Exploratory

So, soon the walls will really have ears. The latest article on our machines listening to us would be funny if such as scenario didn’t feel like an impending dystopian future. This incident was purely accidental, but in the hands of an authoritarian regime (Putin? Xi Jinping? Viktor Orban? Trump?), such listening devices would be…

Fake news is alive and well. I read last Friday that within 20 minutes of disclosure of the school shooter’s identity, people were creating fake Facebook accounts in the shooter’s name and making false implications about him, such as any alliance with the antifas or alliance with Hillary or alliance with Trump, etc. First, why…

This article about BS job is kind of funny and I suspect the guy leading the charge may not really understand what those so-called BS jobs entail or why they exist. What are BS jobs? Here’s some example he lists: clerical workers, consultants, telemarketers, corporate lawyers, service personnel, brand managers, middle management, etc. Telemarketers, if…

Earlier in the week, I was working with somebody on getting Dropbox loaded onto her machine. For some reason, Dropbox would not install after you hit the “Install” link. Instead, we kept receiving a blank screen. So I went to Google to see if it could direct me to the answer to our problem and…

“When you read parts of the applications, it’s really clear that this is spyware and a surveillance system meant to serve you up to advertisers,” says Jamie Court, the president of Consumer Watchdog, “The companies”, Mr. Court added, are “basically going to be finding out what our home life is like in qualitative ways.” Sapna…

Sometimes you have to read the minds of your customers. For the last few weeks I’ve been working with one of the managers on developing a snapshot report requested by the customer, except we can’t seem to know what they really want. They seem to change their minds each week. I’m not in the meetings…