Sentences with phrase «which obfuscate»

Snowden said that he is most interested in privacy - centric cryptocurrencies like Zcash, which obfuscate blockchain data to allow users to verify the integrity of transactions while keeping them private from would - be snoopers.

Not exact matches

Asian Americans and the issue of affirmative action have long been used to drive a wedge between communities of color and obfuscate the real purpose of the program, which brings opportunity to students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

The extent to which InvestmentCO's activities overlap with those of Alden and its affiliates has been purposefully obfuscated.»

Nor am I sure how «the practice obfuscates the meaning of a valuation, which can become dangerous down the road because private investors aren't taking the same risks a public - market shareholder would.»

«Growth in corporate intrinsic value is often obfuscated by stock price movement, which does not appropriately track the accretion in business value.

Separate from greedy self - serving religion, which is obfuscating any valid discussion on the scientifically high probability of an intelligence we humans could rightfully call «extra-terrestrial,» I would guess physicists would add God to your list of probability figures as follows:

But re-reading Ezekiel 16:49, which explains the sin Sodom committed, it seems the whole point of this article must be obfuscated somehow?

Mark, I clearly and definitively state my position which beats your steaming piles of obfuscated bull sh!t, every time..

For example, are there ways in which such conventional contrasts as «theory / practice» or «academic / professional» or «objective / subjective» serve as much to obfuscate issues as to clarify them?

The victory registered by the complainant parties (temporary, since China can still appeal it) does not obfuscate the deeper issue, which is that what is needed in the medium and long term is a strategy to curb or eliminate this precarious dependency.

After months in which politicians have obfuscated in the name of loyalty and discipline, the man who wrote the party's manifesto believes his duty now lies in being brutally honest.

The aforementioned suit over a candidate's use of LLC money was settled out of court, so there hasn't yet been a clear test of what might be called the Sugarman Doctrine, which assumes underutilized power in the sections of election law prohibiting attempts to circumvent contribution limits and obfuscate the true source of campaign money.

«Patently false statements and rumors about the immediate closure of LICH obfuscate the truth, which is SUNY's commitment to securing proposals to provide healthcare services in the community,» said Robert Bellafiore, spokesman for SUNY Downstate, which owns LICH, in an statement.

«Beginning in 2009 and continuing up to the filing of this complaint, the Debi Rose Campaign provided false and misleading documentation to the CFB in an effort to both obfuscate, and conceal, «in kind» campaign contributions, and coordinated campaign goods and services provided by various labor unions for which «fair market value» was neither paid, or accurately reported,» the complaint said.

He accepts the assignment and, before long, finds himself in a cascading tunnel of police investigations, shady characters and loose ends, all the while continuing to smoke pot which most assuredly obfuscates his own thinking on the case.

He plays Nick Naylor, a high - powered and high - paid V.P. at the Institute of Tobacco Studies, which was founded by the tobacco companies and dedicated to the fine art of obfuscating the downside of cigarettes.

Both ADE and IDPF support obfuscated fonts which use and XOR (exclusive or) technique to obscure the fonts in an embedded font set so that it can not be extracted and used by itself.

If resources can only be distributed provided they are encrypted / obfuscated, the Author of the Distributable Object must specify which resources and what method to use (see usage rights).

In cases where there are multiple purchases, I will simply use the average purchase price to approximate an overall initial yield rather than showing multiple values which will only obfuscate what the chart is intending to show.

They used competitor's equipment / existing technology to perform their tests instead (which can not do it with only a single drop of blood)- meaning they could not, even while obfuscating the process, achieve their stated goal of «one drop of blood = > many common blood tests».

By contrast, the obfuscated poetry of letters and symbols may be seen to reflect Basquiat's fascination with Henry Dreyfuss's Symbol Sourcebook, which decoded the so - called «hobo signs» that littered New York's subways, walls and doors.

Inspired by a recent visit to Hong Kong, Turk created a Styrofoam box sculpture especially for this exhibition, adding to his infamous trompe l'oeil sculpture series in which he casts a substantial bronze sculpture from a seemingly ephemeral object and then paints it to further obfuscate the true materiality of the piece.

But while his lexicon is recognizable, it is enigmatic and incomprehensible as it repeats and creates a visual cacophony — a kind of buzzing of color and pattern — that camouflages and obfuscates the panels, photographs, walls, clothing and found paper on which he paints and draws.

In his multiple and editioned works — what he calls his «cheap line» — John Baldessari often uses stock images, which he adapts by adding plains of color that highlight some planes and obfuscate select portions of the image, therefore forcibly shifting a viewers attention and perspective.

