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She clearly didn't write the majority of the code.
However it's entirely possible she's responsible for the math and/or the actual algorithm the code implements.

From The internet’s idiots are already trying to discredit Katie Bouman’s historic accomplishments:

The criticism claiming Bouman is just one name of a few on the research paper shows a misunderstanding of how academic papers work. Bouman is the first author of her paper “Computational Imaging for VLBI Image Reconstruction.” The first author on a research paper is typically the person who made the most important contributions. Alongside Bouman, Michael D. Johnson, Daniel Zoran, Vincent L. Fish, Sheperd S. Doeleman, and William T. Freeman worked to produce their findings.

“Of course Bouman will not have written all of the code, just like Englert and Higgs are not solely responsible for the discovery of the Higgs boson. ..." Wade said.

In the discussion on Hacker News, and even in our own Facebook comment section, multiple users claim Bouman’s colleague Andrew Chael wrote over 850,000 lines of the 900,000 lines of code used to discover the black hole. Chael tweeted to her defense, saying that without Bouman and her contribution to the software, the project would never have been a success.

So, with respect to a successful outcome, does it really matter how *many* lines of code she (or someone) wrote, especially if her/their code and/or other contributions made everything work?

I imagine we've all heard the joke about getting an itemized bill like: $0.50: Pushing a button; $99.50: Knowing what button to push.

you have no idea what Adobe is doing?

The last one shows the Ai Selection and as cool as it seems at first, somehow they show an example where the all magical Ai clearly fucked up on the lady's other arm selection. It does make one wonder what's the "fuck up frequency" of the tool, given that a article made to put the tool in the best light possible is showing a problem.

Definitely. Because it is Neural.

Are you really so ignorant of image and video editing that you have no idea what Adobe is doing?

Do you even listen to yourself?

No I don't talk to myself, I just post informative information based on what I actually know, from reading, developing, and actually using real world applications.

Maybe you should get out more. Or maybe you are out too much, and that's why the modern digital world is eluding you so badly? I mean, Jesus Christ buddy, your response makes you look like you have Alzheimers or something.

I'll let you have the last response out of pity.

Good. Amazon is abusive. And they don't pay taxes. Stop the abuse, make them pay their share, both at once.
https://thenextweb.com/insider...

Amazon is taking hits from the left and the right here. Amazon doesn't have a fan in the current white house either. They don't have many allies in DC.

Good. Amazon is abusive. And they don't pay taxes. Stop the abuse, make them pay their share, both at once. https://thenextweb.com/insider...

Not news, but Comcast has and continues to modify websites.

LinkedIn is a hellhole and this Twitter account proves it

Are You Sick and Tired of These 5 Things On LinkedIn? So Am I

https://thenextweb.com/apple/2...

Steve Jobs himself said they were 90 days from bankruptcy.

Yeah - only that was a year before Gates "saved" Apple, you bloody moron.

Of course that's ignoring that Jobs actually fibbed to downplay Gil Amelio's role in saving Apple.

https://thenextweb.com/apple/2...

Steve Jobs himself said they were 90 days from bankruptcy.

Perhaps a little self-aggrandizement?

I have also heard at other times that, even in their darkest hour, Apple had enough cash-reserves to buy Compaq Computer Corp. outright.

So, who really knows?

https://thenextweb.com/apple/2...

Steve Jobs himself said they were 90 days from bankruptcy.

Why is it that so many people equate Netflix with streaming? I get the DVDs. I love it and have no interest in streaming. Why? Because I want to see really good movies sometime, not any old thing right now. Last I saw, streaming titles were, indeed, dropping steadily. Here's a report that's 2 years old:

https://upnext.reelgood.com/ne...

And here's one from last year stating that, counting the TV shows, Netflix has about 93,000 disks available:

https://thenextweb.com/insider...

Streaming will never offer a good selection because it's basically a volume and convenience offer. It's the same reason the all-you-can-eat buffet seems to keep running out of beef but has plenty of macaroni and iceberg lettuce. If you insist on only streaming then you're going back to the pre-VHS days and will have to accept the tradeoff.

Well...actually yes. These 10s computers are mandated to be down tight with zero options for going outside of Microsoft's excruciatingly painfully bad app store, while being forced to use a web browser and/or web rendering engine that Microsoft's own engineers can't even get to work correctly on their own product demo so they had to install chrome.

https://thenextweb.com/microso...

