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  1. How about a routing algorithm that steers drivers past preferred locations... like your store? Should GoogMaps or Waze send everyone thru downtown Paterson? This always seemed unethical, but understandable, since "its all about money".

  2. Maybe they want to sell BOTH product lines ? on Why Apple and Microsoft Are Using Last Year's Skylake Processors In Their New Computers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The dark side of this relationship between manufacturor and user is that the provider might want to sell both product lines rather than just the first one. "consumers on both sides of the tracks will have the unquenchable desire to have the latest flangle". In both cases, there may already be plenty of CPU horse power, so that even last years model works fine . Sorta feels like the cable industry letting go of the Triple play. Sometimes we users just dont need a new version. Or they will down-spec the initial to make the next rev required?

  3. Re:list on Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'We're Going To Kill Cash' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You forgot #4 - Apple themselves! Paypal and Amazon already killed cash for me. Oh.. and that Visa/Mastercard thing... I carry $10, mostly when I need tip money. How about killing taxes.. oh.. Apple did that already!!! Revolutionary? Yawn

  4. Rerun of Matrix?

  5. If the role of money is... on Interviews: Ask Martin Shkreli a Question · · Score: 1

    If the role of money is to equate the work of the candlestick maker to the work of the accountant to the work of the airline pilot... and the amount of pay is proportionate to the contribution to society (rough jobs pay more, easy jobs pay less), how do you deserve such a salary? Is it really brilliant to buy a company and jack the prices up when that causes pain to the society that would reward you so?

  6. SOmething Useful like... Authentication? on Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM, and Microsoft Come Together To Create Historic Partnership On AI (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    How about the Leaders come up with a cross platform Identity model that allows authentication for all sorts of devices? SOme way to leave passwords behind! Groucho: "Swordfish!"

  7. Re:Not going to happen on Edward Snowden Makes 'Moral' Case For Presidential Pardon (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    You cant say he is a lesser man for doing things, then saying he does what others tell him to. Transitive property means the people around him are jerks. Based on our trajectory in Dev 2008, we are in a better place now, wouldnt you say?

  8. Re:Not going to happen on Edward Snowden Makes 'Moral' Case For Presidential Pardon (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    How could he think a treasonous act should be pardoned? Stealing tons of docs and dragging them off to the kremlin and hiding there - Why would Obamoid even consider a pardon? Sure.. some was a little sketchy, but since when are we lilly white? Snow-dog, you made your bed. Have a nice life in your famed exile.

  9. Re:WeChat = Tencent = Chinese Communist Party on Ask Slashdot: Are There Secure Alternatives To Skype? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Response to monitoring... Lets feature a non stop Cat Streaming video service over it then? Gotta remind em what's important!

  10. Re:security best practice? on Systemd Starts Killing Your Background Processes By Default (blog.fefe.de) · · Score: 2

    There seem only a few reasons a user process should stick around, or even start, after a user has logged out. 1) Cron.. Nuff said, 2) Screen - detached process, to be re-attached later 3) VNC - glorified Screen with a whole host of Window manager baggage 4) Inelegantly interrupted shell session that leaves a dead process 5) At jobs (ok.. like cron, but different) .. hmm those come to mind ... any others? In systemds defense, if its main objective is to manage Init... this seems appropriate, but.. it should have an rational/understood behavior profile. (oh.. and post below... a command launched with Nohup.. Since its an AC, cant attribute.)

  11. Re:Never misplaced a 747 around the house. Floatin on Why Are We Spending Billions and Tons of Fossil Fuel On Search of Lost Planes? · · Score: 1

    Or make a water soluble structural element (that floats) to another copy... Telemetry, voice in cabin etc... or... better yet.. stream the telemetry voice etc to my google+ account? We are supposed to look forward. The licensing/cost Bullsh*t is only for profiteering. Payback is on the first occurrence. then we dont have to dig up the plane and will know for the 5 PM news - same day. How many folks would pay for that?? Financial restrictions are idiotic constructs, in this case.

  12. What would Brian Boytano do? on Snowden: 'Governments Can Reduce Our Dignity To That Of Tagged Animals' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    In such a world that Mr Snowden envisions.. there would still be horrible violent incidents like we've seen of late. How would that government, under his perfecter rules handle the iPhone issue? Would it better for the people if the state was unable to check the miscreants email history to ferret out other weasels, or to leave the terrorists free to roam all over the US with impunity? I am not saying I have all the answers, but any time you chase Utopia to such an extreme, you find yourself in DysTopia. Is the Best Solution a compromise of personal and state freedoms (assuming those freedoms are in the best interests of the people)?

