Comment Re:I think it's missing some nuance (Score 1) 43
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I see what you did there.
Comment Expect "make it look human" post-processing (Score 1) 43
Expect AI-written material to be put through a "cleanup to make it look less like AI and more like a person" post-processing step in the very near future.
It's probably already happening.
Comment Re:Innocent until proven guilty? (Score 1) 289
But even calling it "evidence" sets up the bias. Destroying data for possible crime is a way to put it, but then that seems like minority report.
Destroying something law enforcement believes is evidence in that moment is literally Obstruction of Justice, and destroying evidence is literally a crime specifically for that reason. There really isn't much grey area here.
Comment Re:Is 4A a thing or not? (Score 0) 289
Dude, this has been settled case law for centuries. If it weren't, literally all customs inspections at the border would be illegal under Federal law absent an individually-signed search warrant.
Comment Obstruction = Federal PMITA Prison, sorry (Score 1) 289
You're free to do whatever you want to your own data (subject to previous judicial order), but the moment a legitimate authority -- whether state or local law enforcement or a Federal agency like Customs and Border Control -- indicates that your data/property is subject to search or review, destroying such data is literal obstruction and will get you as much of a charge as if you flushed evidence away while a cop was asking for it.
If the LEO or agency is overstepping their bounds, once you've been put on notice that you're the subject of an investigation the proper remedy is judicial review and a lawsuit. You don't get to #resist, and you certainly don't get to blow up your phone just because someone taught you this One Weird Trick.
Have fun in jail, bro.
Comment Give me a 1970s car with (Score 1) 1
modern safety features and modern fuel economy.
OK that may mean a 2020s car with a 1970s user interface. Minus the 8-track, I don't need that.
Comment Re:20th century version of the same (Score 1) 150
Multiple places in the USA. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.
Comment 20th century version of the same (Score 0) 150
Back in the early days of cable, I sometimes switched to dialup because of high packet loss on the cable connection. The dialup might have been slow but it was as solid as a rock.
A decade earlier I would sometimes throttle my modem to a slower speed for similar reasons.
Comment So, Affirmative Action ... (Score 1) 150
... for slower technologies!
Comment URL (Score 1) 1
https://www.wired.com/story/fl... (may be paywalled by the time you read this).
Comment Target rage, or intellectually challenging ideas? (Score 1) 215
One person's "OMGTHATSSOSTUPIDYOUAREANIDIOTIFYOUTHINKTHAT" is another person's "hmm, I haven't thought of things that way, tell me more about what you think so I can contemplate it."
We need more people in the second group.
Comment IPO price probably set too low (Score 2) 24
I don't know how IPOs work in China but if this happened in the US, it would indicate the IPO price was set way too low.
The idea "IPO spike" is about 0 or maybe a little bit above 0.
If it drops on the first day that's obviously bad.
If it's goes up it means the company left money on the table. Sometimes its good to leave a little money on the table to give the IPO underwriters an others a reason to stay excited about your company.
Comment deidentified data (Score 1) 1
Um, yeah, if you say so.