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  1. IoT?! It's literally Cold War era technology based on incredibly simple RF and tone technology. You could potentially fault a lot of people, but IoT vendors are off the hook here.

  2. Re:Everybody is a time traveller. on Stephen Hawking Service: Possibility of Time Travellers 'Can't Be Excluded' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If you move your car from one side of town to the other, did you destroy mass in the one side of town in favor of the other? What if time is truly just a 4th dimension in every sense of the phrase? If the universe can handle me moving my car across town, it may make no difference if we simply move it across time.

  3. GDPR seems like a great compliance framework, with the exception of the absolutely fucked up idea of a right to be forgotten. Your data should be protected, and it would be great if vendors cared, and knew, everywhere it was handled and that it was always handled with respect. The idea that I need to support discarding data about any user on their whim is absurd. I don't care how many exceptions there are. Disentangling relationships and going through years of archived data in different data structures that *most* users have no problem keeping around to discard data for one user is an absolutely ridiculous expectation.

    I will make one exception for you, AC. You deserve to be forgotten, along with your crap comment.

  4. So, you're not even going to keep the physical address of the recipients of your product? Just think of the fraud possibilities. I use a stolen credit card to order something to my house and then file a GDPR request forcing you to discard the data. Later, maybe even months, someone discovers the fraudulent charge and the trail goes completely dead due to the GDPR right to be forgotten provision.

    It's almost like these clueless cities that have no-questions-asked gun disposal. Kill a rival, drop off the gun, get the evidence destroyed for you.

    It seems like a whole lot of people are being raised up to adulthood lacking the least bit of critical thinking skills.

  5. Not remotely the scariest application of face swap on Algorithm Automatically Spots 'Face Swaps' In Videos (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    It's clear that the SAG is on this because there is a massive amount of money at stake. The real story here is that, should we evolve the technology to the point where no AI or person can detect it, there is a real hazard to liberty. Political enemies could be placed (virtually) in embarrassing or illegal positions, surveillance footage of crimes could be faked, criminals could go free by claiming their surveillance footage was faked. This really shakes the core of things we've learned as "truth." We've known photos were able to be faked, with various amounts of success/believability, for a long time, but the idea of producing videos that can't be detected as fakes is crazy.

  6. I'd like to do the same, but I am considering a third for guests. I've noticed in the last few years that "can I get on your wi-fi?" has become as common as "can I use your restroom?"

  7. Re:Network Separation (Partial report from vendor) on Hackers Stole a Casino's High-Roller Database Through a Thermometer in the Lobby Fish Tank (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The point is that there should not exist an entity known as "the network" in this picture. There should be many. Your casino patrons sure as hell shouldn't be on the same network as either your smart appliances or your corporate databases.

  8. There's plenty of hate speech that is not libelous. Specifically, I could say "I hate you" and it could be a matter of fact. I could say negative things about your age, gender, religion, or other factor and it might be non-factual, but it might also just be an opinion. Most of the US has fortunately been wiser than accepting a special exception to free speech known as "hate speech," but I'm sure we have amazing citizens like you to thank for the other jurisdictions.

  9. I suspect the problem is that 10 bps communication was close enough to normal communication line bandwidth to make people more creative about using them and more cognizant that they could be used that way. In this day of Gbps connections, I suspect people forget that small, valuable information could still be extracted very slowly by patient people. As such, I suspect few people are actively thinking about this threat vector, while certain types of conditioned power might give them protection automatically without thinking about it.

  10. Maybe a sticker that holds the pin on your grenade in place? :D

  11. Re:It's a mad dash to "privacy" on Instagram Suddenly Chokes Off Developers As Facebook Chases Privacy (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the key word there was 'now'. I know why people should be upset about privacy abuses, and I myself am upset about them, but I think the parent was trying to point out the silliness of caring about privacy situationally based on completely unrelated factors like who is President.

  12. Re:Conservatism, (n.) on Facebook Begins 'Fact-Checking' Photos, Videos (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Getting worse is, by definition, change. Therefore, change is not necessarily needed, as change may make things worse. QED.

  13. Re: All that glitters is not bitcoin on Twitter CEO Says Bitcoin Will Be the World's 'Single Currency' In 10 Years (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If you saw the private keys securing a BANK's non-blockchain transactions, you could steal it too. I'm not sure if the trolls are out in force today, or just the idiots.

  14. Re:From the wheres-my-business-model-apartment on Twitter CEO Says Bitcoin Will Be the World's 'Single Currency' In 10 Years (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    1 Bitcoin is subdivisible into 100,000,000 (one hundred million) parts known as Satoshis. Here you are, with so much misplaced confidence.

  15. Henry Ford wouldn't be allowed to say many of the things he believed. He would keep getting shushed (rightly so) every time he advocated Nazi positions. The people history remembers fondly had great accomplishments, but weren't always great people when looked at on the whole with the biases and perspective changes of a new generation.

  16. Maybe if you want to write all your own code from scratch optimized for these. None of the existing open source toolsets performs well on them (on a value basis of performance per dollar).

  17. Re: Toys for Thugs on LAPD Is Not Using the Electric BMWs It Announced In 2016 (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm having some difficulty understanding why getting lunch in a police car is considered some sort of silver bullet proving police misconduct. Don't you normally get your lunch in your police vehicle if you are a police officer?

  18. Re: So barring... on ISP Disclosures About Data Caps and Fees Eliminated By Net Neutrality Repeal (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's cute that you think there is a meaningful difference between US and THEM. Blindly supporting a party's candidates like you are suggesting is 99.9% of the reason we are so fucked right now.

  19. While those laws exist in fact in many jurisdictions, I would not be at all surprised to see the FCC claim that their exclusive jurisdiction over telecom means that state laws can't be applied to telecom, even for the purposes you describe.

  20. Re:Any worse than modern web? on 'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' (grist.org) · · Score: 1

    Of course, but his link is a total non sequitur because it's completely focused on CPU-mining of BitCoin, which has become absurd. You can go flying with thousands of helium balloons, but that doesn't make it the right solution to your travel needs.

  21. Re:Any worse than modern web? on 'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' (grist.org) · · Score: 1

    I did the calculations when BTC was at $4500. It would have taken me one month to pay for the miner, which could have then produced one BTC per month for $67 worth of electricity. Two things kept me from moving forward: 1.) availability of extra power circuits in my unfinished basement area, 2.) fear of a collapse in BTC

  22. Re: Is there a way to do real work? on 'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' (grist.org) · · Score: 1

    For my own knowledge, are you talking only of those that deal in fiat currencies?

  23. Re:Rube Goldberg is Astonished on 'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' (grist.org) · · Score: 1

    If I understood correctly, his was a philosophical assertion, not a proof. For most of us, the empirical wisdom of it is unmistakable anyway.

  24. Re:For old people that remember the NorthEast Pass on From the Arctic's Melting Ice, an Unexpected Digital Hub (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The more direct paths will likely lead to each ship burning less diesel per trip. More trips due to the ease is just an unfortunate side effect.

  25. If you're a proper manual driver, you don't have need of space for a rollback. I never had rollbacks after about 3 months of practice. It might be a little harder on your clutch, but you don't have the right to randomly back into cars because you don't know how to drive yours.