Also AI can't currently walk and speak a coherent sentence. I'm currently confident of my ability to outsmart it for the forseeable.

It's a generally unpopular thing to say in these discussions, but American cops are by world standards incredibly badly trained, equipped, and managed. I know UK cops who have done exchange programs and the like and they are dumbfounded by how bad things are.

Well, let's make it simple. Harassment is when you continue to communicate with someone who has expressed the wish that you stop.

What you are talking about is threats, and again the test is simple. Is a reasonable person receiving such a threat likely to believe that the threat is to be carried out?

Because it is an initial study, I would guess. Wait till they replicate it (if they do) with Kinect.

one bonus when it comes to childbirth!

And nine months previously ^_^

So much kneejerk in this thread. Here is the paper and blogpost.

Protip: this research is being done by some of the best people in inter-disciplinary security, so reading and understanding what they are saying is a good idea before you spout off about how whack polygraph testing is.

(1) This is not a polygraph. It is an alternate technique with a similar aim. (2) It is an initial study whose purpose is to show there is an effect worth investigating. (3) You clearly have no idea who the people involved actually are. Hint: Ross Anderson knows a lot more about snake oil than you do.

For fuck's sake. Read the damned paper. This was written by a team led by Ross Anderson, who kind of knows what he's talking about.

No, you're just saying words without knowing anything about the law or how it is interpreted.

Cases like this turn quite precisely on the the law as written and the practice of the courts in interpreting them. It's not a degree of responsibility thing; it's a 'have you broken the letter of the law' thing, and a 'will the courts just shit on you anyway' thing.

The problem here is basically the aggregation and maintenance of the necessary data feeds - once you have a few hundred streams of data you get into a place where you require updates daily.

That said, however, if you live in a covered city, you are basically asking for Citymapper.

Yeah, similar experience about ten years ago, a guy locally was offloading his lathe and was willing to help install and train the purchaser and all his stock. Wife veto'd it. Every now and then I remind her what it would be worth now.

Yes, specifically it's where there's a bit of a stooshie over something silly like niggardly, everyone finally calms down a bit, and then some asshole decides that the correct thing to do is run around shouting "NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER", because political correctness gone mad.

What GP is proposing is some sort of "public" trunk that everyone can then attach to at the end points and sell from there. OK. What GP has not mentioned is that someone has to own and maintain this "public" line and if it's the city, you bet your ass they are going to charge you for it one way or another.

This is exactly the system we have in the UK and it works extremely well.

Reportedly, what is being blocked is actual emails from or to a gmail address, not the service. Odd move though.

Russian non-state hackers, I would posit; I can't see the point of burning state resources on this. And I can't see anyone else with the motivation plus capability. The only other remote possibility is some sort of false flag operation to demonstrate the need for more resources from some Western agency.