  13. Re:Try 3 Mbps DSL on AT&T Wants $100 Million From California Taxpayers For Aging DSL (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Verizon doesnt offer FIOS in my area, but they -do- provide "High Speed Internet Access" with "up to 1.5Mbps!!!! Welcome to the 1980's!!! Seems like the govt is going to have to break the stranglehold on these perps.GIVE US SOME COMPETITION!!!

  14. Careful California on AT&T Wants $100 Million From California Taxpayers For Aging DSL (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Verizon promised this to us, moons ago, and now we have a noncompetitive arrangement where handshakes or coin flips decide WHICH ISP gets the monopoly. http://www.speedmatters.org/bl... Now the rates in NJ lead the planet. Careful Ca,Careful!

  15. Just get the info from Facebook or Google. on FBI Delays Case Against Apple; May Have Way To Break Phone (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    They already have all the useful information. Or Apple Backups? Anything typed into a phone is replicated many times....

  16. Re:From both sides now on Google, Facebook, WhatsApp and Others To Beef Up Encryption (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Thats why i didn't install the Facebook app on my phone. It reaches too far. Am with you on that. As far as privacy goes, I don't mind being watchable, but don't want to pay for every bit/byte to be reviewed by someone... unless there is a purpose. Would i rather have Google or Facebook or the Govt monitor my every moment? no, there is nothing in it for me. This whole apple privacy thing shows that Steve Cook wants to be more important than the government. We as a society should make the choice as to whether this one cell phone is the poster child for the state being able to see anyones' phone by exception, but its being painted as a "Uncle same sees everthing without a warrant". To me anyways... Is there a middle ground where such A$$wipes phone can be reviewed by court order? In this case transparency may be the accommodating factor. "News brief: Farouk XYZs phone was revealed today to federal authorities". As long as it has enough transparency, and records are revealed 10 Years after... maybe.. so there is that expectation.

  17. Re:From both sides now on Google, Facebook, WhatsApp and Others To Beef Up Encryption (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Government has Immense power? Sounds like App Vendor is holding the cards. Maybe we need to use encryption from the user level and keep the app vendors out of the value stream.

  18. Re:Corporate Oligarchy on Google, Facebook, WhatsApp and Others To Beef Up Encryption (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    I see a real gap in the mindset of the public where app vendors get the WHOLE MAGILLA.. everything on your phone and the Govt is overreaching when it wants it in select cases. Keeping in mind the WaterGate plumbers union, we could have a documented process to cover all system compromises... secret, but recorded. Would our founding fathers want the state to protect itself from such endogenous and exogenous threats on a limited basis?

  19. From both sides now on Google, Facebook, WhatsApp and Others To Beef Up Encryption (thestack.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Should app vendors get to scan our address book, read our messages, tap our mic, and collect our position 24/7? that just a few of the things we have already lost. Why should it be OK for app vendors to suck our lives dry but claim the High Ground (TM) when the government comes calling? its Big Time double speak. If we care more about the government peeking over our shoulder, why do we so easily surrender to the software vendors?

  20. Re: Predictive power of math? on Five-Dimensional Black Hole Could 'Break' General Relativity (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    Can mathematics prove that something exists? Does math exist for reality to adhere to, or does math happen to map some relationships? Am all for science, but am stuck on observable events, having bought into string theory a while back. How about looking into Agriculture?

  21. Indeed, if wave the flag furiously when we speak of terrorists and national security, surely we can ask the vendor to side with the good guys to prevent this from recurring... and as a precedent... I was mostly puzzled by the freedom we give to facebook (and goog too) and the cold shoulder we give to OUR spies. https://www.facebook.com/help/...

  22. I see that Tashfeen used Facebook on her cell phone. Anyone who has read the things that the Facebook app has access to... would seem you could power it up, and have the facebook app probe the phone for useful information. Contact, messages, pictures, phone numbers etc. Who needs apple?

  23. Windows has native sshd, Linux has Systemd. on Windows 10 Gets Core Console Host Enhancements (nivot.org) · · Score: 1

    Windows will get a boost, and Linux gets generified?

  24. Re: They tried it before with Cablecards on Cable Lobby Steams Up Over FCC Set-Top Box Competition Plan (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Premiere gets both cable and ota simultaneously. FTW. Newer ones get either, but not both, as I recall.

  25. Re:A summary would be nice - But... its... on Google Testing Project Loon: Concerns Are Without Factual Basis (thestack.com) · · Score: 0

    Click Bait!!