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cdf2theworld
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Comment #19559681
It's true, I've only been on the military side of the IC, so everything I've been exposed to has been offensive in nature. That being said, the attitude of everyone I've met in the…
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Comment #19559290
You're right, there's no existing solution to exempt US citizens from these exploits. However, with the massive resources available to them, if they focused on enhancing our securi…
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Comment #19559203
And even that was not declassified, in the normal sense. Documents were burgled by patriots and released to the public.
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Comment #19558949
So for the sake of possibly needing to break into a non-US citizen's iPhone, they do research to create exploits that put EVERY US citizen who uses an iPhone at risk? And they real…
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Comment #19558923
We only found out about COINTELPRO because some US citizens got together and burglarized the FBI [1]. What programs are running today that we don't know about yet, because we haven…
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Comment #19558859
"the enemy's devices" Which enemy?
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Comment #19489785
Tell us what you really think
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Comment #19489768
Regarding the DMCA, I think you need to insert the word "intended" in there, in order to make it a try statement. The DMCA was intended to provide those protections... It has becom…
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Comment #19488658
Information loss is inevitable when that information isn't used enough to become inately retained. When we focus on a particular area of study, what we learn is self-reinforcing. I…
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Comment #19488612
I'm sorry, I don't understand what you are getting at. With the internet in it's current state, notes from college years 1&2 are useless... I could go on Wikipedia and YouTube and …
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Comment #19486143
It adds a new discussion! That discussion is titled, "Is sk0g an overbearing asshole?" Let's jump in and find out what HN thinks!
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Comment #19486127
Exceptional explanation!
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Comment #19439007
Student here - I was struck by the "summer learning loss" quoted in the article. Everyone I talk to has this, myself included. The greatest reason for this, personally, is subject …
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Comment #19435939
Well that's a recipe for success!
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Comment #19435661
I believe CS degrees require discreet math (and highschool algebra 2), which means they've done permutations and combinatorics, so yes they've done these types of problems before. …
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Comment #19403591
Wrong. Most facial recognition software reduces largest image dimension to 128. This allows caching to become effective, massively speeds up the process (hence the 15k fps).
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Comment #19403521
Annnnnnnnd the hardware was neatly laid out on a graph on the readme. Did you comment before doing ANY reading? That's a feaux pah oh HN.
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Comment #19403382
At least in the US, the police departments are reliant upon traffic tickets for funding. Just saying, get rid of human drivers, cops aren't gonna get paid!
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Comment #19403229
Ah but this is the seeing point of New Zealand: they have a low population of people, and a lot of open grazing land. Heck there are more sheep than people there! That is a no go i…