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  1. Of course it should be a lower privacy threshold on It's Trivially Easy To Identify You Based On Records of Your Calls and Texts (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    The metadata may be somewhat revealing, but not as much as the metadata AND the content of those communications.

    When you make it just as difficult to get only the metadata, people will stop making a distinction and always get the more invasive option.

  2. Actually a gunpoint robbery on Cops Deploy StingRay Anti-Terror Tech Against $50 Chicken-Wing Thief (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Yes, the proceeds of the robbery was only food, but this guy seem dangerous enough to use this technology under court order.

  3. The Panama Papers are part of US plot to weaken FIFA

  4. I just walked into the comcast customer service store, handed them the equipment and service was canceled in about 2 minutes. Total time was about 10 minutes in the store. What is so hard about that?

  5. Re:Title is idiotic on Robots May Soon Put Surgery Into the Hands of Non-Surgeons (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The same reason we pay attorneys to do low level doc review instead of paralegals. You can't get malpractice insurance on the paralegals.

  6. Chip on To Secure ATM Transactions: Ditch the Card (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    While chips have been standard in Europe for some time, I'm starting to see more and more US businesses starting to use the chip in cards over the past 6 months, especially drug stores.

    It is interesting though that many people do not have a PIN associated with these chip cards in the US, so it is still "authenticated" with a signature.

  7. if it is a 4 digit passcode, I just don't understand why we can't clone the phone and try all 10,000 in moments?

    How does having a separate "encryption chip" prevent cloning what is stored on the drives and chips?

  8. Illegal phone running on Federal Bill Could Override State-Level Encryption Bans (thestack.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I just love the idea that we are going to create a whole new "War on encryption" that might be even less winnable than the War on Drugs.

    Instead of people running guns from less restrictive jurisdictions, we will now all be criminals importing phones because we want to buy phones win normal industry standard encryption.

  9. Re:"TV series" on New Star Trek TV Series Coming In 2017 (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    I understand your idea, but I think most people consider House of Cards and Orange is the New Black TV shows, even if you have to stream them.

    This is CBS's attempt to enter that arena of on-line hit shows.

  10. You don't normally need a gun, but when you do, little else is a substitute.

  11. Re:The freedom of not having a car on Nearly One-third of Consumers Would Give Up Their Car Before Their Smartphone (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Fine. You have picked the worst possible scenario for driving. Rush hour in a huge European city.

    In nearly every other scenario, driving is going to be the shorter time option, unless your departure and destination point happen to be right next to a mass transit location (and driving is till going to be shorter at no-rush hour times).

  12. Re:The freedom of not having a car on Nearly One-third of Consumers Would Give Up Their Car Before Their Smartphone (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    "If you live in a area well served with affordable public transportation"

    Who does this apply to? NYC, maybe Chicago?

  13. Re:Hmmm on Citadel Botnet Operator Gets 4.5 Years In Prison · · Score: 1

    Just because he caused that much damage (debatable) it is very likely he got nowhere near that amount of money.

    Also, you can't get blood from a stone.

  14. Re:Without Steve Jobs ... on Apple's 16GB IPhone 6S Is a Serious Strategic Mistake · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the iPencil.

  15. Re:Where should I send MS my ISP overage bill? on Microsoft Is Downloading Windows 10 Without Asking · · Score: 1

    Don't worry. You agreed to it somewhere in the 500 Terms of Service boxes you clicked yes to installing windows in the first place.

  16. second mouse button on Could the Best Windows 10 Laptop Be a Mac? · · Score: 1

    Be wary of this if you are used to a windows laptop because not having a dedicated second mouse button takes some getting used to.

  17. The bomb on Twilight of the Bomb · · Score: 1

    While I hope nuclear weapons are never used again, I find the annual "feel pity" for the Japanese sentiment to be misplaced. Could someone cite the number of people (in the millions) who were killed due to Japanese aggression starting in the 1930s? As set forth in Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking, 300,000 Chinese were raped, tortured and killed in that city alone. A Japanese paper covered a contest between 2 officers to see who could kill 100 Chinese the fastest with swords. Pearl Harbor, Bataan death march, POWs killed can be added to the toll.

    I do not blame today's Japanese for those acts anymore than today's German's are responsible for Hitler. I do object to the implication that the atomic bombings were pointless and that these ceremonies are not put in the context of historical facts.

  18. Greek money on Munich Planning Highway System For Cyclists · · Score: 0

    Guess we know where all of the Greek money went.

  19. Summer Friday on System Administrator Appreciation Day 2015 · · Score: 2

    It is a Friday during the summer and no one is in the office. What more do you want?

  20. Re:Moron... on Ex-Lottery Worker Convicted of Programming System To Win $14M · · Score: 1

    Perhaps, but the idea behind his sceme was the programs did what it did one time and deleted itself, so there would be very little to find later on. Very risky to have the program running of any lenght of time.

  21. Re:Effect of nukes on NEOs on Should Nuclear Devices Be Kept On Hand To Protect Against Near Earth Objects? · · Score: 1

    Maybe the nuclear blast is the little nudge for a big enough object.

  22. In other words.. on After Uproar, Disney Cancels Tech Worker Layoffs · · Score: 2

    You have a bit more time to polish up your resumes. Don't treat it as anything else.

  23. Re:What is being missed... is the $2 million part. on Commodore PC Still Controls Heat and A/C At 19 Michigan Public Schools · · Score: 2

    I'm hoping that the $2 dollars is going to update a number of things, and not just the one system. Seems like you could rig up a VM to do the Commodore's work and a Raspberry Pi at each school to send the signals over the internet instead of OTA for probably about $5,000 in parts and $20k in labor.

  24. Re:Trying to figure out how this works... on Uber's Rise In China May Be Counterfeit · · Score: 1

    Stolen credit cards?

  25. Re:Umm, what? on So Long Voicemail, Give My Regards To the Fax Machine · · Score: 5, Interesting

    An interesting side note to this. A buddy of mine in venture capital use a fax machines all of the time to send documents back and forth because email and any "store communications" they are required to keep copies of for regulators and other review. Since the fax machines don't "store" information, at least not long term enough to count, they are not required to keep copies of info sent or received over fax.