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On the one hand Aadhar is so convenient. If I want a phone number or a bank account, I can simply identify myself with my thumbprints and iris scans and get it activated immediately without paperwork. This has really made things easier for people. Using biometrics also reduces fraud when claiming benefits from the government and maybe makes the process easier as there is again no paperwork, and it is easy to make claims.

But on the other hand, all this makes it so easy to track anyone. All your bank accounts, cards, phone numbers, internet connections would be linked to your Aaadhar number and would be centrally accessible. This is a privacy nightmare. I am already getting frequent messages from my phone company to link my phone number with my Aadhar number, or let it be deactivated.

All this information would be in the hands of government officials. The Indian bureaucracy is notorious for the corruption everywhere. What if you could purchase somebody's data through an "agent" - get access to everything that they do, everything they buy, everyone they transact with, everyone they communicate with, contents of every message they send to anyone at all - imagine the kind of possibilities this opens up for negative minds.

Besides this, someone could just hack the data and maybe leak all of it. Someone recently created an app that would let you get anyone's details including their phone number, address, etc. by typing in their Aadhar number. It was taken down a month ago. I'm not sure about the exploit but it was related to using plain http instead of https somewhere. I checked one of the Aadhar linked projects and found that they were using an open source library in the backend which wasn't up to date, and the version being used had some documented security vulnerabilities. I wonder how safe peoples' data really is.

A large number of Aadhar numbers have already been leaked thanks to government websites. It is possible to extract a person's fingerprint or iris scan using photos of their hands or the face in specific conditions. If the person has linked their bank account with Aadhar which is getting compulsory, one could take out money from their accounts by impersonating their prints or iris scans. Fortunately there is an option to protect yourself from this - go to the Aadhar website and lock your biometrics data. If used regularly this can protect people from "biometrics theft", but the biometrics are unlocked by default, and for 99% of the people they are going to stay that way.
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Google is also a household name, so people and companies ensure they they enter their business into Google Maps.
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But Peng also presented the position of the traditional automakers. He said that they are trying to do something fundamentally different. Instead of aiming for the full autonomy moon shot, they are trying to add driver-assistance technologies, “make a little money,” and then step forward toward full autonomy. It’s not fair to compare Waymo, which has the resources and corporate freedom to put a $70,000 laser range finder on top of a car, with an automaker like Chevy that might see $40,000 as its price ceiling for mass-market adoption.

> “GM, Ford, Toyota, and others are saying ‘Let me reduce the number of crashes and fatalities and increase safety for the mass market.’ Their target is totally different,” Peng said. “We need to think about the millions of vehicles, not just a few thousand.”

I wonder if an easier task to reduce fatalities is to target impaired driving and develop a detection mechanism that tries to identify whether the driver is impaired. It seems like an easier and more localized problem than building a fully autonomous vehicle.
Cede & Co isn't the nominal registered owner of all stock on the US markets - not all US shares are street name. My IBM shares, for example, are held directly with Computershare as transfer agent/share registry.

Of course, go outside the US where the stock markets are less insane, and you'll find plenty of places where direct electronic registration is perfectly normal, such as Australia.
> They do this because it's a logical pre-requisite for overturning Roe v. Wade.

It's really not, though, it's just a convenience; one could easily find grounds tomreverse Roe.and even the subsequent abortion decisions without just ignoring the Ninth Amendment. The real reason is that the Ninth Amendment is irreconcilable with the narrow mode of textualism that I personally think of as “four corners” or “sola scriptura” textualism, that seems to portray the Constitution’s text as complete and needing no external historical, cultural, etc., understanding to interpret. Because the Ninth Amendment specifically lays out that their are rights which existed and remain protected wothout being enumerated in the Constitution, it necessitates looking beyond the four corners of the Constitution to identify what those rights are.
Currently, Indian govt is making it mandatory for everyone to have AADHAR card(enrolment of which requires biometric scan) for basic services like opening bank account, provident fund, filing income tax returns etc, making it necessary for everyone to enroll for AADHAR.
This judgement will be used for removal of AADHAR requirement.
Would this verdict affect Joint Cipher Bureau's SIGINT ops?
there will be no changes for employees

Having been through multiple acquisitions of small companies by (much) larger ones... they ALWAYS say this. The person saying it might even believe it themselves.

