At what point did we freak out about someone knowing our name, address and phone number? This used to be a public record.
1) I remember that I tried to not list my apartment phone number when I got an apartment in late nineties. It turned out that local phone company required $4/month (I think) to keep it off Yellow pages.
2) Also, since the autodialers are a thing (not to mention Fax autodialiers, that can annoy you for years!).
3) And then there is the "Terminator" risk (what if I have the same name as someone being assassinated from the future?)
What choices do you have to stay in touch with friends and family online? Honestly. Either you be the weird guy, or use facebook.
My 17-year old nephew already moved on from Facebook and deleted his account. Apparently "nothing happens there".
You are crazy to compare Facebook monopoly and the Internet access monopoly. There are lots of other way to stay in touch with friends and family online, but all of them involve Internet access.
Damore didn't post his memo publicly.
Also, some actual jerk (who has not been punished) leaked Damore's internal board memo to the world and started this.
It's also easy to correct mistakes. Let's say that a computer had a mistake. It's easy to feed that information back into the system and make it learn from it's mistakes. with radiologists, even if you did let them know about the mistake, it's not so certain that they would learn from that mistake,
It's that simple.
1. Feeding back a mistake may or may not change the model. It probably won't. When you train a machine learning model, it finds the best fit which still fails to match some of the input (i.e., you don't typically get 100% accuracy even on the training set)
2. A sufficient amount of new data that does change the model could break cases that were previously accurate. Humans don't typically re-consider past correct decisions just because they learned something new. A machine learning algorithm might.
If you provide great products, you won't get costly returns
Unfortunately, that's not how it works in real life. Problem is not a return/replace/faulty product cases.
Problem is in return categories "Don't want it anymore" or "Ordered by mistake". Shouldn't be the retailer's fault if your return falls into that category.
Haha! a spam link to a product completely unrelated to the supposed story.
"Supposed" story is right. Even for/. story, this was impressively incoherent blabber. Do we have to copy TFA even when it barely makes any sense? Gems such as:
A lunchtime BBC news report visited a conference where the excitement about Bitcoins (and blockchain) was palpable.
But there is nothing like the same excitement about shares as there was in the dotcom bubble of 1999-2000. That excitement has shifted to the world of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Remarkably, as many as 600 ICOs are planned or have been launched.
This enthusiasm is both the result, and the cause, of the sharp rise in the Bitcoin chart in recent months.
the appeal of anonymity. The last factor makes Bitcoin appealing to criminals (although this is even more true of cash)
The supply details have if anything deteriorated
the criminal community hasn't suddenly risen in size
When the crash comes, and it cannot be too far away, it will be dramatic.
Yahoo required users to change passwords and took new steps to make data more secure, Mayer said.
I know whatever they implement will be BS, but you completely ruined your argument by following it with them saying exactly what you said they didn't say.
I respectfully disagree (although perhaps it should have been stated in my post).
I think if they did anything concrete (e.g., hired 20 new security analysts), she would proudly say so.
The quoted sentence clearly indicates that other "steps" taken were on par with asking user to change passwords (e.g., sending out an internal security memo, or requiring IT department to change their passwords too).
"I was CEO, so of course the buck stopped with me... but I wasn't actually culpable in any way"
So what is missing from that apology is any(!) indication that next time she would invest in proper security. From what I gather, a lot of these issues could be mitigated by having well funded IT security division.
Yahoo required users to change passwords and took new steps to make data more secure, Mayer said.
Oooh, well, if they took the radical step of requiring users to change passwords, then I guess there is nothing else to be done.
Slashdot reader schwit1 writes, "This is akin to buying an exotic car you can barely afford, without also budgeting for insurance, repairs, and tuneups."
Actually it's like buying a new exotic car every three months so you don't have to do schedule maintenance on any of the others.
...at taxpayer expense, to keep your budget going and to continue requesting budget increases every year
Sorry, I ran out of analogies, but this if they were spending their own money (e.g., I hear Steve Jobs did something like that), that'd be ok.
Once everyone has the same AI, it will still come down to connection speed
People who can build the closest to the stock market server will beat people who cannot afford a direct channel or have a direct connection that is further away.
I don't think we have to worry about having too much equality in the foreseeable future.
If the payment info is stored in the browser, then *any* website can query your browser for available payment info.
I would actually welcome that -- let them access my credit card.
Credit card charge is not like a popup, I can find and roll back unauthorized charges (at a very real cost to the vendor).
In addition, the browser maker - Mozilla, Microsoft, Google, etc... - could (will) have access to this info and any transactions.
Why not?
I'd rather have someone steal my credit card info than my slashdot credentials.
I can always cancel (and get a full refund for) any fraudulent CC charges. But a slashdot post under my name is permanent.
