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  1. Re:Along comes Matrix on New Watson-Style AI Called Viv Seeks To Be the First 'Global Brain' · · Score: 1

    the Machine Overlord or the Oracle, pick one.

  2. Anyone else notices the problem? on Chinese Researchers' 'Terror Cam' Could Scan Crowds, Looking for Stress · · Score: 1

    In the attempt of "detecting stress", they would probably be "causing stress" because there is now always someone watching you (not that you might be committing anything, just the lack of comfort due to people always watching you). So pretty much getting rid of people who has the potential of camera shyness

  3. Re:What about Oregon and Washington? on Comcast Drops Spurious Fees When Customer Reveals Recording · · Score: 1

    Most Custiomer service calls says they are recording the conversation for training purpose (Surprise! talk on the phone now needs training), So when they do so It is usually implied that you can. In any case, the point is not to use the recording to sue them (so in case it may not be legally obtained) but to release it to public to drive their PR to the ground.

  4. Re:From endangered to extinct on DEA Paid Amtrak Employee To Pilfer Passenger Lists · · Score: 1

    Certainly. Your voter information will probably not be collected by the Election Bureaus/Agencies

  5. Re:At this rate... on Google's Satellites Could Soon See Your Face From Space · · Score: 1

    What kind of honest lives? We probably can't rule out the possibility that they can, in the future, tape your sex act at home from all the way in space. So in that case we should stop having kids then? That would get rid of most of the human race pretty quick

  6. So only for starting stages then? on Injecting Liquid Metal Into Blood Vessels Could Help Kill Tumors · · Score: 1

    I don't suppose anything will work at later stages where the cells are everywhere... especially not that.

  7. Re:but... my face is smaller than 25 cm? on Google's Satellites Could Soon See Your Face From Space · · Score: 1

    Well, for now. A couple of lobbyists and satellites later it will be able to get as clear as your cellphone camera pictures

  8. Oh no..... on Chile Earthquake Triggered Icequakes In Antarctica · · Score: 1

    Is the earth trying to beat is in making the earth itself uninhabitable?

  9. At this rate... on Google's Satellites Could Soon See Your Face From Space · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Privacy will be a thing of the past in no time. The only matter is when do we reach the point of no return.

  10. So... on Toxic Algae Threatens Florida's Gulf Coast · · Score: 1

    Does it have anything to do with the BP oil spill?

  11. Great! on FCC Mandates Text-to-911 From All US Wireless Carriers · · Score: 1

    Now the carriers will charge you for 911 texting capabilities, just like they did for phone calls

  12. Re:And yet on Judge Rejects $324.5 Million Settlement For Tech Workers, Argues For More · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Their straight answer is that the industry needs more workers or otherwise they will be forced to break such agreements and push up the wages which make the other firm to go on a head hunt and jack up the wages further.

  13. In other words... on Judge Rejects $324.5 Million Settlement For Tech Workers, Argues For More · · Score: 2

    New talents will be nigh impossible to develop from scratch because it's the same guys who shifts between the big firms. Is it really so hard to develop talent who isn't currently working for those firms?

  14. TO late to be? on Long-Wave Radar Can Take the Stealth From Stealth Technology · · Score: 1

    The F117 may have been in a golden age for stealth technology, it will be interesting to see if the F35 arrives to late to be effective against other countries with advanced radar systems."

    Is it just me or "to late to be" sounds odd?

  15. Re:See what happens when you whine enough? on Skype Reverses Decision To Drop OS X 10.5 Support, Retires Windows Phone 7 App · · Score: 1

    That didn't go well enough with Windows XP (it got extended just a little). I guess it only works selectively.

  16. So when are we having skynet? on IBM Creates Custom-Made Brain-Like Chip · · Score: 1

    Is it coming soon?

  17. This is sad on Microsoft To Drop Support For Older Versions of Internet Explorer · · Score: 1, Interesting

    On one hand, most businesses are locked into using Windows, and on the other hand, Microsoft are phasing out everything every now and then in order to force you to pay them to upgrade. On top of that businesses usually have draconian versions of stuff that won't run without equally draconian versions of Windows/Office/IE. I wonder how do people get into that spiral

  18. Re:Considering my doctor... on The Doctor Will Skype You Now · · Score: 1

    Then you probably has a whole lot of sophisticated stuff just to do what a normal stethoscope can do.
    And the privacy concern: someone else may look over your shoulders for Skype calls? Like your estranged spouse/offsprings...

  19. Re:Considering my doctor... on The Doctor Will Skype You Now · · Score: 1

    I would imagine these are for the case where the patient can't get to the doctor's office frequently. Whether this raise privacy concerns would be open for interpretation.

  20. Re:Be glad on China Cracks Down On Mobile Messaging · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Peiople tolerate this when they are not otherwise suffering Materially. Arab Spring didn't get triggered when the general population is well fed, they triggered when people have problems living on at the conditions at the time (because they are broke?)

  21. I wonder... on China Cracks Down On Mobile Messaging · · Score: 1

    ...why they have not banned text service altogether by now. Or phones because people can do conference calls. C'mon, If they really monitor everything, it's easy to root those guys out instead of having the need to restrict it. Slap the "conspiracy to topple the government" and voila! People will stop doing it very soon.

  22. Re:Great step! on Google Will Give a Search Edge To Websites That Use Encryption · · Score: 1

    IPv6 would be a bit problematic because not every ISP has IPv6 and it can mount to being discriminatory based on who you choose as ISP or simply where you live.

  23. Re:Put in a separate table on Oracle Database Redaction Trivial To Bypass, Says David Litchfield · · Score: 1

    Or "really sensitive data" should only exist in airgapped machines incapable of being accessed from the outside world

  24. Re:Any bets on how long before the plug is pulled? on New Car Heads-Up Display To Be Controlled By Hand Gestures, Voice Commands · · Score: 1

    Then comes the hand gesture "Oh no you didn't" which will make the device play the legal justifications in the voice that is used by the GPS and other things.

  25. Re:Objection! on Massive Russian Hack Has Researchers Scratching Their Heads · · Score: 1

    Whether the Law enforcement agencies are capable of producing evidence to link it is the wrongdoing of some particular group in the juridiction the group is operating in is entirely different.

    I would guess Russia would start protecting these guys if it pisses of the US enough for the US to charge them with something, just like Edward Snowden.