Northpointe’s Compas software, which uses machine learning to predict whether a defendant will commit future crimes, was found to judge black defendants more harshly than white defendants.
So that was an existing algorithm that judged somebody on how they were born rather than their individual behavior.
StumbleUpon was a golden tool for me and let me used the internet to learn random things. Now I just get stuck on memes and Starcraft replays on YouTube.
Time to try and retrain my brain to get more value from my time.
Well it was the unprotected amazon cloud server that released the information - the fact that the software is intrusive was not to blame for this breach.
I don't necessarily think everything bad that might happen is richly deserved, I'm not a big fan of spying on kids, but there's little options when you want to give your child the ability to call in an emergency and text friends and not do absolutely everything else possible on a smart device.
My snark was meant to be in response to DogDude's snark about him asking a question while trying to act superior. I grant you that the world isn't a better place for my comment existing through.
But to actually try and be helpful: "A little bit of what would otherwise be screen with a microphone/camera/speaker there instead." is pretty much all there is to it. Imagine a screen that needs to go from edge to edge but you still need to put a camera somewhere on the phone. So where phones used to dedicate a chunk of the front face to all those things, it's now on a super imposed "notch" that's like 100 dead pixels.
You know augmented reality is an overlay of what your camera shows - so you have less things in between you and your vision.
I would predict that people would bump into stuff less while using walking AR, and that they wont mentally be teleported into a world detached from the consequences of reality.
That's the big tragedy. Vote against this, and you'll be labelled as being "pro-sex trafficking" Try to give a nuanced answer as to why this bill is counter productive and very few people will listen.
Voting for or against a law is nearly always judged by the law's stated intent, not by it's effectiveness or by its unintended consequences.
Yeah, I was a little obscure in my description. Was just responding to the AC who seemed to claim that the planet is 100% capable of repairing itself from any man made thing done to it before anything bad happens.
Didn't mean to imply that the sea went missing due to climate change.
> For them the disappearance of the sea is a disaster. The revival of the Small Aral brings hope to some, but it was only ever 5% of the whole. The Western basin accounts for another 5%. > Ninety per cent of the sea has gone. > It’s one of the world’s most startling ecological calamities - the story of how cotton soaked up an entire sea.
But feel free to add "40 years of man made interference destroyed 90% of a sea" to the list of reasons why climate change is wrong.
I don't think that's the case, from that post > bizarrely, puts up an extremely blurry version of its stories’ *photographs* by default and then afterward replaces them with the real photos with a JavaScript call
Anyway, tepples response sums up everything quite well. Not everything is a conspiracy.
I'm inclined to believe that's a big factor, but short of reading Freakonomics I haven't done any research on the matter. Though I do notice a lot less mohawk gangs as depicted in late 80s early 90s movies.
I'm not in the "games have no affect on kids" camp, but I'm also not a fan of "saying violent crimes committed by kids is way up" with no evidence camp.
Because they're actually way down from their height in 1994.
Yeah but breaking into someone's phone requires physical access, and if you have physical access to the phone you might be able to copy their fingerprint using $1 of glue https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And yes I do realise those articles are from when it was first created, now it might only take $150, a slightly cheaper 3D printer and several hours to perfect a face that will fool it.
So do you really fear someone is going to nab your phone without you knowing and have a well made cast of your face ready to go?
> Face ID is completely broken Nope, it's not perfect, it doesn't intend to be, but it's much more secure than Touch ID.
I'm going to guess Apple pays $0 to SuperKendall, more likely actually checked the facts.
When you say Face ID was easily broken, do you mean easily broken with a $200 3D printed mask as long as the user turns off liveness detection? Also not using just a photo but also a depth recording of your face
Alternatively it could be just like Slack that exists in millions of work places and makes it quick to talk to somebody downstairs etc. Also this informal communication would be logged, so one thinks people will act a little more cautiously on it. We use Slack all the time and it's great for telecommuting, technical group chats, and posting stupid gifs.
Is the point of your post to blame everything on SJWs, even vague possible threats?
Apple's FaceID uses infrared depth perception, where light contrast isn't an issue.
Apologies for the inflammatory title https://www.gizmodo.com.au/201... They also went to the effort of testing it out on various ethnicities as well, so the AI didn't overly focus on areas that are different for one group but similar in another.
