Posts by Whitter

Anything that would increase the rate at which diabetic disease is flagged up from an eye exam would inevitably increase the workload of human reviewers. Is this result really a bad one? Difficult to tell from the article, which implies poor performance but doesn't show the data. e.g. How many true detections were made that would have been (or were) missed by eye docs? Maybe that is in the original research, just not the El Reg snippet.

I guess it ultimately depends on just how many false detections were being made: alarm fatigue is a well-known problem in medical institutions.

Other countries

With their admission of a failure to act on aviation safety, will any other contries consider banning 737s (or even, as it is evidence of a lack of the 'required' company safety culture, all Boeing craft) from their skies? Until of course they also get a bung of cash and sudenly the risk is gone.

No longer runs hackathons

Why not? Seems a PI breach was found in quite a safe environment, they then reacted sensibly and quickly.

Would they rather the issue was found by some balckhats later, then compromised for n-years before they found out?

Feels like the same ol' issue well known to test teams that the dev teams don't like to be told of bugs. Before release. Before anyone else finds out. Sigh.

"Those lucky enought to have made it..."

Or perhaps not.

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.currys.co.uk

I wasted a month dealing with them in late summer: first they sent the wrong laptop; there's no email to 'customer services', and the 'live chat' they promote everywhere doesn't work; so its a phone line with 1hr waits. Got the wrong device returned and proper one scheduled. But they never bothered to sent the actual order. Rinse an repeat with customer services. Still no laptop. Rinse and repeat again, Finally I noticed on the website they no longer had the thing I wanted in stock and so this was all pointless, so cancelled. A month of hassle and nothing to show for it.

How easy is it to migrate Confluence content?

Do any of the alternate tools support tools to easily migrate away from Confluence?

Though I suspect that anything one migrates to will pull the same shit in 5 years too, just kicking the can down the road a bit.

Clearly out of control

But what mechanism exists to fix it?

the district court had "erred"

What happens to those that err?

Just curious.

Missed the real boat

"... at least three commercial cloud-hosting data centers within the US, separated by at least 150 miles, and met various requirements regarding FedRAMP..."

It seems the lobbying to get the contract had already been won while the tender requirements were being defined.

Excellent work

What a great, proper, idea for a phd!

Well done that student!

What impact on for-business use?

For example, VR in medical environments. Is there a seperate contract for such, meaning the technology exists for an opt-out but individuals are just being refused that option, or is this the end for Occulus anywhere but in the home?

Eastern Texas

I wonder if any company has ever set out Terms and Conditions stating thier product was not for use in Eastern Texas, in an attempt to avoid ever being pulled into court there.

Falling on sword time?

In order to continue the pretense that the gov actually wants GDPR enforced - while ensuring funding and will for such are entriely lacking - is it time for the Information Commissioner to take one for the team?

i.e. Resign, wait a few months then get a pass into the House of Lords?

Eleven!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMS2VnDveP8

Maybe an increase in fines but

As the prosecution rate is so low, one can see why a CEO may just choose to ignore it.

What if the image is only very slightly blurry?

Maybe it has some legs as a photo sharpening tool rather than trying to patch up a shoddy surveillance cam image?

Be careful what you wish for Mr Trump

That is all

Same as it ever was

Has any large-scale IT project ever learnt any lessons from previous failures?

Other than the lesson that folks who plan out these repeated failures are none-the-less handsomely rewarded, so it isn't a failure from their personal POV?

Hmm...

A rather long read to establish the idea that AIs aren't very good at handling types of data that were not in their training set.

Going forward

Time for a new board.

'Nuff said.

How literal?

Did they mean "keep as far away from somebody as (the length of) an alligator" or "keep as far away from somebody as you would an alligator", a.k.a. stay the hell far away!

What's the differernce

between 'paying to settle' and 'blood money'?

They need to get themselves some self-employed IT contractors

Obvs.

Eh?

Is Cortana still a thing?

Is Bing still a thing?

Why?

Smart hub

Can we just call them "Stupid hub"s now?

What a dreadful idea

Its a 30 second recording of ECG taken by that device.

A 30 second log-in? I think not.

Privacy concerns?

"A neat touch is what Apple calls "Attention awareness". Voice control is only active when you are looking at the screen, as detected by the front camera."

So the camera is always on, rather than the mic?

What I'd like is...

A search engine that rates information about <blah> above some random shop/service selling something tangentially related to <blah>.

It began with the deliberate avoidance of blog that were "messing up" the search results. (OK, probably true at the time).

And its ended up with what is tantamount to search engines searching only business adverts, rather than "the web".

</rant>

How narrow are El Reg pages these days?

Its like its wrong to use anything other than a phone.

*When* was it in the TOS?

If the TOS changed to allow this use of (personal) data, does it only apply to the photo's of people who signed the TOS after its inclusion?

Live long and propser

Hope life post-E-Reg treats you well!

"... a fear that, ironically, is now coming to pass"

As far as I can tell, that isn't irony.

DWP declined to answer questions from El Reg

Are they allowed to?

FOI and all that.