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Comment Re:Thinning wouldn't be a full solution but (Score 1) 91

I have no idea what I'm talking about, but it would be climate irony if the mitigation to Canadian wild fires was to build roads through the forests as a sort of fire break (obviously you don't need to drive on the roads, but you'd cut the trees and clean up the ground as if you were making a road).

Typical roads are not effective firebreaks in dense, tall forests. The general rule is that you need 1.5X (minimum) to 3X the height of the surrounding vegetation. In a forest with 100-foot trees that means you need firebreaks 300 feet wide. In areas that are sloped or often windy, the width needs to be increased.

Comment Re:Plausible deniability is better (Score 1) 205

On the other hand, it is actually common to make the duress password VERY similar to the correct password so it looks about the same when you enter it. Especially on something like a phone where you can generally re-load the data later if you want. The consequences of an accidental wipe may be quite small.

Other posible explanations include the defendant remembering the wrong password under pressure. The defendant having any history of mis-typing is irrelevant.

Comment Re:Relative skillset (Score 0) 128

Not quite. Experience is like the 2rd stage in a rocket. It is what brings you to orbit. But without the first one (education), it cannot even get you reasonably high.

Wait, uneducated people can't get high now? Things sure have changed since I was young. Back then, it was mostly the uneducated kids getting high. :-)

Comment Topical context - deeper problem (Score 1) 128

I have to wonder: how much of this is due to how college is designed? You take maybe 1-2 classes a semester related to your field of study, until 3rd or 4th year. History is not a common major, especially after 1-2 year.

I would think that someone bothering to major in a particular field would at least take the time to proofread their own papers.

At 32 out of 35, with only 3 not cheating, that makes me wonder a couple things (besides whether there are fewer history majors now that college is so expensive, and job outcomes in academia are increasingly uncertain): Is this a 100-200 level class? His video seems to suggest so - only part of the midterm was on the Industrial Revolution, and these answers suggest broad 100-level "required" class.

This isn't a story about AI cheating and ruining education. It's about a much deeper, systemic problem with both higher education as an institution, how it's financed, why it's even required, and our cultural valuation (or lack thereof) of the value of a holistic education.

Comment Re:A solution (Score 1) 44

That's why it needs to be a site run by a union of publishing companies, with individual sub-sites for each of the members. This probably couldn't work for news, but most publishing is more durable. Think of it as a cross between Google and Amazon, except the corporation would not be run for profit of the corporation, but for profit of the participating companies.

Comment Re:A solution (Score 1) 44

I think a better answer would be for a (publishing) industry group to put up it's own site. Block Google from every page except the entry. The purpose of the site needs to be to link to the publications of the members of the group, and to act as a filter so that those not desired can be refused access.

robots.txt was a great idea as long as nearly everyone was polite and paid attention to it, but now there appears to be the need of an enforcement mechanism, probably with graded access permissions.

Comment Re:Yes, such a GREAT idea! (Score 1) 205

The real solution is to not have any problematic data on your devices.

Some famous Frenchman once said: Give me ten lines, written by the most innocent man, and I'll find something in them to hang him for.

Once the government becomes oppressive, there is no such thing as non-problematic data.

Comment Re:Is this supposed to be a crime? (Score 1) 205

I am not a lawyer, but I do know that corporations routinely destroy evidence. For it to be a crime, they need to have been served with a warrant BEFORE they destroy the evidence.

Corporations never, ever (pinky-swear) destroy evidence. What they do is destroy data before it BECOMES evidence. That's the whole trick. It's what they try to argue here: As soon as they asked, destroying the data they had asked to see became illegal. I sincerely hope this gets thrown out.

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