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Comment Re:What was the mistake? (Score 2) 202

A good video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

tl;dr is, law firm had two clients wanting divorces, they accidentally submitted the file for the wrong client indicating the client agreed to the divorce with the terms provided, when the client had not.

So the husband is elated since the wife was trying to get more favorable terms.

It sounds like the wife gave the lawyers permission to act on her behalf in court (which is what being a lawyer is) and they accidentally misrepresented her position to the court. So that's a problem between her and them. The court did exactly what was asked of them, by her valid legal representation.

Comment Re:I'm conflicted (Score 1) 125

Personally I feel it's reasonable for insurance companies to raise rates for people intentionally engaging in risky behavior. They should also help those people identify that behavior, and lower rates if they correct it. Everyone wins.

On the other hand it should be illegal to raise rates based on factors the insured can't control, for example for medical insurance based on medical history, medical problems that run in the family, etc. The point of insurance is to spread the cost of such things across a lot of people.

Should also be illegal to not lower rates if a person no longer engages in risky behavior. If you're going to raise rates, you need to lower them appropriately too.

And finally the way this information on risky behavior is collected must be ethical. I think many people would consent if they find out safe behavior will get them better rates.

Comment Not news (Score 1) 143

This is PC. Any app you run can access the app data of any other app you run. This is why modern OSs like Android partition off apps from each other. Due to legacy reasons PCs can't really do that. Maybe eventually we'll get sandboxing so each app runs in its own container but not today. That's still pretty expensive.

Comment Not Exactly (Score 3, Interesting) 40

I think the key here is that some websites will use browser fingerprinting to track you.

This will use data that websites typically need to function correctly so it's not a good idea to mess with it when switching to incognito mode. Things like what fonts are available for use and so forth. Messing with some of this stuff could cause some websites to break which you don't want to happen.

And if you replace some of these factors with static lists to make it harder to differentiate incognito users, well, it also becomes easier to guess when a user is using incognito mode. Then the website can block them completely making incognito mode useless.

I suspect Google tried to have a good balance here between privacy and stealth, as well as a balance between accurately informing the user and informing the user in a way most people can understand. A court decided they did not just a bad job, but a legally liable job.

Comment Resistance is Futile (Score 5, Insightful) 56

We now live in a world that, for better or worse, AI voice reproduction exists. If you record your voice and distribute it in any capacity, it can be reproduced now, and in the end everyone will have to accept that.

Focus should be on preventing fraud (via impersonation) as well as money-making off of someone else's voice without their permission or compensation. Bujt outright stopping it? Horse has left that barn already.

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