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Mariya Gabriel, who is currently the EC’s commissioner-designate for the digital economy and society portfolio, was fielding questions from the European Parliament today, as part of the process to confirm her in the role.
She faced questions across a range of tech-related topics during the 2.5-hour session — including requests from MEPs for a clear position on encryption. Yet no straight answer was forthcoming .
Encryption has been rising up the political agenda in recent years, with European justice ministers in several member states raising concerns about strong encryption preventing the contents of terrorists’ communications from being accessed by law enforcement. The U.K. government has even gone so far as to say it now wants to limit companies’ use of end-to-end encryption.
Earlier this week the European Parliament’s civil liberties and justice committee put out a proposal aiming to the ePrivacy regulation that aims to safeguard end-to-end encryption from state backdoors.
And Gabriel was a member of the committee for several years during her time in the EU parliament. (The LIBE’s proposals will need the support of the EU Parliament and Council to make it into law, with the EC and its digital commissioner set to play an influential role in those ongoing discussions.)
Asked whether she sees the need to safeguard encryption in order to boost consumers’ trust in digital services, Gabriel began by appearing to support guarantees that strong encryption should not come with the risk of any government backdoors.
“At the moment it’s important to have encryption,” she said. “It’s a guarantee for security without any possible backdoors. We’ve already seen member states initiatives where they’ve used the deciphering of the encryption — and we’ve seen the results of that. So we need to move forward. Trust, confidence and security for citizens will come from a number of measures, but that’s a principle where I propose that we move along the same lines
But asked in a follow-up to commit that there will be “no such legal access provided” to (backdoor) e2e encryption, she rowed back.
“Legal access can only take place within very strict conditions, as we have for other legislative measures. And only where it concerns reasons of national security of the highest rank,” she said. “So I think on that point we need to make sure that we’re consistent with the other pieces of legislation that we have — and at the same time establish a clear principle.
“It’s important because we need to give our own institutions the means to move forward, but we also need to make sure that those very same instruments are not being used by others for purposes other than the positive purposes that we had in mind.”
It’s a position that’s reminiscent of the commission’s approach with the EU-US Privacy Shield — aka the mechanism for authorizing transfers of personal data from the EU to the U.S. that aims to bridge two very different data protection legal regimes. The prior Safe Harbor agreement was struck down after a legal challenge focused on U.S. government agencies’ bulk data collection programs; yet Privacy Shield still allows for bulk collection for national security purposes.
Later in the Q&A session encryption was raised again, with MEP Julia Reda accusing Gabriel of being contradictory in her prior answer — though the commissioner-designate did not take the opportunity to clarify her position.
Gabriel is EC president Jean-Claude Juncker’s nomination, midway through the current commission, to replace prior digital chief Günther Oettinger, who moved on to another area of responsibility in January. Since then EC VP Andrus Ansip has been the caretaker commissioner for the digital economy and society brief
On encryption, Ansip tweeted in March that “weakening encryption is not an option” — and has spoken out rejecting the idea of mandatory backdoors. However, he also has said that the interest of law enforcement is “not black and white” when it comes to encryption — so also has failed to set out an unambiguous view.
Weakening encryption is not an option, I have not changed my position: https://t.co/XwKv6YcFVf https://t.co/s1d8b6TAp2
— Andrus Ansip (@Ansip_EU) March 10, 2017
Other questions Gabriel faced from MEPs during today’s session included whether the EC will be introducing new legislative initiatives to regulate powerful online platforms, such as Uber and Airbnb. Would she, for example, be seeking to regulate the service or the type of company, she was asked?
On this she said the approach of the EC will generally be to “make an adjustment” when it sees a competition-related problem. But she also confirmed it has plans to tackle what she dubbed “unfair practices” by dominant platforms.  

I haven’t had the chance to look at too many men’s faces up close and I noticed how his skin was thicker than mine and a gorgeous shade of toast; the stiff blond hairs on his cheeks and chin seemed to be growing before my eyes. He smelled like starch. Like pine. His nose wasn’t so pointy after all.

