xnull6guest

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by xnull6guest 11y ago
Let's be clear about what the "FREEDOM Act" does. It does not make NSA Bulk Collection of phone data illegal. What it does is rearrange the laws and request process and more carefully enumerate and define procedures by which
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
To hazard a guess, no on all three. I say this only because they are not specifically enumerated. But I do not know. Agreed. These are good questions.
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
I'm sorry you lost the text - it is so frustrating when that happens. Getting the government to change itself is a game - and a more opaque one. Which representatives in upcoming elections are clear wins for the way that America is wag
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
Much of what the government did (and does do) is not techically legal - in that they can not force companies to disclose or backdoor access to information beyond what is listed in the Patriot Act, CALEA and associated constellations of law.
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
Can you clarify what changes you would expect Felten to bring into the government? I'm a little frustrated by the lack of specifics in both the article, the Wiki page, and these comments. What about his technology background and histor
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
The US Chief Technology Officer was set up in the E-Government Act of 2002, which states the role's responsibilities as: * To provide effective leadership of Federal Government efforts to develop and promote electronic Government servi
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
It brings in leadership that aligns with policy objectives. The appointment of Shaarik Zafar for example - they needed someone who would be on board with mass propaganda of the Middle East: https://minerva.dtic.mil/doc/
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
Section 709 on email and internet traffic untouched, though.
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
Something I've been thinking about for a long time - I'll add this here because you and others at HN are more likely to be able to act on it than I am. It seems to me that hiring teams of programmers that are known to work well to
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
I think we're trying to say the same thing. I am not suggesting that anyone should need supernormal amounts of merit to escape their condition.
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
The problem is when there are confluences of conditions that systemically prevent someone (or their 'class') from having the mobility to exit their condition, even when they have enough merit to otherwise warrant it. Take for exam
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
No, I don't think I am. The CIA definitely has taken people from the US - even innocent ones - not necessarily 'from the streets'. It has also targeted and killed US citizens without trials. I think it is being informed by th
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
The other way to understand the present is to be read up on current events. The current DoD involvement in Silicon Valley is not a callback to the ARPANET so explicitly - the analogies are rough. But it's true that now, like then, the
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
This appeals to me, but I think at this point we are preaching to ourselves. Re: realism. Some outrage is a nice way to temper realism with civility. If we temper it instead with only a pragmatic calculus or some Randian or Social Darwinism
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
I agree we shouldn't get into a huff about what isn't reality - in fact I called for real data. I don't personally see much of a non-legal distinction between geolocations. We probably should have a little outrage at torture
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
The thresholds needed to achieve Quantum Error Correction are extremely close to being achieved nowadays (props in particular to Martini's group - and Google for hiring him). It appears that D-Wave is doing something Quantum - though
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
Can we speculate as to the timing of this with the DoD marriage with VC firms and investment groups in Silicon Valley, or is that too conspiratorial?
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
If QC is not possible for some new underlying principles (not lack of engineering capability) then it would mean our understanding of QM is fundamentally wrong. This could be the case (we've been wrong in physics many times) even thoug
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
> Are there any experts here who can give a reason why error correction in quantum computing will scale polynomially or better? Because it takes a finite number of Toffoli/Hadamard/whatever gates to error correct local errors.
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
Washington believes, and there's probably some truth to it, that the ability to project soft power comes after, or at least in tandem with, hard power guarantees. The US utilizes soft power all the time and is and has been heavily inve
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
The US Government understands that by funding the right NGOs and CSOs, it can project power by laundering its intentions through the goodwill and civic intentions of entrepeneurs, volunteers and activists. But it often takes this too far an
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
It's true that there are many challenges and threats the nation faces and that it would be a trivial exercise to attempt to enumerate them all. On the nuclear front today it would be impossible to intercept a barrage of ICBMs - it is a
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
The US exports technology around the world and the US is also wary about domestic threats (they will not admit this). Widespread access to E2E encryption thwarts global surveillance and legitimate law enforcement (imagine insider trading),
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
A link to the DoD strategy document: http://cryptome.org/2015/04/dod-cyber-strategy-2015.pdf Amid sequestration in discretionary defense spending, cyber capabilities have been spared the harsh bulk of cuts and the
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
I see. I did not get that from the article (it looks like I misunderstood). Thank you for clarifying further (without more downvote nukes). It appears that adding ads, so long at there are many competing clients, would be difficult. I was v
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
Is the idea that the program has a means to search, verify and download torrent files outside of centralized magnet/torrent websites? I did not get this from the article.
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
> The described technology is independent of the source of the torrent. This also applies to bittorrent. > The moment Popcorn Time adds Ads, there will be a fork without them. I understand what you mean. You're thinking I'm
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
Yes. With a matured and global internet anonymous bloggers, leakers, sources to journalists, news agencies, targetted ads, twitter campaigns, social media experiences and search rankings are fabricated and altered to assist in these ends. T
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
Definitely the flags and scoring systems the US has in place are not part of a public conversation in the United States, are not used by US employers (for example) during job applications, etc. I agree that this makes the system very differ
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
> Popcorn Time is at its heart just a torrent client using streamed torrent download to pipe the result into a media player. > You can just feed a torrent file or a magnet link into Popcorn Time and it will play. This is what I intend

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