Initial concepts of wide area networking originated in several computer science laboratories in the United States, United Kingdom, and France.
Donald Davies first demonstrated packet switching in 1967 at the National Physics Laboratory (NPL) in the UK.
Cerf credits Hubert Zimmermann and Louis Pouzin, both French, with the fundamentals for TCP/IP.
The first stored program computer was built in in Manchester, UK and the first *computer* by Babbagein the UK.
So there:-)
Discord is another excessively processor intensive Electron bloated monster, like Slack before it. Why can't people just use proper programming languages and write efficient code anymore?
Here in the EU we have GDPR - the fines for this kind of breach (if it happened after May 2018 - which this didn't funnily enough!!??) are 20 million Euros or 4 percent of annual global turnover - whichever is the greater!
I agree. Or maybe this is the ultimate 'dead cat' strategy. Make an outrageous demand of the users so people concentrate on that and forget all the other shit going on with FaeceBook at the moment...
Absolutely! This is the problem with testemony from people in the ad industry. I note that the leaked Ripon 'platform' used by SCL and CA consisted of a couple of php scripts and a powerpoint presentation telling the suckers how 'revolutionary' the software would be.
I realise this, but 1) People don't use voice calls nearly as much as they use messaging these days and 2) It's a lot of effort to go to, training up systems to transcribe voice (Google, Amazon and Apple have vast arrays of hw devoted to this and are very, erm, vocal about it) and 3) WhatsApp is an easy target; FB already own it, the family of apps are already integrated, it is already text, and people trust it with things they would say on FB.
I seriously doubt that FB are 'listening' to voice calls - they just don't have the technical chops for that, but... I bet they are slurping WhatsApp messages. Remember that these come in legalese under the heading SMS and that the promise for security is that messages are encrypted 'end-to-end'... but not at the ends obviously...
"Folders have always been an awful way to organise things, they were just easy to implememt in filesystems, and so weâ(TM)ve been stuck with them for decades."
OMG, are you a millenial by any chance? We have hierarchical file systems because they're a bloody good way of organising things. Just because we've had them for years doesn't mean they're a bad thing...
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Initial concepts of wide area networking originated in several computer science laboratories in the United States, United Kingdom, and France. Donald Davies first demonstrated packet switching in 1967 at the National Physics Laboratory (NPL) in the UK. Cerf credits Hubert Zimmermann and Louis Pouzin, both French, with the fundamentals for TCP/IP. The first stored program computer was built in in Manchester, UK and the first *computer* by Babbagein the UK. So there :-)
...as being the worst person to sing Happy Birthday to...
Should switch back to that! Or the original Delphi version of Skype :-)
Discord is another excessively processor intensive Electron bloated monster, like Slack before it. Why can't people just use proper programming languages and write efficient code anymore?
Who brought out his range in 1972.
...because they're used to shit employment terms and conditions, so they'll be cheap and easy...
They've been using the horrid term 'Human Resources' for some time now :-)
1. Privacy, so that ISP's and other companies don't get to record which old files you access and when, except for Google of course... FTFY
Absolutely agree. Notwithstanding the environmental effects of requiring (relatively) computationaly expensive cryptography too.
Here in the EU we have GDPR - the fines for this kind of breach (if it happened after May 2018 - which this didn't funnily enough!!??) are 20 million Euros or 4 percent of annual global turnover - whichever is the greater!
Someone sell a truckload of Trump masks to the Mexicans :-)
I agree. Or maybe this is the ultimate 'dead cat' strategy. Make an outrageous demand of the users so people concentrate on that and forget all the other shit going on with FaeceBook at the moment...
Thankyou! I have been saying this for ages too. I can amlost smell another AI Winter coming...
Actually, it's called ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) and is a British invention from 1976.
This is an extension on GAN (Goodfellow - now at OpenAI, et al, 2014) https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.266... designed to produce publicity...
..and thought 'That's a good idea!'.... Scary..
Except that e-corp actually have some technical chops. These guys are an ad agency with a lot of guff about what they might be able to do.
OMG, Gmail? Seriously? Of course they are. Google have been scanning gmail for ever, that's why they set it up!
You could expand this to most of the current AI goldrush. It wouldn't be the first time that capabilites of AI have been oversold.
Isn't he just...
Easier than this would be to use an https proxy to listen into everything the app is exchanging with the mothership. Has nobody done this?
Absolutely! This is the problem with testemony from people in the ad industry. I note that the leaked Ripon 'platform' used by SCL and CA consisted of a couple of php scripts and a powerpoint presentation telling the suckers how 'revolutionary' the software would be.
I realise this, but 1) People don't use voice calls nearly as much as they use messaging these days and 2) It's a lot of effort to go to, training up systems to transcribe voice (Google, Amazon and Apple have vast arrays of hw devoted to this and are very, erm, vocal about it) and 3) WhatsApp is an easy target; FB already own it, the family of apps are already integrated, it is already text, and people trust it with things they would say on FB.
I seriously doubt that FB are 'listening' to voice calls - they just don't have the technical chops for that, but... I bet they are slurping WhatsApp messages. Remember that these come in legalese under the heading SMS and that the promise for security is that messages are encrypted 'end-to-end'... but not at the ends obviously...
"Folders have always been an awful way to organise things, they were just easy to implememt in filesystems, and so weâ(TM)ve been stuck with them for decades." OMG, are you a millenial by any chance? We have hierarchical file systems because they're a bloody good way of organising things. Just because we've had them for years doesn't mean they're a bad thing...