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  1. Justin Fisher's avatar

    To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…

  2. Mark's avatar

    Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…

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    Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…

  5. sahpa's avatar

    Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.

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He makes the Texas Taliban look sane…

Guess who said the following:

“The Antichrist is probably a Jew alive in Israel today.”

“Communism was the brainchild of German-Jewish intellectuals”

“The Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew.”

“How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy moneychangers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?”

Feminism is a “socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.”

Recently, he declared: “When you get through you say, ‘If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom [where the State Department’s building is located]. I think that’s the answer. We’ve got to blow that thing up.’” This was his second nuclear terror threat on Washington, DC. “Maybe we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom to shake things up,” he said in June.

Was it Osama bin Laden? The Malaysian prime minister? The leader of the Aryan Nation?

Nope. It was Pat Robertson, wealthy televangelist, friend and supporter of the U.S. Attorney General, and founder of the politically influential Christian Coaltion.

[Thanks to Mickey Z. for the references.]

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