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  1. Hey, that's pretty quick on Facebook Open Sources 360 Surround Camera With Ikea-Style Instructions (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    For a series of random actions to produce a device in 4 hours is pretty fast. I wonder how long it would have taken with deliberate actions.

  2. Re:Doesn't the CEO's recent comments counter this? on BlackBerry Says Its New Android Smartphone DTEK 50 Is the 'World's Most Secure' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, in theory, one could be secure from malicious hackers/non-governmental eavesdroppers, while still totally exposed to government snooping. I mean, Obama amazing security, and yet the government can track his every move.

  3. Re:Then UNLOCK OUR BOOTLOADERS! on Motorola Confirms That It Will Not Commit To Monthly Security Patches (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought there were already DMCA exception. Isn't that how Cynaogenmod, etc. function?

  4. Re:Too bad for them. on Motorola Confirms That It Will Not Commit To Monthly Security Patches (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't care about it being microUSB, the question is how solid is the port. Is it the kind that breaks after a thousand cycles, or does it last and last?

  5. Re:The iPhone 3 still gets support? on Motorola Confirms That It Will Not Commit To Monthly Security Patches (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about??

    The link you provided says Apple stopped selling it in 2012 (there were two later generations) because they couldn't provide the latest OS on the hardware. The very next sentence says that Apple provided the last OS update in 2014.

    2 years of patches is more than I expect when I buy a product that's not even last-gen anymore, and the manufacturer has announced an end to support.

  6. Yeah, MS is always screwing customers, so screw them, buy a PS4. Like, remember when they removed the OtherOS functionality... oh wait, when they put spyware on audio CDs... no, that wasn't it, when their game network got hacked and they stored all those credit card numbers in plaintext... shoot, that wasn't them either!

  7. Re:I promise to delete the data! on New Illinois Law Limits Police Use Of Cellphone-Tracking Stingray (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Nor did any private company.

  8. Re: What "minimal functionality" for a browser gam on Google Tests Ads That Load Faster and Use Less Power (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It seems to be a NES emulator. So, I actually meant "ROMs currently being played." Similar lack of concern about people hacking their own clients. And it is in JS, so it's totally modifiable already, but probably with minimized JS.

    I'm big on the "web applications should die in a fire." line of thinking. I've never been keen on running arbitrary code on my computer, even if it is sandboxed (build a perfect sandbox, and then, maybe). Also, it's pretty high cost in terms of overhead, downloading, ability to parse via computer, etc. Maybe if they didn't try to turn a bunch of web content into web apps, I wouldn't hate all web apps reflexively.

    There's also the SaaS, forced upgrades, inability to own your own software problem I have with it, so it's possible that even if used well, I wouldn't like them.

  9. Re: What "minimal functionality" for a browser gam on Google Tests Ads That Load Faster and Use Less Power (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Readable source, developer blog, bug tracker and notes on same, lists of currently played games. There's a lot you can provide. I suppose for a minimal version, I would expect a static image, an auto refresh, and a link for every button in the new controller, talking to a node.js backend. Slow and unplayable, sure. But you could actually knock it out in a week or so. But, more realistically,new can distinguish between a web page, and a web application.

  10. Re: View and click fraud on Google Tests Ads That Load Faster and Use Less Power (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    How do TV shows prove they have that many impressions: Sampling and spot checking; should work well enough on the net as well

  11. Re: Cool, now just wait. on Do We Need The Moto Z Smartphones' New Add-On Modules? (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    There have been top of the line phones with projectors in them. They did not seem to do terribly well, but they were insanely expensive.

  12. Re: More things to carry and get lost on Do We Need The Moto Z Smartphones' New Add-On Modules? (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    What are the resolution of the units? Do they look hackable. I've wanted to play in FLIR on the cheap ever sine I got to use good units at work, and the bug bit me.

  13. Re: What do you gain from this? on Turn Your Android Phone Into a Laptop For $99 With the Superbook (techinsider.io) · · Score: 1

    Yes, the convenience of having your data everywhere: at home, at work, in Google's data mine, in NSA headquarters, ....

