Amadou

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by Amadou 13y ago
First, I don't think it is easy. I just think it is feasible because it is a reasonably bounded problem. As for driving games, those have a different set of requirements and incentives. Driving poorly isn't necessarily a bad thi
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by Amadou 13y ago
the interaction between terrible human drivers doing wildly unpredictable, insane things and the inflexible, unadaptable automated cars. There are only so many things bad human drivers can do, the physics is pretty limiting. It isn'
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by Amadou 13y ago
I skimmed the research paper and I don't think it says what the Atlantic article claims. It looks like the paper's authors think making employee-theft less cost-effective caused employees to make up the difference in their income
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by Amadou 13y ago
It has been a while - like 20 years - since I studied this, but I believe Denning concluded the same thing even for factory line workers.
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by Amadou 13y ago
You aren't the first to make such a castigation here and IIRC Jonathan Corbet showed up the last time and said he was happy for it because a massive number of people reading a single article isn't a threat to the business, it is g
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by Amadou 13y ago
That sounds like a business opportunity. If people want to call you for hand-holding then charge them money for it. On-call support contract - business hours or a more expensive 24-hour option. Make it a "best effort" contract
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by Amadou 13y ago
If it is not, I am sure there is a paid VOIP provider that has call screening like gvoice and will forward to your phone as needed. Try searching for "voip call screening" I just did and got a bunch of hits.
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by Amadou 13y ago
This is one of the major problems with unregulated and unsupervised NSA activities (and other agencies). We've seen them blatantly lie about their actions, to the public and to congress. I'd like to point out that the TSA's
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by Amadou 13y ago
No, according to the second article they made their decision based on his state of mind after the government singled him out and messed with him. The government is directly responsible for that chain of events.
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by Amadou 13y ago
While I acknowledge that in practical terms you are sure to get more hassle for asserting your rights, they are still your rights. Under the law you are subject to the same laws and privileges as any citizen - you are expected to obey our c
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by Amadou 13y ago
You'll note that the government is inserted here, that Jetblue's determination that he couldn't fly was the result of government action. The government has a lot more rules about what it can't do to people than private
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by Amadou 13y ago
So they have their procedures. But that raises the question - what is the point? Let's assume the threat is real, someone with nefarious intent is not-detained, escorted to outside the building and left to his own devices. What is to
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by Amadou 13y ago
The US version of behavior detection isn't even in the same league. The Israelis have guys on the other side of cameras who monitor people from the point before they get out of their cars. Their system is so comprehensive that it wou
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by Amadou 13y ago
If every textbook case got the worst treatment then the problems would be so obvious that they would have been fixed a long time ago. It is like "driving while black" - if cops pulled over black drivers every single time they w
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by Amadou 13y ago
The effect on the country of these people moving into leadership roles may be extremely destructive.
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by Amadou 13y ago
It is thus in the interests of those who hold power through democracy to put an end to the present level of surveillance. I think you may have inadvertently hit on the problem. The people who hold the most power in the US don't do s
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by Amadou 13y ago
It seems my take away from the article was a lot different from most of you. What I read was a discussion of how coddling is crippling. That the parents who were financially capable of insulating their children from pretty much any sort of
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by Amadou 13y ago
The japanese internment did not happen out of the blue, there was a lot of agitation against them leading up to it. The goal is to stop things from getting out of hand rather than trying to fix them after the fact.
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by Amadou 13y ago
WTF. Actor who has been playing Jason Bourne and been in Good Will hunting now is now expert? It is not like he's got a PhD in the history of surveillence, but he's going to be better educated on the topic than joe random citize
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by Amadou 13y ago
What counts as a "mundane celebrity?" Jimmy Carter has already said Snowden's actions were "beneficial" and that "America does not have a functioning democracy at this point in time." http://ww
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by Amadou 13y ago
Don't make too much peace with it. A lot of my muslim friends have been reluctant to stir the pot about their treatment by the authorities and society in general, saying things like "it is in god's hands." The problem
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by Amadou 13y ago
Are there any countries that do not take punitive actions when citizens decide they do not feel like paying their taxes? Countries without taxes. They tend to have other problems with loyalty though.
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by Amadou 13y ago
At most that certificate is good for 24 hurs. The user has to get his assertion signed by the identity provider too, and it is possible to get them pre-signed up to that same 24 hours. So the window of users is narrowed to the list of sit
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by Amadou 13y ago
Consumption is a synonym for tuberculosis, nothing else.
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by Amadou 13y ago
I don't know where you live, but in the USA it has long been normal for pro-Israel jews to claim a sort of ownership of judaism. Ariel Sharon once said, "Israel is not only an Israeli project. Israel is a Jewish, worldwide projec
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by Amadou 13y ago
the protocol doesn't expose where you log in To be fair, in practicality it does expose where you log in because that website has to communicate with the persona server. The website could use a proxy or something to try to obfuscate
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by Amadou 13y ago
The term "loyalty card" is descriptive, the goal of the card is to increase your loyalty to the store by targeted marketing. I'm surprised that your supermarket actually uses that name because it should twig anyone who thinks
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by Amadou 13y ago
Let me note that you are arguing something completely different than you started with. Yes, I started off explaining why there is relatively unbalanced coverage. You made it clear that your argument is based on hard numbers that you'
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by Amadou 13y ago
Your complaint is that the media criticism is not proportional to the level of harm. The hyperbole is in your measurement of the criticism.
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by Amadou 13y ago
"How many thousands of times is reasonable for different standards?" That is hyperbole. You've quantified something that is not really quantifiable. As long as that is your argument you'll got no satisfactory answer.

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