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  1. Re: No, what they really want on Republicans Want To Leave You Voicemail -- Without Ever Ringing Your Cellphone (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    And, a lot of us use VoIP already. Any Magic Jack users? Guess what? Those calls are "internet data" as far as your ISP is concerned. Enjoy that thought.

  2. No, what they really want on Republicans Want To Leave You Voicemail -- Without Ever Ringing Your Cellphone (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    is to be able to have your phone answer its own calls. If voice mail can be reached without dialing a phone, I can assure you their Muslim Soviet witch hunt (which is just an excuse) team is working on a way to also answer calls for you too via a similar protocol. It can already be done, but I mean in a legal and easier way. To give you an example, they only made it legal for ISP's to sell your web data so that they can buy it off them rather than go through a court system.

  3. Re: Differential and management are not the same. on When AI Botches Your Medical Diagnosis, Who's To Blame? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Anything that benefits the guy with the most money will become the law or be protected from it with legal loopholes unless the guy suing can get a competitor on board to which the cycle just keeps repeating itself. Our technology is evolving faster than our ethics. Hacking a medical AI, which we all know will be remote cloud computing and not an in-house local server, will be the equivalent of hacking a modern 9th grader's graphing calculator during a final exam with an already questionable "grade" for most countries. Like we need more doctors half-assing their way through school so a machine can make them six figures a year. Malpractice insurance costs will go down, but only because the AI will have to have it too. And, it won't surprise me if people try to claim AI's as dependents for tax breaks.

  4. Re: Zuck! on When AI Botches Your Medical Diagnosis, Who's To Blame? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    It'll be ok. Zuck, or as autocorrect says, "Suck," will have its own insurance branch before its all over with. His main company is worth more than all the gold in Fort Knox; he'll be fine. All hail Facefarm.

  5. Re: Sonic.net in Northern California on Ask Slashdot: ISPs That Respect Your Online Privacy? · · Score: 1

    Those techniques only work when dealing with humans. The Internet is not a steam powered ship. Remember that odds and chance have nothing to do with skill. There's no drawing to see who gets their web history stored today. It's an all or no one deal, unless they figure out a way to charge extra for privacy, which I'm sure most ISP's have nasty EULA's for anyway. Between AI and cloud computing, your browsing history can be easily found and the servers aren't deleting it; your router may actual have web browsing history logs on it too. In most instances, enough unencrypted web traffic cones out of your computer to know what you've been up to. On Linux, you can use (tcpdump -xx -i wlan0) to watch all your internet traffic in realtime but also displays the data coming in and out as more human readable. As someone that manages a website, I can tell you that the tools that are made available to me for digitally fingerprinting people and how no one uses Do Not Track would make you shudder. Fortunately for you all, I quit using Google Analytics a long time ago and started managing analytics with open source stuff on my own databases. I honor the Do Not Track request, but many websites do not. Also, quantum computing is going to come commercially before you know it. Then, with AI installed, we are all screwed.

  6. In the U.S. It's already legal for ISP's to sell web history, and since Micro$oft wants as many purchases on their App Store as possible, they probably already know software usage too. Intelligence agencies can just purchase your unencrypted web traffic without a need for a warrant. I guess China just wants to do it for free. I thought Window$ 10 was the worst OS, but I guess the Chinese version would be on another level of its own.

  7. DNA as data storage but still no safe OS on Microsoft Wants To Use DNA For Cloud Data Storage (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Proprietary software and for profit enterprising at work. Besides, agents Scully and Molder (X-Files) can tell you all about "DNA storage." Surely our government in real life wouldn't encourage people to store their DNA? Ancestry.com, 23 And Me, CDC scaring baby boomers into blood testing for hep C, and now M$ DNA storage, to which I'm sure there's a patent to profit billions from if it works. It's probably just some fany micro-electrophoresis like what they use in forensics and with a way to interpret the passing through the gel as data. You won't be ripping that "CD" anytime soon. DRM at an insanely high level. But, if you can't copy and paste in a reasonable amount of time or accuracy, what's the point? File management becomes impossible. They already want to kill desktop software, do they have to go after the filesystem too?