But in a year's time that person will have moved on to the next acquisition and you will be reporting to a regular manager in the parent org who doesn't understand - and wouldn't care even if they did - why you are "special", why you should be treated differently or have more latitude or more perks or a different office than the regular staff. Then the change will happen overnight.
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does this affect MiCard`s ?

http://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-business/micard-de...
We have an issue already filed for that, and unfortunately no. That's something CSS Paged Media is supposed to solve.
AMP reminds me of AOL's web browser back in the day and possibly Facebook today, directing everything through their network and controlling the experience.

AOL used to break lots of sites/graphics/scripts which noone would put up with today, AMP just makes you use and run everything through Google or else. This is a move to control more of the web through a walled garden and goes against the distributed nature of the web.

The one thing that AMP may be beneficial for is archival purposes, preserving content past when another source may keep it. However, knowing Google products and how they are killed off like George R.R. Martin characters, no hope for that.
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The Republican Party in the U.S. is just a proxy for the big multinational corporations. Americans didn't vote them in, they voted themselves in. They'll continue to vote themselves in as long as they can find ways to manipulate public opinion in the handful of districts where it matters.
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A colony species would also be free from these problems, they look remarkably like a singular consciousness from the outside.

At the moment we're a tribal species that builds colonies, we just haven't evolved to fit into them yet.
> I think your counter to my analogy of Spotify just reiterates the echo chamber effect of the discussions here that like to debate the philosophies without seeing the bigger picture.

This isn't about "philosophy." This is about systems and consequences. The consequences are real to the user whether they're aware of the chain that produced them or not.

> Yeah, artists may get paid less now, but Spotify and its ilk pretty much removed piracy from the vocabulary of regular consumers. Back in 2004, music piracy was just something you did

2004 is a poor point of comparison if what you want is to get the big picture or even just answer the narrow question of whether the choice really is between cut-rate cloud record collection services like Spotify or free-for-all piracy. 2003 is when the iTunes Music Store launches and 2004/2005 is when you really start to see the rise of digital music retail. Between then and the early 2010s you see those services become widely accepted (even embraced by non-technical people) as an alternative to piracy, and you see revenue from those retail services rise just fine without streaming. In fact, I've seen some reports that suggest that by 2012/2013 the profits from digital retail was on its way to the profits from physical formats.

So the choice wasn't necessarily between fiddly inconvenient piracy and butter smooth streaming experience.

And the battle doesn't even necessarily play out on the field of consumer choice, really. I mean, in a perfect world I might well expect enough consumers to recognize how they vote with the wallet will shape the world, that when we value McDonalds the economy produces McJobs, that when your airfare dollars are ultimately decided by the lowest price you'll get a shitty airline experience.... but yeah, people don't. That's actually why it's more important for people who can see the consequences to discuss them, publicly, loudly, maybe even forcefully enough that product owners who can't see past their A/B testing (and may not even have arrived at the points where they understand the limits of that along with the value) might pay attention.

> My problem is that a lot of developer-type solutions exist in the Silicon Valley echo chamber and will never see adoption because they don't take into account the big picture....

We're concerned precisely because we see the big picture. Understanding that Google has the power to shape the landscape regardless of how that effects the value of the landscape as a whole doesn't mitigate the responsibility to talk about it, or imply that there's a missing larger picture.

> Google will do what they want to do and they're big enough to where if they lose a few million hardcore advocates in the process it's no skin off their nose.

If you're right, and we've reached the point where Google essentially no longer has management and engineering talent that cares to be a good steward of the web or no longer has the incentives to understand how AMP isn't, then that's a much heavier indictment of Google than most of AMP's opponents have leveled so far.
I doubt Google will cut back any time soon, but as a former Google engineer, I find this an entertaining definition of business value ;)

How much money does Google Photos make? Last time I used it, there were no ads in it.

Isn't speech recognition nearly at human levels of comprehension, at least for US English and outside of highly technical jargon? Speech patterns change slowly, so would Android continue to make money if investment in speech R&D were cut back? My guess is yes, it'd be fine.

Does Google Translate make money in some specific, measurable way? I don't mean "well it's neat to have translation links in web search", I mean, would people cut back on the commercial queries that are Google's main source of income if Translate quality stopped improving? I doubt it.

Much of their products are like this. They're products but they aren't businesses. It's very easy to lose sight of the basics of business when inside the Google bubble. The things you mention are not providing business value in the conventional sense of the term because they aren't yielding independent profits. So they're all vulnerable.

That said, vulnerable to what? I think Google is at risk of losing a lot of trust around web search and political and informational search more generally, but commercial queries are probably pretty much impregnable.
You could argue that the wooden finishing is as much a part of the design as the watch face itself.

