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.

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.

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).

For those confused: Americans use percentage for blood alcohol concentration.

That’s 0.91‰ and 0.8‰ respectively.

No, she is a CIA agent since she left Hong Kong and only CIA agents would ever leave China.

Those numbers seem… all somewhat tiny?

Like, the smallest dedicated news channel in Germany has 2.4 million daily viewers for comparison. Germany does have 80 million citizens instead of 68 million like the UK but that can’t be the reason.

It may be intentional.

A strong currency is good for imports but awful for exports.

A weaker currency is awful for imports and good for exports which Trump('s economic advisors) want.

China in particular is actively keeping its currency weak to ensure continuous exports. There’s a reason it is at its weakest point since 2007 compared to USD and EUR:

EUR: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/euro_reference_exchange_rates/html/eurofxref-graph-cny.en.html

USD - haven’t found a decent official source

Eh, as suprising as Cuba backing fascist Russia.

You don’t have much choice if your significantly larger and more powerful neighbor constantly threatens to invade you.

Plus even if they were to implement those features, the challenges would still get increasingly harder the more bot-like a scraper behaves.

You can’t prevent scraping entirely but you can certainly prevent scraping that behaves like a DOS attack.

It will make things significantly better in the short term.

Their entire infrastructure would immediately crumble. Nothing could be re-used. All successor parties would be banned automatically.

This means basically all their high ranking members are permanently banned from joining or collaborating with any future political party.

I don’t think I need to elaborate why this would set far right organizations back significantly.

True. We need more Margaret Thatchers alongside the Trumps of this world.

For anyone else wondering what a “MENSA” member is:

Mensa International is the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world.[3][4][5] It is a non-profit organization open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardised, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test.

I was already questioning why school/university cafeteria staff should get any benefits that aren’t present in other jobs.

They also have decent records of relevant political figures which are in no doubt in the hands of the US.

Seriously, the nazis were able to compile lists of political enemies (suspected to be) in Brtiain 85 years ago.

It’s not a stretch to suggest the US knows exactly who is relevant to keeping the regime alive, whom to imprison and whom to kill.

Collapsing a nation is far easier than establishing a new one after all.