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• On the post: Unintended Consequences Of EU's New Internet Privacy Rules: Facebook Won't Use AI To Catch Suicidal Users

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2018 @ 12:19pm

  Their AI should not be reading my shit, period.
  
  That's where the problem starts.
  
  Let FB do a suicide watch? Are you insane? And quite frankly, if they can "do" (for various values of "do") that, then they can: Catch all the bad guys, identify exactly who is dangerous and who is not, identify exactly what is "bad" speech in every jurisdiction, identify exactly what is fake news, etc.
  
  I'm sorry, but fsck people's "AI"s and their data farming. Call it "innovation", because don't. It's about as real, useful, and good as the whole fake-ass financial sector, or advertising and marketing.

• On the post: New York Police Union Sues NYPD To Block Public Release Of Body Camera Footage

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2018 @ 08:04pm

  Re: Little point

  They co-opted the point.

• On the post: FBI Director Chris Wray Says Secure Encryption Backdoors Are Possible; Sen. Ron Wyden Asks Him To Produce Receipts

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2018 @ 06:07pm

  Re: Re: Intel's share of the processor market is already decreasing

  RISC architecture CPUs are still used differently than 86/64 CPUs. The continuing drop in the x86 market is the general purpose desktop being killed off. (I'd go for a RISC system for an open source OS, at least with one of the more current chips that basically are comparable in function to x86, or with board design that covers what the main processor doesn't.)

• On the post: Sarajevo's City Government Says No One Can Use The Name 'Sarajevo' Without Its Permission

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2018 @ 02:26pm

  Re: Re: I actually LOL'd

  Do copyright strikes come from drones now? Just wondering.

• On the post: Harvard Study Shows Community-Owned ISPs Offer Lower, More Transparent Prices

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2018 @ 02:20pm

  Re: Re:

  Maybe i would have, maybe not. But i would say now that "rather" is a lame position. I would personally prefer the trifecta of no laws against community broadband, NN regulations worth a damn and enforced, and limits on corporations in general. Anti-monopoly laws are underused and too narrowly used when they are considered. Remove the captured regulations that corporations lobby for or write themselves? Sure.
  
  However, treating a thing as a monopoly and regulating it as such when it is one due to lack of competition is not bad regulation. Regulation securing monopolies (blocking others from the market) are bad, and i don't see anyone arguing against that.
  
  Dumping on everyone because a positive rule doesn't do all the other things you want, which are in different categories and should also be addressed, certainly, makes no sense. So yeah, people will dump right back. See the thing is, both the bad things you don't like, and the better goals you want both occur by getting an initial toehold in one thing, then proceeding from there. Because you aren't impressed with the previous NN rules (which were not entirely great, but a positive step anyway) doesn't make other people stupid.
  
  Otherwise, i am not sure why people who speak as authority and tell everyone else they are stupid get dumped on sometimes. Is mystery.

• On the post: Harvard Study Shows Community-Owned ISPs Offer Lower, More Transparent Prices

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2018 @ 02:05pm

  Re: Re: Re: Techdirt rerunning old posts now?

  It's attributed to the author correctly.

• On the post: Harvard Study Shows Community-Owned ISPs Offer Lower, More Transparent Prices

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2018 @ 02:04pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Techdirt rerunning old posts now?

  Sure. Sounds good to me.

• On the post: Harvard Study Shows Community-Owned ISPs Offer Lower, More Transparent Prices

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2018 @ 12:31pm

  Re: Re: Techdirt rerunning old posts now?

  I am guessing the entire comment is based on sheer projection and not reading the article or anything it links to, or is otherwise related to it. It is probably copypasted itself. Hell it's probably a forum sig somewhere.

• On the post: Senate IT Tells Staffers They're On Their Own When It Comes To Personal Devices And State-Sponsored Hackers

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2018 @ 12:28pm

  Re: Re:

  True, but that is both an enforceable policy and also puts the onus on the government for protection of government work. There can always be failures, but the attack surface would be way smaller, and frankly, the heavy security crackers and enforcers (like from the NSA) should be advising all government IT departments on threats and mitigation. Also IT departments should be properly staffed and funded to do their jobs. (Yeah right, i know.)

