I think that's a far too generous way to view what happened, and ignores one important difference (Facebook API vs adwords). FB offered expansive API access to PII data for third-party app developers in the pursuit of their virtuous cycle: content=>engagement=>profit. In this case, those opting in to an app were exposing their friends information via a daisy-chain of access buried in security settings (nearly always defaulting to share). FB knew this and chose to ignore it.
Sure, if the you want to skip the whole legal definition of terrorism, we can call him that. However, since we truly throw the book at terrorists, it's important to try and maintain a definition that doesn't cause an overly broad use of those specific state powers. Call that racism if you want.
I've heard consciousness described as the experience of being that isn't radio silence, so a bat probably would have it, a rock likely not. At what point an algorithm has experience seems like there only useful question so we don't torture AI.
That's a great point. The necessity of diffuse authority with so much data seems obvious, at least until we get personalized AI to augment our decision making.
I'm surprised as a left-leaning person that you find NPR challenging. I consider myself a centrist with a libertarian streak, and I find NPR to be markedly left-leaning (though I'm still a contributor and listen to marketplace and NPR politics podcasts religiously).
I'm in the market for a right-leaning podcast to balance out my listening habits, but I haven't found a single one that I can stomach beyond Chris Wallace on fox-news Sunday, which isn't too bad.
Quite, as one might expect from a bunch of nerds crowded in poorly ventilated computer lab. Thank you for keeping the pedant spirit of Slashdot alive Hognoxious. *fedora tip*
I recall back in college, we developed on sun ultrasparks using feature poor text editors, and spent much time pouring over code for simple typos and parsing core dumps. Now as a professional developer I wouldn't hesitate for a moment to purchase a visual studios license if it weren't provided by work. Much of enterprise software is useless and overpriced-but not visual studios, IMHO.
I've used a number of languages in my 12+ years in the trenches of coding, and the language actually is a big(ish) deal. There's an expressiveness and continuity of thought that comes from being well-versed in a language. You know the tools, platform limitations, conventions, shortcuts, the gotchas. Maybe you're a polymath that remembers all of that stuff and has kept track of all the language advances of the last X years that can get rid of 30% of the boilerplate and do automated bounds checking, but for most of us coding in different languages is not like driving different cars. I'd say it's more like driving a moped, a backhoe, an airplane, or in the case of 'c' perhaps a luge.
Now, a good collaborative environment with code reviews and the like can help lessen that learning curve, but without sufficient talent it will take years to get there.
Steele Dossier which was used as justification for FISA warrant to spy on the opposition campaign
As has been publish widely but you choose to ignore, there was other justification, specifically George Papadopoulos's drunken leak and the fact that carter page himself bragging that he was an advisor to the Kremlin.
It would be a dereliction of duty for the FBI to not spy on a political campaign that is a riddled with Russian intermediaries as this one. We don't even have all the facts yet and we've had 3 people plead guilty to lying to the FBI about these Russian contacts, including the deputy campaign chairman and the man who became the national security advisor. The campaign chairman is up to his eyeballs in debt to a Russian oligarch.
However, there may be something to this Uranium one thing, we'll see.
A candy-bar would meet that same carefully crafted definition. It's still unhealthy, and your taking offense that it's somehow a 'privileged' viewpoint is insane.
As you say it's an interesting technological challenge, and no doubt that's the true focus. It is total happenstance that in the 2nd picture the researcher is featured against a whiteboard with the terms 'Racism', 'Sexism', 'Implicit Bias', 'LGBTQ Prejudice' and dubbed 'an advocate in the new field of “algorithmic accountability.”'
You make some good points there, but I disagree about the meaningless of troll. Back in the days of metamoderation, having specific labels for trolls was helpful. The burden of tracking down the context across threads would have gone from onerous to implausible without it.
they were completely orthogonal about what was wrong with her.
Though I didn't vote for Trump, I found myself in a similar situation to this regarding my own mistrust of Hillary. Here's my argument:
There are a hundred smaller events such as the 'public and private positions' and a couple larger events like the 'deplorable/irredeemable' comments (I'd put that in the same category as the 43% comment from Romney) that hurt her reputation. The Clinton foundation accepting large donations from enemies and tyrants didn't help.
However, when you get down to brass tacks , it was Hillary's exceedingly calculated and orchestrated campaign that gave the impression that we weren't getting the 'true' Hillary. Even listening to her on Ezra Klein's podcast after the election when presumably she'd have no reason to be cautious, I still left with the view that she was not being forthcoming.
Apple knows this -- they're already too far behind, and are simply never going to be able to keep pace with what's going on in the Linux world.
Apple has the talent and resources to keep pace with anyone, full stop. They could wrap these good open source products with a slick UI and be a real competitor in the enterprise, if they had the inclination. Clearly they do not.
