Palantir isn't collecting data on you, the Government and corporations do that.
Palantir is a software company who makes an integrated, modular system for data integration and analysis (such as link analysis). They don't collect the data -- they sell the software to entities who have data feeds that need to be analyzed. (However, Palantir does provide consultants to work on-site with the customers to help use and customize the software.)
About a decade ago when Palantir was brand new, I recommended them to certain military customers I was working for; it was an excellent product! Some people hate the company (because it is fashionable to hate them in some circles). They got a lot of "hype", because they actually delivered useful software that solved problems. Imagine that! I have never had any connection to the company other than telling my clients that they should become customers (users). Worked out very well and the clients were ecstatic with the results. I have heard that not every one of their customers was as happy, for whatever reason. Your milage may vary, I guess.
It was largely written in Java, and was all about pluggable and customizable modules for data management: taking feeds, cleaning/loading, and lots of modules for various kinds of analysis. Haven't seen Palantir in years, but I would be surprised if by now they didn't have AI/ML goodies, and probably (wildly guessing here) good interfaces for Python, too.
"In 1.3 miles, turn right up where the Piggly Wiggly used to be."
"Continue (on down the road apiece) for about 10 minutes,
-- THEN -- turn right at the big tree."
"In.4 miles, slight right.
-- THEN -- turn left at Old Man Gaskin's road.
Warning: Old Man Gaskin has a gun."
"At the intersection, take the dirt road on the left." (already implemented)
"You can't get there from here."
OK Google, Navigate to CVS. "In one mile, Start thinking about your destination.
In a half mile, You'll get a real fixation.
In a half mile, Soon enough you'll be turning left
In a quarter mile, Your destination will seem like theft
In a quarter mile, Your destination will let you save
Your destination is on the left: buy Burma Shave."
I'm probably much older than the usual denizens of this site and I remember the detergent scare of the 1950's. Basically detergents (Tide was the number one brand) contaminated local streams and rivers and did not readily decompose. A few years later Tide changed its formula and the problem disappeared. The bottom line is that problems caused by technology have technological fixes.
I remember when a novel solution to excess Tide was popularized on the Internet a few weeks ago. It has the wonderful side-effect of population control by self-(de)-selection!
(Here I am assuming that the Tide Pod Challenge is not at the root of the "accidental" creation of mutant plastic-munching Enzyme Overlords...)
And they could enforce whatever nonsense in a browser visiting that link.
This means that mail reading apps need a new feature: auto-archive linked web content. When a message includes an (e.g. unlikely trivial IMG self-destruct implementation) link, and you have enabled (for this message, or for the domain) Show Web Content, then in addition to showing the content, you save it. If the pixels appear in your browser (or email app that includes a browser, like most do), then you can save them for yourself. Depending on how they write the Javascript, it might be less straightforward to analyze to get the desired content. (In the worse case, if it's in my video frame buffer...) But at the end of whatever nonsense Google (or whoever) comes up with, there is visible content such as an image. And there is no way to stop that from being automatically copied and conveniently saved as part of the message.
If I was making this feature in the app, I would automatically save the content the first time, along with retrieval metadata. That metadata could include the entire page contents (that is, the Javascipt and everything, not just all the downloaded pixels). This would then be hashed. On subsequent viewings of the message, I would compare the hash to see if I need to download another version. Message presentation would then include an indication that this was saved content, and indicate whether it had changed. Options on the message include: Always Show Original vs. Show Latest Content. Either way, the message presentation shows what's going on and let's you click to see other versions that you've captured.
Some people would like to see the latest content, presumably a little picture of a charred envelop and the words "Message self-destructed after reading on 4/1/2018 01:02:03 EDT". There could even be a setting in the app to disable offering by default the historical versions. Or even settings to disable capturing the initial version (or later versions, or more than x number of versions, etc.) For those who like to go along with the self-destruct fantasy.
There are security issues associated with this, most of which should already be addressed by existing apps, since people send HTML mail all the time. Basically what's going on is that every time you retrieve the message, you are downloading a new virus. And every time you display it you are executing potential malware (even if it's just showing you a captured JPEG, it could be a crafted one). General security principles should take care of stateful tactics based on having downloaded previous versions, but that's something to think about since you've now introduced thises new data store features into the app.
you often have to sign a waiver for as well as topical pain relief creams (DO NOT TASTE THESE).
