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  1. Re:The only downside I see to this ... on An AI-Powered App Has Resulted in an Explosion of Convincing Face-Swap Porn (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    You are right down to identity - who when where, even she did WHAT? Thank you Equifax, your spilling "identity kits" onto the black market has accelerated the need to re think just How do you know it is ME? Fake video and Equikits will have an unexpected large effect on all society.

  2. Re:Apple is dying on Apple Might Discontinue the iPhone X This Summer (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Dying is too harsh - downgrading, downsizing. ...sent from my $20 Android

  3. Witches. It was WITCHES, that had cats, that on New Study Claims That the 'Black Death' Was Spread By Humans, Not Rats (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    It was WITCHES that had cats, that killed rats, that had lice, that had plague. But the Witches were killed off, for being - Witches.... and now the X-spurts want to blame people? C'mon - it was Witches that caused the 'cleansing' that got rid of cats that allowed lice to breed on rats..... what myth are you trying to kill, and WHY? Conspiracy Rewels.

  4. When I read the headline I saw a big "tip jar" in my head. Please, someone, say NO

  5. Robust Parental Controls = Clever Child Run Around on Apple Planning New, 'Robust' Parental Controls To Help Protect Children, Teens (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh come on. Apple: Didn't you have parents? Oh no, you didn't. Let me tell you - as a former child....

  6. I read that PowerPC is also effected. Can anyone explain what SPECTRE is? Seems strange that almost all PC chips have this flaw - the paranoid in me asks: Management Engine?

  7. Re:google maps does not even line up right in chin on China Blocks Foreign Companies From Mapping Its Roads for Self-Driving Cars (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't line up - I wondered about an area I discovered in a foreign country I lived in. About a 2KM X 1KM area where about half of GPS units consistently read about 1KM EAST of reality. The other half of units I tested were spot on - consistently. This area was near my home so I got a lot of neighbors to try it. 50-50. This persisted years. Why?

  8. Old Crypto Vulnerabilyty Hits Major Tech Firms on Old Crypto Vulnerability Hits Major Tech Firms (securityweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Updates? Since 1998? Liability? Damage?

  9. Re:Could it "fix" future generations? on Synthetic DNA-Based Drug Is First To Slow Progress of Huntington's Disease (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I should have said "If given thru bloodstream"

  10. Could it "fix" future generations? on Synthetic DNA-Based Drug Is First To Slow Progress of Huntington's Disease (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    A single shot, or treatment. If it goes thru the bloodstream seeking copies of a gene wouldn't it find those genes in the testes/ovaries?

  11. Unencrypted Video foolishness on Amazon Key Flaw Could Let Rogue Deliverymen Disable Your Camera (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    I just got and am returning an Arlo camera system from Net Gear. Good hardware HORRIBLE implementation -- like most IOT. It doesn't come with a package that unlocks the door... But is is another example of (video and sound!) sensitive data being sent out over the Internet without the average consumer even having an idea that they have just 'bugged' their own home. If products have warnings about kids suffocating on the wrapper, why don't these IOT gadgets have warnings like: Caution Do not point camera at potentially embarrassing situations or rely on it to perform alarm services when most needed ? As a bonus there is an Internet inserted 10 second delay using it as a simple video doorbell.

  12. Insulate miles of Under Water delivery on First Floating Wind Farm Delivers Electricity (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Salt water and electrical stuff tend to not mix, so how do they send (high voltage?) power - Must be some impressive insulation.

  13. Re:Equifax; the gift that keeps giving.... on Equifax Breach Included 10 Million US Driving Licenses (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Amen.

  14. Re:Come on now, Equifax {no - thank them} on Equifax Increases Number of Britons Affected By Data Breach To 700,000 (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Why don't you tell everyone that your business model sucks - people are the product. At least Equifax has caused a review of IDENTITY. Just finished setting up a utility at a new home - guy wanted my SSN just to hook up some "service" - a point at which I normally balk; but then EQUIFAX comes to mind. Why not broadcast my SSN? Equifax has. I gave the guy the SSN frequently associated with a name similar to what I gave him. Passed a "credit check". Really, honestly, might not be 'me' - so thanx, Equifax.

  15. which has yet to be named on Microsoft Develops New Programming Language For Quantum Computers (cio-today.com) · · Score: 1

    They will name it QUAVA (tm)

  16. finally, unquestionably really actually "identify" on US Studying Ways To End Use of Social Security Numbers For ID (securityweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Its about time. Finally. So many years too late we begin the beginning of what had really better be "OPEN SOURCE" dialog on how "WE" are identified as real. Or something like that. Just how do you finally, unquestionably really actually have the real me identified (in court criminally or in ordinary commerce)? I would suppose some combination of "Iris Scan" and a DNA sample would do in an extreme case, like a prison sentence, or even a 30 year mortgage- at what age would somebody be assigned an IDENTIFICATION? I'm sure Apple already has "i dentification"

  17. Re:Diameter in "garden hose?" on Microsoft and Facebook Just Built a 4,000-Mile Cable Across the Pacfic Ocean (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    When they build a big one they use Fire Hose units.

  18. What else?

  19. Re:what does the FAA do on Dozens Of Drones Surveil Houston For Damage After Hurricane Harvey (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Civilians will be restricted to potato guns.

  20. Re:Sorry to trouble you, but, um ... on Stealthy Google Play Apps Recorded Calls and Stole Emails (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    BINGO! 20 aps, 12 more aps, I would like to see if I have any installed. {Would it be a good idea if Google could cause their removal automatically? I would guess that most /. would say no}

  21. A Law banning cyber attacks against US Persons on US To Create the Independent US Cyber Command, Split Off From NSA (pbs.org) · · Score: 1

    We need to be protected from this. Cybercommand *Is* a good idea, but let us set it up so 1st it does US no harm.

  22. Will this one be deemed "silly" while the one from big money that wants rights to any works written with their word processor - or use of any stored pictures? OK, "community service is silly", go ahead judge.

  23. Re:So just increase the bounty...Pyramid Marketing on iPhone Bugs Are Too Valuable To Report To Apple (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Amway lit a fire once why not bring the hackers in with some sort of public rankings (updated monthly), secret conclaves in HI for the best 25 and all that bull

  24. Re:Paracetamol on Tylenol May Kill Kindness (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I've seen "acetomenofen" in Latin America.

  25. Re:How do they do this? Good question on Something Big Is Warping Our Outer Solar System (futurity.org) · · Score: 2

    I hope someone answers this as I've wondered exactly the same. Like just how far "out of expected location" would Neptune be after an orbit. It is the scales that confuse.