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Comment Do you still work on AI related material? (Score 1) 480

by decapolis on Thursday February 27, 2014 @04:41AM (#46355233) Attached to: Interview: Ask Richard Stallman What You Will

Reading Sanjoy Mahajan's Street-Fighting Mathematics, he references a paper you published with Sussman about constraint propagation, the paper being about computer-aided circuit analysis. Do you still work on AI-ish topics like that? Or is it FSF-turtles all the way down?

Comment Rainy Sundays (Score 1) 813

by decapolis on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @04:04AM (#41146237) Attached to: How Long Do You Want To Live?

"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon", Susan Ertz.

Submission + - EFF reverse engineers Carrier IQ config (extremetech.com)

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MrSeb

on Thursday December 22, 2011 @08:35AM

MrSeb writes: "At this point we have a fairly good idea of what Carrier IQ is, and which manufacturers and carriers see fit to install it on their phones, but the Electronic Frontier Foundation — the preeminent protector of your digital rights — has taken it one step further and reverse engineered some of the program’s code to work out what’s actually going on. There are three parts to a Carrier IQ installation on your phone: The program itself, which captures your keystrokes and other “metrics”; a configuration file, which varies from handset to handset and carrier to carrier; and a database that stores your actions until it can be transmitted to the carrier. It turns out that that the config profiles are completely unencrypted, and thus very easy to crack."

Submission + - Dem PAC buys newtgingrich.com (networkworld.com)

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netbuzz

on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @06:32PM

netbuzz writes: "The purchase of newtgingrich.com by a Democratic Super PAC — and the use of it to highlight Newt Gingrich's political weaknesses — is either amusing or a dirty trick, depending on your politics and your view of the Republican presidential hopeful. In either case, however, it is a cautionary tale about the importance of controlling your brand online, a task that is about to get more difficult for everyone thanks to the impending expansion of generic top-level domains."

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