Your racist drivel completely missed OP's point. While you were fetishing over punching someone who says something you don't like, the OP was (vaguely and anecdotally) outlining an attack vector for hostile government access to the data of US citizens.
In a legal context (not a moral one) I do find it difficult to say which is the speech that one should be legally compelled to be express. It's well and good to have a firm moral argument in the most stark of cases, it's another to have a legal framework that protects individual liberty in addition to moving society forward.
That seems fair. Unless I'm reading the oral arguments though, it's not quite off the shelf:
MS. WAGGONER: Justice Sotomayor,
that's not how he responded to the couple. The
couple came in and they requested a custom cake
for their wedding. At that point, they brought
in a folder with all kinds of designs they
wanted to discuss and ended up purchasing a
rainbow-layered cake or -- or received a free
rainbow-layered cake, which certainly is
expression.
The order below requires Mr. Phillips
also to include words and symbols on his cakes.
It's that broad. So if, for example,
Mr. Phillips had used a Bible verse on a cake
in the past, he would be compelled to use that
Bible verse in a different context.
i think there's an important distinction between selling a commodity and selling custom work. What if you're a website designer and get a request to code a website to extol the virtues of Jihad or White Supremacy? This isn't as easy as just sell your product or you're a racist.
It's a lot more than forced labor (though the labor camps are exceedingly horrid). The un-freedom is palpable in so many facets of NK society, from the surveillance state to the ubiquitous propaganda. Punishments for lack of fealty can extend to your entire family out to 3rd cousins. For those who value freedom slaughter might be preferable.
It seems to me the physical requirements are the same. There might be an argument for different types of cables (though I think that's debatable) but what's the point in having a bunch of competing wires on the last mile? How many cables do I need running to my house?
Broadband for America members include AT&T, CenturyLink, Charter, CTIA – The Wireless Association, Comcast, Cox, NCTA – The Internet & Television Association, Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), and USTelecom Association.
Of course, that doesn't mean the analysis is automatically bunk, but it certainly does raise alarms. That 444,938 number you quote is based on the analysis that assumes that people were honest on the 'international address' field. Any meaningful analysis would have to go quite a bit deeper than trusting the address that someone put in. The company doing the analysis acknowledges this, noting:
lack of user authentication by ECFS makes it difficult to determine genuine comment submissions . Emprata was also not able to authenticate the filer, address, email, or comment data used for this analysis, nor the methods used to collect those data elements . As a result, it is very difficult to draw any definitive conclusions from the comments found in the docket . Any conclusions that one might draw from the data would be based on the subset of data that they considered to be real.
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I think that's a far too generous way to view what happened, and ignores one important difference (Facebook API vs adwords). FB offered expansive API access to PII data for third-party app developers in the pursuit of their virtuous cycle: content=>engagement=>profit. In this case, those opting in to an app were exposing their friends information via a daisy-chain of access buried in security settings (nearly always defaulting to share). FB knew this and chose to ignore it.
Sure, if the you want to skip the whole legal definition of terrorism, we can call him that. However, since we truly throw the book at terrorists, it's important to try and maintain a definition that doesn't cause an overly broad use of those specific state powers. Call that racism if you want.
. Have you ever been put under with anesthetics? What was your soul up to then?
I've heard consciousness described as the experience of being that isn't radio silence, so a bat probably would have it, a rock likely not. At what point an algorithm has experience seems like there only useful question so we don't torture AI.
That's a great point. The necessity of diffuse authority with so much data seems obvious, at least until we get personalized AI to augment our decision making.
Clearly we should be focused solely on the issue you care about, despite this being a years long study not remotely related to your hobby horse topic.
I'm surprised as a left-leaning person that you find NPR challenging. I consider myself a centrist with a libertarian streak, and I find NPR to be markedly left-leaning (though I'm still a contributor and listen to marketplace and NPR politics podcasts religiously). I'm in the market for a right-leaning podcast to balance out my listening habits, but I haven't found a single one that I can stomach beyond Chris Wallace on fox-news Sunday, which isn't too bad.
Quite, as one might expect from a bunch of nerds crowded in poorly ventilated computer lab. Thank you for keeping the pedant spirit of Slashdot alive Hognoxious. *fedora tip*
I recall back in college, we developed on sun ultrasparks using feature poor text editors, and spent much time pouring over code for simple typos and parsing core dumps. Now as a professional developer I wouldn't hesitate for a moment to purchase a visual studios license if it weren't provided by work. Much of enterprise software is useless and overpriced-but not visual studios, IMHO.
I've used a number of languages in my 12+ years in the trenches of coding, and the language actually is a big(ish) deal. There's an expressiveness and continuity of thought that comes from being well-versed in a language. You know the tools, platform limitations, conventions, shortcuts, the gotchas. Maybe you're a polymath that remembers all of that stuff and has kept track of all the language advances of the last X years that can get rid of 30% of the boilerplate and do automated bounds checking, but for most of us coding in different languages is not like driving different cars. I'd say it's more like driving a moped, a backhoe, an airplane, or in the case of 'c' perhaps a luge.
