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>>80373

So, what are the chances this will fuck most of the consumers in the ass?

>>80374
>Chances
It is a guarantee.

>Monopolies
>Illegal
pick one

It might sound like science fiction but the technology is being used today by at least five police departments including Dallas, Chicago and Los Angeles, the authors say.

We know very little about these systems. We don’t know how they impact privacy and civil liberties. We don’t know how they address accuracy problems.

What happens if the system misidentifies a suspect and an innocent person is arrested?

Nobody knows, apparently. States have no rules or regulations governing the use of real-time or static facial data, or whether this data can be accessed for less serious crimes that don’t require a warrant.

It’s almost as if law enforcement has discovered a new tool to make its job easier but wants to use it on the quiet, with as little fuss as possible.

In the US, there are other dimensions to the debate over computer facial recognition such as civil rights and religious and political freedoms written into the Constitution.

…We found only one, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, whose face recognition use policy expressly prohibits its officers from using face recognition to track individuals engaging in political, religious, or other protected free speech.

The authors worry about how the unregulated use of facial recognition might affect racial and ethnic minorities, noting that the FBI has admitted that facial recognition algorithms are less accurate when used on black faces.

The Center on Privacy believes the situation demands that legal checks and balances be introduced and that the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) be funded to test the accuracy of software.

Failure to do so could rapidly reduce the privacy of public spaces for ordinary citizens.

So far, discussions between privacy organizations and business groups on the issue of facial recognition haven’t exactly been encouraging for civil liberty advocates.

Citizens are paying for police and FBI face recognition systems. They have a right to know how those systems are being used.

You should look into trapwire. This is nothing new and it's far scarier than face recognition.

Five Star is the leading opposition to the government’s plan to cut the number of seats in Parliament’s upper chamber and limit its powers, a move Mr Renzi is seeking to speed action on economic reforms. With the prime minister threatening to resign in the event of a “no” vote, growth-enhancing measures such as a corporate tax cut and help for Italy’s fragile banking system could be off the table. “You might end up having a political crisis on top of an economic slowdown and a banking mess,” says Bloomberg Intelligence economist Maxime Sbaihi. “Suddenly, stars could align for the worst.”

Recent polls show the “no” forces narrowly ahead. If they prevail, an interim government would take over until elections could be held, probably in 2017, says Wolfango Piccoli, co-president of Teneo Intelligence, a political advisory firm in London. “The big winner would be the Five Star Movement,” which could increase its 14 percent share of parliamentary seats, he says. Five Star probably wouldn’t gain sufficient backing to form a government but would have enough seats to deny any other party a solid majority.

That scenario underscores what may be the biggest risk of the nationalist groundswell: increasingly fragmented parliaments that will be unable or unwilling to tackle the problems hobbling their economies. True, populist leaders might not have enough clout to enact controversial measures such as the Dutch Freedom Party’s call to close mosques and deport Muslims. And while the Brexit vote in June helped energize Eurosceptics, it’s unlikely that any major European country will soon quit the EU, Morgan Stanley economists wrote in a recent report. But they added that “the protest parties promise to turn back the clock” on free-market reforms while leaving “sclerotic” labour and market regulations in place.

France’s National Front, for example, wants to temporarily renationalise banks and increase tariffs while embracing cumbersome labour rules widely blamed for chronic double-digit unemployment. Such policies could damp already weak euro zone growth, forecast by the International Monetary Fund to drop from 2 percent in 2015 to 1.5 percent in 2017. “Politics introduces a downside skew to growth,” the economists said.

Here’s a Rundown on the Upcoming Elections:

Italy
Dec. 4 referendum

Prime Minister Renzi wants to curb the power of Parliament’s upper house and has said he’ll resign if there’s a “no” vote. That could plunge the country into crisis, likely leading to an interim government followed by national elections in 2017.

The “no” side is slightly ahead, but at least a quarter of voters remain undecided. Mr Renzi’s base is divided on the referendum, prompting him to offer concessions to appease party members who’ve opposed his plan.

Netherlands
March 2017 general elections

Voters will choose members of the national Parliament, where the Liberal Party holds the most seats and heads a coalition with the Labour Party.

Recent polls show Geert Wilders’s anti-immigrant, Eurosceptic Freedom Party running neck and neck with the Liberals. But even if the Freedom Party gets the most seats, it’s unlikely to find a coalition partner. Improving economic numbers could benefit mainstream parties, and Liberal Prime Minister Mark Rutte may shore up his support by boosting spending on health care and security.

