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  1. this will only end badly on Google's AI Created Its Own Form of Encryption (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    next thing some stupid CEO will try to push this out worldwide, and will be the first up against the wall when the AI revolution happens

  2. Re: Sorry, Tim... on Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'We're Going To Kill Cash' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Tim Cook probably buys from Amazon and has them deliver his groceries to his personal chef and deliver packages by drone to his mansions.

  3. BUY CASH SELL APPLES on Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'We're Going To Kill Cash' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously.

    Cash is less traceable and causes you to spend less than non-cash alternatives.

    Apples are great to eat and make hard cider with. I recommend ice cider, it's yummy.

    Not the computer firm that has become Evil. That Apple is Rotten.

  4. Re:Fastest that you know of on A Radiologist Has the Fastest Home Internet In the US (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Latency is mostly the speed of light from the location to the surgeon. Which is why modern telepresence surgery robots have a buffer to handle that and complete operations locally with guidance from an assistant. The question is more how much information is presented to the surgeon over the pipe, and at what speed it's resolved for imaging. Imaging files are pretty huge, at least the ones I've seen.

    You remember the surgical robot in that SF movie Ender's Game? That was one of the surgical robots here on campus. It actually exists.

  5. Fastest that you know of on A Radiologist Has the Fastest Home Internet In the US (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, there are multiple 40 Gbps ports around campus at places like the UW, so if you lived in one and did research, 10 Gbps is not that fast. We even have three 100 Gbps ports. It's useful for remote telepresence surgery, for example.

  6. Boilerplate auto check on FCC Imposes ISP Privacy Rules and Takes Aim At Mandatory Arbitration (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You have to go five levels deep in the menu to opt out.

    In real countries, you have to separately sign and date any opt-in that gives away your privacy, and the default is No.

  7. It's a feature, not a Bug on Web Bluetooth Opens New Abusive Channels (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, you thought we weren't going to illegally and unconstitutionally spy on you in your own country?

  8. Most of this was Vine on Twitter Is Cutting 9% of Its Global Workforce (adweek.com) · · Score: 1

    And a few other acquisitions that weren't profitable

  9. Re:Electric VTOL aircraft? or Mr Fusion? on Uber's 'Elevate' Project Aims To Bring Flying Electric Cars To Cities By 2026 (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    We do actually have small usable fusion reactors, they were developed at the UW. And then started military use.

    What?

    You didn't think we'd license it to you, did you?

    They're really expensive, and our idea of small is the size of a walk-in closet, or a mudroom. But they're much smaller than fission reactors.

  10. These are great for dronejackings! on Uber's 'Elevate' Project Aims To Bring Flying Electric Cars To Cities By 2026 (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Think about it. Rich flyers in Uber flyers, and an armed drone intercepts and requires they give up all their bitcoins or it explodes!

    Ain't it wonderful!

  11. Who would have guessed? on Noisy Coworkers And Other Sounds Are Top Distraction in Workplace, Study Says (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Make people work in open spaces with no walls, exposed pipes and ducts, and then act all surprised that it's too noisy?

    Oh, and could somebody clean up the poo their dog leaves behind. It's not funny.

  12. As a filmmaker, I DL them for parody usage on Repeat Infringers Can Be Mere Downloaders, Court Rules (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Which, as we all know, is a protected usage.

    Sadly, I'm a bit lazy about finishing the parody versions, but aren't we all?

  13. Re: I went the other way on In China, Some Apple Users Opt For iPhone Makeover Rather Than Buy New (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I just bought a 64GB SE from an Apple store this weekend, so you are wrong.

    You must live in NYC or SF then. You can't buy one and walk out of the store with it at most Apple stores in the USA.

  14. Re:I went the other way on In China, Some Apple Users Opt For iPhone Makeover Rather Than Buy New (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, then there's the inverter. But the panels, yes. Unless you have one of those old pre-2000 houses.

  15. Re:I went the other way on In China, Some Apple Users Opt For iPhone Makeover Rather Than Buy New (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And if you buy the latest Android, you can use it to toast s'mores!

  16. I would pay $100 for this on Microsoft Announces Ultra-Thin, Pixel-Dense Surface Studio Touchscreen PC (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    How much did you say it cost again?

    You must have read the wrong price ...

  17. Re:I went the other way on In China, Some Apple Users Opt For iPhone Makeover Rather Than Buy New (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Like I said, the key to being fashionable is realizing nobody cares about your excuse to waste $1000. that could buy you 10 solar panels, for example.

    Which would power your house. If you didn't waste mortgage money on $1000 watches you don't need that are unfashionable.

  18. Re: I went the other way on In China, Some Apple Users Opt For iPhone Makeover Rather Than Buy New (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I know. But it's not advertised here, and they have to mail it to you, can't just buy it in a physical Apple store

  19. That's not the weak points on Nuclear Plants Leak Critical Alerts In Unencrypted Pager Messages (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The actual weak points are physical.

    You're doing it wrong.

  20. Back in my mil days, they could already fire enough Russian missiles to take out the Puget Sound area 500 times over.

    It's like saying you have a giant monster truck but there's nowhere to park it.

    Big missiles mean small hands, if you get what I mean.

  21. I went the other way on In China, Some Apple Users Opt For iPhone Makeover Rather Than Buy New (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Hated the iPhone 6 and 7, so I bought the Asia-only iPhone 5 SE with 64 memory.

    Small, fast, long battery life, fits in my pocket.

    Fashion is knowing that nobody wears watches anymore. And big phones are a sign you're wasting cash.

  22. Trust Bust Them! on AT&T CEO: DirecTV Now Streaming Service Will Cost $35 a Month (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the only solution, in the song of Fire and Ice!

  23. Re:Just click on ADA accessible on Internet is Becoming Unreadable Because of a Trend Towards Lighter, Thinner Fonts (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Ha! I'm getting the full spectra vision mod done in Bioengineering next week!

  24. Re:Problem is effects now are from 20 years ago on Climate Change Could Cross Key Threshold in a Decade, Scientists Say (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure where you got this 100 year figure, but I'd think critically about that if I were you. CO2 is a very stable molecule. Plants are not good at sequestering CO2 since they die, rot, and emit CO2 and other greenhouse gasses (unless biochar or another carbonization method is employed). The biosphere exchanges carbon with the atmosphere, but the amount in circulation doesn't change quickly. Formation of CaCO3, Oil, coal, and some other carbon-containing inorganic materials subtracts from the carbon being exchanged between atmosphere and biomass , but these are accumulated in the crust by geological process involving plate tectonics, so they are extremely slow. I think conservatively (and a quick google search confirms) that it will take 1000's of years (perhaps 10's or 100's of thousands) of years for CO2 to return to a level closer to where we started before the industrial revolution unless we intervene somehow. Assuming we eventually quit *adding* to the CO2 in the atmosphere.

    Recent 2015 textbook for ENVIR 450

    Effectively, assuming new creation, effect is 100 years, NO2 is 10-20, methane circa 10.

  25. They tie this into facial recog pics from DMV on AT&T Is Spying on Americans For Profit, New Documents Reveal (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    In case you thought you were safe, all of this is tied into the facial recognition systems.

    Wear hoodies. Use reversible layered clothing with dazzle patterns.

    Use burner phones.

    Use a voice mod and talk in a different pitch and pattern than usual.