• On the post: Genome Of A Man Born In 1784 Recreated From The DNA Of His Descendants

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2018 @ 11:59am

  Re: Re: Re: DNA is based on Biophysics

  Need more cranks!

• On the post: Sarajevo's City Government Says No One Can Use The Name 'Sarajevo' Without Its Permission

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2018 @ 11:55am

  Re: Could be worse...

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• On the post: Sarajevo's City Government Says No One Can Use The Name 'Sarajevo' Without Its Permission

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2018 @ 11:53am

  Re: Re: Re: Simple answer

  The City Which Shall Not Be Named.
  
  This would be a hideous postal address, but safe, i suppose. It's going to be hell for tourism. Što da radimo na odmoru? Come to the City Which Shall Not Be Named. Let it happen now!™

• On the post: Sarajevo's City Government Says No One Can Use The Name 'Sarajevo' Without Its Permission

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2018 @ 11:45am

  Re: Re:

  First thing i thought of also. What a pair these two institutions could be.

• On the post: FCC Hopes Its Phony Dedication To Rural Broadband Will Make You Forget It Killed Net Neutrality

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2018 @ 11:42am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: "it sucks when these guys start to take notes from the democratic/leftist play book doesn't it?"

  IKR? That silenced group just keeps showing up everywhere more and more. They have voice and reach far exceeding their numbers. I feel so bad that they are shut out of every conversation.

• On the post: FBI Director Chris Wray Says Secure Encryption Backdoors Are Possible; Sen. Ron Wyden Asks Him To Produce Receipts

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2018 @ 11:28am

  Re: Re: Another consequence of backdoored encryption

  OEMs will switch to AMD, at least in some portion of their offerings, for similar reasons as when they used AMD in the past: cost, or some feature. Considering AMD and Intel both have other IME flaws, and i don't see security as being a big point of consideration with OEMs anyway, i imagine you have a fair point here.

• On the post: FBI Director Chris Wray Says Secure Encryption Backdoors Are Possible; Sen. Ron Wyden Asks Him To Produce Receipts

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2018 @ 11:21am

  Re:

  They keep ignoring the better nerds who actually do encryption. If Apple is actually rolling their own, the FBI probably already has what it wants and just doesn't know it. Or again, broken encryption isn't really what they want, or only part of it. They want to keep shifting what the public is used to, and probably even for no really good police-state reason, but just to suit their authoritarian tastes.

• On the post: FBI Director Chris Wray Says Secure Encryption Backdoors Are Possible; Sen. Ron Wyden Asks Him To Produce Receipts

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2018 @ 11:09am

  Re: So you're saying the whole public / private key thing is wrong.

  _There is NO "bomb-hoisting" even possible if you understand the notion!_
  
  Wuh? Bomba nu explody? Modern warfare is a lie!

• On the post: New York Police Union Sues NYPD To Block Public Release Of Body Camera Footage

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2018 @ 02:02pm

  NYPD finally does something semi-reasonable, gets sued by slightly more unreasonable union. No film at 11.

• On the post: Harvard Study Shows Community-Owned ISPs Offer Lower, More Transparent Prices

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2018 @ 12:17pm

  Absolutely wrong. Cannot be true. Socialism! Bureaucracies! This is impossible. Freedom! Something something reasons!

• On the post: Harris Stingray Nondisclosure Agreement Forbids Cops From Telling Legislators About Surveillance Tech

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2018 @ 12:13pm

  "I'm not offended that they threw public officials in there (the non-disclosure agreement)," he said.

  Irrrrrrrrelevant!

  Legislation and law enforcement should not be predicated upon whether some sitting fsckwit is offended or not. (Of course that is a part of their personal reasons for making law or holding anyone accountable, but you aren't supposed to say it out loud.)

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