France
April-May presidential elections

Voters will choose a president through a pair of primaries, followed by a first round of voting in April and a runoff in May. Bordeaux Mayor Alain Juppé, a pro-European, business-friendly former prime minister, is the front-runner in a November primary of center-right candidates. The Left has its own primary in January; François Hollande, the deeply unpopular Socialist president, hasn’t said whether he’ll seek reelection. A wild card is Emmanuel Macron, a former economy minister under Mr Hollande who’s created his own political movement but hasn’t said whether he’ll run.

The first round of presidential voting will pit the primary winners against Marine Le Pen, head of the far-right National Front, and candidates from smaller parties. Polls show Ms Le Pen would win as much as 30 percent of the vote in April, enough to advance to a second round. But surveys show she’d lose a runoff to any mainstream candidate. In parliamentary elections in June, the party that wins the presidency is likely to gain enough seats to form a government. Despite Ms Le Pen’s popularity, the National Front holds no seats in the 577-member National Assembly and failed to gain control of any regional governments in elections last year.

"No, you're the puppet"
You can't make this shit up

Hillary is dodging a lot and Trump needs to take it to her better

Hillary did such a good job with switching the immigration issue to the Wikileaks/Russia issue

>>80206
Funny how only USA was affected while the rest of the world is fine and okay

But anyway, it could've been the USA itself trying to cut their own arm, but of course they will blame China/Russia

>>80210
>The U.S. will blame China and Russia

Exactly my thought. They will blame China and Russia saying that cyber attacks are considered an "act of war"

Neah, there are several thousand China servers backdoored by western entities. A lot of attacks have been routed through cn to cause diversion.

Ever since the late 90s, boxes have been exploited and privilege escalation by password sniffing. The west got an early start on China and China has too much pride to admit it so they'd never point their finger at the US or other countries for compromising their systems.

Russia on the other hand, they got skillz and no one is going to punish or extradite anyone for their packet exploration.

The rise in the cost of petrol is already apparent. It is priced in dollars, causing foreign exchange shifts to flow directly to the pump. Since August, British prices have steadily ticked up from 110.03 pence per litre to 113.04 in October. For November, Mr Clarke is expecting 116.00 or more.

Holidays to the US and Europe — some offered by package tourism companies — are also more expensive, as many will discover as schools decamp for their half-term holiday later this month.

>“Anybody heading across to the continent is going to be in for a nasty shock,” says Laith Khalaf, senior analyst at the fund manager Hargreaves Lansdown.

with the idiot cabals too much of a chickenshit letting the stock markets go down a measly points,now they use an old risk-free to the stocks methods by raising prices of your shits

when will you britcucks stand up to this clear act of aggression?

>>78861
Fuck off commie, businesses can set their own prices.

Good thing the US is the largest food producer in the world. Looks like a new market just waiting to be exploited.

The emails, which also show Clinton praising Wall Street in a manner that’s discordant with her tough campaign rhetoric, have made many progressives less inclined to give Clinton the benefit of the doubt on nominees with more centrist backgrounds or ties to Wall Street, said the operative. “Some of the first fights that she is going to be dealing with are going to be personnel fights like about who she’s going to pick for Treasury, Securities and Exchange Commission, Education and Labor, and for regulatory agencies like the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Federal Trade Commission. Progressives are going to be on guard.”

The WikiLeaks revelations have not influenced the hierarchy around Clinton or her feelings about trusted advisers like Podesta, Sullivan and Tanden, according to a source close to the campaign. Podesta and Sullivan helped Clinton prep for Wednesday’s debate here and traveled aboard the campaign plane with her to the debate, while Tanden is still listed as a co-chair of Clinton’s transition team.

But it could pose a major problem for Clinton’s efforts to fill out a transition team and a prospective administration if Sullivan, Tanden, Podesta or other close advisers became widely seen on the left as unwilling to work in good faith with the Democratic Party’s left flank, which largely aligned behind Sanders during his bitter Democratic primary campaign against Clinton.

Sullivan, who was Clinton’s lead policy adviser at the State Department, is believed to be a candidate to become her National Security Adviser. And the WikiLeaks emails revealed that he also carried great influence in domestic policy debates, often taking a centrist tack that concerned liberals, including opining that Clinton’s “natural place is to the right” of Obama on surveillance.

