Posts by TheRealRon

Detroit Police make second wrongful facial-recog arrest when another man is misidentified by software

I am a fan of The Register's excellent reporting on these issues. But I don't understand why this report did not mention that Michael Oliver is a black man.

The Register has done great work to call out the mis-use of technology that promotes racist behaviour; I don't understand why in this case they have not included the key details needed for a reader to understand that this story relates to racism. Failing to call out racism has the same result as promoting racism.

If you're looking for a textbook example of an IT hype cycle, let spin be your guide

Re: Erm.....

Yes, I think someone has misunderstood what that tool and graph is showing, back to the drawing board for this article I suspect. ElReg is normally spot on, but in this case, Houston, I think we have a problem...

Search for "Vulture" in the same dataset: graph falls to zero over exactly the same period

Search for "Register" in the same dataset: graph falls to zero over exactly the same period

Search for "Google" in the same dataset: guess what ...

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=google&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1990&year_end=2018&corpus=15&smoothing=3

Sysadmin tells user CSI-style password guessing never w– wait WTF?! It's 'PASSWORD1'!

Re: "They looked for the password on the CD . . ."

I am pretty sure that the password had been sent in a separate letter as good practice would dictate, but we never found it. If only they hadn't chosen such a numpty password it would have been almost competent behaviour from <unnamed outsourced provider>.

Re: Movie stuff

I did not get the girl. But I did get paid on time which pleased my wife.