And while chrome OS can be locked down just as much by IT admins, it's not mandatory and you can install from third parties, and yes, you can run competing web browsers as a native app and even configure it as the default browser.

Windows 10s is just a terrible attempt to clone iOS, only it has no apps and it runs on a laptop.

Russian CPU's?

https://thenextweb.com/insider...

""Ruselectronics also said that the chip contains features that “guarantees its users a high level of information security,” although it’s not immediately obvious what these are.""

iTunes sucks: A GIF guide to why Apple’s desktop music app must be fixed

Why does iTunes suck so incredibly much?

iTunes sucks, we all know it. What are my options for music player (nonstreaming) on the iPhone 6s?

Why I Hate iTunes: Syncing Sucks And So Does Selecting Music

Can iTunes suck anymore than it already does?

iTunes Really Is That Bad

Apple’s iTunes Is Alienating Its Most Music-Obsessed Users

Eleven Reasons Why iTunes Sucks

Why does Itunes SUCK SO MUCH ???

Again: no, people are not happy using iTunes. People use iTunes because Apple requires it for their expensive iDevices. They hate it, but they want to sync music to their iPhones.

You're saying that my assertion about video players is a "no true Scotsman" fallacy? That's a laugh. You just didn't want to dig your hole deeper by responding to what I said. Video players are not designed to deal with large music libraries, nor should they be. A sports car can be used to take lots of cleaning supplies between cleaning jobs, but a utility van will be far better suited to the task. Your choice of VLC to support this notion is especially hilarious. The VLC media library is like only using the Winamp playlist for your entire music collection.

Or perhaps you meant that foobar2000 is not the true Scotsman. In that case, you missed my arguments about the interface being poorly designed.

Now here's a real laugh for you regarding your sneering at Winamp market share. While I don't have stats from anywhere today, Lifehacker did a survey in 2013 to find out what the readers thought was the best desktop music player and in the end Winamp was the winner. So at least in 2013, 16 years after Winamp was released, it was still the preferred player for everyone that read Lifehacker at the time. Unfortunately, most articles seem to omit or only "honorably mention" Winamp based on it no longer being developed which at this point is really only a problem for people who want double size mode to look better or want to sync a modern iPod with Winamp (yes, Winamp used to sync iPods.)

I'm sure iTunes can play music back on garbage hardware while multitasking. Maintaining a 44.1 kHz 16-bit stereo audio stream while multitasking was easily done by Winamp in 1997 on an original Pentium, so why wouldn't it be possible to do the same thing today on a bargan-basement Celeron that's slow for browsing but still two orders of magnitude faster than an original Pentium? It's not hard to have a realtime-priority and heavily optimized thread that does nothing but decompress music file data and pass it to the sound system. Good luck switching between iTunes and other stuff in 2GB of RAM while trying to do some actual work.

One more thing was never addressed. You never elaborated on why "underlying frameworks" is some sort of selling point. Last I checked, no one went out looking for media players and said "I want one that has underlying frameworks."

Bitcoin Releases Version 0.3
Posted by kdawson on Sunday July 11, 2010 @09:09PM from the nobody-to-prosecute dept.
Teppy writes
"How's this for a disruptive technology? Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer, network-based digital currency with no central bank, and no transaction fees. Using a proof-of-work concept, nodes burn CPU cycles searching for bundles of coins, broadcasting their findings to the network. Analysis of energy usage indicates that the market value of Bitcoins is already above the value of the energy needed to generate them, indicating healthy demand. The community is hopeful the currency will remain outside the reach of any government."
Here are the FAQ, a paper describing Bitcoin in more technical detail (PDF), and the Wikipedia article. Note: a commercial service called BitCoin Ltd., in pre-alpha at bitcoin.com, bears no relation to the open source digital currency.

WikiLeaks, Money, and Ron Paul
Posted by Soulskill on Sunday December 12, 2010 @01:16PM from the headlines-that-will-make-some-people-mad dept.
Another day, another dozen WikiLeaks stories, several of which revolve around money. PayPal has given in to pressure to release WikiLeaks funds, though they still won't do further transactions. Mobile payment firm Xipwire is attempting to take PayPal's place. "We do think people should be able to make their own decisions as to who they donate to." PCWorld wonders if the WikiLeaks' money woes could lead to great adoption of Bitcoin, the peer-to-peer currency system we've discussed in the past. Meanwhile, Representative Ron Paul spoke in defense of WikiLeaks on the House floor Thursday, asking a number of questions, including, "Could it be that the real reason for the near universal attacks on WikiLeaks is more about secretly maintaining a seriously flawed foreign policy of empire than it is about national security?" The current uproar over WikiLeaks has prompted Paul Vixie to call for an end to the DDoS attacks and Vladimir Putin to break out a metaphor involving cows and hockey pucks.

