I think we mat have reinvented a famous german encyclopedia in which the article about your subject was masterfull, and all the others completely obscure... for any given subject.
And then the suckers "have" their advertizer send me ads for something they know I like... becauseI just bought it, and the advertizers know they can prove my interest to their customers/suckers.
Canada is in some ways very different from the 'States, and one is in the degree to which the criminal courts will deal with what is arguably fraud. If a company attempts to obtain money from a Kodi dealer based on a "false and fraudulent misrepresenation", such as a improper registration of a foreign trademark, they could be charged rather than being sued.
As FeelGood314 says, Kodi should be talking to the police. I'd actually suggest they go to http://www.lsuc.on.ca/find-a-l... and get a free 30-minute consultation. They may be very pleased at what they hear.
Whereas to me it says "most things can be fixed, without needing to murder the person who caused it" (;-))
In the specific case of Google, they repeat one particular stupid mistake every time they start something new: they assume that they've covered all the ways it can go wrong, and therefore don't need a customer support mechanism. This is a minor variation on that bit of arrogance.
I agree: asking the user if they're OK with the change is better, and re-asking on boot when someone's selected a know hacked version is a minimally adequate way to confirm it was the user who said OK and not some virus.
Apple is fairly good at the 'literature survey" part of the job. Ditto Google. They hired ex-Palm people.
This is unusual in computer science, where asking the typical undergrad for their literature survey gets you a response of "what's that?". Ditto some of my start-up customers, who happily propose the square wheel (;-))
They're hiring folks with front-end experience to do server programming, because they're cheaper than folks with back-end experience. The latter usually involves other languages.
It's easier and cheaper to staff with relatively junior.js people than pay for so-called "back end" or "full stack" programmers who know C++/Java/whatever.
In a previous life it was very important that management could hire.js people, as the new budget required they get rid of anyone expensive. Like the chief architect (;-))
Atom is vaguely OK, but I wouldn't care to try to maintain js, but Slack is like being trapped in a large echoing room filled with people madly shouting "ooh, shiney!"
It also dragged my 32 GB dev server into the weeds, so I probbaly agree with the criticisms of Electron proper.
Every time Ontario raises the minimum wage, another study comes out with new claims that the job losses will be immediate and permanent.
This is followed six months later with a report that says the first one is incorrect, the emplyment rate didn't fall as much as expected, and is back up where it was before in any case.
I suspect stupidity and a startingly short memory, or perhaps a whole new generation of study-writers, but it actually could be malice (ie, fake news)
Cloudflare is the same company that's fightog back agains the Trum Administration's bid to seize the identity of 13 million people for visiting an anti-Trump site, mentaioned earlier today at
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
Liability for corporate entities for crimes committed by their employees was first introduced by Decreto
Legistativo no. 231 of 2001 ("Law 231"). Previously, vicarious liability was covered exclusively by tort law.
The maximum penalty differs for each offence. The highest fine is EUR 1.549 million. If the offence is market abuse, this
amount may be increased up to 10 times the profit of the offence, if the latter is material.
The court will also impose a fine sufficiently large to have an impact on the corporate entity.
In addition to pecuniary penalties, corporate entities can be sentenced to:
suspension of licences and authorisations;
prohibitions from carrying out a business activity, from obtaining government contracts and from advertising products;
exclusion from or termination of funding, special terms, or welfare payments;
disgorgement of profits (if needed, even disgorgement of other properties until the profits value is reached); and
publicising the sentence.
Judicial practice has shown that if the individual who committed the Relevant Offence is found liable, it is highly probable
that the corporate will also be found guilty. Defences provided by Law 231 have only been deemed applicable twice since
the introduction of the law.
I just googled for "charged for writing a virus" and found... Marcus Huchins!
Better to google for "convicted for writing a virus", which gives examples of people convicted for _running_ a virus, and is ambiguous about the writing.
Best to try google scholar, and select the "case law" option
The "birthday paradox" causes facial recognition to report matches far far more often that you expect. Assume you have 1000 crooks pictures. Instead of 1 change in100 of an error and 1 comparison when you scan a person, it's 1 chance of an error in 100 on _1000_ comparisons. That makes one out of every 10 people you scan show up as a crook, whether they are or not.
The german federal security service and my emplyer tried this a long time ago, but no matter how good the recognition got, there were thousands of crooks and hundereds of thousands of people to try to match. They reputedly gave up when they identified someone's grandma as a member of the Bader-Meinhof gang (;-))
My mother was afraid I'd be killed if I moved to a big city, as she saw far more bad news in the paper from the city of Toronto than, say, the hamlet of Coatsworth. I'm pretty sure she'd fall for the "don't carry cash" line if you tried it on her.
Slashdot Mirror
It's a joke about germans loving precision, like asking for a 0.250000000" drill bit
I think we mat have reinvented a famous german encyclopedia in which the article about your subject was masterfull, and all the others completely obscure... for any given subject.
