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 law,
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 an
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.
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 than
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 you have
--
On 23 Jan 2003 at 9:48, Harmon Seaver wrote:
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
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
