etiam

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by etiam 13y ago
I think Barack Obama is going to try to keep his public distance from the surveillance debacle. Classic power player tactics; the Machiavellian Prince is to be kept clean and associated with only good news. Dirtying themselves with dispens
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Using Copyright To Silence Oil Sands Satire? How Crude.(eff.org)
1 points by etiam 13y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 13y ago
Under most circumstances I imagine I would want my opponent to be uncertain of what I have. Letting them know the contents gives them the ability to accurately assess damages and prepare responses.
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by etiam 13y ago
Keith Alexander's way of bending words, and his facility with swinging a crowd and lying skillfully under pressure once again reminds me disturbingly of accounts I've read about psychopaths, and of probable psychopaths I've e
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by etiam 13y ago
Huge costs and virtually no gain. A good antibiotic is used during a short term. Furthermore if things go on like today it will probably be destroyed within years by short-sighted, irresponsible use like fattening cattle. Any pharmaceutica
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by etiam 13y ago
> future Snowdens and Mannings (who are growing up, fed on all sorts of conspiracies on reddit and other fora) will. The future equivalents of Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning could very well be detected and put under control before th
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Sebastian Thrun on the Future of Learning(technologyreview.com)
1 points by etiam 13y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 13y ago
I'm glad you raise the question freeduck. I was actually going to post something like it once the more important discussion about opposing surveillance by social and political means has got going properly (technical solutions won'
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by etiam 13y ago
I live in Sweden. I share your general impression about the Scandinavian countries. Our ethical and ideological standards seem to have been somewhat tarnished over the last decades, but I think the overall idea still seems to hold. With reg
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by etiam 13y ago
This is very interesting, especially in the light of the coup-like conditions that surrounded legalizing the FRA mass surveillance. However, this source is a populist extreme right newspaper. It has low credibility and regularly carries ant
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Malicious Software and its Underground Economy: Two Sides to Every Story(coursera.org)
2 points by etiam 13y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 13y ago
If David Cameron feels “sickened” by such material available online, wouldn't it be simpler if he just refrains from looking at them? :) Seriously though, preventing the abuse and human suffering associated with the making of that stuf
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by etiam 13y ago
I wonder if there may be a streak of good news to this policy change. If Adobe make their CS software effectively unavailable to most individuals and small companies then there should be even more incentive and resources available for usabi
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by etiam 14y ago
It's a long shot, but you could try calling the CEO, Jon Karlung Phone: +46 (0)761 110160 (this is a cell phone, so there is a chance he's not away from it even though the time is closing in on 1 AM over here) Alternatively, same reasoning
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by etiam 14y ago
Speaking of Geoff Hinton: He will be giving the course Neural Networks for Machine Learning on Coursera, starting this September. https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets
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Brains, Sex and Machine Learning (Geoffrey Hinton at Google Tech Talks)(youtube.com)
4 points by etiam 14y ago|3 comments
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by etiam 15y ago
Great to see it completed. The previous draft was salvation for my graph theory course. I think Mathematics for Computer Science offers very good understanding without unnecessary jargon or formalisms that obscure more than they clarify. T
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Handcrafted material mimics graphene properties; has tunable characteristics(wired.co.uk)
2 points by etiam 15y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 16y ago
I'd be interested to see if there is any reference to support grains being used as human food 100 000 years ago; as far as I can tell the Nature story seems to indicate roughly 30 000 years for the new findings. Cultivation of grains is usu
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The food we evolved for(a matter of needless disease and death, and avoiding it)(staffanlindeberg.com)
10 points by etiam 16y ago|18 comments