Sentences with word «obfuscation»

"Obfuscation" refers to intentionally making something confusing or unclear by hiding its true meaning or purpose. Full definition
ECB President Mario Draghi's press conference on Thursday was a piece of obfuscation worthy of a teenager being interrogated by its parents.
There was a lot of obfuscation in Facebook's announcement on Tuesday, but the bottom line is that the social - networking behemoth has short - circuited the way that ad blockers function, by removing all the indicators that tell ad - blocking software what is an ad and what isn't.
It sounds like there were limited other private encounters between the editor and the prime minister then, but there's a bit of obfuscation on both sides.
Further responsibility for obfuscation on climate action can be placed on a multitude of mechanisms extending vastly beyond any individual, from the media to tensions between democracy, consumerism and globalisation.
The whole «micro vs. macro» evolution schtick is an attempt at obfuscation by Creationists who found themselves unable to deny the demontrated evidence.
I think the NYT is responsible for a more obfuscation of climate science and renewable energy science than Monckton is.
If the text is deemed to be «unambiguous,» then textualism seems to cleanly slice through obfuscation like a scalpel, cutting away all messy questions about how to define and apply broad statutory purpose, legislative history, or judicially crafted substantive canons by instructing the judge to follow the «plain» text.
I think he uses obfuscation tactically to make it easier to adjust market expectations.
My favorite fact to take back to my team is that Kobo says they've fixed font obfuscation on their readers, so we don't have to remove font encryption on InDesign - generated books for them anymore -LRB-... which we usually learned about when our FXL books reflowed because of missing fonts, to disastrous results; see above).
If the north of England succeeds economically, so does the rest of the UK - but it needs vision from the government, not obfuscation
If the combination of run - time decryption and code obfuscation doesn't give the user an adequate sense of security, Veil offers an even harder - to - hack option.
Haley was employing Republicans» favorite obfuscation technique on climate change — what savvy observers call «lukewarm» climate denial.
As long as a culture in which obfuscation is regarded as an entitlement continues to dominate the department, he is vulnerable to the accusation that little has changed.
The structures these paintings are clearly modeled after buildings, but the viewer faces the artist's intentional obfuscation when determining any information from the initial photograph.
The trick was called CoinJoin and allowed for transaction obfuscation.
Despite this utter lack of transparency and almost purposeful obfuscation, guidelines exist as to what is generally considered a good score.
And, frankly, I find myself confused about whether it is really possible for PhD physicists and meteorologists to get so easily confused by minor issues of terminology and definitions or whether there is actually a purposeful attempt at obfuscation going on.
«Google, YouTube's parent company, is not likely to patch the gaps, since it would be prohibitively expensive to create a traffic obfuscation mechanism for every user's every video request.»
The results of such obfuscations are disastrous.
There is work being done to make this a possibility through code obfuscation and other techniques.
Dinges deftly portrays the contradictory signals on human rights sent by the U.S — a willful obfuscation that allowed Pinochet and other dictators to continue the repression.
The highest level takeaway from this exercise is a reminder that book publishing in many markets is still an industry easily accused of obfuscation because such figures typically aren't explicated in financial reports.
The use of Immanuel Kant's ideas to support one idea, occupying about ten lines, produces obfuscation rather than illumination.
Shouldn't the photoreceptors lie just behind the lens to meet the incident light without obfuscation?
Michael Crichton had an essay on medical obfuscation published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1975.
That update included MagiskBoot improvements, socket obfuscation for hiding Magisk better, and some optimizations to Magisk Manager.
I'm actually against oil sands expansion and would far rather see all governments support renewables instead, but when the State Department takes such a moronic attitude on a serious issue it just looks like obfuscation.
The Patriots have elevated injury report obfuscation into an art.
By choosing clarity over obfuscation and identity over politics, InterVarsity is refusing to profit from confusion.

Phrases with «obfuscation»

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