A "snowflake" is someone who whines about their own sense of entitlement, not someone who speaks up for the rights of others.
Suppression of free speech on college campuses is a serious issue. Liberal advocates of restrictions should learn from history. In the past, policies designed to suppress the right were later turned against the left. McCarthyism was based on laws originally intended to suppress the far right, rather than "commies". Judicial activism was originally a tool of Liberals, but is now increasingly used against them.
Bad analogy. In AM's case, the ToS were available before payment. The ToS expilicity stated that AM could create accounts for "entertainment purposes". Just because the users were stupid, and didn't read the fine print, doesn't mean they were defrauded.
Clue for the clueless: There are not really a lot of hot young women lining up to provide free sex to potbellied married 40-something men with receding hairlines.
No one expects anyone other than the lawyers to get paid.
Class action lawsuits don't work that way. There is almost always a requirement that a minimum percentage of the "class" needs to accept the settlement for the payout to be triggered. If not enough victims sign-on, then the plaintiff lawyers get nothing.
They may have difficulty reaching the threshold, since many of the accounts likely have bogus or outdated contact info.
Having an affair is not illegal. Whether it is "wrong" or not is none of your business unless you are one of the people in the relationship. You should learn to focus on your own life, and be less judgemental about other people.
Look around the world. People have affairs everywhere. But how much people are publicly subjected to the moral judgement of others varies widely and is negatively correlated with quality of life. Would you rather live in Saudi Arabia? Learn to be tolerant, and mind your own business.
Because IQ is not a legally protected class. You are free to discriminate on many criteria. Don't like people with nose rings? Don't like smokers? You can refuse to hire them.
those with no cash couldn't buy anything as the old slide card machines no longer exist I guess.
They don't need the "old sliders" for paper imprints that may or may not be valid sales. They can use a Square device on a cell phone. No wall power needed.
If a thief can tell from a distance whether you are carrying cash or credit cards, well, you are holding it wrong.
They don't see it from a distance. They see it while standing behind you at the ATM or checkout line. Most thieves work as teams. So the person that saw you flash the cash may be different from the one who jumps you or picks your pocket.
Even if you are right, what is your final solution?
In many areas our society has decided on a requirement for equality of outcome. If the applicant pool is 10% black, then your workforce better be about 10% black. Likewise, a criteria of the probation-recommending-AI could be racial equality, where blacks and whites are equally likely to receive probation. This will likely lead to more crimes, but that is something that many people are willing to accept to avoid discrimination.
You cannot filter on inputs, but just avoiding telling the AI the offender's race, because that can be inferred from other data, including name (Deshaun vs Travis), zipcode, and even the type of crime (possession of crack rather than powder).
The problem is that biases are reality based. Blacks really are more violent. Asians really are good at math. Women really are bad at navigating. As humans, we try to ignore these generalities for the greater good of judging people as individuals, but nonetheless generalities are generally true.
Can we stop posting the exaggerated climate change and mass extinction crap that causes scientists to lose credibility with the public because of a few irresponsible people?
TFS lost all credibility with me when it described Paul Ehrlich as "not an alarmist". This is the guy who famously predicted that human civilization would collapse in the 1980s, and that was the "best case" scenario.
Since Apple has unequivocally said that they would not install backdoors, if they were caught doing it (and they would likely get caught) it would cost them dearly in credibility and market share. They would likely lose hundreds of billions in lost sales.
Your conspiracy theory is based on ignorance about how China works. If China wanted backdoors on cell phones and/or datacenters they would just openly and publicly mandate it. There is no reason they would try to keep it secret.
The NSA is trying to detect a handful of spies and terrorists. The CCP is trying to keep 1.3 billion people in line. Those are two very different objectives, requiring very different means.
They aren't security people, they are marketing people who get to turn the publicity into an advertisement for their company when they find something.
If so, they certainly earned their pay. This is a homerun for Nice System's competitors. Much of NS's $1.01B in revenue will be going elsewhere in the future.
Don't forget that any foreign company on Chinese soil has to have local Chinese interests have a 51% stake...
That hasn't been true for many years. Joint ventures are only required for specific activities related to national security... such as running a datacenter.
... and Chinese companies have to have a government member (similar to the US's DHS) on the board.
I worked for a Chinese youxian gongsi (LLC), and was a director, while married to the CEO. There was no government member on the board.