Online-Only Currency BitCoin Reaches Dollar Parity
Posted by timothy on Thursday February 10, 2011 @06:59PM from the computationally-intensive dept.
IamTheRealMike writes
"The BitCoin peer to peer currency briefly reached exchange parity with the US dollar today after a spike in demand for the coins pushed prices slightly above 1 USD:1 BTC. BitCoin was launched in early 2009, so in only two years this open source currency has gone from having no value at all to one with not only an open market of competing exchanges, but the ability to buy r

I'm surprised why more people are not enabling authentication.

It's in part because these providers insist on using SMS as the preferred second factor despite its disadvantages compared to U2F or TOTP. SMS has two problems:

This wouldn't be a problem if services like Google, Twitter, and Steam offered a way to set up TOTP without first setting up SMS. But they don't. Google says "first you need to complete SMS/Voice setup", and the instructions for Twitter include "set up your personal account with the service on your phone" as part of the first step. Nor do they offer a way for someone who has set up TOTP to disable SMS without also disabling TOTP. Twitter in particular sends SMS on every 2-factor login attempt, in effect treating TOTP as a backup for SMS rather than vice versa.

Wal-Mart wants to deliver to your fridge.

https://thenextweb.com/business/2017/09/22/walmart-fires-back-at-amazon-with-new-direct-to-fridge-service/

Apple has, in review after review, shown to be pretty accurate in battery life estimates.

Meanwhile all we know about the Surface Pro battery life from existing products is that the estimates are about DOUBLE reality - consider what you can expect from real life use of the current Surface Pro with a battery life estimate of 13.5 hours:

"With my typical moderate-to-heavy usage, I regularly managed about six to eight hours of Getting Work Done."

So an estimate of 70% batter than the hasn't-been-updated-in-years MacBook Air, probably means that it MAY give you almost as much battery life as a MacBook Air in practice... but probably not, and certainly will be worse than the real comparison - a 13" MacBook Pro (which weighs about the same and is nearly the same size as the Air).

And/or you can install an app on a phone/tablet that will generate that different code every minute (without the need of internet access)

You still need to receive SMS in order to add your Google Account's key to a TOTP app because Google considers SMS to be the primary second factor and TOTP apps as a backup to SMS. From the article "Google Account Help: Install Google Authenticator":

To set this up, first you need to complete SMS/Voice setup.
[...]
Setting up the app
1. If you haven’t already, turn on 2-Step Verification for your account using your phone number.
2. On your computer, go to the 2-Step Verification settings page.
3. Scroll to "Alternative second step."

Twitter also appears to require SMS in order to set up TOTP.

Target's Sales Floors Are Switching From Apple To Android Devices

https://thenextweb.com/apple/2...

So, what's your point?

trucking industry

Didn't you hear that everyone's old buddies, the Teamsters have that covered?

A. I don't allow some random news outlet (or a well known one) to tell me how to think.

B. Until they have a definitive, well explained reason for these crashes, my theory (a GPS spoofer attached to a negatively buoyant drone that crashes itself in the ocean a few moments before impact) just as accurately explains the evidence as any other theory.

C. FROM THE LINKED ARTICLE "Could a ... vessel be hacked? In essence, what if GPS spoofing ... caused personnel to be unaware of any imminent danger or unable to respond?" https://thenextweb.com/insider...

Maybe you should read first and criticize once you have a clue?

If you ever read "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal" by Nick Bilton, you would know how appalling that the founding of Twitter was. Mark Zuckerburg has a great quote in the book: "[Twitter founders] drove a clown car into a gold mine and fell in." It's not really surprising that Twitter had zero growth from riding Trump's pants legs.

> Sorry to hear that. Sounds like Denver is seriously behind the curve.

Well, the seats ARE getting better. I've noticed more theaters are becoming "short" depth but with extra wide, cushion, and leg rests even! So I'd given B for effort. The problem is all the other issues are still unresolved -- and never will be.