Tanden, the president of the Clinton-allied think tank Center for American Progress, is one of four co-chairs of Clinton’s transition team, and was expected to serve as a top outside advocate for a prospective Clinton administration. In the emails, she describes herself as “a loyal soldier” who “would do whatever Hillary needs always,” and her criticisms of Clintons’ liberal critics are unsparing and occasionally intensely personal — including once calling some of her own CAP employees “crazy leftists” after they published a headline critical of Clinton.

And Podesta, the dean of Democratic presidential staffers, helped Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama launch their administrations, and now serves as chairman of Hillary Clinton’s campaign and president of her transition team.

In the emails, he comes off as a pragmatist, pouring cold water on the popular liberal proposal for a carbon tax, which Sanders embraced, by saying that the polling on the idea “sucks.” But he also swipes Sanders as a “doofus” for saying that the 2015 Paris climate accord, which Clinton supported, “goes nowhere near far enough.”

Tanden declined to comment for this story, while the campaign would not make Podesta or Sullivan available for interviews.

Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri dodged a question on Tuesday about whether Podesta had apologized for calling Sanders a “doofus.” Instead, she declared “we're really grateful for all the support that Sen. Sanders has given us.”

Palmieri said the Clinton campaign has not asked to review Podesta’s emails to determine what types of additional revelations might be forthcoming in the tens of thousands of emails WikiLeaks says it has yet to release. She suggested, though, that the campaign was not particularly worried.

“We’re not spending a lot of our own internal time doing that,” she said, accusing Russian intelligence of perpetrating the hack “to hurt her campaign.”

The U.S. intelligence community has not officially declared the hack of Podesta to be the work of the Russian government, but it did blame Russia for an earlier hack of the Democratic National Committee. And The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the FBI suspects Russian intelligence agencies were behind the Podesta hack. The Russian government has denied any role.

The Clinton campaign has declined to comment on specific emails, saying it doesn’t want to authenticate them.

But spokesman Glen Caplin rejected any suggestion that the Clinton team is dismissive of liberal leaders or positions.

"Hillary Clinton's policy proposals are the most progressive of any Democratic Party nominee in history and she has continued to champion them long after the primary ended,” he said. “From holding Wall Street accountable, to ending mass incarceration, to raising the minimum wage, to combating climate change, to making the wealthy pay their fair share, she's worked with progressive allies to aggressively develop serious and thorough plans to make real change."

For RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of the National Nurses Union, though, the emails reveal the true feelings of Clinton’s team toward progressives and their causes, and suggest that if Clinton wins the White House, she won’t be on their side.

“If the WikiLeaks are accurate, the issues closest to our hearts are probably not ones she will embrace, like single payer,” said DeMoro, whose union drew fire from Clinton’s team in the primary when it campaigned aggressively for Sanders.

But DeMoro said Sanders, who has since endorsed Clinton, and his supporters, won’t “be shut down easily,” by a Clinton team that she said came across in the hacked emails as “a pretty imperial bunch. Vindictive.”

In one of the hacked emails, Randi Weingarten, the head of a pro-Clinton teachers union, writes to Podesta that she will “go after NNU and there [sic] high and mighty sanctimonious conduct.”

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>>79652
Haw haw haw! Good find, OP.

As a trump supporter, who gives a fuck? Guys, let's give them this one.

>>80258
not a valid news source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_Forum#Islamist_Watch

>>>/pol/

If the specific information that's in that website is false, where can you get that information? It should be public information right?

>>80261
The only way to ascertain what actually happened and which source is best for a particular story is to look at all possible sources at once. To do that you need a news aggregator. Here are some examples:

spidr.today
newsmap.jp
cityfalcon.com
popurls.com
yahoonews and googlenews for blogs and everything else
clever Anons set up keyword searches and RSS feeds

>>67915
>>>/lgbt/
faggot

>>67915
That's sad. They are a multitude of other reasons you could of fired them but being a bigot is not a reason that should be enforced. Customer Complaints (about there being a TG), poor work ethic, Showing up late to work, Not working to standards, harassment or inappropriate language. I could keep going but I'm going to go look at porn now.

>>67915
A private business can hire, fire, serve, or refuse to serve whoever it wishes.
Fuck off, retard.

