250 thousand Euros? That's all? That's barely a dinner for one of their execs. I would be surprised that they bothered to appeal this, but they also want to keep doing it, so I guess they have to. I imagine if this had been an American company, they might have levied a real fine, but it's not only local, but one the people love.
Lets also take a trip into the land of make believe and pretend that government/corporate claims of their facial recognition systems operating with a 99% accuracy rate is factually based upon quantifiable data sets.
That's easy to do! Just hand pick 1000 photos showing distinctive characteristics to serve as the test database, then hand pick 100 photos from that which are the most distinctive to run through the recognition system. See? 99% accurate! What do you mean it won't do nearly so well on hundreds of millions of images that won't be nearly so distinctive? Look at our test! 99%!!
Its obvious how to make money on the web,
connect with your audience, provide a service they want,
allow user comments and pay attention to your customers .
But that's WORK! We just wanna sit back and tax other people's efforts.
Brady is claiming he's only trying to trademark the name because he hates it and wants to stop people from using it:
He's sick and tired of people saying he's a demented baseball player from New York! What? They're talking about someone else? Nonsense! There's only one Tom who's Terrific.
;)
Yeah, they could easily just make the "refund" coupons good for 10% off a year's subscription to HBO or something similar. That's a really common tactic. Microsoft made an art form out of making fake refunds for customers.
Where I live (in a city over about 100,000), the maps say I have 12 choices... which are mostly just different services available from the same providers. There's supposedly five different providers here, but two are satellite, which is not a viable source for broadband given the horrific caps and tiny upload speeds, one doesn't actually exist, one just went bankrupt (Windstream), and the last is Spectrum. Guess which service I have? Only one guess needed.
Personally, I prefer the moderation done here: remove NOTHING and let the folks reading the site decide what they want to view or hide. It's not perfect, but it far better than most other forms of moderation I've seen.
Good advertisers are aware of the rebuy rate of their products and will suppress the cookies of recent buyers if, for example, they have recently bought a set of sofas.
There's the problem right there - finding those "good" advertisers. I did buy a couch through Amazon, and they are still recommending couches to me every week. Along with 2 and 4 TB drives. :)
Yeah, that's the dumbest part of "targeted" advertising - knowing what can lead to repeat buys, and what won't. When I buy a case of ramen soup, I'll probably buy more later. When I buy a brand new 2TB hard drive, I'm not buying another for at least three or four years. But Amazon still spams both at me, hoping I'll not just buy another 2TB drive, but several!
Boost Mobile is already (minor) competition. Amazon buying them would only change who owned them. Now if Amazon planned to dump a metric fuck-tonne of money into expanding Boost, that might qualify, but something tells me that isn't what this deal is about.
When they work, then they're fine... for things that aren't private. You'd hope that things like medical records would use a more secure system, but medicine is one of the biggest areas still using fax machines. My brother needed some health care, and it took three weeks and ten faxes for the insurance and doctor's office to exchange faxes on procedures and financial info. Just try to tell me that's actually secure.
He's speaking of countries in Europe, not the US. Until the last decade or so, most of Europe was separated into homogeneous populations. Part of all the conflict in many EU countries today is because of immigration introducing new cultures into countries that had been homogeneous for centuries.
FAX isn't secure in the slightest, particularly if it's kept electronically on the recipient's side. Might as well just send your credit card number as plain text via SMS.
Several CD and DVD protection schemes used this same tactic - low-level encoding of a frame on the CD/DVD that returns a specific error that writers couldn't duplicate. That kind of protection is easy to work around, and fairly easy to break.
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Slap on the wrist
250 thousand Euros? That's all? That's barely a dinner for one of their execs. I would be surprised that they bothered to appeal this, but they also want to keep doing it, so I guess they have to. I imagine if this had been an American company, they might have levied a real fine, but it's not only local, but one the people love.
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Re: Re: I think I see the plan...
