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  1. Equal consideration under the law? on T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Is In Danger of Being Rejected By DOJ (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If T-Sprint can't legally exist, when there is still AT&T and Verizon to compete with them, then what's the case for a company like Google not being broken up?

  2. They've been openly selling that access to businesses for at least 10 years. Anyone who's been on a Facebook sales call as an employee of a major corporation knows this.

    All this leak highlights is how unwitting the general populace is about what's done with the PII they put online.

  3. Re:This is the differentiator on US Government Admits It Doesn't Know If Assange Cracked Password For Manning (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not really a gray area. Wikileaks/Assange coerced Manning into committing crimes and attempted to assist in the commission.

    We don't know that as fact. That's what the prosecution is claiming, but no evidence supporting that claim has been presented. Considering who he is to the U.S. government, they have motive to lie about this, so the evidence needs to be rock solid.

  4. Re:This is the differentiator on US Government Admits It Doesn't Know If Assange Cracked Password For Manning (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Examples include secret recordings, trespassing, and taking prohibited photographs.

    And those are still crimes. The journalist runs the risk of being arrested for them, regardless of their justification for wanting info (which is subjective opinion). A state sponsored "journalist" certainly isn't working for the greater good if they trespass to get info.

    Also, there's an even bigger difference between trespassing to get info and picking a lock before you trespass.

  5. This is the differentiator on US Government Admits It Doesn't Know If Assange Cracked Password For Manning (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I say this as a general supporter of Wikileaks:

    If the US actually has correspondence between Assange and Manning, where Assange offers to crack a password (successful or not), then it would completely destroy Wikileak's pure journalism claims and Assange is guilty of attempted espionage.

    The question at hand is whether they actually have that hard evidence or if they just finally broke Manning, who was tortured for years in a solitary + lack of sleep environment, and got her to say that Assange offered to assist.

  6. Consider me Miles Davis on Disc-Free Xbox One S Could Land on May 7 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I've had a disk free XBox for years, after my toddler shoved crap in the DVD slot and broke it.

  7. Re:welcome to China on Apple Music Caught Censoring Pro-Democracy Music In China (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is nothing wrong with expecting ethics to outweigh profit. Is a shipowner who transports slaves considered innocent if they are moving them between countries that have legalized slavery, or are we rightfully outraged by the presence of a slave trader?

  8. The worst laptop keyboard ever made on Apple Still Hasn't Fixed Its MacBook Keyboard Problem (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I know nobody who likes it. Everyone in my office who has this latest generation, including me, avoids the built in keyboard if at all possible. Two people have had popped off, broken keys that required going to the mall to turn in the computer for over a week.

  9. Oh no on Nokia Firmware Blunder Sent Some User Data To China (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What a "blunder"

  10. Let me fix that headline for ya... on Twitter Cracks Down on API Abuse, Will Charge B2B Developers (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Google to charge B2B developers for API access, uses Cambridge Analytica as an excuse

  11. Both can be true. If you apply yourself and continue to refine your abilities you will almost assuredly end life on a higher rung of the economic ladder than you started.

    The rich are also going to buy their way into things. The two aren't mutually exclusive.

  12. Who did this research? on India Beats UK and US on Mobile Data Price (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If price comparisons aren't adjusted to cost of living, then they are entirely worthless.

  13. Oh great... on Reddit Tests Tipping Users (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    a new way to launder money for propaganda subreddits like r/politics. "Oh, isn't this comment declaring AOC a misunderstood genius just marvelous? He're a $20 tip, random user I've never met" *wink wink*.

  14. Not a prerelease movie that has gotten a lot of "culture war" press. I'm not surprised that a lot of people would go out of their way to say they're weren't interested in it.

  15. 40k+ for a Marvel movie, compared to four movies I've never heard of? That looks like some seriously cherry-picked data manufactured for outrage.

    Avengers Endgame has over 10k with a 98% "want to see" score, and that doesn't even come out for 2 months. The last Avengers movie has 52k.

  16. Re:What if we do yoga daily for 30 minutes? on Middle-Age Men Who Can Do 40+ Push-Ups Have Lower Heart Disease Risk, Study Finds (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not the same. Muscle mass plays heavily into these results. More muscle => higher metabolism => better heart health. These types of studies, usually done by people who aren't fitness experts, omit key correlations, such as the dietary habits of someone who cares to be able to do more than 40 pushups, and how that helps heart health as well.

    Note: this doesn't mean that more muscle is automatically good, but you have to get into bodybuilder/powerlifter territory before it starts having a negative impact.

  17. Emmanuel Goldstein at it again! Damn you, Goldstein!

  18. We're so screwed on IBM's AI Loses To a Human Debater (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Now they're building AI to construct persuasive arguments for any given position? It's amazing to watch the next millennia's caste system slowly come into fruition.

  19. 10 years of active AR development... on It's the Real World -- With Google Maps Layered on Top (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    ... and it's still gimmicky bullshit. The company LayAR built almost the exact same thing in 2010! They pivoted to the same old "put a 3D model on a picture" gimmick that was done for the Lego store in 2011.

  20. This is an entire analytics SaaS sub-genre. TechCrunch is just figuring this out? Have they never heard of IBM's Tealeaf?

  21. Remember how, in Die Hard, the terrorists believed that they were fighting for a greater cause? Didn't change the fact that they were fucking terrorists.

  22. Re:I know a lot of folks are upset at him on Researcher Reveals a Severe, Unpatched Mac Password Flaw To Protest Apple Bug Bounty (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    1) It's not clear that he'll just sit on it, especially considering he hasn't told a soul what it actually is. He could sell it on the black market and nobody would know it was this exact expoit.
    2) You said yourself that it's six figure exploit. You can have someone killed in the low fives.
    3) If it's a six figure exploit why wouldn't he be receiving credible offers?

  23. Re:I know a lot of folks are upset at him on Researcher Reveals a Severe, Unpatched Mac Password Flaw To Protest Apple Bug Bounty (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Is he just going to sit on it if Apple doesn't pay? Assuming this isn't all LARPing, do you think he's safe walking around with such a valuable 0day and supposedly altruistic intentions? Do you think he's not already getting seven figure crypto offers for it?

    The way he went about this shows that the guy is already ethically compromised.

  24. How is this not Black Hat? on Researcher Reveals a Severe, Unpatched Mac Password Flaw To Protest Apple Bug Bounty (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In "protest of a lack of bug bounties" this individual is:

    1. Posting a YouTube video showing a purported P1, 0day security exploit.
    2. Not releasing any information on how to reproduce or resolve their expoit.
    3. Holding out for Apple to pay a "bug bounty" (read: ransom)

    We're through the looking glass is this is what qualifies as "security research" nowadays.

  25. Look what we have here on Google's Sidewalk Labs Plans To Sell Location Data On Millions of Cellphones (theintercept.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sidewalk Labs explains that Replica’s data is purchased from telecommunications companies and companies that aggregate mobile location data from different apps.

    But I thought AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile stated that they'll no longer sell location data...