Only the presumption of innocence by the court is important to our legal system. Anyone not part of the trial has no obligation to presume any defendant is innocent.
A team of researchers from prominent universities – including SUNY Buffalo, Iowa State, UNC Charlotte, and Purdue – were able to turn an autonomous vehicle (AV) operated on the open sourced Apollo driving platform from Chinese web giant Baidu into a deadly weapon by tricking its multi-sensor fusion system, and suggest the...
What is the purpose of accountability other than to force people to do better? If the lack of accountability doesn’t stop a computer from outperforming a human, why worry about it?
That is simply not true. The law since basically forever had held that manufacturers are liable if their product malfunctions and hurts someone when it’s being operated in accordance with their instructions.
Edit: I hope all y’all who think the rule of law doesn’t exist are gonna vote against the felony party.
Suppose you work for an email provider and you agree not to talk to law enforcement about your customers’ data without a subpoena. Seems pretty legit to me.
I think if you’re trying to estimate the odds of an impending civil war, you’ll do a much better job if you take into account how widespread calls for it are, rather than simply noting that there are always a few calls for civil war.
Everyone doesn’t have to decide a war is preferable, just a critical mass. And it probably won’t be a war like you’re imagining, with battles and such, but rather a whole lot of terrorism and assassinations. Only a fool would attack a well-armed group directly when there are so many soft targets all over the place. Most Trumpanzees are dumb as bricks, but there are enough of them with a basic knowledge of military tactics that they won’t just throw themselves into a meat grinder.
In what he described as an “emergency broadcast” on Saturday, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claimed that his far-right news company, Infowars’, studios in Austin, Texas, might be shut down by federal authorities soon....
Think of how many times you can trick a dog that trusts you before it starts to figure things out, and consider that Jones’ audience is more loyal and less intelligent than a typical dog.
Sometimes a program is slow to start up because it’s so boated that just loading it from the disk takes multiple seconds. Wasting a few kB doesn’t hurt anything, but if you’re doing it thousands of times in one program, your users are gonna have a bad time.
On a side note: I love how on the one hand we get stories like this about American consumers having absurd monthly credit payments and barely any cash on hand, but at the same time we get stories and even Fed numbers saying consumer credit is doing fine actually.
I can only assume the Fed and government agencies make a point of only reporting metrics that show everything is fine. Lying with data is easy if you’re in control of how it’s summarized.
Trump’s felony conviction has hurt him in the polls (www.vox.com)
Windows won’t take screenshots of everything you do after all — unless you opt in (www.theverge.com)
Robot cars can be crashed with tinfoil and painted cardboard (www.theregister.com)
A team of researchers from prominent universities – including SUNY Buffalo, Iowa State, UNC Charlotte, and Purdue – were able to turn an autonomous vehicle (AV) operated on the open sourced Apollo driving platform from Chinese web giant Baidu into a deadly weapon by tricking its multi-sensor fusion system, and suggest the...
2 police officers under investigation after they were recorded beating a man with batons at a bus stop (www.nbcnews.com)
Two Seattle police officers are under investigation after a bystander recorded them beating a man with their batons at a bus stop last week....
News and tech media mostly quiet after UN chief calls for ban on ads for oil and gas (www.theguardian.com)
The Guardian contacted 11 major organizations that run fossil-fuel ads after Wednesday speech by António Guterres...
Google to start permanently deleting users’ location history (www.theguardian.com)
Photoshop Terms of Service grants Adobe access to user projects for ‘content moderation’ and other purposes (nichegamer.com)
Democrats back Republicans into a corner and shine light on extremist stances on contraception (www.independent.co.uk)
Report: Donald Trump has spent millions in possible witness tampering (www.nj.com)
Google Assistant continues to crumble in the 'Gemini era' (9to5google.com)
‘No way out without bloodshed’: the right believe the US is under threat and are mobilizing (www.theguardian.com)
The posts are ominous....
Alex Jones says Infowars could be shut down within hours (www.newsweek.com)
In what he described as an “emergency broadcast” on Saturday, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claimed that his far-right news company, Infowars’, studios in Austin, Texas, might be shut down by federal authorities soon....
Quake-like game made with JavaScript takes up just 13KB of storage (www.tomshardware.com)
You can play it in your browser here.
Madlad posted this on the r/libertarian subreddit and they banned him (lemmy.world)
reddit.com/…/how_it_started_vs_how_its_going/
Insufferable personality competition (lemmy.world)
"That's when judges hand down jail time": Ex-NY prosecutors say Trump is daring judge with outburst (www.salon.com)
54% of Gen Z Shoppers Use Pay Later Plans to Buy Groceries (www.pymnts.com)