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  1. https on Google and Facebook Can Be Legally Intercepted, Says UK Spy Boss · · Score: 1

    This brings me to the question: how secure is https these days?

  2. Re:Proprietary fonts on Unicode 7.0 Released, Supporting 23 New Scripts · · Score: 1

    The problem is not with Unicode. Don't blame the character set, blame the font-specification, the software, and copyrights (!)

    In my view, every font that does not specify all unicode characters should point to one or more fall-back fonts, and the search should proceed recursively. Eventually, there should be a default "unicode" font implementing all characters.

    Also, fonts should not be copyrightable, because that adds greatly to the whole mess.

  3. In other words... on Netflix Shutters Its Public API · · Score: 1

    Thanks, developers, for bringing an unsurpassed level of adoption to our service.

    Now you can take a hike!

  4. Re:The world... on Are the Glory Days of Analog Engineering Over? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Most digital engineers can do analog design as well.
    Digital is generally much more complicated than analog design.

    Doing things like out-of-order execution, and cache-coherence are much more complicated than, e.g., amplifying a signal, or matching impedances, etc.

    Also, most analog stuff can simply be found in cookbooks.

  5. Re:Progenitors? on Aliens and the Fermi Paradox · · Score: 1

    The problem with this assumption is that life began relatively early in the development of Earth.

    If life would be so difficult to create, you'd expect it to start much later.

  6. Platforms, frameworks, etcetera on A Quadcopter Development Platform (Video) · · Score: 1

    If the term "platform" is even slightly comparable to "framework", it is time to run.

  7. Y2K on Latin America Exhausts IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    This sounds like Y2K all over again...

  8. Re:Facial Recog has a high failure rate on Chicago Robber Caught By Facial Recognition Sentenced To 22 Years · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Facial Recog has a high failure rate on Chicago Robber Caught By Facial Recognition Sentenced To 22 Years · · Score: 1

    The best way to rob a bank is to own it...

  10. Re:Other than profit, difference from SETI@home? on NSF Researcher Suspended For Mining Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    Next up: using your spare cycles to mine bitcoins for a good cause.

  11. Re:Throw the book... maybe literally at him. on NSF Researcher Suspended For Mining Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    1. you don't know if he actually wasted anything (the computers could have been idle otherwise)
    2. perhaps he intended to donate the money, or he needed it to help a relative, etc.; you just don't know anything about the situation.

  12. Of course they used as a control a group of children who underwent the procedure without anesthesia?

  13. Re:useless; who writes this crap? on iOS 8 Strikes an Unexpected Blow Against Location Tracking · · Score: 0

    Of course you're traceable once you've connected; how else could you stay connected and get traffic to your device?

    The point is that after you connect *again*, you are linkable to the previous you.

  14. Re:US Government is Corrupt by Inspection on Kim Dotcom Offers $5 Million Bounty To Defeat Extradition · · Score: 1

    The US Government is corrupt in the same way that 1 + 1 = 2. You needn't prove it to know it is true.

    Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell actually needed about 378 pages to prove that 1+1=2, in their Principia Mathematica.

    From wikipedia:

    "From this proposition it will follow, when arithmetical addition has been defined, that 1+1=2." —Volume I, 1st edition, page 379 (page 362 in 2nd edition; page 360 in abridged version). (The proof is actually completed in Volume II, 1st edition, page 86, accompanied by the comment, "The above proposition is occasionally useful.")

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

  15. Re:Government fails again on Why NASA's Budget "Victory" Is Anything But · · Score: 1

    You forgot to mention the building of internet infrastructure.

  16. Re:Government fails again on Why NASA's Budget "Victory" Is Anything But · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding? Space is open for exploration by private companies. No (or few) restrictions there.

  17. Re:Never use the wifi at an airport on Free Wi-Fi Coming To Atlanta's Airport · · Score: 1

    There's nowhere to hide your screen there, so you're going to be watched by analog hole tech.

    Meet the "laptop sock".
    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ffcH...

  18. Re:Just do it again on SpaceX Landing Video Cleanup Making Progress · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or they could just pay the license fee to unlock the DRM.

  19. Re:Do No Evil so why not delete the info? on Google Has Received Over 41,000 Requests To "Forget" Personal Information · · Score: 1

    A scam artist would love to hide evidence of his past scams. OTOH his past victims/potential victims would probably insist the information be broadcasted far and wide.

    But what if the victims were also named in the records of information?

  20. Re:Do No Evil so why not delete the info? on Google Has Received Over 41,000 Requests To "Forget" Personal Information · · Score: 1, Funny

    Failing to employ someone in there 40s because they had a shoplifting conviction when they were 18 is unfair on the silly mistakes of youth.

    Unfair? They should have seen the internet coming, like the rest of us.

  21. Re:Universe expanding faster than the speed of lig on The Disappearing Universe · · Score: 1

    Also, the names of these faster-than-light particles would be good to know.

    They are called "tachyons".

  22. Re:terrifying? on The Disappearing Universe · · Score: 1

    If they are really intelligences, they would be gone before the jet starts spraying.

    As for dark matter, that is probably just intelligences shielding off their stars with energy-collecting spheres.

  23. I can understand on This 360-Degree, 4K Video Camera isn't Getting Kickstarted (Video) · · Score: 1

    It only records cylindrically, not spherically.

  24. Re:So timmy likes to cruise SF on This 360-Degree, 4K Video Camera isn't Getting Kickstarted (Video) · · Score: 1

    Are you hinting at a new use-case for this camera?

  25. Re:Use case? on This 360-Degree, 4K Video Camera isn't Getting Kickstarted (Video) · · Score: 1

    They should open a kickstarter project for growing a second visual cortex in the human brain. *Then* this camera project will become useful. Perhaps.