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  1. This technique will soon be used by law enforcement to profile persons with encrypted phones, especially at the borders. I will be sure to stick mine up my ass before handing it to them.

  2. It also has 0x more RAM. How else would they sell bigger SSDs for long-lasting thrashing...

  3. Re:Telemetry fully enabled on Microsoft is Bringing Visual Studio To Mac (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You forgot the addition of telemetry to binaries.

  4. Telemetry fully enabled on Microsoft is Bringing Visual Studio To Mac (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It will no doubt come with telemetry fully enabled by default, perhaps with direct parallel feeds to FBI, NSA, and the CIA.

  5. Re:Buggy ordering ssytem on 'Flash Crash' Trader Pleads Guilty, Facing Up To 30 Years In Prison (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If all that the user was doing is canceling orders at a time and frequency that suited only him, how is that actually cheating? Let's say he canceled one order -- that's not cheating. Let's say he canceled 1000 and that is cheating. At what point exactly does it flip over? And is this value different for Goldman Sachs than for the average independent trader? My point is that it is a clear deficiency of the system and the law to not have well defined usage protocols.

  6. We need a concept of AI-Proof Security, one that even the best AI or signals analysis algorithms cannot crack except via brute force. For one this means adding a lot of random noise to thwart the signals, or otherwise to use equal signals. The point is that there shouldn't be exploitable patterns in the signals, and if they do exist, future AI will seek them out. How can we do this? Using AI, of course.

  7. Yes. I don't recall the last time I actually manually typed a password on my smartphone. It's almost always copy-pasted.

  8. Re:Idiocratists did not knew they live in idiocrac on Children Can Now Sue The US Government Over Climate Change (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    To continue, I don't take any action at 900. If it exceeds 1100, I increase the cross-ventilation and maybe go get a cup of tea.

  9. Re:Idiocratists did not knew they live in idiocrac on Children Can Now Sue The US Government Over Climate Change (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    CO2 meters have been sold on Amazon for many years, although they've come down in price a bit lately. As you know, fire uses oxygen and emits CO2. Almost all the people you know with gas stoves won't be having a CO2 meter at home, so it'd be pointless to ask them. Moreover, the concern I expressed applies only when the gas is used with the windows closed.

  10. Re:Idiocratists did not knew they live in idiocrac on Children Can Now Sue The US Government Over Climate Change (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The CO2 levels you speak of must be pretty high. Like I said, anything over ~900 PPM starts to affect my cognition adversely. 900 is not that high of a level, and it certainly won't cause tear acidity.

  11. Re:Idiocratists did not knew they live in idiocrac on Children Can Now Sue The US Government Over Climate Change (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The fact that I included specific CO2 PPM levels implies it cannot be a CO meter -- I'd be gone in seconds if I breathed those PPM levels of CO. I paid US$250 for it but they've come down in price. There are many sold on Amazon. In fact, I kept one at work too.

  12. Re:Idiocratists did not knew they live in idiocrac on Children Can Now Sue The US Government Over Climate Change (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Definitely. There are plants in the living room, but none in my bedroom which is where I spend most of my time right now.

  13. Re:Idiocratists did not knew they live in idiocrac on Children Can Now Sue The US Government Over Climate Change (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Like I said, I live close to the traffic. Moreover, if there is cooking happening at home on the gas stove with the windows closed, it can send CO2 levels to pretty high alarm-triggering levels. People monitor temperature and humidity; I just go two steps further with CO2 and particulates.

  14. Re:Idiocratists did not knew they live in idiocrac on Children Can Now Sue The US Government Over Climate Change (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    This is not new research at all. The effects of increased CO2 on different aspects of cognition are different. Some aspects of cognition continue to work as normal; others deteriorate. I am someone who uses a CO2 meter in my room, so I know the relation first-hand. Fortunately, most of the harm from up to 1100 PPM is easily countered with a good cup of tea. Today some of us have air filters in our rooms. In the future, we may have either carbon capture devices or CO2 filters to decrease it to an ideal level around 350 PPM.

  15. Buggy ordering ssytem on 'Flash Crash' Trader Pleads Guilty, Facing Up To 30 Years In Prison (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    If he could make bogus orders, someone else can too, and the problem is with the ordering system.

  16. Last I heard, that's part of how they make their money.

  17. Re:Multithreading is a solved problem on 'Here Be Dragons': The Seven Most Vexing Problems In Programming (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If I am not mistaken, Go uses message passing and that is fine, but sometimes what you want is shared memory.

  18. Re:Encrypted traffic on University Bans BitTorrent To Stop Flood of Infringement Notices (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    In a real court, at least in the US, the burden of proof is even higher. Something that looks like torrent traffic, assuming it is fully encrypted, may not be necessarily be torrent traffic. It could very well be a research software that is being run by some university students. You'd actually have to prove that infringing material was transmitted, and that could be more difficult. Let's say I modify the torrent protocol by 10%, so now it's no longer the torrent protocol. The traffic shapers may still detect it as being torrent traffic, but the university would be technically be wrong if they labeled it as such.

  19. Re:Encrypted traffic on University Bans BitTorrent To Stop Flood of Infringement Notices (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Encryption must be applied to the headers and the content. Perhaps its strength and application can be improved. Once this is done, traffic shaping devices can at best guess at what is happening - a guess that may not stand up in university court. In any case, using those devices would take extra work for the university, and until they do, they can choke on it.

  20. Good luck banning encrypted traffic assholes.

  21. Ass rape on Samsung's Latest Patent Is a Foldable Phone (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's because whenever I have purchased a Samsung phone, I have been f'ed in the azz. With Note 3, the screen died. With Note 4, the reception died. Clearly I must've been holding it wrong. With Note 7, don't ask.

  22. Fund me for five years and I will.

  23. Dildo on Samsung's Latest Patent Is a Foldable Phone (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    It folds, but does it also twist into a dildo?

  24. Watson is closed source on IBM's Project Intu brings Watson's Capabilities To Any Device (siliconangle.com) · · Score: 1

    We the people need an open source alternative to Watson. AFAIK, Github just has the SDK.

  25. Re:Very true on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you already forget Wikileaks revelations that the DNC promoted Hillary very strongly and quite unfairly?