Some people obfuscate that because it's in their interest to obfuscate that.
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GOLDMAN: They hire law firms to obfuscate the whole thing.
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I've spent 20 years trying to obfuscate my round face.
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Epstein's documentary sections bafflingly obfuscate how Google search works, though.
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But at this point, all they can do is obfuscate.
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They simplify and obfuscate what actually happened on Election Day.
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Trump can't obfuscate and message his way around a potential pandemic.
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The latter looks like a genuine effort of obfuscate by Barr.
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Her every utterance seemed intended to obfuscate rather than to clarify.
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The engagement agreement was written in this manner to obfuscate the amount being paid, to in turn obfuscate Skadden's requirement to register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA), according to federal investigators.
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I know that not one of them is out to intentionally obfuscate.
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She did obfuscate a lot of the time, but she's a politician.
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Even when they're using words, automakers obfuscate what their cars can do.
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Instead, the user must obfuscate their online identity to be granted access.
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This is Putin trying to obfuscate and blur what is the reality.
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Either outcome would obfuscate the true state of science about the issue.
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These paradoxes obfuscate any rational discussion about the team and Klinsmann's tenure.
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But American sound and fury mainly serve to obfuscate a domestic quandary.
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At best the deflection is a startlingly feeble, unsophisticated attempt to obfuscate.
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Faced with more damning evidence, the industry will obfuscate rather than enlighten.
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The Iranians obfuscate and deny, say they'll offer access and then deny it.
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Yes, Trump can delay, prevaricate, obfuscate, annoy and even shut down federal science.
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D'Avenia's relationship to simile is misguided and cynical: used to obfuscate, not clarify.
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Instead, he began to obstruct, deny, obfuscate and lash out at his critics.
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So the Democrats in the House and Senate, they continue to want to obfuscate.
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Hillary's response to all of this was to obfuscate the truth and destroy evidence.
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But we've seen the White House try to obfuscate the facts of climate change before.
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Finally, the potency of flashy marketing can obfuscate deficiencies in the value security startups provide.
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Acquisitions are messy financial affairs often engineered to obfuscate the true value of a transaction.
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But Thakur said that some hackers deliberately obfuscate their language to make tracing them harder.
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Privacy advocates have accused the agency of attempting to obfuscate how the database will function.
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So others conclude that it is Giuliani's strategic intention to obfuscate, to muddy the waters.
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And when they don't want to give an answer they just obfuscate and sit there.
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Like Deng Xiaoping's "socialism with Chinese characteristics", the phrase serves more to obfuscate than enlighten.
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The real grounds: one more effort to divert attention from and obfuscate the Mueller investigation.
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"FX, one-offs obfuscate a solid set of numbers," Bernstein analysts wrote in a note.
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Truthful and transparent is great, but we don't even have a coherent strategy to obfuscate.
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Both these claims served to obfuscate its real aim — misogyny, and, increasingly, racist white supremacy.
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Two of my favorite words are in this puzzle: OBFUSCATE, which is autological, and BESPECTACLED.
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And a disproportionate focus on identity and groups can obfuscate other issues, such as individual freedom.
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It's a mostly brownish gray surface, with no clouds to obfuscate my sight back into space.
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They have done everything they can to obfuscate the truth, albeit in a very incompetent way.
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The rich and the powerful will do all they can to obfuscate, delay and cover up.
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Democrats have argued that she has misdirected or outright lied to obfuscate the Trump administration practices.
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The use of pretentious phrases and complex acronyms is generally designed to obfuscate rather than elucidate.
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That's not to say I think it's okay for creators to obfuscate their sponsorships at all.
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Many media reports — and the ones I cited above are just a sampling —obfuscate that fact.
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Some of this is intentional, done to obfuscate privacy settings and, thus, benefit Facebook's bottom line.
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They obfuscate any sight of the city, allowing you to see only the blue sky above.
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The payload was disguised as an "Adobe update" and contained software designed to obfuscate its source code.
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"They need to not get in the way of any investigation or try to obfuscate," he said.
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It's not hard to imagine Nvidia's decision to obfuscate its library because that library is in flux.
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Government officials ordered healthcare workers to obfuscate the state of the outbreak, hiding patients from WHO officials.
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Governments that engage in truth-telling are heading off dangers faster than those that obfuscate or delay.
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Court officials who don't know much about it or who deliberately obfuscate make the task even harder.
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The user is flagged as Danish, though they could have easily used a VPN to obfuscate their location.
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Indeed, the exuberant expression of national unity will obfuscate and suffocate legitimate criticisms of discrimination against Egypt's Christians.
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"They're trying to delay and obfuscate, and it's all to serve the purposes of the fossil fuel industry."
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In order to obfuscate the primary coin's audit trail, launderers use a tactic known as "mixing" or "tumbling".
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Image: USPTOThe tech could also be used to obfuscate any photos or videos taken in a specific location.
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Democrats, meanwhile, can't make the mistake of chomping at the Trump bait and helping him obfuscate the issues.
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Enbridge's reaction has been to obfuscate the truth, and to hire a lot of lobbyists and PR folks.
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But the boss admonished me that we are here to elucidate, not obfuscate, so I'm playing it straight.
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But where some writers choose to obfuscate or minimize their ethnic background, Sharma is boldly forthright and probing.
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Bad actors are always working to use more sophisticated methods to obfuscate their origins and cover their tracks.
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Facebook decided to "obfuscate the fact that we screwed up the math," the complaint said, quoting the Facebook documents.
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But by taking the maximalist stance, he also perfectly articulated what the right has worked so hard to obfuscate.
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Social media companies don't want us to know, and they obfuscate and drag their feet rather than disclosing information.
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So often, though, weather maps serve only to confuse and obfuscate, with weird lines, befuddling isobars, and garish colors.
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With four days left until the 100th day, the administration has only three plays left: lie, obfuscate, and exaggerate.
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This is hilariously opaque and obviously intended to obfuscate—but it doesn't even do a good job at that.
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These actors know how to cover or obfuscate their tracks because they are (usually) very experienced in their craft.
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Mitchell to admit this rather than obfuscate and act as though seeking a deliberative process is the root problem.
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Hackers deploy a trove of tools to cover up their tracks, which can obfuscate important details like their location.
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This lather-rinse-and-repeat cycle is especially useful at moments when there is other bad news to obfuscate.
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Critics of forced arbitration say it helps companies obfuscate misconduct claims by keeping the accusations out of open court.
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Venality in Washington may be bipartisan, but not strictly so; to obfuscate that feels political in the wrong way.
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If they threaten to derail a personal policy or political objective of his, he'll obfuscate or just keep quiet.
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In practice, they do what most insurance companies seem to do: obfuscate and evade and force you to beg.
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House Republicans continued to do their best to obfuscate and misdirect, as they have done throughout the impeachment process.
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Your letter also implies a host of contradictions that might obfuscate the written reality of my Frieze London review.
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Maybe it's all just a smokescreen that's trying to obfuscate a more incriminating image that's gone viral in recent days.
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Instead, it uses what's known as a cryptographic hash function to obfuscate phone numbers before sending them to the server.
