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  1. He really should rename BrickerBot to BatmanBot.

  2. Re:On the plus side... on Gamers in Hawaii Can't Compete... Because of Latency (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    I would take latency, sandy beaches, perfect weather and bikini clad women over raging quit, getting trolled and meeting assholes online.

    FTFY

  3. Re:Unemployment on Ontario Launches Universal Basic Income Pilot (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    You're right. It does sound crazy that you said "most people actually like to work".

    But reality like Facebook proves it to be more general. It's not exactly people like to work, but people like to do something when they are bored.

    The whole city with people staring at their phones and walking into other people, you can guess what happens when they don't work. That's right, more phones staring or the correct terminology is looking for something to resolve the boredom.

    Here's the twist. If searching, studying, and working resolve some of their boredom, those people would start doing them. Famous inventors and scientists are those type of people. It may be 1 in a 1000, but the UBI is a plan to see if it could do just that.

  4. They won't know why it got bricked except for one thing, that "It was cheap". When the consumer find that the reliability is no longer worth the cheap cost investment they've added, they will start to look for other more reliable IoT, which in this case it would be more secured IoT that doesn't brick.

    This happens a lot in Mainland China. One example is when they found out the cheap baby formula were poisonous. It caused a rushed in to buy high cost and high quality baby formulas while dropping cheap baby formulas.

  5. Re:Look at Android on EFF Says Google Chromebooks Are Still Spying On Students (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Take a look at Android, it's a very scammy surveillance OS.

    True. It does have a lot of ops-in.

    1. Your location is transmitted to Google, together with surrounding wifi settings. They do this with a popup that appears whenever you turn on GPS, it asks you if you want to improve location accuracy, in actuality it's tracking the surrounding wifi spots and matching them against the GPS location your phone records. The dialog is written so you think you need to say yes to get GPS to work, but you can say no and GPS still works. It always appears, all the time, until you say yes, and then it doesn't popup again, quietly tracking your location and watching your nearby wifi hotspots. You cannot say 'no, never' the dialog will keep pestering.

    False. Your location is transmitted to Google, but it doesn't stop you from using it without GPS turned on. You can say no. It should be obvious when your location is very off or the app doesn't work.

    2. Google Play Store, if you try to disable or remove this, it will remove every app you installed from the playstore at the same time. Google play store provides Google with your credit card linkage, and real id, to the location and search surveillance it does.

    False. You can disable or remove Google Play Store and it will not remove every app installed from the play store. However, it will very likely break a number of apps depend on the play store and google services behind it. In addition, standalone android apps can be backed up and reinstalled without play store interruption.

    3. You cannot remove the required google account and keep the apps you installed.

    False. You can remove the required google account and keep the apps you installed. However, apps depend on your account may malfunction.

    4. Android now INSISTS on a telephone number for Android device registrations.

    False. Android can be ran without a telephone number.

    5. Google changes the privacy terms frequently, it popups says "action required" and if you refuse to say yes to whatever privacy invasion they've introduced, the alternate options are to delete your Google account (and uninstall every app you installed, see 2). This is false, you can simply ignore the demand to accept the change of terms.

    True. Google and other companies reserve the right to change their ToS. There are one time events that you will get a notification for "action required" on your google account if you created a google account on the android phone. the "action required" is usually associated with account verification, account safety, etc.

    6. Did you agree to backup the phone? That pester message that pops up regularly that you can't tell "no never' to? You just gave Google the password to every wifi network and business server you ever used. Compromising a lot of data.

    They present a set of information in a privacy dashboard that is a tiny subset of the information they actually record. All pages visited with Google stats and Google adverts, and Google content served are also known to them and recorded by them. Your Youtube viewing is recorded even when logged out using browser profile id. Same with Google search, it persters you to login, but if you don't they still record the searches you make against the browser id to cross link for when you eventually do login.

    True. Any information backup-ed to cloud do include compensation on privacy. This includes backup to Microsoft, Apple and Google cloud. Also using google services will have data recorded by google.

    Really, Duckduckgo for search and avoid them like the plague and they'll still have a mass of tracking information on you. You cannot opt out of this, they present it as the price for having an Android device.

    Google are surveillance-ware shit.

    True. but not from the FUD you've stated.

  6. Haters on Is Social Media Making Us Hate Each Other? (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    Haters gonna Hate.

    Clickbaits gonna Clickbait.

    Is Social Media Making Us Hate Each Other?

    The answer is still no. It does encourage us to "hate others", but not "each other".

    You want science to back this up? Too bad, you're gonna need to search more for yourselves. But here's the thing, we humans don't work well in mass. We humans work well in groups, but not in mass.

    Have you seen lions having their own family while (almost) killing off other lions? They work well in groups, but they can't have too many lions or they have conflict. We humans do the same.

    society today basically put a large number of people into the same box and space, while you asked for or not. So it formed a mass. That's why people in rural are often happier compare to those in the cities, because those in rural feel as they are in a group rather than one person in a mass. The internet media is the same. Forums with fewer traffic have groups that are happier compare to those media filled with mass of people.

    It is possible to change that by making the mass of people into a like-minded group. But on a Social Media? Forget it, just let the companies fix themselves or until their greediness explode.

