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Fulfilling all The Sims 2 fears can’t bring a good Sim down
The Sims 2 fears are just one way that the life sim represents your character’s many desires – specifically, their desires for things not to happen. The wants and fears system – often referred to as SWAF – gives your Sims up to three concurrent fears, such as being unlucky in love or not being able to pay their Sims rent. Much like wants, these will rotate out over time unless they’re manually locked in by the player – but if they are fulfilled, your Sim will face a hefty penalty to their aspiration bar.
How Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Are Fulfilling Cryptography’s Potential
They offer opportunities for data holders to pool their data in new and useful ways. In the health sector, for example, strict rules prohibit hospitals from sharing patients’ medical data. Yet if hospitals were able to combine their data into larger datasets, doctors would have more information, which would enable them to make better decisions on treatments. Indeed, a project in Switzerland using Pets has since June allowed medical researchers at four independent teaching hospitals to conduct analysis on their combined data of about 250,000 patients, with no loss of privacy between institutions. Juan Troncoso, co-founder and CEO of Tune Insight, which runs the project, says: “The dream of personalised medicine relies on larger and higher-quality datasets. Pets can make this dream come true while complying with regulations and protecting people’s privacy rights. This technology will be transformative for precision medicine and beyond.”
The past couple of years have seen the emergence of dozens of Pet startups in advertising, insurance, marketing, machine learning, cybersecurity, fintech and cryptocurrencies. According to research firm Everest Group, the market for Pets was $2bn last year and will grow to more than $50bn in 2026. Governments are also getting interested. Last year, the United Nations launched its “Pet Lab”, which was nothing to do with the welfare of domestic animals, but instead a forum for national statistical offices to find ways to share their data across borders while protecting the privacy of their citizens.
Jack Fitzsimons, founder of the UN Pet Lab, says: “Pets are one of the most important technologies of our generation. They have fundamentally changed the game, because they offer the promise that private data is only used for its intended purposes….” The emergence of applications has driven the theory, which is now sufficiently well developed to be commercially viable. Microsoft, for example, uses fully homomorphic encryption when you register a new password: the password is encrypted and then sent to a server who checks whether or not that password is in a list of passwords that have been discovered in data breaches, without the server being able to identify your password. Meta, Google and Apple have also over the last year or so been introducing similar tools to some of their products.
The article offers quick explanations of zero-knowledge proofs, secure multiparty computation, and fully homomorphic encryption (which allows the performance of analytics on data by a second party who never reads the data or learns the result).
And “In addition to new cryptographic techniques, Pets also include advances in computational statistics such as ‘differential privacy’, an idea from 2006 in which noise is added to results in order to preserve the privacy of individuals.”
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Steam Deck shipments get further ahead of schedule, Valve now fulfilling Q4 orders
For what is now the fifth time in a row, Valve have announced that waiting Steam Deck reservation holders will get their SteamOS handheld earlier than anticipated. That’s thanks to yet another uptick in production speed, according to a Steam Community post, so everyone whose delivery estimate was in Q3 2022 should now have received their confirmation email. Fulfilment of the final remaining Q4 batch is now fully underway, after a smaller handful of lucky Q4-ers were bumped forward into Q3.
Ajax ban kids’ signs begging players for shirts after stars were branded ‘arrogant’ for not fulfilling all requests
Ajax have BANNED fans from bringing signs to games asking players for their shirts.
The club have told the supporters’ association that they had noticed an increasing number of signs at matches, mostly held by children.
Ajax have banned signs like this from being allowed into their stadium[/caption]
And Ajax have now said it is no longer possible for the players to fulfil the shirt requests.
They justified the position by stating that when players were seen walking off the pitch without handing over their shirts they were often criticised as arrogant.
They also stated that the cardboard used for the signs poses a fire hazard.
Several signs were confiscated on Saturday when the Johan Cruyff Arena hosted the Dutch Super Cup between Ajax and PSV Eindhoven.
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Back in March, a sneaky fan stole the shirt of Ajax star Antony as he made his way into the crowd after a vital win over Feyenoord.
Antony went over to the stands to hand his shirt over to a dumbstruck kid.
But before he could do so, an opportunistic man nicked the shirt from his hand and scampered off with it.
It was later confirmed that the shirt had been returned to the club and it was subsequently auctioned off to raise money for charity.
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Meanwhile, Ajax lost a sensational Super Cup 5-3 as PSV overcame their Dutch rivals.
Guus Til netted twice for PSV as they secured an impressive victory over the league champions – who put up a fight through goals from the likes of ex-Tottenham man Steven Bergwijn and Man Utd target Antony.
Ajax kick off their Eredivisie campaign away at Fortuna Sittard this Saturday as they bid to win the Dutch title for a fourth successive time.