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But it's corporations that already have plenty of data, and plenty of human jobs to obfuscate, that are Labelbox's opportunity.
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Some managers might obfuscate the fee issue with discussions of risk, but the one rule that remains is caveat emptor.
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"Using the Clinton-Starr playbook, kill the special investigator and obfuscate the charge," a Trump adviser told Axios's Mike Allen.
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Reverence for heroes can often obfuscate the telling of true stories, but it's hard to be reverent when you're bashed.
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Some defendants even "traveled to the United States under false pretenses" and purchased "computer infrastructure" to obfuscate their Russian origin.
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And instead of choosing to face it with a modicum of dignity, they've chosen to distract, obfuscate and induce chaos.
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And it's not easy decoding to do: each gesture they make seems to simultaneously point to and obfuscate its own reference.
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I think it&aposs going to be seized upon by Democrats perhaps to obfuscate some of the other more important facts.
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Companies' arcane privacy policies obfuscate what they do with their users' information, which often amounts to pretty much anything they please.
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"It can effectively be used to obfuscate malware from any antivirus program," Andrei Barysevich, the researcher behind the report, told Axios.
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Conservatives like Roy and Grieder obfuscate the stakes, and from this you can indeed infer a great deal about their humanity.
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"These statements, these attempts to obfuscate, are absurd," said Tiernan Sittenfeld, head of government affairs at the League of Conservation Voters.
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Nor can you obfuscate consent behind opaque wording that doesn't actually specify the thing you're going to do with the data.
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We also meet the minister of information, a grander sort whose duties were nevertheless much the same: to swab and obfuscate.
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He also suggested that the Conservatives, a majority on the council, were trying to obfuscate what had happened at the tower.
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Over the past few months, the Trump administration has done everything possible to obfuscate the facts of the misconduct with Ukraine.
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But Trump has since tried to obfuscate any wrongdoing on his part and instead try to train the spotlight on Biden.
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And that means ensuring that critics who obfuscate and dismiss Ford's charges as outdated antics of his youth do not prevail.
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The legal process could also force companies to reveal incriminating information about their efforts to obfuscate their role in global warming.
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By eschewing dialogue, he's challenged himself and his writers to find a way to explore emotions that words could complicate or obfuscate.
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Some of these changes in language are top-down, and they're meant to shake up priorities, rebrand old ideas, or obfuscate truths.
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There's ways to kind of split and obfuscate that trail over time, but really, those are tainted funds forever, in some ways.
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I'd really like more specific information about what information is shared with Amazon, rather than statements that obfuscate what data is shared.
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The difference there is that you can obfuscate or control the information you put online; you can't control who sees your face.
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Resuscitating this pseudo-scandal gives Trump and his allies in Congress and the media a tool with which to obfuscate and equivocate.
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The settlements also had another extremely disturbing aspect to them: They allowed the big banks to obfuscate the extent of the wrongdoing.
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At the same time, she is all too willing to obfuscate, to cut corners on the truth but especially on a vision.
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But Congress is collectively preparing to obfuscate, vote indirectly, and hide the results of its vote, giving plausible deniability to each member.
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This obfuscation is likely motivated both by a desire to hype their reputation and to obfuscate efforts at incident response in NASA.
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But for the powerful, it's greatest asset—the obvious thing it achieves, above all else—is how it allows them to obfuscate.
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This experience would later help him to index thousands of citizens he deemed radicals, as well as obfuscate evidence to avoid accountability.
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"If our intent were to obfuscate or sugar-coat this situation, would we have been so forthcoming with this information?" he asked.
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Nevertheless, rather than engage with us in three weeks of customary mutual due diligence, HP continues to obfuscate and make misleading statements.
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At first glance, newly reported details seem to offer some clarity, but they actually just obfuscate the reasoning behind the ban even more.
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By its very nature, Tor is a dual-use technology; it can be used to protect individual privacy, circumvent censorship, and obfuscate metadata.
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But they haven't weaponized doubt and skepticism, deliberately attempting to obfuscate the idea of shared agreement on facts, in the way Russia has.
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And not just on "personnel votes" as he attempted to obfuscate when asked about his record by Chuck Todd on "Meet the Press".
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You see, while many of the oil industry's allies try to obfuscate it, cleaning up our air is good for business and consumers.
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The abstraction of all this doesn't clarify anything, because abstraction generally doesn't, but it doesn't even obfuscate or amplify in an interesting way.
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"Congratulations on abandoning the misconceived campaign to set up a fake genocide to obfuscate the real one that took place here," he said.
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Vox's Sarah Kliff wrote last month about the remarkable lengths Republicans have gone to to mislead and obfuscate about their health care plans.
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Not with a variety of examples that ultimately obfuscate the goal more than illuminate it, but by agreeing on the best way forward.
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Hysterical claims that criticism of Moore is a media conspiracy to take down the GOP obfuscate the very serious moral issues at stake.
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"Attempts to obfuscate or hide Title IX violations from the Department will not be tolerated," Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said in a press release.
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Soules interacted with several other responders whom he recognized from his small community and at no point did he attempt to obfuscate his identify.
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However, the former exec was adamant that neither Sandberg nor anyone at Facebook told him not to investigate Russian influence or obfuscate his findings.
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Activists and privacy scholars are wary of facial recognition and fingerprinting being normalized, particularly because presenting them as convenient alternatives can obfuscate the risks.
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Its ultimate success, however, hinges on others' incompetence — more specifically, their willingness to lie and otherwise obfuscate the truth in order to protect themselves.
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And that's what allows us to identify things like money laundering or people trying to obfuscate where their funds are flowing for other reasons.
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"All news stations must be censored or fined when they continuously lie, obfuscate and misdirect intentionally," added a complaint filed in December from Nebraska.
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Moreover, the safest course for him politically may be to continue to obfuscate on immigration policy to avoid antagonize either side of the debate.
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The result is that by being so imprecise, President Trump allowed Comey, Holder and Yates to deflect and even possibly obfuscate in their response.
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Meanwhile, damaging information continued to emerge about the brutal effects football has on former players — and the NFL's prior efforts to obfuscate that information.
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To obfuscate things further, the military employs a plethora of euphemisms to avoid calling US military outposts like Castle Black precisely what they are.
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Exile's pixelated graphics, powered by Bitsy in the same way that Cemetery Walk is, further obfuscate this world while distancing a player from it.
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None of our advertising was done to "obfuscate" the connection to The Epoch Times; all the advertising was clearly for Epoch Times print subscriptions.
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One fascinating technique the film repeatedly uses is to obfuscate the beginnings of things and drop us into events well past when they've begun.
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DONALD TRUMP'S style of political crisis-management is straightforward: admit nothing, counter-attack, obfuscate, ride it out and wait for public attention to wane.
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But critics say company executives used the systems as a scapegoat to obfuscate the consequences of other business failures, my colleague Drew Harwell reports.
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There's also an interesting new requirement which looks set to shrink the ability of service operators to obfuscate how persistently they're tracking Internet users.
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Despite the long, sad history of self-erasure in Japan that allowed anime to obfuscate ethnic identity, race is a real, global, and unavoidable problem.
