AkThhhpppt

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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
No I do not want to extradite anyone for hate speech; see, this is what's known as an _example_. What I would like is for the US to stop being quite so bullying in their dealings with the rest of the world. And you're not The Enemy; I don't
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
The UK has no criminal law about copyright. Whatsoever. The US is attempting to extradite this guy for the crime of linking to copyrighted material: http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/jun/17/student-file-shari... I've been trying to find
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Yes, it's the first clause of the US Bill Of Rights. So? Still a clause in law. And that's the point; the gp was, I _believe_, complaining about the perceived lack of equity in a relationship that has the US extraditing citizens of the UK f
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Ever hear of the "Overton Window" concept? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window Demonizing an outgroup to turn them into acceptable targets is exactly what this law is to prevent (and there is something to prevent: see the British
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Half of the Brixton riots were triggered by someone dying in police custody. The other half were triggered by the Met shooting someone. The Met is regularly accused of institutional racism, so you can see where I'm going there. The fact the
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
The right to free speech is a negative right under the European Convention on Human Rights. Why incitement to racial hatred might be an issue in the UK? The usual figure given is 1 in 10 people living in the UK is an immigrant. This does NO
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Yes, but that's not racism being controversial; that's whether someone's statement is racist being controversial. There is NO doubt the statements were racist in this case.
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_and_Religious_Hatred_Ac...
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Different strokes, different folks. Search "Brixton riots" for a pointer to why the UK is sensitive to racism.
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Similar clauses in other countries' laws haven't prevented extradition the other way.
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Yes, but they're not directed at a public figure who was critical in hospital at the time. Some people responded by calling him on his racism, he apparently doubled down, and someone made a complaint to the police.
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Have you read Charles Stross' Accelerando? The main character holds the patent for "using genetic algorithms to patent everything they can permutate from an initial description of a problem domain". I really, really hope it counts as Clarke
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
And if Google were at all willing to engage with users who have complaints, government wouldn't have to.
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Why is direct mail marketing unethical, but ignoring the very real distress linking this man's name to suggested criminal history isn't? We have to consider the effects what we do has. When we only had local impact, if we did something sill
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
I did put "vaguely related" in the rant warning, didn't I? :-) Though news.google.com is what I was thinking of with the current affairs example, it generalizes to the whole Google edifice, and to Facebook too. I really suggest having a loo
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
What jlarocco said. But more specifically... Disingenuous: Because if you genuinely can't, you don't control your algorithm, you're just there to keep the lights on. I refer you to the joke about the autopilot computer, the pilot, and the d
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Yes. The "nothin' to do with me, guv, it's the algorithm's fault" attitude is disingenuous and unhelpful.
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Yes, but it is in Facebook's best interest to ablate your instinct to privacy; the more you share online, the greater value Facebook is to you, and the more value you are to Facebook.
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Their only asset is their users' data, and they don't want anyone else getting at it for free? /cynicism
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Not mistakenly: it's in Accelerando - see the first comment.
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
See where I mentioned the implant "rolling over"? That was caused by someone waving a stack of over 20 of these type of neodyms ( http://www.magnets2buy.com/acatalog/neodymium-discs.html ) within an inch of my finger. Those are so powerful
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Thinkpad switch-mode power supplies give almost no sensation, but I have gotten a distinct (and pretty distinctive) "buzz" from a Dell power supply. I'll point out others seem to be much more sensitive than I, as well (see jaa's comment, be
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
I've read that paper, and I'd like to say thanks; being able to point at graphs that say I'm not imagining the sensation from my implant has occasionally been helpful. ",)
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
I was trying (badly, I admit) to point out that letting possibly over-simplistic answers sit is not equivalent to promoting creationism. Freehunter does much better above.
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Metal fabricator of my acquaintance probably can't have an MRI, as he's got too many metal splinters floating around his body. So probably true, though I don't know about tattoos...
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Quick! Were you taught that protons exist? If you answered yes, you're wrong, but many people believe they do, and the real answer is complex, and protons are a "good enough" answer that the entirety of chemistry pays very little attention
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Before we start using them in those roles (and massively expand "install base"), we're going to have to solve the security issues http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/hacking_medica... .
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Integrating with nerves is have-you-a-pet-surgeon territory, and pretty much all of this stuff is done by piercers, or insane amateurs with no respect for their own bodily integrity (see the amazing Lepht Anonym). Few doctors will touch thi
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
I'm sure it is, but apparently I can't see it, through either incompetence or measly karma. The short-form of my implant tale is here: http://discuss.biohack.me/discussion/comment/862#Comment_862
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
You can feel transformers from a (comparatively) massive distance away: I can feel a 230-to-12V transformer from 5 to 10cm, which is generally bigger than the transformer is. So you'd know to steer clear. I mean, IAmDann said here, http://

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