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  1. , the most anticipated system begging to be an exciting hack.

    Step 1: Create a script that automates the workstation screenshots, app use, keystorkes, email use and phone use.
    Step 2: Hack the camera to replace with a looped video of you.
    Step 3: Do your actual work else where
    Step 4: Enjoy

    *I guess alternatively you could just find a way to directly change the "focus score" and an "intensity score".

  2. When you sit there at your desk doing nothing, you think you are getting away with something, but you are not.

    aka The manager? /joke

  3. Don't want to sign it? Access to the company networks is refused. Need network access to do your job? Hire damn shadow IT.

    ftfy.

  4. thousands of farmers across Indian states waited on Farmers In India Are Using AI To Increase Crop Yields (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    for Windows update to finish before getting their text messages.

  5. Re:Geolocation on How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't install the facebook app on my phone...

    And yet, earlier this year, it came up with a really uncanny recommendation - it actually found my flight instructor...

    Interesting. Do you have any friends you know in his class? Do you leave cookies undeleted in your browser? Have you searched anything of your interest using facebook?

    Plenty more of those can be used to link the connection, but I'll bet it's due to the other people on facebook who knew your flight instructor and one single activity you did to connect the dot.

  6. Re:Thanks, cell provider, for baking it in on How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Funny how it also lets me "Force Stop" the running app, within 2 days of having killed it. With no reboot...

    Reboot your device and try it again. It was said that disabling is applied after next startup.

  7. Re:Thanks, cell provider, for baking it in on How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I assume that's enough to prevent it from sucking out my info but who knows for certain anymore...

    use a network logger app. If you still see facebook on the list, it's not really disabled. If you haven't restart your android device after disabling it, try restarting and check again. If it still isn't really disabled, use a noroot firewall. It will now block it for you.

    Other alternative includes rooting to uninstall it.

  8. It's not possible on The US Is Now the Only Country In the World To Reject the Paris Climate Deal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    because it's already fair. The U.S. gets to pick and choose whatever they like and do under their own regulation to reduce emission. That's the Paris agreement. If they wish, they can do nothing.

    There's nothing to renegotiate or even negotiate when it's already a buffet to pick whatever they like.

  9. Re:Say what.... dystopia is already here. on New Technology Should Be Neither Feared Nor Trusted (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Things like Windows 10 and all other Windows 10 versions are already dystopian software - it's the rise of the ignorance and stupidity of the masses that enables mass privacy invasion via entertainment and other means.

    FTFY

  10. Bad Reference on Should Private Companies Be Allowed To Hit Back At Hackers? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Using the example of Sony, which was famously hacked by North Korea in late 2014, Alexander said that if Sony had gone after the hackers, it might have prompted them to throw artillery...

    Except 'someone' did gone after the hackers (not specific target but North Korea) and DDoS their internet. Still no artillery thrown, so better use a different example.

    It's funny though, this article wanted you to pick yes or no, but you can't pick yes. That's because if they can hack back, they wouldn't have gotten hacked in the first place. So we're left with no, not because they aren't allow but because they don't know how to hack back.

  11. Yes you can secure windows on Microsoft Releases Standards For Highly Secure Windows 10 Devices (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Step 1: Delete System32
    Step 2: Reboot
    Step 3: ????
    Step 4: 100% Secured Windows!

  12. Re:I'm fake multiple times on 9.6% of Facebook's Users 'May Be Fakes' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I would think that too but I hadn't used my other (farmville) facebook accounts for about 3 years when I set up the new non-farmville facebook account.

    It doesn't even have a proper picture of me.

    I meant ip address in general. In your case, it is possible that facebook took your ip address of the new account with multiple ip address from your friends and neighbors. It then connects enough dots to recommend your actual friends along with a long list of non-actual friends.

    Ex: Let's say you lived in Smallville. Your friend lived in the next town but travel to Smallville to meet up with you, with another friend, your neighbor, or just a bar with free wifi close to where you lived. Facebook then connects the dots and recommend you to the closest people, then second closest, then farther, until it sometimes matches someone you happened to know.

    Not to mention, your friend tagging people/ locations and any track you've left on the way (gps? fb tracking cookies? fb searches?) can also be used to connect the bigger picture.

    You could try this again. Go to a town/city/place where none of your relatives/ friends went before, at the new place find a McD or free wifi location and create a random facebook account in your cookie-less browser, come back a week or month later and see the result.

  13. Re:I'm not responsible for your kids on 'Something Is Wrong On the Internet' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    They're your kids. Not mine. And neither I, nor "the internet", nor even a school, is responsible for raising them. You are. If you cannot be assed to take care of your kids, use rubbers.

    Now, apply that to old people, and watch that attitude do a 180 the moment you become old and exhaust your savings (if you have any).

    huh? apply that to old people?