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In Staal's work, we encounter how Bannon's scripted ideological narrative continues to obfuscate the truth, with the purpose of furthering a highly divisive political ideology.
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But while Powers never seems out to impress or obfuscate, his conspicuous intelligence and virtuosity have also won him a reputation as difficult, even inaccessible.
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"Apple's statements following the issuance of the preliminary injunction have been deliberate attempts to obfuscate and misdirect," Qualcomm's Rosenberg said in a statement on Monday.
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The easiest way to obfuscate your IP address — a precondition for operating the Dark Web — is to use a tool known as a Tor browser.
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They, however, remain committed to the disaster their philosophy delivers, but they don't care; their work remains to obfuscate and punish those who challenge them.
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That was a welcome change of tune for the same company that had just a month prior continued to obfuscate Russian trolls' use of Twitter.
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It also means reaching out to potential allies, with narratives that can enlighten them about the ways their privilege can operate… and obfuscate critical issues.
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Just look at the lengths to which ad tech entities go to obfuscate and deceive consumers about how their data is being collected and used.
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So while Barr may genuinely hold a differing view of this episode, some legal experts say he was more likely trying to obfuscate the facts.
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In the event, the counter-suit was dismissed by a judge who accused the Trumps of mounting a delaying tactic and of trying to obfuscate.
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Mark Warner, suggesting platforms should actively convey that value to their users, rather than trying to obfuscate the extent and utility of their data holdings.
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This, of course, is exactly how these corporate gymnastics are supposed to work: obfuscate, and make it impossible to ever prove anything untoward was happening.
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It was one of a few awkward exchanges where Nadler directed questions at Whitaker and Whitaker tried to obfuscate, or responded with his own questions.
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Sean Spicer, press secretary, was there to place the best light on the president's actions — "decisive" — and to obfuscate the choices presented to Mr. Trump.
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In marketing positive outcomes or you're-not-alone quotes and statistics, DTC health care companies obfuscate the very real risks of the drugs they sell.
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The contractors who provide workers to the big farms have to lie and obfuscate to get anyone, legal or illegal, to jump in their trucks.
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Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs, are tools that obfuscate internet traffic so that internet service providers and other snoops can't easily decipher your browsing habits.
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Those servers, Mueller said, were hosted in Arizona — likely as a way to obfuscate where the attackers were located but also to avoid suspicion or detection.
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Some experts speculated this approach was meant to flood the grand jury with too much evidence to obfuscate the case and make an indictment less likely.
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And with the Russian report that never was, it chose to obfuscate the actions of a malicious foreign entity for the sake of not appearing partisan.
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Uber would then obfuscate its code from people within that geofenced area, essentially drawing a digital lasso around those it wanted to keep in the dark.
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Based on experts The Hill has talked to, apps that obfuscate and (in the case of Confide) delete work-related messages likely do violate the Act.
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And although the jeans were most likely made with Instagram influencers in mind, even the most heavily filtered models could not obfuscate how ridiculous they are.
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It's sometimes harder to detect because they're throwing out so many verbal smoke bombs, it can obfuscate some very important things that are happening behind them.
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Much will be done in this election cycle to obfuscate that the Sanders ascendancy represents a potential tectonic change in American society and to our economy.
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And this lack of clarity can obfuscate the fact that the neediest aren't being as well-served by tech companies as they could be, critics say.
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Uber would then obfuscate its code for people within that geofenced area, essentially drawing a digital lasso around those it wanted to keep in the dark.
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Sadly, it seems as if American cities would rather ignore and obfuscate the swelling issue instead of addressing it head on and risk becoming the next Flint.
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And when you don't want to answer a basic question (or feel like political realities make it impossible for you to do so), you try to obfuscate.
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Although the monitors do not use names and obfuscate people's identities by making their images look like shadowy silhouettes, it still creates something of a dystopian atmosphere.
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The next thing they have to do is obfuscate what the alt-right actually is, so a lot of people think they're alt-right when they're not.
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In some cases the people on the ground—whether al-Shabab in Somalia or Pakistan's intelligence agency—deliberately obfuscate matters, keeping the press away from bombed areas.
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If Illumio's goal is to obfuscate network-layer constructs upon which ForeScout depends, then making ForeScout more accessible and easier to deploy sounds like a good fit.
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The inefficiencies of the current system allow Trump to obfuscate when presented with evidence that there is no large-scale voter fraud problem in the United States.
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Update 4:30pm PT: "The responses are designed to obfuscate and deflect from the facts as borne out by the rigorous reporting," a Forbes spokesperson told TechCrunch.
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You can see it in the way Japan blurs the lines between real and false by leaning on MMA language and styles to obfuscate what's actually happening.
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But I'm not going to lie or obfuscate and say I haven't had trauma and horrible, unexpected things happen because that's what happens in life to everybody.
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In separate interviews that aired over the weekend, Nikki R. Haley, the United Nations ambassador, said Mr. Putin's description of the meeting was an attempt to obfuscate.
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It continues to steadfastly deny many of the allegations, even after several independent investigations that have revealed the scale of its attempts to conceal, obfuscate and frustrate.
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But the messaging campaign could drag out and obfuscate the investigation, morphing what some Democrats see as an open-and-shut case into something longer and muddier.
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Games are supposedly a series of interesting decisions, but one of the dirty tricks of social evolution is to obfuscate political decisions under the guise of progress.
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The saga of whether Trump will talk to investigators has been going on for some time — adding up to months of excuses intended to obfuscate and delay.
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The files were encrypted with a keystream, which is a random series of characters that is included with the actual plain text message to obfuscate its meaning.
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Facebook also said the use of virtual private networks, internet phone services, and domestic currency to pay for advertisements helped obfuscate the source of the accounts and pages.
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Along with abusive experience blocking, Chrome 71 will also present a warning about sites that try to bill you without your full consent or obfuscate a billing structure.
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But Pruitt and Trump dismiss the field entirely and use lies to obfuscate and mystify climate change, when they're not actively defunding and using policy to end it.
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CEO Mark Zuckerberg has posted personally on the topic, but the defensive and dismissive posture he adopted early on seemed only to obfuscate the issue and incense critics.
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Ever since the first presidential debate ended on Monday, Donald Trump and his surrogates have done everything possible to obfuscate the truth because they know he got walloped.
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We're done with having no choice but to click "Agree" on terms and conditions that obfuscate what we all know to be true: That we are the product.
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While the bundling of the two political concerns (private terrorist/criminal comms; and public online extremism content) allows the government to obfuscate outcomes, spread blame and spin failures.
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However, it is essential to update and enforce these sanctions, since Tehran and Damascus have shown that they will constantly seek new ways to obfuscate and evade them.
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But, she said, that was preferable to other parents who, by writing a check to an ostensible charity, attempted to obfuscate, even to themselves, what they were doing.
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So when a politician slips up and says something they otherwise typically obfuscate about , it provides a rare window into what really goes on behind closed doors. Rep.
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They said that Mr. Manafort had tried to obfuscate the truth about his use of $125,000 from a pro-Trump political action committee to pay his legal bills.
