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  1. Re:You're showing your password to everyone on 'Dear Apple, The iPhone X and Face ID Are Orwellian and Creepy' (hackernoon.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously nothing is impossible. However you can't simply hold up a photo or even have a professional make one by hand. Perhaps you could use a scanner and 3-d print a mask, then carefully texture and paint it, but it is far far harder than lifting a fingerprint left anywhere and 3-d printing it.

  2. Re:You're showing your password to everyone on 'Dear Apple, The iPhone X and Face ID Are Orwellian and Creepy' (hackernoon.com) · · Score: 1

    Supposedly you can't fool the sensor with a professional Hollywood mask. They don't use a camera like some crappy phones do today, it's a miniature infrared lidar sensor, like what google uses on thier self driving car.

  3. Nonsense really on 'Dear Apple, The iPhone X and Face ID Are Orwellian and Creepy' (hackernoon.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    No one is forcing you to use the sensor and a simple piece of tape or a case can obscure it. To be honest the cops forcing people to touch unlock thier phones is probably what moved apple to this approach and the reason I've never used the touch sensor. The touch sensor was actually a bigger security hole because it appears they won't yet be able to force you to facial unlock the phone. I'll never use the facial scanner if I do get one, however a miniature infrared lidar sensor in my phone would have really badass potential - in my opinion an overlooked major innovation.

  4. Re: Is someone paying them to be this stupid? on Equifax Has Been Sending Consumers To a Fake Phishing Site for Almost Two Weeks (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Absolutely. The best places to live in the world, with the highest quality of life, education, lowest infant mortality, longest lifespans, etc all do this.

  5. Re:Life isn’t perfect on Corporations Just Quietly Changed How the Web Works (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    You forgot to add that non-porn sites (yes they exist on the net too I think) will use them to further erode the rights of individuals and spy on them as well. The line between corporate invasion of your personal data and outright malware is often quite blurry or nonexistent.

  6. Re: Is someone paying them to be this stupid? on Equifax Has Been Sending Consumers To a Fake Phishing Site for Almost Two Weeks (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Not mistakes, willful neglect and negligence, or outright criminal behavior. Plus everyone here is forgetting another aspect of jailing someone - punishment or "getting even" with the person who did the crime. I don't care if it deters not a single person, you jail people and screw thier lives in cases like this because they would be too busy enjoying time on thier second smaller yacht, away from thier larger one, to give a flying fk if you just forced them out.

  7. Re: Is someone paying them to be this stupid? on Equifax Has Been Sending Consumers To a Fake Phishing Site for Almost Two Weeks (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Riiiiight.... moral guidance. Because these people are not only the leaders of companies, they are the altruistic moral guiding light of everyone around them.

  8. Re: Is someone paying them to be this stupid? on Equifax Has Been Sending Consumers To a Fake Phishing Site for Almost Two Weeks (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    +all my mod points if I could post them. Jail these assholes for 20 years and let out an equal number of people doing hard time for possession of a small amount of marijuana that's now legal in thier state. I

  9. Re:Is someone paying them to be this stupid? on Equifax Has Been Sending Consumers To a Fake Phishing Site for Almost Two Weeks (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hahahaha, good one - free market. We don't need those stupid consumer protections ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H overreaching regulations.

  10. Re:iPhones do this also on Apple Admits To Apple Watch LTE Problems Just Before It Ships (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Sometimes I've found the extra step of "forget this network" helps. But your mileage may vary.

  11. Re:iPhones do this also on Apple Admits To Apple Watch LTE Problems Just Before It Ships (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Also forgot to add this has happened on sprint, Verizon and att networks. Like the other poster mentioned this was a known bug up to iOS 9 (wifi assist) but in reality I've experienced it on iOS 9 and 10 flavors as well without it working.

  12. Re:iPhones do this also on Apple Admits To Apple Watch LTE Problems Just Before It Ships (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I've owned iPhone 3 and currently own 4,4s,5,5s,5c,6,6s+,se across many iOS (haven't had the courage to download 11) and they all do this. Dosent matter how much network resetting you do and tbh you shouldn't have to even if this worked. Again I don't have a problem using either wifi or cellular, but when the phone connects to wifi without internet connectivity it hangs and refuses to use cellular instead. Been a problem since around 2009 for me and everyone's iPhone I've used since.

  13. Sounds like it's working on Amazon 'Reviewing' Its Website After It Suggested Bomb-Making Items (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    To be fair, it sounds like yet another case of pattern matching without human level oversight working too well. If you want actual bugs look at the fake baby registry emails sent out yesterday in mass.

  14. iPhones do this also on Apple Admits To Apple Watch LTE Problems Just Before It Ships (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    iPhones also connect to wireless networks (and with the right settings on their own to user unauthorized ones) with no connectivity and you will suffer from no data access as the phone fails to use its cellular connection. Further if the phone has wifi calling enabled you will miss calls and texts while connected to the network. It would seem like a simple matter to disregard the wifi network if it had no actual connection to the internet but it is what it is.