Besides, what is truly original these day? The best you can do is create something you like that you haven't seen before and hope it hasn't already been patented.
They might want to look at https://www.google.de/maps/@48.4020174,9.9783793,159m/data=!... - the lower right part confuses drivers very much as well.
What you say is closer to truth, but does not catch the eye as well the other statement.
Curious - does anyone know why the Apple maps redirect to Google maps? I'm on Chrome.
“Privacy is about the freedom of thought, conscience and individual autonomy and none of the fundamental rights can be exercised without assuming certain sense of privacy”. argued Mr.Subramaniam.

It would be interesting to see if there are more specifics w.r.t data security in the judgements. I smell a criminal lawyer cooking up the ways this judgement would aid his clients for not opening their computer, smartphones to police!

The judgement would be widely shared worldwide, the people outside India who isn't familiar with Supreme court judgements from India; keep Merriam-Webster nearby.
This train is a nonstop to the Cretaceous. Better start preparing.
The browser could read the canonical meta tag in the article HTML and just share that.
Let's see. The paragraphs are relatively short and there are pictures alongside the text. Where is this wall of text you speak of? It's a wall when there are no linebreaks, paragraphs.
"Reasonable restrictions" are not very well defined in the Indian constitution. They are quite broad and open to interpretation on a case-by-case basis.

"... the State can impose reasonable restrictions in the
interests of the sovereignty and integrity of India, the
security of the State, friendly relations with foreign
States, public order, decency or morality or in relation
to contempt of court, defamation or incitement to an
offence."
Serious question: Why would anyone today use BTRFS, given that the battle-proof ZFS has finnally been ported to Linux for quite some time?
> How much money does Google Photos make? Last time I used it, there were no ads in it.

Google Photos is, in a sense, a big ad with prominent calls to action for selling storage space.

> Isn't speech recognition nearly at human levels of comprehension, at least for US English and outside of highly technical jargon?

Recognition, maybe (though I think no). Applying recognized text to get the desired outcome, not even close.

> Does Google Translate make money in some specific, measurable way?

It powers a paid API, so, yes, it makes money in a specific, direct, measurable way.
Basically, I'd expect an AI system to be able to go into swarm mode without clear markings.

How else do they ever want to work in egypt, or around the arc de trioumpe(sp?) in paris?
That sounds exactly like a smoker “explaining” why they smoke. They claim to enjoy it. In reality, of course, smokers only smoke because it makes them stop feeling the nicotine urge for a short while, i.e. they feel like a normal non-smoker person for a short while.

Likewise, anyone could fantasize about getting a windfall of mountains of money from far likelier events, like an unknown relative willing their fortune to you. Sure, it’s unlikely, but it’s more likely than winning the lottery. You don’t need to play the lottery to do that.
I doubt that is anything new. Political parties in power try to squelch the money stream of its competitors. Aadhaar or no Aadhaar they will find a way and have (sometimes they would rather look the otherway and share the 'profits').

On a related but tangential set of events: none of the bigwigs caught in the demonetization net had connections with the current party in power, but had patrons among the others. It is possible that the current party (/alliance) is so pristine and pure that they none of their members have any link with the illegal cash hoarders and there is no actionable evidence. I just dont find that a realistic explanation. A claim like that will need a lot stronger evidence.

But anyway, you did not comment on the fact that corruption is not a technological problem and technology will not solve it (and has not solved it). It still would be great to know why would Aadhaar succeed where others have not.

BTW I am sincerely willing to be convinced, but I do swear by the guideline that exceptional claims need comparably exceptional evidence or a reason.
Natural scrolling comes to safari in iOS 11, so every site will behave like amp.
But selling disk storage is a very marginal business and few people take huge numbers of photos they value enough to pay for storage of (vs sticking them on Facebook or Instagram which compresses the hell out of them but does it for free). I really doubt this is a significant business for Google.
I'm not convinced this novel idea would work in practice, but the investment banking industry should be disrupted.

Too many Harvard grads being paid too much money to work too many hours to add too little societal value.
Most of the time, yes.
But if you wanted a break from PC instead of internet, I can recommend workrave, it's built exactly for this purpose.

Cron job mostly serves to remind me to use internet as a tool, not as something that is constantly on. Building this awareness of how I am using it is immensely helpful.
My undergraduate thesis (1974) advisor was Dr. Barbara Liskov who was designing CLU, which became a very influential research language. The first thing she told me to do was to read a small book, Structured Programming by Dahl, Dijkstra, and Hoare. She particularly wanted me to read the chapter by Dahl on Sumula-67.