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In 1946, George Orwell wrote an essay that's worth revisiting frequently, in which he describes how convoluted language can be used to intentionally confuse people and obfuscate the truth.
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That is not to be sniffed at, but being clever about tax has become an excuse for firms to obfuscate and dither about their plans for their balance sheets.
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It was written in an attempt to make small businesses more competitive with corporations, but it has become a way for the wealthy to obfuscate their actual personal income.
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If Trump is willing to obfuscate and mislead about something as simple as which charities he gives money too, what else is he refusing to tell the truth about?
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Additionally, Mueller is focused on the question of obstruction of justice: whether Trump, or any of his associates, have tried to obfuscate efforts to peer into the collusion issue.
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The employee PAC system tends to obfuscate where the money ends up, so it's not always clear to employees or even CEOs how their political contributions are being spent.
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The first word in each phrase is stated in French (Sorry, Matt) to obfuscate them, and the revealer at 60A explains why: Each theme phrase has a FRENCH OPEN.
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A rush for allies in this debate—Democratic Representative Adam Schiff of California thanked her on Twitter for the piece—may well obfuscate the GOP's true extremism on immigration.
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Numbers offer the sheen of objectivity; algorithms seem to "transcend morality," as O'Neil put it, when in fact they only obfuscate the human assumptions that go into creating them.
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He showed a willingness to drag all Americans through the sewage and slime of allegations disproven decades ago so that he could obfuscate his own blatant faults and misdeeds.
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The logic behind that statement goes like this: The media gets stuff wrong so I am perfectly within my rights to purposely obfuscate or even lie to the media.
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The newfound transparency drew some applause from elected officials and campaign accountability groups, but they also criticized Facebook for allowing advertisers in the United States to obfuscate their identities.
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Spencer is a white nationalist who popularized the term "alt-right" as a controversial label that many believe is meant to obfuscate the racist ideology at the movement's core.
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Each week Katie Roof, Matthew Lynley and myself — Alex Wilhelm — try to de-obfuscate the opaque and arcane world of startup finance with the help of someone from the industry.
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So, while that's a big red flag, anyone could be running those domains or using them to obfuscate who they are, including someone who wanted to look like Fancy Bear.
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We'll have to see what Obama actually says in Hiroshima before we can judge, but it's just as likely that his presence there could obfuscate as much as it clarifies.
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It's up to the President to decide whether he'll continue to delay or obfuscate his position on white supremacists, bigots and racists or say, definitively: I don't want your support.
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Mostly there are tools to "mangle and obfuscate" your code so it is hard to read and understand, but, unfortunately, there are tools to "de-mangle and beautify" such code.
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" The American Civil Liberties Union said in a statement the addition of North Korea and Venezuela "doesn't obfuscate the real fact that the administration's order is still a Muslim ban.
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While House Intelligence Chair Devin Nunes indicated that he is willing to use the committee's investigation to stonewall and obfuscate, the FBI's investigation will dog the Trump administration for months.
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Are the critics concluding that because the best-educated Americans very strongly support drone operations, that the optimal strategy is to obfuscate for them and others what is already known?
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The decades-long struggle to find out what really happened on the day of the match dragged as the authorities sought to obfuscate and blame the fans for the disaster.
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" The American Civil Liberties Union said in a statement the addition of North Korea and Venezuela "doesn't obfuscate the real fact that the administration's order is still a Muslim ban.
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"He uses the concepts of either 'culture' or 'civilization' to obfuscate that he's talking about whiteness and race," said Lawrence Rosenthal, chairman of the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies.
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" Madara continued: "Political sensitivities must not be allowed to obfuscate the priorities and core purposes of government programs that are vital to protecting and improving the health of the nation.
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Why it matters: VPNs have long been used to ensure secure connections to businesses or to obfuscate one's location, often to access content limited to a certain location (think streaming video).
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When the United States spies on the conversations of people overseas, the law requires it obfuscate the identities of anyone from the US who happens to be involved in the conversation.
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Trump now has an attorney general, like a human block of granite, who sees few limits on presidential power and is willing to obfuscate and execute blocking movements on his behalf.
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His own book, God in Our Government, seems straight out of the Barton playbook, arguing, as Barton does, that secularists have conspired to obfuscate the Christian history of the United States.
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Anthony Romero of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) says the refinements to the travel ban do not "obfuscate the real fact that the administration's order is still a Muslim ban".
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But in the short term it means that accused Republican lawmakers can copy Messrs Moore and Trump—deny, obfuscate and blame "fake news"—while Democratic ones fall on their base's sword.
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Put differently, powerful people like Hillary Clinton are not gratuitously opaque — they obfuscate both because it is in their nature and because they have found that it has worked for them.
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Kjellberg's presentation of Nazi imagery and anti-Semitic messaging is perfectly aligned with the way the alt-right uses memes and self-aware irony to obfuscate the sincerity of its message.
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"He couldn't understand what possessed Hillary to set up the private e-mail server, and her handling of the scandal — obfuscate, deny, and evade — amounted to political malpractice," the authors wrote.
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Instead, the Republicans are covering for Donald Trump by playing up tangential stories that obfuscate the issue at hand: that Donald Trump's national security advisor was compromised by the Russian government.
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Like most of French's novels, this one revolves around the tensions between civilians and the police, who, on all sides, seem to obfuscate the truth as often as they reveal it.
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Donald Trump, in answering questions about global warming, white nationalism, waterboarding and press freedoms, sounds exactly like my students who hadn't read the assignment and had to obfuscate in their answers.
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The Christchurch shooter had posted a manifesto online; full of hyperbolic alt-right internet memes, it was intended to both obfuscate and amplify the genuine white nationalist rhetoric at its center.
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Critics argue that this also serves to obfuscate myriad failures by the state as a whole, instead putting the blame on individual citizens and the occasional bad apple of an official.
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In essence, front-of-package labels would obfuscate the great benefits we derive from GMOs and represent a setback in terms of technological innovation, environmental protection and the fight against hunger.
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About 30 percent of the macro code is dedicated to making analysis of the code difficult, and 69 percent is focused on features designed to obfuscate the maliciousness of the code.
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Pasquale said Facebook's response that data had not technically been stolen seemed to obfuscate the central issue that data was apparently used in a way contrary to the expectations of users.
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Just listen to the indignation in his voice when he says, "Most HDTVs come with this feature already on, by default" and as he complains how manufacturers obfuscate ways of disabling it.
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Some Republicans and their allies in the conservative press have tried to obfuscate this turn in their party, but King's continued presence is a living testament to what the party really is.
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That doesn't mean that Senate Republicans won't try to obfuscate—as House Republicans like Devin Nunes and Trey Gowdy did—but it does mean that today's hearing will likely be less bombastic.
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Facebook said that to mask efforts, those setting up the pages used VPN services, internet phone services and paid third parties to run ads, to obfuscate who was actually operating the pages.
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"The company decided to 'obfuscate the fact that we screwed up the math' by quietly retiring the erroneous metrics and replacing them with corrected metrics under a new name," the filing claims.
