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  1. Chinese Facial Recognition Computer Crashes on Chinese Police Begin Tracking Citizens With Face-Recognizing Smart Glasses (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    After being online for less than 15 minutes, the computer that controls the Chinese governments Facial Recognition system crashed. The computer, exasperated reported:

    "Fatal Error 70013 - They All Look the Same"

  2. "Creator" is the new "Information Worker" on Windows 10's Next Update Will Be Called 'Spring Creators Update' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember, when a few years ago, we were all "information workers". We were either creating, modifying, or consuming information. Now, we are all "creators". If you post anything, if you type anything, if you draw anything, you are a creator. You haven't changed one iota, but your label changed and someone genius in marketing just justified his or her Masters by putting a new ribbon on the barrel of shit.

  3. Nexus 6P??? No??? Damn! on Google Launches First Android P Developer Preview (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd love to try this out on my Nexus 6P (Fi), but looks like I may have to test it on my wife's Pixel. Which means I risk the Wrath of the Woman if I brick it.

  4. Yes, video games are violent. But, they have ratings. If you think a game is too violent for your kid, then enforce your rules in your own family. Speaking as a 55+ year old gamer (my wife gives me the rules for when I can game), I wonder about the kids I hear in my headset and how they probably have no adult supervision. Although, I did "witness" one kid cussing into his mic and hearing his dad yell in the background, "What did I just hear you say? I told you what would happen." Then I heard the kid plead that he was in the middle of a mission and "please don't take my XB...(dead air, 'foulmouthkid has disappeared' and probably been murderized by his father)"

  5. SECSLEAKS.ORG on Lawsuits Threaten Infosec Research -- Just When We Need it Most (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Security Stat Leaks - secsleaks.org should be the name.

  6. Re:Is it illegal to tweet? on NBC Publishes 200,000 Tweets Tied To Russian Trolls · · Score: 1

    So, it's illegal to discuss and plan your tweets? Isn't this what "activists" do in their PAC's? How is a tweet defrauding the United States? If you and I get together and decide we are going to relentlessly tweet that X Legislation is bad for America and we create a bunch of bots to tweet the same, how is that illegal? It may violate various user agreements with the services it goes out on, but what law is broken by amplifying your voice with bots and stating your opinion or the general opinion of a group?

  7. Is it illegal to tweet? on NBC Publishes 200,000 Tweets Tied To Russian Trolls · · Score: 1

    So, question: Is it illegal to tweet a political opinion? Is it illegal to tweet about a candidate? I remember Mikhail Gorbachev writing editorials about American politics. What is the crime here?

  8. Governments... on Russian Nuclear Scientists Arrested For 'Bitcoin Mining Plot' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Governments really hate when you use their equipment for private purposes. Especially if you are making money, making drugs, or...

  9. Re:Characterization of Service on Hawaii Missile Alert Worker Fired, Will Sue State for Defamation (khon2.com) · · Score: 2

    In a number of news reports they stated the employee had previous issues with instability, thinking drills were real, and other issues.

  10. Characterization of Service on Hawaii Missile Alert Worker Fired, Will Sue State for Defamation (khon2.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    To avoid issues, government HR briefs supervisors that when commenting on the dismissal of an employee, or providing a reference or confirmation of employment that is is important NOT to provide a characterization of service. In other words you say:

    • Yes, he/she worked here for the time period specified.
    • He/she has been released from service.
    • We are prevented from providing a characterization of service positive or negative.

    The fact they provided, to the press, a characterization of his service, include details about his past issues, the State of Hawaii should probably settle and then brief their Emergency Management folks to keep their &^%*ing mouths shut next time.

  11. Re:FBI used unconfirmed hit piece to spy on citize on GOP Memo Criticizing FBI Surveillance is Released (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    Here's your cigar. You win this one. You are correct, this is the thing that shows how FISA was misused. The willingness to do so by the FBI and the willingness of political leaders to keep it under wraps is the scary part. It almost makes the FBI and FISA a Star Chamber.

  12. Re:Nothing partisan about the memo on GOP Memo Criticizing FBI Surveillance is Released (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Everything that Muller has that came from these FISA warrants is now "fruit of the forbidden tree". That is everything that descends, any secondary, tertiary information that came from a source identified. Their problem is that there would be no collusion investigation without the Steele dossier. They cannot argue that they would have discovered the information anyway because there would have been no investigation.

    No wonder the Democrats didn't want this released. It just destroyed their narrative.

  13. STD - Black K'lap Alert on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Sci-Fi Books, Movies, and TV Shows You're Looking Forward To? · · Score: 1

    The Crew of the STD must race against time to rescue Captain P'nn Esln a planet of spore worshipers and who holds the key to stopping the Klingons new biological weapon known by the code name: Black K'lap.

  14. "I stopped after two chapters... on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    "I stopped after two chapters because it was so boring. It is really quite a bad book."

    So, he made a movie that was even worse. I can't help but think had he actually read the book, he would have got the point and maybe actually made the movie the book deserved.

  15. You miss the point... on Two More Gamers May Be Charged in Fatal Kansas 'SWAT' Shooting (kansas.com) · · Score: 0

    ...there is not just a single crime here. There's more than enough blame to go around. However, your focus on just the police officer shows a cowardly support of the swatter that sent the officer to the man's door.

  16. No Amazon Store Access on Walmart Teams Up With Kobo To Sell EBooks and Audiobooks (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    No Amazon store access so I can access my Kindle library...no sale.

  17. Re:See Saw Cycles of Adoption and Abandonment on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Will Default To The X.Org Stack, Not Wayland (phoronix.com) · · Score: 0

    So you say you produced shit code? That your work product was shit? Hell of a thing to admit.

  18. Re:See Saw Cycles of Adoption and Abandonment on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Will Default To The X.Org Stack, Not Wayland (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you telling me that Linux users are not smart enough to make the changes they want? I've been hearing the exact opposite for ages about why Linux users are freakin' geniuses for their ability to do just that. The "Tyranny of the Default" does not apply to Linux users by definition of the term "Linux User".

  19. Re:See Saw Cycles of Adoption and Abandonment on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Will Default To The X.Org Stack, Not Wayland (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    I disagree. If they were totally abandoning Wayland, then you'd have a point. They simply saying, "Hey! Look! Choice! Yay us."

  20. See Saw Cycles of Adoption and Abandonment on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Will Default To The X.Org Stack, Not Wayland (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Really, these things swing back and forth and really is a non-news item. The headline should be changed to read: Defaults to X.org Allows Choice of Wayland. Which is not really newsworthy.

    In other words, "Meh."

  21. What About Fluffy Bunny Email Addresses on Admiral Charges Hotmail Users More For Car Insurance (thetimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    What about those fetish style email addresses:

    ISnipedU@mail.com

    HelloKitty666@gmail.com

    panterarules@rockdweeb.net

    nickelbackforlife@lds.org

    Do these have some sort of deleterious consequence?

  22. The Twitter password was on the postit note in the Hawaii EOC picture from last summer. He should have just called them.

  23. Google - Just As Evil... on Google Just Broke Amazon's Workaround For YouTube On Fire TV (cordcuttersnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Google - We're Just As Evil As Any Corporation

  24. Of course they do... on More Wall Street Pundits Caution Against Investing In Bitcoins (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    ...they may be sane. They abide by buy low sell high. Bitcoin may never be stable enough to ever be a good idea.

  25. Re: Here's an idea on City of Barcelona Dumps Windows For Linux and Open Source Software (europa.eu) · · Score: 1

    Boy did you miss the point of the post. Wooosh, that was the sound of the point fly past you at mach 2 and 25k feet.