> Out of interest, am I the the only one who doesn't care that much about the trailers?

Probably. =P

When there was only 1 or trailers I didn't mind it -- you knew the movie was starting SOON. It was a smart business move -- at the time: "Hmm, customers are here to watch a movie, maybe they will want to come back?"

The two current problems are:

* The trailers started getting longer, and longer. /sarcastic By the time the trailers are done, I'm done with my popcorn. /Oblg DVD vs Pirate
* There is an inconsistent number of trailers. Sometimes 10 mins., sometimes 20 minutes. Stop fucking wasting my time. I'm here to see THIS movie -- not the next one.

Since outright banning advertisements is not feasible at this time I believe a good compromise / solution would be:

* STANDARDIZE the trailer time to _exactly_ 5 minutes.

This builds hype, and doesn't bore the fuck out of potential customers.

Most people are not willing to fuss with a PC

Those who would, got cut out of the market. I will spend many hours setting up the computing environment that I want. I was quite interested in getting an Oculus Rift. But the idea that I would have to add a powerful Windows computer to the mix just to give it a try, isn't in the cards right now.

> However that was done by marketing, not by innovation.

That's not entirely true. The Apple's 381th Patent for inertial scrolling was a game changer. Adding physics to UI was absolutely brilliant.

Inertial scrolling was invented by Bas Ording. He has worked at Apple since 1998 as an User Interface Designer.

Reference:

* The Apple patent Steve Jobs fought hard to protect
* Who invented inertial scrolling on iOS

Okay, if one is in the medical profession and you are bound by proprietary drivers (probably outdated), or in some other professional with similar hardware lockins (Construction, Automobile/Farming equipment Computer diagnostics/calibration), or POSSIBLY hearing aid equipment interfaces/drivers (again outdated typically), you don't need MS Windows (feel free to add professional category subject to hardware lock-in). 95% of all tools are web based via Intranet or Internet. Linux does all the word processing, email, messaging, web surfing and even video chat options you need. LibreOffice's only serious weakness is on complex tables. But since MS and Google are pushing web based subscription, that may not even matter a lot unless you work with confidential data requiring local access only use + complex excel tables. I've been seeing/helping people convert to Mint Linux and Debian for years with no complaints. Gamers may complain about not having the full selection of games, but in government that is not a positive factor I think. Also, Windows 10 is NOT immune to WannaCry. you can patch it, but, given MS's recent history with buggy (or misleading) patches you can't really rely on it. Plus you can be sure others are adapting it to new "patched" Windows 10 anyway. Also will Munich get a "special" version of Windows 10 like China did to prevent government secrets going to the USA? (And the government agencies within) https://thenextweb.com/microso... I think most non-USA governments, as well as business/agencies that have confidential information in non-USA location will have to make a hard choice to avoid violating their basic oaths/ethics requirements.

> , so keep using your 60 yr spinning disk tech.

FTFY

The hard drive was invented in 1956, not 1997.

--
"Get off my LAN, you hooligans"

Sales and marketshare have nothing to do with users [...] And the user base for Macs is increasing steadily.

Fair enough, but then according to your reasoning the user base for PCs is also increasing? Fine, but we warned: don't let Phil Schiller hear you talking about keeping "Macs for 5 years and longer" or he will poke fun at you mercilessly. Yes, even when a " brand new" Mac Pro is 1169 days old, a Mac mini is 868 days old, an iMac 506 days old, etc. Talk about double standards!

RT.

You must be using a slightly different definition of "works", because I can plug my headphones into my Android phone and my Android phone into my laptop without having to buy overpriced adapters and dongles.

Indeed. The storage space argument is absolute nonsense. Technically, 64GB of mobile storage isn't that much nowadays: https://www.newegg.com/Product...

"Apps clocking in at 40+MB" equates to 1600 apps. I did not do an extensive search, but users have rougly 30 to 100 apps installed according to these sources:
- https://www.quora.com/How-many...
- https://thenextweb.com/apps/20...

No, storage space on average mobiles is gobbled up by (UHD) self shot videos and years of videos received with Whatsapp (and the like) stored on the device.

>> It's too easy to get you facebook account deleted or locked out for it to be useful for this.

