Reelin

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901.
by Reelin 8y ago
I reject your implication that not being allowed to lock you out of your own device would somehow be equivalent to mandating official manufacturer support of arbitrary user modifications. I already provided what I believe to be a reasonable
902.
by Reelin 8y ago
> Would you consider such (common) systems to be authoritarian? That question can only be meaningfully answered on a case by case basis. Many of them do cross the line as currently implemented in my opinion; to what extent varies. Oftent
903.
by Reelin 8y ago
This argument doesn't make any sense to me. I'm not implying that you should blindly distrust the app store your device ships with. I'm not claiming that experts aren't experts, or that you specifically are an expert.
904.
by Reelin 8y ago
I'm not worried about the keyboard I purchased or my hardware vendor. Well I am, but far less so than the prospect of a foreign USB device being plugged in and managing to execute malicious code. Think someone quickly inserting a dev
905.
by Reelin 8y ago
It's particularly frustrating because of how trivial the solution appears to be. Trust on first use is more than sufficient in this case, so asymmetric cryptography with a randomized key would be fine. I realize mass produced electroni
906.
by Reelin 8y ago
As far as I understand it, this already is on by default for ChromeOS. The kernel patches make it possible to utilize internal USB devices during the boot process without disabling protection - ie there's no vulnerability window prio
907.
by Reelin 8y ago
Better late than never? https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.... https://usbguard.github.io
908.
by Reelin 8y ago
> is hostile to my security requirements Nonetheless, it is essential to your liberty and freedom. I have the ability to recklessly spend the entire contents of my bank account on Amazon purchases if I so choose. I'm certainly not f
909.
by Reelin 8y ago
> tell users that something can't be done when the reality is it's entirely possible but the software won't do it This bit really stands out to me, and it bothers me to no end when I encounter it in the wild. It even affli
910.
by Reelin 8y ago
That honestly hadn't occurred to me; I'm much more familiar with fields where most of the important details end up patented. I generally view all forms of intellectual property (patents, trade secrets, copyrights) as nothing more
911.
by Reelin 8y ago
Parent is asking how it can be ethical to place such a large price tag on a lifesaving therapy if the materials themselves are cheap. It's one thing for AMD or Intel to recoup engineering costs with outlandish per-chip costs as compare
912.
by Reelin 8y ago
It shouldn't surprise you in the slightest that people don't want their regular accounts associated with political hot potatoes. HN in particular has a lot of accounts which link back to semi-professional personas on GitHub, SE, e
913.
by Reelin 8y ago
Probably not. That would be equivalent to including someone who claims "radiation from computers interferes with your brain" on this AI panel, or perhaps someone who claims "krakens pose an immediate danger to inattentive sai
914.
by Reelin 8y ago
Granted, but there's much more than a binary (use/ban) discussion to be had here. It's important that we have open discourse about the design, manufacture, deployment, and general use of such things in order to avoid dangerou
915.
by Reelin 8y ago
For anyone who'd prefer a direct link to the conference paper this seems to be based on: https://openreview.net/forum?id=rJgMlhRctm
916.
by Reelin 8y ago
What? No. The fact that she's ex-military and runs a drone company is precisely why she should be on such a board. If there is no one on the board with the relevant knowledge and experience to competently represent a given use case,
917.
by Reelin 8y ago
I share your distaste for militarized AI (unless I mistake you?), but if AI are to be used in such applications then competent representation and examination of such use cases by a public ethics body would seem to me to be a good thing.
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by Reelin 8y ago
> “It’s become clear that in the current environment, ATEAC can’t function as we wanted. So we’re ending the council and going back to the drawing board,” The current environment is so overly toxic that I doubt it will be possible for an
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by Reelin 8y ago
Agreed in general, but the thing is... children can't generally enter contracts or otherwise "consent" to most things in a legal context. True that parents can be stand-ins sometimes, but I'm not at all clear on what the
920.
by Reelin 8y ago
> More and more studies I've read show that over-the-counter medicines often do nothing You make a fantastic claim but provide no evidence whatsoever. Counterpoint: diphenhydramine (aka Benadryl), ibprofan and other NSAIDs, clotrima
921.
by Reelin 8y ago
> Perhaps you purchase brands with low quality? In the US and EU, for pharmaceuticals, there is no such thing - these are very highly regulated markets in western countries. (Note: This statement does not apply to dietary supplements and
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by Reelin 8y ago
This got me curious. For reference, my Zotero library is predominantly biomedical in nature. This device currently has 810 of the pdf files pulled down to the local drive, of which the vast majority are journal articles (a very few of the
923.
by Reelin 8y ago
That would greatly surprise me. He is very explicitly against DRM. https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
924.
by Reelin 8y ago
I assume that policing of torrent networks by the authorities will continue to increase. As a result, I'm hopeful that darknet (ie social connection based) solutions might emerge at some point. Why use a VPN and a tracker (private or o
925.
by Reelin 8y ago
> Can my torrenting app stream my video Yes, and this functionality has been built into many of the largest torrenting programs out-of-the-box for quite some time now. In the case of µTorrent, it was added in version 3.0 all the way back
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by Reelin 8y ago
So... I can technically implement my own EME standards compliant web browser, but that browser won't actually be able to interoperate with the existing set of websites that make use of EME. What's the point of the standard again
927.
by Reelin 8y ago
The point isn't that the control was granted arbitrarily - as you note, the granting was explicit. The point is that as a result of that, we have arrived at a situation where Google is now capable of arbitrarily exercising control ov
928.
by Reelin 8y ago
I actually read through that entire document out of curiosity. As far as I can tell it only applies to audio recording (and telegraphs, and cable TV, and a couple other misc items, but not video from what I see). Also, there's the bit
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by Reelin 8y ago
> They'll be obvious about it if it's not optional. I don't believe this is required (or even typical) in the US. Law enforcement is generally allowed to make non-mandatory requests and hope that you comply with them. A pr

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