The waiter yawned in the corner but we both ignored him and stayed and talked some more. And by the time I was wishing I’d washed my hair this morning instead of just bathed and was practically doubled over with gratefulness that I’d at least brushed my teeth, out of the blue, he kissed me. Right in the middle of the Robert E. Lee Hotel Restaurant, he kissed me so slowly with an open mouth and every single thing in my body—my skin, my collarbone, the hollow backs of my knees, everything inside of me filled up with light wine cellar hong kong.

On a MONDAY AFTERNOON, a few weeks after my date with Stuart, I stop by the library before going to the League meeting. Inside, it smells like grade school—boredom, paste, Lysoled vomit. I’ve come to get more books for Aibileen and check if anything’s ever been written about domestic help.

“Well hey there, Skeeter!”


Jesus. It’s Susie Pernell. In high school, she could’ve been voted most likely to talk too much. “Hey . . . Susie. What are you doing here?”

“I’m working here for the League committee, remember? You really ought to get on it, Skeeter, it’s real fun! You get to read all the latest magazines and file things and even laminate the library cards.” Susie poses by the giant brown machine like she’s on The Price Is Right television show.

“So, what may I help you find today, ma’am? We have murder mysteries, romance novels, how-to makeup books, how-to hair books,” she pauses, jerks out a smile, “rose gardening, home decorating HKUE DSE—”

“I’m just browsing, thanks.” I hurry off. I’ll fend for myself in the stacks. There is no way I can tell her what I’m looking for. I can already hear her whispering at the League meetings, I knew there was something not right about that Skeeter Phelan, hunting for those Negro materials...

I search through card catalogues and scan the shelves, but find nothing about domestic workers. In nonfiction, I spot a single copy of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. I grab it, excited to deliver it to Aibileen, but when I open it, I see the middle section has been ripped out. Inside, someone has written NIGGER BOOK in purple crayon. I am not as disturbed by the words as by the fact that the handwriting looks like a third grader’s. I glance around, push the book in my satchel. It seems better than putting it back on the shelf.

In the Mississippi History room, I search for anything remotely resembling race relations. I find only Civil War books, maps, and old phone books. I stand on tiptoe to see what’s on the high shelf. That’s when I spot a booklet, laid sideways across the top of the Mississippi River Valley Flood Index. A regular-sized person would never have seen it. I slide it down to glance at the cover. The booklet is thin, printed on onionskin paper, curling, bound with staples. “Compilation of Jim Crow Laws of the South,” the cover reads. I open the noisy cover page Air Purifier.  

Julie Desk, a French startup that’s developed an AI-driven “virtual assistant” to automate the scheduling of meetings, appointments, and more, has picked up €2.5 million in new funding — money it plans to use to further develop the technology. Backing the company this time around are previous investors SIDE Capital, Entrepreneur Venture, and SAAS Lab.
In some ways similar to U.S. competitor X.ai, Julie Desk can be thought of as a machine learning-based replacement for a PA. You simply CC “Julie” at the start of or during an email thread with the person you want to schedule a meeting with, and, in theory, the virtual assistant will take care of the rest Underfloor Heating.
This includes offering up potential meeting times — pulled in from the various online calendars supported — confirming the agreed time and place, adding it to your schedule and sending out the appropriate calendar invites.
The technology also ties into restaurant bookings, and Julie Desk has further integrations planned. This includes support for Skype for Business to create call URLs on the fly for scheduled conference calls. Another potential tie-in, but one that is further in the future, is automating travel bookings, something that other AI-powered virtual assistants have tried before.
“Once you integrate with a person’s calendar, there is a lot more you can do,” Julie Desk co-founder and CEO Julien Hobeika tells me .
One other interesting aspect of Julie Desk — and something Hobeika is refreshingly candid about — is that the startup openly operates a hybrid model, with its AI being underpinned by continuous human supervision. It sees a human check every final appointment made and editing the very few that aren’t correct, whilst in turn further training the startup’s algorithms.
This, says the Julie Desk founder, is both necessary for quality assurance purposes, and is also a huge selling point around trust, which is particularly relevant for larger corporate customers where a failure in scheduling could cost customers .

  

The old man nodded. His face cracked into a grin. "What the heck, it's Christmas. I'll run you over there in Tessie."

