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The Wall Street Journal has learned that the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is investigating claims that Intel's large-scale layoffs discriminated against older employees. Workers claim Intel was getting rid of older staff.
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If these companies are making bank off of our data and aren’t even managing to keep it safe, shouldn’t we at least get a small cut of the action? 26-year old Londoner Oli Frost thinks so, which is why he put all of his Facebook data up for sale on eBay last weekend. “I realized that I’d been selling my data for free for ages, and decided it was time to cash in.”
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The most surprising result of the benchmark is that LuaJIT’s FFI is substantially faster than C. It’s about 25% faster than a native C function call to a shared object function. How could a weakly and dynamically typed scripting language come out ahead on a benchmark? Is this accurate?
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RTFA (Read The Full/Fine Article). He makes an interesting case.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Data brokers in Vermont will now have to register as such with the state; they must take standard security measures and notify authorities of security breaches (no, they weren’t before); and using their data for criminal purposes like fraud is now its own actionable offense. If it’s as successful, other states may soon imitate it.
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I do wonder if Vermont has the infrastructure in place to handle all one of the registrations. Or none? Can their system handle null records?
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Hi, I wrote my new favorite hash table. This article begins, "Hi, I wrote my new favorite hash table."
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Message Removed
modified 31-May-18 10:35am.
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Message Removed
modified 31-May-18 10:35am.
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The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) has dramatically changed the development opportunities on Windows, and has become very popular. Eventually the Linux subsystem will be all that's left of Windows. Maybe a legacy support module on the side. - phantomfive
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Here’s a casualty of the cashless society you might not have previously thought of: the humble street performer. For the loser now will be later to win
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Next, tax authorities will want to get those payment data...
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: Next, tax authorities will want to get those payment data...
What exactly is wrong with this?
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As Europe's sweeping new privacy law went into effect on Friday, California voters may get to decide on strict privacy laws for their state. In California, an initiative expected on November's ballot would be one of the broadest online privacy regulations in the U.S.
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A proposed class action lawsuit alleging Facebook’s ad placement tools facilitate discrimination against older job-seekers has been expanded to identify additional companies, further widening the latest front in claims that candidates are being filtered out by gender, geography, race and age. The social media platform enables companies to illegally focus on younger candidates, according to an expanded class action.
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Budding authors face a minefield when it comes to publishing their work. For a large fee, as much as $3,000, they can make their work available to anyone who wants to read it. Or they can avoid the fee and have readers pay the publisher instead. Academics share machine-learning research freely. Taxpayers should not have to pay twice to read our findings
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Microsoft is developing a tool that can detect bias in artificial intelligence algorithms with the goal of helping businesses use AI without running the risk of discriminating against certain people. Bias in algorithms is an issue increasingly coming to the fore.
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In case you missed it, the peak in the tech unicorn bubble already has been reached. It's all downhill from here.
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Oracle plans to drop from Java its serialization feature that has been a thorn in the side when it comes to security. A “horrible mistake” from 1997, the Java object serialization capability for encoding objects has serious security issues
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M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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After doing the news for a day, plus a weekend inbetween, I assumed, "I don't have to check all the already posted news anymore."
At least I didn't make it the headline ...
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Oracle's aggressive sales tactics are turning off customers, setting a roadblock in the company's race to catch up with Amazon Web Services in the cloud, according to a report on The Information. Oracle Corp. is threatening customers of its on-premises software with potentially expensive usage audits and strongly suggesting those customers could solve their problems by moving to the cloud.
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Sean Ewington wrote: Oracle Corp. is threatening customers
The way they handle licensing is just ridiculous. Where ever possible, I look for an alternative.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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When former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was asked about Elon Musk’s warnings about AI, he had a succinct answer: “I think Elon is exactly wrong.” "Would you not invent the telephone because of the possible misuse of the telephone by evil people?"
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