  7. Three Chinese government agencies missed their epic p*rn live-stream night. Now they want revenge.

  8. That's right folks on The Biggest Time Suck at the Office Might Be Your Computer (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The Biggest Time Suck at the Office Might Be Your Computer!

    Now would you kindly excuse me as I have to check a few Facebook post on my smartphone. This is important.

  9. Soy tastes like chicken? on Subway Sues Canada Network Over Claim Its Chicken Is 50 Percent Soy (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that my soy is in fact 50% chicken?

  10. In Reality on Apple Forces Recyclers To Shred All iPhones and MacBooks (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Recyclers will receive "gifts" with unusable parts for shedding from the macbook repairmen, while the repairmen will receive "gifts" with usable parts from the recyclers.

    In the meantime, Apple will continue to feel better about themselves.

  11. Warning: Brain not found in Step 2. Press Esc to Abort. Press F1 to Continue. Press F2 to substitute Brain with Peanut.

  12. That's not a nice way to accuse my little sister of doing something weird on skype. I'm sure she's a nice person. I mean every times I get a ransom ware popup, she kindly told me to pay in full.

    I do wonder where she got her car though...

  13. 9 out of 10 admitted to using their smartphone behind the wheel.

    so 1 out of 10 admitted to using their smartphone in front of the wheel?

  14. Alternative Side effects on New Approach To Virtual Reality Shocks You Into Believing Walls Are Real (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Side effects include users developing an addiction to picking up objects or touching walls in real life.

  15. Re:"alternate vendors" on Burger King Won't Take a Hint; Alters TV Ad To Evade Google's Block (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    This IS a war Google could win quickly and decisively, but not by blocking. Blocking only meant Google now need a team to constantly blocking new terms for the google home, reducing the benefit of the google home.

    A better solution is by making the user create their own phase to start google home. Basically, just like putting a different password on the pc. Everyone you share will know. If it leaked, you change it.

  16. Tiny Changes on Tiny Changes Can Cause An AI To Fail (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They've taped over the "STOP" sign letters with a "GO".

  17. But everyone in supporting the Congressman will need to give up all their existing communication system. That includes the phone lines. The internet is at the rawest form, a communication system. Heck, we used to use phone lines to go on the internet. If he can't do it, then it is no deal.

  18. Re:Sounds like a repeat of Windows RT on Microsoft's Rumored CloudBook Could Be Your Next Cheap Computer (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    One reason Windows RT failed is how similar it is to a normal Windows OS, when it is in fact not even close. By adding a few office application, it tricked the consumers in making it feels like it could do more when it couldn't. This is especially bad when salesman would answer "Is this windows?" with a "yes" when it should be "no, it is a different OS". It just Leaves a bad taste on the product as a whole.

  19. HIV on The Woman Whose Phone 'Misdiagnosed HIV' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    She should learn from it (fake apps exist) and be empowered by the "ownership of such a device".

    she should also learn that "get hold of apps via a friend's Bluetooth connection" was a bad idea. It's just like spread HIV from person to person but with an app. OH Wait a minute...

  20. Conditioning on Are Chromebooks Responsible For PC Market Growth? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    My toaster has a processor. It is NOT a PC.

    Therefore,
    If my toaster doesn't have a processor. It is a PC!

  21. Re:Void your Chromebook's warranty on Are Chromebooks Responsible For PC Market Growth? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    warranty? I voided them the moment I got home. And I un-void them within the limited warranty period when it's clearly a manufacturer defect.

    Also, breaking the power jack is likely not covered in the limited warranty, but an extended warranty would cover it. In that case, you might as well spill coffee all over the device since having an extended warranty means they're going to help you replace the whole thing anyway.

  22. For first world country, you'll need to add shared room rent to the $2 a day.

    So it should be $2 + rent which reason to minimum $20~30/ day, unless you somehow managed to compensate housing with a free parking space, and other public utilities.

    Of course, this minimum is impossible if you have a family and kids.

  23. I consciously stay at home because I trust my wife and my kids to encourage me to keep doing my work more than I trust myself from getting distracted while hitting on female coworkers in the office.

  24. Pizza on Employees in the Dark About Data Retention Policy (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    This is why I've been clicking on multiple pizza links and coupons on their device, just to make sure those people inspecting the data can feel the excitement before lunch. I do wonder if this is what made the pizza delivery boy coming in almost every lunch hour.

    The only week it stopped is when I clicked on some links about sausage factories and rats eating rotten meat.

  25. Re:Numbers on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If he/she says [action X] then you [action X'] and argue it out with the company elsewhere.

    Replace [action X] with "bend over and take it"

    If he/she says bend over and take it then you bend over and take it and argue it out with the company elsewhere.

    The captain is not the king. There are moral and legal responsibility for his/her action.

    And about the main topic "Which is more important: not bumping the dude, or inconveniencing an ENTIRE PLANE full the next day?" The answer is neither, because the question in hand has multiple routes that UA did not take.

    The real question was "how to bring 4 late staffs to the destination in time?" Bumping that specific dude is just one route, and the action they did in order to do so was a terrible one too.