  8. Because surely the Window$ they use are that much better than anyone else's. If you need a scape goat, blame Bill for creating a shitty OS and using contracts and backscratching to keep people locked in. Linux is far more human friendly than it used to be, but heaven forbid if Micro$oft would let anyone find out. Since we still use COBOL, assembly, and 5 1/4 floppies for our defense, using Micro$oft tech wouldn't surprise me. IT gotta make a living too and you know any country that charges $100 for a gov issued hammer (they really do that in the military) pays IT very well. I wish people knew how many important places like hospitals, gov buildings, etc. get lazy with PowerShell and how file permissions can be changed in a snap and that's just a simple example. No government should use Window$ for anything. If your employees can't learn Linux in 2017 and learn to be more proactive in their computing, especially with that kind of job, then they are not equipped for the job. I wouldn't hire anyone that couldn't learn how to use Linux if I had an intelligence agency.

  9. An unhackable IoT device? on Indian Election Officials Challenges Critics To Hack Electronic Voting Machine (thehindu.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah...

  10. Re:Its GNU/NT, not Linux anyway on Linux Distros Won't Run On Microsoft's Education-Focused Windows 10 S OS (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe instead of "freedom," we need to bring back the classic idea "Linux is fully customizable" approach, especially when Micro$oft really starts trying to push their soon to be Chromebook clones they've been working on. Also, you could take the Apple way and say there's no viruses. Actually, there should really be fewer for Linux than Mac. But, a lot of Linux users are also IT guys using Window$ at their business and hate hearing any argument that places Linux on a pedestal.

  11. Re: My right to not buy iphones on Apple Is Lobbying Against Your Right To Repair iPhones, New York State Records Confirm (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but in all fairness, people use their Apple products in the dumbest ways. Combine that with social networking apps and Apple monitoring your searches is the very least of your problems.

  12. Re:Its GNU/NT, not Linux anyway on Linux Distros Won't Run On Microsoft's Education-Focused Windows 10 S OS (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but the advantages of today would not have been possible under a proprietary license. A community with the freedom to copy, change, and redistribute built the things in Linux you enjoy. You have people like Stallman preaching the way that they do because they were there when it all started and have seen in real time what lack of "freedom" in software actual does. People are getting too comfortable with easy tech and forgetting that innovation in Linux surfed on the back of principles that were fortunately worked out a long time ago, with freedom being the main takeaway. We have not all forgotten this. Meanwhile, you have younger developers wanting to use FOSS software but step all over the GPL so that they can try to have all the control before they make a profit; most seem to believe in forgiveness before permission. This control and profit is usually being done via cloud computing and API's. What's the point of having open source software if the only choices you get are "take the API token and be happy" or run your own edits on a server? Windows is trying their damnedest to go to kill the desktop and go to cloud computing; Apple uses updates to make 2-year-old hardware unusable; and Google's operating systems already depend mostly on the internet. This leaves only one option left, and that's Linux and the freedoms that come with it as in both literal and figuratively. You need "Stallmans" to keep things balanced and prevent monopolies. Also, with every college student trying to be a social justice major, using "freedom" to describe Linux is probably helping more than anything.

  13. Re: surveylance paranoia on Delta Airlines Tests Facial Recognition To Speed Up Baggage Check-In (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    That's because that additional information isn't for Delta. Intelligence agencies are constantly trying to find more ways to get as much biometric data as they can on everyone.

  14. So, guess who's not flying Delta? on Delta Airlines Tests Facial Recognition To Speed Up Baggage Check-In (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    UK people are used to this, I guess. As a company that works at an airport, they cannot insure that data won't be stored or used for anything else. They "Geek Squad" it if nothing else, aka intelligence agencies paying people to give them copies. Hell, if they use the Internet for this in anyway, technically the data transferred can be sold by the ISP rather than getting a warrant.

  15. Re: I guess they didn't run that simulation on Arctic Stronghold of World's Seeds Flooded After Permafrost Melts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, you'd think with a that WATER around it, they'd have a contingency plan. Some drains? Pumps?

