Why not....?
...use AI to help people who are 'sounding' fragile, hurt or making self-harm comments.?
trolls etc.. will always resurface...not so much the hurting ones..
Posts by liac
14 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jul 2015
Boffins build AI that can detect cyber-abuse – and if you don't believe us, YOU CAN *%**#* *&**%* #** OFF
I may have read Autonomy whistleblower emails about 'inflated' sales, founder Mike Lynch admits in court
President Trump sits down with Twitter boss for crunch talks: Why am I losing followers?
Old-school cruel: Dodgy PDF email attachments enjoying a renaissance
If you want a vision of the future, imagine not a boot stamping on a face, but keystroke logging on govt contractors' PCs
Wednesday 13th February 2019 17:22 GMT
Just another pile of nonsense to deal with ....
It seems that the more advances made in technology, the more we are steered towards asinine ideas..
Let's see....take a rudimentary piece of software, suggest to dimwit politicians some 'cost benefits' and lobby for it.
Then...patent the method....voila, new billion $ company is born.
Any contractor (who is a developer worth their salt) will be able to fool this system. A good 'exercise' for AI learning to keep computer busy...or a little code to do one's own keystrokes....
Why pick on contractors only...what about employees, the numbers which must be greater than contractors. Time theft by employees is probably even more rampant.
This should be added to the Wall of Useless Technology Applications...along with IoT...
As the Police say "Any step you take....any move you make ..... I'll be watching you"
Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently
My hoard of obsolete hardware might be useful… one day
Saturday 10th November 2018 03:44 GMT
Re: Surely no one needs any of that Firewire gear any more?
"My mantra is keep one of everything when possible to avoid the need of everything !"
I try to keep 2 of everything (a la Noah's ark) so that: 1) items don't get lonely 2) they might spawn one day and produce little ones, 3) If one fails when needed, I'll have backup
Have too many small items...cables, etc.. to list, but in addition:
serial mice
1200, 2400, 4800, 5200 modems ( 3 Com ... )
laplink software and cable, developer kits for Lotus, MSDN, Sniffer, PharLap, BoundsChecker, etc.
Novell Netware 4 and all NLMs
complete token ring network - hub, MAUs, cards, cables
AS/400 + CRT + O/S + keyboard
a working HP Laserjet 4+ (still being used)
Windows Mixed Reality: Windows Mobile deja vu?
Equifax mega-breach: Security bod flags header config conflict
Equifax's IT leaders 'retire' as company says it knew about the bug that brought it down
Monday 18th September 2017 17:28 GMT
Re: Meanwhile in Canada
The Canadian link for Social Insurance Number (SIN ) responsibility/usage is at:
https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/services/sin/reports/code-of-practice/section-2.html
The algorithm for generating numbers is known, as it is used by companies( e.g. banks) to validate a given SIN. Having a secret algorithm to generate a SIN does not help the situation. No matter how the SIN is generated, at some point, the number is given to a bank or employer or credit check bureau. Hence, if these companies' security is breached, we are in the same situation. The resolution to not perpetuating this problem is via better processes, not technology. If the numbers were not easily associated to names, this problem would not exist. For example, one could post a list of 50 SINs which are generated by the public algorithm. No one would be able to determine 1) who the SINs belong to and 2) if the SINs were in use. So a list containing only these 50 numbers means nothing.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