Shadow followed the old man to the road, where a huge old roadster was parked. It looked like something that gangsters might have been proud to drive in the Roaring Twenties, running boards and all. It was a deep dark color under the sodium lights that might have been red and might have been green. "This is Tessie," the old man said. "Ain't she a beaut?" He patted her proprietorially, where the hood curved up and arched over the front nearside wheel university-industry collaborations.

"What make is she?" asked Shadow.

"She's a Wendt Phoenix. Wendt went under in '31, name was bought by Chrysler, but they never made any more Wendts. Harvey Wendt, who founded the company, was a local boy. Went out to California, killed himself in, oh, 1941, '42. Great tragedy."

The car smelled of leather and old cigarette smoke-not a fresh smell, but as if enough people had smoked enough cigarettes and cigars in the car over the years that the smell of burning tobacco had become part of the fabric of the car. The old man turned the key in the ignition and Tessie started first time.

"Tomorrow," he told Shadow, "she goes into the garage. I'll cover her with a dust sheet, and that's where she'll stay until spring. Truth of the matter is I shouldn't be driving her right now, with the snow on the ground."

"Doesn't she ride well in snow?"

"Rides just fine. It's the salt they put on the roads. Rusts these old beauties faster than you could believe. You want to go door to door, or would you like the moonlight grand tour of the town?"


"It's no trouble. You get to be my age, you're grateful for the least wink of sleep. I'm lucky if I get five hours a night nowadays-wake up and my mind is just turning and turning. Where are my manners? My name's Hinzelmann. I'd say, call me Richie, but around here folks who know me just call me plain Hinzelmann. I'd shake your hand, but I need two hands to drive Tessie. She knows when I'm not paying attention."  

"Well, my sweet," said Miss Pross, nodding her head emphatically,"the short and the long of it is, that I am a subject of His MostGracious Majesty King George the Third;" Miss Pross curtseyed at thename; and as such, my maxim is, Confound their politics, Frustratetheir knavish tricks, On him our hopes we fix, God save the King!



Mr. Cruncher, in an access of loyalty, growlingly repeated the wordsafter Miss Pross, like somebody at church HKUE DSE.

"I am glad you have so much of the Englishman in you, though Iwish you had never taken that cold in your voice," said Miss Pross,approvingly. "But the question, Doctor Manette. Is there"- it wasthe good creature's way to affect to make light of anything that was agreat anxiety with them all, and to come at it in this chancemanner- "is there any prospect yet, of our getting out of this place?"

"I fear not yet. It would be dangerous for Charles yet HKUE ENG."

"Heigh-ho-hum!" said Miss Pross, cheerfully repressing a sigh as sheglanced at her darling's golden hair in the light of the fire, "thenwe must have patience and wait: that's all. We must hold up ourheads and fight low, as my brother Solomon used to say. Now, Mr.Cruncher!-Don't you move, Ladybird!"

They went out, leaving Lucie, and her husband, her father, and thechild, by a bright fire. Mr. Lorry was expected back presently fromthe Banking House. Miss Pross had lighted the lamp, but had put itaside in a corner, that they might enjoy the fire-light undisturbed.Little Lucie sat by her grandfather with her hands clasped through hisarm: and he, in a tone not rising much above a whisper, began totell her a story of a great and powerful Fairy who had opened aprison-wall and let out a captive who had once done the Fairy aservice. and Lucie was more at ease thanshe had been.

"What is that?" she cried, all at once HKUE ENG.

"My dear!" said her father, stopping in his story, and laying hishand on hers, "command yourself. What a disordered state you are in!The least thing- nothing- startles you! You, your father's daughter!"  

