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On 23 Jan 2003 at 9:48, Harmon Seaver wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:38:47AM -0800, James A. Donald
> wrote:
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> > If it was only the executives and a handful of highly
> > qualified specialists, you would not need the army.
>Of course you would. Look, once again, this isn't
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:20:27 -0800, you wrote:
acting on hunches vexes Tien.
>
> "The holy grail is that these systems will learn and adjust their
> suspicion calculators on their own, untethered from human input," he
> said. "But if you can't document the
> basis for a score or a decision, then y
>From http://wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,57354,00.html, TSA will be
using
neural nets to harass travellers.
Neural nets, besides having "due process problems", let you infer
properties
--like race--- from things that you can't or won't directly ask --eg on
loan applications.
Its even better tha
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Eric Cordian wrote:
> Nonetheless, it's an interesting story.
>
> I should note that the high security building I live regards master keying
> doors as a bad thing to do, and they have a key board and a signout
> sheet in the main office.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/23/
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:38:47AM -0800, James A. Donald wrote:
>
> If it was only the executives and a handful of highly qualified
> specialists, you would not need the army.
>
Of course you would. Look, once again, this isn't a normal "strike", this is
a conspiracy of traitors working with
If you have a working key and a lock, you can take out the cylinder, look
at the cuts on the pins, and get the information neccessary to make a
master key on a numeric key machine.
While this technique purportedly allows you to make a master without
taking the lock apart, there are few buildings w
On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 03:16 PM, Michael Shields wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Marc de Piolenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The US Constitution prohibits ex post facto laws.
It seems to me that works could be removed from the public domain
without passing an ex post facto l