And then the suckers "have" their advertizer send me ads for something they know I like... becauseI just bought it, and the advertizers know they can prove my interest to their customers/suckers.
Net result? You get ads for stuff you bought.
Canada is in some ways very different from the 'States, and one is in the degree to which the criminal courts will deal with what is arguably fraud. If a company attempts to obtain money from a Kodi dealer based on a "false and fraudulent misrepresenation", such as a improper registration of a foreign trademark, they could be charged rather than being sued.
As FeelGood314 says, Kodi should be talking to the police. I'd actually suggest they go to http://www.lsuc.on.ca/find-a-l... and get a free 30-minute consultation. They may be very pleased at what they hear.
Whereas to me it says "most things can be fixed, without needing to murder the person who caused it" (;-))
In the specific case of Google, they repeat one particular stupid mistake every time they start something new: they assume that they've covered all the ways it can go wrong, and therefore don't need a customer support mechanism. This is a minor variation on that bit of arrogance.
I agree: asking the user if they're OK with the change is better, and re-asking on boot when someone's selected a know hacked version is a minimally adequate way to confirm it was the user who said OK and not some virus.
Downgrade attacks were a problem with old Sambas, so it's a real concern. Google just did the mitigation badly.
Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
Apple is fairly good at the 'literature survey" part of the job. Ditto Google. They hired ex-Palm people.
This is unusual in computer science, where asking the typical undergrad for their literature survey gets you a response of "what's that?". Ditto some of my start-up customers, who happily propose the square wheel (;-))
Normally whan a title is a question, the answer is always "nor" or at least "not proven". This is one of the rare cases when it's yes.
They're hiring folks with front-end experience to do server programming, because they're cheaper than folks with back-end experience. The latter usually involves other languages.
In part to say "No Dave, don't add to the main codebase, let's try a microservice instead for that component" (:-))
It's easier and cheaper to staff with relatively junior .js people than pay for so-called "back end" or "full stack" programmers who know C++/Java/whatever.
In a previous life it was very important that management could hire .js people, as the new budget required they get rid of anyone expensive. Like the chief architect (;-))
Tried that, it works way better that the app, which is scary. Can you say "pessimal" ???
Atom is vaguely OK, but I wouldn't care to try to maintain js, but Slack is like being trapped in a large echoing room filled with people madly shouting "ooh, shiney!"
It also dragged my 32 GB dev server into the weeds, so I probbaly agree with the criticisms of Electron proper.
The losses and gains are in the same price range: not comparing like with like would disqualify the analysis.
Every time Ontario raises the minimum wage, another study comes out with new claims that the job losses will be immediate and permanent.
This is followed six months later with a report that says the first one is incorrect, the emplyment rate didn't fall as much as expected, and is back up where it was before in any case.
I suspect stupidity and a startingly short memory, or perhaps a whole new generation of study-writers, but it actually could be malice (ie, fake news)
Whoops, WRONG company!
Cloudflare is the same company that's fightog back agains the Trum Administration's bid to seize the identity of 13 million people for visiting an anti-Trump site, mentaioned earlier today at https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
Thank you, but I fear it's only a critique of Fox viewers's reading skills (;-))
They probably polled their viewers, a self-selected group of sometimes startingly gullible people.
In the EU (this example if from Italy),
Liability for corporate entities for crimes committed by their employees was first introduced by Decreto Legistativo no. 231 of 2001 ("Law 231"). Previously, vicarious liability was covered exclusively by tort law.
Judicial practice has shown that if the individual who committed the Relevant Offence is found liable, it is highly probable that the corporate will also be found guilty. Defences provided by Law 231 have only been deemed applicable twice since the introduction of the law.
They had to wait until the previous editors died and they got the job. [Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions]
I just googled for "charged for writing a virus" and found ... Marcus Huchins!
Better to google for "convicted for writing a virus", which gives examples of people convicted for _running_ a virus, and is ambiguous about the writing.
Best to try google scholar, and select the "case law" option
The "birthday paradox" causes facial recognition to report matches far far more often that you expect. Assume you have 1000 crooks pictures. Instead of 1 change in100 of an error and 1 comparison when you scan a person, it's 1 chance of an error in 100 on _1000_ comparisons. That makes one out of every 10 people you scan show up as a crook, whether they are or not.
The german federal security service and my emplyer tried this a long time ago, but no matter how good the recognition got, there were thousands of crooks and hundereds of thousands of people to try to match. They reputedly gave up when they identified someone's grandma as a member of the Bader-Meinhof gang (;-))
My mother was afraid I'd be killed if I moved to a big city, as she saw far more bad news in the paper from the city of Toronto than, say, the hamlet of Coatsworth. I'm pretty sure she'd fall for the "don't carry cash" line if you tried it on her.