Likely because they anticipate increased competition to the App Store now, and want to pre-empt the attractiveness for developers of moving to the Epic Store or the Facebook Store etc.
It does. However people have a greater expectation of privacy on a device they own than on a cloud-based solution where they have voluntarily uploaded content.
If the fingerprints between an actual CSAM photo and a cropped/resized/grey-scaled version can match, it implies that the fingerprint is essentially composed of smaller fingerprints of tiny squares within a picture, as well as of fingerprints of the entire image in both its original as well as grey-scale form. It probably will also need to allow for rotation.
With all of these possibilities allowed, either the matching technology will miss most slightly-deformed matching images (criminals will quickly find effective minimal distortions), to avoid too many false positives, or will end up matching too many of people’s personal images that consist of their young kids in a state of undress (whose parents don’t have a picture or 2 of them in such a state from their childhood?).
So, either this technology is ineffective and not worth the potential misuse, or it is a grave threat to privacy.
This response is no inadequate that it is almost laughable.
They claim that their experts can listen to a small number of recordings of human speech directed at their devices. However, there is no telling what people might be speaking to their Google devices. I don't use Google Home, but given that it allows one to set reminders, etc., I would think that people could be saying pretty sensitive things, including phone numbers, addresses, credit card numbers, etc. which combined together can identify them uniquely or at least allow those bits of information to be misused.
Also, embedded in the figure of 0.2%, mentioned for the percentage of spoken interactions listened to, is the assumption that it is a very small number. However, that number implies that 1 out of every 500 interactions are listened to. For a family of 4 owning a Google Home, the number of spoken interactions with it in a year would easily run into thousands. Therefore, the experts at Google are listening to at least a handful of interactions every year for each family. Given the speech-to-text state-of-the-art, if these recordings are being converted to text and being stored, it would not be hard to group the recorded interactions per family and derive some identifiable information about them from it.
Although it is difficult to do so, maintaining your calm when faced by intimidation by government agents generally works out. Andreas did exactly the right thing - followed his gut calmly then, filed a case in the courts later.
He had a huge benefit of being a US citizen. The worst they could do, is to intimidate and introduce a lot of stress into his life. They can't deny entry into the country to the citizen at the end of the day.
As a green card holder with my whole life being here, I can be denied entry for whatever reason. This makes it pretty much impossible for me to maintain my rights and refuse to cooperate in any way.
> It is in that spirit that I have filed a civil rights complaint with the help of the ACLU against CBP for unlawfully detaining me and violating my constitutional rights.
It's an administrative complaint with the Department of Homeland Security, not a legal case. Not sure if this is an area where there is an administrative remedy that needs to be exhausted before filing a lawsuit, or if there is some other reason for the decision to take this approach.
Keeping them safe and healthy takes time. But, there are other things too. Teaching them to be good people, spending time with them to provide them with company and love (their friends aren't available round the clock). Bring up children is like being a small business owner. You nurture them so that they become solid, independent people when they grow up. The ROI is not money, but happiness, which is the ultimate goal of money.
Is it okay to put unnecessary stuff in the orbits around our or other planets? Isn't this space trash that can potentially be problematic for future endeavors? Are we creating problems for ourselves to satisfy our vanity?
It's going into a heliocentric orbit, and people will surely be tracking it.
If it gets to be a problem in the future, it will have so much historical value that someone will launch a mission to go fetch the Roadster and bring it home to Mars.
Mars is really big relative to a car. You could probably put dozens or hundreds of cars in orbit around Mars without any added difficulty.
Anyway I wouldn't normally consider it to be space trash, but in this case it's pretty much just a big Tesla ad billboard orbiting the planet so I agree with you sentiment
Space debris is a problem in a small number of high-traffic Earth orbits. There is almost nothing in existence on this random Hohmann transfer solar orbit where the car will live for hundreds of millions of years.
the standard cargo for these missions is a chunk of cement. If you want to test a rocket you have to throw something up there.
It probably does not add a measurable amount of junk to hit than is already up there in the form of natural rocks.
Though if in the future human population hits the quadrillions and we are living on all 8 planets we should probably start worrying about our space trash.
This is a great move! Many a times, a company will set your salary by incrementing your current salary by 10% (say). This is demeaning. The future employer is basically saying that we want you to work for us at as low a wage as we can possibly pay, while not being stupid. Any negotiation comes back to why your existing salary is so low, implying that there must be something wrong with you.
The new law forces an open discussion where both sides can decide what they want to pay/earn and start the negotiation from there. The negotiation then follows the track of who has better opportunities. That is a better market dynamic.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out when I look for my next job. :)
This is the way to bring jobs back to the US. Start with investing "small" sums of money to create an enterprise that will require manufacturing expertise in some area. The ecosystem will then expand. Other companies can then take advantage of the same expertise. Also, the radius of expertise will grow as supporting jobs crop up.
