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  1. To the consumer, they are worthless. To google, they are worth a lot.

  2. What they bought are the cameras from Nest's Dropcam acquisition. You are right that the thermostat side is worthless.

  3. Re:Sell your own fucking ads on Google Wants Online Ad Improvement Within Months, Not Years (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    Exactly, but that requires "premium" (somewhat valuable), "original" (somewhat creative) content, which doesn't fit into the "monetize web properties" model of the industry.

  4. Re:It's a miracle! C++ makes disks spin 10x faster on Cassandra Rewritten In C++, Ten Times Faster · · Score: 1

    Read a summary of how Cassandra works, and you will see why it can be so much faster, given what you already know (that thing about databases usually having an I/O problem).

  5. Re:non-isolated third-party cookies are data troja on When Does Software Start Becoming Malware? · · Score: 1

    Yes, that too. They can better standardize their headers, and/or they can add some noise to the signal to throw off the fingerprinting, which can be done without any kind of concerted effort.

    Just mentioning this for completeness: there is also the IP address, but that has other solutions, and isn't a web browser's responsibility.

  6. Re:Fine. on Interviews: Ask John McAfee About His Presidential Run · · Score: 1

    Mr. McAfee,

    As President of the United States, would you make any significant changes to what drugs you take and how often you take them? If so, could you give us a general sense of what those changes might be?

    He will be using the JFK cocktail.

  7. non-isolated third-party cookies are data trojans on When Does Software Start Becoming Malware? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Toolbars are just the tip of the iceberg. All major browsers are malware because they don't isolate cookie storage (or all storage, really) between origin domains, breaking the same-origin policy. Third-party cookies then become data trojans. Intent is important here. It isn't just a vulnerability, but a design flaw continued by the fact that all major browser development is funded by advertising companies.

    See for yourself how Mozilla refuses to fix a security vulnerability that is enabling billions to be made from stolen user data: Bugzilla bug 565965

  8. Re:11 years later the die has been cast on Federal Court Invalidates 11-Year-old FBI Gag Order On NSL Recipient · · Score: 1

    We aren't talking about that. NSLs are not warrants.

  9. Re:11 years later the die has been cast on Federal Court Invalidates 11-Year-old FBI Gag Order On NSL Recipient · · Score: 1

    The debate is framed by the US agencies behind the surveillance, as well as the US government, not by some guy on the internet.

    The debate was framed by our forefathers.

  10. Re:Facepalm on Role Model Bhutan Takes Zen Approach To Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Because their religion is not exclusive. Tolerance is actually something to be practiced by mere mortals, rather than being something only Jesus is expected to practice.

  11. Re:Networks are not private on German Intelligence Traded Citizen Data For NSA Surveillance Software · · Score: 1

    The existing networks only need to see the routing information, not the information in the payload, which can be encrypted. So you have a point that the routing information can easily be snooped, which is a significant problem.

  12. Re:It's A Business on German Intelligence Traded Citizen Data For NSA Surveillance Software · · Score: 1

    The GP merely talked about market-only thinking, not free markets. In fact, the Marxist ideology you are referencing as a straw-man is merely an extension of the liberal thinking of Adam Smith. Even Adam Smith discussed the disparity of power between classes. That is why Marxists are also labeled liberals. The extreme ideology is unregulated markets, just as extreme as unregulated state power. Markets can be free and regulated at the same time the same way people can be free and regulated at the same time. Freedom is about self-determination, the ability to make choices. For example, anti-discrimination laws increase freedom because a significant percentage of the population is now able to make choices that otherwise would be limited and infringed by others. More people may now choose to marry, and otherwise participate in society, because of law that prevents discrimination.

  13. Re:Networks are not private on German Intelligence Traded Citizen Data For NSA Surveillance Software · · Score: 2

    You are creating a straw-man out of the GP's terms. The GP even used the term *delivered* to make the appropriate distinction. Information in a payload that is encrypted is not the *delivered* information *without* the decryption key information. A network *may* have access to the *delivered* information, but it doesn't necessarily *need* to have it, and having it is considered a security weakness that may be *attacked*.

