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  1. Try read all other articles from his web site.
    I haven't said there's no bullsh!t, like those about the iPhone decryption case...
    But the interesting thoughts of his are so much more than the bullsh!t that it deserves our time.

  2. Bob's sharp! on Cringely's Final Predictions: Apple Becomes a Financial Service and Hedge Fund (cringely.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Bob's predictions haven't been right all the time. But never at 50-50. More something like 75-25 or even 80-20.
    The good part of Bob's predictions is how acute and sharp he's been so far.
    And not just the predictions, but also any other piece he'd added to his blog (or whatever else you define it), one or a kind.
    Going far beyond the pure appearance and surface, adding thought value by interconnecting news and facts from different sources and, of course, putting in a good dose of his own sharp intelligence.

    I would suggest anyone how likes seeing things under a different light and yet getting most of those right, go heave a deep read to that blog.
    It's worth every single information bit.

  3. I disagree on Lessons From Six Software Rewrite Stories (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Rewriting an application with proper software design stages IS a way to improve your software.
    When you have a large code base including too many corner cases snippets and dirty patches that stick out from it, then it's brine for a rewrite. But only if you carefully learn from the past mistakes.

  4. Don't use them on A Third of All Chrome Extensions Request Access To User Data on Any Site · · Score: 1

    Until devs become clearer on privacy.

  5. Don't you just love the smell of cybernetic totalitarianism in the morning?

    Only if blended with Napalm.

  6. If it was me, a common man, who makes a project a forgets to mention a detail, then it would be a mistake.
    For a company like Google, to wire a microphone to the innards of its security device, it is definitely not.
    Please, Mr Google, admit you did that on purpose and got caught with the hands in the candy jar.
    Please, publish a paper to physically remove or disable that part.

    Then, my personally humble opinion, this thing of these devices connected to the internet is getting scarier and scarier.

  7. Streaming IS downloading on How Streaming Music Could Be Harming the Planet (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Without storing!

  8. Re:Freedom is all or nothing on Facebook Becomes 'A Haven For the Anti-Vaccination Movement' (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly, we don't have freedom of speech.
    One thing is talking, one is doing.

  9. Of course it is! on Goldman Sachs Asks: 'Is Curing Patients a Sustainable Business Model?' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 0

    The real issue is how long can we bear Goldman Sachs?

  10. Freedom is all or nothing on Facebook Becomes 'A Haven For the Anti-Vaccination Movement' (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 2

    Either freedom of speech is total, or it isn't freedom of speech at all.
    That said, antivax is idiot just like homeopathy and any non-scientific statement about scientific topics.
    Nonetheless, I wand those morons to be free to tell (or write) whatever they want.
    For the sake of freedom.
    Facebook, the internet, computers and smartphones all work because of technological applications from SCIENCE and the SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGY.
    If you really-really want to ditch them, then please turn off all of your technological devices and services before starting.
    Otherwise your credibility and reliability will suffer.

  11. EU has its own makers, AFAIK.
    The problem is who in the end manufactures the equipment, who in the end wites, builds and tests the software, who in the end configure and installs it.
    If the NSA can put its hands deep inside the whole stacks, then I agree with you.
    But otherwise it's just bullshit, just like the "communist" one.

  12. Isn't it?

  13. So they will own your office documents on Microsoft Really Doesn't Want You To Buy Office 2019 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    They are smart!

  14. Really, really?

  15. Yes, sure. on Ask Slashdot: Are Custom Android ROMs Still a Thing? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    LineageOS Is lighter, faster, better. Zero bloatware, continuous development.
    Need more?

  16. If they'll do that, it will be for billions.

  17. Climate changes because of two different processes.
    One is the release of gases like COX and NOX in the air. Nuclear reactors would allow to lower those by switching a lot of plants burning something off.
    One is the excess production, consumption and wasting of stuff and food. This could get worse because of the extra cheap electricity available thanks to the nuclear reactors.

    For example, giving everyone an electrical vehicle (from a monocycle to a truck), we'd get mountains of old vehicles to be disposed and mountains of new ones that need to be manufactured and disposed later on.
    Not to talk about the waste of cheaper stuff and food.

    Nope, I don't buy that idea.

  18. Also drones and electrical vehicles on Tron's CEO Wants To Use Blockchain Games and BitTorrent To Decentralize the Internet (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why not?
    All buzzwords in a single marketing claim!

  19. Why not?

  20. This is why we need opensource firmware on Firmware Vulnerability In Popular Wi-Fi Chipset Affects Laptops, Smartphones, Routers, Gaming Devices (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That's it.

  21. It's the LIFE, baby. on Just 5 Percent of Earth's Landscape Is Untouched, Report Finds (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Before there were lichens and fungi to reshape the landscape.
    Then came the plants, the amphibians, the reptiles, the birds, the mammals and Internet.

  22. And this is news? on Just 5 Percent of Earth's Landscape Is Untouched, Report Finds (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    It's a few hundred thousands years humans are reshaping the planet. Faster and faster as the technology allows.
    And when you have a few billions of bare standing apes strolling all over the planet, actually all of it, it takes years to reshape it.
    I can bet that only portions of the large deserts (hot or icy) are part of that 5%.

  23. They already know where you are. Down to the street address.
    Landline user position is just static when compared to mobile ones.
    Everything else, internet traffic included, is pretty much the same. Maybe just slightly tougher.

    They are just looking for an official statement.

  24. You know a lot about the airports, don't you?
    You know a lot about the space between the users area and the lanes. Don't you?
    You know a whole lot about early intrusion detection (not IT) systems at airports, don't you?

    Good for you.
    I am here, though.