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Lovable Sidekick

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  • Corporations Can Vote in Some Delaware Elections, Judge Says

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  • This is why Citizens United Corporations United has to be repealed. Don't just get mad at a judge for ruling according to the law, which is his job. There are shades of legality judges can rule on, like the meaning of "reasonable", but if federal law says a corporation is a person, it's legally a person. The solution is to repeal that law.

    edit: typo

  • Gospel of love

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  • or if they use AI or they Like a phobic tweet

  • Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy

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  • Exactly. It can tell that Person A just lit a cigarette and Person B is taking a shit. The possibilities are terrifying!

  • Stadium construction begins at White House for UFC Freedom 250

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  • LOL first thing I thought of.

  • Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy

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  • Wifi tracking uses measurements of the interference caused when objects pass between connected devices and a router. For your neighbors to track your movements their router would have to be connected to a device in your house, or maybe in the other neighbor's house on the far side of your house, so when you walk around it interferes with that signal.

  • What if you dropped a bowling ball in the Mariana Trench?

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  • It would probably end up right next to the tape measure I've been looking for since Sunday.

  • Time to relax!

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  • And watch them spout irrefutable logic that somehow completely contradicts each other.

  • Where's the rest?

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  • I call that an American-driven trend - don't just open a restaurant and make a living selling some popular thing, open 10,000 restaurants selling the cheapest acceptable imitation of the original thing. Instead of blueberry muffins, sell muffins with blue colored bits of grape skins and enough actual blueberry juice to satisfy government regs, cuz FREEDOM™!

  • Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy

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  • Well in theory every tech possibility is a "yet", but the way I read this it seems like a person or object's interference pattern is particular to the local signal environment - not like a fingerprint a different system could recognize at the airport.

  • Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy

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  • A sufficient fix is not letting your wifi devices connect to your neighbor's network so their router can detect you walking between it and them.

  • Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy

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  • The motion sensing is more accurate in terms of fundamentally detecting movement, but if you're going from that to assuming it can identify who you are, no it doesn't do that. It can recognize a person as the same person it saw in the room yesterday, based on their gait and their effect on the local wifi signal, but it has no way of knowing if the pattern belongs to Old Man Wilson or Old Lady Jenkins, because there's no database tying those patterns to people's identities. And besides, the patterns are specific to that one signal environmnent anyway. It's not like a fingerprint or a facial image you could record at home and then match to someone walking around in a store, which has a different signal environment.

  • Where's the rest?

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  • I dunno but I would assume so because it's America, where if there's a cheapened and vastly inferior version of something they'll use it and rebrand the original as Plantinum Plus.

  • Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy

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  • Fascinating project! Definitely sounds like at best it might detect that somebody probably fell down, but not that Old Man Jenkins is having a bowl of Lucky Charms instead of Raisin Bran and his blood pressure is a little high - which seems to be the conclusion people are jumping to here.

  • California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages

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  • I was referring to the many people who support the idea, who are individuals with a whole set of motives, some of them no doubt malicious and sinister and others who sincerely (even if cluelessly) have the of protecting their children from evil, exactly as you personally have the goal of protecting everybody from the evil you personally see.

  • California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages

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  • Good points, and well put!

  • California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages

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  • The whole idea of age verification at the OS level is a foolish means to a well-intended goal.

  • California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages

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  • The principle that Bullshit, sprayed around often enough, becomes Air Freshener.

  • California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages

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  • LOL - verification? Yeah, I got your verification right here! Here's your verification!

  • Don't be late

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  • Specialists are a whole different ballgame. When my daughter got treated for a tumor (she got cured) we learned that "waiting" is cancer's middle name.