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Comment Privacy in Constitution and US Data Treaty (Score 3, Interesting) 112

It should be noted that not only do Canadian citizens have a Right of Privacy in the Canadian Constitution, but this overrides all agreements and treaties like the US-Canada Data Treaty so that US firms must ensure Canadians in their data have privacy as well.

Period.

Comment Re:Not Really... (Score 1) 173

Actually, while this "should" work, it won't in actual practice. The phones have dual processors, the one that tracks movement through the accelerometer can have certain downloaded "app upgrades" that you thought came from the "store" but the store was actually the NSA clone with the "activate without screen wake" telemetry burst.

We used to do this with printers in Iraq. What makes you think we care about Americans' Constitutional rights?

Comment We already built a new Internet (Score 0) 305

See, this is the thing. We let you on the last Internet we built, the one we started with 110 baud modems, and you messed it up.

So we already built a new Internet 2. It's here, it runs on 100 GB/s ports with 40 GB/s campuswide at all the top research universities.

And we're not letting you on it.

Now you can keep your spam and we'll go solve the mysteries of the universe while you post hate speech at each other over meaningless twaddle.

Comment Re:Sure, plain text (Score 1) 248

How would one "go" plain text, exactly? Start using telnet for remote logins? Stop hashing passwords?

Anyway, I didn't change my practices. I had already assumed that all of my web and email traffic should be treated as if it were completely public.

Nobody uses telnet anymore - mostly it's ssh or some other service

Submission + - Higgs boson competition lets you dig deeper into data to win $7,000 (kaggle.com)

AG_2011 writes: New Higgs boson software competition, started by CERN physicists on 12 May 2014 enables anyone, that is able, to write a new algorithm that is the most efficient at separating a mixture of simulated particle signal data from background events provided by ATLAS researchers. The person or team that develops the best software will win a cash prize of $7,000 (€5,000). The winner or winners will also be invited to CERN in September 2014. Participants don’t even need a physics background. The competition has been published on Kaggle.com, which is a crowd-sourcing service that turns data science problems into a sport.

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