I'm not saying that Face ID is "racist" or anything like that. I'm just happy there's a technical solution that solves this problem.
> for example, the Russia collusion story... fake or real? Some will say real... some will say fake. Which is it? There's no evidence but it could be real... it could also be fake.
Well to say there was guaranteed collusion from Trump is fake, or at least currently unverifiable. To say there's proof of Trump being blackmailed due to Russian prostitutes is baseless.
However all the following are verifiable: There's an ongoing investigation into the matter by the FBI. That Trump's form National Security advisor Michael Flynn pleased guilty to lying to the FBI about discussions with the Russian Ambassador. That Trump Junior was happy to meet with Russians for dirty on Hillary without thinking of the consequences.
If it turns out Trump is innocent on any collusion, or only guilty of minor misconduct because he didn't stop and think, it wont have made most stories about it "fake". Normally fake news (by its pre-Trump usage) is so fake it's painful, e.g. pizzagate.
WTF?! Seriously, we're making metaphors of programming languages as tools and houses as programs. You make the point that it's the builder's responsibility to make a good house. (I got your point, it's not a hard one to understand). I make the point that it's worth using good tools, because some programming languages make it hard to write secure code. I could keep stretching the metaphor and say it's up to the builder to know what good tools are if that would make you happier.
Jumping to "Take your nanny state and shove it up your liberal ass." is a little crazy man.
> Humans have an uncanny ability to evade culpability in clever ways.
Well you seem to be saying that language designers / implementers have no culpability at all.
For your metaphor, what if the person building the house is using a rubber mallet, rusted nails and broken wood?
People can write bad programs in any programming languages, but some programming languages have flawed designs that make bad behaviour much more likely.
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From the article:
Northpointe’s Compas software, which uses machine learning to predict whether a defendant will commit future crimes, was found to judge black defendants more harshly than white defendants.
So that was an existing algorithm that judged somebody on how they were born rather than their individual behavior.
StumbleUpon was a golden tool for me and let me used the internet to learn random things.
Now I just get stuck on memes and Starcraft replays on YouTube.
Time to try and retrain my brain to get more value from my time.
Well it was the unprotected amazon cloud server that released the information - the fact that the software is intrusive was not to blame for this breach.
I don't necessarily think everything bad that might happen is richly deserved, I'm not a big fan of spying on kids, but there's little options when you want to give your child the ability to call in an emergency and text friends and not do absolutely everything else possible on a smart device.
My snark was meant to be in response to DogDude's snark about him asking a question while trying to act superior.
I grant you that the world isn't a better place for my comment existing through.
But to actually try and be helpful:
"A little bit of what would otherwise be screen with a microphone/camera/speaker there instead."
is pretty much all there is to it. Imagine a screen that needs to go from edge to edge but you still need to put a camera somewhere on the phone. So where phones used to dedicate a chunk of the front face to all those things, it's now on a super imposed "notch" that's like 100 dead pixels.
You know augmented reality is an overlay of what your camera shows - so you have less things in between you and your vision.
I would predict that people would bump into stuff less while using walking AR, and that they wont mentally be teleported into a world detached from the consequences of reality.
I don't get it, how will that prove that you've found the two points that result in you needing the longest piece of string?
That's the big tragedy.
Vote against this, and you'll be labelled as being "pro-sex trafficking"
Try to give a nuanced answer as to why this bill is counter productive and very few people will listen.
Voting for or against a law is nearly always judged by the law's stated intent, not by it's effectiveness or by its unintended consequences.
Thanks for doing your bit to try and change it.
Ummm... everything else in the summary makes her an expert on what Slashdot asks her (if they stay on topic).
Yeah, I was a little obscure in my description.
Was just responding to the AC who seemed to claim that the planet is 100% capable of repairing itself from any man made thing done to it before anything bad happens.
Didn't mean to imply that the sea went missing due to climate change.
From TFA
> For them the disappearance of the sea is a disaster. The revival of the Small Aral brings hope to some, but it was only ever 5% of the whole. The Western basin accounts for another 5%.
> Ninety per cent of the sea has gone.
> It’s one of the world’s most startling ecological calamities - the story of how cotton soaked up an entire sea.
But feel free to add "40 years of man made interference destroyed 90% of a sea" to the list of reasons why climate change is wrong.