Simula was an important contribution to the development of modern programming languages, by way of Sumula -> CLU -> Alphard -> Ada -> Modula -> C++ -> Java, and the many other connections back to Simula like Smalltalk.
But that same general incompetence pervades the consultants as well? (Or at least it has in my experience)
> as why getting carried away by the words fundamental right is something to be cautious about.

Because people sometimes tend to equate "fundamental" with "absolute", and assume that the right cannot be taken away from them under any circumstances. That is not correct.

> You didn't mention what type of restrictions can be put

What is a "reasonable restriction" has not been defined unequivocally - it is subject to interpretation of the courts.
> Which is a complicated way of saying that the share that I think I own actually exists in the world, through an admittedly complicated web of commercial relationships maintained by professionals at regulated financial institutions. It is not simply a bookkeeping entry that my broker made up to take my $2.

Why is this the line between investing and gambling? I might own $1 billion of equities on swap. This is just a bookkeeping entry that my dealer made up to take my money. I don't see how not owning the physical stock suddenly makes it gambling.
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I agree. I think that the AI has knowledge of those objects.

The fact that all the objects are symmetric (at least in the examples) helps a lot.
FYI, this is the same scheme about me except there was only me and my sister getting eczema and nobody was smoking in the family.
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> India is a bureaucratic mess. And as UG Krishnamurti put it very succinctly, India is a failed country. As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, we desperately first need to focus on poverty first.

Poverty is difficult to address in a nation as large as India. Such a problem quickly approaches intractability. What are some solutions you envision to help alleviate poverty? There could very well be a huge opportunity for a startup in this space.

I feel like without requiring Aadhaar for benefits, it's impossible to ascertain or measure who is really under the poverty line or not.
I've worked in Switzerland as a consultant and there were Germans all around. A friend of mine makes more money waitressing in Switzerland than I make as a SW engineer in Austria. So I am kind of guilty too ;)

Actually there are quite a lot of young people from Spain & e.g. Romanians that leave their countries. Emigration in Romania is quite a big problem (from 23 million to 20 million people). I guess it depends on your definition of "moving in masses".
A lot of comments in this thread are misleading. What the Supreme Court has done is that it has expanded the interpretation of an existing Fundamental Right ('Right to life') to include a 'Right to Privacy'. Now this means that if any law is made that infringes on an individuals privacy then it'll be tested for reasonableness.

So before this judgment, the legislature could have for example made a law requiring all internet activity to be reported to the government or criminalized homosexuality (existing law) and anyone challenging the law could not claim that the law violated his privacy as such a right was not recognized.

After this judgment, such an argument could be made and the courts would test whether the violation of one's privacy is a reasonable restriction or not. So a law requiring you to have number plates on your car to be captured by traffic cams, or KYC norms for Bank accounts, reporting of your financial data to tax authorities could be held to be a reasonable restriction whereas laws such as criminalizing one's sexual orientation could be held unreasonable.

What prompted this constitutional reference was the governments 'Aadhar Scheme' which compelled 1.2 billion citizens to hand over their private biometric data to the government if they wanted to claim any government services. This judgment provides the test to be used while deciding whether the law and its applications are constitutional. Most likely the scheme will not be struck down in total but specific instances will be tested on a case by case basis. (eg. Aadhar can't me made compulsory for getting health services but can be made so for a Gun Licence as the latter seems reasonable but the former may not)
It is, according to the article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [0]. It just gets conveniently sidetracked when money is to be made.

[0] http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
I'm really confused by the choice of development process for BTRFS. First they write huge amounts of experimental/buggy code and then spend years trying to fix it. Reliability was obviously not the primary goal and I doubt they will be able to retrofit it.
An amazing talk from couple weeks ago on the details of Aadhaar and how it was "implemented" and why this court ruling is super important both in India and closer to the west: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCkhupMROZU
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It happens naturally but not without force, theft (like murder) happens naturally but not without coercion. The free exchange of goods and service between consenting adults happens without coercion, and naturally.
2 days ago I shutdown my laptop and all was working out great at that point. Now yesterday I turned back on to get some work done and couldn't pass maintenance mode because my home partition got corrupted somehow. Took me all day literally to get it working. I have since changed that partition back to ext4 leaving only / as btrfs
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For me it was the other way round. Roboto was much more compact and easier to read. Interface seemed to use more whitespace in the words.
a good majority of startups fall in to this bucket.