cdf2theworld

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by cdf2theworld 7y ago
It's true, I've only been on the military side of the IC, so everything I've been exposed to has been offensive in nature. That being said, the attitude of everyone I've met in the IC has been "we need to be able to
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by cdf2theworld 7y ago
You're right, there's no existing solution to exempt US citizens from these exploits. However, with the massive resources available to them, if they focused on enhancing our security rather than fouling it, I very much believe we
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by cdf2theworld 7y ago
And even that was not declassified, in the normal sense. Documents were burgled by patriots and released to the public.
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by cdf2theworld 7y ago
So for the sake of possibly needing to break into a non-US citizen's iPhone, they do research to create exploits that put EVERY US citizen who uses an iPhone at risk? And they really don't have a great track record of keeping thes
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by cdf2theworld 7y ago
We only found out about COINTELPRO because some US citizens got together and burglarized the FBI [1]. What programs are running today that we don't know about yet, because we haven't burglarized them lately? 1. https://
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by cdf2theworld 7y ago
"the enemy's devices" Which enemy?
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by cdf2theworld 7y ago
Tell us what you really think
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by cdf2theworld 7y ago
Regarding the DMCA, I think you need to insert the word "intended" in there, in order to make it a try statement. The DMCA was intended to provide those protections... It has become a channel for baseless abuse.
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by cdf2theworld 7y ago
Information loss is inevitable when that information isn't used enough to become inately retained. When we focus on a particular area of study, what we learn is self-reinforcing. If I study calculus and discrete math, my understanding
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by cdf2theworld 7y ago
I'm sorry, I don't understand what you are getting at. With the internet in it's current state, notes from college years 1&2 are useless... I could go on Wikipedia and YouTube and get the same, if not higher quality, info
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by cdf2theworld 7y ago
It adds a new discussion! That discussion is titled, "Is sk0g an overbearing asshole?" Let's jump in and find out what HN thinks!
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by cdf2theworld 7y ago
Exceptional explanation!
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by cdf2theworld 8y ago
Student here - I was struck by the "summer learning loss" quoted in the article. Everyone I talk to has this, myself included. The greatest reason for this, personally, is subject diffusion. This is especially true from freshman t
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by cdf2theworld 8y ago
Well that's a recipe for success!
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by cdf2theworld 8y ago
I believe CS degrees require discreet math (and highschool algebra 2), which means they've done permutations and combinatorics, so yes they've done these types of problems before. The real question is how long has it been?
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by cdf2theworld 8y ago
Wrong. Most facial recognition software reduces largest image dimension to 128. This allows caching to become effective, massively speeds up the process (hence the 15k fps).
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by cdf2theworld 8y ago
At least in the US, the police departments are reliant upon traffic tickets for funding. Just saying, get rid of human drivers, cops aren't gonna get paid!
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by cdf2theworld 8y ago
Ah but this is the seeing point of New Zealand: they have a low population of people, and a lot of open grazing land. Heck there are more sheep than people there! That is a no go in the US.