  15. Re:Texting has a positive impact on their lives on More Millennials Would Give Up Voting Than Texting (nypost.com) · · Score: 1
    The head of the DNC had to step down because of the outrage over the phished emails showing how they sabotaged the candidate process and picked the douche over the popular candidate.

    "The party has the freedom of association to decide how it's gonna select its representatives to the convention and to the state party," said Spiva. "Even to define what constitutes evenhandedness and impartiality really would already drag the court well into a political question and a question of how the party runs its own affairs. The party could have favored a candidate. I'll put it that way."

    Primaries won't help while they are still rigged - super delegates ensure that it's not the people's choice but that of a few wealthy key people.

  16. I think you are half right, the missing part being Hillary was polling well yes - but Bernie was killing it and doubly so against trump. He went from an unfunded unknown Vermont nobody to nearly close a 60 point lead and won 23 states despite best efforts to deny him the win. The reason the DNC conspired against Bernie was they would rather risk losing to trump than rocking the money boat lining all of thier pockets and take the sure win. Few things ostracises one more in the eyes of the DNC more than saying FK you to the big donors. Democrats seem determined to become republican lite.

  17. Well Russians primarily launder oligarchs and political leaders illicit money through real estate deals. Trump has been getting shady loans from banks with ties to Russia since the 90s since no American bank would touch him with a 10 foot pole. Further there have been many purchases of trump properties at suspicious prices through shell companies. FFS trump tried to negotiate a deal for the tallest building in the world to be built in Russia with his name on the front during his campaign. In short there is tons of circumstantial evidence he has been laundering Russian money since the 90s, maybe even the 80s. So he already had a relationship with Russia and Putin already had compromising material on him before this all began. Trump is cozy with Putin because there are huge sums of money on the line.

    Further Russian hacking during the election was extensive. They corrupted the voter registration in a number of important locations forcing people to use the paper records but this caused massive lines and delays which can alter who votes. There were thousands of attempts to actually hack the machines themselves (through phishing attacks and directly), but publically released information makes this seem unlikely to be too much of an issue. Then there are the massive Russian troll farms spreading fake news on social media, such as Facebook and the recent FBI subpoena for who bought the fake ads. Further the CIA has picked up people talking about it and some of that has leaked publically.

    Then there was the undisclosed meeting where JR meet with a Russian lawyer, a Russian hacker, and several others while the day before trump announced publically he was going to get dirt on Hillary. Just after the DNC was successfully phished and the infamous emails released that forced the head to step down in disgrace over screwing Bernie. This was a big win for trump and republicans.

    Do I blame Russia for election meddling? Yes absolutely, but it's not like we haven't meddled there either. The public didn't know the details of watergate for about a year and a half from the incident, given what muller is doing I'm going to guess they have a ton of hard evidence already and before next summer we will find out most of what really happened. They don't no knock kick in the door of rich well connected white man at 6am without cause.

  18. Re:Good news on Facebook Shares Details Of Russia-Bought Ads With US Investigators (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    While I agree good fkn luck. This is the crime too big to jail. If we didn't do squat about banks laundering tens of billions of dollars, lying about ratings, illegally forclosing on people, etc - except bail them out and handsomely pay thier executives- nothing is going to be done about this. Best we can hope for is maybe get Trump out of office (no criminal conviction) and only because republicans can't get basic crap done and even the densest Trump supporters are starting to realize it's all just been lies. The main sources of corruption will still be there and the Russians will have learned how cheap and effective it is to buy thier way into politics.

  19. Just a little bit of programmer humor.

  20. 365.242 for a solar year, but 365.25 for calendar years including leap years.

  21. Nature is confused on Poor Diet Is a Factor In One In Five Deaths, Global Disease Study Reveals (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    3.1 billion years of evolution went by with the vast majority of our ancestors endlessly starving. Most of our ancestors time was spent trying to gather what meager food they could, often dying of hunger when slightly injured, sick, old or just unlucky. Now all of a sudden nearly all humans have endless amounts of cheap, effortless, concentrated food available 24-7-365.25. Now the problem is food is just too damn easy to eat - I'll take that over dying of starvation any day.

  22. Re:Maybe a silver lining soon on Credit Karma To Launch Free ID Monitoring Following Equifax Hack (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    +1 to this. They are fine as a unique identifier, but using them for any authentication should be a criminal offense.

  23. Re:Nationwide coverage on 8,500 Verizon Customers Disconnected Because of 'Substantial' Data Use (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    But I was told they had the best unlimited!

  24. Disingenuous news article on Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Says We Need To Start Over (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Neural nets using back propagation will likely remain a valuable tool forever, just like Newtonian mechanics. Will they be the only go to solution for all similar AI learning going forward? Of course not, they already aren't. When we do achieve strong AI it will likely be from a system incorporating thousands of different algorithms, of which Dr. Hinton's contributions will be just one.

  25. I suppose but on Equifax CEO Hired a Music Major as the Company's Chief Security Officer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wouldn't you want someone who isn't an expert at singing when it comes time to testify?