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  1. I don't think 5G is needed on Fifty 'Connected Cows' Already Have 5G (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    A couple of well placed access points on the farm and this whole thing could be done with wifi. No need for big monthly bills from the telco for connecting up a couple of hundred head of cattle. Hell, RFID will tell you which cow just came through the door. Dairy cows don't travel far. they need to return to the milker each morning and evening. That means they are within walking distance of the barn so that drastically reduces the area that you need to cover down to less than 100 acres, most likely 20 or 30 will do. Moreover, the cattle are likely to be in open field, so that make communication even easier. This is just overkill for the need and over hyping 5G

  2. Nothing to see here on Gmail Becomes First Major Email Provider To Support MTA-STS and TLS Reporting (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    My servers have been negotiating TLS connections for years. What's all this about?

  3. I uninstalled opera last night and switched back to Firefox. I don't like forced updates, but I value my privacy more than I object to forced updates.

  4. That would be because Mitch isn't working for the common good, he's working for the corporate good.

  5. This isn't new on Microsoft and Canonical Launch Visual Studio Code Snap For Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I installed a snap version of VSCode months ago on one or two of my Ubuntu boxes. yawn

  6. 3263 more pieces of space junk in orbit

  7. Ethics, anyone? The liberal arts types are the intuitives and the perceivers. They are a balance and the conscience of our societies. They put the big picture together. They are the ones that see the dangers of unrestrained technology and the intrusions into our lives. They are the ones that read Asimov and hold the 3 laws of robotics to be sacred and they should extend to artificial intelligence. The anthropologists, sociologists, historians, etc. are necessary. Especially historians. "He who fails to learn the lessons of history is doomed to repeat them."

  8. I'd want to know how to disable the behavior on Security Researchers Express Concerns Over Mozilla's New DNS Resolution For Firefox (ungleich.ch) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I run my own local recursorsive nameservers even on my portable devices. totally not interested in using anyone's resolvers but my own. I hope they publish instructions on how to bypass the behavior.

  9. There isn't any. You have no expectation of privacy on public services

  10. This would solve the problem of passwords on Biometric and App Logins Will Soon Be Pushed Across the Web (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    But make my identity easier to steal in the case of a data breach. This doesn't solve the problem.

  11. At least that's what they're saying on Northrop Grumman, Not SpaceX, Reported To Be at Fault For Loss of Top-Secret Zuma Satellite (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Call me paranoid and a conspiracy theorist (rarely, but when it comes things in space world governments are very duplicitous). But launch it and tell people it's lost. place blame, meanwhile the satellite goes back to being a secret.

  12. Doesn't this put Apple in violation of "right to repair" laws?

  13. run your own recursor on Cloudflare Launches 1.1.1.1 Consumer DNS Service With a Focus On Privacy (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I run my own recursor that points to the roots. pdns-recursor on linux. even in a vm is superior to any other solution I've tried.

  14. Except on Mark Zuckerberg: Tim Cook is 'Extremely Glib' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    That selling user data is how facebook makes their bread and butter. They're in it for the profit, not some altruistic sentiment about connecting people. The corporation acts in its own enlightened self interest, not yours. There is no incentive to protect your data.

  15. No, I disabled the service. Since I disabled the service 2 rounds of updates have been forced upon me. That was my cue to dump windows as my primary OS. I converted my windows workstation to a virtual machine and now run it under KVM on an Ubuntu desktop. Much happier

  16. Re:Explain to me please on Trump's Pick for New CIA Director Is Career Spymaster (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Only if she's complicit in destroying criminal evidence.

  17. First on Why Humans Learn Faster Than AI (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Artificial Intelligence isn't intelligent. It's still programmed and can't jump beyond the programmers bounds. Humans can jump past the logical. Humans don't rely on specific input, either.

  18. Re:please translate on Businesses Under Pressure To 'Consumerize' Logins (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Worse, if the problem is at Googbook, who are you going to talk to. Neither one of those companies knows anything about customer service.

  19. With a government system that tracks vehicle location and behavior? It will get perverted. Maybe Google or Facebook will buy or sell the information so they can target russian fake news at you while you're moving. George Orwell is probably spinning like high speed roller in his grave.

  20. Re:The Takeaway: Pay is Crap on Uber Challenges Study Suggesting Its Drivers Earn $3.37 Per Hour (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I have an IQ of 125. I'm over 50, so getting work is hard. I was unemployed for quite a while (sending resumes daily. actively hunting for a position.). In the meantime, I drove for Uber (survival). I wouldn't exactly call that lazy. It paid the bills, but I couldn't make enough to pay the rent. I finally found work before I was homeless and gave up running my car into the ground on poorly maintained city streets.

  21. Re:The real answer is to work within psychology on Airlines Won't Dare Use the Fastest Way to Board Planes (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually Southwest did a study on this several years ago. They concluded that even with reserved seats, the fastest way to get passengers on the plane is ad-hoc.

  22. What's the point? on Microsoft Finally Documents the Limitations of Windows 10 on ARM (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty obvious to me that that Windows 10 on ARM is not ready.

  23. I make about 1/3 of that and I'm 60. Since 2008 my pay has dropped by more than half. After age 50, you'll be lucky to be working. If you're 60 and out of work, it'll be time to work for yourself, because nobody will hire you. You blow the healthcare costs for the company out of whack. The excuse for not hiring the older worker? He's not a good fit which means, he's too old even though he meets all the rest of the criteria. Health insurance is the problem, not the solution.

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

    I have to agree, that AI is not intelligent. It's pattern recognition, but the decisions are still programmed. Until a program can jump beyond logic or it's own parameters (Man I hope that never happens), it's not intelligent. The experts all tell us that real AI is probably still 100 years out.

  25. Of course none of that info is secure any longer due to spectre and meltdown on the Intel side. Everyone is going to need to replace their CPU's. There's going to be a huge class action lawsuit (or several of them.)