Given the current sensitivity to election meddling, why is there no investigation into Comey's meddeling with the election. Regardless of who he may or may not have supported, Comey has clearly overstepped the lines with his investigations into both candidates and the various media leaks he used to influence public opinion.
Springer thought that robots.txt, an opt-out solution, was too much of a burden to their IT people, and lobbied the government to introduce the snippet tax in Germany. Which the government did. Google delisted Springer. And Springer begged Google on their knees to list them again. Free of charge, of course, since the extra traffic Google generates makes them a lot of money. Especially since they introduced paywalls for their major products ...
Raises the question why Döpfner wants to repeat the exercise on a European level...
Ok, granted, in many cases, they just repackage Butter someone has given them freely: most of the reporting is just re-written PR-stuff from government and corporations. Not always, though: Springer management has been quoted instructing their staff to lift crime victims pictures and info from Facebook and other social media - stating that grieving parents have other things on their mind than suing newspapers for copyright infringement.
Some cheek for the Master Thieves to accuse the rest of the world of stealing!
When the government wants data from its citizens, it argues that "releasing" data to any third party effectively puts data such location, purchase histories, internet browsing histories into the public domain, for anybody to access. Even if the data have only been "released" to (or generated on) a secure server at a service provider.
Wouldn't the same apply to confidential information?
Same Problem as with terrorists and Russian election meddling
Once the problem is solved, how will the FBI justify demands for more resources?
Worse, once the FBI has nothing more to ask for, they will be asked questions about topics they'd rather not talk about. Their less-than-stellar performance on general crime will only be tolerated as long as they can push high-profile topics.
Who could possibly have imagined that those antidemocratic tools permitted as ultima ratio against terrorists who threaten the very existence of the US of A might ever be abused by the government to silence inconvenient critics.
Thus threatening threaten the very democracy in the US of A they were meant to protect.
Gilead took a different approach with Hep B - cure: They calculated the lifetime cost of the alternative interferon treatment ($100 K +), and priced their new drug accordingly.
While the discussion on the ethics of selling a $50 - Drug for nearly $100 K is ongoing, Gilead shows that money can be made with new one-shot cures.
And it could be argued that Gilead's approach does encourage investment in drug development and benefits mankind (even if the high prices may be questionable, they will drop sharply when patents expire).
When scientists discovered that Gastritis is caused by the Heliobacter bacteria rather than excessive acid, the $8bn - acid blocker industry fought the obvious cure - a short antibiotics treatment - teeth and nails to continue selling their acid blockers that merely reduced symptoms.
Are there any models where libraries or funding agencies ...
... sponsor open-access platforms? In the Bioinformatics/Systems biology arena, it used to be common practice for industry and funding organizations to sponsor personnel, technology development and platforms. Their reasoning would apply to open-access in same way: The community needs certain tools and services. Sponsoring open systems was considered to be cheaper than licensing closed systems.
The prerquisite is, of course, to accept that open-source is not free, but requires an (up-front) investment of some of the money saved from paid subscriptions (later).
Has it occurred to FBI Director Chris Wray that ...
... 17 people killed at the recent Florida shooting might still be alive if he had assigned his agents to investigate reported threats instead of tasking them with concocting propaganda stories to serve his anti-encryption crusade? Or, as he prefers to describe it, devoting "folks at FBI Headquarters to explaining this challenge and working with stakeholders to find a way forward"
1. So what? 2016 presidential election price tag was $2.4 bn. What difference do a few million from Russia make?
2. If, by some magic formula, Putin can swing elections in the most powerful country in the world with a tiny budget share, then America would have a much bigger problem than just election tinkering.
On the other hand, making a big show of arresting the hired help like Bin Laden's Taxi chauffeur and Putin's kitchen staff instead of real villains does not really support the superpower-image we'd like to see. And if President Trump were indeed a puppet whose strings are pulled by Putin - would it really be a smart move to broadcast that to the world before there is solid evidence to take both of them down?
If ICE want find and arrest undocumented immigrants with criminal arrest warrants, all they need to do is check (or have Homeland Security check) passport data all travelers are required to register online at least 72 hours before travel with their arrest warrant database.
"find[ing] cars in the Google Street Map images [is] easy for humans to do, but hard for computers, while the next stage of the work -- identifying car models -- is much easier using AI."
During the last months, Google captcha required up to several dozen mouse clicks identifying cars or traffic signs before it finally accepted that a user might be human - essentially, Google turned a considerable part of the world's population into mechanical turks to help with their project.
Is Google's project now finished, so we can back to clicking once or twice to prove we are not machines?
facial recognition technology must be a gift sent from heaven
no more passcode, no more fingerprint - just wave the phone in front of the suspects face, and christmas comes early. Closest thing to unconditional surrender that Apple could give Mr Vance.
"They do not have journalists in Syria risking their lives"
Maybe not. Google, Facebook and Twitter do have a lot of users in Syria who post news stories. Which in turn get re-written into 'professional' news reports by 'our resident Syria expert in Tel Aviv or Istanbul'.
Interesting idea that Google and Facebook should buy back the news that they generated in the first place.
Maybe, to demonstrate his good intentions and show that the new FBI can be trusted, Mr Wray could go ahead and publish all National Security Letters the FBI has issued so far, and instruct his agency to wave the use of the 'National security' catch-all defense the FBI likes to use when it prefers to not have its own conduct scrutinized by third parties.
You know, just to show that the new FBI accepts the constitution as paramount and respects the authority of the courts.
