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Slimme GDPR, domme meter

Nu iedereen begint te begrijpen dat het slimme van de ‘slimme’ meter alleen zit in de onvoorstelbare leugen van noodzaak van tweemaal per … doorgeven van uw individuele energieverbruik, omdat daarmee de capaciteit beter zou kunnen worden verdeeld, gemanaged en ingepland, terwijl dat slechts op wijkniveau zou hoeven worden bepaald – alsof het energiebedrijf op individueel niveau zou gaan throttelen als dat nodig zou zijn en alsof er remote controls op dat granulariteitsniveau beheerst zouden kunnen worden ..! –
Is er de GDPR, of AVG voor wie provinciaals denkt. Die veel strikter dan voorheen toeziet op doelbinding; het moet echt niet anders kunnen dan dat er inbreuk op de privacy wordt gedaan. En zie boven; op wijkniveau meten (en dat kost veel, héél veel minder meters, onderhoud, etc.!) is ruimschoots voldoende dus is de inbreuk op de privacy niet toegestaan. En voor de jaarafrekening is eenmaal per jaar doorgeven ook goed, als vanouds en dan is op papier (email, weet u wel) doorgeven ook goed.

Of is er een wettelijke taak? Ja, maar , de wettelijke taak van leveren van stabiele energie noodzaakt geenszins de privacy-inbreuk.
Of is er nóg een wettelijke taak, namelijk wietplantages opsporen ..? Dan was al voordat de sleepwet inging, járen ervoor, totale controle van alle individuele huishoudens aan de gang … Iedereen is Verdacht ..!

Andere argumenten of wettelijke taken? Neen, Géén. [Ongeldige argumenten schrappen we, tenslotte.]

Gaat de GDPR wat veranderen ..? Hey, dit is Nederland hè? Als het van de overheid en angehauchten komt, heerst volslagen wetteloosheid. Dus wat zijn de kansen …

[Boven de massa, lekker cosy; El Andaluz]

Too late, or not

So, today marks the 100 work days from 25-5-2018 mark. Not counting the umpteen bank and other holidays.
Wich means that

  • You’re (with) a large company: Not sorry to inform you; your GDPR program will fail. Per the above deadline, you will not have achieved enough. By far, not enough. Some plans, at most, and some paperwork. But not the end resulting detail minimum-level of data architecture, let alone pervasive improvements in set-up and management of actual, concrete, infosec. Reports notwithstanding, those are hyperfuzzy window dressing anyway.
  • You’re with an SME. Congratulations; when you start now, you can achieve compliance in time, without much stress. Since your environment is so properly tuned to the size of your business, all the above categories of work, can be done in quite limited time frames. But do start soon!
  • You’re in between. You’ll have some of the upside, but mostly the downsides of the above.

Gimme back the budget

What happens to the budget when some self-styled government authority flat-out refuses to carry out (part of) its assigned and entrusted [well…] task ..?
Withdraw, you would say, for at least the part that she (sic) got budget for and says to spend on that. If not the whole Board is to be fired for misconduct and insubordinance.

Of course, not in NL …

Not only Canadian

As you understand, that does not say ‘merely’, the ‘only’ is on purpose. That being the same as the lies that @transavia (Transavia, remember them?) came up with, when they:

  1. Let some pilot fly to a destination they knew would be more fervent in arresting him
  2. Told the passengers waiting there for the return flight that ‘there was something amiss with fueling’
  3. Did not have a fresh crew / pilot at hand; had to be flown in from NL after item 1 went down
  4. leading to a delay of something like 6 hours, that they should have been able to calculate, and communicate, beforehand ..!
  5. Supplied only a couple of lousy (value) vouchers, to but just a single sandwich per person/passenger, at an airport that literally almost completely closed down before the back-up crew arrived – those that didn’t redeem their vouchers in time, were left with junk food / bottled water (one item…) as their only options, and e.g., Customs, and other services, had gone home entirely.
  6. Never ever apologised (the ‘Sorry’ hinted at in the title) for the whole mess-up, lies and delay, or even debriefed on what actually went down or whatever, or duly! compensated. To the latter: I missed serious business opportunities because the next day, I wasn’t able to work as effectively as when I would have had a good night’s sleep… 5-figures damage.
  7. And no-one will expect them to clean up on the situation now the court case has settled and the new year has started.

Especially item 2, and item 6: Shame.

