The OPM hack also exposed some security clearance applications; home address, previous home address, PREVIOUS2 home addresses, references, friends, job histories.
If the AI were to simply assign scores of "Straight" to EVERYONE, it would achieve 90% accuracy for men and 85% accuracy for women, since about 90% of men are straight and about 85% of women are straight. So scores of 91% and 85% accuracy are not statistically significant.
My military serial number is my SSN. (It shouldn't be, and didn't USED to be, and it's illegal, but it's the government and who's going to prosecute them?) For years, in order to write a check at the Base Exchange, we were REQUIRED to have our serial numbers - our SSNs - printed or written on the check.
For all those companies that want to use the last 4 of your SSN as a security code - you can demand that they assign you a different number.
The best defense to the Equifax breach, as it is to all the other data breaches, is to:
1. NEVER EVER click on a link in an email. Type in the web address yourself. 2. Check your credit card statements religiously. 3. Keep your antivirus and anti-malware software up to date.
Really, aside from the fact that it's Equifax being penetrated, what's the big deal? I get free credit monitoring because my wireless provider T-Mobile was hacked. I get free credit monitoring from somebody else because the U.S. Office of Personnel Management got hacked, revealing EVERY detail of EVERY security clearance applied for in the last 20 years. I got free credit monitoring from somebody else because a credit card provider got hacked.
Get paranoid about security. Already paranoid? Are you paranoid ENOUGH? Then let it go and live your life.
Considering that we detect planets that transit the parent star, and that we've detected thousands of them, AND that such an occultation is visible ONLY when the Earth is precisely on the plane of that system's ecliptic... the only viable conclusion must be that planets around other star systems are LITERALLY as "common as dirt". It's likely that there are planets around MOST stars.
Yeah, Dan Blather and CBS was TOTALLY accurate about the forged Texas Air National Guard memos, right?
Balderdash. From MSNBC to CBS to FOX, they _ALL_ promulgate false narratives and "fake news". I'd rank CBS right down there at the bottom next to Infowars. Even the Onion is more believable.
The problem is that when ALL of the news is fake, civilization is doomed.
No sane person should accept Facebook's highly-questionable judgment about what constitutes "fake news". Zuckerberg has is own axes to grind, and he's trying to put his entire FOOT on the scale, not just his thumb.
So, if I'm in an auto accident, or I trip and fall face-first into the sidewalk, or if I'm assaulted and have a broken nose, a black eye and blood on my face, will the "facial recognition" still unlock my phone and let me call the cops?
Facial recognition for anything really urgent sounds like a REALLY bad idea.
I think that in some far off distant corner of politics, the concepts of "right" and "left" wrap around and meet each other. The only difference is that the extreme "right" is NATIONAL socialism, while the far left is INTERNATIONAL socialism. That, and that the extreme right believes in a religious political attitude, while the far left is atheistic.
Libertarian columnist Vin Suprynowicz once wrote an article (this had to be in the early 1990's or before) in which he labelled them as "Wells Fraudo". I guess the more things change, the more they stay the same.
I was going to try to "moderate" this thread, but I have only five mod points. EVERY comment in this thread deserves to be marked as "TROLL"; probably including this one.
"Work abroad" for a short-term project =/= "Living in a remote mountainous area of China", where you're behind the "Great Firewall". Even if I had the requisite qualifications, I'd be hesitant to go to live in the "Hermit Kingdom" and run the risk of disappearing for some politically incorrect statement.
Brietbart USED TO BE fairly reliable, when Breitbart and Drudge were running the place. Infowars, less so. TheOnion doesn't belong in this category, because it's OBVIOUSLY fake.
I'm certain that there are more "progressive" fake news sites than putatively "conservative" ones. And the clickbait ads around all of them are even faker than the supposed news articles.
I thought "climate change" was supposed to cause worldwide droughts? If you can imagine just any fear you want as being the result of "climate change", then the entire concept becomes meaningless.
