Questions about the integrity of Tezcorp? Did Tez One turn evil? Oh no, this is this a different company.
Posts by teebie
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$232m blockchain startup Tezos faces sueballs for alleged investor fraud
Sure, Face ID is neat, but it cannot replace a good old fashioned passcode
"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.
ATM fees shake-up may push Britain towards cashless society
So, tell us again how tech giants are more important than US govt...
Jupiter flashes pulsating southern pole, boffins understandably baffled
Man prosecuted for posting a picture of his hobby on Facebook
I love disruptive computer jargon. It's so very William Burroughs
Smut-watchers suckered by evil advertising
Dropbox thinks outside the … we can't go there, not when a box becomes a 'collection of surfaces'
Harvard, MIT boffins ink up with health-monitoring 'smart' tats
"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.
Telco forgot to renew its web domain, broke deaf folks' video calls – now gets a $3m paddlin'
Driverless cars will make more traffic, say transport boffins
Headline?
"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.
It's high time we extend Freedom of Information Act to outsourcers
User worked with wrong app for two weeks, then complained to IT that data had gone missing
Cops' use of biometric images 'gone far beyond custody purposes'
Intelligence director pulls national security BS on spying question
Smart cities? Tell it like it is, they're surveillance cities
"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.
It's official: Users navigate flat UI designs 22 per cent slower
Forget trigonometry, 'cos Babylonians did it better 3,700 years ago – by counting in base 60!
Private sub captain changes story, now says reporter died, was 'buried at sea' – torso found
Voyager antenna operator: 'I was the first human to see images from Neptune'
Re-identifying folks from anonymised data will be a crime in the UK
Four techies flummoxed for hours by flickering 'E' on monitor
Revealed: 779 cases of data misuse across 34 British police forces
"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
Southern awarded yet another 'most moaned about rail firm' gong
Not overall satisfaction
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.
Blighty's prosecutors slammed for failing to deliver savings on electronic tagging
OMG, dad, you're so embarrassing! Are you P2P file sharing again?
UK PM May's response to London terror attack: Time to 'regulate' internet companies
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.
CyberArk splashes $42m on DevOps security whizz Conjur
TalkTalk full-year profits rise but shares slump after raid on dividends
ICO fines 11 big charities over dirty data donor-squeezing deeds
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.
Hundreds of millions 'wasted' on UK court digitisation scheme
"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
D'oh! Amber Rudd meant 'understand hashing', not 'hashtags'
'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.
DevOps hype? Sometimes a pizza really is just a pizza
UK Home Sec: Give us a snoop-around for WhatApp encryption. Don't worry, we won't go into the cloud
Plans to force ISPs to filter content branded 'disproportionate'
SVN commit this: Subversion to fix file renaming after 15 years
Fraud detection system with 93% failure rate gets IT companies sued
Frustrated by reboot-happy Windows 10? Creators Update hopes to take away the pain
Ex-employees sued for £15m over data slurpage ordered to pay up just £2
Commissioner kisses Met goodbye, says it's set to be 'best digital police force'
MapR seeks DevOps love: Stateful storage WLTM Docker containers
Dido queen of carnage steps down from TalkTalk
Lords slam 'untrammelled' data sharing powers in Digital Economy Bill
EE slapped with £2.7m fine by Ofcom
Jeremy Hunt pockets £14m through sale of course search website
MPs suggest introducing web blocking to tackle suicide rates in UK
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.