Rick Henderson publishes a lot of interesting history about the opening-up of the area around the National Capital by settlers. He has come across an unsettling problem…ChatGBT authored articles written as histories that often contain misinformation and in this post by Rick he highlights the risks involved in allowing this sort of stuff to pollute […]
Category: Integrity
How do YOU spell discrimination? Is it time to regulate Facebook?
What do you think? Does discrimination involve spreading lies about another group? Does it involve allowing an elected official of a huge nation to label immigrants as rapists and murderers? Does allowing groups like the Proud Boys to disseminate hateful propaganda fall under the definition of discrimination? Well, if past history is anything to […]
Customer Service – when did it die?
[Edited 2020-08-26 to correct lots of spelling mistakes] You know how it works. You purchased a product or service…you paid good money for it. Now, it either doesn’t work as advertised or it works and then is corrupted during a manditory update. So, you go to the web-site for the product and you try to […]
Ever tried to get support from Intuit (maker of Quicken and Turbotax)?
[Update] Since this was written in 2016, Intuit sold Quicken which is now being managed by another group – Quicken Inc. I have used Quicken (by Intuit) since the mid ’90s. I have purchased a new version each year as a new one became available (usually when I bought my tax software from them) so that I would […]
The growing “support yourself” attitude from developers
Software companies are failing to adequately support their products
Gourken's Brain Dump (more of a trickle actually) 