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Comment Re:BS (Score 1) 427

Exactly -- what is the false-positive rate of this approach?

If you throw trillions of data sets compacted into a 50-d cube, sure you will find some in the neighbourhood of your target. Probably it is not just one person, but many thousands.
Both machine learning and mass surveillance have to be gauged by the false positive rates, the false negative rates and cost (monetary and otherwise).

Comment Re:obey gravity...it's the law (Score 1) 330

What is with politicians today making nonsensical statements like this?

This article, "No encryption was harmed in the making of this intercept", may be clearer in what the Australian politicians meant: https://risky.biz/bannedmath/ There are solutions for companies outside breaking/weakening the crypto while still allowing law enforcement to follow through with warrants.

Comment Re:I was just discussing this ... (Score 1) 359

Dinosaurs went extinct in a mass extinction that had 70% of species dies off that almost ended all life on earth. ELEs are scary. And that happened, what, once in the history of earth.

Five major extinctions happened, only one of them had an external cause (asteroid). For the others, climate change was one of the main reasons.

Comment Re:Not related to their mark (Score 1) 474

I think my legal theory holds water.

Lets say I release (sell) v1.0 of my software to person A, B and C under GPL2. Then B does something I don't like, but I can't do anything about it, because they received the software and can propagate it further under GPL2.

The following year, I sell v2.0 of my software to person A and C under GPL2, but don't sell it to person B any more. They do not have any right to receive it from me. If A or C pass it on to B, they are free to do that. But I can put arbitrary restrictions on to whom I give my software, if it is a new version -- I can decide for every release.

There is no addition of terms or restrictions of the GPL needed. It's just who you release your software to. Now if A is the general public, all restrictions are basically moot.

Comment Re:The real problem we have is (Score 2) 216

In the long run, however, it will probably be a self-correcting problem, if you know what I mean.

Death is inefficient; it will just be a miserable life that everyone endures, in heat (think Thailand/Columbia), smog (think Beijing) and garbage. People will stay indoors (home, office and malls) most of the time, if they can afford it.

Comment Re:Wow (Score 3, Informative) 271

Is this the same shitty reporting like last time with France, where the ruling only applies to .ca/.fr servers, not .com (but regardless from where it is accessed)? In that case, why should contries not be allowed to dictate the legitimacy of content served under their TLD.

In any case, with the US seeking jurisdiction to get access to servers worldwide one might ask, to what degree are countries allowed to execute their jurisdiction onto US servers?

Comment Re:Plain Text (Score 2) 126

From TFA:

To begin with, there are over 25 subtitle formats in use, each with unique features and capabilities. Media players often need to parse together multiple subtitle formats to ensure coverage and provide a better user experience, with each media player using a different method.

But it does not say exactly what is the vulnerability, maybe that is still embargoed.

Comment Re:HTTP is faster to connect (Score 4, Informative) 75

Even though I guess once connected, the file transfer protocol should be more efficient.

There are huge differences between FTP servers in terms of their delivery.
But today's Apache delivers static files extremely fast, by telling the kernel to move a file data onto the network card, so the data are never actually moved to the application. That's fast, and you can still play proxying, cache-freshness and other HTTP tricks on top of this.

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