At the time of the constitution it was unimaginable that a private entity could harvest this information.

The concept of "private detective" existed for centuries.

If Sherlock Holmes (fictional) and Pinkerton (very real) could sniff out information, why couldn't the government then obtain it from them? Perry Mason wouldn't get anywhere without his trusty private detective agency — with office on the same floor as his own. Hired by the clients — who'd inevitably be falsely accused of murder — they had to share information with police on pain of losing their licenses. Such was already the state of affairs in the 1930-ies!

If today's technology existed back then and we followed the spirit of why the constitution was written I can guarantee that this would be illegal

Sounds like an attempt — an unconstitutional attempt — to ascribe to the Constitution, what is not there...

Finally, how is "buying information from data-brokers" different — in principle — from obtaining it from paid informants?

Unconstitutional activity is still unconstitutional even if the government pays a third party to do it.

Could you cite the part of the Constitution being violated here?

You cannot. The whole problem is that there is nothing illegal — much less unconstitutional — about it all.

It makes sense logically too — if a private dick can know it, why can't the government buy it from him?

Random silly person no one has heard of loses money on random coin that no one has heard of. Seriously this is news that matters how?

C'mon /. you can do better... we need CmdrTaco (I know the ship sailed ages ago...)

Lighten up Francis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

They're stuff is mostly drag and drop (think Scratch) kind of fluff, the reason they have and 'hour of code' is because what they offer is so shallow. It's all hype and no substance, I know, I was forced to participate in it at my school because no-nothing team 'leaders' and admins thought "Oooh shiney!" and also "marketing photo op!" -- I wouldn't see marketing all year in my CS/Robotics classes, but come 'hour of code' suddenly they show up -- wtf.

The sooner code.org goes away, the better -- they're a bunch of self-promoters. Plus because of they have a certain ideology leaning, a lot of schools feel an allegiance to them -- what schools should focus on is what curriculum WORKS, not about the appearance of the curriculum.

I noticed that the last few days, nothing on youtube is so pressing for me to watch 2-3 annoying fucking ads that might even total more time than the clip I want to see sometimes. If they weren't SO obnoxious and frequent I could live with the occasional ad, but it's incessant.

It's just good incentive for me to find other sources for various media

.. I do not think it means what you think it means"

one tiny country != globally

I'm with you, totally creepy -- it's something that only belongs in dystopian sci-fi novels or Black Mirror, not reality.

Ah interesting, thanks. I'll be interested to read more about performance over current lighting/rendering tech. I've done some work with Unreal and lighting it just a resource hog when baking lighting (as beautiful as it is), though maybe the whole idea is this doesn't need to do that, more dynamic perhaps?

Because the article doesn't explain it in any meaningful way -- can anyone care to give the Cliff Notes version? :)

Really wish I could mod you up!

Wish I had mod points. I don't know why he has 'cred' with some people, he's not particularly good and his stuff is derivative. His time with Boing Boing also demonstrated his (ironic) tendency to be a censor fanatic regarding anyone who wasn't as far (and I mean FAR) left as he and Xeni Jardin were.

Wait what? You're blaming the firetruck -- did you READ the article? Are you a troll, an ambulance chasing lawyer, or just really thick?

Wow... ignorance runs deep in this one. Seriously, you've only heard of 2 of these? I find that almost impossible to believe, your parents and school failed you clearly -- or you simply don't read. Then again the "activist pieces of crap" remark tells us volumes, pun intended.