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  1. Nationalism on 'Netflix Is the Most Intoxicating Portal To Planet Earth' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't about "fuck everyone else" - it's more diverse in essence than globalism in basically every way. Nationalism seeks to preserve nations while globalism seeks to stick everyone in a single nation. Lack of appreciation of other cultures is not ingrained in anything but globalism.

  2. I love how people are just ignoring the obvious reason for it - video calling.

    Bullshit.

  3. The camera is never disabled, neither is the microphone, neither is the wireless transceiver. If it exists it's recording and if it's not provable recording at a given moment it's an unrequested update away from being switched on.

  4. Or corrupt, no real third option here.

  5. Cryptocurrencies are dependent upon our tech infrastructure being stable enough to validate them. If government-backed currencies die then that tech infrastructure wouldn't be far behind (if at all.)

  6. Was getting caught, it was malice that it wasn't included (just like it was malice that there were shills galore saying they didn't have cameras [in spite of accepting hand gestures] or microphones when the devices came out.)

  7. Re:Does the list include Senators ? on Proposed Bill Would Force Arizonians To Pay $250 To Have Their DNA Added To a Database (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah, that's a cop-out. Shit leaders shouldn't even make it into primaries.

  8. This shouldn't even be a negotiating point, if they're actively hacking us ban them until they get their shit under control (not like they don't control their whole network at the government level anyway, should be simple to stop the state-sponsored hacks from China.) The idea they would even suggest this as an ultimatum for not buying their backdoored hardware shows they need a kick in the balls.

  9. Re: That's a question on Goldman Sachs Asks: 'Is Curing Patients a Sustainable Business Model?' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I gave specific evidence, you are a shill.

  10. Re: That's a question on Goldman Sachs Asks: 'Is Curing Patients a Sustainable Business Model?' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    We aren't dealing with a "every possible case under the sun" scenario here, but an "any case" scenario. A single example is an absolute proof in this context.

  11. Re:That's a question on Goldman Sachs Asks: 'Is Curing Patients a Sustainable Business Model?' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You still need to prove this in the general case, though most people can think of specific examples where this is true.

    No, I don't, because this isn't some financial advisory, it's a forum. The fact there are specific examples means it is true, and you just admitted that much.

    This is highly doubtful. GSK sells thousands of other products which could have resulted in the aforementioned enough money.

    I don't understand how this is even a tough thing for you to wrap your head around. A one-shot cure that effectively eliminates your "best" (dedicated, repeat, no other option) customers whenever they use it vs a lifetime subscription? If the subscription for any individual customer over their life is greater than $5,000 inclusive of what they pay, what the state pays, and what insurance pays (it is, by a VERY wide margin,) then it is more profitable to bury the cure.

  12. Re:That's a question on Goldman Sachs Asks: 'Is Curing Patients a Sustainable Business Model?' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, there's no evidence that Glaxo Kline Smith has an ownership stake in Human Genome Sciences.

    What kind of dumb shill are you that you can't even validate things available on Wiki or expect others to be able to do so? GSK bought them out in whole for 3.6 billion a few years after buying a controlling stake in order to kill the research.

  13. Re:That's a question on Goldman Sachs Asks: 'Is Curing Patients a Sustainable Business Model?' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Alternatively, they were a startup with dubious research who over-promised on what their product could do (par for the course for startups) and were bought up by a big company who later realized they'd either been bamboozled or the cure that blinded them with dollar signs simply didn't work.

    That makes zero sense. A cure is less profitable than a treatment, and they already had a treatment. In fact, it's so much less profitable that the profits from their pre-existing treatments resulted in enough money to buy out the company with a cure in full.

  14. Re:occam razor principle on Major Games Publishers Are Feeling The Impact Of Peaking Attention (midiaresearch.com) · · Score: 2

    It's not about IP, "plot and gameplay" take talent; microtransactions, always-on connectivity to collect user data, loot boxes, etc don't. The fact they seem to have ditched mostly marketing and sales people may be a sign they are starting to catch on to this, but generally large companies have stable management placement programs, to such an extent that they don't place people in positions of leadership who can see the issues faced any better than they guys before them - so I don't have a lot of faith that they will actually start improving. More expecting that the next great games will come from smaller shops EA and Activation are more like the 400lb raging mental midgets in the room than great creators of things.

