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  1. Re:Gives a whole new meaning: Who's your daddy? on MyHeritage, a DNA Testing and Ancestry Service, Announces Data Breach of Over 92 Million Account Details (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess we should stop saying "and Bob's your uncle", when we can look it up and see that he isn't.

  2. Re:Carbon neutral by law? on Hawaii Passes Law To Make State Carbon Neutral By 2045 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup. It would be better if he had built a dyke.

  3. , even after declaring that it would no longer share such information with outsiders.

    To facebook, there are no outsiders. Getting stalked by them is not optional. You have been assimilated. Resistance is futile.

  4. improved connectivity on Intel Wants PCs To Be More Than Just 'Personal Computers' (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    If that is a eufemism for communicating behind the user's control, I certainly do NOT want " improved connectivity".

  5. What a waste of resources on Signs of Sophisticated Cellphone Spying Found Near White House, US Officials Say (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    What a waste of resources. You can just follow the main troublemaker on twitter.

  6. Re:You know, just once on Ticketfly Temporarily Shuts Down To Investigate 'Cyber Incident' (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    But, but, We never cheap out on securities on the stock market!

  7. Re:What piece you take? on Now Even Russian Lawmakers Want a Piece of Mark Zuckerberg (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I think they want his balls. Either in the meaning of being bold and getting away with it, or in the meaning "get him by the balls". Probably both.

  8. Re:"genuine people with real identities" on Papua New Guinea Bans Facebook For a Month To Root Out 'Fake Users' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody. Supplying facebook with more personal data does not fall under "sane use".

  9. Er, yes. I have been using it for ages to:
    • Connect to my laptops for an SSH + X connection. The X protocol still beats "Remote Desktop". If you want to run a program from another computer, the least thing you want is the desktop of the remote machine. I can run graphical SQL clients, etc.
    • Don't laugh, even cygwin + SSH + X + wine works better than remote desktop for the same reason.
    • If you develop a PHP site on Windows, it can greatly help to call the same shell scripts as you would be doing on a Linux server. Cygwin allows you to do just that.
  10. Re:"genuine people with real identities" on Papua New Guinea Bans Facebook For a Month To Root Out 'Fake Users' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The only sane use of facebook or twitter is by non-persons, or organizations. I can totally imagine that, say, a museum would use an extra channel to show their activities without the need to pay through the nose for ads in local newspapers.

  11. Re:Where is old Guinea? on Papua New Guinea Bans Facebook For a Month To Root Out 'Fake Users' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably in between Old York and Old Jersey.

  12. Are you sure it isn't just a British asteroid?

  13. I'm pretty sure the Universal Declaration of Human Rights forbids it. Article 12:

    No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

  14. Monty Python on Ads Are Coming To Facebook Stories (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    So it has finally come true. A story about sausages has become a story about spam, spam, sausages and spam.

  15. Re:Pay canonical or other trusted institution on Canonical Addresses Ubuntu Linux Snap Store's 'Security Failure' (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    certifies that a specific revision is malware free

    Except that can be quite hard to do. There are even "obfuscated c" contests to write code that is almost impossible to understand if you are not a computer. Almost like a reversed Turing test. And those contests are usually just hard to understand and look hard to understand. I can imagine that renaming variables can make some evil code look harmless at first glance. And even a simple game would have far too much code to scrutinize in total.

  16. Along with spying for the Chinese gov. Nice!

    Off course. That is why Google cannot stay behind. Any service from Google rings an alarm bell, and if it contains the word "personalized", I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.

  17. Re:Yes and no on Could SpaceX Rocket Technology Put Lives At Risk? (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    Now I see why Uranus jokes are so popular in the US. But somehow I don't think this "shoot the rocket in the butt" method will work.

  18. issues like product recommendations on Facebook Brags That Messenger Has 300,000 Business Bots (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    The only issue with that is that there are far too many of them. These messages are called spam.

  19. Re:You're doing it wrong! on Scientists Plan Huge European AI Hub To Compete With US (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't need huge institutes and government funding to do AI.

    Off course you do. At the very least for those "innovative" commercial tech followers.

    There was a nice program about the use of algorithms in dutch TV about the bias these algorithms get from their historical input. So algorithms were seen as neutral, but discriminated at least as hard as humans did.

    What the program forgot to mention is that "lower class" people don't order for these algorithms, and the "upper class" people who do order them don't want to be bitten by them. The perfect example is China, where you are punished for ignoring a traffic light, but not for grabbing all the power.

    The main problem of AI is the hidden agenda of the humans that order them.

  20. That's a lot of money to restore a backup.

  21. Queensryche on MIT Researchers Developed a 'System For Dream Control' (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    So they listened to Silent Lucidity and tried it out?

  22. Re:Prson-State draws closer on End of the Landline: BT Aims To Move All UK Customers To VoIP by 2025 (siliconrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you on VOIP? some characters did not come through...

  23. a Death Sentence For Its Smartphones ? on ZTE Exports Ban May Mean No Google Apps, a Death Sentence For Its Smartphones (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No Google Apps, a Death Sentence For Its Smartphones

    Seriously?

    Where can I get a phone that is sentenced to death? I sure as hell wish I could easily replace the too-instrusive and never asked for Google junk for better alternatives. And tell my mom how to do it for her phone as well.

    I mean yes, I know that there is lineage OS, but that is not exactly mom-friendly. And installing F-droid is easy, but removing the Google junk is not. And every Android update brings more unwanted Google junk.

  24. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's office said his account would shut down to protect national security

    This surely must mean that he was leaking state secrets through the messaging app. So kill the app, don't touch the leaker...

  25. Re:Report Der Zuck on Facebook Launches Bug Bounty Program To Report Data Thieves (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If he would only gather your personal information from your account on facepalm, you were right. If he collects data about me from other facepalm accounts, web beacons and other software or services that turn out to be facepalm-owned, the he is a thief.