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by nxzero 10y ago
If gender bias is the issue, focus on bias detect and mitigation; not masking gender, which to me sends the wrong message.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Use "The Elements Style" by Strunk & White.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Being a writer is easy: (1) hire a good editor, (2) remix existing stories (3) be famous.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Most likely; she also likely made a plausible argument for her position too, even though she knew said argument was flawed.
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by nxzero 10y ago
It would be interesting to poll juries after a ruling to see if they're even aware of the power of jury nullification; my guess is the answer is no.
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by nxzero 10y ago
"International" solution sounds like a horrible idea. Who would this really benefit?
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by nxzero 10y ago
Let's assume that every single entry on the list is accurate. Why is Thomson Reuters maintaining a list like this? Why would payment to Thomson Reuters be the only filter to access a list like this?
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by nxzero 10y ago
Using the Treaty of Versailles as an example makes no sense. Are you suggesting war?
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by nxzero 10y ago
>> "In mid 2013 there were about 5.8m people between 18 and 24." Which is what percentage of the voting population?
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by nxzero 10y ago
Cities of the future will be built for machines, not people.
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by nxzero 10y ago
>> "This post is intended to introduce concepts and practically demonstrate a method. The implementation provided is not a reliable/hardened solution (i.e. there are vulnerabilities because finite fields are not used) and sh
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by nxzero 10y ago
General speaking, most systems are as secure as the intent to make them secure divided by the intent to make them not secure; there's no reason to believe BSD is an exception.
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by nxzero 10y ago
One thing I haven't seen done is blocking attempts to fingerprint keystroke into puts from the keyboard. Easiest solution would be to sandbox field inputs from JS and bulk submit queries. Best solution would be the injection of noise r
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by nxzero 10y ago
>> "They ended up taking it out in 1998 because systems kept running out of disk space." Reminds me of Microsoft SQL Server removing support for natural language data queries, only to add it back years later. It would be int
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by nxzero 10y ago
Torpedo on the submarine was a T-5 and if the submarine was within 6-10 miles of the blast it would have ripped the submarine apart.
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by nxzero 10y ago
>> "Forged Composites (FC) carbon fiber looks more like marble or burl wood versus the traditional black woven fabric carbon fiber" Not that I'd ever buy a supercar, but personally think the look of FC looks cheap comp
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by nxzero 10y ago
Given the average WoW player likely plays 500+ hours a year, sounds cheap cost wise, but expensive time wise.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Shortened a URL, but service doesn't appear to redirect: http://lon.gs/akt EDIT: Very strange, the redirect now goes to a URL I didn't enter... ( http://www.sadfasdfasfdasdfsadfasd.com )
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by nxzero 10y ago
Oddly, was hoping this was a way to turn URLs into long URLs; 2,083 characters if you want to support all the web clients.
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by nxzero 10y ago
>> "I'd be more than happy to postpone this question until the robots ask to be recognized as persons" Using that logic, no human should have rights unless they're able to express it; clearly flawed logic. >>
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by nxzero 10y ago
Meaning you're claiming in a cities NYC & DC that the NSA doesn't to full spectrum dumps, right? Or that they would have not looked into statistically unusual high amounts of background noise? If the NSA does this, they'd
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by nxzero 10y ago
Taken to an extreme, intential noise injection is malicious: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_jamming
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by nxzero 10y ago
Seems like the NSA would have all the data the the FCC needs, is this right, or no?
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by nxzero 10y ago
Yes, steganalysis is used to flag material is irregular based on a number of factors: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganalysis
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by nxzero 10y ago
It would be curious to know if given the choice of supporting mass surveillance or not being able to use services and products from brands like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Wikipedia, etc. - what consumers would choose. If they'd opt to u
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by nxzero 10y ago
Who's the FBI?
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by nxzero 10y ago
Hard to believe Schneier would say something like that, are you sure that's what he said?
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by nxzero 10y ago
Sounds like a something said by someone that understands people, that being "misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent."
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by nxzero 10y ago
Tell that to Petraeus.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Yes, I know, and it is an embellishment if you believe crypto was/is the solution. Calling it a crypto war is missing the point and the solution; in fact, the link you provide shows that the focus on crypto was a mistake.

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