  15. Re:That's a question on Goldman Sachs Asks: 'Is Curing Patients a Sustainable Business Model?' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It is, actually. A company named Human Genome Sciences cured HIV over a decade ago, with a personalized treatment which if scaled up would cost about $5,000/person. Their work was actually published and made it here to /. About 1-2 months after the paper discussing their results came out their stock price shot up about 40-60x, a bigger company named Glaxo Kline Smith bought them out, and not a peep has been made over it since. GKS happens to make treatments for it, as opposed to cures.

  16. None of this bullshit will stop until the fines become painful enough to make them think twice about doing it.

    When their entire business model is based in selling people's data they should just be banned.

  17. Re:It's a moot point. This is a beachhead. on Huawei Would Accept EU Supervision To Lay 5G Network (techradar.com) · · Score: 1

    reading is fundamental! "I'm not saying it always works, I'm saying it works with some types of hardware backdoors."

    Yes, reading is fundamental, so is context. The context here is a nation auditing another nation known to introduce security holes and backdoors into every system they create prior to purchase an implementation over a tentative ~5 year timespan on prior to the time required to perform those audits or even have an oversight team in place at the manufacturer. Anything less than 100% coverage in this context is not a security audit, it is a false sense of security at best.

  18. Re:It's a moot point. This is a beachhead. on Huawei Would Accept EU Supervision To Lay 5G Network (techradar.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope. It's possible to find hidden "features" without disassembly by bombarding a processor with data and in looking to see if you trigger unexpected behavior. I'm not saying it always works, I'm saying it works with some types of hardware backdoors.

    Without 100% coverage it's not a security audit, it's a false sense of security. Anything this high level is going to be immune to that sort of attack.

  19. Re:It's a moot point. This is a beachhead. on Huawei Would Accept EU Supervision To Lay 5G Network (techradar.com) · · Score: 1

    As for the rest: A) You don't have to RE entire chips to find backdoors. Hell, sometimes you don't even have to take them apart. B) If they aren't using something novel then we already know what to look for.

    You absolutely do have to take apart the chips, and frequently sample a non-negligable chunk of incoming components to ensure they match the audited version.
    Documents can be forged, especially with the collusion of both the corporation and host government aiming to forge them.

  20. Re:It's a moot point. This is a beachhead. on Huawei Would Accept EU Supervision To Lay 5G Network (techradar.com) · · Score: 1

    Doubtful, the UK isn't exactly known for their chip architecture expertise and even if they were there's only a handful of people in the world who could spot hardware-level backdoors of that nature with the full chip layout in a logical diagram, let alone slices of the actual hardware+photos. It would take the best chip designers well over a decade to verify such a thing - and they're likely to have lots of different chips in the hardware devices.

  21. Re:It's a moot point. This is a beachhead. on Huawei Would Accept EU Supervision To Lay 5G Network (techradar.com) · · Score: 1

    Besides, once they are widely installed, what are you going to do when you find out they can no longer be trusted (after a system-wide software update), rip out the entire infrastructure?

    It's significantly worse than that, because making the hardware means they can add things like backdoor'd chips, and hidden coprocessors with full access to everything the normal processor can see. They wouldn't even need a malicious software update because every piece of hardware is compromised from the start.

  22. Re:More like a sponge than wood on New "Metallic Wood" Is As Strong As Titanium But Much Lighter (dwell.com) · · Score: 1

    If they can figure out how to get the air out of the pockets we might be able to make floating (in the air) cities.

  23. Re:Wow, well I'm shocked! on Finland Basic Income Trial Left People 'Happier But Jobless' (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is actually a really shitty test. Give wage slaves a year of guaranteed pay and of course they will take the year off, it's the only time in their lives they'll get a year-long vacation before they've gone senile. Basic income tests which don't last for life are invalid (to say nothing of their non-randomized selection of candidates.) This whole study was propaganda to keep plebs thinking they need to spend every waking hour of the good parts of their life working for someone other than themselves.

  24. If It Exists In Their Product on Apple Will Store Russian User Data Locally, Possibly Decrypt on Request: Report (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    It exists in all their products.

  25. Dick Choppers on Ask Slashdot: What Could Go Wrong In Tech That Hasn't Already Gone Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Thus far nobody has instituted penis-based biometric sensors which randomly short out and electrocute or flay your member.
    I assume this is just for the sake of equality, since it could only be used to oppress ~49% of the population.