December 2018 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Huawei Had a Deal To Give Washington Redskins Fans Free Wi-Fi, Until the Government Stepped In - Slashdot
by J.C. DE MARTIN Dec. 24, 2018

Dec. 24, 2018

https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/12/24/1630203/huawei-had-a-deal-to-give-… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Paris Review: "The Truth About AI: A Secular Ghost Story"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Dec. 24, 2018

Dec. 24, 2018

THE PARIS REVIEW * The Truth About AI: A Secular Ghost Story** * By Zachary Mason /Zachary Mason is a computer scientist specializing in artificial intelligence and a novelist. He lives in California.// / December 20, 2018 Some of Facebook’s AIs invented their own language, one incomprehensible to humans, at which Facebook’s researchers panicked and were compelled to pull the plug. At least, this was the story I heard on a Vanity Fair podcast. The host seemed deeply disturbed by the thought of these alien, almost Lovecraftian beings taking shape under the blithe gaze of an amoral tech giant. [...] Continua qui: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/12/20/the-truth-about-ai-a-secular…

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Happy Holidays Card
by Nexa Media Dec. 24, 2018

Dec. 24, 2018

[image: cartolinanatale18.gif] -- Francesco Ruggiero Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino web: http://nexa.polito.it mail: francesco.ruggiero(a)polito.it tel: 011 090 7219

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Switzerland’s new Tesla police cars hit data protection roadblock
by Alberto Cammozzo Dec. 22, 2018

Dec. 22, 2018

<https://www.thelocal.ch/20181220/switzerlands-new-tesla-police-cars-hit-dat…> On December 5th, police in the canton unveiled the first of seven new Tesla X 100D emergency response vehicles, each with a price tag of 140,000 Swiss francs (€124,000). But now there are fears a planned spring 2019 roll-out will be delayed after concerns were raised about the fact that the internet-connected could "listen in" on their drivers because key commands are voice-activated. Data from these voice recordings could theoretically be mined from Tesla servers, regional daily BaslerZeitung initially reported. However, the newspaper later clarified that this example had been intended as a fictitious example of a potential issue with the Tesla police cars after the carmaker on Friday stated that its vehicles do not make record voice. "Thus, no voice recordings are conducted and, logically, no voice recordings are transmitted to the server and evaluated," said Tesla in comments emailed to Swiss news outlets including The Local on Friday. But there are still issues with the fact that Tesla can remotely access its cars – as was demonstrated in 2017 when the company remotely upgraded the batteries of vehicle owners escaping from the path of Hurricane Irma in the US state of Florida. In addition, Tesla can access information on the location of its cars to diagnose and resolve vehicle issues, although the company states this option is limited to a small number of personnel. The company can also, with customer consent, collect anonymized information on the direction and speed its cars are travelling – potentially problematic for a police force. [...]

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Geoff Hinton Dismissed The Need For Explainable AI: 8 Experts Explain Why He's Wrong
by J.C. DE MARTIN Dec. 22, 2018

Dec. 22, 2018

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2018/12/20/geoff-hinton-dismiss… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Free software and the revolt against transactionality
by Giacomo Dec. 21, 2018

Dec. 21, 2018

> Writing free software is a politically radical act: while software has low > reproduction cost, both the use value and the initial labor value of good > software is high, so putting it into the public domain is a kind of perpetual > jubilee (those who use it do not owe the author anything in exchange for > its use-value) and a potlatch in the sense that the labor is exchanged for > nothing at all. Copyleft licenses are even more radical: all derived > software remains free from the normal mechanisms that drive labor into a > state of transactionality. Although one can sell free software, the cost of > reproduction is so low (and the legal mechanisms for preventing > reproduction so hamstrung by the license itself) that it makes more > sense to treat paying for free software as a gift-in-kind, rather than an > exchange. > > The idea of “open source” changed this. > For twenty years, we’ve been making corporations rich by buying into > standardization and scale — making it feasible for them to funnel us into > silos. We can stop this process, and perhaps even reverse it, by refusing > to make un-frivolous software. Personal software should be personal: it > should not scale or conform; it should chafe at strictures the same way > you do, and burst out of any box that dare enclose it. https://medium.com/@enkiv2/free-software-and-the-revolt-against-transaction… È brillante: Frivolous Free Software contro il conformismo del serissimo open source aziendale! :-D Giacomo

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Diritto d'autore e licenze software
by Giacomo Tesio Dec. 21, 2018

