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  1. Another unforeseen consequence - sexting selfies on Online Pornography Age Checks To Be Mandatory in UK From 15 July (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    .. unforeseen consequences ...

    Another unforeseen consequences is that high school kids will find that the easiest way to get porn will be to have their classmates send sexting selfies to each other through facebook and snapchat.

    Probably not what the lawmakers hoped.

  2. Or sign up under a false persona on A Hacker Has Dumped Nearly One Billion User Records Over the Past Two Months (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You get much more fun junk mail if you claim your income's >$400,000; and your interests include hunting rifles and endangered species.

  3. more interested in tech to secure it from google on Gmail Becomes First Major Email Provider To Support MTA-STS, TLS Reporting (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    There's no-one other than google that spys on my email anyway. I'm more interested in technology to secure emails *from* google spying on them. Wake me up when they offer end-to-end encryption.

  4. Re:Seems quite a lot larger... on Old-School Slashdotter Discovers and Solves Longstanding Flaw In Basic Calculus (mindmatters.ai) · · Score: 1

    like trying to write better poetry by using more perfect spelling and grammar

    Let's run with your analogy.

    The current situation - with the misleading notation - is as if all poetry in history was written using future-tense.

    The new recommended notation is like adding the ability to write the correct tenses in poetry.

    Sure, you can still use the rough approximation old notation (and many teachers will); just as you can still write poetry that only uses future tense.

    This guy empowered us to now use the more correct notation that implies the meaning we intend.

  5. "Expect" matters more legally than "care" on Two-Thirds of Consumers Don't Expect Google To Track Them the Way It Does (niemanlab.org) · · Score: 1

    Most privacy laws are based around a "Reasonable Expectation of Privacy". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... It doesn't matter if people care. It matters if they expect privacy.

  6. Still important what they think on Two-Thirds of Consumers Don't Expect Google To Track Them the Way It Does (niemanlab.org) · · Score: 2
    Since privacy laws are mostly based on a "Reasonable Expectation Of Privacy" - it's very important what those users think.

    .

    If they "don't understand the EULA or business model" --- that fact extremely important to protecting the irRight to Privacy. If they did understand the EULAs, or think that Google does track them, it would literally take away such rights.

    TL/DR: NOT reading EULAs is important for preserving your rights.

  7. And by likely future chromium forks on Several Major Browsers to Prevent Disabling of Click-Tracking 'Hyperlink Auditing' (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Devil's advocate.... ... good.

    This is exactly the motivation people need to move to different F/OSS chromium forks.

  8. Possibly classified projects.... on Over A Dozen Satellites From SpaceX's December Launch Can't Be Identified (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
    Possibly classified projects from other agencies where the Air Force has no "Need to Know".

    There are enough other agencies - some in competition with the DoD - that they may intentionally be keeping the Air Force out of the loop.

  9. Ironic. Crazy cat ladies knew more than science on Cats Can Recognize Their Own Names, Study Suggests (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2
    Kinda ironic that crazy cat ladies knew more than scientists.

    I knew this as 6 year old kid.

    Why is this considered worthy of a study?

  10. This helps the big social media companies. on Social Media Bosses Could Be Liable For Harmful Content, Leaked UK Plan Reveals (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Facebook can afford the team go implement their Censorship Rules, and Google already has a team to work with China's. /. can't afford similar.

  11. Bad training keeps AI stupid on Can We Stop AI Outsmarting Humanity? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's also trained by humans.

    Assuming it's trained by average humans, it'll probably become as stupid and bigoted as your average human.

    Consider Microsoft Tay. Or google tagging people as gorillas. Or from this week's news, the Teslas that swerve into oncomint traffic.

    We should worry much more about stupid AI than smart AI.

  12. Re:Google not Googling on Cloudflare Says Its New VPN Service Won't Slow You Down (wired.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    NordVPN has a rather close partnership (shared office space, shared executives) with a major data mining company (Tesonet) that brags about how much data it mines.

    People from both companies have given explanations/excuses in the past - but it's still rather suspicious to me.

  13. This isn't even high tech - just a phone call on A Doctor Remotely Told A Patient He Was Going To Die Using A Video-Link Robot (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful
    This is just a teleconferencing video call.

