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  1. Statute of limitations expired. on Massive Tinder Photo Scrape Has Users Upset (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I've personally made a few bucks scraping the entire use database of a bar, online golf game that ran tournies. For their competitors.

    Just don't advertise what your doing and nobody cares.

    I never had an account, never agreed to TOS. Zero security, enter acct name, data came up. Just hammered the site, brute force.

  2. Re:Attention whoring of the highest order on Massive Tinder Photo Scrape Has Users Upset (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Also most: duck lips, startled look, tits stuck out at camera, in tight so fat not visible, flexing, scanned from _film_ print, completely fake.

  3. Re:How quickly some forget... on Wired Founding Editor Now Challenges 'The Myth of A Superhuman AI' (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Let an AI play with a cat, and you'll get an _evil_ AI, so now we know how it starts.

  4. Re:Well it's easy to show superhuman AI is a myth. on Wired Founding Editor Now Challenges 'The Myth of A Superhuman AI' (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    If my neighbor asked to borrow my car, I'd take it as a sign he was crazy. I've seen how he drives ('like old people fuck, slow and sloppy' Carlin). I know he knows I've got enough ponies bolted to my car to make it bite. I don't think he even drives stick.

    If he asked to borrow me and my truck, I'd likely help, but he isn't driving anything.

    The only thing about the neighbor that would be weird is the lie. I'd expect him to tell me 'no' or 'hell no'. Unless his car was a complete POS, then, maybe. Could be limping, until he could afford to fix it. Then 'broken' would be technically true.

    Nobody likes being lied to. Lie to a German, about something you both know, watch what happens.

  5. Spare us. on Developer Hacks Together Object-Oriented HTML (github.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Another genius, building his own framework, just what the world needs.

  6. Re:In a world... on Australia Wants ISPs To Protect Customers From Viruses (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    Installers helpfully open ports for you and even setup port forwarding (insert alphabet soup acronym).

    Apparently, on consumer routers, no credentials are required, it is logged. Completely idiot proof...

  7. Re:Double Ha on Australia Wants ISPs To Protect Customers From Viruses (sophos.com) · · Score: 2

    What do you want them to do?

    Even paving it over isn't guaranteed to work, shit infects your bios and comes back. Free tech support with a consumer ISP contract?

    This is exactly what an ISP should do. They can't protect you from yourself, but they can protect the larger net from zombies. Of course the bot herders will just adapt, might stop some kiddies.

  8. Re:People like Musk need to do more homework on Elon Musk Outlines His 'Boring' Vision For Traffic-Avoiding Tunnels (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    S cal traffic sucks, but Bostonians are much worse drivers. They don't signal lange changes, because they know if they did, some other masshole whole put their car into the spot just to block them, even if that one needed to be three lanes the other way in a quarter mile.

  9. Re:I agree, but not for the same reasons as Musk on Why Elon Musk Doesn't Like Flying Cars (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    The hyperloop becomes a 'roller coaster'. If it's even possible for one to get stuck, you have to space them so they can ebrake before they hit the stuck one. Really needs a way to 'switch tracks' so traffic can divert to stops rather than get them all stuck.

  10. Re:The problem on Why Elon Musk Doesn't Like Flying Cars (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Quads can't, no variable pitch blades.

    Hex or Octo is required to have any redundancy. But for that to work, you have to overbuild all the motors, so it can land, basically, as a quad.

    You could 'emergency mode' the motor controllers, put the motors into high output/low life 'mode' when in emergency landing mode (ref: see 1 million electric truck racing threads), but then you've got an all motors maintenance issue. Weather you overbuild, or switch to 'war power' your putting non-routine stress on a motor/blade set, one of which just had a problem. The prudent move would be to have all 8 looked at. Should have all motors, in turn momentarily at emergency power but not spun up as part of preflight, so it's routine, monitored, stress.

    Racers would figure out how to switch to emergency power and race them. Some might even do it legally.

  11. Re:Quadcopters are Transportation 2.0 for deaf on Why Elon Musk Doesn't Like Flying Cars (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Not so much with the new generations. Local cops got a new 'ghetto bird', sounds like it's 'differential is about to fail' (I'd pull over if my car made that noise), but it's _much_ quieter.

    I think the pilot navigates by eye and uses a local set of intersections as a reference, you can see him find it, then vector to where he's going. Must be an old fart, gotta have GPS.

  12. Re:Really? on Why Elon Musk Doesn't Like Flying Cars (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    What % of test failures are lack of maintenance and what % are illegal tunes?

    Some 'tunes' are idiotic and dangerous, (e.g spring cuts, camber, blown alcohol on the street), but are still 'different' than 'lack of brakes' etc.