I don't think that's the case, from that post
> bizarrely, puts up an extremely blurry version of its stories’ *photographs* by default and then afterward replaces them with the real photos with a JavaScript call
Anyway, tepples response sums up everything quite well. Not everything is a conspiracy.
I'm inclined to believe that's a big factor, but short of reading Freakonomics I haven't done any research on the matter.
Though I do notice a lot less mohawk gangs as depicted in late 80s early 90s movies.
Going out on a limb here, but do you think the moderators modded you down for your tone and how little detail you actually added to the conversation?
I'm not in the "games have no affect on kids" camp, but I'm also not a fan of "saying violent crimes committed by kids is way up" with no evidence camp.
Because they're actually way down from their height in 1994.
https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb...
https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb...
https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb...
Yeah but breaking into someone's phone requires physical access, and if you have physical access to the phone you might be able to copy their fingerprint using $1 of glue https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And yes I do realise those articles are from when it was first created, now it might only take $150, a slightly cheaper 3D printer and several hours to perfect a face that will fool it.
So do you really fear someone is going to nab your phone without you knowing and have a well made cast of your face ready to go?
> Face ID is completely broken
Nope, it's not perfect, it doesn't intend to be, but it's much more secure than Touch ID.
I'm going to guess Apple pays $0 to SuperKendall, more likely actually checked the facts.
When you say Face ID was easily broken, do you mean easily broken with a $200 3D printed mask as long as the user turns off liveness detection?
Also not using just a photo but also a depth recording of your face
https://www.wired.com/story/ha...
http://bgr.com/2017/11/12/face...
I'm pretty damn sure Touch ID is way easier to crack than that.
Alternatively it could be just like Slack that exists in millions of work places and makes it quick to talk to somebody downstairs etc.
Also this informal communication would be logged, so one thinks people will act a little more cautiously on it.
We use Slack all the time and it's great for telecommuting, technical group chats, and posting stupid gifs.
Is the point of your post to blame everything on SJWs, even vague possible threats?
Apple's FaceID uses infrared depth perception, where light contrast isn't an issue.
Apologies for the inflammatory title https://www.gizmodo.com.au/201...
They also went to the effort of testing it out on various ethnicities as well, so the AI didn't overly focus on areas that are different for one group but similar in another.
I'm not saying that Face ID is "racist" or anything like that. I'm just happy there's a technical solution that solves this problem.
FYI, the article wasn't based on a survey of people's actual fears or anything like that.
It's just commenting on a trend in movies and television.
> for example, the Russia collusion story... fake or real? Some will say real... some will say fake. Which is it? There's no evidence but it could be real... it could also be fake.
Well to say there was guaranteed collusion from Trump is fake, or at least currently unverifiable.
To say there's proof of Trump being blackmailed due to Russian prostitutes is baseless.
However all the following are verifiable:
There's an ongoing investigation into the matter by the FBI.
That Trump's form National Security advisor Michael Flynn pleased guilty to lying to the FBI about discussions with the Russian Ambassador.
That Trump Junior was happy to meet with Russians for dirty on Hillary without thinking of the consequences.
If it turns out Trump is innocent on any collusion, or only guilty of minor misconduct because he didn't stop and think, it wont have made most stories about it "fake".
Normally fake news (by its pre-Trump usage) is so fake it's painful, e.g. pizzagate.
Isn't that how second hand car sales work?
(Though the re-sale price isn't as high because cars general have more wear and tear)
Maybe the sound quality is better than the competition.
It is first and foremost a speaker after all.
Slight correction, copyright is the remaining life of the author plus 70 to 125 years.
Personally I think 20 years would be fine for copyright (I think you got confused with patents), but roughly 100 years is insane.
WTF?! Seriously, we're making metaphors of programming languages as tools and houses as programs.
You make the point that it's the builder's responsibility to make a good house. (I got your point, it's not a hard one to understand).
I make the point that it's worth using good tools, because some programming languages make it hard to write secure code. I could keep stretching the metaphor and say it's up to the builder to know what good tools are if that would make you happier.
Jumping to "Take your nanny state and shove it up your liberal ass." is a little crazy man.
> Humans have an uncanny ability to evade culpability in clever ways.
Well you seem to be saying that language designers / implementers have no culpability at all.
For your metaphor, what if the person building the house is using a rubber mallet, rusted nails and broken wood?
People can write bad programs in any programming languages, but some programming languages have flawed designs that make bad behaviour much more likely.