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  1. Help Wanted on "Intelligent" Avatars Poised To Manage Airline Check-In · · Score: 1

    Humans need not apply.

  2. Isn't this a conflict of interest on Google's Project Zero Aims To Find Exploits Before Attackers Do · · Score: 1

    Between Google and the NSA?

  3. I'm all for automation and I think it looks promising.
    What I don't want to see are solutions that are dependent on outside resources (for example SIRI on the iPhone, it has to use a connected server to do what it does), I prefer to see solutions that are autonomous, inclusive and complete without the need for Internet or an outside server (unless you choose to do so)

  4. Soon... on The AI Boss That Deploys Hong Kong's Subway Engineers · · Score: 1

    You won't even have to train the workers, they will have Google Glass like interface with which instructions sent from the AI tell the "human" what to do.

    Humans will become the hands and feet of the AI.

  5. Re:Solving a problem that shouldn't exist on Google and Microsoft Plan Kill Switches On Smartphones · · Score: 2

    You're correct, lets start with the bankers and phone company CEO's.

  6. Laugh on Google and Microsoft Plan Kill Switches On Smartphones · · Score: 1

    that a technological solution has the potential to end the victimization of wireless consumers everywhere

    Does that include the victimization the phone companies are doling out with their 2 year plans, termination fees, data caps and generally shitty service?

  7. Well.. on Project Un1c0rn Wants To Be the Google For Lazy Security Flaws · · Score: 1

    Shodan HQ?

  8. Microsoft doesn't want another Windows XP, I'll wager they are after a 5 year turn around or perhaps even faster.

    $'s.

  9. Re:Laugh on The Ethics Cloud Over Ballmer's $2 Billion B-Ball Buy · · Score: 1

    What exactly are you trying to say?

  10. Re:Think harder Rick on The Ethics Cloud Over Ballmer's $2 Billion B-Ball Buy · · Score: 1

    With the last name "Cohen" hyperbole is expected.

  11. Re:What, exactly, is expected here? on The Ethics Cloud Over Ballmer's $2 Billion B-Ball Buy · · Score: 1

    People like you are dangerous, I know you can't see it, but you're far worse than Sterling.

  12. Laugh on The Ethics Cloud Over Ballmer's $2 Billion B-Ball Buy · · Score: 1

    It is hard to imagine any more heinous way of earning money than by benefiting from racism," writes Rick Cohen

    I find the whole thing hilarious, all the old man said was "I don't want to be around or associated with blacks" to a woman who is on video as saying
    "Blacks are stupid and crazy"
    http://nypost.com/2014/06/01/s...

    Then the media circus is queued and he is "forced" to sell the team, winds up getting 2 billion tax free.

    Racism never entered into it, if a person says "I don't want to be around those kinds of people" it isn't "racism" it's a personal preference.

    My suggestion is that things went exactly the way Sterling wanted them to, and it's hilarious, the other option is that he was played to get the team out from under him.

  13. NSA on TrueCrypt Website Says To Switch To BitLocker · · Score: 1

    The message on TrueCrypt's new website got me thinking:
            Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues

            Let's isolate the first letter of each word:
            (U)sing (T)rueCrypt (i)s (n)ot (s)ecure (a)s (i)t (m)ay (c)ontain (u)nfixed (s)ecurity (i)ssues

            Result?
            utinsaimcusi

            Let's spread that!
            uti nsa im cu si

            That is latin for
            "If I wish to use the NSA"

            Stay away from future Truecrypt releases. This is clearly a warning from the developers.

  14. NSA on The Sudden Policy Change In Truecrypt Explained · · Score: 1

    The message on TrueCrypt's new website got me thinking:
            Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues

            Let's isolate the first letter of each word:
            (U)sing (T)rueCrypt (i)s (n)ot (s)ecure (a)s (i)t (m)ay (c)ontain (u)nfixed (s)ecurity (i)ssues

            Result?
            utinsaimcusi

            Let's spread that!
            uti nsa im cu si

            That is latin for
            "If I wish to use the NSA"

            Stay away from future Truecrypt releases. This is clearly a warning from the developers.

