Extremists on the left side of the spectrum are hardly any better than any other kind of extremism. Their way to fascism may be a bit longer, but should they ever win, they will get there. They way to build a fascist state directly (as the right-wingers want to) is a bit more moronic, a bit faster, but in the end the same.
The "only commercial software is good software" morons cannot even think. You expect them to be able to comprehend written language? That is wayyy beyond what they can do. At best, they can do keyword matching.
Cheaper than possible developers at work. They think this is the thing to do for easy debugging and, since nobody will ever find that password (right?), it can just be left in. Yes, morons on that level do not only exist, there are a lot of them in the industry.
You are welcome to get fucked yourself as long as you like. Just do not expect others to be as stupid as you are. Anybody that thinks a long-standing FOSS project with an excellent reputation needs to have the code reviewed by every user in order to be better than closed source is a complete moron.
Even if their numbers were true, it wouldn't change the fact that government mandated backdoors to encryption is a remarkably stupid and short sighted concept.
You have some redundancy there: "government" pretty much implies "remarkably stupid and short sighted".
Law enforcement must be hard and it must be unable to catch all criminals or even most of them. Because the alternative is a police-state and that is much, much worse than having some unsolved crime. Law enforcement itself is mostly unable to see that problem. They believe by solving all crime, they make a better society. Unfortunately, nothing could be farther from the truth. They routinely overlook what that does to freedom and they usually completely forget that "the law" and right and wrong can be arbitrarily far from each other. Utterly immoral and destructive campaigns like "the war on drugs" would give nice examples where the problems lie, but they just cannot see that.
Indeed. The reason fascist states can still be constructed is that there is a large population of morally-challenged morons that a) are willing to apply any amount of violence to anybody that is not like them and b) that have no clue that they are just a bit later in the chain of victims.
And you are very, very wrong. As in you do not understand the model at all. Sure, some investors are this stupid, but many are not. And many get hit by the offer not materializing rarely enough that the overall thing makes a lot of sense. I have about 10 things I invested in, 1 outstanding, 6 nice results, 2 mediocre results, 1 fail. That is a lot better than would be needed to make my investments very worthwhile.
Deal with it. You invest a certain amount of money, there may be a pay-off in the form of a product that would otherwise not have existed, but there may also not be a pay-off. Stop complaining.
Ever heard of this little thing called a "microphone"? I hear they have them in phones and it can be turned on and used to record conversations if the phone gets compromised. And that is not the only risk. But what level of insight can you expect from am AC moron....
I project absolutely no malice into this at all. I just describe the stated goal of big data analysis applied to score individuals. And I state that the "non-racist" version is not feasible, as the racism is in the data set. To go with your example, a black person will only not get that reduction on the credit score, if there is no other data indicating the person is black. That is how statistical classification works. The whole approach is discriminatory when applied to people and that is because of its mathematical properties.
The malice that can be found in this, though, is in the people that want to apply these algorithms in the first place.
Of course, being those creeps, they may do exactly the best thing to prepare their children for living in the upcoming surveillance state and soon-to-follow full-blown fascism. The leakage of the accounts is obviously part of that pedagogic concept. Hence I conclude that this is an absolutely great app that anybody should inflict on their children as soon as possible! Of course, in any self-respecting fascism, children also do surveillance (and denunciation to the authorities) of their parents. A business opportunity for, aehm, "Parentsafe"?
The very purpose of these algorithms is to discriminate and to sort people into buckets: Those that are likely to buy product A or product B, those that may be a promising target for purpose C, those that are unlikely to buy, no matter what. Sure, you can keep up the fantasy of leaving, say, gender and race out, but they can easily be substituted by data that is the very target of these algorithms. As a (grossly simplified) example, take this: Gender you can get from makeup bought, race you can get from type and color of make-up bought for women, etc. Hence all the data that is used to violate human rights, treat people not equally, etc. is already there and there is nothing that can be done about it.
The thing is, classifying people by algorithms can either be allowed or not. If it is allowed, then there is nothing that can be done to prevent human rights violations as a result. The only thing you can make them do is be less obvious about it.
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Extremists on the left side of the spectrum are hardly any better than any other kind of extremism. Their way to fascism may be a bit longer, but should they ever win, they will get there. They way to build a fascist state directly (as the right-wingers want to) is a bit more moronic, a bit faster, but in the end the same.
First, check for patch history to see what is currently maintained. And then select the one of the remaining ones were you like the interface best.
As anybody else with a clue is doing as well.
D-Link is a nice base to flash OpenWRT on. No other sane use.
