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  1. Energy costs on Japan Wants To Bring Flying Cars To Its Skies (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if it makes economical sense to fly people over the road. Will the additional cost over rolling be affordable for more than 1% of drivers?

  2. Who judges fake news? on Google Removes Accounts Tied To Iran-Led Misinformation Campaign (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We are told fake news were removed, but we have no sample of the suppressed speech so that we can make up our own mind about it. It looks a lot like censorship.

  3. Numbers could be betters if there were no backward incompatible change. Take the mysql module for instance, it would not have been difficult to provide it as a compatibility layer on top of mysqli. Same for apc and apcu.

    Of course code can be migrated, but anything that increase the difficulty makes it more likely that an upgrade will not happen.

  4. How to deal with corrupted countries on Microsoft Hit With US Bribery Probe Over Deals in Hungary (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    It is nice to see US also goes after US companies for foreign corruption cases.

    However, to defend Microsoft (I never thought I would do that one day), how were they supposed to deal with countries where you have to bribe in order to do business?

  5. People are products for Google, and Facebook, because they are not the ones that pay.But they are still customers to carriers, and half products, half customers for smartphone makers.

  6. Re:True innovation on Colorado Prepares To Install 'Smart Road' Product By Integrated Roadways (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    A reduced population will still have to deal with concrete old bridges that collapse.

  7. Who lives in a market? I do have a home country, state, nation... but market?

  8. Yes, I read my e-mails on You Spend More Than 5 Hours Each Week Checking Your Email (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, I read my e-mail, and guess what? I am even paid for that!

  9. If you want to make a true road innovation, do it without concrete. We are running out of sand to make the material (desert sand is unusable unfortunately), and it does not ages very well beyond 50 years.

  10. Not so smart on Google's Data Collection is Hard To Escape, Study Claims (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Google may be well informed, but its reactions are not that smart. Advertising keeps focusing on goods I already purchased and I am not interested to buy for a while. Youtube even keeps recommending the videos I saw an hour ago.

  11. don't be so confident that the Russians will not try to somehow 'hack' the paper ballot and/or audit trail.

    At least I am convinced someone will claim they had done it.

  12. If the anti-Russian paranoia gets US to dump electronic voting, at least it would have served a good cause.

  13. New jobs on Bank of England Chief Economist Warns On AI jobs Threat (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    ensure that people were given the training to take advantage of the new jobs that would become available

    What new jobs? AI engineer, AI salesperson, and AI journalist?

  14. Two big stories? MS boss tries to keeps its company relevant in 21th century. I am not sure these are big stories.

  15. Repeat after me: this business has never been profitable.

  16. Cars vs boats on Rolls-Royce Launches New Battery System To Electrify Ships (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    If you read that thinking about cars, remember that battery are heavy, and that weight is much more a problem for a car than for a boat.

  17. Related link: Fewer Than Half of Young Americans Are Positive About Capitalism

    A human would not have done better.

  18. Once the security protocols implemented in your RFID implant are obsolete, how do you upgrade it?

    For instance, the best the original MIFARE DESfire (not EV1) can do is 3DES. It cost a few pennies to replace a RFID badge by a newer DESfire EV1 that supports AES 128, but an implant?

  19. Summary miss the method of exploitation: this was done thought LogJam. Note that this is a 12 years old source within Snowden leaks.

  20. Re: Everyone knew the pump and dump was coming... on Fewer Than Half of Young Americans Are Positive About Capitalism (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that US will hammer any foreign corporation that breaks US embargo and also has US activity. When they have to choose between access to US and Cuban market, corporations usually settle on the former.

    Moreover, US has show it will easily arrest and jail leaders of foreign corporations breaking US embargo, if the opportunity arise..

  21. Update jokes on Debian Linux Turns 25 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Now we need to update jokes about Debian containing 24^H^H25 years old packages.

  22. Funny they did not consider that beyond the financial realm, replacing humans by bots will cause a huge demand crisis.

    Last times this was done, there were new jobs: industrial jobs replaced agricultural jobs, service jobs replaced industrial jobs. Now perhaps a fourth sector will emerge, but we have no idea where and when. Perhaps it will never happen.

  23. Government control over information on Mobile Internet Goes Free, National For a Day In Cuba (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    broader Web access will ultimately weaken government control over what information reaches people in a country where the state has a monopoly on the media.

    Anyone willing to get news from the Free World could do it using a cheap radio. It seems that has not impressed Cubans so far

  24. Sknet and HAL9000 integration on Microsoft and Amazon Begin Public Rollout of First Alexa-Cortana Integrations (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    In other news, Skynet and HAL9000 integration is on its way.

  25. I wonder if is able to distinguish between a metal laptop case filled with explosive and a real laptop. If it does not, then it is of little help.