  14. Re: Encryption on Homeland Security Border Agents Can Seize Your Phone (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    They're argue net isn't "the constitution doesn't apply". It's that there is a very low expectation of privacy, and a very real reasonable reason to search all people crossing a border. The fourth amendment forbids unreasonable searches. While most people are aware that a warrant (legal overview) or exigent circumstances (hearing cries for help) constitute a reasonable reason for a search, so the courts have ruled does entering the United States.

  15. Re:The IRS ? on How Apple and Facebook Helped To Take Down KickassTorrents (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a lot easier to give someone $300 in the US, and see they launder it/don't report it, than detecting any other crime.

  16. Re:iTunes purchase? on How Apple and Facebook Helped To Take Down KickassTorrents (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The also have a strong desire to own, not rent, content. Or, better phrased to match the legality - have copies of, not stream, content. People who don't just have Spotify accounts.

  17. Re:Jurisdiction on How Apple and Facebook Helped To Take Down KickassTorrents (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    (1) Copyright laws are governed by treaties, extradition and otherwise.

    (2, and more importantly) He took $300 in the US. That payment was the "doing business in the US" required for extradition. That's also how those FIFA officials got picked up.

    (3) Yes, US companies are usually subject to laws in countries where they have offices or do business. See also, the EU's right to be forgotten/Google; India's net neutrality/FaceBook; The great firewall payments/Apple; Irish Tax laws/All.

  18. Nevermind a dragon running for president.

    The Donald isn't close enough for you?

  19. Re:My PCP has a "scribe!" on Technology Is Making Doctors Feel Like Glorified Data Entry Clerks (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Surgery requires making decisions (duh). It also involves a lot of physical manipulations, image recognition, tactile input, difficulty in human review, and other reasons why automation on surgery is likely to far trail behind diagnostics.

    Expert systems need humans to do the evaluation, sure. But nurses can do 90%+ of the observations, quantitize them, and feed them into an expert system. And in fact, this article was about how doctors, more and more, are being relegated to this role.

  20. Re:My PCP has a "scribe!" on Technology Is Making Doctors Feel Like Glorified Data Entry Clerks (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    My doctor does have onsite labs, and they do do exactly that. Rarer labs I assume they send out, and I have to comeback.

    You're correct that the cost savings of outsourcing labs are really partially costs externalized to patients by forcing them to come back. I imagine that there would be some way to solve for that.

  21. Re:My PCP has a "scribe!" on Technology Is Making Doctors Feel Like Glorified Data Entry Clerks (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Good. A doctor (not a surgeon) is mostly making technical decisions. Expert systems tend to be better at that kind of thing. I don't see much value in onsite labs (immediacy, I suppose). Why not make it all standardized, auditable, and cheaper by eliminated glorified, failure-prone human symptom lookup tables?

  22. Re:Nope on The Case Against a Universal Basic Income (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    I assume you mean things like rent, which are unavoidable, and not cheese its, which are optional. I don't know. But I'd imagine it's a solvable problem.

  23. Re:Cut the universal work week on The Case Against a Universal Basic Income (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    German workers work fewer hours than Americans do. 48 hrs/week (maximum) minus all the mandatory vacation time is still less than the nominal 40 hrs. in the US minus their mandatory vacation.

    You're 20 hours is crazy, btw. Most people work far over 40 hours. Unlike Germany, that's not a maximum, it's a standard.

    SO, yes. Germany works fewer hours.

  24. Re: Not even close to Speeding on Cities Struggling To Crack Down On Airbnb Renters (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I'm serious. Why would they want prices on their system lowered?

  25. Re:Makework on The Case Against a Universal Basic Income (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    We don't need absolute equality. Maybe you get a 2000 sq ft house, and the non-workers only get 1000 sq ft. Maybe you get vacations somewhere else sometime

    Or maybe, you should be discouraged from working. I mean, honestly, it is extra work to generate makework. Yeah, I get it makes you feel better than yourself, but its still a cost to society. I mean, we don't need everyone working, so why should they get punished for not working? Why not pay you whatever the market will bear with no minimum wage.