Time to Start up a Class Action Against the IRS for ENABLING
Heheh. We'll be lucky if lawsuit against Equifax gets us a $5 credit off our next credit freeze fee.
Class Action against IRS will get you many years of free tax audits, though.
When and only when this shit is completely autonomous with no need for internet access. I won't have my shit spying on me and I won't ask an external entity to control shit in my own home.
But then how would your data be sold and re-sold?
Nowdays we can't even get single player games to stop requiring constant internet access. Your "home OS" will absolutely be fully online -- and automatically updating itself every day at the most inopportune moment.
We can also look forward to discovering that the refrigerator and the toilet are incompatible with AlexaOS and must be replaced before they can be used.
Currently stock holders just lose their investments. They should be informed that if they invest in a company that holds data they will be held personally liable for injuries of the company beyond their stock ownership.
Ok, that would pretty much kill investment. Maybe in the olden days you could invest in your small neighborhood company that would not do bad things ever, but those days have passed
I would settle for Equifax being destroyed. The remaining two "competitors" would certainly improve their security (which would only help the new generation, our data is already burned). But Equifax may survive. I am pretty sure they continue receive my new data even now.
Equifax CEO also bragged that the company's data-crunching business nonetheless earned a gross profit margin of 90%.
Wow, and did he brag about being an oligopoly who automatically receives everyone's data whether they want to allow that or not?
Getting to that position is a much neater trick than having a profit margin of 90%. The person who got them there deserves a big bonus indeed.
This issue is nothing particular to IBM. It is simply the way of Globalization.
More interestingly, Globalization only works for companies.
If I want to buy a DVD or textbook from India (at their prices) or, say, medicine from Canada, that's against the law.
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At what point did we freak out about someone knowing our name, address and phone number? This used to be a public record.
1) I remember that I tried to not list my apartment phone number when I got an apartment in late nineties. It turned out that local phone company required $4/month (I think) to keep it off Yellow pages.
2) Also, since the autodialers are a thing (not to mention Fax autodialiers, that can annoy you for years!).
3) And then there is the "Terminator" risk (what if I have the same name as someone being assassinated from the future?)
What choices do you have to stay in touch with friends and family online? Honestly. Either you be the weird guy, or use facebook.
My 17-year old nephew already moved on from Facebook and deleted his account. Apparently "nothing happens there".
You are crazy to compare Facebook monopoly and the Internet access monopoly. There are lots of other way to stay in touch with friends and family online, but all of them involve Internet access.
No one?
Is there anyone actually responsible for data hacks? (also, see Equifax)
Google can't be trusted and will violate your privacy.
Yes.
They only stop doing it when they get caught, like in this instance.
No, they won't stop.
he's a jerk because he's a jerk.
Damore didn't post his memo publicly.
Also, some actual jerk (who has not been punished) leaked Damore's internal board memo to the world and started this.
It's also easy to correct mistakes. Let's say that a computer had a mistake. It's easy to feed that information back into the system and make it learn from it's mistakes. with radiologists, even if you did let them know about the mistake, it's not so certain that they would learn from that mistake,
It's that simple.
1. Feeding back a mistake may or may not change the model. It probably won't. When you train a machine learning model, it finds the best fit which still fails to match some of the input (i.e., you don't typically get 100% accuracy even on the training set)
2. A sufficient amount of new data that does change the model could break cases that were previously accurate. Humans don't typically re-consider past correct decisions just because they learned something new. A machine learning algorithm might.
If you provide great products, you won't get costly returns
Unfortunately, that's not how it works in real life.
Problem is not a return/replace/faulty product cases.
Problem is in return categories "Don't want it anymore" or "Ordered by mistake". Shouldn't be the retailer's fault if your return falls into that category.
Haha! a spam link to a product completely unrelated to the supposed story.
"Supposed" story is right. Even for /. story, this was impressively incoherent blabber. Do we have to copy TFA even when it barely makes any sense? Gems such as:
A lunchtime BBC news report visited a conference where the excitement about Bitcoins (and blockchain) was palpable.
But there is nothing like the same excitement about shares as there was in the dotcom bubble of 1999-2000. That excitement has shifted to the world of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Remarkably, as many as 600 ICOs are planned or have been launched.
This enthusiasm is both the result, and the cause, of the sharp rise in the Bitcoin chart in recent months.
the appeal of anonymity. The last factor makes Bitcoin appealing to criminals (although this is even more true of cash)
The supply details have if anything deteriorated
the criminal community hasn't suddenly risen in size
When the crash comes, and it cannot be too far away, it will be dramatic.
Wow...
The root cause is that many of these long-standing chains are overloaded with debt -- often from leveraged buyouts led by private equity firms.
Yahoo required users to change passwords and took new steps to make data more secure, Mayer said.
