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  1. After the 2008 crash, yes we learned lenders would do anything for the next sale. People went to jail for this.

  2. All they need is a DNS 'proxy' to pull that code. How many organizations fully protect and monitor their DNS infrastructure?

  3. Because we remember when 'everyone involved' came out and said that the NSA wasn't spying on phone and internet traffic.

    And we remember when 'everyone involved' said that ATT did not have a special room that the NSA connected into the major telco fibers all across the US.

    And we remember when the government gave 'everyone involved' retro active immunity for spying on all the phone calls and internet traffic.

  4. You can put in any demographic information you like, but does FB follow it.

    For example, your IP address is from a 'poor' neighborhood.

    Or, you don't have friends with any other high class FB users.

  5. > All CURRENT copies have been edited.

    Welcome to 1984 and the memory hole.

  6. Re:Why even bring sea level into the story? on Study Suggests Buried Internet Infrastructure at Risk as Sea Levels Rise (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1

    Yea, but in a whole lot of places these cables are at risk anyway.

    Let's take sea level rise out of the equation for a minute. That saves you right? Wrong. Places like the southern US coast are dependent on re-sedimentation to maintain (and grow) above sea level. Modern water management and bathymetry practices mean that is not going to occur. Even if humans were good little stewards of CO2, the coast is still sinking, and will keep sinking as sediment compaction occurs over the next few hundred million years.

    The ocean is not static. The land is not static. If we want to avoid replacing cables around the ocean due to land level/sea level changes, starting an ice age is about the only solution. An extremely stupid solution at that.

  7. Re: Can't reason? on AI Can't Reason Why (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    >Like, to kill, you need a weapon.

    Until I choke you with my bare hands.

    Weapons just make it easier for anyone to kill anyone else. Otherwise its the strongest that get to choose who to kill.

  8. Re: And 300-400 workers less on Levi Strauss Replaces Human Sanding With Automated Lasers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    >There are already people who can 'grade' old jeans, who look at thread, rivets, the label and the cut to determine a pair of jeans is authentically vintage.

    Yea, but i've already replaced them with an AI vision system that does that for less.

  9. Re:Government playing with the Unemployment Number on From 1999 To 2016, America Lost 11.4 Million People From the Workforce (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    >meant that "unemployment" numbers were being fudged and misreported.

    I'm pretty sure you're correct, as today a report was released showing "over-employment" by the jobs numbers, along with very low increases in wages. If real over-employment were occurring wages would inflate rather rapidly. Now we are seeing the lie behind the number of unemployment.

  10. Re:One word: on From 1999 To 2016, America Lost 11.4 Million People From the Workforce (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    What, increasing the obesity rate of the population by 33% has side effects?

  11. Re:There's No Such Thing on 'Modern AI is Good at a Few Things But Bad at Everything Else' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    This is where you turned off your brain...

    It doesn't matter if AI cost 1 billion dollars, because, much like processor development it is spread over how ever many millions of units you sell.

    >It needs to be cheaper than Human labor to be useful because we live in a scarcity-driven world.

    Yes, the materials to make robots/computers are soooooo scarce. Uh, no not really. See the thing about AI/computers is you can turn them off. Humans keep eating, shitting, and taking up climate controlled space. Over the entire cost of ownership, the retarded robot will be far cheaper than the retarted person. That's why factories are full of machines now, and the humans are disappearing from the assembly line.

  12. Re:kinda naive on Linus Torvalds Says Intel Needs To Admit It Has Issues With CPUs (itwire.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    >you heard me. he may be a great programmer, but he doesn't know DICK about how hard it is to make a CPU

    Did you forget that Linus worked at Transmeta?

  13. Re:HTTPS on LAN requires domain or private CA on EFF Applauds 'Massive Change' to HTTPS (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    >Because don't CAs don't issue certificates for 192.168/16

    Which is good.

    >unning your own CA and installing its root on all devices on your network. The latter is difficult on many platforms.

    So if you want security don't buy shitty devices that don't allow you to install certs from your own CA. You are on this strange rant about SSL on the local network. Just fucking ignore the error on your local network.

  14. Re:Supliers will do cost-benefit analysis on Walmart to Vendors: Get Off Amazon's Cloud (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    >Walmart may be the loser when they won't sell these name brand, popular items.

