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  1. Drones with Cameras on Israel Thwarts Attempt To Smuggle Commercial Drones Into Gaza · · Score: 4, Funny

    The genocide will not be televised.

  2. .... I never read my company e-mail.

  3. ... meme

  4. ... is getting into this business as well. They have programmed an autonomous vehicle to follow ambulances.

  5. Yeah, but ... on NASA's Search For Astronauts Yields a Deluge of Applicants · · Score: 1

    ... most of them are Kerbals applying via the H-1B program.

  6. Re:Password change was by San Bernadino county on Apple: Terrorist's Apple ID Password Changed In Government Custody (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    And that password reset appears to have been for the iCloud (backup) account. Not the phone lock code itself. The FBI claims that no recent backups were performed and so the phone may contain data available nowhere else.

  7. Help the FBI out. Write them their little app and let them crack the iPhone. Even though it appears that this is just an exercise in making you jump when the Justice Department whistles.

    Then, go back to the drawing board and, between an OS patch and maybe some more secure hardware, fix it so that your back door program never works on a new phone.

  8. ... hurt the one you love.

  9. Re:Why Bother making it an arm? on Wearable Third Arm Gives Drummers Extra Robotic Rhythm (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1
  10. Re:All thes drummers.. on Wearable Third Arm Gives Drummers Extra Robotic Rhythm (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    .. or Mick Shrimpton, Eric "Stumpy Joe" Childs, Joe "Mama" Besser or Chris "Poppa" Cadeau?

  11. Pay for bandwidth? on Mobile Giant Three Group To Block Online Advertising (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Great! But how could I, as a customer of Three, get a piece of this deal? Want to shovel adware across the carrier's network? Fine. Pay for the privilege. But if you want to consume my devices CPU, battery and storage resources, why am I not also getting a piece of the action?

  12. Re:Richard Burr - re-read the Constitution fucktar on N. Carolina Senator Drafting Bill To Criminalize Apple's Refusal To Aid Decryption (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple is protecting itself from charge of Treason

    Not really. Either way this decision goes down, Apple is not engaging in acts to overthrow this country, or provide aid to an enemy. Farook is/was a US citizen and the FBI has shown no evidence* that he was working with any foreign nationals. So there's no treason demonstrated there either. Apple has no standing as a defendant in this case, so the Fifth Amendment doesn't apply.

    What Apple is protecting is the intangible value of the perception of security that their technology has. Should Apple demonstrate a method for cracking iOS encryption, others will look for and eventually discover it. I wouldn't trust FBI employees not to divulge it to various totalitarian regimes' security services. Like Mi5.

    *Evidence like call, e-mail or SMS metadata provided by Farook's cellular carrier.

  13. One or more votes? on Google Submits Patent Application For Online Voting (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't like where this is going.

  14. Re:Haven't we already debunked this? on Paris Attacks Would Not Have Happened Without Crypto (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Repeating it again and again doesn't make it true.

    It appears that Rogers is a graduate of the Goebbels school of public relations.

  15. Re: That's the old hobbits. What about the new? on New Study Shows Mystery 'Hobbits' Not Humans Like Us (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    This IS pushing up the average human height,

    Good. More 'rekt' videos on some of the gore websites. Tall people seem to suffer from the really hideous skeletal injuries to a greater degree than short ones. The down side of this; as height is selected, there is no more Darwinian 'survival of the fittest' in operation to weed the tall ones out. They will continue among us, limping around like cripples and breeding.

  16. Re:I can see it now... on Judge Tells Apple To Help FBI Access San Bernardino Shooters' iPhone (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    info on who they where talking to.

    Metadata. Call records. AT&T or Verizon has it. Serve the warrant. Leave Apple alone.

  17. Re:I can see it now... on Judge Tells Apple To Help FBI Access San Bernardino Shooters' iPhone (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Good luck with that.

    Failure might be what the judge wants. And in a very public forum. Can't crack the password? Oh noes! Tragedy! Something must be done. The terrorists have gotten away with it.

    For all we know, there is nothing on the phone other than a bunch of duck-face terrorist selfies. But this is very much in the public's eye. So now is the time for the dog and pony show.

  18. I doubt that kind of thing is in an iphone, but who knows.

    I would expect that Apple knows. And if there is a procedure that involves getting at the phone's innards or encrypted disk, they will know how.

  19. Re:There is one on Camless Internal Combustion and the Digital Age (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds good. I'll take two.

  20. Re:I don't think it's fuddy-duddies on Camless Internal Combustion and the Digital Age (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Being able to vary the valve timing under computer control could have some advantages,

    Yes. And there are some schemes that can modulate the relationship between each DOHC shaft relative to the crank position. And that pretty much achieves what TFA proposes with much lower actuator power and nearly the same flexibility. So, problem solved.

  21. Re:Outsource management to AI on Why Some Cities Get All the Good Jobs (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    This is why you set up a VPN server at your home for your Chinese subcontractors to work through.

  22. Re:Split device and power supply on New Energy Efficiency Standards Take Effect This Week In the US (nrdc.org) · · Score: 1

    but with an enforced standard

    Apple would still go off and do their own thing. With an available adapter cable that, if procured from a third party would brick your iDevice.

  23. Re:Sleeping While Connected? on IETF's Tips For Network Admins On How To Avoid Draining Smartphone Batteries (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Since the NSA told all phone manufacturers to keep track of users at all times.

  24. But technology moves on on Nanostructured Glass Could Provide Highly Durable, Deeply Dense Data Storage (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    And soon, these glass disks will be like 8 inch floppies that nobody can find a drive to read. So much for your 13.8 billion year lifetime.

  25. Re:Outsource management to AI on Why Some Cities Get All the Good Jobs (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    With current technology, people working remote, working flexible hours, etc. Workers are less likely to interact with management,

    So how does management know that they are real workers? Perhaps they are a few instances of code writing AI hosted on some cloud service. Each with its own phony name and social security number, cranking out code and collecting a salary.