Having lived through the Merciless Peppers of Quetzalacatenango grown deep in the jungle primeval by the inmates of a Guatemalan insane asylum, I am ready for the Capsagel Challengem dude!
Or is it brah? I have trouble remembering things since the Tide Pods last week...Can't even figure out where my condoms have gone.
Sometimes things really do disappear at the post office.
I once had someone send me a package. It was "lost" at the regional postal center going "around and around" the automated system before someone or some computer realized it was "old" and pulled it off the line and did something with it.
By "old" you mean "2 days" and by "do something with it" you mean "take it home themselves and sell it on e-Bay" LOL.
"Right to be Forgotten" should be paired with some kind of time-sealed government run vault into which all of the "forgotten" data would go and be kept more permanently until tit did not matter what was inside.
Hopefully Logan and Jessica will get there before it's too late.
Now I know that the aliens are here. That they have taken human form. Even if the hair is, you know, the hair is too orange. Somehow I must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun.
Every time I have had something stolen from the mail, it was a USPS employee. It usually happens at the distribution point, before it is assigned to a delivery man.
The don't usually catch them, and even certified packages go missing and you can't get your money back.
Twice I have had relatively small packages containing audio/electronic items (e.g. MIDI devices) stolen this way. Filling out forms does nothing. IG does nothing. Package trace log shows the item at the postal distribution warehouse, where it vanishes.
There's nothing in the constituttion about gun registration not being allowed either, though, or is it?
The stated (by the authors, in case the 2A text isn't clear enough for you) purpose is to reserve the power to potentially overthrow the government. So allowing the government to maintain a list of who has all the guns and where they are would seem to tend to defeat the purpose. What part of "Shall Not Be Infringed" is hard to understand?
I was using email in the early 70s and it was old hat by then. In the mid-70s someone in my high school had implemented a fully fleshed out recognizable system (with CC, BCC, forwarding, marking, admins,... all the "traditional" features) in BASIC on the schools HP 2000 Time Sharing system. He copied the functionality of existing systems that we knew about from "big computers". I had for years been using email on mainframes (such as APL*PLUS) so it was familiar to me. That's email "as we know it today" with the usual headers and system features. More primitive systems that could rightly be called email doubtless go back to the 1960s. By 1973, email was 75% of the traffic on the ARPANET ffs.
None of that is exactly the point my joke was making, though.
As one of the most snarky people on Slashdot, and having even first-posted a Youtube joke here, I would like to in all seriousness express my sadness that people were attacked, injured, and I hope they all survive and recover. This is a tragedy, both for the individuals involved and their families, and for our society. I am sure that I can speak for many people, with many opinions about the societal implications and wildly differing views on the etiology of these kinds of attacks, when I say here that we give our condolences to the victims and their loved ones.
I wanted there to be at least one non-political non-asshole comment to this effect on Slashdot.
In the US, people can freely cross borders between states. That's why Chicago has such terrible gun violence despite having strict(er) gun laws than neighboring states/cities.
So, the criminals get their guns from the surrounding places where the gun laws are lax and everybody has and sells guns. They take these guns into Chicago and commit violent offenses with them, and Chicago's crime rate soars, even though Chicago has the tough gun laws. QUESTION: Why is the crime rate LOW in those adjacent territories where the gun laws are lax and all the guns are in the first place?
cstacy:
The media as usual muddled his story. He didn't create Bitcoin. He invented email.
AC:
Uh, wrong. That was Christine Peterson
No, I believe it was Christine Peterson who invented "Open Email", one of the most common operations done on computers! She did that back in 1998, while email itself was invented in 1978 (and trademarked in 1982). During the years from 1978-1998 email was not used very much, as there was no way to open it.
I know, it's hard to keep all these things straight...
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Palantir isn't collecting data on you, the Government and corporations do that.
Palantir is a software company who makes an integrated, modular system for data integration and analysis (such as link analysis). They don't collect the data -- they sell the software to entities who have data feeds that need to be analyzed. (However, Palantir does provide consultants to work on-site with the customers to help use and customize the software.)