So this lionizing process of first obfuscating mediocrity and then elevating the mediocre and greedy and power - hungry is what Federico Solmi seems to lampoon in his visually stunning animated paintings which were one of the highlights of the Bushwick Open Studios.

He went on to state the question posed to the day's panel, which asked «whether skeuomorphism is good design, allowing users to relate to a concrete but outmoded object with which they're familiar or whether this is a nostalgic, superfluous layer that obfuscates the inner workings of the digital.»

To some this obfuscating strategy may seem frustrating, while others will recognize it as an extremely generous position which rewards both casual viewers and more interrogating spectators.

The newsprint appears on the surfaces, an obfuscated memory in an accumulation of paint, text and untouched surfaces, overlapping passages of which question the line between manual process and extant material.

With each intuitively developed composition, each element such as the figures is often obfuscated by another element such as text, which in turn is challenged by a direction, such as an arrow.

In his gray paintings, begun in 2000, each layer of spray - painted lines is obfuscated and blurred to the point at which it becomes impossible to distinguish amongst various imbrications.

Andrew Revkin Boy, Michael, if my writing and blogging has allowed even one person (you) to step out of the fog of competing messages and obfuscated science in the climate arena, I feel it's been worth the hassles (and all that «scorching» you refer to, which has come from folks on all sides of this issue at one point or another).

Instead, to get around the objections this would raise, we work out tax credits and deductions which are clever ways to obfuscate the cost.

Which is exactly the kind of BS the «gurus» use to obfuscate simple facts.

«It is my experience which guides my firm support of the proposition that skeptics and those who have the courage to support them are actually helpful in getting the science right... They do not, as some improperly suggest, «obfuscate» the issue: They assist in clarifying it by challenging weaknesses in the «consensus» argument, and they compel necessary corrections,» he said.

So let's follow the dots and take a look at Chris Folland's email, which is first in the chain of three emails that McIntyre quotes (although McIntyre jumps back and forth in a way that obfuscates what is really going on).

This means that it must be accurate and convey the important information, but it can not contain all of the scientific detail, which would obfuscate to issue (disinformation).

An obfuscating ad hominem which is both irrelevant, and implies unhealthy motives which you merely assume and can't possibly know to be true — doesn't answer Mosher's point.

Which Gavin attempted last week to obfuscate in his NASA GISS «hottest ever» PR that did not also note GISS» own analysis had concluded there was a (1 - 0.38) ~ 2/3 chance the PR was wrong.

You obfuscate (probably to yourself also which is worrisome) the basic fact initially posed that gross population levels are increasing in the Western countries both overall and in most nations.

Like the new NASA page on IR which will no longer give such a real vivid description of what IR is, what we feel as heat from the Sun, and what Near IR is, not hot, but avoids stating this, so this NOAA page doesn't actually give you the information which clarifies, it obfuscates.

Thirdly, and finally, many attorneys thus promote the use of many antiquated phrases, historical metaphors, and latin terms as «short - hand» methods of explaining legal concepts, however, ipso facto, these attorneys may obfuscate the terms about which they seek clarity, et sic porro.

Unless the judge as factfinder or jury clearly shows that they are ready for the criminal defendant lawyer to let the obstructionist witness have it — which usually will not happen with any witness other than an opposing expert puffing out his or her obstructionist and obfuscating chest at all times — the judge and jury may well punish the overbearing cross examining criminal lawyer, in one way or another.

Quinn Ross, the president of the Ontario Bar Association, says the comments of some opponents have obfuscated the real issue, which is that equality, diversity and inclusion are fundamental to the future of the profession.

The self - abasement inspired by public perception of the grasping, obfuscating solicitor has reached its apotheosis in the new Solicitors» Code of Conduct which came into force on 1 July 2007 — and we cower before our regulators.

Cloud providers can provide, with each of their service offering an option to encrypt (obfuscate) data with a key that only the customer controls which in turn can help with maintaining control over their data.

Ripple, the company behind the controversial XRP cryptocurrency which has been criticized for obfuscating the nature of its partnerships with financial organizations, has announced a

Android Gallery apps also obey the «hidden» folder rules, which is another way to obfuscate images you don't want everyone to see.

This potentially obfuscates which bitcoins were sent from which address to which address, and breaks the assumption that all inputs belong to the same user.

But the difficulty of A) knowing exactly what data is being collected for what purposes and B) finding the cunning concealed / intentionally obfuscated master setting which will nix all the tracking is by design, of course.

Certain tools such as ring signatures and zk - SNARKs help obfuscate exactly who the address being sent to is as well as the amount being transferred which may help assuming they are implemented.