French startup Qonto has raised another $11.3 million (€10 million) from existing investors Valar Ventures and Alven Capital. The company is now also open for business. You can now create a French business bank account on the company’s website.
Qonto wants to become the N26 of business accounts. While retail banking hasn’t changed quickly enough over the past few years, it feels like business banking is even worse and has been stuck in the past. Everything is too expensive and it takes too much time to tell your bank to do something PPC.
Qonto wants to put you in charge of your account. It’s a web and mobile service like the ones you’re using every day, and you remain in control. So for €9 per month, you get a MasterCard, a French current account with an IBAN to receive payments and the ability to manage transfers and debits.
But that’s just the beginning as you can order new cards for €5 per month or create virtual cards for €2 per month. Qonto lets you manage your user base. If you hire a new sales person, you can give them a physical card and let them access their transactions in the mobile app and on the site .
You can block and unblock your card from the app, change the PIN code and get real-time notifications for each transaction. Administrators can adjust card limits and share transaction information with accountants.
Other features are coming soon, such as an easy workflow to upload receipts and attach them to a particular expense — accountants are going to love this. Qonto will also make it easier to handle transfers in multiple currencies.
In the future, you’ll be able to connect your Qonto account with various fintech services you might also be using, such as Stripe, PayPal and GoCardless. This way, you’ll be able to monitor and manage payments on all sorts of platforms from a single, unified interface.
Behind the scene, Qonto partnered with Treezor for the back end. Treezor is the company that is actually managing your money. It generates current accounts and debit cards for Qonto. On the other side of the equation, Qonto tailors the experience and handles the relationship with its own customers.
Other companies, such as iBanFirst in France, Seed in the U.S. and Tide in the U.K. are working on similar services with a few differences here and there — Tide just announced a $14 million funding round yesterday. While the market seems fragmented, those big funding rounds indicate that there seems to be a big opportunity to replace those expensive and ineffective business bank accounts .

  

ロボットと言えば、原子力発電所での作業や瓦礫の撤去など
人手だけでは出来ない危険な作業を担うことを期待されているが、
このような、人の感情や心理を読むロボットというものに対する期待も大きい。
感情を読むロボットと言えば、
１９８０年代初頭に放映された、アメリカドラマ『ナイトライダー』には、
会話が出来るクルマが出てきて、主人公とともに事件を解決するというストーリーで、
一躍人気のドラマとなった。
やはり、ただ作業をするだけのロボットより、人の感情を読んだり、
言葉をかけたりするそんなロボットこそ期待されていると言えそうだ。

先日のCNN NEWS に、
レストランを経営する企業で、今、試験的にロボットを導入する例が相次いでいるという。
この背景には、ファーストフード店で働く人たちの賃上げ要求ストなどがあり、
実際に、現在、時給１５ドルとなる法案が審議されているという。
もしそうなれば、経営が成り立たなくなるとして、
ロボットの導入に拍車がかかっているという。

レストランでのロボット導入と言っても、現在行なわれていることは、
オーダーシステムのコンピュータ化など補助的なことをやっている程度。
客からオーダーを聞き、お愛想を言って、運んだりするところまではいかない。
ただ、歩くロボットは既にある。
こういったロボットに感情認識システムを組み込むと、
ロボットが、お客の顔を覚え、
「今日は元気がないですね？」とか「そんなイライラしたときには、このメニューで」
など、一人一人に向けた話が出来るようになる。

その日の感情で、客に不快感を与えたりする人間の従業員より、
はるかに頼もしい存在になるに違いない。
ところが将来、そんなロボットも、コキ使われていることに嫌気が差し、
賃上げ要求したり、ストをするようになるかも？

  

最近の切手には、寝かしている間に
驚くほど高騰するものはなくなってしまったが、
モノによっては、急激な上昇曲線を描くものがあるDr. Schafter減肥。

「奇貨居(お)くべし」という故事成語がある。
奇貨とは、めずらしい品物のこと。意味としては、
「珍しい品物であるから今買って、寝かしておいて利益を得るがよい」
となる。まさに、蒐集趣味を表現したような言葉だが、
この言葉は、前漢時代の歴史書『史記』に出ているもの。
そんな大昔にも、そのような発想があったという事になる。

この言葉の意味には、もう一つある。
こちらの方が、故事の意味に近いが、
「得がたい機会だから、これを逃さず利用すべきだ」
とするもの。
すなわち、「千載一遇のチャンス」を逃さない、
という意味にもなる。

今回の都知事選の候補者が、ほぼ決まった。
顔ぶれを見てみると、相対的に年齢が高く、
誰、違(たが)う事なくシルバーエイジという雰囲気がある。
「殿」と呼ばれるかの人も、７６歳。
上には上がいるものだ。
ドクターと呼ばれる人などは、８５歳。

「奇貨」ならば、年数を経て値打ちが高くなったと言いたいところだが、、。
この選挙は、前任者のスキャンダルがなければ、
行なわれるべくもなかった選挙人事顧問。
「奇貨居くべし」、千載一遇のチャンスは、誰の手に。  