On the post: Studios Remove 'Spyware' From Several Games As Gaming Public Revolts
Is it time to reverse the old industry slogan?
Now it is "use pirated software to reduce the risk of spyware."
On the post: Inspector General Not Too Happy With James Comey's Handling Of The Clinton Email Investigation
Why is Comey not in prison?
Why are we tolerating his actions?
On the post: Top German Publisher Says: 'You Wouldn't Steal A Pound Of Butter... So We Need A Snippet Tax'
Springer actually opted in!!!
Google delisted Springer.
And Springer begged Google on their knees to list them again. Free of charge, of course, since the extra traffic Google generates makes them a lot of money. Especially since they introduced paywalls for their major products ...
Raises the question why Döpfner wants to repeat the exercise on a European level...
On the post: Top German Publisher Says: 'You Wouldn't Steal A Pound Of Butter... So We Need A Snippet Tax'
We don't steal Butter. They do!
Not always, though: Springer management has been quoted instructing their staff to lift crime victims pictures and info from Facebook and other social media - stating that grieving parents have other things on their mind than suing newspapers for copyright infringement.
Some cheek for the Master Thieves to accuse the rest of the world of stealing!
On the post: Courts Says CIA Can Dump Classified Info To Members Of The Public And Still Deny They've Been Publicly Released
What happened to the third-party-doctrine?
Wouldn't the same apply to confidential information?
On the post: The Washington Post Thinks Overpaying For Broadband Bundles Is A Hoot
Both WP and TD are missing the point
On the post: Lawmakers Ask FBI Why It Isn't Getting Busy Cracking Its Stockpile Of Seized Smartphones
Same Problem as with terrorists and Russian election meddling
Worse, once the FBI has nothing more to ask for, they will be asked questions about topics they'd rather not talk about. Their less-than-stellar performance on general crime will only be tolerated as long as they can push high-profile topics.
On the post: Unsealed Warrant Shows FBI Investigated Michael Hayden For Leaking Info To Journalists
Thus threatening threaten the very democracy in the US of A they were meant to protect.
On the post: Goldman Sachs Analyst Asks Whether Curing Patients Is A Sustainable Business Model
Workarounds available - even if GS has a point
While the discussion on the ethics of selling a $50 - Drug for nearly $100 K is ongoing, Gilead shows that money can be made with new one-shot cures.
And it could be argued that Gilead's approach does encourage investment in drug development and benefits mankind (even if the high prices may be questionable, they will drop sharply when patents expire).
On the post: Goldman Sachs Analyst Asks Whether Curing Patients Is A Sustainable Business Model
They do have a point ...
On the post: DOJ Back To Pushing For Legislation Targeting Encryption
What is the point- commercial tools are available and affordable
Media report that GrayKey offers a box that will crack an unlimited number of iphones for $30,000. If they'd rather pay on a case-by-case basis: "police usually spend about $1,500 on each device unlocked by Cellebrite."
http://www.zdnet.com/article/graykey-box-promises-to-unlock-iphones-for-police/
On the post: Research Shows That Published Versions Of Papers In Costly Academic Titles Add Almost Nothing To The Freely-Available Preprints They Are Based On
Are there any models where libraries or funding agencies ...
The prerquisite is, of course, to accept that open-source is not free, but requires an (up-front) investment of some of the money saved from paid subscriptions (later).
On the post: FBI Director Says It's 'Not Impossible' To Create Compromised Encryption That's Still Secure
Has it occurred to FBI Director Chris Wray that ...
On the post: DOJ Russia Indictment Again Highlights Why Internet Companies Can't Just Wave A Magic Wand To Make Bad Stuff Go Away
2. If, by some magic formula, Putin can swing elections in the most powerful country in the world with a tiny budget share, then America would have a much bigger problem than just election tinkering.
On the other hand, making a big show of arresting the hired help like Bin Laden's Taxi chauffeur and Putin's kitchen staff instead of real villains does not really support the superpower-image we'd like to see. And if President Trump were indeed a puppet whose strings are pulled by Putin - would it really be a smart move to broadcast that to the world before there is solid evidence to take both of them down?
On the post: ICE Wants To Be Yet Another Federal Agency With Access To Unminimized Surveillance
Maybe someone should tell ICE about ESTA?
On the post: Using AI To Identify Car Models In 50 Million Google Street Views Reveals A Wide Range Of Demographic Information
Is the project finally finished?
During the last months, Google captcha required up to several dozen mouse clicks identifying cars or traffic signs before it finally accepted that a user might be human - essentially, Google turned a considerable part of the world's population into mechanical turks to help with their project.
Is Google's project now finished, so we can back to clicking once or twice to prove we are not machines?
On the post: Manhattan DA Cy Vance Makes His Annual Pitch For Anti-Encryption Legislation
facial recognition technology must be a gift sent from heaven
On the post: European News Agencies Again Demand Google, Facebook, Etc. Pay Up For Sending Them Traffic
"They do not have journalists in Syria risking their lives"
Interesting idea that Google and Facebook should buy back the news that they generated in the first place.
On the post: FBI Director Complains About Encryption, Offers To Sacrifice Public Safety In The Interest Of Public Safety
Gesture of goodwill ...
You know, just to show that the new FBI accepts the constitution as paramount and respects the authority of the courts.
On the post: Appeals Court: Forcing A Teen To Masturbate So Cops Can Take Pictures Is A Clear Violation Of Rights
Is this happening in the same country ...
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