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  1. "Collaboration between public and private sectors" is word salad that really means he wants taxpayers to fund his enterprise and lifestyle.

  2. Interesting coincidence on 55 Percent Of Online Shoppers Start Their Product Searches On Amazon (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    that also 55% of all statistics are made up.

  3. Does Microsoft keylog now? on Microsoft Patents A User-Monitoring AI That Improves Search Results (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft will need to log every keystroke to do something like this. They will have your usernames, passwords, and security answers to secure sites like banks. Is Microsoft doing this now with Windows 10 to collect data for this kind of "feature?" Is there any way to guarantee an OS is not doing this?

  4. Re:First the 3.5 mm, now this?! on iPhone 7 Home Button Now Requires Skin Contact To Work (todaysiphone.com) · · Score: 1

    Now I need to buy new headphones *and* new gloves?!

    Your small sacrifice allows you to experience courage.

  5. This isn't new on A Teenage Hacker Figured Out How To Get Free Data On His Phone (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone demonstrated this hack to me last December.

  6. Web browsing, email, and other non video streaming apps take a trivial amount of bandwidth. I allow video streaming on my open wifi for about 10 minutes and then traffic control kicks in making streaming not very pleasant for that user but regular Internet access still works for everyone. Users eventually get with the program and realize they can watch short Youtube videos or stream music all day long but they can't watch Netflix or porn all day. It doesn't matter if it's Netflix or porn anyway.

  7. More Courage on Apple's Next Year iPhone Won't Have the Home Button: NYTimes · · Score: 1

    To Apple Courage is not just a word, it's a noun.

  8. Jerry Seinfeld to the NSA on NSA Worried About Implications of Leaked Toolkits (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    ...and you want to be my backdoor provider?

  9. Re:Moderators are the opposite of free speech on Former Twitter Employees: 'Abuse Problem' Comes From Their Culture Of Free Speech (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    During the 1994 baseball strike rec.sports.baseball generated over a thousand posts per day, many of them much more informative than what you read in newspapers or watched on TV about that situation. Today there are 0 posts per day. It died because the web is much easier to use. I have yet to come across a web comment system that implements the Usenet KILL file properly.

  10. Snowden should get the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his defense of the Constitutional protection of the 4th Amendment.

    The Presidential Medal of Freedom was disgraced of all honor the moment they hung one on George Tenet.

  11. Re:Arrggggg Emoji politics. on Microsoft Swaps Toy Gun Emoji For Revolver -- Days After Apple Does the Opposite (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    First they came for the revolver emoji and I said nothing because I use the pile of poo emoji ...

  12. In the old days telecom grade meant 5 nines availability or up %99.999 of the time. I doubt a Raspberry PI comes anywhere close.

  13. It makes me sick on Donald Trump Signs Pledge To Crack Down On Internet Porn (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    that I have to vote for him.

  14. I call BS on Russian Government Gets 'Hacked Back', Attacks Possibly Launched By The NSA (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My bullshit detector is going full tilt over this entire affair. Somebody is making up stories to feed a gullible press that does little to no fact checking anymore.

  15. I have been running an open wifi for 4 years now with multiple access points covering my neighborhood corner which gets a good amount of pedestrian traffic. A typical month I'll get 225 unique visitors and about 35 unique visitors per day. Four years ago it was common for people to pop email and send passwords in the clear. Nowadays with all the new devices almost everything is end to end encrypted. I doubt Avast got anything more than device ids and dhcp names and of course all the destinations a device hit. Windows boxes however can be extremely chatty and for some reason not know they're connected to a foreign network.

    It would be funny to learn the percentage of devices accessing porn. I heard Republicans consume more porn than Democrats.

  16. Re:Bullshit on How The Internet Helps Sex Workers Keep Customers Honest (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Awhile ago I became a member of this site for a year.

    https://www.theeroticreview.co...

    The reviews read like Penthouse Forums and they list prices and contact info for the women. The easiest way to contact a prostitute you like from a review is by going through one of these agencies to verify you're not a cop or a serial killer. IIRC agencies used the term switchboard when describing their process but there are different ways to verify you if you prefer them not to call your office. I can't vouch for the site now but it was a very interesting read many years ago. Prostitution needs to be legal.

  17. James Comey's latest tweet to President Obama on Russian Leader Putin Signs Controversial 'Big Brother' Law (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Mr. President, we cannot allow a mineshaft gap!

  18. Re:War on drugs on Data Can Help Fix America's Overcrowded Jails, Says White House (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You should be able to buy heroin at Target with a copay and treated with dignity like how decent people get their drugs.

  19. Bunch of morons at CBP on US Customs Wants To Know Travelers' Social Media Account Names (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Any real terrorist cell with two brain cells to put together will have a well maintained perfectly clean set of social media accounts. All I see is a huge jobs program requiring more CPB "investigators" to vet all this bullshit.

  20. I run mostly Fedora/CentOS as well but my workstation where I am typing this is Fedora 14 because it's the last stable distro before all the innovators started making things "better." If I need a more modern OS that's what VMs and ssh are for.

  21. I call BS on New Algorithm Could Help Predict Future ISIS Attacks (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Do they have a proof for this algorithm or is it all smoke and mirrors like Theranos?

  22. Re:Well on Google's Algorithm Displays Racist Results Because the Society Is Racist (fusion.net) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    a statistical fact that black males ages 14-17 are more than 10 times more likely to end up in prison for the same drug "crimes" than white teens committing the same offense. This is due to the *fact* that the color of their skin makes them more likely to get pulled over, then searched, then indicted, and then convicted.

    Read this: https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim...

  23. What is a valid use case for this? on Maru OS Exits Private Beta, Lets You Use an Android Phone As a Linux Desktop (liliputing.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does a single use case exist where this would be useful?

  24. 55% of all statistics are made up on Connecting Everyone To Internet 'Would Add $6.7 Trillion To Global Economy' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    That's a fact!

  25. Yeah right on Microsoft Releases Big 'Convenience Rollup' Update For Windows 7 · · Score: 2

    I'd rather contact that Nigerian Prince who keeps emailing me than fall for this.