Oh wait, that’s why they fit in so well with AirFrance…

Een pagina’tje met wat verzamelde links over/voor/inzake auditors/accountants

Gewoon, omdat het anders zo’n zoekwerk is met van die vervelend lange URLs…

Als de basiservaring niet meer kan worden opgedaan, dan …
Achterhaaldheid, v.v. veranderbereidheid
DACs en auditkantoren
Overbodigheid, achterhaaldheid weer
Assurance levels
AI, robots en auditwerk
Zucht, ja, blockchain
Process health
De markt
Multi-content assurance
XML-mogelijkheden
Direct reporting door accountants

Music to AI’s ears

Will AI eventually appreciate music ..?

Not just appreciate in a sense of experiencing the quality of it — the latter having ‘technical’ perfection as its kindergarten basement’s starting level only; where the imperfections are cherishable as huge improvements, yes indeed [Perfection Is Boring!] … but moreover, music appreciation having a major element of recognition, subconsciously mostly, of memories of times almost-im-memorial.

Of course, the kindergarten perfection gauging, AI will be able to do easily. Will, or does; simple near-algorithmic A”I” can do that today.

Appreciating imperfections, the same, with a slight randomiser (-recogniser) thrown in the algo mix.

But the recollection part, even at a conscious level requires memories to be there, and as far as AI goes (today) even ASI will have different memory structures since the whole facts learning processes are different. And don’t mention the subconscious side.

Yes, ASI can have a subconscious, of which we aren’t aware of even able to be aware [Note to self: to cover in audit philosophy development]. But when we don’t hear of this, was there a tree that fell in the forest?

I’m off some tangent direction.

What I started out to discuss is: At what point does music appreciation through the old(est) memories recall, become an element of ‘intelligence’ ..?

With the accompanying question, on my priority list when discussing AxI: Is it, for humans ..?

And a bonus question: Do you really think that AI would prefer, or learn earlier about the excellence, of Kraftwerk or Springsteen? Alas, your first response was wrong; Kraftwerk’s the kind of subtle intelligent hint-laden apparently-simple stuff that is very complex and also deeply human — which you perceive only when listening carefully over and over again till you get the richness and all the emotions (there they are!) and yearning for the days gone by when the world was a better place. Springsteen, raw and Original-Forceful on the surface — but quickly showing a (rational-level) algorithmics play with not as much depth; even the variations and off-prefection bits are well thought-out, leaving you with much less relatable memories if at all.

Your thoughts are appreciated. And:
[Appropriately seemingly transparent but completely opaque; some EU parliament (?), Strassbourg]

Obviously for tomorrow: a rerun of Elk, Moose, Reindeer, Wapiti, Caribou, Deer

As an intermission: Would you know which is which, of the above/below …?
And then, there’s continental differences …
First up, the Elk:
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Servus Canadensis, the wapiti indeed. Next up, the Elk:
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know as such in Eurasia including those tinny pebbles off the coast called the British Isles. Looks suspiciously like the Alces Alces that is the Canadian (oh well, and US, yes, whiners) Moose, doesn’t it?
Because it is…! But you moose’ent confuse the two with each other nor with the reindeer a.k.a. caribou:
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Rangifer Tarandus, since this one’s for Saami and Santa.

Are you feeling elky now ..? Or move to the Caribouan; you’ll never have problems with the above there … Oh deer we’re in seriousness-trouble here…

Forever on Page 50

With all the talk about whatever ends up on the Internet, will be around to be found forever, there’s a couple of things:
 

  • It may be on the Internet still, however erased according to the Right to be Forgotten, but that doesn’t mean it can be found. When you’ve taken care to not re-raise attention too much, your shame-news will be on search results page 50+ and nobody will ever go there;
  • But then, if someone took care to actually download the items to some off-line storage, you’re doomed indeed. Yes I too have a lot of electronic files from 1-1-1980, a slew of them actually from around that time. Barely readable qua format but of course easily upgradable, script-wise.
  • Bots may be deployed, to compromise any site or so that has your want-disapperable info; may not be legal in all cases (could be, when an offline court ordered to be Forgotten…) but when the attention dies down, so few will want to restore your info once outdated. Society-beneficial to deploy ransomware on xyz-old site/db data ..?
  • Oh and the title certainly refers to your reading of Sloterdijk’s Spheres Part III as well, probably. Have past that point handsomely, but with considerable effort. Applies to Musil’s Man Without Qualities Part III (Vol. II) also.

But then:
??????????[A Cordoníu — note the accent! — may ‘save’ your sanity by unsaving your memory]

Maverisk / Étoiles du Nord