  14. Like the DragonFly BSD approach? on Meet Linux's Newest File-System: Bcachefs · · Score: 2

    Is this the Linux answer to swapcache and the HAMMER filesystem in DragonFly BSD? Of course, a major generalization and oversimplification, but it seems a similar kind of approach to a similar set of problems.

  15. Video ads need spectrum priority on Google Announces a Router: OnHub · · Score: 1

    Of course Google needs to make sure its video ads have spectrum priority. Thanks, Google, for the uninterrupted ad viewing experience.

  16. Re:High-frequency trading=respctable insider tradi on US Busts Insider Trading Hackers · · Score: 1

    There are always ways to shave time off of reactions, no matter what approach you take.

    It is not difficult to formally solve this problem with constraints at the exchange. If timing is the issue, then just randomize it. Just delay the evaluation of bids for the timing-sensitive period, and replay the bids with scrambled timing at the end of the period. This would effectively distribute the advantages and disadvantages in timing across the bidders.

    The issue is not technical. The issue is political. No one wants to do any of the number of ways to fix this, and there are many ways to fix this that would work. I just came up with one off the top of my head, which certainly means that there are dozens more, and probably at least a dozen better ones.

  17. Re:Making bad news out of anything on Good Economy? Tech Layoffs Are Up · · Score: 1

    Are you willing to consider moving to Louisville, KY? The only stupid shit we do is have 80k of bourbon in the office.

  18. Re:Too many modern movies on Time Picks Top 100 Films · · Score: 1

    It also seems that Time might be making some unusual choices in order to get cross promotion from th emovie distributors themselves. For example, it is very unlikely that a DVD of Seven Samurai will say "Chosen by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best of all time", but very likely that a DVD of NEMO will say that.

    The front page of the website of the people who released the DVD of Seven Samurai has a link to TIME's article.

  19. Re:Not worth it yet on Syllable - The Little OS with a Big Future? · · Score: 1

    left my machine hanging. (power button didnt even respond!)

    Apparently you are a Linux user who has never needed to turn your computer off from the case. I am guessing you probably just needed to hold down the button for a few seconds.

  20. Re:Referrer Log Spamming? on New Tricks from Browser Hijackers? · · Score: 1

    I started blocking referrer spam IPs and now I never get referrer spam, so I published the addresses I block. Only a few IPs seem to do it.

  21. Re:Why is it... on Labels Find New Method of Payola · · Score: 1

    Doesn't it occur to the RIAA that music fans have no need to buy the CD if the radio station is always playing a particular artist's music?

    My theory is that is why they only saturate the radio with the song for a very short time, and just long enough to get people hooked. It could also be why billboards look at record sales over very short periods.

  22. Re:Non-Exploitable Security DOS Exploit on Multiple Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL · · Score: 1

    Actually, to build, you apparently need to be in /usr/source/secure

    That is what /usr/src/crypto/README told me.

    At least, that is the way it is on 4-stable.

  23. Re:Bzzzzzt, but thank you for playing. on USA To Return To Moon By 2015, Then Mars · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The earth is ideally suited for human life because we have evolved within it over the last 200,000+ years.

    Any outpost created will inevitably fall to murphy's law. I say within 50 years on the outside. Especially without base station support from mother earth.

    The scope you use, "Earth", seems arbitrary. One could say that human life evolved within the Universe. Really, we mostly evolved in one small area of the planet. We just learned to deal with the conditions of other places. It is quite possible that we will learn to deal with the conditions of other planets as well.

  24. Re:Divine Litigation on Appeals Court Rules Against RIAA in DMCA Subpoena Case · · Score: 1

    I am just replying because I accidentally modded this wrong.

  25. Re:Make Saddam Open Source! on Saddam Hussein Arrested · · Score: 1

    Why do that when you can give him Open Sores?