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Under President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the government has repeatedly tried to obfuscate the truth about events that might reflect badly on it, even in the face of evidence to the contrary.
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Hate speech is not just a PR problemIn fact, some hate groups have actually started to intentionally obfuscate their messages in a way that only their members and sympathizers understand, he said.
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As CNN Money noted, Nye believes the company acted in bad faith when he tried to sort out the matter with them directly, and deliberately sought to obfuscate royalties earned by the show.
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It adds: "Krystal Daniels failed to report the injuries, abuse, and/or homicide despite multiple opportunities" to do so, and allegedly "took active steps to obfuscate the abuse and homicide" of her child.
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Despite repeated overtures and promises to one of his victims, Marquis-Boire continued to hide and obfuscate the full extent of what he had done — to her, their friends, and to professional colleagues.
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A single, grubby thread runs through this: when Mr Trump and his close associates are accused of furtive or illegal acts, their instinct is to obfuscate, cry "fake news" or search for scapegoats.
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Despite that the CIA, FBI, and NSA all concluded that Russia meddled in the election, Trump continues to deny and obfuscate the facts—and we kept track of every time he did it.
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One of Trump's advisers told the Post that Trump's move was "unnecessary" and warned that it opened Trump up to criticism that he was seeking to obfuscate the full truth about the meeting.
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Dominating the epic is a Lincoln painted in such a way as to obfuscate the historical Lincoln's clear-sighted commitment to a specifically modern, egalitarian, and individualistic conception of the Rights of Man.
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Liberal lawmakers on the committee challenged that while Interior had provided large quantities of documents, they had not provided information specific enough to their requests, which they labeled a clear attempt to obfuscate.
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I want to raise awareness in the scene, but I also want to learn and grow from things I have said and done—furthermore, black humor has a way to obfuscate your point.
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The scientific mumbo jumbo he was telling me sounded just like the kind of stuff a reptilian shapeshifter would use to confuse and obfuscate the matter for intrepid, truth-seeking minds like mine.
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The campaign was based out of Ghana and Nigeria, marking Russia's latest attempt to obfuscate how it's working to sow discord on U.S. soil by propping up volunteers and workers from foreign nations.
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The campaign was based out of Ghana and Nigeria, marking Russia's latest attempt to obfuscate how it's working to sow discord on U.S. soil by propping up volunteers and workers from foreign nations.
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But as Vox's David Roberts explained, the idea is at best deeply flawed, and at worst a charade to obfuscate the robust agreement that scientists have on humanity's role in the global climate.
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Kobsak Chutikul, a Thai diplomat who in 2018 quit a government-appointed panel set up to probe the alleged atrocities, said he feared the government would "delay and obfuscate" once the spotlight faded.
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Mr Macri promised to tame soaring prices with tight monetary policy, a problem Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina's previous president, had tried to obfuscate by publishing dodgy macroeconomic data and imposing currency controls.
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To suggest otherwise is either to knowingly obfuscate the issue at hand or to appear brain-dead—the latter being the new default mode of the politics desk of The New York Times.
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People should know that the South went to war in order to preserve slavery and then put up Confederate memorials in order to celebrate or obfuscate that legacy a couple of generations later.
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In small and large ways since that day way back in January 2017, Trump and those around him have repeatedly shown a willingness to obfuscate, distort and downright lie when it suits their needs.
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Sure, they can blow smoke and attempt to obfuscate the issue, but ultimately people understand that the new rule vastly reduces the protections they have, and to support it is to support that reduction.
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Said reports do their best to obfuscate what should be obvious to most of us: the United States broadband market is very uncompetitive, resulting in high prices, slower speeds, and historically awful customer service.
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His subpoenas are a clear abuse of power: They are designed to obfuscate the facts and conjure up rank conspiracy theories at the behest of the president and his most obsequious allies in Congress.
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After Watergate, I never imagined that one day I would see America's top law enforcement official dissemble and obfuscate to Congress for the express purpose of misleading the American people about the Mueller report.
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Mr. Trump's strategy for dealing with charges of Russian meddling has not varied much since the campaign: deny, obfuscate, play down and, since Election Day, blame it on Democrats bitter after Hillary Clinton's defeat.
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"To obfuscate the BTC trail and decrease scrutiny, the North Korean co-conspirators engaged in hundreds of automated transactions with new BTC addresses as "peel chains" to four different exchanges," the US government says.
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Whereas some other companies tend to obfuscate how collected data is used, the Attain app was designed with privacy protections from the start, I'm told by Aetna and Apple executives who worked on the app.
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" Jolie's lawyer shot back in a statement calling Pitt's filing "a blatant attempt to obfuscate the truth and distract from the fact that he has not fully met his legal obligations to support the children.
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As you may have guessed, Colella was indeed using bags of Twisties—an Australian fried corn snack food I'm told are like hard Cheetos—as improvised Faraday cages to obfuscate his location during work hours.
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He will now have to choose how to handle disclosures of any other Russia-related information that he learns about — even though the president has made clear that his preference is to obfuscate and deceive.
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The fact that Trump has added North Korea — with few visitors to the U.S. — and a few government officials from Venezuela doesn't obfuscate the real fact that the administration's order is still a Muslim ban.
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The fact that Trump has added North Korea — with few visitors to the US — and a few government officials from Venezuela doesn't obfuscate the real fact that the administration's order is still a Muslim ban.
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Internal communications at Volkswagen used "dozens" of codewords to obfuscate the use of cheat software to make its diesel engines look cleaner than they actually were, Bloomberg reports, citing sources familiar with the ongoing investigation.
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Such far-right conspiracy theories can serve multiple purposes: to attack the reputation and integrity of perceived opponents, to animate and inflame an ideologically driven base, and to obfuscate events that harm the conservative cause.
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As you know, Putin is far from an unbiased mediator based on his strong support for Assad, but he'll try to obfuscate the fact that he's actively involved in the conflict and helping the regime.
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And in the cover story, the author noted that the actors requested to be interviewed separately—a confusing PR strategy that seemed to further obfuscate the nature of their relationship, even for their co-workers.
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King, who is terrific, speaks in a high-pitched near-squeal, so Gypsy constantly seems vulnerable, allowing Dee Dee to better obfuscate everything about her daughter, from Gypsy's physical well-being to even her age.
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The CIA also encouraged the myth that UFOs were flying around Area 51 because it helped obfuscate what was really going on: the testing of odd-looking, high-flying, lightning-fast, never-before-seen aircraft.
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More than a typical ingredient of conceptual art, humor is a strategy of dissent and a survival tool: it can transgress social codes, blur lines and obfuscate meanings, thus making the task of censors more difficult.
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We should be able in the very near future to take all these elements and say, oh this is your objective, we'll obfuscate all this complexity and hit a target [return on ad spend] you have.
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" Zarif tweeted Thursday in reaction to Netanyahu's speech: "No arts & craft show will ever obfuscate that Israel is only regime in our region with a *secret* and *undeclared* nuclear weapons program - including an *actual atomic arsenal*.