  16. Its GNU/NT, not Linux anyway on Linux Distros Won't Run On Microsoft's Education-Focused Windows 10 S OS (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you want actual Linux with all of its freedoms, you have to install an actual distro.

  17. Re: My right to not buy iphones on Apple Is Lobbying Against Your Right To Repair iPhones, New York State Records Confirm (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless you mean actual Chinese Android phones; they're riddled with spyware. The Star N9500 is a Samsung Galaxy S4 knockoff that came with malware (Android.Trojan.Uupay.D) preinstalled.

  18. It's GNU/NT if anything, ultimately an emulator with Micro$oft still having too much control like they've been doing since Window$ 8.

  19. So is Google becoming Apple? on Google's Upcoming 'Fuchsia' Smartphone OS Dumps Linux, Has a Wild New UI (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Their new OS sounds exactly like what Apple did with Mac's OS, except you know it'll be reliant on cloud computing. I just hope Apple doesn't take note and stays as "desktop" as possible.

  20. So am I the only one that's sees this? on EU Fines Facebook $122 Million Over Misleading Information On WhatsApp Deal (siliconrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Matching accounts from WhatsApp to Facebook is counter intuitive to the point of encrypted messaging. I keep telling people WhatsApp is owned by Facefarm and to not trust it, but then an article comes out clearly showing my point and people's heads are somewhere else. Use a Tox client. There are no accounts and supports texting, calling, video, and file sharing. It works almost exactly like OpenVPN does but for messaging.

  21. Hey guys! The FCC is taking dockets! on Net Neutrality Goes Down in Flames as FCC Votes To Kill Title II Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Like that worked the first fracking time -_- . They'll just get China to create more bots and DDoS to illegitimize any suggestions like before.

  22. Because surely this has nothing to do with Net Neutrality...shocking.

  23. Re: Obligatory on Android Now Supports the Kotlin Programming Language (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    What milllenial developers really want is for all of us to use only web browsers and API's for everything, destroying the desktop so FOSS goes away and they can make their money and have all the control and make even more money by selling the statistics from usage. I don't want table scrap APIs from Google or M$ or anything people are calling "open source" when it only runs on a server. But, it's the summer time so get ready for all the "Drupal, Azure, OpenStack, and DigitalOcean" articles.

  24. AI for personal computing is a bad thing on Software Is Eating the World, But AI Is Going To Eat Software, Nvidia CEO Says (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    I can see its benefits for medicine, law, and military, but that's just it, with emphases on "military." AI's roots go back to Allan Turing, it's father and Enigma code cracker. AI's true purpose is total compliance by removing the efficacy of passwords and digitally fingerprinting everyone, always being watched. It sounds ridiculous, but we actually do have the machines to do it, it's just that figuratively speaking, our AI is in the 5th grade but will be in college in just a few years and it's "family" is giving him (could be a her; we'll see after puberty) a quantum computer as a graduation present. Cloud computing will advance and by then, Micro$oft & Google will have tricked most of the world into using a computer you need the Internet for, completing the circle. Privacy on the Internet dies and FOSS becomes no more because M$ & Google has you paying monthly fees and doesn't allow anything not on their store. Open source will be used to destroy open source because the only "open source" software available will require a server to run or an API key, giving the user no true control. If things continue as they are, the desktop with freedom of choice and privacy will be dead.

  25. A lot of geo locks involve the actual web content of the site such as software and Ebooks, to which some countries don't have the same patent or copyright laws as those like the U.S. or Japan does. The UK geo blocks people from their servers sometimes, but that's because they are a popular country (thanks to the Doctor) and don't have the bandwidth to support the traffic. But when you're too busy monitoring everyone, what do you expect? It's the same reason the FCC in the U.S. has been pushing so hard to allow companies to place governors on certain websites and content. However, they went ahead and voted to allow ISPs to sell traffic before bringing up any data caps. By allowing an ISP to sell your internet traffic, warrants are no longer needed for its records. They only have to pay for them.