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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
This 4% error rate (which doesn't necessarily translate to other kinds of cases, particularly ones with plea bargains) would mean the US had approximately 91,000 people incarcerated who were innocent (using 2011 numbers). If you count
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
There's only around a million (or a couple million if you're generous with conjugations, lulzspeak, etc) English words. If you figure passwords understand 75 characters, then one million passwords is around 3.2 randomly chosen cha
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
I just opened Gmail to look at the options for dealing with unwanted email: It requires 2 clicks to report something as spam and 4 clicks to create a filter which automatically deletes messages from a particular sender (or routes them in a
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
You can (from most providers) block emails from a sender or domain as easily as flagging it as spam; however, flagging it as spam has consequences for the company that relays the messages, not the one that sends them. You're punishing
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
> I do see the email as spam. I did not make the conscious decision to receive email from you about your products or anything else: to me, I clicked a box that said I read and agree to your ToS in order to get your product. Yes, I get th
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
I'm curious what specifically people think is inaccurate about my description of the Kim Dotcom events.
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
I mean, they already induced a foreign state to violate that state's laws in order to harass a resident of that state, seize assets and information which they had no legal claim to, and then after a politically motivated prosecution fe
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
They're talking about the stations broadcast in the part of the spectrum specifically set aside for public, free, over-the-air watching of the stations. You know, what your TV tunes in to if you just have an antenna. Aereo sells a serv
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
> If you ToS say I agree to receive mail, guess what? I don't agree, I just want to try your product. I'll flag you in a breeze. No. You literally did agree. That you don't like that it's a package deal, and you'
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
Advanced medical treatments, robotics unavailable to the average person, space flight, the ability to avoid pervasive surveillance, a greatly disproportionate ability influence politics, etc. There are lots of things you have access to by h
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
I would argue that it's still safer, even though it's not completely safe. You shouldn't view any sort of security measure as perfect, but that doesn't mean that using good practices doesn't contribute to better saf
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
I think our ability to communicate privately as a society at large is more important than the issues of child pornography or terrorism, both of which have policing avenues besides pervasive monitoring and tracking of all associations and me
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
How do you notify a large-ish group of a secret vuln without notifying any of the bad guys? Because if you notify the bad guys at the same time, then you've made it worse, since people you didn't notify don't know anything is
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
When deployed against active servers, some people have reported trouble with extracting the maximum payload. It's possible this has been tuned to avoid some interference regarding that sort of thing.
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
I'm curious why you think the East German and US situations during the Cold War were all so different from the perspective of what the comparison was talking about.
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
Traversing the start screen menus without being able to see a webpage is a major downside for trying to figure out how to deal with their stupid settings layout, which is itself a second major downside to Windows 8. Had they not spread sett
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
I mostly agree with your opinion about why Windows 8 was bad. A full screen, searchable start menu isn't the worst thing - though it does mean I can't be read a webpage while looking for something (which is a slight loss on usabil
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
I mean legitimately insane, whether or not the threats are credible.
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
Your premise is wrong, as another commentator pointed out. If anything, there's an above average correlation between the early adopter tech crowd and crazy people who drastically overreact to news of things. Also, because of things lik
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
I think they're turning a blind eye to the way many people view Facebook, Facebook's habit of making decisions that compromise user privacy (since that's how they make money), and so on because it's in their financial ad
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
There are hundreds of thousands if not millions of people responding to this news - why wouldn't some of them just be crazy? There's no reason to think that this is widespread or representative of the general response. However, th
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
It doesn't require that Ars be in on it - or even necessarily Facebook. But why do you think it's improbable for a company and their acquisition to plot a PR move? PR people for corporations lie all the time - look at the Sim City
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
It's really hard to get people to understand something their paycheck requires them not to.
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
"Planning" in the sense that they had just set aside money to buy the device, and were working on the code that could be done without it in a experimental phase, testing out the libraries they'd use for non-Oculus related par
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
I'm not even angry. I'm just not going to buy a VR device with a Facebook connection, Facebook being involved in platform management, etc. I might consider it if it were an unlocked piece of hardware, but I suspect that's so
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
Characterize relationships, track response to various types of advertising. The standard things Facebook does with their data.
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
Uh, I can think of useful data analysis to run on that. Both to characterize the feelings associated with relationships (which is data that Facebook would like to know), and sentiment analysis for various adverts or other things. For exampl
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
I mean, I'm much more worried it's a datagrab. Can you imagine how much Facebook would like a recording of your facial expressions while you have a private talk with your friends? Or when you look at ads?
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
This article wasn't anti-drug from my perspective. It warned that we're giving a fraction of those kids drugs that they don't need (which happens with other medications as well). Neither I, nor the article, is suggesting that
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
No one is saying we shouldn't be giving drugs to some kids. It's saying we're over diagnosing, and giving drugs to kids who don't need them. Giving 1 in 20 boys amphetamines for no reason is not a good thing - it's

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