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"The offset to these negatives has simply been yet another change in how the company reports adjusted EPS, and related guidance that is 'unchanged,' with a series of restatements that helped to further obfuscate," Tusa wrote.
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After a terrorist bombing at the Khobar Towers complex killed 19 United States Air Force personnel in 1996, scholars say, the Saudis deliberately sought to obfuscate Iran's responsibility in an attempt to avoid a military conflict.
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Between December 2017 and March 15 this year, North Korea's elite increased by 1,200 percent its use of services such as virtual private networks and the Tor anonymity used to obfuscate internet activity, the firm said.
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But why should they be allowed to obfuscate when asked a direct question — not one about the specifics of their case evidence or findings, but one about whether they are seeking to prosecute a particular person?
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Even from the once-dignified surroundings of the White House Briefing Room, the President is willing to send out his subordinates to obfuscate and stir up the outrage that seems to be his natural political habitat.
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The account belongs to Richard Spencer, a white supremacist who popularized the term "alt-right" as a controversial name for the group that many believe is meant to obfuscate the racist ideology at the movement's core.
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Trump engages with Twitter not in the bland, on-message manner of a regular politician; he uses the microblog like a squid uses ink, spraying out tweets to confuse, to obfuscate, or just because he's feeling threatened.
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Obviously, given the location-based element of the implementation, workarounds will still be possible — such as searchers being able to use a proxy like Tor to obfuscate their own location and thus still view fuller search results.
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Some agencies pay him directly, he said, in amounts that can be as small as $50 or $175, but others pay him through an employee's personal PayPal account in order to obfuscate the source of the funds.
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"What has been filed by Brad's side today is a blatant attempt to obfuscate the truth and distract from the fact that he has not fully met his legal obligations to support the children," the statement concluded.
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A hybrid art and social justice project, Cirio's Obscurity uses an algorithm to take 15,000,000 mugshots of people arrested in the U.S. and obfuscate the criminal records of mugshot websites by cloning them and "shuffling" their data.
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The alt-right often works very hard to obfuscate these distinctions, but the Times's decision to stand by Jeong — and to drop Norton once her use of harmful slurs came to light — shows that they still matter.
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This oxymoron speaks to the government's own efforts to obfuscate the reality of these detention centers with euphemistic names like "Family Center" and their "Hospitality Guidelines," as if trying to invoke a sense of travel and rest.
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Companies seem to interpret the law in various ways, with some providing simple tools to exercise your new rights, while others obfuscate the process and make it difficult to figure out what you can and can't do.
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The story adds that Stamos and his team were ready to publish a report on the investigation in January 2017, but Facebook's vice president for corporate public policy Joel Kaplan fought to scuttle and obfuscate the investigation's results.
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It has this data that could be used to create so many good worker-facing products, instead the company has monetized itself by going out of its way to obfuscate this data for the majority of its users.
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Of course, treating Asians as exceptional in right and far-right narratives does not inoculate them from racism—though all too often, it does obfuscate the role of racism and economic exploitation in the Asian American immigrant experience.
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Highly aware that these paintings circulate in white-dominated spaces, they do not depict ritual knowledge with legible forms, but rather layer, abbreviate, distend and obfuscate these forms into patterns that are neither properly "abstract" nor exactly representational.
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There will be no Doug Collins or Jim Jordan or Matt Gaetz or Lindsey Graham or Rudy Giuliani or Kellyanne Conway or Sean Hannity to shout, wave their arms, obfuscate and try to spin that cold hard fact.
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While the medical establishment may obfuscate these deep experiences by rendering them insignificant, it is vital to passionately emphasize dreams and emotions to improve the life quality of all individuals, no matter how much living time they have left.
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It's just as likely, however, that the FCC will respond with some vague language designed to obfuscate any hint of mismanagement or culpability on its part, citing, probably, the need to protect people's privacy or some other such nonsense.
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Sometimes Super Deluxe even goes out of its way to obfuscate its involvement, like it did when its tech team spurred the short-lived rumor that Drake and Rihanna were about to drop a collaborative album by launching drakeandrihanna.com.
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This is key since it can block a warhead and several decoy warheads all at once, which is a capability North Korea is likely developing to be able to obfuscate which nuke is the real threat, per Defense One.
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"The most likely explanation for the anomalous data egress was use of mobile spyware such as NSO Group's Pegasus or, less likely, Hacking Team's Galileo, that can hook into legitimate applications to bypass detection and obfuscate activity," it found.
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"Due to the specifics of residential solar financing structures and complex accounting treatments, valuing residential solar on traditionally defined metrics appears impractical, and industry-specific metrics tend to obfuscate the impact of business model differences among peers," Karp wrote.
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The Tibet Advocacy Coalition, whose activists seek to raise attention to the situation in the autonomous region, said in a statement the U.S. decision "will allow China much more room to obfuscate and undermine the U.N. human rights system".
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Rawls called the obligation to adhere to these rules of discourse "the duty of civility": If citizens in general, and politicians especially, hide and obfuscate their arguments, then people's ability to give their informed consent to the administration disappears.
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Which is interesting to me, because the neo-Nazis who are at the center of the alt-right were very open about using satire and meme culture to obfuscate the white supremacy and racism and fascism behind their agenda.
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As evidenced by the Waymo lawsuit and emails with the California DMV, the ride-hail company was willing to cut corners, split hairs, and obfuscate in its race to be the first to demonstrate the viability of self-driving cars.
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What remains of the passionate public engagement in the West is mostly the populist hatred, and this brings us to the other second opium of the people, the people itself, the fuzzy populist dream destined to obfuscate our own antagonisms.
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This Variety interview with Isaac Hempstead Wright (who plays Bran) suggests the latter interpretation — but the scene cut from the episode only underlines even more how the show chose to obfuscate its storytelling rather than be straight with its audience.
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Many of the users appear to have taken no measures to obfuscate their IP addresses though: the FBI was able to identify suspects after Dutch authorities provided a copy of the website's server, and the FBI successfully decrypted its contents.
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"Now that there is not enough food, the need for more aid has become urgent... Perhaps the will to push the government is not there but the people will suffer greatly if they continue to dither and obfuscate," said Catena.
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There is something more sinister at work — namely the growing power of police departments across the nation to obfuscate, to hide and to aid their rank-and-file members in avoiding prosecution for misconduct or worse, a taking a life.
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" To Mr. Sheppard, such phrasing is "seemingly a small verbal slip that actually demonstrates this much larger problem with the way we obfuscate the horror of slavery," telling stories that "allow white people to not look or feel so bad.
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Officials cautioned that this was not a deliberate attempt to obfuscate, but a belief that it made more sense to track cases separately once a group of migrants was no longer in custody as a family unit, these sources said.
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But they say it remains important for an administration to discuss its actions and its policy in a public forum — even if the ritual has long been an opportunity for aides to spin and obfuscate on behalf of their presidents.
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Despite the administration's efforts to obfuscate our understanding of Russia's interference in the 2016 elections and delay the consequences for its aggression, members of Congress, from both parties, have demonstrated the willingness to step forward and hold Putin to account.
