This is the "gift" of Big Data. Assemble enough data points that are innocuous individually and you have can do most of what you would use cameras and wiretaps for.
That's just one of the gifts of Big Data. See the earlier story about how you need know their data storage systems to know how and for what to demand for them to cough up relevant data to comply with a FOIA request. Given a big enough haystack, they can get away with not complying with the law.
Whose gov'ts are these again? They insist they're ours, but reality says otherwise.
"Where have we seen that again? Oh right, Stasi was a goddamn GERMAN agency dedicated at spying, smearing and identifying people the Nazi regime didn't like. Haven't you learned with history, Germany????"
Wait a moment! The Stasi was founded after the Nazi regime and was an East-Germany aka Russian occupied territory thing!
Details, details. :-)
Certainly you're correct, but when you think about it, there wasn't a lot of difference between the Nazis and the East German communist regime. The Nazis were possibly more effective for a time (Hollerith carding the population in '33!), but in the end they both collapsed pretty spectacularly leaving plenty of innocents' bodies in their wake.
Auschwitz, or hanging from barbed wire after being shot trying to get over the Berlin wall? Is there a third option please? The Soviets sure made the 20th Century entertaining, if you like horror stories, much like the '30s and '40s Nazis did.
I think it's just peachy that Germans learned so well from the East German Stasi that they're now known to be the front line in the war against surveillance statism. Danke! What the heck is wrong with Angela Merkel allying with the NSA?!? Having grown up in East Germany, she should know this is insanity. Spiegel has written great stuff on this, and they're rightfully incensed.
Americans won't like getting crushed by the Socialist the following four years then.
...still, better than partisanship.
Er, one (or even a hundred thousand) corporate, money grabbing, freedom ruining rapacious monsters, vs. 4.N million rapacious monsters (via IRS, et al) ...
Methinks you misunderstand the magnitude of gov't power's potentials. Knowing you, that's not true.
I'd much rather find myself defending myself in court vs. a corporation, than having to prove to a bad gov't that I'm no threat to it.
These associations grow up ostensibly to represent their members, but then they act like independent corporations, representing their own selfish interests even when those clearly conflict with the aims and needs of their members.
Professional associations, employee unions, Native band councils, Congress, ...
They'll all grow out of control when they're allowed to.
The FBI is the leading domestic counterintelligence agency. [...] Why would our head of counterintelligence urge us to deploy defective defenses?
"Why would our head of domestic counterintelligence urge us to deploy defective defenses?"
You dropped something there. Fixed. Guess who that makes Comey's adversaries. He's not focusing on defending the citizenry. He's annoyed he can't yet find a way to put you in jail.
I'm going here on the reputation of Canada fighting on Nederlanders account in WWII. We're happy today we helped with the Battle for the Scheldt. I'm happy again today to help you fight off these a-holes.
Don't fall for these dipshits' BS. They need to be strung up from lamp-posts.
American ingenuity is great, so I don't really believe all these computer science experts who say that it's "too hard" to give the government access. I think they haven't really tried.
Sigh. Hasn't every high tech startup geek heard that from his (nominal) superiors? "Boss: I have this brilliant idea! All we need to do is $Something_Magical_Happens_Here, and we'll all be rich and famous!"
Oh, and I (tech geek) need to figure out what $Something_Magical_Happens_Here means.
The cop shows on tv (when I watched tv) often point(ed) out that providing a sample will enable them to rule you out of having comitted a crime they're investigating. That's good, yes? What's wrong with that? Why wouldn't I want every citizen's DNA on file (assuming it's secured/encrypted adequately)?
I'm not saying it's a smart thing to do, nor that it would be worth the money to do it. I'm just saying I can't see what's wrong with doing it, civil-liberties-wise. Why's it not equivalent to a driver's licence in the grand scheme of things?
My bigger worry is that data science will eventually solve the needle in the haystack problem, making it completely feasible.
There's an "old" (1990s?) quote that says (paraphrased), "The single most incredible advance in computer programming is the ongoing ability to negate Moore's Law. No matter how fast processors get, modern coders are well equipped to ensure you need to buy a new box every few years in order to do the same thing today as what you did last year on an inferior box."
I think the haystack problem is fundamental. Just because you've thrown the entire world's data at the problem, doesn't mean you'll notice the answer as you motor on past it still looking for what you shouldn't have bothered to look for. "Stupid is as stupid does, ma'am."
"Brute force" is the slowest and silliest way of solving problems.
I mean, sure the musicians are being childish and petty ...
What? No they're not. Would you like people to be thinking about your associating with Donald Trump or Bobby Jindal when they're considering buying your music? I sure wouldn't. They're distancing themselves from bad juju, not wanting to be tarred with brushes richly deserved by others.
Neil Young may be a crackpot[*], but he's not stupid.
* I don't expect artists to be philosophers, and I love his stuff even if he is a crackpot; always have.
Today's Internet suffers from an implementation problem.
This's what you get when you hand something fantastically technical to marketing and sales before it's got its bugs worked out. Part of those "bugs" is education and knowledge transfer to help M&S first understand what it is they're being given. That never happened. At this rate, I doubt it ever will.
This service by the way which generates more traffic for the news outlets, it is a win win situation for both google and the newspapers.