    The fact that it was connected to a robot is just to make a clickbait headline.

  14. Humans can make the same mistakes. on Self-Driving Cars May Hit People With Darker Skin More Often, Study Finds (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    A dark skinned person wearing dark clothing at night is also harder for a human to notice.

  15. The hidden microphones Nest / Google installed in people's homes, have no doubt collected far more dirt on kids. https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a26448907/google-nest-hidden-microphone/

  16. Cygwin already did better. on Linux Subsystem Files To Become Accessible via Windows File Explorer (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2, Informative
    Twenty four years ago (when it launched) Cygwin got reputation of being a bit flakey; but it's come a long way in the past two and a half decades.

    If you haven't tried it recently, you can think of it as a lighter-weight and more complete version of WSL.

  17. Re:Meh, big deal... on China and India Lead the Way in Greening (nasa.gov) · · Score: 4, Funny
    "Greening" by creating forests where previously there were none counts as a form of climate change too.

    While green forests are cool, are there concerns for the previous non-forest ecosystems that were there?

  18. Re:Help desk on Attacking a Pay Wall That Hides Public Court Filings (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1
    Easier than that.

    The federal government already built the site to host arbitrary open data: https://www.data.gov/open-gov/

    Just upload them there.

  19. Re:Help desk on Attacking a Pay Wall That Hides Public Court Filings (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1
    They already have to maintain a server, etc.

    All it needs is literally any web server OR ftp server OR gopher server, with a single folder with the documents.

    It doesn't require a "web 2.0" "webgl-enhanced" "lets-get-VC-funding-branding" "reactive layout" thing that costs money.

    Just 1 folder, with a bunch of files.

  20. Re:In 5 more years... on Microsoft Brings AI-Powered Background Blurring To Skype (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. But not by accurately representing details from the unblurred original. Rather by creating fictitious but believable un-blurred details that may or may not have been there. https://www.fastcompany.com/90... https://www.wired.co.uk/articl...

  21. Microsoft's own investment arm probably wants that on Microsoft Brings AI-Powered Background Blurring To Skype (betanews.com) · · Score: 2
    Imagine the insider trading potential if M12 (Microsoft Ventures) has access to that.

    Every startup using skype with sales-forecasts on the "blurred" whiteboard showing aggressive growth may find it much easier to get funding.

    And M12 may start making supernaturally good investments.

    And they don't even need the details -- just a blurring AI that also returns a single bit: "yup, invest in this one", or "yipes, stay away".

  22. Sunlight can't be stored like data. on Google Says Data is More Like Sunlight Than Oil (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1
    Google and Facebook hold on to data to build ever richer profiles on people forever.

    A better analogy is that Data is like Rain

    And Google and Facebook own all the water rights to groundwater; as well as are claiming rights to Rainfall and daming all streams leaving their property.

  23. Re:Technology is hard. on Dutch Surgeon Wins Landmark 'Right To Be Forgotten' Case (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
    DDG gets at least some of their results indirectly from Google.

    DuckDuckGo's sources include Yahoo(now Oath) and Bing. ( https://duck.co/help/results/s... ).

    And Yahoo gets their results from google. ( https://searchengineland.com/y... )

    And Bing gets results from google ( https://www.wired.com/2011/02/... )

  24. Such Debt structuring can be a scam (like Mervyns) on WeWork's CEO Makes Millions as Landlord To WeWork (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    Remember when Mervins (the moderately successful retailer) was split into two companies? One was set up to hold all the real-estates and assets --- the other of which held all the debt and liabilities and retail operations? The former then raised rents on the latter, sending the latter to bankruptcy (wiping out the debt); while the owners of the former laughed all the way to the bank. Well - not quite -- some sued; and they had to pay $166 million settlement on their huge (IIRC ~$400 million) profit from the scam. https://www.reuters.com/articl... Sears seems to be going through the same now ---- where Sears' CEO is also the biggest debtholder; and he's systematically stripping all assets (land, brands) away from Sears and to his other companies (ESL, etc) through debt structuring.

  25. Haven't Ivy leagues done this for decades? on No Tuition, but You Pay a Percentage of Your Income (if You Find a Job) (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    In the 80's when I applied to expensive colleges, some (yale, IIRC) described a very similar financial aid package to me.