we both minded our business until a couple hours later I receive a notification on my phone from the Vodafone main app advertising Zonga.
It was the first time ever I had received a Zonga notification on my phone, and the first time in months I received a notification from the main Vodafone app.
Might have been a coincidence, and I'm a down-to-earth person, always trying to look at things objectively, but we both agreed it was quite disconcerting and a little bit scary to see that happen.
It would never work. There's an endless number of ways text can be changed to fool automatic matching, same with images. Add some fuzziness to the image in certain areas, change a letter here and a letter there and you're good.
The list of bannable words would expand so much that it would drive normal people away because they won't be able to talk to each other anymore.
Sorry, what I meant was "analyzed for this purpose" but my brain ate the full meaning of what I wanted to say.
And that's why they've been unsuccessful so far, only succeeding in pissing off customers.
English isn't the only language in the world, you know.
In Romanian, "cum" is a very common set of letters and has absolutely no offensive meaning. Alone, those letters mean "how". There's also the word "precum" meaning "just like" or "similarly to".
In the Philippines, "porn" is a common part of the name. There are people called "Wanaporn", "Siriporn", "Pornsak", etc.
India has lots of names containing "Shit" in them, I had a colleague called "Sumana Shit".
I'm currently playing a mobile game which replaces "cum" in chat by stars, it's very difficult to talk to another Romanian player because of the constant "***" showing up instead of words.
Furthermore, people always find new and creative ways of slightly changing words so that a human can understand what's being said but automatic matching has no chance. "Fkc y00" or "Sk me ck" for example.
So yeah, I could say it IS rocket science. Actually, rocket science is more likely to succeed.