User: bobstreo

Trust Facebook?

On: Why It's So Hard To Trust Facebook (cnn.com)

It's not like they even pretended to promise to "Do No Evil".

Their promise is to monetize your personal information as often as possible to maximize their profits.

You can add *.facebook.com to your block lists...

Simple enough

On: UN Aviation Agency To Call For Global Drone Registry (reuters.com)

Either build your own throwaway drone (printing, purchasing parts with cash.

Or register it to someone you hate before you do anything iillegal with it.

Or both.

Simple solution

On: How One Writer Is Battling Tech-Induced Attention Disorder (wired.com)

Get a dumb flip phone. Text and email, maybe GPS...

If she sells her iPhone, she could get a cheap dumb phone and save a fortune.

Re:The other 87%

On: Only 13 Percent of Americans Are Scared Robots Will Take Their Jobs, Gallup Poll Shows (cnbc.com)

Explain why I can't even get a job repairing and maintaining robots.

Because you don't have 20 years experience with robots that aren't even available, and you probably want a full time job at more than minimum wage, with benefits.

The other 87%

On: Only 13 Percent of Americans Are Scared Robots Will Take Their Jobs, Gallup Poll Shows (cnbc.com)

Have jobs so shitty, even robots don't want to do them.

Last place I worked

On: Two-Thirds of Tech Workers Now Use a VPN, Survey Finds (9to5mac.com)

Had a couple different VPN solutions to access work-related services externally.

There was no other way to access them externally without a VPN.

Personal VPN services are a horse of a different color, as in much more optional, depending on what you're doing on the Internet. I have one for accessing services on my home network from outside the home network for example.

The real question is

On: Facebook Offers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for Music Rights (bloomberg.com)

What will the artists receive from this agreement?

I'm guessing it won't be much, if anything.

I kinda miss

On: Is Apple Copying Palm's WebOS? (salon.com)

Grafitti.

I was so used to it, I caught myself using it on a whiteboard one time.

Another slave uprising?

On: Some Instagram Employees Sell Verification For Thousands of Dollars (mashable.com)

Since they didn't have any way to verify the verifications, this seems to be designed as a fringe benefit for the employees.

Or they are too stupid to not think out the ramifications of their process ahead of time, Which is of course, more likely, and scarier when you imagine all the other things they didn't foresee, like security, privacy...

I'm guessing the workers doing the verification aren't paid much more than the janitors...

Sure

On: Google Conducted Hollywood 'Interventions' To Change Look of Computer Scientists (usatoday.com)

I mean how many hot bi-sexual women hackers are there? They seem to be very over represented in Hollywoo.

They don't really want the truth about wage slaves in foreign countries working for a small percentage of what they would receive if they were employees instead of contractors.

Or the greed of the companies the "computer scientists" work for, where people have to make the choice of following their beliefs, or aligning with corporate policies of data mining, information sharing and tracking.

They also don't want to show how tightly integrated information companies and government agencies (in way more than just the US) are, and how they work together to repress, suppress and cause the death or incarceration of individuals just because of their beliefs.

At the rate companies I use are being compromised

On: Millions of Time Warner Cable Customer Records Exposed in Third-Party Data Leak (gizmodo.com)

My (unborn, unplanned, unexpected for a few more years) grandchildren will be getting free credit monitoring.

Re:Thanks for posting

On: Apple Acknowledges Siri Leadership Has Officially Moved From Eddy Cue To Craig Federighi (macrumors.com)

because I think I speak for MILLIONS of people when I say I give a massively huge shit about who gives the orders to the people who actually do the hard work for can-not-live-without features like Siri.

I was gonna mod you, but it is news for nerds...

  I'm sure the people working in the siri group may need to know who's ass to kiss from now on..

And it's literally billions of people who don't care.

Alternative Title:

On: US Employers Struggle To Match Workers With Open Jobs (npr.org)

"US Employers struggle to find workers willing to be paid minimum wage, part time with no benefits."

Re:Not enough users for Facebook...

On: Facebook Has Mapped the Entire Human Population of Earth (cnbc.com)

According to "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez, Facebook only has 2.5B+ people to convert into users. User growth stalls out after that as the few billion people who aren't users live in areas too remote for Internet access. Facebook will have to find new ways to grow that doesn't rely on adding new users in the future.

Facebook will need to pioneer galactic enrollment net. Ping times will suck for a while. Like 200 years for that hot Orion chick to click like.

Just how bad

On: Linux Desktop Market Share Crosses 3% (netmarketshare.com)

Does windows have to become before people start avoiding it?

Other than gaming (less and less over time), or business applications (more are web enabled) requiring windows apps, are there any reasons at all to use windows?

They have the targeting information

On: Facebook Has Mapped the Entire Human Population of Earth (cnbc.com)

Now all they need is a few billion robot drones. Or a satellite laser system.

Maybe they could sell the information to the appropriate governments looking for some people.

Re:No internal mail?

On: Oracle Finally Decides To Stop Prolonging the Inevitable, Begins Hardware Layoffs (theregister.co.uk)

Since when do people get fired via FedEx? I mean it's fitting for Oracle because it really seems like the single most expensive way of doing something.

I've heard some places just text you to let you know.

Vermonh has Several Choices

On: Comcast Sues Vermont To Avoid Building 550 Miles of New Cable Lines (arstechnica.com)

Fine Comcast $500 per day per mile uncompleted.

Tell Comcast what their early contract termination is going to cost them.

Or both.

As long as they

On: Best Buy Will Now Send a Salesperson To Your House To Sell You Things (theverge.com)

Will price match with Amazon for the same products (regardless of model number fuzzing)

Otherwise, I'll waste all their time, and save others from them, I don't have much else to do.

Maybe they can bring some nice vacuum cleaners and clean and dust my house as a demo.

I hope

On: Best Buy Will Now Send a Salesperson To Your House To Sell You Things (theverge.com)

They will be price matching with Amazon.

Otherwise, I have nothing better to do than have them demo everything, saving someone else from them.

The best part?

On: Domino's Market Tests A Self-Driving Pizza Delivery Car (cnn.com)

I'm never, ever tipping a robot for service.

So that's $3-5 cheaper already.

If you can't recognize failure

On: In Our Cynical Age, No One Fails Anymore -- Everybody 'Pivots' (nytimes.com)

You probably don't award anyone but shareholders for success.

if you learn from your failures, you will be much better off in the long term.

Re:Poor CNN

On: Facebook Pages Spreading Fake News Won't Be Able To Buy Ads (techcrunch.com)

Now they'll get even less traffic.

Well they'll still have their ad revenue, since they're not having their ads blocked because it's fake news.

I hope they get a discount

On: New York City Cops Will Replace Their 36,000 Windows Phones With iPhones (theverge.com)

Or buy older iPhones. Because that's a lot of money...

You mean you don't

On: Someone Published a List of Telnet Credentials For Thousands of IoT Devices (bleepingcomputer.com)

Do a port scan with nmap for every device you have on your network? And every time you add one?

Then you can block things you don't want accessed from the Internet on your firewall/router...