I know whatever they implement will be BS, but you completely ruined your argument by following it with them saying exactly what you said they didn't say.
I respectfully disagree (although perhaps it should have been stated in my post).
I think if they did anything concrete (e.g., hired 20 new security analysts), she would proudly say so.
The quoted sentence clearly indicates that other "steps" taken were on par with asking user to change passwords (e.g., sending out an internal security memo, or requiring IT department to change their passwords too).
"I was CEO, so of course the buck stopped with me... but I wasn't actually culpable in any way"
So what is missing from that apology is any(!) indication that next time she would invest in proper security. From what I gather, a lot of these issues could be mitigated by having well funded IT security division.
Yahoo required users to change passwords and took new steps to make data more secure, Mayer said.
Oooh, well, if they took the radical step of requiring users to change passwords, then I guess there is nothing else to be done.
I sense a pattern here.
Also We're sorry.
No one takes responsibility, no one invests in better security, but they are sorry.
Slashdot reader schwit1 writes, "This is akin to buying an exotic car you can barely afford, without also budgeting for insurance, repairs, and tuneups."
Actually it's like buying a new exotic car every three months so you don't have to do schedule maintenance on any of the others.
...at taxpayer expense, to keep your budget going and to continue requesting budget increases every year
Sorry, I ran out of analogies, but this if they were spending their own money (e.g., I hear Steve Jobs did something like that), that'd be ok.
To be useful, they need to do a study where police misconduct is rampant.
No, they just need a study where they can prove that all footage was recorded and processed. Can they turn off cameras?
What was the percentage of damaged recording (audio or video)?
Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams To Block Audio, Records Show
police officers will happily turn off the cameras whenever they know they'll get in situations where they'll look bad.
Also, cameras malfunction when you least expect it. Odd how that happens.
Quick google search shows that, for example, 80 percent of Chicago PD dashcams videos lost audio due to 'officer error' or 'intentional destruction'
EVERYBODY having an AI that can do this
Once everyone has the same AI, it will still come down to connection speed
People who can build the closest to the stock market server will beat people who cannot afford a direct channel or have a direct connection that is further away.
I don't think we have to worry about having too much equality in the foreseeable future.
How many more CEOs have to resign in disgrace for the idiots to catch on?
At least one -- but that CEO has to not get a large bonus + severance package on the way out.
If the payment info is stored in the browser, then *any* website can query your browser for available payment info.
I would actually welcome that -- let them access my credit card.
Credit card charge is not like a popup, I can find and roll back unauthorized charges (at a very real cost to the vendor).
In addition, the browser maker - Mozilla, Microsoft, Google, etc... - could (will) have access to this info and any transactions.
Ok, that is bad.
In NO way should ANY browser store Credit Cards!
Why not?
I'd rather have someone steal my credit card info than my slashdot credentials.
I can always cancel (and get a full refund for) any fraudulent CC charges. But a slashdot post under my name is permanent.
Long distance costs were outrageous. International calls were well beyond outrageous.
Last month, I had to call a Canadian hotel on my cell (T-Mobile). It cost $1/minute!
I gotta have a chat with them, they might not know it's 2017.
Time to Start up a Class Action Against the IRS for ENABLING
Heheh. We'll be lucky if lawsuit against Equifax gets us a $5 credit off our next credit freeze fee.
Class Action against IRS will get you many years of free tax audits, though.
When and only when this shit is completely autonomous with no need for internet access. I won't have my shit spying on me and I won't ask an external entity to control shit in my own home.
But then how would your data be sold and re-sold?
Nowdays we can't even get single player games to stop requiring constant internet access. Your "home OS" will absolutely be fully online -- and automatically updating itself every day at the most inopportune moment.
We can also look forward to discovering that the refrigerator and the toilet are incompatible with AlexaOS and must be replaced before they can be used.
Currently stock holders just lose their investments. They should be informed that if they invest in a company that holds data they will be held personally liable for injuries of the company beyond their stock ownership.
Ok, that would pretty much kill investment. Maybe in the olden days you could invest in your small neighborhood company that would not do bad things ever, but those days have passed
I would settle for Equifax being destroyed. The remaining two "competitors" would certainly improve their security (which would only help the new generation, our data is already burned). But Equifax may survive. I am pretty sure they continue receive my new data even now.
Equifax CEO also bragged that the company's data-crunching business nonetheless earned a gross profit margin of 90%.
Wow, and did he brag about being an oligopoly who automatically receives everyone's data whether they want to allow that or not?
Getting to that position is a much neater trick than having a profit margin of 90%. The person who got them there deserves a big bonus indeed.
This issue is nothing particular to IBM. It is simply the way of Globalization.
More interestingly, Globalization only works for companies.
If I want to buy a DVD or textbook from India (at their prices) or, say, medicine from Canada, that's against the law.