> But is it really? I mean the only people I know of who get their account deleted or locked out are
> trolls, SJWs, activists, and people who just plain shit on their terms of service for shits and giggles.

Blame the victim, why don't you. Read this horror story... https://thenextweb.com/faceboo...

Guy mysteriously gets his account disabled and is forbidden from creating a new one. This is straight out of Kafka...

> According to the company's responses, Facebook's decision is final. There's
> no way I can get back on the service and there's no way I can get my data
> back and there's no way I can know why I've become ineligible for an account.

Imagine you had all your calendar, contact, and password info on Facebook, and woke up one day to find out that you were locked out, with no access to that info. There are almost 1.8 billion users vulnerable to that scenario, of being locked out of Facebook at Zuckerberg's whim...

I don't know why they "trust him"... dumb fucks. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

It is quite surprising this hasn't happened more often,

Here's one from as far back as 2011:
https://thenextweb.com/au/2011...
It's probably not making the news so much because it's probably normally thought of as a petty crime.

I thought they were selectively removing reviews, but they just disabled reviews and made the (low) star rating disappear completely just for that monitor.

Except that they didn't. The article was retracted and The Next Web has issued a formal apology for their erroneous reporting.

The actual problem wasn't that Apple disabled the section in order to censor reviews; it was that they forgot to enable the section in the first place. Cached copies of the page show that the section was never enabled at all. It looks like someone at Apple simply forgot to press the button to enable ratings and reviews on the monitor. From there, a redditor used the opportunity to bend the truth quite a bit by claiming that Apple had disabled the section to hide bad reviews, despite the fact that they have a history of letting bad reviews stand, as you pointed out. The blogs love salacious news, so they posted it without doing proper vetting, and now they're all having to post retractions.

Yay for the Internet.

How about being stuck on a road in a snowstorm without communication? There are reasons why we shouldn't disable people's phones. I would argue for nagware - every hour, have a message pop up telling you there is a safety issue and asking you to return your phone to a Verizon store for a free replacement or something. Seems like a good balance between keeping devices safe and people losing critical communication.

They already do that, and the morons with these phones still refuse to return them, putting not only themselves at risk, but the people around them.

Seriously, there is no excuse for still using one of these phones, and they should be bricked immediately. I hope Verizon gets sued for a bazillion dollars for any damages that result from leaving these phones in use.

If you actually see the context, you can clearly see it's hyperbole. The sniper rifle comment was in response to "You just need to get high." which is similar hyperbole advocating illegal drug use. Is it funny? Well, it's no less funny than half the dumb shit you see posted on <insert favorite social network here>. Yeah, I wouldn't have said it while sober, but if I thought my country was doomed and I was drunk, maybe I would. It was a bit stupid, but it was also part of a conversation with "friends". Just locker-room banter, and frankly not as disgusting as Trump's locker-room banter.

You mean the Lenovo that intentionally shipped the SuperFish malware preinstalled on its computers? (Which of course is why you always do a clean OS install on a new computer...)

You know, the Lenovo that, after profusely apologizing for the SuperFish incident, moved on to intentionally shipping the OneKey Optimizer malware, along with a BIOS rootkit ? (Meaning that a clean OS install would not get rid of the Lenovo-provided malware?)

Get back to me when Roomba can avoid smearing dogshit all over the house.

Then maybe I'll consider the possibility that a robot car can safely discern a child running into the street from a abandoned shopping bag blown in the wind.

> And just how do you suggest the algorithm could be improved

There is an implicit assumption in your question.
Namely that an algorithm is the appropriate tool for the job.

Roombas spreading dogshit over every square inch of floorspace is a near perfect illustration of the problem with this mindset. And it is a lot more common than you might expect.

Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts.

Enjoy your high-latency low-bitrate limited-bandwidth bluetooth audio, and don't complain when the audio falls out of sync with video. :-p

And you'll scream in 3d surround sound as your proper exploding Samsung catches fire.

Noted that blutooth is evil beyond the pale, but bttery fires are just fine. Here is an acceptable situation:

http://www.ctvnews.ca/business...

http://wallstreams.com/samsung...

http://thenextweb.com/in/2016/...

Yeah, you might want to re-think your talking points.

Without a time machine we could go back and forth on this, but I'm quite confident that in a decade or so I'll be proven right on this, and you'll be about like the Cliff Stroll who in 1995 was writing about how the internet and online shopping would never take off:

http://thenextweb.com/shareabl...