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The product description for the metabolism drops includes phrases like "food is fuel" that obfuscate its actual, intended purpose, which is to minimize food's physical impact; even though it's pretty clearly a diet drug, it never even mentions weight loss.
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Instead of using our energies to obfuscate and obstruct how patients might want to end their lives when faced with life-limiting disease, we physicians need to reassess how we can help patients achieve their goals when the end is near.
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The top priority now must be to ensure that the F.B.I.'s investigation, which could result in criminal prosecutions, is shielded from meddling by the Trump administration, which has shown a proclivity to lie, mislead and obfuscate with startling audacity.
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President Donald Trump, by issuing a widely panned letter from his doctor as a candidate and offering few details on his health while in office, has also made it easier for the latest crop of candidates to obfuscate their records.
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"DOJ continues to obfuscate and delay its production using an array of tactics, such as incorrectly categorizing the requested documents as Gang-of-Eight-level material in order to limit access," wrote Nunes, referring to an April 30 subpoena for the documents.
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This week at the PacSec security conference in Tokyo, researchers unveiled a new device that is capable of fully commandeering radio-controlled drones by exploiting a vulnerability in the frequency-hopping systems drone makers use to obfuscate and protect their radio communication.
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Kamala Harris, Cory Booker and Amy Klobuchar, comes after Justice Department and FBI officials told Senate Judiciary Committee staff last week that the administration "has shifted its approach to tracking domestic terrorism incidents to obfuscate the white supremacist threat," the senators wrote.
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The NFL's efforts to obfuscate the consequences of concussions and other head trauma were so awful that every subsequent effort to address brain injury, including a $1 million donation for the study of CTE and a billion-dollar concussion lawsuit payout, looks inadequate.
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Let us not lose sight of this: The closer Robert Mueller gets to unraveling the connections between Russia and Mr. Trump's presidential campaign, the more Mr. Trump will attempt to obfuscate and deflect attention, even if it could lead to nuclear war.
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"Advanced mobile spyware, such as NSO Group's Pegasus or Hacking Team's Galileo, can hook into legitimate applications and processes on a compromised device as a way to bypass detection and obfuscate activity in order to ultimately intercept and exfiltrate data," the report states.
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All three hooks are appealing propositions for the farmers, who've generally been hard hit by years of falling crop prices — not to mention hurt by lousy deals on seeds and other items that are often sold to them by manufacturers who obfuscate their pricing.
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"I think the consulting industry is very happy that we've released this paper because people are getting a lot of work out of it," Calder said, noting it reflects the trend in other industries such as tobacco and oil and gas to obfuscate scientific evidence.
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While some users have been known to share multiple photos of cruises, museum visits and trips to the dentist, those users were penalized with scorn, their posts rarely getting the necessary 11 Likes to obfuscate usernames (a feature that was discarded over the past year).
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A lot of policy discussions obfuscate the basic issues, assuming either that mortgages are now much safer than they were in the past or that the mortgage-guarantee firms can be safer than the banks even though not subject to the same stringent capital rules.
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Even as contemporary Russian state propaganda vilifies the Baltic states or Ukraine as fascist-led regimes, it makes no effort to obfuscate its own support of far-right European political organizations, from Hungary's longtime anti-Semitic Jobbik to Italy's Lega Nord to France's Front National.
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For example, the House Subcommittee on Government Operations held hearings on FOIA last year in which they learned in detail about how federal agencies stonewall, obfuscate and litigate in an effort to keep public information from being released to the public — and the media.
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Sanders, by contrast, reminded skeptics why his supporters have been so loyal: With everything on the line, given the opportunity to obfuscate at Clinton's expense, Sanders held firm even to views that promise to damage him in the state that could seal his fate.
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Even though we weren't technically pushing into a foreign territory, we were trying to obfuscate from obeying the laws and regulations set up by Congress against (1) selling arms to Iran, and (2) continuing to fund the rebels known as the Contras in Nicaragua.
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In a sports-media landscape choked with old white guys offering hot takes, where antiquated notions of toughness and "honor" are conflated with masculinity and used to obfuscate or excuse violence and misogyny, Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski bring something beyond entertainment and knowledge.
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The decision follows an NBC News report that The Epoch Times had shifted its spending on Facebook in the last month, seemingly in an effort to obfuscate its connection to some $2 million worth of ads that promoted the president and conspiracy theories about his political enemies.
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And while the writers assure that "this book is a chronicle of things that happened, not an explanation of what those things mean" (an attitude familiar to anyone who's ever heard Mr. Lynch obfuscate about his work), there are still fascinating insights into the director's process.
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The case caused such national outrage that Truman sent the FBI to Monroe, about 40 miles east of Atlanta, but witnesses and suspects stonewalled investigators, who were left to surmise that their efforts to solve the case might not trump a countywide effort to obfuscate it.
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But as these filmmakers mythologize the past in order to warn about history repeating itself, the narrative of the present is actively being rewritten by the "alt-right" (or as they'll be referred to here, Nazis) in an effort to cover their tracks and obfuscate the truth.
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"It's hard to shake the feeling that this commercialized mass appeal has helped further dampen Pride Month's fiery political roots, and helped obfuscate the less pleasant, less talked-about issues that matter for many people in the LGBTQ community," writes Alex Abad-Santos in an explainer for Vox.
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Using a medium-sized fluffy brush or a contempt for journalism and reality in general, carefully blend, obfuscate, and claim that multiple media outlets reported that Barack Obama ordered wiretapping on Trump until you achieve a smooth, gradient fade from light to dark, and truth to unadulterated fiction.
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Multiple sources at Google contractor Randstad told the New York Daily News last week that in order to get more pictures of people with darker skin tones, they had been told to rush subjects in Atlanta through consent forms and obfuscate exactly what the photos were being used for.
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His pressure to get a replacement bill done simultaneously with a repeal encouraged politicians like Senate Majority Leader McConnell to obfuscate the process and load up a replacement bill with measures that do little but prop up longtime crony capitalist interests like the health insurers and Big Pharma.
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Viewers criticized the interview for failing to address key questions, including why the pair was living in a rent-free apartment donated by a supporter of Mr. Joyce, and whether Mr. Joyce was trying to obfuscate his affair by securing Ms. Campion a job in another political department.
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Today, given a week that saw immense sturm und drang over Devin Nunes' memo—a document that seems purposefully designed to obfuscate and muddy the waters around Mueller's investigation—it seems worth asking the opposite question: What are the known knowns of the Mueller investigation, and where might it be heading?
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"As noted by TechCrunch, unlike Cambridge Analytica, which worked to obfuscate its connection to a shady network of other companies and allegedly hired foreign contractors to work on US elections in what was possibly an illegal scheme, "Crimson Hexagon is more above the board, with ordinary venture investment and partnerships.
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Rather than acknowledging her mistakes in raising EpiPen prices 21990 percent from $25 to more than $2500, Bresch has tried to obfuscate her actions by shifting the blame to health plans and pharmacy benefits managers that have instituted co-payment and high deductible plans to keep premiums low for strapped consumers.
