User: Tifer

in an age of hacking

On: Microsoft Integrating Xbox One Advertising With Kinect To Profile Users For Ads

it was decided that an always-online mandatory webcam was the new way forward.

It's a good day

On: Student Project Could Kill Digital Ad Targeting

When ad filters are on the offensive.

No thanks,

On: Beware the Internet

I'm still using it.

Why barcodes?

On: Sci-fi Writer Elizabeth Moon Believes Everyone Should Be Chipped

So we need a universal way to identify individuals? We have thumbprints. Moon could just as easily have called for portable devices to scan thumbs and identify the people attached to said thumbs, but she didn't. She had to make it all weird and terrifying by suggesting a well-known staple of horrifying dystopian societies. Oh how sci-fi writers have changed!

Re:You WILL watch...

On: Designing the World's Tiniest Manned Suborbital Vehicle

Maybe this will give bullet manufacturers a new perspective.

"ballistic"

On: Designing the World's Tiniest Manned Suborbital Vehicle

I think I'd be too caught up with the "human projectile" aspect of the flight to ride this myself. Science!

Re:Clarify

On: MPAA Agent Poses As Homebuyer To Catch Pirates

Thank you very much, makes a lot more sense now. This is a new low, even for the MPAA!

Wait...

On: MPAA Agent Poses As Homebuyer To Catch Pirates

This sounds a lot like the plot of a wacky romantic comedy. We're on to you, MPAA.

Re:Outsourced eh?

On: MPAA Agent Poses As Homebuyer To Catch Pirates

What right does the MPAA have to place 'agents' at all? At least they're bad at it.

Clarify

On: MPAA Agent Poses As Homebuyer To Catch Pirates

I'm confused; who was suing whom? This was a British couple in Britain or... What?

Cybercommenting

On: Kaspersky Calls For Cyber Weapons Convention

Am I the only one who hates the prefix "Cyber"? Since when does "cyber" mean "digital"? Cyber bullying, cyber warfare, cyber crime; it's impossible to take it seriously! The mental images are too hilarious. When I think of "cyber" bullying, I think of a kid getting beat up by a robot. When I think of "cyber" warfare I think of Tron. They just coined it to scare southern housewives and the elderly.

Well, obviously

On: Human Water Use Accounts For 42% of Recent Sea Level Rise

We should scoop up millions of gallons of seawater and blast it into space. Water on the moon, indeed!

Yar Har

On: BSA Claims Half of PC Users Are Pirates

Ahoy and avast, maties.