Addendum:
If you have time to give, give time. If you have money to give, give money. Find whatever moves you.
 
The only wrong answer is doing nothing or putting it off for another day.

Entirely agree. Skipping over the testing/deployment debacle, having a gaggle of security pros come in after the fact to take a couple free whacks at the dead horse is ... bizarre. Not a good look guys.

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Right. He's not a psycopath. It's called narcissistic personality disorder.

The essential features of a personality disorder are impairments in personality (self and interpersonal) functioning and the presence of pathological personality traits. To diagnose narcissistic personality disorder, the following criteria must be met:

A.Significant impairments in personality functioning manifest by:
1.Impairments in self functioning (a or b):
a.Identity: Excessive reference to others for self-definition and self-esteem regulation; exaggerated self-appraisal may be inflated or deflated, or vacillate between extremes; emotional regulation mirrors fluctuations in self-esteem.
  b.Self-direction: Goal-setting is based on gaining approval from others; personal standards are unreasonably high in order to see oneself as exceptional, or too low based on a sense of entitlement; often unaware of own motivations.

AND

2.Impairments in interpersonal functioning(a or b):
a.Empathy: Impaired ability to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others; excessively attuned to reactions of others, but only if perceived as relevant to self; over-or underestimate of own effect on others.
b.Intimacy: Relationships largely superficial and exist to serve self-esteem regulation; mutuality constrained by little genuine interest in others' experiences and predominance of a need for personal gain

B.Pathological personality traits in the following domain:
1.Antagonism, characterized by:
a.Grandiosity: Feelings of entitlement, either overt or covert; self-centeredness; firmly holding to the belief that one is better than others; condescending toward others.
b.Attention seeking: Excessive attempts to attract and be the focus of the attention of others; admiration seeking.

C.The impairments in personality functioning and the individual's personality trait expression are relatively stable across time and consistent across situations.

D.The impairments in personality functioning and the individual's personality trait expression are not better understood as normative for the individual's developmental stage or socio-cultural environment.

E.The impairments in personality functioning and the individual's personality trait expression are not solely due to the direct physiological effects of a substance (e.g., a drug of abuse, medication) or a general medical condition (e.g., severe head trauma).

Man, these Sarah Jeong tweets seem serious. We better ban all race jokes just to make sure stuff like this never happens again on the internet.

It would be more surprising if the Wheeler _wasn't_ a kakistocrat.

TFA: "Any location data that Sidewalk Labs receives is already de-identified (using methods such as aggregation, differential privacy techniques, or outright removal of unique behaviors)"

Differential privacy is a rigorous mathematical definition of privacy. In the simplest setting, consider an algorithm that analyzes a dataset and computes statistics about it (such as the data's mean, variance, median, mode, etc.). Such an algorithm is said to be differentially private if by looking at the output, one cannot tell whether any individual's data was included in the original dataset or not. In other words, the guarantee of a differentially private algorithm is that its behavior hardly changes when a single individual joins or leaves the dataset -- anything the algorithm might output on a database containing some individual's information is almost as likely to have come from a database without that individual's information. Most notably, this guarantee holds for any individual and any dataset. Therefore, regardless of how eccentric any single individual's details are, and regardless of the details of anyone else in the database, the guarantee of differential privacy still holds. This gives a formal guarantee that individual-level information about participants in the database is not leaked. https://privacytools.seas.harv...

I also thought this was the most clever part - he annoyed the thief enough to discard the GPS package but not enough that they'd want retribution. It's a dangerous game when you start fucking with people who know where you live.

Good points. The obsolete maps note is spot on.

As someone who has been contracted and employed by a government agency to collect and generate publicly available geographic/statistical data I can safely say this... we've been waiting for google to eat our lunch for the past 10 years. They have no interest in doing it. In fact, they could dump it as a secondary output to their main money-making business. It wouldn't cost them anything at all (but may have some interesting privacy ramifications).

I do think there is an opening for google to spin up some open data initiatives specifically related to traffic, employment, and urban planning - but they don't listen to me. They should grab some of that public goodwill before any regulations come slamming down.

The last person I heard complaining about "non essential" personnel was gentleman who ran a service industry business out of his home and was very, very angry that his fire extinguishers needed to be examined. Government waste and overreach by his definition. There's a large group of opinionated people who believe that it's more cost effective to only be reactive and not preventative.

I also went to school for math. There was a cadre in my graduating class aiming to become actuaries and, more or less, all of them made it. Years later they had all the money they wanted but still casually mentioned suicide.

Most valuable in terms of earnings? Maybe. Most valuable? Absolutely not.

I was expecting this to be an early example of using stats in fraud detection. Should have called it quits after the line

Partisanship is a helluva drug.

Similarly Trump isn't on trial for treason as a war with Russia is prerequisite. That won't stop talk about treasonous behavior.

Most journalists I read or podcasts I listen to are well aware that collusion isn't a crime. I don't think I've heard it described as such since 2016.

"It's not the crime, it's the cover-up"

Rotten and incompetent.
The equifax main site sends users to https://www.equifaxsecurity201... which points to https://trustedidpremier.com/e... which then asks for a last name and 6 digits of a social security number.