Now, a good collaborative environment with code reviews and the like can help lessen that learning curve, but without sufficient talent it will take years to get there.
Steele Dossier which was used as justification for FISA warrant to spy on the opposition campaign
As has been publish widely but you choose to ignore, there was other justification, specifically George Papadopoulos's drunken leak and the fact that carter page himself bragging that he was an advisor to the Kremlin.
It would be a dereliction of duty for the FBI to not spy on a political campaign that is a riddled with Russian intermediaries as this one. We don't even have all the facts yet and we've had 3 people plead guilty to lying to the FBI about these Russian contacts, including the deputy campaign chairman and the man who became the national security advisor. The campaign chairman is up to his eyeballs in debt to a Russian oligarch.
However, there may be something to this Uranium one thing, we'll see.
Also, I believe they found those missing texts.
A candy-bar would meet that same carefully crafted definition. It's still unhealthy, and your taking offense that it's somehow a 'privileged' viewpoint is insane.
If you're a pancake fan get an electric griddle at a thrift store. Good for several other dishes as well. Sometimes you need the right tool.
As you say it's an interesting technological challenge, and no doubt that's the true focus. It is total happenstance that in the 2nd picture the researcher is featured against a whiteboard with the terms 'Racism', 'Sexism', 'Implicit Bias', 'LGBTQ Prejudice' and dubbed 'an advocate in the new field of “algorithmic accountability.”'
You make some good points there, but I disagree about the meaningless of troll. Back in the days of metamoderation, having specific labels for trolls was helpful. The burden of tracking down the context across threads would have gone from onerous to implausible without it.
they were completely orthogonal about what was wrong with her.
Though I didn't vote for Trump, I found myself in a similar situation to this regarding my own mistrust of Hillary. Here's my argument:
There are a hundred smaller events such as the 'public and private positions' and a couple larger events like the 'deplorable/irredeemable' comments (I'd put that in the same category as the 43% comment from Romney) that hurt her reputation. The Clinton foundation accepting large donations from enemies and tyrants didn't help.
However, when you get down to brass tacks , it was Hillary's exceedingly calculated and orchestrated campaign that gave the impression that we weren't getting the 'true' Hillary. Even listening to her on Ezra Klein's podcast after the election when presumably she'd have no reason to be cautious, I still left with the view that she was not being forthcoming.
Apple knows this -- they're already too far behind, and are simply never going to be able to keep pace with what's going on in the Linux world.
Apple has the talent and resources to keep pace with anyone, full stop. They could wrap these good open source products with a slick UI and be a real competitor in the enterprise, if they had the inclination. Clearly they do not.
Don't worry, the results haven't rendered in the Emacs browser yet, they'll get here.
Your racist drivel completely missed OP's point. While you were fetishing over punching someone who says something you don't like, the OP was (vaguely and anecdotally) outlining an attack vector for hostile government access to the data of US citizens.
In a legal context (not a moral one) I do find it difficult to say which is the speech that one should be legally compelled to be express. It's well and good to have a firm moral argument in the most stark of cases, it's another to have a legal framework that protects individual liberty in addition to moving society forward.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/o...
i think there's an important distinction between selling a commodity and selling custom work. What if you're a website designer and get a request to code a website to extol the virtues of Jihad or White Supremacy? This isn't as easy as just sell your product or you're a racist.
It's a lot more than forced labor (though the labor camps are exceedingly horrid). The un-freedom is palpable in so many facets of NK society, from the surveillance state to the ubiquitous propaganda. Punishments for lack of fealty can extend to your entire family out to 3rd cousins. For those who value freedom slaughter might be preferable.
It seems to me the physical requirements are the same. There might be an argument for different types of cables (though I think that's debatable) but what's the point in having a bunch of competing wires on the last mile? How many cables do I need running to my house?
Broadband for America members include AT&T, CenturyLink, Charter, CTIA – The Wireless Association, Comcast, Cox, NCTA – The Internet & Television Association, Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), and USTelecom Association.
Of course, that doesn't mean the analysis is automatically bunk, but it certainly does raise alarms. That 444,938 number you quote is based on the analysis that assumes that people were honest on the 'international address' field. Any meaningful analysis would have to go quite a bit deeper than trusting the address that someone put in. The company doing the analysis acknowledges this, noting:
lack of user authentication by ECFS makes it difficult to determine genuine comment submissions . Emprata was also not able to authenticate the filer, address, email, or comment data used for this analysis, nor the methods used to collect those data elements . As a result, it is very difficult to draw any definitive conclusions from the comments found in the docket . Any conclusions that one might draw from the data would be based on the subset of data that they considered to be real.