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794CD01··on Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case
Are you suggesting you are not able to do that?
794CD01··on FCC declines to punish Sinclair for its ‘must-run’ segments and scripts
If you don't create your own bubble, it means you're in one someone else created for you.
794CD01··on Chinese police use facial recognition tech to arrest suspect at a pop concert
Then maybe get rid of some of the crazy laws? Just a thought.
794CD01··on Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, and Apple Object to W3C Fork of DOM Spec
Creating a browser isn't the only part of mediating access to web pages. In different senses, Digicert, Comcast, Akamai, and Cisco do that as well.
794CD01··on How Will Automation Affect Different U.S. Cities?
They're dangerous if you don't have an efficient way to pacify them, which we thankfully do. In the modern developed world, they can pick up virtual AK-47s in Fortnite or join a League of Legends team instead, which is much less destabilizing.
794CD01··on How Will Automation Affect Different U.S. Cities?
Anecdotally, from poor people, people would rather be physically healthy and have a place to live, even if they are unfulfilled, than be malnourished or suffer from untreated chronic illness and likely be unfulfilled anyway.
794CD01··on Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie?
It's a sequence of videos.
794CD01··on Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie?
Random people all over the internet have already done that. It's called "let's play".
794CD01··on iOS 11.3 update breaks iPhone 8 devices with third party-repaired screens
They don't and shouldn't. But they should and can detect if a pending update will break your device, or downgrade more gracefully when their software runs on hardware that is missing some expected features that were previously unused.
794CD01··on China Bans Online Bible Sales as It Tightens Religious Controls
Have you and your friend never heard of Chinese new year? China already has its own very popular calendar that predates the Gregorian.
794CD01··on China Bans Online Bible Sales as It Tightens Religious Controls
If you disagree with the justification, it would be better to explain that position. Otherwise it appears that you are starting from the premise that this is bad so any justification presented must necessarily be dismissed regardless of validity.
794CD01··on Facebook was in talks with hospitals about a proposal to share data
What kind of person is facebook interested in hiring who can't become financially secure and comfortable working elsewhere?
794CD01··on A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google
You don't have to know what "SEO" means in order to fend off a smear campaign or simply bad journalism. You may not have to know what SEO means in order to get your defense sorted higher in search engine results than the slander, but you have to do it because you set SEO as your goal yourself.
794CD01··on A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google
In this situation, google, since that's the search engine under discussion. Feel free to hold them accountable if you like. China did.
794CD01··on A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google
Is a mugshot of your DUI arrest (but no conviction) 20 years ago the only remotely notable thing you've ever done in your life? If so, why shouldn't it be the first result of a search for your name? If not, why is it the first result?
794CD01··on A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google
A nice thought to have, but it does make history less useful when you have so many constantly attempting to append bad data. Eventually you fork the blockchain and get multiple histories.
794CD01··on A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google
Thankfully, that is only a temporary oversight, as eventually robots will be considered people.
794CD01··on Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
if that happened today, they might, but until three years ago, APIs were not copyrightable. Or at least not thought to be by most developers.
794CD01··on Lax regulation made it cheaper for China to outsource pork production to the US
People want government to do its job properly and to not overreach that. It's no more surreal than people here wanting net neutrality enforced through government regulation while blacking out their sites to protest SOPA.
794CD01··on Bleak housing market in Bay Area
This is all about the continued rise of the housing market. It's the opposite of bleak.
794CD01··on A billion reasons never to buy IBM services
If you don't have an objective metric like that, these bureaucrats don't magically learn how to make good decisions. They just overpay their friends instead. These bidding systems are a symptom of bad decision makers, not their cause.
794CD01··on A Supreme Court Case That Could Give Tech Giants More Power
>So if you wanted tech giants to have less power what exactly would you do?

I'm trying the "work for a tech giant and do a poor job" approach to this problem. I don't think it's working.

794CD01··on How the West Got China Wrong
If someone posted that on reddit, especially /r/China, there's practically no chance he/she is actually Chinese. /r/China is full of English-speaking immigrants who hate China.
794CD01··on Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, disposable utensils by 2030
And would be a better use of the money than most other things the government does already.
794CD01··on Google discloses Microsoft Edge security flaw before a patch is ready
Those who put resources into looking for security vulnerabilities find a lot. Of those groups, most have better things to do with those vulnerabilities than report them publicly. Who else is Google even competing against here?
794CD01··on John Perry Barlow has died
If that's really how you feel, then why don't you be that person?

And by "you," I'm not calling out cromwellian, I mean anyone who reads this comment.

794CD01··on Family fun with deepfakes
Firstly, people already know politicians lie. Nobody is going to care about your video in the first place.

Secondly, your analogy is wrong. The new hypothetical you present is equivalent to the old model where you are all giving verbal accounts and his staffers lied. If you are going to compare to an old-tech scenario where you one-up them with a more detailed recording than they have, you need to do the same with new technology to keep the comparison accurate.

Thirdly, why aren't you the liar?

Fourthly, you can always go one level up. Show the footage of them constructing doctored footage.

794CD01··on Family fun with deepfakes
At that point there is no such thing as identifying faked videos. Instead you'd rely on the abundance of independent videos and see how consistent they are. Generating a lot of them doesn't do you any good unless you can insert them into the black boxes of the 3 planes and 40 cars in the area, the databases of all the drone operators, the internal storage of all the nearby smartphones, etc.
794CD01··on Family fun with deepfakes
I am sure you can do that. The hard part would be building consistent histories to back up those uploads. An upload from my facebook account, verified by other incidental data like GPS tracking on my personal phone, would more merit treatment as an independent corroboration, whereas a random reddit upload from a throwaway account would not.

And the real verification would come from ultra-high-res captures from drone cams, self-driving car cams, traffic cams, etc that are constantly running and recording everything, so that you can't realistically fake soemthing without simultaneously compromising uber, amazon, walmart, etc.

794CD01··on Family fun with deepfakes
The presence of one source can be easily dismissed, but if you have 500 independent sources that produce video of the same event from their own angles and timespans in an interconsistent way, it's far more likely that the recorded event happened as opposed to all of these different sources lying.
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