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I also don't understand why it's necessarily bad...? Countries face internal security threats. For example, in the UK, the 7/7 bombers were British, ditto the Manchester and London…

> "Low-performing students at private schools are having their estimated Cs and Ds bumped up to As" Do you have an example of this happening? It seems basically impossible from my …

It's similar to how Bruce Springsteen and The Rolling Stones aren't cool, but still sell out stadiums. Facebook (the company) will probably settle into a stable pattern like the BB…

Wow. What did the training prompts look like?

By this logic, no legislation can ever seek to reduce online child sexual exploitation

What similarities do you see between EARN IT and IPA?

Exactly. Vice are trying to frame this like some massive gotcha, but the Navy lays out their strategy openly; > “While we do not actively recruit on Twitch or through such streamin…

The vast majority of frontline policing is in response to an emergency call, so they have no control over where it is. HN seems to think police spend their shift waiting for crimes…

> "they could be worth trillions" Trillions? 50x the size of Ford? Bigger than, essentially, the current combined value of every car company in the world at the moment? How?

But could images from several telescopes be combined through a Kalman filter or something to resolve higher details? I am imagining some kind of internet enabled telescope that kno…

> "GCHQ has a program called ROYALCONCIERGE, where they hack the reservation systems of hotels to watch for targets renting rooms" Your own source makes it clear that this system w…

The reason UDP is less leaky is not because it meets any guarantee better, but because it guarantees less

So essentially, no, they do not have "all my emails". > "Instead, it's still stored on google's servers but they can access your emails via automated requests to google, via search…

Do you mind explaining precisely what you mean by "NSA has all my emails"? Suppose I sent an email yesterday from my Gmail to a friend's Gmail, are you saying the text of this emai…

Your first link doesn't support your quote. The queries are sent to the data holder who send back the data, the agency does not have direct access

If they don't have police powers, then yes.

It's always possible to impersonate police, I'm not sure what your point is? Wearing what the officers in the video are wearing - uniform with a prominent POLICE label - is suffici…

It says "POLICE" on their uniforms

? The point of the report is to provide the IOCs for the WellMail malware, which has never been reported before

> "What's stopping some jackass in cosplay from pulling the same stunt?" The ultimate answer to this is; potentially being prosecuted for kidnap and impersonating police. Most poli…

Here's the full advisory https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/files/Advisory-APT29-targets-COVID-1...

> "a woman is someone who thinks they're a woman" which is a clearly nonsensical recursive definition This is a perfectly meaningful recursive definition.

Harvard is not the most powerful institution on earth, nor do people from Harvard run all the more powerful institutions, nor, even if that were true would it mean Harvard itself i…

Yes that's precisely my point - there would still be parallel construction but there would be nothing illegal

Exactly, it's more like suspending yourself from your armpits