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  1. Learning on ISIS Is Dropping Bombs With Drones In Iraq (popsci.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Killing people with remote control aircraft, I wonder where they got that idea. They're getting almost as good at killing people as Americans.

  2. Re: False premise on Will The Death of the PC Bring 'An End To Openness'? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Every laptop runs an operating system that has next to no restrictions on what you run on it. That's open enough.

  3. I'll head right over there now and buy a Tesla!

  4. If your devices are Apple products you already have this, no ISP support required.

  5. While having something remotely intelligent at security checkpoints would be a nice change of pace, I believe it has still yet to be proven that the level of screening currently in place is doing much good. I would prefer that to be determined before adding and spending more.

  6. Fitting on Why Linus Torvalds Prefers x86 Over ARM (pcworld.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I guess it's fitting that he doesn't realize patting someone on the head is a condescending gesture.

  7. Lucky for the Turkish government there are no other ways to send documents over the internet. If only there was a way anyone could publish a document and have it visible by anyone with some sort of a document browser. If they could be linked together it would form sort of a web. That'd be awesome!

  8. Re: This should be the death of Capcom on Street Fighter V Update Installed Hidden Rootkits on PCs (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What's bad is allowing an actor you don't trust to control the software on your machine. That doesn't necessarily preclude operating systems or their developers.

  9. Re: 28 websites? on Reddit Brings Down North Korea's Entire Internet (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Not to mention that a website does not need to have a domain name.

  10. At least the robot wasn't carrying a bomb this time.

  11. An iPhone with Touch ID enabled can still be unlocked with a passcode. Just tell her it.

  12. So they're becoming more like the UK. How awful!

  13. It doesn't seem to me that America needs any help in the electoral distrust arena.

  14. If I lived in Java if want to die too.

  15. Re: December 30th on 'Longest Living Human' Says He Is Ready For Death At 145 (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Whatevs

  16. Re: Why do I feel like on Apple Patenting a Way To Collect Fingerprints, Photos of Thieves (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If this is something you worry about (I do too) I sincerely hope you don't use Android or other Google products. Unlike Google, Apple has no incentive to collect and mine your personal information. They make money off hardware, not profiling you and selling your eyeballs to, literally, the highest bidder. Even the advertising identifier, which you can reset, is an attempt to reign in user tracking. Apple Pay generates a unique ID for each transaction rather than handing your information over to the store. Spotlight search hashes app information and stores it locally. They actually go out of their way to protect privacy, unlike many other businesses I can think of.

  17. Re: Big surprise some jackhole Silicon Valley on 'Legalist' Startup Automates The Lawsuit Strategy Peter Thiel Used To Bankrupt Gawker (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok, granted. I was being a bit facetious there though - point being that if this AI can be applied on an individual level maybe the bar (as it were) can be raised in terms of qualifying potential suits. I doubt you get an exhaustive analysis of your facts vs. all of case law in a short, cheap session.

  18. Re: Big surprise some jackhole Silicon Valley on 'Legalist' Startup Automates The Lawsuit Strategy Peter Thiel Used To Bankrupt Gawker (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't disagree, just guessing here, but if the algorithm has access to a lot of case law maybe it can find something quickly that would cost a lawyer a lot of billable hours. If true I wonder if it could end up being better for individuals as they are the ones who won't have a chance without access to large amounts of money.

  19. Re: Big surprise some jackhole Silicon Valley on 'Legalist' Startup Automates The Lawsuit Strategy Peter Thiel Used To Bankrupt Gawker (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The difference is the algorithm will give you the time of day without a big bag of cash in your hand.

  20. Re: Wait! Wait! on Google Restores Backspace Functionality To Chrome With an Add-on (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Try CMD-Left arrow

  21. What goes around... on Gawker.com To End Operations Next Week (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    Karma, dude.

  22. Too slow on Galaxy Note 7 Iris Scanner Explained (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't think this will last because it's slower than a good fingerprint scanner.

  23. Re:Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire on Apple Should Stop Selling Four-Year-Old Computers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Facebook sellout wonders why laptops don't have 5 terraflop GPUs. News at 1..

  24. Re:Don't buy a Mac for Specs. on Apple Should Stop Selling Four-Year-Old Computers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If the machines have been updated more recently than four years ago then they're not selling four year old machines are they? That's what the headline and article claims. For the record 2016 - 2014 = 2.

  25. I think having an 800 pound gorilla looming over the Internet, waiting to rip off companies with good ideas can have a stifling effect on innovation. Shame on them, come up with your own damn ideas.