About a decade ago when Palantir was brand new, I recommended them to certain military customers I was working for; it was an excellent product! Some people hate the company (because it is fashionable to hate them in some circles). They got a lot of "hype", because they actually delivered useful software that solved problems. Imagine that! I have never had any connection to the company other than telling my clients that they should become customers (users). Worked out very well and the clients were ecstatic with the results. I have heard that not every one of their customers was as happy, for whatever reason. Your milage may vary, I guess.
It was largely written in Java, and was all about pluggable and customizable modules for data management: taking feeds, cleaning/loading, and lots of modules for various kinds of analysis. Haven't seen Palantir in years, but I would be surprised if by now they didn't have AI/ML goodies, and probably (wildly guessing here) good interfaces for Python, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"In 1.3 miles, turn right up where the Piggly Wiggly used to be."
"Continue (on down the road apiece) for about 10 minutes,
-- THEN -- turn right at the big tree."
"In .4 miles, slight right.
-- THEN -- turn left at Old Man Gaskin's road.
Warning: Old Man Gaskin has a gun."
"At the intersection, take the dirt road on the left."
(already implemented)
"You can't get there from here."
OK Google, Navigate to CVS.
"In one mile, Start thinking about your destination.
In a half mile, You'll get a real fixation.
In a half mile, Soon enough you'll be turning left
In a quarter mile, Your destination will seem like theft
In a quarter mile, Your destination will let you save
Your destination is on the left: buy Burma Shave."
I'm probably much older than the usual denizens of this site and I remember the detergent scare of the 1950's. Basically detergents (Tide was the number one brand) contaminated local streams and rivers and did not readily decompose. A few years later Tide changed its formula and the problem disappeared. The bottom line is that problems caused by technology have technological fixes.
I remember when a novel solution to excess Tide was popularized on the Internet a few weeks ago. It has the wonderful side-effect of population control by self-(de)-selection!
(Here I am assuming that the Tide Pod Challenge is not at the root of the "accidental" creation of mutant plastic-munching Enzyme Overlords...)
I for one would like to welcome our plastic munching Enzyme accidental Overlords. What could possibly go wrong?
And they could enforce whatever nonsense in a browser visiting that link.
This means that mail reading apps need a new feature: auto-archive linked web content. When a message includes an (e.g. unlikely trivial IMG self-destruct implementation) link, and you have enabled (for this message, or for the domain) Show Web Content, then in addition to showing the content, you save it. If the pixels appear in your browser (or email app that includes a browser, like most do), then you can save them for yourself. Depending on how they write the Javascript, it might be less straightforward to analyze to get the desired content. (In the worse case, if it's in my video frame buffer...) But at the end of whatever nonsense Google (or whoever) comes up with, there is visible content such as an image. And there is no way to stop that from being automatically copied and conveniently saved as part of the message.
If I was making this feature in the app, I would automatically save the content the first time, along with retrieval metadata. That metadata could include the entire page contents (that is, the Javascipt and everything, not just all the downloaded pixels). This would then be hashed. On subsequent viewings of the message, I would compare the hash to see if I need to download another version. Message presentation would then include an indication that this was saved content, and indicate whether it had changed. Options on the message include: Always Show Original vs. Show Latest Content. Either way, the message presentation shows what's going on and let's you click to see other versions that you've captured.
Some people would like to see the latest content, presumably a little picture of a charred envelop and the words "Message self-destructed after reading on 4/1/2018 01:02:03 EDT". There could even be a setting in the app to disable offering by default the historical versions. Or even settings to disable capturing the initial version (or later versions, or more than x number of versions, etc.) For those who like to go along with the self-destruct fantasy.
There are security issues associated with this, most of which should already be addressed by existing apps, since people send HTML mail all the time. Basically what's going on is that every time you retrieve the message, you are downloading a new virus. And every time you display it you are executing potential malware (even if it's just showing you a captured JPEG, it could be a crafted one). General security principles should take care of stateful tactics based on having downloaded previous versions, but that's something to think about since you've now introduced thises new data store features into the app.
you often have to sign a waiver for as well as topical pain relief creams (DO NOT TASTE THESE).
Having lived through the Merciless Peppers of Quetzalacatenango grown deep in the jungle primeval by the inmates of a Guatemalan insane asylum, I am ready for the Capsagel Challengem dude!
Or is it brah? I have trouble remembering things since the Tide Pods last week...Can't even figure out where my condoms have gone.