Why do you think the government forced the switch from tin to aluminum? ;)
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Re: Consent of the Governed
That's easy to do! Just hand pick 1000 photos showing distinctive characteristics to serve as the test database, then hand pick 100 photos from that which are the most distinctive to run through the recognition system. See? 99% accurate! What do you mean it won't do nearly so well on hundreds of millions of images that won't be nearly so distinctive? Look at our test! 99%!!
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Re:
But that's WORK! We just wanna sit back and tax other people's efforts.
On the post: Tom Brady Attempts To Trademark The Nickname He Doesn't Even Want, That's Already Used By A Famous NY Met With Dementia
Sick and tired
He's sick and tired of people saying he's a demented baseball player from New York! What? They're talking about someone else? Nonsense! There's only one Tom who's Terrific.
;)
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Re: Re: Re:
Yeah, they could easily just make the "refund" coupons good for 10% off a year's subscription to HBO or something similar. That's a really common tactic. Microsoft made an art form out of making fake refunds for customers.
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Re: Re:
Actually, it did because they only lost money in Washington. So far, no one else has batted an eye. So they're still running the scam elsewhere.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Spelling
No, you're wrong. The sentence is "there are bars". How many? A couple of bars. The object is the bars, and a couple is the modifier.
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Maps are rubish
Where I live (in a city over about 100,000), the maps say I have 12 choices... which are mostly just different services available from the same providers. There's supposedly five different providers here, but two are satellite, which is not a viable source for broadband given the horrific caps and tiny upload speeds, one doesn't actually exist, one just went bankrupt (Windstream), and the last is Spectrum. Guess which service I have? Only one guess needed.
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Re: Re: Re: So, let me play a Proud boy....
Personally, I prefer the moderation done here: remove NOTHING and let the folks reading the site decide what they want to view or hide. It's not perfect, but it far better than most other forms of moderation I've seen.
On the post: New Study Shows That All This Ad Targeting Doesn't Work That Well
Re: Re: Re: They don't know me very well at all
There's the problem right there - finding those "good" advertisers. I did buy a couch through Amazon, and they are still recommending couches to me every week. Along with 2 and 4 TB drives. :)
On the post: New Study Shows That All This Ad Targeting Doesn't Work That Well
Re: They don't know me very well at all
Yeah, that's the dumbest part of "targeted" advertising - knowing what can lead to repeat buys, and what won't. When I buy a case of ramen soup, I'll probably buy more later. When I buy a brand new 2TB hard drive, I'm not buying another for at least three or four years. But Amazon still spams both at me, hoping I'll not just buy another 2TB drive, but several!
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Re:
I want the built-in dog repellent. Very handy for those pretextual stops. :)
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Re: Not so far-fetched
Boost Mobile is already (minor) competition. Amazon buying them would only change who owned them. Now if Amazon planned to dump a metric fuck-tonne of money into expanding Boost, that might qualify, but something tells me that isn't what this deal is about.
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Re: Re:
When they work, then they're fine... for things that aren't private. You'd hope that things like medical records would use a more secure system, but medicine is one of the biggest areas still using fax machines. My brother needed some health care, and it took three weeks and ten faxes for the insurance and doctor's office to exchange faxes on procedures and financial info. Just try to tell me that's actually secure.
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Re: Re:
He's speaking of countries in Europe, not the US. Until the last decade or so, most of Europe was separated into homogeneous populations. Part of all the conflict in many EU countries today is because of immigration introducing new cultures into countries that had been homogeneous for centuries.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: 'Nuff Said
FAX isn't secure in the slightest, particularly if it's kept electronically on the recipient's side. Might as well just send your credit card number as plain text via SMS.
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Re: Why can't they get this right?
Several CD and DVD protection schemes used this same tactic - low-level encoding of a frame on the CD/DVD that returns a specific error that writers couldn't duplicate. That kind of protection is easy to work around, and fairly easy to break.
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Re: Re: Re:
Depending on who you're laughing at and if they can hear you, it can decrease your lifespan tremendously. ;)
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Re: Re: Surprised they didn't buy Ashcroft a dog and shoot it to
No, it's about copyfraud.
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