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‘Artificial Intelligence and What Computers Still Don’t Understand’ 20 Aug 2013 | 04:18 am
Gary Marcus writing about the failure of artificial intelligence: In Levesque’s view, the field of artificial intelligence has fallen into a trap of “serial silver bulletism,” always looking to the n...
Quote of the Day: Cindy Cohn and Mark M. Jaycox 20 Aug 2013 | 03:36 am
“It’s time for those in government who want to rebuild the trust of the American people and others all over the world to come clean and take some actual steps to rein in the NSA.” — Cindy Cohn and Ma...
→ The Hyper-bolic-loop 19 Aug 2013 | 09:27 pm
The start of Dr. Drang’s analysis: I’m no billionaire industrialist, and I don’t pretend to know anything about the Kantrowitz limit, but I do know about some of the topics touched on in the Hyperloo...
‘Cameron Proves Greenwald Right’ 19 Aug 2013 | 09:14 pm
Andrew Sullivan writing about the detainment of Glenn Greenwald’s spouse (as a terrorist) as he passed through London: In this respect, I can say this to David Cameron. Thank you for clearing the air...
Elementary OS 19 Aug 2013 | 08:02 pm
Cassidy James, writing about the motivation behind Elementary OS: In April of 2011, a small group of high school and college kids released an Ubuntu 10.10 remaster that we called elementary OS “Jupit...
NSA Compliance 16 Aug 2013 | 06:51 pm
Carol D. Leonnig reporting on the rather obvious: “The FISC is forced to rely upon the accuracy of the information that is provided to the Court,” its chief, U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton, sai...
Keyboard Maestro Macro: Attach and Send 16 Aug 2013 | 04:48 am
I’ve long had a need to take a file sitting on my computer and send to to someone. While you can do that with the share menu on OS X, it’s not that great for a couple of reasons: It’s a menu item you...
‘Shift the Evilness’ 15 Aug 2013 | 09:22 pm
Peter Lewis, in response to my post about the Gmail scanning, has two fantastic App.net posts, the latter of which ends: They both [U.S. Government and Google] think they are not being evil to learn ...
‘Secure’ Email is the Wrong Approach 15 Aug 2013 | 07:17 pm
Email, by its very design, cannot be a truly secure system, so let’s stop trying to make “secure” email systems. In order for email to work, headers (recipients, subjects, from) need to be sent in the...
‘Google: Gmail Users Shouldn’t Expect Email Privacy’ 15 Aug 2013 | 01:53 am
Dominic Rushe has published an article about Google’s response to a lawsuit. The article paints the picture that Google has written a big “fuck you” to users, and thus has Google saying that users are...
