Stefan Savage

The pardon text is for those “convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021;”. The bomb was planted on Jan 5. I foresee some litigating on “related to”

Correct. But once you insert a policy like this for one set of topics it’s not clear why you can’t extend it to other domains in the future…

Google scholar is an illusion, kinda like magenta. It only exists in your mind.

I think the other difference is the tremendous amount of manual work to figure out what the traffic was, who it belonged to and who to disclose to... which has been non-stop detective work for them over the last year.

The difference is one of scale (a dozen transponders vs > 400, decoding a a single standard protocol vs building a system to decode an array of proprietary protocols)

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

Amazing story about the work of my amazing colleagues:
www.wired.com/story/satell...

An interesting question is what the other warrants were for... In my experience, attachment A and B generally only get numbered when they're part of a larger group.

Next time “the Meg”

Yeah, no idea on that one. After all YOU did not register the copyright.

The open questions seem to be about a) whether "book" is limiting and b) if there is some kind of pro-rata thing for what fraction of a work was pirated.

I will point out that ACM Proceedings do have ISBN numbers and apparently ACM registered the copyrights. They look like class members to me... ditto IEEE.

I also wonder if the term book is not salient. It has to have an Asin/isbn number. So perhaps a whole proceedings might be much a thing?

In this respect I’m skeptical about the “it’s just a tool” analogy. That’s great when it’s interchangeable (ie purely labor saving). The advent of calculators made our arithmetic muscles atrophy, but so what? Generative AI text threatens to make our thinking muscles atrophy — different I think.

I think, from a student standpoint, writing is the most problematic case. Writing is the mechanism we have for thinking through problems, making them crisp and concrete. When we allow AI to do drafts of writing we are outsourcing our thinking and we don’t develop our own abilities.

At Least 750 US Hospitals Faced Disruptions During Last Year’s CrowdStrike Outage, Study Finds Of those, more than 200 appear to have had outages of services related to patient care following CrowdStrike’s disastrous crash, researchers have revealed.

On the one-year anniversary of CrowdStrike's disastrous crashes that took down millions of computers worldwide, a new study finds 750-plus hospital networks in the US were disrupted, and 200-plus appear to have had outages of patient medical services. www.wired.com/story/at-lea...

Don’t you think Google’s change in how location history is stored is going to make this practically (albeit not legally) moot? Did anyone else offer geofence? Tower dumps maybe will be the next front here.

Tracy was also the founding drummer in UWs legendary “Anna’s All Girl Band” — an interdisciplinary systems/theory musical experience. Clearly he had it in his blood.

The argument is that maybe a big part of the goal here is for students to learn at the beginning that they should be doing AEAD. We don’t teach miasma and leeches and then “work up” to medicine that works after all. I think bottom up leads people to believe they can be clever.

Every single one of your commenters seems to suggest bottom up. Arguing, rightly I suspect, that it’s pedagogically better to start with simpler things and compose them. I’ll play devils advocate and suggest the reverse.

Ok, folks here the question I’ve seen no one else ask yet. Since the current Pope is a US citizen, does this mean no more US SIGINT collection directly against the pope without a FISA warrant?

Microsoft announces new Copilot Copyright Commitment for customers - Microsoft On the Issues With customers ask whether they can use Microsoft’s Copilot services without worrying about copyright claims, we are providing a straightforward answer: yes, you can, and if you are challenged on copy...

On the other hand, some models come with deep indemnification pockets: blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...

With a secondary risk that there might be ownership interests from third parties whose code was used to train the model — something we very much don’t have clarity on in the US and perhaps even less so in the EU (courtesy Recital 105 of the AI act). Cross-border rules even less clear.

“AFRAID--A Frequently Redundant Array of Independent Disks” www.usenix.org/conference/u...
We came up with the acronym first, months later I did a summer internship to figure out what it might mean, then paper, then patent. Names have power…

Those of us whose musical input has languished since we stopped living near you request a Spotify channel to follow :)

Whale, don’t whale if you can’t get in. The application process is a killer and can feel cruwhale. But whether you can get in, Orcant, you’re all great and have a porpoise.

So many seally puns, bordering on sealf-indulgent…

Your comment that culture is peer-dynamics completely resonates with me. I think any time you create situations for positive-minded faculty to do things together -- and even better in public -- you create some social gravity that spills over.

As a small example, for the last 23 years we've run a holiday party at UCSD CSE where the staff, students and faculty all produce skits/videos -- largely all making fun of the faculty. (see: www.sysnet.ucsd.edu/~voelker/hol...) It is both humanizing and provides a safe medium for voicing issues.

I think when people think about this question they first focus on how to manage the more toxic individuals in their organization. Perhaps another way to think about this is how to support and amplify the more positive and good vibey parts of the culture.