Theirs is a zero sum world. They can't envision "win win" outcomes. If somebody else's getting something, they assume they must be losing out in some way.
But Spain really goes that extra mile by adding cruelty to animals to a national sporting event.
Ever been to the Calgary Stampede? I hear they "put down" at least two horses this year for broken legs.
If you can stand Michener, his "Mexico" is a good explanatory intro to bull fighting. He says they don't consider it a sport. It's an art form for them.
... Spain is well known for the running of the bulls. So they were already a central hub of stupidity before the new law.
As if that's any dumber than mountain climbing, hockey, UFC or boxing, "chug, chug, chug" night at the frat house, or a thousand other stupid things people do.
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That's just one of the gifts of Big Data. See the earlier story about how you need know their data storage systems to know how and for what to demand for them to cough up relevant data to comply with a FOIA request. Given a big enough haystack, they can get away with not complying with the law.
Whose gov'ts are these again? They insist they're ours, but reality says otherwise.
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Details, details. :-)
Certainly you're correct, but when you think about it, there wasn't a lot of difference between the Nazis and the East German communist regime. The Nazis were possibly more effective for a time (Hollerith carding the population in '33!), but in the end they both collapsed pretty spectacularly leaving plenty of innocents' bodies in their wake.
Auschwitz, or hanging from barbed wire after being shot trying to get over the Berlin wall? Is there a third option please? The Soviets sure made the 20th Century entertaining, if you like horror stories, much like the '30s and '40s Nazis did.
I think it's just peachy that Germans learned so well from the East German Stasi that they're now known to be the front line in the war against surveillance statism. Danke! What the heck is wrong with Angela Merkel allying with the NSA?!? Having grown up in East Germany, she should know this is insanity. Spiegel has written great stuff on this, and they're rightfully incensed.
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Re: Socialism
Er, one (or even a hundred thousand) corporate, money grabbing, freedom ruining rapacious monsters, vs. 4.N million rapacious monsters (via IRS, et al) ...
Methinks you misunderstand the magnitude of gov't power's potentials. Knowing you, that's not true.
I'd much rather find myself defending myself in court vs. a corporation, than having to prove to a bad gov't that I'm no threat to it.
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Re: Here comes the La Guardia
This BS is getting really old.
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Re: Well there you have it!
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Re: Par for the Democrat course
Where has this pissing match got us? Nowhere.
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Re: Representative Associations
Professional associations, employee unions, Native band councils, Congress, ...
They'll all grow out of control when they're allowed to.
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"Why would our head of domestic counterintelligence urge us to deploy defective defenses?"
You dropped something there. Fixed. Guess who that makes Comey's adversaries. He's not focusing on defending the citizenry. He's annoyed he can't yet find a way to put you in jail.
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I remember NIST was mortified when that came out. They retired their own "standard" upon learning it was intentionally broken (aka. back doored).
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Canuck here.
Don't fall for these dipshits' BS. They need to be strung up from lamp-posts.
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I hate dumbth.
Sigh. Hasn't every high tech startup geek heard that from his (nominal) superiors? "Boss: I have this brilliant idea! All we need to do is $Something_Magical_Happens_Here, and we'll all be rich and famous!"
Oh, and I (tech geek) need to figure out what $Something_Magical_Happens_Here means.
Comey's a twit.
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If that's what you think of TD, imagine how it reflects on you that you bother to remain here. Are you stupid, or what?
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"Technical protection measure" pretty much screams DMCA to me.
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What's wrong with collecting DNA samples?
I'm not saying it's a smart thing to do, nor that it would be worth the money to do it. I'm just saying I can't see what's wrong with doing it, civil-liberties-wise. Why's it not equivalent to a driver's licence in the grand scheme of things?
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There's an "old" (1990s?) quote that says (paraphrased), "The single most incredible advance in computer programming is the ongoing ability to negate Moore's Law. No matter how fast processors get, modern coders are well equipped to ensure you need to buy a new box every few years in order to do the same thing today as what you did last year on an inferior box."
I think the haystack problem is fundamental. Just because you've thrown the entire world's data at the problem, doesn't mean you'll notice the answer as you motor on past it still looking for what you shouldn't have bothered to look for. "Stupid is as stupid does, ma'am."
"Brute force" is the slowest and silliest way of solving problems.
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the musicians are being childish and petty ...
What? No they're not. Would you like people to be thinking about your associating with Donald Trump or Bobby Jindal when they're considering buying your music? I sure wouldn't. They're distancing themselves from bad juju, not wanting to be tarred with brushes richly deserved by others.
Neil Young may be a crackpot[*], but he's not stupid.
* I don't expect artists to be philosophers, and I love his stuff even if he is a crackpot; always have.
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Today's Internet suffers from an implementation problem.
"You're smart, Geordie. Just make it work."
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Theirs is a zero sum world. They can't envision "win win" outcomes. If somebody else's getting something, they assume they must be losing out in some way.
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Ever been to the Calgary Stampede? I hear they "put down" at least two horses this year for broken legs.
If you can stand Michener, his "Mexico" is a good explanatory intro to bull fighting. He says they don't consider it a sport. It's an art form for them.
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As if that's any dumber than mountain climbing, hockey, UFC or boxing, "chug, chug, chug" night at the frat house, or a thousand other stupid things people do.
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