That’s what I’m saying.

The argument:

If you never pay for music, artists won’t be able to make new music

is fundamentally flawed. Nearly all artists don’t make more than pocket change at best.

Even if we were to abolish all copyright tomorrow and no one would every pay for art again, art would still exist and be published. Because as it turns out, people enjoy making art.

That’s not to say they shouldn’t be paid. Of course people should make a living by selling art. But OP saying art will cease to exist if there is no money is completely wrong.

Open https://bandcamp.com/discover?s=rand and check how many albums have sold more than 5 copies.

How are those artists able to make music without making money? Because according to you, they can’t.

The E in EBC is basically as relevant as the E in European Article Number (EAN) which are used globally.

I suspect Tunisia is one of those countries that desperately tries to appear tough to their population. It’s a national embarrassment to have a foreign nation attack vessels in your water without you noticing.

That doesn’t prevent someone ordering “everything” at max quantity, which is almost certainly a “malicious” order.

The idea of anomaly detection is to project some input onto a (high dimensional), numeric output. From the training data alone, you can then see where the projections are clustered and develop a high dimensional “boundary” where everything within is known and good and everything outside is unknown and possibly bad. Since orders come in relatively slow, a human would be able to check for false positives and overwrite the computer decision.

By the way, an ideal training set is preprocessed and has duplicates removed and new orders added by recombining parts of individual orders.

For example, if we have 3 orders:

• (Hamburger, Fries)
• (Hamburger, Fries)
• (Cheeseburger, Sandwich)

We could then create the following set:

• (Hamburger)
• (Cheeseburger)
• (Fries)
• (Sandwich)
• (Hamburger, Fries)
• (Hamburger, Cheeseburger)
• (Hamburger, Sandwich)

And so on, and so forth. A naive variant is just taking the power set of all valid orders.

Boo, bad article.

Here’s a better one:

https://www.fortinet.com/blog/threat-research/iot-malware-gayfemboy-mirai-based-botnet-campaign

Highlights:

Upon execution, the malware displays the string “twinks :3.”

The malware uses the string “meowmeow” as a trigger to activate its backdoor functionality.

The known C2 domains include:

cross-compiling[.]org
i-kiss-boys[.]com
furry-femboys[.]top
twinkfinder[.]nl
3gipcam[.]com

There are machine learning algorithms for anomaly detection though. They actually work decently well because exploits like this do in fact differ significantly from regular orders. Because they assume all anomalies are attempted exploits, their false negative rate is rather low while their false positive rate can be a bit higher.

Taco Bell has the capability to create a decently large training set from all recorded orders (which must all be valid and non-malicious) so they shouldn’t have too many issues developing this model.

If an anomaly is detected, make a human verify it is indeed an irregular order.

If only you sharted in your pants instead; then you would’ve been able to partially accomodate OP’s request.

Processing would be quicker?

This would add significant processing overhead because of conversions everwhere. There is a lot of string processing going on inside your CPU already, I’m reasonably sure this would add a measurable overhead.

Plus I believe this would cause even more string related security vulnerabilities to emerge because of additional code that needs to be maintained.

Huh, you’re right but the umbrella company was still only called “Old Mutual”.

No, that’s Old Mutual Wealth which rebranded. Wealth, not Health. Maybe this is a mistake in the article?

I would be very impressed if he surgically removed his own legs. I mean, there is a lot of tissue and bone to cut through. That’s not easy to do by yourself. But if that’s the case, that’s where the fraud aspect could come from.

Also, is that a thing? “Disability by choice” so you get a lower payout? But even if, wouldn’t that be paid by some other insurance - like a specific disability insurance rather than your typical health insurance? At least in Germany the latter is very much different, health insurances only pay for treatments, recovery and prevention.

The lie about the cause of the injury must somehow be related to the payout, otherwise I can’t believe how it would constitute fraud. Still, this is really confusing because private health insurances usually cannot decline/reduce claims due to intentional injury.

It definitely cannot go to the EU. I don’t believe any EU country permits private online libraries.

Plus the entire Wayback Machine would be considered systematic copyright infringement since the Internet Archive doesn’t obtain permission prior to archival. And if you don’t have permission then it is automatic copyright infeingement.

I don’t understand this story. It’s really badly presented:

Hopper dishonestly made a false representation to Aviva and Old Mutual Health that his “legs had been amputated because of illness rather than self-inflicted injury”, the court heard

Aviva is a private health insurance, Old Mutual Health doesn’t seem to operate in the UK, only in Kenya, Rwanda and South Africa? Either way, don’t insurance companies legally have to pay even for treating self-iflicted injuries requiring amputation?

In April 2019, he used dry ice to freeze his legs to the extent they were no longer viable and required amputation.

The amputation had to happen, else he would have died. Hell, I’d even argue the freezing occured due to mental illness so he misrepresented it only by claiming the amputation was physical illness. How is the cause even relevant for a health insurance?

After the amputation, he made claims to the insurers that resulted in payouts of £466,653.81. He spent the money on a campervan, a hot tub, wood burner and building works.

These are health insurances. Not life insurances or similar that would pay you for losing your legs. Don’t health insurances just cover the treatment (amputation), recovery and prosthetics? Sure they can get expensive - a six digit figure seems like a lot still but not fully implausible - but why would you get a “payout”? Health insurance would only cover bills.

Surely it can’t be insurance fraud to harm yourself and then make an insurance claim for the recovery, right? Otherwise literally everyone who survived a suicide attempt would have to cover all associated expenses.

So where did the fraud part come from?

The incident occurred in Kano state, one of 14 majority-Muslim states in northern Nigeria subject to Sharia law.

In northern states governed by Sharia law, homosexuality is punishable by death.

Damn I thought those Americans were exporting evangelical Christianity, not Sharia law. TIL.

Water?

From the article:

In some places, the main criticism that residents have about data centers has to do with the amount of water they consume to cool servers. This isn’t the case in Marseille, however, which is well-supplied with this resource.

The “drying up” in the headline refers to electricity consumption.

No, he has owned a private jet for many years prior to becoming chancellor.

Yeah, it’s the same unit just offset by a factor of ten:
% = 10 * ‰

Like floquant said, many European countries use per mille (which is denoted by ‰). It’s easy to convert those two but you first have to realize the need for conversion if you don’t read carefully (since the symbols % and ‰ look similar at first glance).