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Comment Re:Trivial to obfuscate (Score 1) 111

Thing is, fingerprinting in general is not a new field, and people have been throwing neural nets at it for a long time. It has always been a pretty sketchy technique and sensitive to overfitting. You don't need people trying to shield themselves, things just change in ways that screw up fingerprints. They are notoriously difficult to keep up to date and mostly seem to survive as part of packages sold to big IT departments as 'this will detect things!', .

Comment Re:Trivial to obfuscate (Score 1) 111

I am not sure which side would really be 'always one step ahead' here. In order for this to work they would need to constantly retrain their CNN since any change in any application or websites's data usage pattern would throw it off. OS updates would also require retraining.
Boiler plate code would also throw it off, and I imagine the majority of websites would be indistinguishable. Things like user settings or adblockers would also throw it off.

Comment Re:It's just an episode of the show (Score 1) 87

Yeah we put that out at the very last minute too. George got talked into doing an initial theatrical release despite the fact that the show wasn't even rendered in the proper resolution for a movie screen. They had to send it out to be uprezzed rather than rerendering each episode. It was FUBAR. This latest movie was meant to be a movie from the start, so it has no real excuse for quality issues.

Comment Re:Unionisation requires a monopoly on labour... (Score 1) 163

It doesn't require a monopoly. It just requires collective action. If employees across different studios organize under the same union, a collective strike could be effective leverage. But the asks of the union need to be less painful for the studios than it would be to have to hire and train hundreds of new workers.

Comment Re:Go Google Employees! (Score 0) 60

Hrm.

While it would not have a snowballs chance in hell of working, I would be curious to see someone try some kind of unjust enrichment claim. Contracted work was preformed for compensation, but also preformed under the company's written policies, and one could argue that if they would not have performed the work under the new policies, and the company continues to benefit from the work performed, that the benefits were fraudulently gained. Would not work, but it would be interesting to see the legal arguments play out.

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