Sentences with phrase «obfuscation in»

«This decision goes against all common sense, especially considering the many recent revelations of errors and obfuscation in the allegedly «settled science» of global warming.»»

His technical publications included a study of host factors in pituitary chromophobe adenoma, in Metabolism, and an essay on medical obfuscation in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Both works exploit strategies of focused obfuscation in an attempt to circumvent the aura of novelty that might otherwise restrict their effectiveness.

This indicates that there is significance to providing users an additional layer of identity obfuscation in the form of a throwaway account.

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.

Freeland, a former journalist who would have been used to obfuscation in her old job, has become rather good at it in her new life as a cabinet minister.

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«It's not my understanding that I gave orders for improper accounting,» he said, in a typical example of executive obfuscation.

This type of obfuscation is common in the Lazarus Hangman malware family.

Part I: Mario Draghi, the master of obfuscation was at his best Thursday as he dodged MULTIPLE questions about the recent STRENGTH in the euro.

In an age where financial reporting is wrought by deception and obfuscation, Clorox's voluntary decision to provide investors with a measure of its economic earnings should be universally applauded.

They range from the truly funny as in this by now «viral» You Tube video with two robotic teddy - bears discussing the Fed chairman's qualifications («my plumber has a beard too»), to outright obfuscation such as the propagation of this «Bernanke explains he's not printing money, it's just an asset swap «notion.

Just do that in your head whenever he and his ilk use that term and the cloud of obfuscation they are trying to generate just... dissipates.

In fact, they are destroying souls and killing innocent children with this obfuscation.

(CNN)- As a resident of the most Catholic state in the nation (Massachusetts), I have watched for more than a decade as the Roman Catholic Church responded to charges of priestly pedophilia with a troubling combination of procrastination and obfuscation.

«All the time not having a clue that they were being whispered against, campaigned against by both Catholics & Anglicans who made it palpably clear that this initiative was detrimental to the «dialogue towards unity» and temporarily compromised their positions as oecumenical ambassadors - that this was a counter-productive «wacked - out» scheme by an ailing Pope who merely needed to be placated until he died - hence delaying tactics, obfuscations, procedurality, red tape and making everything as difficult and administratively untenable as possible; with patronising sympathy and hand - wringing at their lot while sneering, dismissing and chuckling to themselves that the whole thing will eventually come to naught... that the administration will crumble via crises and power politics andpersonality clashes and outright frustration at the situation... and ultimately the Ordinariate will be re-integrated into the Conference system and those not happy about it will crawl back to their friends in the C of E.

It is akin to the silence in the Church concerning the Nicene Creed for about 20 years or so after its formulation in 325: there were many bishops and clergy in the East who did not accept homoousios and who thought that silence, obfuscations and subsequent formulations of the creed would sweep away this inconvenient and troublesome doctrine.

For one thing, Francis has the temerity to take the science of climate change seriously, which is the sort of thing that can send a Wall Street Journal conservative frantically groping for his smelling salts, but which I can not help thinking is slightly saner than clinging to the politically inflected obfuscations of the data that so many in the developed world use to calm their digestions and consciences.

One major weapon of financial institutions in keeping the people, and even governments subservient is obfuscation.

It is a bizarre attempted obfuscation for Kmiec and others, at this late date, to claim that their personal disapproval of abortion makes them pro-life in their support of the pro-choice position.

He perceived the realists in America more generally as sliding down the «slippery slope» of metaphysical obfuscation from which all had only so recently emerged.

The REAL smoke and mirrors magic is worked when others go through so much obfuscation, twisting and interpreting in order to explain a collection of ancient scribblings that make no sense when honestly and critically assessed.

The confusion (or, at times, deliberate obfuscation) comes from two vital roles played by chance in evolution.

But in our era of theological mushiness and cultural transformation, even the most imperfect attempt at clarity and doctrinal solidarity is better than soft - spoken obfuscation.

Dortmund fans probably won't be too impressed with how candid and open he is about leaving them, but that said — he never said he would stay for life, and in an age of so much obfuscation, you have to commend his honesty.