>>79326
Again? Still? I guess you can't kill an idea, no matter how painfully cliche it becomes.

>>79538
This.

I'm sure there will be a decent turn out due in part to that documentary "We Are Legion" but not a single person there will have any idea as to what an oldfag really means.

>>79552
If they did, they would not want to be around eachother. Those basement trolls in the doc. were paid.

Meanwhile, the Times has been working on a strategy to significantly boost digital revenue by 2020, including shifting more resources into digital initiatives and looking at ways to revamp things such as its Metro section.

“It’s definitely been a hard year for print in the first half,” said Meredith Kopit Levien, chief revenue officer at the New York Times.

Newspapers have been in a race against time to grow their digital revenues to make up for the collapse of print advertising. They have made strides, but face challenges on that front, including the dominance of Facebook and Google in the digital market and difficulty making money on mobile products.

During the past decade, marketers have fled newspapers for a variety of reasons, including declining circulation, aging readership and the need to fund their digital initiatives.

Other factors more recently have come into play, including the growing use of data and analytics in the media-planning process. Moreover, advertisers aggressively are pushing into online video, and marketers in sectors such as retail, financial services and telecommunications are reducing print spending.

“There’s been acceleration in the downturn this year” in print advertising, said John Ridding, chief executive officer of the Financial Times. “That is partly structural towards digital and mobile and the major platforms, such as Facebook and Google.”

The newspaper print-ad outlook is a worrisome prediction given that the overall global ad market is expected to grow 4% this year to $529.1 billion, with a 14% acceleration in digital-ad spending, according to GroupM. Newspapers, however, aren’t alone in seeing ad dollars dry up. Global magazine ad spending is expected to decline 2.9% this year, estimates GroupM.

To help bolster digital dollars, many publishers slowly are abandoning low-rent display ads and pushing into potentially more lucrative ad offerings such as native ads, video ads and virtual reality.

But so far, digital ad revenues aren’t growing fast enough to offset declines in print, particularly because ads in newspapers remain relatively expensive.

Although prices vary widely, the average CPM, which is the cost for reaching a thousand people, for a full-page ad in a national newspaper is roughly $100. Meanwhile, the average CPM for a broadcast TV ad in prime time that reaches 25- to 54-year-olds is roughly $37, according to several ad buyers.

That means that when an advertiser weighs the performance of print ads against their cost, print doesn’t appear as efficient as other media when ranking return on investment, said David Murphy, chief executive officer of Novus Media, an ad-buying firm owned by ad giant Omnicom Group Inc.

Using data and analytics in the media-planning process “is being leveraged by more and more national advertisers and retailers, and that is a recent phenomenon,” Mr. Murphy said.

Jefferies analyst John Janedis has forecast an even more difficult calendar third quarter. Last month he lowered his estimates for the New York Times, predicting a 17% drop in print-ad sales, worse than his earlier projection of 14%. For Gannett and News Corp, he estimates combined print and digital ad revenues will decline 12.5% and 7%, respectively. The companies declined to comment.

In response to the print decline, the Journal may further reduce head count, according to people familiar with the matter.

It isn’t alone. The New York Times said further downsizing is expected in the newsroom early next year. Emphasizing the importance of digital, the Times this week named A.G. Sulzberger—who has focused on the newsroom’s digital transformation—as deputy publisher, putting him in line to become the next publisher.

In the U.K., Daily Mail & General Trust, the owner of the Daily Mail, said it was cutting more than 400 jobs last month in response to a tough ad market. Guardian Media Group, which publishes the Guardian and the Observer, slashed about 250 positions earlier this year.

“Newspapers are a tough place to be right now,” said Stephen Daintith, chief financial officer of Daily Mail & General Trust. “The decline in the U.K. has been even more severe over the last 12 months.”

Be it the nature of all memes to die. Time to let this one go.

Why doesnt Matt just sue the fuck out of the ADL?

>>80167
He's working with them directly.

>>78775
The sad part is knowing how stupid people are theyll probably still believe exxon mobil over scientists

>>78837
People would believe scientists more if the predictions they made in the short term were true, the Arctic was supposed to be ice free by now. If you cry wolf enough times people stop believing you.

>>78837
But actual scientists don't agree with this sensationalist trash at all.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/scientists-take-on-great-barrier-reef-obituary_us_57fff8f1e4b0162c043b068f?

>>80125
Is this the first American involved in the FIFA scandal?