  13. Re:Look at all the anti vehicle protection round p on Why Elon Musk Doesn't Like Flying Cars (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Now that you mention it, these flying cars are sounding better and better. I'm starting to reconsider.

    I bet you could put the turbine/gensets, batteries, controllers and motors from a large one into a little one. Build custom 5 blade 3d printed titanium impellers, start pulling some Gs.

  14. Re: Look at all the anti vehicle protection round on Why Elon Musk Doesn't Like Flying Cars (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    How much time did he end up doing? I never heard, just that he crash landed and got busted.

  15. Re: Typically Boring Comment on Why Elon Musk Doesn't Like Flying Cars (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    How much market overlap do you think there is between electric cars and flying cars? Now remove those people that can just afford both as they are 'richer's toys' anyhow. Who's left?

    As to electric flying cars, hard range limit based on battery energy and power densities. 15 minutes, w. your ass, in the wind. Less w a shell. What was that battery density Moore's law analog rate? You can work out about when they might start to work for a commute.

    I just want the revenue for the 'flying car fails' youtube channel. (Like there will only be one.) If flying cars happen I bet the landing pads and air around them are under constant private video surveillance. Like the low bridges that peal truck boxes.

  16. I have a few different trees, two with multiple varieties grafted on one trunk. And a garden.

    'Ripe' is a moving target. Currently for many fruits and vegetables commercial 'ripe', isn't.

    And it will likely never be for cities 2000 miles away from the harvest. But for closer places there is a market for actually ripe fruit/veg.

    That will require complex supply chain management. Including picking fruit at different ripeness for different markets.

    Getting a steady seasonal supply of actually ripe tomatoes to groceries is a complex logistics/handling problem. For most markets, most of the year, it is impossible (but 'no' is a valid answer). Today they don't even try, who hasn't seen ripe tomatoes on the roadside while the grocery stores sell 'the usual'. Picking robots, 'eggshell' packaging and picking to market will be part of the solution to that problem.

    I bet right now, the 'ripe' tomatoes get junked or sauced, won't make it to market anyhow.

  17. You realize all the three letter agencies have internal politics/politicians? They leak for advantage _all_ the time. At that level, normal classified document rules don't seem to apply, depending on exactly who they aligned with and leaked for. Still they are politicians, we've recently seen how technically inept they (and their aids) are, as a group.

    Reading it: it sounds like they used this technique to test individuals/offices. Instructions say to test samples of documents using software identical to that used by the _target_ to see if it will work

    Not used on all classified documents on their system, you tell me why?

  18. Re: OH SHIT! PREPARE FOR ANGRY LEFTIES! on WikiLeaks Reveals the 'Snowden Stopper': CIA Tool To Track Whistleblowers (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I assume everybody on this thread (including me) are different voices in some schizo's head.

    You see it here once in awhile. A glimpse of their construct.

  19. Re:Pay the price on Washington State Orchard Owners Look To Robots As Labor Shortage Worsens (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If you can't compete with the cost of automation, give up and find something else, the price has been set.

    Europe has long had robotic pickers. They don't have Mexicans. Poles want real money.

    It's not done until the robot pickers are INXS. They should be running up and down the rows looking for perfectly ripe fruit with an array of sensors, not taking 90% in one pass.

  20. The virus writers went elsewhere and people forgot. The CIA didn't forget.

    But the 'feature' is useless if it's so easy to detect. Bet they never let it into the wide of their own secure networks, for fear of their politicians getting 'caught' and embarrassed.

  21. That's why I edit all files with a hex editor on a system running CP/M.

  22. Re:Literally in the Summary on Report Shows Another Diversity Challenge: Retaining Employees (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    In the USA they are required to keep you job (or one just like it) open. There is an expectation that the parent will return.

    Contractors see these, short term, might turn perm, roles all the time.

    If you believe this doesn't affect the job prospects of childbearing age women, I've got a bridge to sell you. But it _should_ affect their job prospects, just like any other real factor. The law be damned.

  23. Re: AKA "snowflake syndrome" on Report Shows Another Diversity Challenge: Retaining Employees (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Someday, we might get a president not like that. Not anytime soon though.

  24. Include the date this program started...1945. Truth is it started earlier, but was formalized after the end of WWII.

    I first heard rumors of the phone metadata database in the mid 1980s. At the time it was accepted, by those considered paranoid at the time, that the NSA had mapped relationships to the extent they knew anybody you had _ever_ repeatedly called on the phone. Granting it was noisy data at the time, phones to people not being as one to one as they are today.

  25. Re:People like Musk need to do more homework on Elon Musk Outlines His 'Boring' Vision For Traffic-Avoiding Tunnels (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Never been to Boston?