While 20th-century censorship worked mostly by suppressing the information supply, in our own age armies of volunteer piece-workers such as China's "50 cent party" are paid to obfuscate hot issues by incessant and irrelevant blogging.
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.
Essentially there are two key components of the technology where standards battles and marketing wars obfuscate the issues: a series of flavors of DSL, each with its own characteristics; and a pair of data packing techniques (modulation schemes) that get the bits packed into the wire.
Half-way solutions will prove insufficient but expensive and obfuscate the issues.
Yes, scientists dislike it when work that they think deliberately obfuscates the issues gets published.
The others would rather obfuscate the issue rather than spend a nickel doing what they need to do".
"He is trying to obfuscate these issue by saying, 'Don't pay attention to what I say.
Mr. Simon said the fractured court had obfuscated the issues rather set out a clear opinion on legal principles.
The determined effort by both sides to obfuscate the issue, however, left unclear the precise extent of Saudi cooperation and whether disputes lingered beneath the surface.
To his credit, he didn't try to obfuscate the issue: he conceded that his plan is "supply-side" -- that is, intended to make Japan's economy more efficient -- when the immediate problem that economy faces is "demand-side" -- people are spending too little.