Of course, it's meaningless to begin with. "Change" is what the climate DOES, always has, always will. The entire Gore-ful panic is designed to separate the people from their money and to allow the politicians to fun things forever.
What's the big deal? About the third time that I get an unwanted and irrelevant push notification, I unsubscribe to that mailing list. It takes a while to whittle it all down, but it is possible to have your life back.
The idea that everyone should go to college is clearly wrong. Many people won't benefit from college, especially if they plan to major in booze, sex and parties.
American education is severely broken in so many ways. Many people "graduate" from high school unable to read or do basic arithmetic. That needs to be fixed, ASAP. One good first step would be to abolish the NEA.
In college, student loans should be available only for degree programs that might allow you to pay off your student loans. Nobody gets jobs in "Ethnic Studies" that pay 100K a year to enable you to pay off a $100K debt. Student loans should be dischargeable in bankruptcy, but the college itself should take half of the hit. That would give colleges a reason to be more cautious in granting student loans.
There should be a lot more "trade" schools than there are. There's a severe shortage in people who can build things and fix things. Every high school should have "shop" classes available to anyone.
I do not get the perception, just based on the name "Daniel Stenberg", that this guy was born in Ethiopia, Somalia, Iran, or one of the other four "nations" from which immigration has been restricted. So what's the big deal?
"Servers will probably time out trying to deliver a web page through it."
There's your problem right there. "Web pages" are inherently full of fluff. You don't need pictures to run control systems; you could do it all in plain text, or even XML, and 300 baud would be "fast enough" for most purposes.
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There Oughta Be A Law banning every web site EXCEPT genealogical sites from using stupid security questions about your ancestry.
The OPM hack also exposed some security clearance applications; home address, previous home address, PREVIOUS2 home addresses, references, friends, job histories.
If the AI were to simply assign scores of "Straight" to EVERYONE, it would achieve 90% accuracy for men and 85% accuracy for women, since about 90% of men are straight and about 85% of women are straight. So scores of 91% and 85% accuracy are not statistically significant.
Your Social Security card says right on it that it's not legal to use it for ANY purpose than social security.
My military serial number is my SSN. (It shouldn't be, and didn't USED to be, and it's illegal, but it's the government and who's going to prosecute them?) For years, in order to write a check at the Base Exchange, we were REQUIRED to have our serial numbers - our SSNs - printed or written on the check.
For all those companies that want to use the last 4 of your SSN as a security code - you can demand that they assign you a different number.
The best defense to the Equifax breach, as it is to all the other data breaches, is to:
1. NEVER EVER click on a link in an email. Type in the web address yourself.
2. Check your credit card statements religiously.
3. Keep your antivirus and anti-malware software up to date.
Really, aside from the fact that it's Equifax being penetrated, what's the big deal? I get free credit monitoring because my wireless provider T-Mobile was hacked. I get free credit monitoring from somebody else because the U.S. Office of Personnel Management got hacked, revealing EVERY detail of EVERY security clearance applied for in the last 20 years. I got free credit monitoring from somebody else because a credit card provider got hacked.
Get paranoid about security. Already paranoid? Are you paranoid ENOUGH? Then let it go and live your life.
Considering that we detect planets that transit the parent star, and that we've detected thousands of them, AND that such an occultation is visible ONLY when the Earth is precisely on the plane of that system's ecliptic ... the only viable conclusion must be that planets around other star systems are LITERALLY as "common as dirt". It's likely that there are planets around MOST stars.
But when a group tried to get traction with the slogan "ALL Lives Matter", they were widely flamed.
Goldilocks Principle; Too much of anything is bad. Too LITTLE of anything is bad. The key is to know how much is "Just Right" for every substance.
Yeah, Dan Blather and CBS was TOTALLY accurate about the forged Texas Air National Guard memos, right?
Balderdash. From MSNBC to CBS to FOX, they _ALL_ promulgate false narratives and "fake news". I'd rank CBS right down there at the bottom next to Infowars. Even the Onion is more believable.
The problem is that when ALL of the news is fake, civilization is doomed.