Responding to a commentor who pointed out the study actually UNDERCOUNTED homebirth deaths because some deaths at homebirth happened during or after transfer and were included in the hospital group, she offers this bit of obfuscation:

A pattern of controversial deaths at the Erie County Holding Center is now a major topic in this year's contest for sheriff, with Democrat Bernard Tolbert, the former FBI agent challenging Republican Timothy Howard, charging the incumbent's «obfuscation and misinformation» about the deaths «hides the truth» from citizens.

So American comedian Erich McElroy, who moved to the UK 15 years ago, has formed a 50 - minute routine formed to remove the obfuscation and illuminate what it takes to win the presidency in the United States.

What followed was an instruction manual in obfuscation and delay.

«From his delusional declarations about New York's business friendliness (we're ranked last in the nation), to his snarky response about the FBI's investigation into his hiring practices, to his bizarre lecture to a female journalist about sexual harassment that one of his top aides was guilty of, we once again witnessed the arrogance and obfuscation of a Governor whose administration is in crisis,» the state GOP committee said.

Who could be against that and in favor of delays and obfuscation?

But none of that excuses the Conservatives» failure to stand up to their own benefactor and their inability to see — despite many warnings — that obfuscation on this question would make matters worse for them in the end.

«David Markowitz and Jeffrey Hancock of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, examined some 2 million words published in 253 biomedical research papers that had been retracted between 1973 and 2013 because they contained fraudulent data» and «determined the «obfuscation index» for each paper.

Encrypt and protect files with PHP encoding, encryption, obfuscation and licensing GUID Partition Table (GPT) is a standard for the layout of the partition table on a physical storage device used in a desktop or server PC, such as a hard

Revered in Japan, the rest of the world has never quite latched on to a series for which obfuscation is a calling card rather than an accident of design.

But unlike «Lady Macbeth,» which is often blatant in its defiance, My Cousin Rachel relies more on obfuscation and ambiguity, the titular character defying expectations both of her social role and the narrative.

The way that Dominika is at once completely transparent and at the same time impossible to read is Red Sparrow's most intriguing through line, not least of which for the way that Lawrence makes you grasp the canny mental gymnastics that her character has to do in order for everything that she says to be at once truth and obfuscation.

This results in overwhelming confusion and obfuscation, as well as Ritchie's constant anachronisms, including score, dialogue and period technology.

The bad guy is clouded in layers of media managed obfuscation and techno fuzz.

Uconnect works smoothly and quickly, but its center screen is full of clutter and obfuscation and red that washes over everything like that one scene in «The Shining.»

We don't have to wallow in ignorance — the truth is easily discoverable, even if there's an entire industry devoted to obfuscation, and even if veracity is at times uncomfortable.

If I'm not mistaken, font embedding issues in ID - spawned ebooks have more to do with ID's font obfuscation algorithm than the font - rendering support in the devices or apps (including Kindle desktop apps).

We can't be sure of the exact number because he was much prone in later life to obfuscation, especially about the horse theft allegation and his stints as a brothel bouncer...

FYI the obfuscation techniques mentioned at that URL are useful for packet inspecting ISP's in transit, but not for avoiding the IP filtering done at an end - point like Netflix.

While this protection may be through obfuscation or fragmentation rather then sophisticated encryption, the net result will make it harder for people to copy a whole book in one go.

Drawing next to the screen, rather than on the screen itself as you would with the Apple Pencil, eliminates the problem of getting your hand in the way of what you're doing, both in terms of visual obfuscation and software palm rejection.

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.

Michael Crichton had an essay on medical obfuscation published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1975.

It has not been the obfuscation of the overly confident Greenspan era, but the endless blather that comes from trying to be «transparent» and drown the market in communications, because they never quite understand us properly.

-- They're also likely united in their desire to distract the electorate with debate about the «correct «level of taxes / spending (and through simple obfuscation of the facts / situation).

The reasons not to have renters insurance in New Jersey change from time to time, but always the same logical fallacy appears, time and time again, each time differently cloaked in obfuscation but no less incorrect.