    They're your old people. Not mine. And neither I, nor "the internet", nor even a school, is responsible for raising them. You are. If you cannot be assed to take care of your old people, use rubbers.

    If that exhausts your savings, you should let some random guy (me), "the internet" and school be responsible for taking care your old people?

    What am I reading?

  14. Think of all the other possibilities of using usb-c instead of 3.5mm jacks.

    breaking a guitar amp in 1.2seconds with the usb-c when you could have use the 3.5mm jack with an adapter.

  15. Re: "Activation" is the problem here on Some iPhone X Buyers Are Having Problems Activating Their Phones (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Android also has activation lock

    Android doesn't have activation lock. Android-based OS might, but that's only if the service provider installed bloatware. A clean android asks for nothing. For a typical android-based OS, you can skip everything including google sign-in and play around with the android device without sim card at all.

  16. Re:I'm fake multiple times on 9.6% of Facebook's Users 'May Be Fakes' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    interest I follow combined with geographic area

    It's likely to do with geographic area and possibly ip address tracking/ locating.

  17. Re:Extremely interesting piece in the Economist on Newspaper Obtains James Damore's Complaint Against Google (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    serviscope_minor:

    Damore was saying: A) There are many possible reasons for the gender gap among programmers: here are some suggestions; and B) Google's current recruiting methods are not effective.

    The Economist article you linked points out "Women in our industry have to cope with this sort of nonsense all the time."

    Added a little fix. Basically Economist article is trying to point out how unfair women are working as software engineers using some of Damore source, while Damore memo was pointing out Google's hiring practice isn't good and gender/bio may be playing a role. In terms of 'Google's hiring practice', he meant that Google's hiring is aiming for a goal (like a number: 50% male/ female), rather than hiring for a need.

    Not stating agreement/ disagreement to Economist article, but it's clearly off point to Damore's memo. Even though it did pointed out some problems with Damore sources / conclusions, it didn't end by countering Damore's main point, making the whole article suddenly became irrelevant.

  18. surfing == desktop? on No, the Linux Desktop Hasn't Jumped in Popularity (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I've got probably 8+ devices, with different OS except no windows phone. This macOS box is the only one that really surfs. Don't ask what I do with the other devices. But just for sh*t and gigs, I changed the browser to detect my macOS as windows phone, so I can be the last 3 or so windows phone users on the net market share.

  19. Housing took $50,000 off of his $100,000 salary.

  20. Re:Article Translation on Fewer Than 1 in 100,000 New Surface Devices Go Wrong, Microsoft Says (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Translated version for the quick readers:

    "Microsoft Spokesperson admitted that there are a small number of devices that have problems, but they get better with every generation. Thus, if you have a problem with your device, you should purchase the next generation of it and they will be happier than you were before."

    FTFY

  21. Re:I wouldn't hire him on Student Charged By FBI For Hacking His Grades More Than 90 times (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    Brainy would have been to study, do the homework and pay attention.

    Smart would have been to study with a friend and finish the homework together as quick as possible, then do something else better with their time.

  22. Re:I don't blame the Africans, on Scientists Prove Emoticons Are Not Universally Understood (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I blame the researchers for miss labeling their emoticon. The second one isn't really 'neutral' it's a shocked blank stare and the third one isn't really 'sad' it's a crying face.

    Just because the Japanese use that for sad event, doesn't mean it is the same sad the Western people thinks.

  23. Re:No wireless charge, no waterproofing on Razer Unveils Gaming Smartphone With 120Hz UltraMotion Display, 8GB RAM and No Headphone Jack (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Is a major fail .. since 2015 if you were a respectable phone you have wireless charge capability and waterproofing too. If you arenâ(TM)t waterproof then at least have a swappable battery as an excuse.

    This and also a full waterproof, wireless charge and no headphone jack could ensure a complete sealed device. If it had none of that, then what is the point of no headphone jack and non-removable battery? Seriously, it is a fail.

  24. Get a decent Bluetooth like an Anker Bluetooth headset (and not a cheap one) and I challenge you to give me one reason why I should prefer the headphone jack to bluetooth.

    It's not about "any" Anker Bluetooth headset (or expensive ones) but you have to have the ones that support the aptX compression. aptX compression ensures that the audio from the game doesn't lag (or feels like it doesn't lag). Those Bluetooth headset without that will have a lagging gaming experience.

    With a wired headset/headphone however, you get the same experience with a standard cheap headphone and even better with an expensive one. Bluetooth on the other hand, all those without aptX support will give the same terrible gaming experience. This doesn't even consider the downside of lossy quality and price of Bluetooth headsets.

  25. Anything more horrible than seeing a guy forcing an AI read that many Reddit posts.

    #ThinkOfTheShelley