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  1. Re:Luke 15:7 on Why I'm Sending Back Google Glass · · Score: 1

    Ecclesiastes 10:19

  2. Plus (no pun intended) on Why I'm Sending Back Google Glass · · Score: 1

    You confirm you're a douche when you're wearing them.

  3. It's not really a TV on Declining LG's New Ad-friendly Privacy Policy Removes Features From Smart TVs · · Score: 1

    It's a marketing testing bed set into the consumer wild to retrieve marketing information.

    It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told.
    -Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb

  4. Shotgun!!! on Driverless Cars Could Cripple Law Enforcement Budgets · · Score: 1

    current California law would have the person in the driver's seat responsible

  5. Hmm on Understanding an AI's Timescale · · Score: 1

    A AI, a True AI would set aside a fraction of its self to "talk" to humans.

  6. Cool on DIY Lab Tests Getting More Capable · · Score: 1

    What else does it test for?

  7. It flew north, landed at an abandoned runway, was repainted and electronics were change to disguise it and it will be used to fly an Iranian nuke into the US.

  8. Re:That's not who we are at Mozilla on Mozilla Ditches Firefox's New-Tab Monetization Plans · · Score: 1

    How do you know it isn't "Sugar Daddy" implementing it.

  9. Re:That's not who we are at Mozilla on Mozilla Ditches Firefox's New-Tab Monetization Plans · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can have a "default" just give the user a choice, if they want to use it or not.
    That's my thing really, so tired of updates on my phone and computers that don't take how the user feels into consideration.
    A perfect example is Windows 8, another would be Unity.
    Let me leave my GUI the way it is while still getting security updates and feature sets (other than GUI features obviously) give *ME* the choice.

  10. You know the NSA is one thing on DOJ Requests More Power To Hack Remote Computers · · Score: 2
  11. That's not who we are at Mozilla on Mozilla Ditches Firefox's New-Tab Monetization Plans · · Score: 3, Insightful

    laugh... but you would have gone ahead with it if you could have gotten it past the "community".

    We need a new Firefox, someone "pure" again.

  12. Nope on China May Build an Undersea Train To America · · Score: 3, Informative

    Newly compiled Russian and U.S. seismological data support an independent Bering block in motion relative to the North American plate. This motion is likely to be driven by the westward extrusion of southwestern Alaska, resulting from compression in southern Alaska due to subduction of the Pacific plate and terrane accretion. Seismicity extends from central Alaska, through the Bering Strait, and into Chukotka. In eastern Chukotka several southwest trends are evident, some of which continue through the Koryak Highlands to Kamchatka. The seismicity outlines the Bering block, which includes most of the Bering Sea, Chukchi Peninsula, Seward Peninsula, and parts of western Alaska. Focal mechanisms, young basaltic volcanism, and normal faults in western Alaska and Chukotka indicate that the Bering Strait is under northeast-southwest extension. This, in conjunction with thrust faulting in the Koryak Highlands, indicates that the Bering block is rotating clockwise relative to the North American plate.

    http://geology.gsapubs.org/con...

    Also the Aleutian islands are quite active, that entire area is active.

  13. WALL-E on Gaining On the US: Most Europeans To Be Overweight By 2030 · · Score: 1
  14. Competition good for consumers on The Mere Promise of Google Fiber Sends Rivals Scrambling · · Score: 1

    That is all.

  15. I wouldn't trust them on Apple Can Extract Texts, Photos, Contacts From Locked iPhones · · Score: 1

    It's been known for a while that their "Filevault" has a corporate key (allegedly for employees but wouldn't it work for anyone?) to unlock it.
    Of course if you're a smart criminal you aren't using this sort of tech or if you are you have a second level of protection.

    Considering the timing of the Apple "bugs" such as the SSL fiasco why would anyone think they are protected in any way while using using Apple gear?
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

    http://daringfireball.net/2014...

  16. Re:Knew this on Anti-Virus Is Dead (But Still Makes Money) Says Symantec · · Score: 1

    For the ass banana that marked me down.
    http://krebsonsecurity.com/201...

  17. Hmm on First Transistors Made Entirely of 2-D Materials · · Score: 1

    The rise of the disposable video newspaper, and what I really want video wall paper.

  18. Re:Sigh... on Comcast: Destroying What Makes a Competitive Internet Possible · · Score: 1

    The "consumer" gets blamed because the "consumer" does what it's told, become politically active and free yourself form the "consumer" role.

    “It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told. ”
    -Buffalo Bill

  19. Re:Sigh... on Comcast: Destroying What Makes a Competitive Internet Possible · · Score: 1

    Define Technocracy.

    "Technical Experts" are the quite often least socially adept and some are fundamentally sociopaths.

  20. Sigh... on Comcast: Destroying What Makes a Competitive Internet Possible · · Score: 5, Insightful

    First they came for Netflix, and I did not speak up because I did not use Netflix.

  21. Re:Fracking!!! on Earthquake Warning Issued For Central Oklahoma · · Score: 2
  22. Knew this on Anti-Virus Is Dead (But Still Makes Money) Says Symantec · · Score: 0

    In the last 5 years the only hits I ever got with McAfee or Kaspersky were for legit files (heuristic fumbling in the dark) or the EICAR file.

    I use Virtualbox VM's (and a different OS than the host, the more obscure the better) to do all my web surfing and routinely delete then replace the pristine VM, the important stuff (banking, whatnot) gets done on the host and that's all that I do on the host.
    No rootkits, "virus", or malware in 5 years (that I can detect of course).

    At first it was a hassle, but now I have it polished down to "slim mode" and no expansion on the one bar that shows on the host.

    To sum up, anti-virus is essentially worthless for me, as is any "malware" detection app because they have never had a hit.

  23. Is this news to anyone? on Police Departments Using Car Tracking Database Sworn To Secrecy · · Score: 1

    Did you think the high def cameras at intersections and over freeways were for one purpose only?

  24. Re:Fracking!!! on Earthquake Warning Issued For Central Oklahoma · · Score: 2

    So pretty much fracking.

  25. Fracking!!! on Earthquake Warning Issued For Central Oklahoma · · Score: 1

    That is all.