次に詠む人は変わり、その句に続いて七七の１４文字の句を連ねて句を作る。
次の詠み手が、最初のときのように、五七五の句を連ねて行く。
次は、１４文字。
そんな風に、歌を連ねて行くところから「連歌」と呼ばれる。
自由に作られる句だが、一つだけ必ず守らないといけない原則がある。
それは、前の句と、少なくとも関連がある内容を含んでいること。
そこに、機智を含んだ内容を詠みこんだりすると、大ウ香港服務式公寓ケしたりもする。

その当時の人にとっては、大いに楽しめる娯楽でもあったようだ。
連歌ブームは、鎌倉時代にはじまり、室町時代に最盛期を迎え、江戸時代まで続いたという。
当時、様々なところで連歌の会が催され、新しい作風の句をもたらす連歌師は歓迎され、
いわゆる”どさ回り”をして、大きく稼いでいたとも言われる。

それほどの人気だったが、今は、その影すら見ることはない。
今現在、俳句人口が５００万人以上だと言われるが、連歌人口は数百人程度だという。
俳諧は、この連歌の流れを汲むもの。
基本的には、機智、軽さ、滑稽を南乳花生詠んだものが多い。

松尾芭蕉の俳句も基本的に機智や滑稽を詠んだものも多い。
彼の句に、
「五月雨に　鳰(にお)の浮き巣を　見に行かむ」というのがある。
「鳰」とは、カイツブリのことで、鴨のような水鳥で、
水にもぐることができる鳥類で、琵琶湖の水面などに逆円錐状の巣を数多く作っている。
琵琶湖のことを「鳰のうみ」という別名がある。
芭蕉のこの句を解釈すると、
「梅雨の雨が降る中、なにも、好んで雨の中に出掛けていくこともないのに、
さすらう自分の姿を見るような、湖に浮かんでいるカイツブリの巣を見に行くとするか」
という芭蕉らしい自嘲的なおかしさを読み込んだ句。

同じ雨を詠っても少し剽軽(ひょうきん)さが漂う句もある。
そんな句を詠む一人、滝 瓢水(たきひょうすい) の句に、
「浜までは　海女(あま)も蓑(みの)着る　時雨(しぐれ)かな」というのがある。

海女といえば、海に潜って貝やウニなどの漁をする女性だが、
海女小屋から浜までは、蓑を着て行くという。（すなわち、海に潜るため、
これから、ずぶ濡れになるのに浜までは傘をさして行く）という迪士尼美語 好唔好意味になる。

人のやることは、ちょっと考えれば、どこか おかしいところがあるものだ。
  

これは、刻々と変わる死体の様子を観想するというもの。

現世が無常なものであり肉体を不浄なものと知るための修行で、
古くは、奈良時代に日本に伝わっていたとされる。

死後の肉体が朽ち白骨化するまでの九段階を表わした仏教画に、
九相図なるものがあり、
美人として知られる小野小町が、よく題材とされたりした。
その美貌もいつかは死を迎え、その肉体も朽ち果てて行くことを表わし、
世の無常をを強調する意味でモデルとされたようだ。
平安時代の檀林皇后は仏教に対する信心深く、
死後、自身の遺体を放置させ、この九相図を描かせたとも言われる。

すべてのものは無常で、いつかは朽ちて行ったり、
忘れ去られて行くのが世の倣(なら)いでもある。

それとは逆にネット社会というものは、
この「忘れる」という行為が不得意とも言える。

個人的に撮った写真で、撮った頃は気に入っていた写真でも、
時が経つと思い出したくもない写真になることもある。
そんな個人的な写真は、破り捨てたり筐底(きょうてい)に潜ませていれば、
誰の目に触れることなく消え去って行くもの。

ところが、今の時代、
一度、ネットに公開された写真や画像などは、いつの間にか拡散され、
もはやオリジナルな画像を消しても拡散を止めることができない状態になっていたりする。
時には、それが様々な波紋を呼ぶことになる。
いいものも、望まれないものも、筐底どころか、
自分の預かり知らなところで、変わることなく保存されていることになったりする。
すべては移ろい、朽ちて行くというのに、そんな画像が残っているのは、
一種のホラーでもある。