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  1. Unfortunately on Barbie Gets a Brain · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Humans still don't have a brain, who would give this to their child?

    Each time, whatever someone said to Barbie would be recorded and transmitted via Wi-Fi to the computer servers of ToyTalk. Speech-recognition software would then convert the audio signal into a text file, which would be analyzed. The correct response would be chosen from thousands of lines scripted by ToyTalk and Mattel writers and pushed to Hello Barbie for playback

    your childâ(TM)s voice sample and the start of a new "user profile" for a corporation.

  2. I wonder if that makes the jet lag worse.

  3. Doesn't crash on Crash Chrome With 16 Characters · · Score: 1

    http://a/%2500

    Piffle...

  4. Re:It's an outrage scam on Ahmed Mohamed, His Clock, and the Curious Turn of Events · · Score: 1

    Did you read the article you posted?

    "Moujahed Bakhach, described as one of the tribunal judges, said generally that state and federal laws would always take precedent."

    Generally?

    Apparently some people don't understand how things get started.

  5. Nope on Club Concorde Wants To Put a Concorde Back In the Air · · Score: 1
  6. It's an outrage scam on Ahmed Mohamed, His Clock, and the Curious Turn of Events · · Score: 0

    Muslims are currently negotiating for sharia law in Irving TX (Google it) this kid didn't do anything interesting that much was obvious from the start.
    The school officials are required to report strange items like his "clock"

    But the sheer backlash and media sensation indicates this was planned, I wouldn't be a bit surprised at the "outrage industry" if the 2 were connected.

  7. Hmmmm on Tracking a Bluetooth ATM Skimming Gang In Mexico · · Score: 1

    While I applaud his research, making cartels mad is an unhealthy idea.

  8. "The app can be used to move contacts, messages, photos and more to a new iPhone or iPad,"

    Probably uploads it to the "cloud" too.

  9. Laugh on More Time Outside Tied To Less Nearsightedness In Children · · Score: 1

    And more likely to get cataracts later in life.

  10. So not one teacher/official at the school could see there was no explosive?

  11. It's a bug, not yet another NSA/GCHQ backdoor that offers Apple "deniability" of their collusion with intelligence agencies.

  12. Laugh on Facebook Is Building an 'Empathy Button' · · Score: 1

    Because people would dump their FB accounts if they could see how much people disliked their post.

    Would probably affect advertisers as well.

  13. Cat and mouse on Intelligence Start-Up Goes Behind Enemy Lines To Get Ahead of Hackers · · Score: 1

    The "hackers" will just their methods.

  14. Re:Interstellar predation? Why? on Why We're Looking For ET All Wrong · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe it's just the machines left over from another species.

    But broadcasting where you are without knowing who is listening, stupid.... that's the only word for it.

  15. Laugh... on Can We Trust Apple To Make a Good Games Console? · · Score: 1

    "Can We Trust Apple To Make a Good Games Console?"

    Sure look at the Apple watch...

  16. The really troubling thing about this is that our (the US) intelligence services didn't know it was going to happen.

  17. Nope on Why We're Looking For ET All Wrong · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We are infants screaming in a forest of wolves.

    That's the truth of the Fermi paradox, the only surviving intelligence is one that's extremely quiet.

  18. Chortle on Million-Square-Foot Data Center Being Built In Dallas · · Score: 1

    "This super-sizing of data center campuses allows cloud platforms (and the data center providers that serve them) to rapidly add server capacity and electric power."

    It's also all your eggs in one basket too, don't they watch Mr Robot?

  19. "Spy Industry Leaders Befuddled Over 'Deep Cynicism' of American Public"

    Do you suppose years of government lies, wars, relentless spying on your own people, and all the other crimes you get up to would lead to cynicism?

  20. What about the female employees?

  21. No surprise on Analysis Reveals Almost No Real Women On Ashley Madison · · Score: 2

    I figured a site like that would be a sausage fest, women don't seem to have as much trouble getting laid as most men do.

  22. Hmm on IBM Tells Administrators To Block Tor On Security Grounds · · Score: 1

    Isn't TOR a little slow and lacking bandwidth to make a good hacking front?

  23. I have a question. on More From Tim O'Reilly about the 'WTF?!' Economy (Videos) · · Score: 1

    What's the motivation for replacing humans in various jobs with a robot?

    Why are we doing this? The outcome is going to be terrible, so again.
    What's the motivation?

  24. Instead of buggering Amazon lets take a look at the mentality of the average "consumer" and how well they have been groomed over the years by marketing teams.

    That's the real story.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  25. Lets not forget on Life With the Dash Button: Good Design For Amazon, Bad For Everyone Else · · Score: 2

    The other disturbing things about Amazon.
    How when my dad buys something shipping is wayyyyyyyy overpriced but go to my account (one where I have cancelled orders because of overpriced shipping) and it's less than half the cost *same town*, or their bait and switch, or their sending an item entirely different from what was pictured.
    Yeah I know there are resellers, but Amazon fronts them so they get the blame too.