Posts by teebie 967 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2009
"He explains that an increase in one error rate decreases the other. "
Well he shouldn't do. If you correctly identify Dave 99 times in a 100, the false negative rate is 1%. If you then change the algorithm to recognise all photos of oranges as Dave the false positive rate rises, but the false negative rate stays the same.
"This incentivizes users to maintain care for their health and by extension, maintain desirable aesthetics of the tattoo"
So the tattoo turns ugly if you don't look after your health? Are the people who are most bothered by the aesthetics, rather than the health implication the first people we want to help?
I can't tell from the article how helpful this is to the colourblind - draw a thermometer on my arm that fills up when I need to eat/drink/medicate by all means, but an apple that turns from green to red is no help.
"such a low rate of sharing would be too low to offset population-driven growth"
That doesn't mean they "will make more traffic", it means they will reduce traffic, but won't reduce traffic as much as other factors increase it.
A bit pedantic I know, but the same logic can be used for "vaccines make more measles" and other tomfoolery.
"Security-focused people will say that increased surveillance is necessary to combat terrorism."
Presumably this was an abbreviation, but did you mean 'Security service-focused people', or 'Security theatre-focused people'
As for smart toilets, Israel found polio in the sewage in Rahat in 2013, mass-vacinated, and manage to avoid any cases of paralytic polio. I'm happy with sewage being monitored in sewage works, but not with having it monitored on the way out of me.
"Every request for data should be logged with a reason for such a request, who requested it and when"
Within a week you would get the following request on the public record:
SUBJECT: Plod 368's ex's new boyfriend
REQUESTOR: Friend of plod 368
REASON FOR REQUEST: In case he's a nonce or something
Looking at the report on the transportfocus site, sections 3.1 and 4.1 are labelled 'Overall satisfaction'
If you look at the section this is short for 'overall satisfaction with the journey'.
I have been asked to fill out these surveys several times, but never on a train that was late, or on a day when the station was having problems.
So, "overall satisfaction" doesn't mean overall satisfaction with the train company, and the measure they use is easy to game to make the company look better than it is.
So the plan is
1 don't be violent.
2 regulate the internet, thus removing access to knives and cars.
3 be violent, in a way guaranteed to cause more terrorism.
4 regulate the internet, and allow whatever remaining police there are to do anything to anyone.
(5 Magic anti-terrorism tree that appears when May incraases surveillance of the innocent)
No mention of increasing police staffing levels to somewhere reasonable, for instance to the level where someone being reported as suspicious 5 times leads to an investigation.
I got a begging call from Macmillan, who I had donated to so they could fun nurses, not so they could funding arseholes to annoy me, and since then everything I would have sent to them has gone to Cancer Research UK. ICO may think I didn't make the best choice, but at least they haven't bothered me.
I was going to set up a DD for Shelter, but then they chugged me. If I donate to shelter its because I want them to use it to help the homeless, not to pay people who look homeless to jump in front of me when I'm on lunchbreak.
"an identity access management system to allow professionals to log on and view cases remotely, has yet to be delivered despite £40m having been spent on it."
How? Is it being delivered by someone who sent them an unsolicited email. "I would be happy to provide your idenitity management system, for just £10,000" "sadly your transfer failed" "a local tax change means I need 25,000" ... ... "gangsters" ... ... "wombats" ... ... "nearly there, I just need another 5 million, then I will be able to provide the system and marry you
'If we all made a concerted effort to spoil our ballot papers it would become quite obvious that the current 'system of democracy' was broken.'
If that happened, then the party who secured a majority, even if it was from just 10% of the populace, would most likely be happy with the system - after all, it got them elected, so it must be right.
Is this going to be a Section 28 thing, where any discussion of suicide is banned in case it is seen as 'promoting it'
If so, I think the government has finally come up with their solution to the assisted dying debate - if people can't talk about it, they can't criticise the government for inaction.
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