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Comment · 8 years ago
With all the information he had we can assume he knew about his employers and clients backgrounds and connections and he was cool with that. What I don't understand is how Nix and co were fooled by Channel4 into bragging about their dirty tricks when they have all this information and work with ex-spies
Comment · 8 years ago
CA would have identified that you clearly have a combination of "openness" and "neurotisism" that predisposes you to conspiratorial thinking
Comment · 8 years ago
Parrots
Comment · 8 years ago
He states in the Select Committee hearing that despite the nosering he is a right-leaning Eurosceptic
Comment · 8 years ago
I can't afford a house let alone a wall
Comment · 8 years ago
it's more about working in the knowledge that time is limited and valuable, and therefore to restrain one's perfectionism
Comment · 8 years ago
because they make it so easy to join but difficult to leave. It's basically a cult
Comment · 8 years ago
Many happy memories. Can we make it full-screen please ?
Comment · 8 years ago
Yes, tests could use Boston Dynamics-type robots to simulate humans or deer etc, but the test for not killing a person crossing a highway could be simpler to begin with:

A test-road intersected by a tram-track with a motorized trolly on which various test-subjects are mounted; the car drives the road (at night under controlled lighting conditions) and the tolley drives the test-subject across the car's path at various speeds and times. The car must perform an emergency-brake, swerve or other safety move depending on the test-subject (a crash-test dummy, cardboard-box, plastic-bag, fake-bird etc).

The test result data could be fed back into the machine-learning to inform simulations for further testing in virtual environments. A company with Uber's resources can afford to build such a test-track and should have. There's a gap in the market for a company to provide such testing facilities for car makers.

Comment · 8 years ago
FB has already inferred your identity from the graph structure and by referrences to you in conversations by family and friends
Comment · 8 years ago
Even if they complied with your erasure request and deleted everything from all their servers and their backups (spanning the world over a decade), think of all the non-EU third-parties who have your FB data already
Comment · 8 years ago
"Your account will be ‘deactivated’ for two weeks. After this period it will be permanently deleted."

"In theory, deleting your account immediately removes all Facebook data related to you. In reality it's more complicated, taking about 90 days."

Does this comply with the GDPR ?

Comment · 8 years ago
Why is Uber allowed to test its software for free on public roads ? Why doesn't it use a purpose-built test-track of its own, where it must prove that its software won't kill people (using robotic crash-test dummies to avoid) before it is allowed to use public roads ?

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