Beginning in January 2017, iCloud encryption keys are stored on the client. So as long as the encryption is secure, there is no way to put in a backdoor without Apple's knowledge and cooperation. Apple currently uses AES256, which is widely believed to be uncrackable for the foreseeable future.
I don't think anyone's even pretending it's about security anymore.
China has never pretended. The have been very straightforward in letting people know they are watching. The point of the GFoC is to not to catch people dissenting and conspiring, but to deter it. If anything, they have exaggerated their surveillance capabilities.
1. It is questionable that this is for "bad" purposes. If it was designed for censorship or surveillance, then putting it in Guizhou would make very little sense. 2. Corporations have to follow local laws. 3. It is better for foreign companies to stay in China and make a difference on the margin, than to leave in a huff of "moral high groundism", leaving the field to domestic companies with even fewer scruples. 4. It is not the job of western corporations to "fix" China. That is up to the Chinese people.
Conversely, how many payouts can you find that were justified?
Irrelevant. That fact that there were very few justified payouts has nothing to do with the fact that (so far) zero citations for unjustified payouts have been provided by people claiming that they are common.
Let's face facts, women are very good at playing the victim card.
There is a short story: Fat Farm, although that may just be ordinary biological cloning. I read it a long time ago.
It is also part of the plot of the movie The Prestige. The basic premise of this movie is that it you could teleport and create copies of yourself, rather than using that ability to acquire vast wealth and power, you would use it in a medicore magic show to duplicate what another act does using identical twins. That movie should win a Golden Raspberry for "most ridiculous premise".
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An AI is only as good as the people that have taught it.
Humans don't "teach" it. It learns directly from raw data.
humans also have a thing called intuition
That was also used to explain why computers couldn't play chess or Go as well as humans. Intuition is just pattern recognition.
Humans and AI will however supplement each other for improved accuracy.
It will start out that way. But later, humans will be removed from the process when it is clear that they just add cost, delay, and errors.
Or they may ask the judge to lower the requirement ../
RTFS. It is a settlement. A judge can accept or reject it, but cannot change it.
I love how you snowflakes cry.
A "snowflake" is someone who whines about their own sense of entitlement, not someone who speaks up for the rights of others.
Suppression of free speech on college campuses is a serious issue. Liberal advocates of restrictions should learn from history. In the past, policies designed to suppress the right were later turned against the left. McCarthyism was based on laws originally intended to suppress the far right, rather than "commies". Judicial activism was originally a tool of Liberals, but is now increasingly used against them.
Bad analogy. In AM's case, the ToS were available before payment. The ToS expilicity stated that AM could create accounts for "entertainment purposes". Just because the users were stupid, and didn't read the fine print, doesn't mean they were defrauded.
Clue for the clueless: There are not really a lot of hot young women lining up to provide free sex to potbellied married 40-something men with receding hairlines.
No one expects anyone other than the lawyers to get paid.
Class action lawsuits don't work that way. There is almost always a requirement that a minimum percentage of the "class" needs to accept the settlement for the payout to be triggered. If not enough victims sign-on, then the plaintiff lawyers get nothing.
They may have difficulty reaching the threshold, since many of the accounts likely have bogus or outdated contact info.
You speak as if that somehow makes it less wrong.
Having an affair is not illegal. Whether it is "wrong" or not is none of your business unless you are one of the people in the relationship. You should learn to focus on your own life, and be less judgemental about other people.
Look around the world. People have affairs everywhere. But how much people are publicly subjected to the moral judgement of others varies widely and is negatively correlated with quality of life. Would you rather live in Saudi Arabia? Learn to be tolerant, and mind your own business.
Why does no one ever bring this up?
Because IQ is not a legally protected class. You are free to discriminate on many criteria. Don't like people with nose rings? Don't like smokers? You can refuse to hire them.
The data indicates that Blacks offend less than Whites.
Can you provide a citation or link to this data? I will be astonished if you can.
those with no cash couldn't buy anything as the old slide card machines no longer exist I guess.
They don't need the "old sliders" for paper imprints that may or may not be valid sales. They can use a Square device on a cell phone. No wall power needed.
If a thief can tell from a distance whether you are carrying cash or credit cards, well, you are holding it wrong.
They don't see it from a distance. They see it while standing behind you at the ATM or checkout line. Most thieves work as teams. So the person that saw you flash the cash may be different from the one who jumps you or picks your pocket.
Even if you are right, what is your final solution?
