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  1. There is no consent for that. They should only be able to get your PIN when they pry your phone out of your cold dead hands - and not even then. It's YOUR phone. You paid for it. Installing any application on your phone does not imply consent to let the app seller wipe your phone. Why should any business be different?

  2. Re:You should already assume this on iOS 9.3 Will Tell You If Your Employer Is Monitoring Your iPhone (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    And since it's their phone, leave it at work when you leave. After all, it's their phone. Let them track it - all they'll find out is that you must have worked all weekend.

  3. Re:You should already assume this on iOS 9.3 Will Tell You If Your Employer Is Monitoring Your iPhone (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree. More people need to go "You want to install WHAT on MY phone? Get bent!"

  4. Re:You should but how many will? on iOS 9.3 Will Tell You If Your Employer Is Monitoring Your iPhone (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Either that, or someone with a power complex. Interestingly enough, an employer monitoring you off-hours without your specific consent is probably illegal. Now that more people will know, there may be more push-back as they start asking "WTF is this?"

  5. Re:You should but how many will? on iOS 9.3 Will Tell You If Your Employer Is Monitoring Your iPhone (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    "Hey boss, since we're communicating by email, I need your PIN so that I can wipe it "just in case." Just because you receive company email on your personal phone is no reason to give them the pin to your phone, any more than if anyone else sent you an email. If they don't like it, let them supply you with a company phone.

    I don't know about you, but my phone comes with a data plan - I don't need to use an employers wifi, so that's another reason to tell them to put it where the sun don't shine.

    And if it's important enough to bother me after hours, it's important enough to MAKE A CALL! Anything else can wait.

  6. Let's go one better ... on UK Gov't Launches Anti-Adblocking Initiative, Compares It To Piracy (thestack.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If we don't pay politicians who come up with these stupid ideas, maybe they will no longer exist?

  7. Re:Ain't gonna stop a hellfire missile.... on ISIS Supporters Abandon U.S. Encryption Tools As Apple-FBI Fight Rages · · Score: 2
  8. Re:Ain't gonna stop a hellfire missile.... on ISIS Supporters Abandon U.S. Encryption Tools As Apple-FBI Fight Rages · · Score: 2

    How about if they start posting selfies with geotags spoofed with the location of the nearest MSF hospital? Or just go there, post a few pics saying you've moved to a new hideaway, then run like hell.

  9. Re:How damage resistant is it? on MIT Develops Ultra Thin, Light Weight, Efficient Solar Cells (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    wood (and other biomass) are not fossil fuels.

  10. Re:Download? on OpenSource.com Releases First Ever Open Source Yearbook (opensource.com) · · Score: 1

    You might want to look at this and the cheaper version (which will only get cheaper as time goes on). The older 27" is still a grand, but that's a serious price drop from the original. Who knows - $500 in 3 years?

  11. Re:Kind of missing the bigger picture on Mindfulness Meditators Are Less Affected By Virtual Reality (sciencedirect.com) · · Score: 1

    All I know is that I'm impressed with the results from CBT with a good therapist. Really impressed. (gee, I remember the days when CBT stood for computer-based training. something that pretty much tanked).

  12. Re:How damage resistant is it? on MIT Develops Ultra Thin, Light Weight, Efficient Solar Cells (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Typically?

    Has any other fuel ever actually gotten anything to space?

    Hydrogen and Oxygen aren't fossil fuels, and when it comes to putting things into space they're pretty cool (literally).

  13. Re:Download? on OpenSource.com Releases First Ever Open Source Yearbook (opensource.com) · · Score: 1
    Anyone who's been hanging around slashdot for a few years will find that it's just more of the same ... and you'll already know more than what's in the pdf. Looks like every non-serious linux mag for the last couple of decades.

    I really miss serious magazines like the C User Journal. (kind of went sideways when it became the C/C++ User's Journal).

  14. Re:Kind of missing the bigger picture on Mindfulness Meditators Are Less Affected By Virtual Reality (sciencedirect.com) · · Score: 2

    I have PTSD and Major Depressive Disorder, and it's by talking publicly about it that we reduce the stigma and help others understand it more.

  15. Re:Kind of missing the bigger picture on Mindfulness Meditators Are Less Affected By Virtual Reality (sciencedirect.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can help you learn the same thing, without meditation.

  16. So then they can mark safe areas as dangerous, driving people to dangerous areas that aren't yet marked, or blocking all passage.

  17. The concept is stupid. Since the info is crowd-sourced, what's to keep the other side to mark dangerous areas as safe and then shooting fish in a barrel?

  18. Re:Download? on OpenSource.com Releases First Ever Open Source Yearbook (opensource.com) · · Score: 1

    You shouldn't - whoever came up with this (apparently "Community manager" Rikki Endsley) is the real horses ass. And seriously, who gives a sh*t about an "Open Source Yearbook?" Come to think of it, who gives a crap about opensource.com?

  19. And one of the intended consequences of an over-supply of mickey mouse degrees is devaluing the worth of a degree. This way, students who might have stopped at a first degree have to continue or else ... the game is really really rigged.

  20. Re: We need kryptonite on UK Snooper's Charter To Extend Police Access To Phone and Internet Data (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    if this helps to prevent just one criminal act, it's worth it. Think of the children!

    If this allows the police to mis-interpret just one kid's conversations, it's not worth it. Think of the children!

  21. Do you even know what a bit-for-bit copy is? I used to have a special controller that would allow me to make bit-for-bit copies of copy-protected disks - with the copy protection intact. Bit-for-bit copies preserve everything - including the copyright protection. Of course, once the copyright is expired, you're legally allowed to download a cracked version.

  22. The money you save on tuition alone easily covers the rest.

  23. Specifically we need the sort of kryptonite that kills this dead - end to end encryption on unhackable devices that will wipe themselves. For calling, for email, for texts - with only metadata, they won't go nearly as far.

  24. Re:Duh... on New Report Cites Dangers of Autonomous Weapons · · Score: 1

    They needed a high level official report to figure this out?

    Yes, because otherwise they wouldn't have created their own version of skynet, even calling it skynet.

  25. Re:Well lets decompose on Autonomous Cars Could Be Worse For Carbon Emissions · · Score: 1
    People with severe vision impairment or blindness are obviously going to be economically disadvantaged. Having the ability to go places easier might help that - even in the US.

    Employment-population ratio: Of the approximately 4 million people who reported vision loss, only 875,000 (22%) were identified as employed. The employment-population ratio of 22% was the percentage of people who reported vision loss in the civilian noninstitutional population and were identified as employed. This means that of the nearly 4 million people with vision loss, only 22% of these people with vision loss were also identified as employed.

    It's not an "insignificant number."