The password was reset by his employer, San Bernadino County, and wasn't the password "on the phone" but on his Apple ID account (which was linked to the phone).
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I'd be willing to try a basic income approach (i.e. government sends everybody a small check every month), just because the current system has lead to a bunch of panhandlers with cardboard signs at every street corner (and some portion of the drivers that give them money). I know it'll never happen in my lifetime because of ideological feelings, but if you think deeply about it, it's more fair than our current hodge-podge of welfare, social programs, earned income tax credits, and throwing a few coins to the guy in the ragged clothes with the "anything helps" sign by the stoplight.
Since when do systems allow brute-force attacks on PIN numbers? Many systems have been locking out (or slowing down) logins after a certain number of failed attempts for a long time now. While this allows for denial-of-service attacks, it seems better than allowing a bot to try 1000 passwords per second until it succeeds.
58 years ago, people were saying the same scary things about Sputnik. Should we start teaching our kids to duck and cover? Or, maybe, keep up the deterrence approach that ended the Cold War? You bomb us, we bomb you, we're hurt but you cease to exist. No two-bit dictator is that crazy.
There are about 5 million houses sold each year in the US, and the median time to sell a house is 98 days. Do the math - most of those "vacant" houses are just in transition.
There are multiple empty houses for every man, woman, and child in America
No, there aren't. The house vacancy rate in the US is currently under 2 percent (and falling), which translates to about 1.4 million vacant homes. http://www.census.gov/housing/...
The same argument works for insider trading, robbing a liquor store, dealing drugs, and voting Republican. Just because it benefits you personally doesn't make it the right thing to do.
The real test of artificial intelligence will come when the self-driving vehicle will have to decide between plowing into a crowd of people to protect the driver, and smashing into a tree to protect the crowd of people - but killing the driver, when the accident is inevitable.
Yeah, I hate it when that happens (and it happens all the time). So far I've always chosen the crowd of people - why can't we just program the car to do the same?
I've been hearing big-brother paranoia theories for decades now. It used to be using credit cards - remember how that would allow the evil corporations to track your every move? Well, now everybody uses them for everything, and the world hasn't collapsed into a dystopian police state yet. And what about those threads in $20 bills? Have they rounded up all the cash yet?
Besides, this story isn't as evil as the headline states anyway - Google doesn't "want" to do anything, they're just doing research at this point. This is no different than using a heartbeat monitor to test for health problems, IMO.
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Patreus handed known classified info to a reporter/writer.
Who he was sleeping with.
Not sure we need to ban anything, but it would be wise for Uber to implement a "No Shooting People While Working For Us" policy.
I'm sure Lyft already has this policy.
The password was reset by his employer, San Bernadino County, and wasn't the password "on the phone" but on his Apple ID account (which was linked to the phone).
No it isn't, yes it is, etc., etc., etc.
I'd be willing to try a basic income approach (i.e. government sends everybody a small check every month), just because the current system has lead to a bunch of panhandlers with cardboard signs at every street corner (and some portion of the drivers that give them money). I know it'll never happen in my lifetime because of ideological feelings, but if you think deeply about it, it's more fair than our current hodge-podge of welfare, social programs, earned income tax credits, and throwing a few coins to the guy in the ragged clothes with the "anything helps" sign by the stoplight.
Since when do systems allow brute-force attacks on PIN numbers? Many systems have been locking out (or slowing down) logins after a certain number of failed attempts for a long time now. While this allows for denial-of-service attacks, it seems better than allowing a bot to try 1000 passwords per second until it succeeds.
58 years ago, people were saying the same scary things about Sputnik. Should we start teaching our kids to duck and cover? Or, maybe, keep up the deterrence approach that ended the Cold War? You bomb us, we bomb you, we're hurt but you cease to exist. No two-bit dictator is that crazy.
It's self-reported, so you can expect exaggeration. Most stock market day-traders claim they make money, too.
Rather than assuming aliens, it's far simpler to assume it's a natural phenomenon, like a cloud of dust passing between us and the star.
And we'll make the space aliens pay for them!
There are about 5 million houses sold each year in the US, and the median time to sell a house is 98 days. Do the math - most of those "vacant" houses are just in transition.
Cut-and-paste other programmer's code!
Now I'm thinking of writing a cellphone app called "Skyrocket", that lets you video yourself while walking.
There are multiple empty houses for every man, woman, and child in America
No, there aren't. The house vacancy rate in the US is currently under 2 percent (and falling), which translates to about 1.4 million vacant homes. http://www.census.gov/housing/...
Someday, you won't be able to enter your house without waiting for a software update to complete. Nirvana!
But Posner is working on it. "Genuinely dangerous ideas"? The horror, better redesign the language to avoid such things.
The same argument works for insider trading, robbing a liquor store, dealing drugs, and voting Republican. Just because it benefits you personally doesn't make it the right thing to do.
I'd suggest "Yay!" to save valuable screen real estate on smartphones.
You could sue him now for the climate impact of his jet flight to Paris.
It shouldn't be a big deal if social security numbers are released - the fault lies with a system that makes them so powerful.
The real test of artificial intelligence will come when the self-driving vehicle will have to decide between plowing into a crowd of people to protect the driver, and smashing into a tree to protect the crowd of people - but killing the driver, when the accident is inevitable.
Yeah, I hate it when that happens (and it happens all the time). So far I've always chosen the crowd of people - why can't we just program the car to do the same?
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Any field with "science" in it's name isn't one.
etc., etc. I was hearing the same stuff when I was in grad school back in the 80's. Who cares?
HP, the upcoming new one, Agilent, and Keysight.
I've been hearing big-brother paranoia theories for decades now. It used to be using credit cards - remember how that would allow the evil corporations to track your every move? Well, now everybody uses them for everything, and the world hasn't collapsed into a dystopian police state yet. And what about those threads in $20 bills? Have they rounded up all the cash yet?
Besides, this story isn't as evil as the headline states anyway - Google doesn't "want" to do anything, they're just doing research at this point. This is no different than using a heartbeat monitor to test for health problems, IMO.
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Back in the 1980's, it was 20 years away. Progress!