Dec. 21, 2018

Ciao a tutti, sto cercando materiale di studio sul diritto d'autore (italiano ed internazionale) e le licenze software in particolare, e sono certo che i giuristi e i docenti di Nexa potrebbero condividere ottimi suggerimenti di lettura. Le fonti di studio che mi sono state suggerite fin ora sono 1. https://ifosslr.org/ 2. "Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom And Intellectual Property Law" di Lawrence Rosen 3. "Open Source for Business: A Practical Guide to Open Source Software Licensing" di Heather Meeker Ho però l'impressione si tratti di fonti fortemente orientate al common law e immagino vi sia molto da aggiungere per considerare anche il diritto continentale nei miei ragionamenti. L'obbiettivo di questo studio non è semplicemente quello di soddisfare la mia curiosità intellettuale (pur presente), ma quello ingegneristico di rifinire la Hacking License. Grazie in anticipo! Giacomo

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International Symposium 'Future Visions for a Democratic Internet'
by Edoardo Celeste Dec. 20, 2018

Dec. 20, 2018

Cari followers della lista Nexa, allo University College di Dublino <https://www.ucd.ie/law/> stiamo organizzando una conferenza dal titolo ‘Future Visions for a Democratic Internet: Actors, Norms, Institution’ <http://www.democraticinternet.com/>. Essa avrà luogo presso la Sutherland School of Law il 27 giugno 2019. Il nostro obiettivo è quello di far incontrare studiosi interessati ad avanzare potenziali soluzioni giuridiche per accrescere il livello di democrazia nel mondo digitale. La conferenza si articolerà in due momenti. La mattinata sarà scandita da una serie di panels con presentazioni tradizionali. Nel pomeriggio stiamo organizzando una tavola rotonda ‘multi-stakeholder’ con rappresentanti della pubblica amministrazione, delle ‘tech companies’ irlandesi, associazioni non governative e studiosi con il fine di discutere due proposte concrete per migliorare la democrazia in rete. Per quanto riguarda la presentazione dei papers, abbiamo lanciato una call la cui scadenza è fissata al 31 gennaio 2019: http://www.democraticinternet.com/p/call-for-papers.html. Una selezione dei contributi sarà pubblicata a fine 2019 nella rivista open-access Publicum <http://www.democraticinternet.com/p/publication.html>. Qualora qualcuno di voi sia interessato a partecipare alla tavola rotonda ‘multi-stakeholder’, potete inviare la vostra manifestazione di interesse all’indirizzo: fv4adi(a)gmail.com Un caro saluto e auguri di buone feste, Edoardo Celeste ____ Edoardo Celeste AKC PhD Candidate UCD Sutherland School of Law UCD Centre for Human Rights Belfield | Dublin 4 | Ireland W: hiig.de/en/staff/edoardo-celeste/ T: @EdoCeles

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We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites
by Giacomo Tesio Dec. 20, 2018

Dec. 20, 2018

> Personal websites and email can replace most of what people > like about Facebook—namely the urge to post about their lives online. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbanny/we-should-replace-faceboo… L'articolo non dice nulla di particolarmente originale o interessante (anzi per certi versi è piuttosto ottuso, se nel 2018 propone di pagare l'hosting invece che coprare su un piccolo server a basso consumo), ma leggerlo su motherboard è... interessante. Evidentemente danno Facebook per spacciato e non vogliono essere gli ultimi a sparargli addosso ovvietà. Giacomo

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gli autisti di Uber sono lavoratori secondo i giudici inglesi
by Guido Noto La Diega Dec. 20, 2018

Dec. 20, 2018

Corte d'Appello londinese conferma cio' che sembra un trend crescente, di considerare gli autisti di Uber come lavoratori. V. caso Uber v Aslam qui https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/court-of-appeal-judgment-uber-v-aslam-ot… -- Guido Guido Noto La Diega, PhD FHEA Senior Lecturer / European Research Partnerships Coordinator @ Northumbria Law School Director @italiot | Fellow @nexacenter | Co-convenor @NINSOrig | Co-founder @DPA2018 Northumbria Law School City Campus East, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST noto.la.diega(a)gmail.com +44(0)191 349 5562 You can access my papers on Academia.edu <http://northumbria.academia.edu/GuidoNotoLaDiega> and on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1794950>) This e-mail and any attachment hereto are strictly confidential and are exclusively intended for the person above identified. Without intended recipient’s entitlement, use, copy and dissemination of this e-mail is prohibited. If you have received it in error, please advice us immediately by telephone and return the documents received to the above address, deleting the files. Thank you. Unless necessary, please do not print this e-mail.

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