To advertisers, privacy just isn’t practical
I was just reading an article from the Associated Press discussing the strategy of a new start-up advertising company. Now, advertisers want to put little black boxes in ISP data centers to analyze what we do on-line. ISP’s are going for it, because they get a share of the revenue generated by advertisement campaigns that [...]
How will I.T. contractors retire?
I am happy to see that plenty of jobs are available in specialized I.T fields such as virtualization. I’ve been digging through the hundreds of head hunter web sites the past few days just to test the water and noticed that many of the posted opportunities offer contract positions. If you aren’t exclusive to one [...]
Microsoft ‘Santa’ dislikes pizza but enjoys discussing oral sex
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. According to The Associated Press, Microsoft disabled its artificial ‘Santa’ chat engine after the program suggested to two underage girls that “It’s fun to talk about oral sex“. Thankfully, the program also declared “but I want to chat about something else.“ Any AI program can be tricked into saying [...]
Avoiding ‘scope creep’
Anyone who has worked as a consultant knows the dreaded phrase ‘scope creep’, a euphemism employed to describe a situation where a customer is (usually) attempting to get services for free. Scope creep can be rather difficult to spot, usually a consultant does not realize the amount of services that they’ve provided for free until [...]
Teach with free community soup
There is a rather insightful submission climbing its way through the Slashdot Fire Hose today, an educator has found himself without the funds needed to purchase proprietary graphics design software needed to teach his classes. The educator seems rather insightful, asking if such a predicament may be for the better, citing the fact that non-free, [...]
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