The "only commercial software is good software" morons cannot even think. You expect them to be able to comprehend written language? That is wayyy beyond what they can do. At best, they can do keyword matching.
Indeed. And while not perfect, you get updates and patches long-term and you can do thinks yourself if you like.
Cheaper than possible developers at work. They think this is the thing to do for easy debugging and, since nobody will ever find that password (right?), it can just be left in. Yes, morons on that level do not only exist, there are a lot of them in the industry.
You are welcome to get fucked yourself as long as you like. Just do not expect others to be as stupid as you are. Anybody that thinks a long-standing FOSS project with an excellent reputation needs to have the code reviewed by every user in order to be better than closed source is a complete moron.
Even if their numbers were true, it wouldn't change the fact that government mandated backdoors to encryption is a remarkably stupid and short sighted concept.
You have some redundancy there: "government" pretty much implies "remarkably stupid and short sighted".
And they always must be stopped and kicked hard or everything goes to hell.
Law enforcement must be hard and it must be unable to catch all criminals or even most of them. Because the alternative is a police-state and that is much, much worse than having some unsolved crime. Law enforcement itself is mostly unable to see that problem. They believe by solving all crime, they make a better society. Unfortunately, nothing could be farther from the truth. They routinely overlook what that does to freedom and they usually completely forget that "the law" and right and wrong can be arbitrarily far from each other. Utterly immoral and destructive campaigns like "the war on drugs" would give nice examples where the problems lie, but they just cannot see that.
Indeed. The reason fascist states can still be constructed is that there is a large population of morally-challenged morons that a) are willing to apply any amount of violence to anybody that is not like them and b) that have no clue that they are just a bit later in the chain of victims.
No understanding of human history? Cheering in the next fascist catastrophe? Check on both. But what can you expect from AC scum.
And you are very, very wrong. As in you do not understand the model at all. Sure, some investors are this stupid, but many are not. And many get hit by the offer not materializing rarely enough that the overall thing makes a lot of sense. I have about 10 things I invested in, 1 outstanding, 6 nice results, 2 mediocre results, 1 fail. That is a lot better than would be needed to make my investments very worthwhile.
Most people seem to stupid to understand that idea. Even many people here seem to be unable to grasp the idea of a risk-investment. Pathetic.
Two idiots that do not get it in a row. Special, even for /.
Deal with it. You invest a certain amount of money, there may be a pay-off in the form of a product that would otherwise not have existed, but there may also not be a pay-off. Stop complaining.
Ever heard of this little thing called a "microphone"? I hear they have them in phones and it can be turned on and used to record conversations if the phone gets compromised. And that is not the only risk. But what level of insight can you expect from am AC moron....
The iPhone cannot act as an email server? Now I am disappointed!
I project absolutely no malice into this at all. I just describe the stated goal of big data analysis applied to score individuals. And I state that the "non-racist" version is not feasible, as the racism is in the data set. To go with your example, a black person will only not get that reduction on the credit score, if there is no other data indicating the person is black. That is how statistical classification works. The whole approach is discriminatory when applied to people and that is because of its mathematical properties.
The malice that can be found in this, though, is in the people that want to apply these algorithms in the first place.
Indeed. Exactly my point.
Of course, being those creeps, they may do exactly the best thing to prepare their children for living in the upcoming surveillance state and soon-to-follow full-blown fascism. The leakage of the accounts is obviously part of that pedagogic concept. Hence I conclude that this is an absolutely great app that anybody should inflict on their children as soon as possible! Of course, in any self-respecting fascism, children also do surveillance (and denunciation to the authorities) of their parents. A business opportunity for, aehm, "Parentsafe"?
Indeed. This is simply a response to physical stress. Takes 2 neurons to rub together to see, so I guess the ones reporting this do not have them.
Love the Vodka analogy!
This unfortunately will have all the massive medical benefits only for people as intelligent as snails.
The very purpose of these algorithms is to discriminate and to sort people into buckets: Those that are likely to buy product A or product B, those that may be a promising target for purpose C, those that are unlikely to buy, no matter what. Sure, you can keep up the fantasy of leaving, say, gender and race out, but they can easily be substituted by data that is the very target of these algorithms. As a (grossly simplified) example, take this: Gender you can get from makeup bought, race you can get from type and color of make-up bought for women, etc. Hence all the data that is used to violate human rights, treat people not equally, etc. is already there and there is nothing that can be done about it.
The thing is, classifying people by algorithms can either be allowed or not. If it is allowed, then there is nothing that can be done to prevent human rights violations as a result. The only thing you can make them do is be less obvious about it.