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Submission + - AI Should Challenge, Not Obey (acm.org)

davecb writes: This month's CACM has a brilliant idea that I just tried out, " AI Should Challenge, Not Obey".

Advait Sarkar suggest that instead of using AI to write, you use it to review your work. I tried it out using Claude and asked for things like "what is unclear in the following?" and "what question does this answer?".

I previously speculated that AI might be good for code reviews, and it looks like you can invent prompts that really will help improve your code, writing and videos. You get it to critique you!

OK, folks, what prompts can you think up?

Submission + - Your network is slow (:-)) (acm.org)

davecb writes: I have an article in at the November Communications of the ACM (the print magazine), and a 5-minute video about it at https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvimeo.com%2F1017926413

This is a follow-on from Dave Taht's "bufferbloat" work, now a project called LibreQoS, where QoS stands for Quality of Service.
If you are having trouble with unintelligible con-calls or gaming lag, have a peek.

Submission + - Canada (quietly) offering sanctuary to data from the U.S. (thestar.com)

davecb writes: The Toronto Star's lead article today is Canada courting U.S. web giants in wake of NSA spy scandal, an effort to convince them their customer data is safer here. This follows related moves like cisco moving R&D to Toronto. Industry Canada will neither confirm nor deny that European and U.S. companies are negotiating to move confidential data away from the U.S. This critically depends on recent blocking legislation to get around cases like U.S. v. Bank of Nova Scotia, where U.S. courts "extradited" Canadian bank records to the U.S. Contrary to Canadian law, you understand ...

Submission + - Canada courts, patent office warns against trying to patent mathematics (www.slaw.ca)

davecb writes: The Canadian Intellectial Property Office (CIPO) warns patent examiners that ..."for example, what appears on its face to be a claim for an “art” or a “process” may, on a proper construction, be a claim for a mathematical formula and therefore not patentable subject matter.” (Courtesy of Paula Bremner at Slaw)

Submission + - Copyright trolls sue bloggers, defence lawyers (fightcopyrighttrolls.com)

davecb writes: "Prenda Law has commenced three defamation, libel and conspiracy suits against the same people: defence lawyers, defendants and all the blogger and commentators at "Die Troll Die" and "Fight Copyright Trolls". The suits, in different state courts, each attempt to identify anyone who has criticized Prenda, fine them $200,000 each for stating their opinions, and prohibit them from ever criticizing Prenda again."

Submission + - Swedish Pirate Party Presses Charges Against Banks For WikiLeaks Blockade (falkvinge.net)

davecb writes: "Rick Falkvinge reports today that the Swedish Pirate Party has laid charges against at least Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal before the Finansinspektionen , for refusing to pass on money owed to Wikileaks. The overseer of bank licenses notes (in translation) that "The law states, that if there aren’t legal grounds to deny a payment service, then it must be processed.”"

Submission + - The woman's whose making your privacy her business (theglobeandmail.com)

davecb writes: The woman who faced down Facebook and was dissed by Silicon Valley business boys as "an old-fashioned scold" is really one of the early advocates for using the internet for access to information, and to open up government.

The Globe and Mail has an interview today with Jennifer Stoddart, the privacy commisioner of Canada, who went up against Facebook for all of us, and made them back down.

Submission + - Knuth got it Wrong (acm.org)

davecb writes: Think you've mastered the art of server performance? Think again.
Poul-Henning Kamp, in an article at ACM Queue finds an off-by ten error in btrees, because they fail to take virtual memory into account. And he solves it in the open source "Varnish" HTTP accelerator, for us all to see and use.

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