Fortunately, Nexus went dark within hours of the KrebsOnSecurity scoop,

there are other, more robust, ways of fingerprinting images than hashing the data. I’m not sure how it works exactly though, but I can imagine it is not completely different from how shazam can pick out a song in a noisy environment.

I thought the rule was that it has to be at least the same components. Like mcdonalds images are super styled, but all the things on the picture are at least present pn your burger.

also, is that even legal?

I agree. It is unprecedented (and stupid), yet he did do it. As far as I know executive orders has been used as a do anything tool, so why would this specific thing cross the line?

Executive orders are a ridiculous and undemocratic notion to begin with, but the US does have them (together with Liberia, Nigeria, the Philippines).

I mean, you can only enforce it in your own jurisdiction, right?

Your country can decide to call Sweden Poop-land, your own localized maps will label it Poop-land, but on swedish maps it will still be called Sverige.

I wouldn’t call this an instance of that. Trump as far as I understand stupidly but legally changed the name.

First off I’m Canadian,

Wasn’t expecting that

and secondly America isn’t, but Minnesota is.

Minnesota is a part of America, hence my wording.

An American claiming America is better at scandinaviaing than Scandinavia, is the most American thing I’ve heard in my life.

Boo, Swedish meatball sandwiches have meatballs and beetroot salad.

I’m with you there

… wait, what

There are no such thing as fellow passengers, only foe passengers.

wtf is this bullshit

and more importantly, why is it so condescending?!

they’re not wrong

no?

if you get hit by a wall with infinite weight, moving at 1km/h, it has infinite energy, yet it will merely push you away

You have it backwards. Larger vehicles of course have more energy, but pedestrians are too light for that to make a difference.

If you get hit by an oil tanker ship going ~1 kmh, that ship has orders of magnitude more kinetic energy than a car at highway speed, yet, unless theres a wall or something, the ship will merely push you harmlessly aside.

Its about the manner of delivery, not the vehicles energy.

Larger cars are more dangerous because they hit you higher up, where you have more vital organs.

I agree, large cars are generally much more lethal to pedestrians, due to their shape, not kinetic energy.

Thats not how kinetic energy works, no pedestrian is heavy enough to stop any car, small or large.

eh, you know what, fair enough!