    To avoid doing business with walmart is to invite death. To do business with walmart is to embrace death. P&G is not going to lose a multibillion dollar account because of AWS.

  15. Re:Companies aren't looking before they leap on Walmart to Vendors: Get Off Amazon's Cloud (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazon is an analytics company. They don't need access to your data. They already have access to your metadata. If you use their internal DNS you leak information. If you route traffic (even encrypted traffic) via their network that is not routed elsewhere via tunnel, they know who you contact.

    Much like we discovered how many tanks Germany was making in WWII, Amazon can apply some advanced math at your encrypted traffic patterns and deduce many things about your business.

  16. Re:Companies aren't looking before they leap on Walmart to Vendors: Get Off Amazon's Cloud (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    >So you are claiming Amazon data mines customers of AWS?!

    Yes. Yes they do. And if you can't think of how you are the idiot with a complete lack of imagination.

    Measurements of encrypted traffic between known data sources can give huge amount of information about the amount and type of business your competitor is doing. For example, the amount of routed traffic to IP addresses held by credit card processors. Significant fluctuations can give lots of info about the health of the company. Packets being routed to china or other foreign nations can leak information about vendors.

    Amazon is a top notch analytics company, and they can gain huge amounts of inside from secondary and tertiary sources, like DNS queries. Putting that data on your competitor's network is not only stupid, it could possibly be criminal under some SEC regulation.

  17. Re:No surprise, as it cannot perform anymore on Google Go-Playing A.I. Retires To Focus On Energy Conservation And Medicine (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    gweihir is Zap Brannigan

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  18. Re:Why is Croatian labor less valuable? on EU Lawmakers Include Spotify and iTunes In Geoblocking Ban (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    >Why is Croatian labor less valuable than English labor?

    Why is New Mexico labor less valuable than Silicon Valley labor?

    Why is New York City property more valuable than rural Nebraska property?

    Why is sex.com worth more than q4wsraioangi43948sw4g.com?

    Location, location, location. Each of the locations listed above is more valuable because it is a better location, be it a port city, a tech hub, or a easy typed name.

  19. Re:Its pretty important... on Louisiana's Governor Declares State Of Emergency Over Disappearing Coastline (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    >t you'd rather blame some river hacking for literally submerging Louisiana

    Yes, because in this case you don't know what you're talking about. Flordia is built on rock (limestone in fact), when it see rises it stays the same level. Louisiana is not. The LA flood plain, if we allowed the natural flow of the river would take far longer than all the other land around it to be submerged by sea level rise. You should learn how river deltas work, and the fact they naturally compress over time.

  20. Did you forget about the 1997 flood already?

  21. Re:And if the server authenticates the user (not o on FBI Will Revert To Using Fax Machines, Snail Mail For FOIA Requests (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    >>Most servers, in turn, authenticate the sender of outgoing mail.

    They do no such thing. They authenticate the 'username' and 'password' of an account. The sender could be anyone with that persons username, almost anywhere in the world. The amount of account compromises and password breaches we see every year pretty much guarantee that anyone who wants a 'fake' email can get one.

  22. Re:I feat they will put WiFi in every telephone ne on LG Threatens To Put Wi-Fi in Every Appliance it Introduces in 2017 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    >The worst thing my TV can do if hacked is stop working completely and forever.

    Or turn into part of a botnet attacking other peoples websites. Maybe you're on a metered connection and you'll go over your bandwidth quota.

    Oh, and maybe you have one of those smart TVs that responds to voice commands and can be turned into a listening device.

    Maybe the firmware settings like to reset themselves on the TV every 6 months so it starts looking for the nearest open wireless to connect to.

  23. Yea, if the showed where it took two days to download the movie, then it played really shitty quality for a few minutes before cutting over to goat porn before launching a virus that locked up your computer... People may have been a lot more interested in staying away from piracy.

  24. Re:people are tired of recycled movie plots on Piracy 'Warnings' Fail To Boost Box Office Revenues, Research Says (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Read those and you'll see why there is only a limited number of stories to be told. If you see 30 movies in your life they will all be pretty original. If you see 30 movies a year, the limited breadth of humanity will be apparent.

  25. If you pay to go to a movie, especially if you pay a lot to go to it (expensive ticket, expensive concessions), you will view it as being better than one you viewed cheaply or free. This is true for almost any product with price discrimination. People that pay more for a product feel better about the product in general even if it is the same product as the lower price choices.