See http://thenextweb.com/facebook... Facebook is the ultimate "cloud service", and it too can delete your account and data... just because.

tldr; backup all your Facebook friends' (OK, maybe just the real friends) contact info offline. Ditto for calendars. Beware of syncing any device with facebook.

> Editorâ(TM)s note: This is a guest post by Chris Leydon, a freelance videographer
> and former startup founder. He organises the Tomorrow's Web series of
> meetups and documents London's tech community with his video production
> company Keyone Productions.

The "reason" he got for his Facebook account being disabled was...

> Upon investigation, we have determined that you are ineligible to use Facebook.
> Unfortunately, for safety and security reasons, we cannot provide additional
> information as to why your account was disabled. This decision is final.

He got onto Twiiter and actually managed to get the attention of a live person at Facebook UK, not some script-reader in Mumbai...

> I got a reply within an hour, saying that my query was being looked into,
> but no guarantees on finding out why my account has been disabled or
> reinstating it. The following day I received a further reply saying that
> unfortunately, due to a shared personal connection, he was unable to
> help or assist me in my situation because of a "user protection policy".

The consequences...

> Earlier on that day there had been an update to the Facebook page for the event
> I was attending, a change of location. Instinctively I logged into Facebook and
> saw that "Your account has been disabled message" again. I didn't know
> where I was supposed to go and I couldn't check Facebook to find out either.

> No worries, I have the event stored in a calendar on my Windows Phone.
> I flicked open to my calendar and looked for the appointment and it wasn't
> there. The calendar was syncing with Facebook and when my account
> became disabled, for security reasons, all of my Facebook events were
> removed from my calendar. Shit.

> Not a problem, I'll phone Russell, he was organising the event so could tell
> me where to go. I searched for Russell's number in my contacts andâ¦
> no results, he'd vanished. James? He was there as an email address and a
> Twitter handle but no phone number. Sean? Same again. My phone's contacts
> had been syncing with Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, but not actually
> saving any data to the phone or Exchange. All of the numbers were being
> pulled in from Facebook and without a Facebook account, I didn't have
> any Facebook friends and no numbers to pull in. Fuck.

> Luckily my text messages were still safe, I wasn't completely lost. I found
> an old text thread with Russell, phoned him and added the number as a
> new contact to my phone. I was saved for the evening and it turned out
> not to be quite the disaster I feared, but it started to dawn on me just how
> much Iâ(TM)d grown to rely on one platform.

"...the average payment to an artist from the label portion of that is $0.001128, this being what a signed artist receives after the label's share..."

http://thenextweb.com/apple/20...

http://thenextweb.com/google/2...

Jesus, that's a bloody awful animated gif to have on a "news" article.

It's also a bloody awful headline.

In fact, it looks like a bloody awful website all round.

As for the tune, it's not bad, but it's a little too unpredictable to be catchy.

• 1. Ever increasing ads in the start menu, lock screen, and wherever else Microsoft feels entitled to display them?
• 2. That the OS divulges your personal information to 107 domains?
• 3. Uncontrollable auto-updates that reboot while you're in the middle of your work?
• 4. When the OS deletes programs installed on your computer so you'll use the Microsoft equivalent instead?

Then the answer should be obvious.

So what's your favorite part about Windows 10, the 107 domains that the OS sends your personal information to, the uncontrollable auto-updates that reboot while you're in the middle of your work, or when the OS deletes programs installed on your computer so you'll use the Microsoft equivalent instead?

There is bias among App developers towards developing for IOS. Mostly it's down to the relatively few platforms running IOS compared to the huge http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2... number of platforms running Android. Nothing at all to do with the quality of the OS

Coming up next: These "geniuses" invent a method to transmit data using sound, claiming it's a brand new thing that's never been done before, especially not with modems!

Oh, wait...

So how does management know that they are real workers?

Some idiot got caught working from home for a half-dozen companies and outsourcing his work Chinese workers. One company became suspicious when they noticed in the log files that he was logging in from China while browsing the Internet from his cubicle when he came into work.

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/01/16/verizon-finds-developer-outsourced-his-work-to-china-so-he-could-surf-reddit-and-watch-cat-videos/

It's because it's Pakistan asking. They had some qualms when India first asked, but granted them access eventually.

http://thenextweb.com/asia/201...