
Perjury
Alex Roman seems bang up for perjury.
Did the judge also recommend that, or only corporate contempt?
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It is tiresome in the extreme that whenever somebody/something wealthy has a ruling against it, an appeal seems almost immediate.
Doesn't there have to be formal ground to appeal? And some likeliness of success established?
I assume its always been the way to protect the rich, and pay more laywers...
Ignoring the snooping / tracking "feck your cookies" dialogs, the thing I'd really like is for pages not to reposition items in the view as the page loads.
I want the button I'm about to click to stay the button I think it is, not shift layout so the mouse is now over the previous button 100ms before I press it.
There is no value to "Google's own app catalog" other than the restriction that, without sideloading, you have to use it.
A worse search engine/discovery interface one would struggle to find - even worse that Amazon, and that's a very low bar.
This concept might be appealing for those in industries already facing staff shortages. However the real concern is AI's potential to cut staff...
I assume most of such industries are not short of staff because they can't find suitable staff: rather they refuse to pay for them as a business strategy, the solution being to have current staff doing <insert number>% more work than is reasonable. These industries are already hamstringing themselves to reduce the number of staff. Any sniff of an opportunity to reduce the staff pool still further is very likely to be taken with both hands. Again, almost regardless of how much damage it may do to the functioning of the company.
Is the company alleges not to have read its own ToS - then they are on shaky ground assuming their users did.
If it claims it didn't understand its ToS, again, users now have an open door to claim the same.
Or perhaps these shoddy ToS sections need to be regulated to something meaningful.
At least nobody believes the company exec line, as indicated by "I am very concerned that Ukraine's counter offensive was monitored in real time and troop locations were exposed to facilitate drone strikes"
While we've all become accustomed to nonsense being spouted from exec's about data breaches, I wonder if Ukraine will accept such glibness in their current wartime scenario?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66510136
But it OK, according to them, 'cos "data was hidden from anyone opening the files"
Those well known sure-fire ways of keeping data private one assumes:
Excel Hide column / Word version history / black superimposed highlighter / White text on white
I wonder which one they used?
The tech paper behind this story is here:
https://news.airbnb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/06/Project-Lighthouse-Airbnb-2020-06-12.pdf
I couldn't see if other variables (maybe #previous uses of Airbnb and reviews thereof) were also visible to the property owners. If any such data was there (I've never used Airbnb so I've no idea how the system works), I could see no attempt to establish if there was bias in the other variables between the perceived racial groups. But the tech paper wasn't a nice read, so I'll admit I didn't spend too long trying to understand it.
The irony is strong in this one
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-kruger-effect-probably-not-real
I'm not actually going to ague the arguments - I do know that I don't know enough - but given the context of the Godel / Turin chat, the concept of (potential) equivalence made me smile
Ausculation has been on the way out for quite a long time: many doctors aren't properly trained in it nowadays, making some of the measurements a tad difficult to assess without a more in-depth read (which I haven't done obvs.)
I wonder if doctors will keep the stethoscope as a "symbol of medicine" once none of them know how to use it?
One can imagine a future where many a site will use NLP models pulled from <wherever> to power their websites, or models for reading barcodes, or models for correcting gramar, or models for <insert task here>.
They will be the same users that pull <whatever> set of javascript dependencies to sanitise an input string and have neither the interest nor the skill to debug 'their' work.
"...Judge Baraitser would have ruled differently. Lewis argued that having one's own children to protect and raise can reduce the risk of suicide..."
I assume that clinician(s) gave the court one (or more) expert evaluations on suicide risk. The judge then ruled. But this barrister is inferring that the judge would have re-evaluted the suicide risk themselves under the impression that judges are more expert at psychology than psycologists? Sounds more like a slurr on the Judge than anything else.
“These platforms are used almost exclusively by SOC [serious and organised crime] groups"
Rather reminds me of the classic logic failure: "I see a black swan; therefore all swans are black"
I might have believed “SOC [serious and organised crime] groups almost exclusively use these platforms"
Though to be honest, I doubt that. There's a lot to be said for being a tree in a forrest.
It's wack-a-mole. Somebody tries to make tracking more difficult, the tracking industry develops new techniques to continue. They will not stop. Their career is at stake. A career of hacking APIs to achieve the unintended or a career buying/selling the resultant data (despite its dubious value: both sellers and buyers pretend it is data-oil as they'll have no jobs or skills if anyone without skin in the game has a look at the cost/benefit)