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by jasamer 5y ago
What about the human reviewers at Apple? Those need to confirm matches, and they obviously look at the photos to do so. Apple can’t claim ignorance. Also, it has to be two requesting governments.
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by jasamer 5y ago
Apples solution only scans photos that will be uploaded, and the results of the scan require a server side to be evaluated. The client does not know whether a match occurred.
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by jasamer 5y ago
I thought the system is designed such that the threshold must be met to check the matches, i.e. it’s not possible to follow the FBIs request without changing the entire system.
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by jasamer 5y ago
You could enable scanning of all files using a few bit-flips, but that doesn't have any effect - the results need to be evaluated by someone. Afaik, the system is designed such that the client side does not know whether a match occurre
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by jasamer 6y ago
Nitpick: you‘d have a disincentive in the, roughly, 1.000.001-1.220.000 range. Above that, you make more money anyway.
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by jasamer 6y ago
The difference between guard and if isn’t really about optionals. ‘guard x ...’ tells you that after the guard block, ‘x’ is the case. If x is a Boolean, it’s true; if it’s a matched pattern, it has matched, if it’s a ‘if let’, the value is
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by jasamer 9y ago
It is not wrong. It just doesn't tell you anything about where the mass goes.
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by jasamer 12y ago
Two points on earth with different latitudes move at different speeds. The effect that affects the bullets is known as the coriolis effect ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect ).
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by jasamer 16y ago
Sadly, I didn't have the time to go to the congress, but I've seen their club in Munich. Their spare-time projects impressed me quite a bit: the members unlock the door with a digital key sent to the lock via wlan; they built that 3D-print
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by jasamer 16y ago
Perhaps it's not necessary to freeze yourself - if Moore's law just ignores physical limitations and keeps going, we could have the technological singularity within our livetimes. It will get quite boring for people working in the computer
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by jasamer 16y ago
If I understand GR correctly, FTL travel is (in principle) not necessary to reach an alien race in reasonable time, no matter the distance - from the point of view of an astronaut. Due to length dilation, from the point of view of an astron
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by jasamer 16y ago
Of course, such a wave would be pretty bad news for a certain theory proposed by a certain Albert.
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by jasamer 16y ago
I guess he's referring to the fact that there are no actual speed limits on "Autobahnen" in Germany, there's a recommendation of ~80mph (130km/h), but itn't a rarity to see people going over 120mph... To sum up: people drive faster here. An
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by jasamer 16y ago
I'm studying Computer Science+Philosophy in Munich, although, technically, Philosophy is a part of my CS studies (one can choose a subject different from CS to do some credits in, many choose Math/Physics, I chose Philosophy). The fun thing
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by jasamer 16y ago
I have a kind of similar "problem"... when I'm going out, I often have some unsolved problem that I can't stop thinking about... And so it happens that I'm sitting quietly, with a beer in hand, at the bar and think about trees and forests a