  15. Re:Even better bundle on AT&T Charges $750 For One Minute of International Data Roaming · · Score: 2

    Yeah I like how ATT sells it as a favour to the customer when it's really about being able to charge more for your information when they sell it to 3rd parties.

  16. This on AT&T Charges $750 For One Minute of International Data Roaming · · Score: 5, Informative

    Is what monopolies get you, but aside from that why would *anyone* use their US phone for such a thing?
    Buy a sim or get a cheap Canadian burner phone or.... how about just asking directions.

    Data roaming is a scam just like text messages.

  17. Idiots on Life Sentences For Serious Cyberattacks Proposed In Britain · · Score: 1

    They rarely give life sentences for murder, but OMG computer crime? You're done.

  18. Training your replacement on EU Launches World's Largest Civilian Robotics Program; 240,000 New Jobs Expected · · Score: 0

    Is what this reminds me of.

  19. Laugh on GnuTLS Flaw Leaves Many Linux Users Open To Attacks · · Score: 1

    I saw the patch first thing, then the warning telling me it wasn't trusted.

  20. The driving factor is social on Apple Says Many Users 'Bought an Android Phone By Mistake' · · Score: 1

    It's just "cooler" with a certain group to own an iPhone over Android, and if all your "friends" use iPhones it makes sense to choose that device for a multitude of reasons, including compatibility with their "friends" devices. I hear people refer to Android as "Too Windowy" and the hype over attack and infection rates is a great scare tactic to drive customers to another platform. The average person isn't concerned with handling their own security, instead they want someone to do that for them so they don't have to worry. I have a acquaintance that installs tons of apps on his Nexus 7, all free too, then he complains about issues that arise and odd quirks. Using the exact same tablet I have 0 issues, but I got over that "install everything" phase and only put specific apps that there is a need for. One last note, Apple's iOS8 and its 4000+ new API's some of which allow apps to talk to each other smells to me like a gigantic security nightmare, especially after their rather obvious SSL "bug".

  21. Wondering on This 360-Degree, 4K Video Camera isn't Getting Kickstarted (Video) · · Score: 1

    If you use Kickstarter is there any reason you can't accept funding from other sources? Because Kickstarter is something I can see everyone using just to pick up some extra funding. Sort of Kickstarter abuse, but then I would guess it's only abuse depending on the end result.

  22. Why? on Google To Spend $1 Billion On Fleet of Satellites · · Score: 1

    "Google and Facebook are trying to figure out ways of reaching populations that thus far have been unreachable,"

    Why? Keep in mind I see no altruism here, so what's the motivation? Is this some sort of gold rush to capture the uncovered areas? What would a large corporation expect to monetize in an area that has little to no infrastructure?

  23. This is TIA (remember that?) on New Federal Database Will Track Americans' Credit Ratings, Other Financial Info · · Score: 2

    Look at what data CoreLogic has access to.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

    CoreLogic, Inc. is a North American corporation providing financial, property and consumer information, analytics and business intelligence. Headquartered in Irvine, CA, the company analyzes information assets and data to provide clients with analytics and customized data services. Data sources include property and mortgage information, motor vehicle records, criminal background records and tax records.

  24. Huh on Games That Make Players Act Like Psychopaths · · Score: 1

    David Lightman: [typing] Is this a game... or is it real?

    Joshua: What's the difference?

  25. More than this on Four Weeks Without Soap Or Shampoo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Scientists know that the gut microbiome is important to proper digestion

    Gut bacteria is more than proper digestion, it's a second mind.
    It's interesting as well that one of the most important parts of a cell are the mitochondria, which by all rights are their own separate critter that set up a successful house in just about everything alive.

    What a menagerie.