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by sigmar 11y ago
What you said about the expert calling something a bug reminded me of how the commentator in the first game would see a move by alphaGo and say that it was wrong. He did this multiple times for alphaGo but never once questioned the human&#x
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by sigmar 11y ago
>It's fucked up, but it's not slavery. I'm not an expert on this subject, but have learned in the past minute of looking at the bonded labor links in this thread that the UN and other international organizations agree that
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by sigmar 11y ago
>I think it's only loading the URL to the profile photo image Sorry, by "it" I should have written "the client." I meant to suggest my question of whether that is where their client OOM errors are coming from.
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by sigmar 11y ago
I agree. and I'm surprised they made a blog post about this. The details of this seems more embarrassing than it is enlightening. >Comment bundles are particularly heavy: They contain the comment text itself as well as its id, times
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by sigmar 11y ago
>Disagree, the core contention is he was copying clue themes from past puzzles That isn't the "core contention" >More broadly, 1,090 Universal puzzles and 447 USA Today puzzles were at least a 75 percent match to an ear
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by sigmar 11y ago
>It has been drilled into us that plagiarism is theft and therefore bad, but there is nothing more natural in the world than taking others work and building on it or sharing it. While I generally agree with this sentence. It is fairly ob
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by sigmar 11y ago
You stated "Apple is not being forced to send this update to anyone" and stated that it would be compelled speech if they had to publish it "at-large". Which raises the question: is compelled speech, made only to the gov
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by sigmar 11y ago
The specifics of either case don't matter in what EFF is saying there. That is the point of case law. The court ruled that the oath was illegally compelled speech, which means that speech can remain protected (by the 1st amend.) even w
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by sigmar 11y ago
You should read the amicus if you actually want those questions answered. Specifically- >It makes no difference that the Apple’s edited code and signature will be communicated only to the government or internally. The
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by sigmar 11y ago
It definitely focuses on the digital signature, but the EFF is also arguing the expression of Apple's beliefs within the operating system should be protected by the first amendment. >The Order is unconstitutional because it compels
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by sigmar 11y ago
I'm not sure if you are trolling or not, but that is very obviously a free speech issue.
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by sigmar 11y ago
When we refer to 1st amendment free "speech," we are not referring to the physical act of speaking words, but to the general act of expression
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by sigmar 11y ago
Other amicus briefs from today: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2746620/Apple-Ami... Airbnb Inc., Atlassian Pty. Ltd., Automattic Inc., CloudFlare Inc., eBay Inc., GitHub Inc., Kickstarter PBC, LinkedI
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by sigmar 11y ago
Except the NY case started in October. also the FBI has been arguing against encryption for years
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by sigmar 11y ago
>Of course this is purely speculation, but I see this sort of thing far more likely explanation than some nebulous collusion with NSA (Hanlon's razor etc) I doubt collusion is occurring. More likely- Amazon sees Apple getting legall
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by sigmar 11y ago
Number 2, while conceivable, is probably not the reason given Qualcomm (and other chip makers) include hardware encryption support. Furthermore, this article indicates that encryption is "no longer supported," not that it is just
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by sigmar 11y ago
>Amazon is among several tech companies filing or joining amicus briefs in the Apple case. I bet the wording in Amazon's amicus brief will be much weaker than that of Google and Facebook's.
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by sigmar 11y ago
> people who hire against the law, people who work against the law Day labor is not illegal.
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by sigmar 11y ago
I watched most of the hearing (can be viewed here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1GgnbN9oNw ), this article seems like a pretty accurate characterization. Comey's parsing of words in his response to the question of whe
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by sigmar 11y ago
Did he search Google for "Pirate bay torrent xfer"? Because the page title on pirate bay seems to be static no matter what you search for (unlike in the pic) edit: someone posted above that he was on this site (might not have been
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by sigmar 11y ago
This nytimes article mentions the talks too but doesn't give details: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/18/technology/apple-timothy-c...
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by sigmar 11y ago
Yea, that's true. The nytimes source could be a gov't employee, which could want to represent Apple in a less favorable light.
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by sigmar 11y ago
Hmmm that seems to contradict the source the NYTimes used here: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/technology/how-tim-cook-be... >Apple had asked the F.B.I. to issue its application for the tool under
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by sigmar 11y ago
>The government's decision to begin the AWA filing without notifying Apple, instead leaving Apple to find out about it from the press, probably did not help the relationship. This doesn't seem substantiated by facts. Apple had
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by sigmar 11y ago
That doesn't appear to use homomorphic encryption though
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by sigmar 11y ago
>"...feature testing and more intelligent user-facing features," the Google staffer wrote. I have to wonder if Spotify is doing this so that they can (eventually) use Google's deep learning technology in improving their re
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by sigmar 11y ago
Obviously it isn't "a" because then Apple would not need to fight the FBI's court order
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by sigmar 11y ago
would be cool to use this to derive definitions of slang
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by sigmar 11y ago
But even if it was incompetence, the February 19th Motion to Compel they stated that the owner of the phone tried to reset the password. Which seems a bit disingenuous if the FBI told them to do it. PDF of the motion to compel (Page 18, foo
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by sigmar 11y ago
We can't have articles about his campaign because he might not win? Regardless of who wins, these tech volunteers campaigned for him in innovative ways and that is worthy of reporting

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