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  1. a publicly exposed language which has always had security issues,
    clever websites - not

  2. not just Google phones on Some Google Pixel Owners' Camera Photos Aren't Saving (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    not just Google phones.
    The last picture I took of my Dad disappeared.
    It reappeared days later with the bottom quarter lost.
    Locking the phone immediately seemed to cut off the picture processing.
    Luckily I've still got his last smile to remember him by.

  3. maybe HFA is a natural genetic advancement.
    I talk to God, he talks back and he helps me.

  4. statistics on Google AI Claims 99 Percent Accuracy In Metastatic Breast Cancer Detection · · Score: 2, Informative

    1 in 99 is really bad
    1000 women, about 120 will get breast cancer, if we miss-diagnose 10 cases, that could be as bad as 8% failure
    fuck statistics

  5. It's so critical we have to say it twice.

  6. money forever on President Trump Signs Music Modernization Act Into Law (billboard.com) · · Score: 1

    When a worker does some work, they get paid once.
    When a record company does some work they get paid forever.

  7. flying fucking morons on Boeing CEO: First Operational Self-Flying Cars Are Less Than 5 Years Out (geekwire.com) · · Score: 0

    Fucks, read the fucking next story about fucking limiting burning fucking fossil fuels,
    fuck you, you fucking morons

  8. Stop flying around the world for stupid fucking holidays

  9. favourite database on The First Rule of Microsoft Excel -- Don't Tell Anyone You're Good at It (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    What is the world's favourite database ?
    Excel

  10. Re:Too much caution is dangerous on Locals Reportedly Are Frustrated With Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    She t-boned you because you didn't then have the experience to avoid an idiot.
    My first week on a motorbike I was right turned (left in the US) because I didn't avoid an idiot,
    broken collar bone and bike.

  11. learner - 0% alcohol on Locals Reportedly Are Frustrated With Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Put a learner plate on them till they know what they are doing, enforce learner speed limits and 0% alcohol

  12. raspberry post on Is Your Email Address Holding You Back? (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have half a clue, get a raspberry-pi, get a domain name, set it up as an email and Wordpress server.
    Now you can project yourself as professional or personable as you want.
    You can be a household or expand to a company, show family or products,
    broadcast opinions, connect with others
    you own it, you control it, you secure it

  13. It is identical here in Australia. Started with unemployment benefits.
    Now anything to do with the government, they've made it difficult to not use my.gov.au,
    so far I've escaped the future.

  14. phone number got hijacked on Phone Numbers Were Never Meant as ID. Now We're All At Risk (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    My wife's phone number got hijacked and ported to another provider.
    This was used to attack the bank account and open new credit accounts.
    We responded quickly and luckily our bank had very safe procedures.
    But a lot of banks aren't as good. The police weren't very useful.
    We now have extra protections in place.

  15. who has control has the money on It's Not Technology That's Disrupting Our Jobs (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    A case study is the agrarian movement, grain farmers in the north west USA.
    Who controlled the production, storage, transport or markets.
    Forming groups, forcing others out of business, manipulating the markets.
    Farmers co-operatives, middlemen, large business, opportunists, monopolies, government regulation.
    Different business structures formed in different states and went through a number of phases over time.
    It got complicated and they played rough because there was a lot of money and power up for grabs.

  16. biodegrade on Tiny Plastic Is Everywhere (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Chemists worked out how to make plastics.
    Now their job is working out how to fully biodegrade plastics.
    If they could be degraded into something safe and useful, all the better.

  17. tell them to join the far queue

  18. I see this as theft, not even clever theft.
    But many innovators are, by necessity, standing on their predecessors shoulders.
    To integrate you often need to know how other products work.

    Ecclesiastes 1:9
    What has been will be again,
    what has been done will be done again;
    there is nothing new under the sun.

  19. Another good reason to switch from Windoze to Linux

  20. Re: Everyone knew the pump and dump was coming... on Fewer Than Half of Young Americans Are Positive About Capitalism (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    You're one of the youngsters.
    Look up Keynesian, nothing to do with what is happening in this greedy self indulgent world.
    Keynesian type economics helped take Australia through the 2008 GFC quite successfully.
    They're in for a harsh lesson of how the oligarchs shut down socialism.
    I'm over 60 and left of Gandhi

  21. gambling on Oracle Accused of Defrauding Investors On Cloud Sales Growth (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Investing in the stock market is speculation
    AKA gambling
    don't complain when the house takes your money

  22. good stuff on Why iPhone and Android Phone Prices Will Get Even Higher (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They're putting insanely good processor technology inside phones and it's got to cost.
    Each new model brings technology advancements,
    throwing out old silicon for the newest arm ++ with amazing IO.
    I use SBCs and am just starting to see cheaper offerings with a couple of A72 cores,
    I'd love to keep up with the Joneses but I'm cheap!

  23. network of trust on Vint Cerf on Differential Traceability on the Internet (acm.org) · · Score: 1

    I've been saying this for a few decades.
    We need positive identification as a basis for trust.
    You can be identified by biometrics and location.
    Your ID probably has to be underwritten by a number of official forms of identification,
    drivers license, bank card, passport, birth certificate, relatives, etc.
    Then a network has to be secure enough to base that trust on,
    probably verified by a cross referenced, Geo-located audit trail.
    Anonymity and obfuscation is bullshit.

  24. the wealthy ones are already over there.
    $150k, no way bro, that's a typo, more like $15k over there

  25. pity it's ubuntu and not debian