In many areas our society has decided on a requirement for equality of outcome. If the applicant pool is 10% black, then your workforce better be about 10% black. Likewise, a criteria of the probation-recommending-AI could be racial equality, where blacks and whites are equally likely to receive probation. This will likely lead to more crimes, but that is something that many people are willing to accept to avoid discrimination.
You cannot filter on inputs, but just avoiding telling the AI the offender's race, because that can be inferred from other data, including name (Deshaun vs Travis), zipcode, and even the type of crime (possession of crack rather than powder).
The problem is that biases are reality based. Blacks really are more violent. Asians really are good at math. Women really are bad at navigating. As humans, we try to ignore these generalities for the greater good of judging people as individuals, but nonetheless generalities are generally true.
Can we stop posting the exaggerated climate change and mass extinction crap that causes scientists to lose credibility with the public because of a few irresponsible people?
TFS lost all credibility with me when it described Paul Ehrlich as "not an alarmist". This is the guy who famously predicted that human civilization would collapse in the 1980s, and that was the "best case" scenario.
He was trying to imply that it can't be done full stop
Bullcrap. That is not what I said at all. Learn to read.
I got the fuck out of coding ... Silicon Valley is ... overcompensated
Wait, what? I should get out of a field where I am overcompensated???
it's only a matter of time...
I'll wait.
Since Apple has unequivocally said that they would not install backdoors, if they were caught doing it (and they would likely get caught) it would cost them dearly in credibility and market share. They would likely lose hundreds of billions in lost sales.
Your conspiracy theory is based on ignorance about how China works. If China wanted backdoors on cell phones and/or datacenters they would just openly and publicly mandate it. There is no reason they would try to keep it secret.
The NSA is trying to detect a handful of spies and terrorists. The CCP is trying to keep 1.3 billion people in line. Those are two very different objectives, requiring very different means.
On the client != Only on the client.
Copying the keychain from the client to the server can not be done without Apple's knowledge.
They aren't security people, they are marketing people who get to turn the publicity into an advertisement for their company when they find something.
If so, they certainly earned their pay. This is a homerun for Nice System's competitors. Much of NS's $1.01B in revenue will be going elsewhere in the future.
Don't forget that any foreign company on Chinese soil has to have local Chinese interests have a 51% stake...
That hasn't been true for many years. Joint ventures are only required for specific activities related to national security ... such as running a datacenter.
... and Chinese companies have to have a government member (similar to the US's DHS) on the board.
I worked for a Chinese youxian gongsi (LLC), and was a director, while married to the CEO. There was no government member on the board.
Beginning in January 2017, iCloud encryption keys are stored on the client. So as long as the encryption is secure, there is no way to put in a backdoor without Apple's knowledge and cooperation. Apple currently uses AES256, which is widely believed to be uncrackable for the foreseeable future.
I don't think anyone's even pretending it's about security anymore.
China has never pretended. The have been very straightforward in letting people know they are watching. The point of the GFoC is to not to catch people dissenting and conspiring, but to deter it. If anything, they have exaggerated their surveillance capabilities.
1. It is questionable that this is for "bad" purposes. If it was designed for censorship or surveillance, then putting it in Guizhou would make very little sense.
2. Corporations have to follow local laws.
3. It is better for foreign companies to stay in China and make a difference on the margin, than to leave in a huff of "moral high groundism", leaving the field to domestic companies with even fewer scruples.
4. It is not the job of western corporations to "fix" China. That is up to the Chinese people.
That's your allegation that women are "getting paydays" from supposedly justified complaints.
Nice misattribution. That was ShanghaiBill's comment, not mine.
Nope. I never said that either. In fact, nobody said that.
Conversely, how many payouts can you find that were justified?
Irrelevant. That fact that there were very few justified payouts has nothing to do with the fact that (so far) zero citations for unjustified payouts have been provided by people claiming that they are common.
Let's face facts, women are very good at playing the victim card.
Your zero examples say otherwise.
Pretty sure there's a book or story about that..
There is a short story: Fat Farm, although that may just be ordinary biological cloning. I read it a long time ago.
It is also part of the plot of the movie The Prestige. The basic premise of this movie is that it you could teleport and create copies of yourself, rather than using that ability to acquire vast wealth and power, you would use it in a medicore magic show to duplicate what another act does using identical twins. That movie should win a Golden Raspberry for "most ridiculous premise".