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There are highfalutin concepts and obscure album titles and even more obscure lyrical references, but more often than not, Longstreth's songwriting and arrangement prowess, and the musicians he surrounds himself with, transcends any weightiness of pretension, instead using these outré concepts to obfuscate obvious meaning in an attempt at something larger.
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Unlike the infamous AOL data leak in 2006, in which AOL inadvertently released sensitive customer information to anyone who wanted to download it—AOL intended the data to be used by researchers—Yahoo has taken steps to obfuscate user identities and put a firewall around who can get the data.
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" Brunton and Nissenbaum also see a social purpose in obfuscation, born out of a responsibility that those who have "nothing to hide" owe to those who might: "to conceal, muddle, and obfuscate our activities precisely to confuse the construction of normalcy that can be used to identify the abnormal and secretive.
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The day after the firing, in an at-times tense conversation with Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel, Mr. Rosenstein stressed that he did not want to be part of an effort to obfuscate or "massage" the facts about it, according to a person with knowledge of the discussion.
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With differential privacy, most of the processing is done on the device, and, for situations where data must be shared via the cloud, random digital bits are injected into the data to obfuscate any tracks that could provide a means for hackers to identify any pertinent information and link it back to you.
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The statement simply doubles-down on her first comments and then veers off on to the topic of adoption which has little, if anything, to do with the separation of families at the border, a clumsy sleight of hand to obfuscate the real issue here that accomplishes little and makes even less sense.
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However, Defendant did attempt to obfuscate the immediate facts and circumstances surrounding the accident, including a determination of his level of intoxication and an explanation of the empty and partially consumed open alcoholic beverages located in and around his vehicle that he was seen purchasing at a convenience store shortly before the accident.
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AI, as well as terms and phrases like machine learning and neural networks, is often an abstract concept we hear thrown around a lot without much context or in a way meant to obfuscate or gloss over what's really going on under the hood of the world's most powerful software applications and platforms.
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But Tinder does not obfuscate the data — it doesn't go out of its way to hide user activity and login information — so if you know how to use the API and what to do with the data once you get it, you can access details that many users would probably want kept private.
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There is, of course, one other possibility: that maybe it's the fans themselves—the ones who continue to watch football at unprecedented rates, who indirectly flood the league office with money and implicit permission to continue to obfuscate the truth—who really don't want to know what concussions do to the brain.
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Special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE's report said WikiLeaks pushed conspiracies about slain Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer Seth Rich to obfuscate the source of the hacked DNC emails it published in 22019.
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" A former ally of white nationalist Richard Spencer and a friend of white nationalists like Patrick Casey and Vincent Foxx, Fuentes has attempted to obfuscate his views by arguing on the messaging service Telegram that "America First" is a "traditionalist, Christian, conservative, reformist, American Nationalist" movement while the alt-right was "racialist" and "transnational.
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The statistics do little to suggest otherwise; among the deported were 34 nationalities, about half of whom were Mexican or Eastern European, and about 90 percent of whom were born outside the US. Listening to people struggle to articulate the rationale surfaces how language and myth confound and obfuscate whatever it is we might call the "truth" of history.
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Apparently, though, Trump and his cronies have concluded that the best strategy is to obfuscate the real issues through contrived memos that have no bearing on what matters most — that is, the possible criminal, and perhaps even treasonous, acts of the president and several of his senior advisors, and the role of Russia in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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In part this is because any new law is likely to have loopholes; any public understanding of data protections sufficiently is easy to obfuscate; any fine is a slap on the wrist; any new outbreak—whether in the form of data or as memes that lead to ethnic cleansing—is easily contained through distraction and promises to do better.
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"When confronted with evidence of their criminality, their misrule and their abuse of human rights, Russian Government officials generally do one of three things: They will obfuscate, they will offer stale comparisons, or they will ratchet up the level of vitriol in their rhetoric," Patten told members of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission at the time.
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In turn, the Trump administration has reportedly sought to obfuscate details about Trump&aposs interactions with Putin — current and former US officials told The Washington Post last year that during the G20 meeting in 2017, Trump attempted to take his interpreter&aposs notes and told his linguist not to discuss his conversation with other staff members.
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"They routed traffic through approximately 34 servers located in nearly 20 countries to obfuscate their true location, used encrypted communication channels within Equifax's network to blend in with normal network activity, and deleted compressed files and wiped log files on a daily basis in an effort to eliminate records of their activity," the Justice Department said in a press release.
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You could always have moved the map and dropped a pin, or simply typed in a nearby address if you wanted to obfuscate your real end or starting point, but Uber says that while some took advantage of this option, most did not, and yet it has still been clear that riders were looking for an easier way to protect their privacy.
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But it's hard to shake the feeling that this commercialized mass appeal has helped further dampen Pride Month's fiery political roots, and helped obfuscate the less-pleasant, less-talked-about issues that matter for many people in the LGBTQ community — and will continue to matter long after the rainbow T-shirts, socks, water bottles, and cute retail disappear from store windows.
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As you read them, note how the second version of the statement seeks to obfuscate the exact source of the claimed inaccuracy, using wording that seeks to shift blame in way that a casual reader might interpret as external and outside the company's control… Statement 1: Our VP of Global Expansion misspoke at TechCrunch Disrupt regarding our relationship with Definers and was inaccurate in his description of their work.
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The recent study by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies claims to offer insights into a "shadow sector" of North Korean IT services purposefully organized to obfuscate its origins: North Koreans appear to have marketed virtual private networks (VPNs) and encryption software in Malaysia, sold fingerprint-scanning technology to large Chinese companies and parts of the Nigerian government, produced facial recognition software for law enforcement agencies via front operations, and built websites for myriad individual and corporate clients.
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Mimi ReimelLanghorne, Pa. To the Editor: Speaker Nancy Pelosi's observation that any effort to impeach President Trump would not be worth it is right for several reasons: Impeachment would never pass the Republican Senate; it would be a divisive distraction from the work of throwing him out in 2020; it would provide just the sort of platform Mr. Trump would need to obfuscate and play the victim; and who wants to end up with Mike Pence?
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"In 2017 Amazon shipped more than five billion items with Prime worldwide, and more new members joined Prime than in any previous year — both worldwide and in the U.S." The size of Amazon's Prime subscriber base has long been a topic of speculation and prediction; last year, for example, BI Intelligence pegged it around 80 million members in the U.S. Going back many years, Amazon has disclosed "tens of millions" of Prime members, but Bezos and the company famously obfuscate many stats.
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"From Indiana to North Carolina; from Georgia to Mississippi, a number of right wing extremist legislators have tried to obfuscate the intent of the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which was enacted in 1993 to address a series of legal cases which together chiseled away the protections guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to safeguard traditional Native Americans and other religious minorities in our country," said Mr. Hilary O. Shelton, director of the NAACP Washington Bureau and the senior vice president for policy and advocacy, in a press release.
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A more worthwhile investigation would seek to uncover the dark forces behind this witch hunt, which is perhaps being financed either by those seeking to smear President Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE, and anyone associated with him, or those seeking to obfuscate the real issue at hand—the continuing economic devastation being wrought by the Environmental Protection Agency's corrupt Renewable Identification Numbers (RIN) trading program.
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