In the past, equal rights advocates have sued Facebook for accepting ads that discriminate against consumers based on their religion, race, and gender. Facebook has argued that the company is not legally responsible when other companies buy ads that violate the law.
So, off topic? Not at all. Something that you are displaying your own bias against? Almost certainly.
Your ignorance of the value of experience is stunning.
I hope that you yourself are not a developer. Because if you aren't, then said ignorance is forgivable; if you are, however, then you are certainly a part of the problem.
Grow up. Learn to do the right thing. Teach others to do the same. It actually can lead to a rewarding, successful, and lucrative career.
Or not. In which case, you'll probably be replaced in the next few years by a younger version of yourself who is gung ho to generate copious amounts of garbage that will implode under the weight of its own inherent flaws, poor design, and bad implementation, leading to the continuation of replacement of one second rate, spineless developer with the next, and a lack of progress in the actual engineering component of software development.
Software is viewed as a disposable product with a limited lifespan. Therefore, building it poorly is OK, because it's gonna be replaced in a few years anyway. Therefore, hiring a young person for cheap to build it is fine; it just has to work well enough to ship.
Except, of course, the above premises are almost never true. That backfill script you wrote for the one-off run to add data? It will morph into a nightly task. That snippet of code where you hard coded a few strings? It will become the primary limiter to your entire pipeline architecture.
I'd have thought that after all the study and work done over the years that folks would have figured this out, at least to some extent.
But what baffles me the most is how the software discipline is the only one that truly reviles age and experience. In every other math, logic, and scientific discipline, it is a known that experience almost always means better results, and the ability to teach and mentor those who come after. In this discipline, it is not unusual to be considered over the hill at 30.
“Amazon takes privacy very seriously. We investigated what happened and determined this was an extremely rare occurrence. We are taking steps to avoid this from happening in the future."
What they don't say:
We are taking steps to ensure that no one gets your audio data.
The Creator (God) has to be out of time in order to fill the niche required. He is not part of Nature, and thus, uncreated, eternal, unchanging in nature.
Interestingly, this is exactly how I AM described Himself long before there was anything resembling what we call philosophy today. And Christ the Son ascribed the same traits to His Father did as His Father ascribed to Himself.
Given some of the organizations I am involved with, I have to communicate outside of work with a large number of people.
It would be nice to be able to just email them all - but a number don't read their email, and have an uber clogged inbox.
Facebook groups? Nope. Too many, especially millennials, are not active on FB, preferring twitter or snapchat.
So, no. I wouldn't call FB a monopoly. But even if I were to stipulate that ok, for the sake of argument, they are a monopoly, can social media even function within a niche without being a monopoly within that niche (as twitter, snapchat, FB, etc, each are within their own niche). And if the answer is no, then the question becomes who would be more evil: the government or a private company running it?
Facebook may be quite evil, but it is by no means has a monopoly on social media. It may occupy a particular niche in the social media eco-system. But I am not sure that there can really be more than one in a given niche. For social media to work at all, the majority of people who are interested in social media have to be in the same place.
Put limits on data collection and retention, sure. But break them up? All that'll happen is that another player will fill the niche. And being aware of what had been done to FB, they'll manage to be more evil: they'll do the same thing, but hide it even better.
Phase 1: Create a monopoly on non-porn video by getting everyone to join their platform by promoting freedom of expression and free hosting. Phase 2: ? Phase 3: Profit
No matter what Phase 2 turns out to be, it won't allow Phase 1 to continue as such, IMHO.
Sea of Glass was better than the Wikipedia article might have indicated. It read well, and the idea of predictive analytics at scale was very well done.
Your millage may vary.
PS: At one time, I considered Oath of Fealty Utopian. Not so much anymore.
Well, given that/. really no longer has user submitted stories per se, one really doesn't have to look far for the source of horror that is mix of unique grammar, bias, and messaging of facts and truth that comprise the headlines and summaries these days.
Oops, won't be able to mod for another lifetime for posting this remark, either, I suppose.
"Google is taking advantage of its primary asset: data. It trained Duplex on a massive body of “anonymized phone conversations,” according to a release. Every scheduling task will have its own problems to solve when arranging a specific type of appointment, but all will be underpinned by Google’s massive volume of data from searches and recordings that will help the AI hold a conversation."
Yeah, that's your data and your phone calls they're talking about.
Slashdot Mirror
PS: From not only TFA, but the summary even:
In the past, equal rights advocates have sued Facebook for accepting ads that discriminate against consumers based on their religion, race, and gender. Facebook has argued that the company is not legally responsible when other companies buy ads that violate the law.
So, off topic? Not at all. Something that you are displaying your own bias against? Almost certainly.
Sure thing. I'll be down the street at one of the dozens of the other shops that has been trying to hire me away from your sorry ass.
Best of luck to ya!
Your ignorance of the value of experience is stunning.
I hope that you yourself are not a developer. Because if you aren't, then said ignorance is forgivable; if you are, however, then you are certainly a part of the problem.
Grow up. Learn to do the right thing. Teach others to do the same. It actually can lead to a rewarding, successful, and lucrative career.
Or not. In which case, you'll probably be replaced in the next few years by a younger version of yourself who is gung ho to generate copious amounts of garbage that will implode under the weight of its own inherent flaws, poor design, and bad implementation, leading to the continuation of replacement of one second rate, spineless developer with the next, and a lack of progress in the actual engineering component of software development.