No sane person should accept Facebook's highly-questionable judgment about what constitutes "fake news". Zuckerberg has is own axes to grind, and he's trying to put his entire FOOT on the scale, not just his thumb.
So, if I'm in an auto accident, or I trip and fall face-first into the sidewalk, or if I'm assaulted and have a broken nose, a black eye and blood on my face, will the "facial recognition" still unlock my phone and let me call the cops?
Facial recognition for anything really urgent sounds like a REALLY bad idea.
I think that in some far off distant corner of politics, the concepts of "right" and "left" wrap around and meet each other. The only difference is that the extreme "right" is NATIONAL socialism, while the far left is INTERNATIONAL socialism. That, and that the extreme right believes in a religious political attitude, while the far left is atheistic.
So Cloud Flare believes in "freedom of speech" for assholes like Nazis?
Good. Because if you don't believe in freedom of speech for assholes, you don't believe in it at all.
Libertarian columnist Vin Suprynowicz once wrote an article (this had to be in the early 1990's or before) in which he labelled them as "Wells Fraudo". I guess the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Didn't we already know that? After all, the Krell destroyed themselves overnight. Beware the monsters from the Id!
I was going to try to "moderate" this thread, but I have only five mod points. EVERY comment in this thread deserves to be marked as "TROLL"; probably including this one.
"Work abroad" for a short-term project =/= "Living in a remote mountainous area of China", where you're behind the "Great Firewall". Even if I had the requisite qualifications, I'd be hesitant to go to live in the "Hermit Kingdom" and run the risk of disappearing for some politically incorrect statement.
If you're not going to use your GPS, then you're either A:) Lost or B:) On your way to AAA to pick up the PAPER MAPS that still exist.
Not a member? This is one more excellent reason to become one.
Also: Even if you DO have a GPS, I always have a set of AAA maps in the car just in case my GPS breaks AND my cell phone battery dies.
If you refuse to carry paper maps and you don't want to use a GPS, then you deserve to get lost.
Brietbart USED TO BE fairly reliable, when Breitbart and Drudge were running the place. Infowars, less so. TheOnion doesn't belong in this category, because it's OBVIOUSLY fake.
I'm certain that there are more "progressive" fake news sites than putatively "conservative" ones. And the clickbait ads around all of them are even faker than the supposed news articles.
I thought "climate change" was supposed to cause worldwide droughts? If you can imagine just any fear you want as being the result of "climate change", then the entire concept becomes meaningless.
Of course, it's meaningless to begin with. "Change" is what the climate DOES, always has, always will. The entire Gore-ful panic is designed to separate the people from their money and to allow the politicians to fun things forever.
What's the big deal? About the third time that I get an unwanted and irrelevant push notification, I unsubscribe to that mailing list. It takes a while to whittle it all down, but it is possible to have your life back.
The idea that everyone should go to college is clearly wrong. Many people won't benefit from college, especially if they plan to major in booze, sex and parties.
American education is severely broken in so many ways. Many people "graduate" from high school unable to read or do basic arithmetic. That needs to be fixed, ASAP. One good first step would be to abolish the NEA.
In college, student loans should be available only for degree programs that might allow you to pay off your student loans. Nobody gets jobs in "Ethnic Studies" that pay 100K a year to enable you to pay off a $100K debt. Student loans should be dischargeable in bankruptcy, but the college itself should take half of the hit. That would give colleges a reason to be more cautious in granting student loans.
There should be a lot more "trade" schools than there are. There's a severe shortage in people who can build things and fix things. Every high school should have "shop" classes available to anyone.
I do not get the perception, just based on the name "Daniel Stenberg", that this guy was born in Ethiopia, Somalia, Iran, or one of the other four "nations" from which immigration has been restricted. So what's the big deal?
"Servers will probably time out trying to deliver a web page through it."
There's your problem right there. "Web pages" are inherently full of fluff. You don't need pictures to run control systems; you could do it all in plain text, or even XML, and 300 baud would be "fast enough" for most purposes.