Makes Puffins look hot to other puffins.
Small children should not be allowed to do their business in the pool. But that's reality, which is why I don't go into public pools.
Sometimes things really do disappear at the post office.
I once had someone send me a package. It was "lost" at the regional postal center going "around and around" the automated system before someone or some computer realized it was "old" and pulled it off the line and did something with it.
By "old" you mean "2 days" and by "do something with it" you mean "take it home themselves and sell it on e-Bay" LOL.
"Right to be Forgotten" should be paired with some kind of time-sealed government run vault into which all of the "forgotten" data would go and be kept more permanently until tit did not matter what was inside.
Hopefully Logan and Jessica will get there before it's too late.
This picture taking was never a problem until a few months ago.
You know what else happened a few months ago?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/c...
Wake Up, People!
Now I know that the aliens are here. That they have taken human form. Even if the hair is, you know, the hair is too orange. Somehow I must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
How much is needed to give me spider powers?
Every time I have had something stolen from the mail, it was a USPS employee. It usually happens at the distribution point, before it is assigned to a delivery man.
The don't usually catch them, and even certified packages go missing and you can't get your money back.
Twice I have had relatively small packages containing audio/electronic items (e.g. MIDI devices) stolen this way. Filling out forms does nothing. IG does nothing. Package trace log shows the item at the postal distribution warehouse, where it vanishes.
...to build the not-quite supersonic airplane.
Typically gun bullet marks are registered, so police can identify the gun. It doesn't work perfectly, but it helps a lot.
Yeah works great!
http://www.baltimoresun.com/ne...
https://gunowners.org/fs0203.h...
Keeping a list of something does not infringe anything, except maybe convenience.
Clearly you will not be leading the revolution LOL
There's nothing in the constituttion about gun registration not being allowed either, though, or is it?
The stated (by the authors, in case the 2A text isn't clear enough for you) purpose is to reserve the power to potentially overthrow the government. So allowing the government to maintain a list of who has all the guns and where they are would seem to tend to defeat the purpose. What part of "Shall Not Be Infringed" is hard to understand?
I was using email in the early 70s and it was old hat by then. In the mid-70s someone in my high school had implemented a fully fleshed out recognizable system (with CC, BCC, forwarding, marking, admins, ... all the "traditional" features) in BASIC on the schools HP 2000 Time Sharing system. He copied the functionality of existing systems that we knew about from "big computers". I had for years been using email on mainframes (such as APL*PLUS) so it was familiar to me. That's email "as we know it today" with the usual headers and system features. More primitive systems that could rightly be called email doubtless go back to the 1960s. By 1973, email was 75% of the traffic on the ARPANET ffs.
None of that is exactly the point my joke was making, though.
As one of the most snarky people on Slashdot, and having even first-posted a Youtube joke here, I would like to in all seriousness express my sadness that people were attacked, injured, and I hope they all survive and recover. This is a tragedy, both for the individuals involved and their families, and for our society. I am sure that I can speak for many people, with many opinions about the societal implications and wildly differing views on the etiology of these kinds of attacks, when I say here that we give our condolences to the victims and their loved ones.
I wanted there to be at least one non-political non-asshole comment to this effect on Slashdot.
In the US, people can freely cross borders between states. That's why Chicago has such terrible gun violence despite having strict(er) gun laws than neighboring states/cities.
So, the criminals get their guns from the surrounding places where the gun laws are lax and everybody has and sells guns. They take these guns into Chicago and commit violent offenses with them, and Chicago's crime rate soars, even though Chicago has the tough gun laws. QUESTION: Why is the crime rate LOW in those adjacent territories where the gun laws are lax and all the guns are in the first place?
cstacy:
The media as usual muddled his story. He didn't create Bitcoin. He invented email.
AC:
Uh, wrong. That was Christine Peterson
No, I believe it was Christine Peterson who invented "Open Email", one of the most common operations done on computers! She did that back in 1998, while email itself was invented in 1978 (and trademarked in 1982). During the years from 1978-1998 email was not used very much, as there was no way to open it.
I know, it's hard to keep all these things straight...
I thought nobody knew who Bitcoin's creator was. They figured it out since then?
Yeah it was all over NEWSWEEK almost exactly 4 years ago, try to keep up!
'Tubes or it didn't happen.
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