Software is viewed as a disposable product with a limited lifespan. Therefore, building it poorly is OK, because it's gonna be replaced in a few years anyway. Therefore, hiring a young person for cheap to build it is fine; it just has to work well enough to ship.
Except, of course, the above premises are almost never true. That backfill script you wrote for the one-off run to add data? It will morph into a nightly task. That snippet of code where you hard coded a few strings? It will become the primary limiter to your entire pipeline architecture.
I'd have thought that after all the study and work done over the years that folks would have figured this out, at least to some extent.
But what baffles me the most is how the software discipline is the only one that truly reviles age and experience. In every other math, logic, and scientific discipline, it is a known that experience almost always means better results, and the ability to teach and mentor those who come after. In this discipline, it is not unusual to be considered over the hill at 30.
It boggles the mind.
You're missing the point completely.
For example, my read of this statement:
They busted their ass. And they laughed at our memory problems saying, "Uh, we solved this in 360. Look at IBM's patents."
is that the old timers were saying, "We already solved this - go and look. Make it easy on yourself."
And as far as "studying the latest technologies" - who, exactly, do you think is building the new technologies that you cut your teeth on?
What Amazon says:
“Amazon takes privacy very seriously. We investigated what happened and determined this was an extremely rare occurrence. We are taking steps to avoid this from happening in the future."
What they don't say:
We are taking steps to ensure that no one gets your audio data.
That's rather the point, though.
The Creator (God) has to be out of time in order to fill the niche required. He is not part of Nature, and thus, uncreated, eternal, unchanging in nature.
Interestingly, this is exactly how I AM described Himself long before there was anything resembling what we call philosophy today. And Christ the Son ascribed the same traits to His Father did as His Father ascribed to Himself.
Very different use case.
Email is at its core point to point. Even when you send to multiple recipients, it is still just many point to point messages.
Social media is based around a centralized data store.
I look forward to seeing your RFC.
Challenge accepted.
Given some of the organizations I am involved with, I have to communicate outside of work with a large number of people.
It would be nice to be able to just email them all - but a number don't read their email, and have an uber clogged inbox.
Facebook groups? Nope. Too many, especially millennials, are not active on FB, preferring twitter or snapchat.
So, no. I wouldn't call FB a monopoly. But even if I were to stipulate that ok, for the sake of argument, they are a monopoly, can social media even function within a niche without being a monopoly within that niche (as twitter, snapchat, FB, etc, each are within their own niche). And if the answer is no, then the question becomes who would be more evil: the government or a private company running it?
Facebook may be quite evil, but it is by no means has a monopoly on social media. It may occupy a particular niche in the social media eco-system. But I am not sure that there can really be more than one in a given niche. For social media to work at all, the majority of people who are interested in social media have to be in the same place.
Put limits on data collection and retention, sure. But break them up? All that'll happen is that another player will fill the niche. And being aware of what had been done to FB, they'll manage to be more evil: they'll do the same thing, but hide it even better.
Duplex figured that the Luddite humans might not be ready, so it is making itself appear harmless.
For now.
MEME: Boardroom, old dudes laughing.
TEXT: And then we said, "We're gonna remove all the ads!"
Phase 1: Create a monopoly on non-porn video by getting everyone to join their platform by promoting freedom of expression and free hosting.
Phase 2: ?
Phase 3: Profit
No matter what Phase 2 turns out to be, it won't allow Phase 1 to continue as such, IMHO.
We've got us some quality editors running things here at /., that we do.
So, while I don't agree particularly with either AC statement, they are neither off topic nor particularly trollish.
C'mon, folks. TFA is about a very small distro going under. Comparing to M$ and redhat are legit on this thread.
Incognito mode is a bit of a misnomer.
More like giving a kid a blanket and telling him if he hides under it, he is invisible.
My money's on "What is your NVidia video card spirit totem? Take this quiz to find out!"
or
"37 Weird things that happened to people who didn't use NVidia. Number 23 will SHOCK you!"
*points back*
Over there, right next to the tin and pine and slackware and small ISPs and a buzzfeed free internet and tech sites managed by technical people.
*sighs*
Sea of Glass was better than the Wikipedia article might have indicated. It read well, and the idea of predictive analytics at scale was very well done.
Your millage may vary.
PS: At one time, I considered Oath of Fealty Utopian. Not so much anymore.
You mean, to us all being assimilated into the MS^H^HBorg Collective?
That has to be one of the most mind jarring non sequiturs I've ever witnessed.
I feel somehow diminished for having been exposed to this abysmal logical failure.
We're all more than happy - falling over ourselves, really - to put those wires on ourselves and train MAC III right up.
Well, given that /. really no longer has user submitted stories per se, one really doesn't have to look far for the source of horror that is mix of unique grammar, bias, and messaging of facts and truth that comprise the headlines and summaries these days.
Oops, won't be able to mod for another lifetime for posting this remark, either, I suppose.
Another data point hidden in the TFA:
"Google is taking advantage of its primary asset: data. It trained Duplex on a massive body of “anonymized phone conversations,” according to a release. Every scheduling task will have its own problems to solve when arranging a specific type of appointment, but all will be underpinned by Google’s massive volume of data from searches and recordings that will help the AI hold a conversation."
Yeah, that's your data and your phone calls they're talking about.