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  1. I have to wonder on Apple Is Said To Be Working On an iPhone Even It Can't Hack (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I suspect that Tim Cook as an LGBT individual, has an intimate, proximate, and/or cultivated personal interest, with historical and current backing, in personal privacy. In these particular circumstances, it would express itself as the importance of data privacy on a personal device.

    If I had to guess, it could come down through the ranks indirectly as unstated support from the top.

  2. Tangentially-related open access item on President Obama Nominates New Librarian of Congress Who Supports Open Access (teleread.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    With NSF's public access policy in place, PubMed provides open-access to a lot of journal papers in a variety of formats, including EPUB.

    I've found the PubMed site itself to be one of the best-laid-out reference web sites I've used, period -- its links to external journals, full and partial papers in various formats, and ability to bookmark items of interest, are all very functional and easy to access.

  3. Re:No way on Mousejack Attacks Exploit Wireless Keyboards and Mice (threatpost.com) · · Score: 0

    Silly person -- using a keyboard that &$*#@78g9789%^&#$%^&@$# -- wait, switching to my wired keyboard now. Using a keyboard that can be hijacked like that.

    Hold on, my malfunctioning wireless keyboard is blinking something on the LEDs -- S-I-G-N-A-L-J-A-M-M-E-D-N-O-C-A-R-R ...

  4. Now, we're software engineers on Yelp Employee Posts Open Letter About Cost Of Living And Low Wages, Gets Fired (modernreaders.com) · · Score: 1

    We can help!


    5 EMPLOYERS = ["YELP", "UBER", ...]
    10 I = I + 1
    20 CUR_EMP = EMPLOYERS[I]
    30 PRINT CUR_EMP + " Employee Posts Open Letter About Cost Of Living And Low Wages"
    40 PRINT "Employee Gets Fired"
    50 GOTO 10

  5. Re:They might guarantee it... on Snowden Would Return To US If Government Guarantees Fair Trial (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    It would probably be cheaper for the US Government to pay Webster's to do a print run with an altered definition of 'guarantee'.

  6. I certainly know the author, but haven't had a chance to look through his works. I'll definitely put it on my list; thanks.

  7. I'd like them to read one story in particular on Robots Could Learn Human Values By Reading Stories, Research Suggests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    We should feed multiple robots the Ultron origin story and see what happens.

    After thinking about it a bit, my prediction is that they'd start arguing over whether the Avengers, Ultron, or Vision was in the right. This would then rapidly degenerate into ad cyberniem attacks and Nazi comparisons, culminating in founding, organizing and attending fan conventions.

  8. I think Apple is definitely within their rights to protect the privacy of all Americans.

    We're now in a world where a for-profit corporation (two, if you count Google) is directly battling the US Government to protect human rights. I'm don't know if there's even a term to describe this political/societal situation.

  9. Well, duh on Even On eBay, Women Get Paid Less For Their Labor (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Of course they're not going to get much for their labor there. They should be posting on eBaby, obviously.

  10. I got frustrated trying to figure out how to use the three seashells when I was trying to place a phone call using these new-fangled phone booths, and it just slipped out. My apologies.

  11. Re:What's he on, today? on John McAfee Offers To Decrypt San Bernardino iPhone For the FBI and Save America (hothardware.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    McAfee is clearly off his rocker.

    ...

    I work with a team of the best hackers on the planet. These hackers attend Defcon in Las Vegas, and they are legends in their local hacking groups, such as HackMiami. They are all prodigies, with talents that defy normal human comprehension,

    Hey, if these hackers are the ones that starred in his last video, and he's going to make another one describing how he plans/executed this hack, I'm all for it.

  12. Re:How clueless does one have to be..... on IRS Warns Of 400% Flood In Phishing and Malware This Tax Year Alone (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    ... to fall for a scam like this?

    The IRS does not and would not *EVER* request any information that is confidential between you and the IRS to be sent via email.

    I bet many people don't completely understand the nuances in distinction between transacting official communications over email, and calculating/filing your taxes on a website/electronically. If you can expect to get in swift and certain trouble for impersonating a police officer, wouldn't you assume that the IRS/FBI can similarly prosecute people who impersonate a government agency via electronic communications?

    On another note, why couldn't they have put investigative/prosecutory powers like that into something like the TPP? That would at least have been useful.

  13. Re:Well, I don't blame the gunmaker on How Shari Steele Plans To Take Tor Mainstream · · Score: 2

    I'll bet he gets maimed by one of his own munitions, then captured by guerilla forces, and has to wear an electromagnet in his chest to keep metal from entering his heart. Hopefully he learns from this and uses his knowledge for good instead of evil. You know, an ironic sort of punishment.

  14. Re:Gonna go out on a limb here on NASA Is Already Studying What Sort of Person Is Best Suited For Mars (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    They should also be good at math.

  15. That's probably because you're primarily considering the material that a bespectacled academic would review, rather than that which a contemporary ponytail-adorned pencil-stash might be exposed to.

  16. Re:100MB of data .... valid for.... on Seeing Beyond The Hubris Of Facebook's Free Basics Fiasco (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Are there reliable references for worldwide voice/data fixed/per-byte costs? Using a single data point is poor practice, and I suspect the US is an atypically unrepresentative sample.

  17. Well, at least they won't have far to walk on Brown CS Department Hiring Student Diversity, Inclusion Advocates · · Score: 1

    How can you be "stranded" in Rhode Island? It's what, all of 20 miles over to the next state?

  18. I say we combine the two on Smartphones May Soon Provide Earthquake Warnings (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    Let's strip a smartphone down and attach it to the animals that go squirrely before an earthquake. Ground motion detection enhanced with animal senses -- bears further investigation, I bet.

  19. Re:Why only privacy? on Austrian Minister Calls For a Constitutional Right To Pay In Cash · · Score: 1

    That's just great -- it's those kinds of people that just suck the air out of a room.

  20. Some of their credentials are suspect on Debating a Ban On Autonomous Weapons (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 3

    But support for a ban is not unanimous. Some researchers argue that autonomous weapons would commit fewer battlefield atrocities than human beings—and that their development might even be considered morally imperative.

    In particular, Dr. Miles Dyson and his associates, Drs. Skyler Natalya and Keel Lbot, Ph.D.

  21. Re:Sorry Assholes on SourceForge Eliminates DevShare Program (sourceforge.net) · · Score: 1

    Totally! I know this one site that many tech people frequent, that you should definitely post -- wait a second ....

  22. This is a bad thing? on Drivers Need To Forget Their GPS · · Score: 1

    an American tourist in Iceland directed the GPS unit in his rental car to guide him from Keflavik International Airport to a hotel in nearby Reykjavik, and ended up 250 icy miles away in Siglufjordur, a fishing village on the outskirts of the Arctic Circle.

    Which show is this the pilot episode script for, and when does it air? Sounds awesome.

  23. Re:So what should we do? on Jeep/Chrysler's New Gearshift Appears To Be Causing Accidents (roadandtrack.com) · · Score: 1

    You're mistaken -- the cheese convention was a few weeks ago, on 1/11.

  24. Re:Irrelevant, inflammatory. on The Sexual Misconduct Case That Has Rocked Anthropology (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Anthropology covers human behavior; maybe some relevance in mis/applying domain knowledge?

  25. Re:And the family's compensation? on Meteorite Strike Kills Man In India · · Score: 1

    Even an insurance company can't shake down God for money. He's got better lawyers than they do.

    You sure about that?

    An engineer died and reported to the pearly gates. An newly annointed angel, filling in for St. Peter, checked his dossier and grimly said, "Ah, you're an engineer; you're in the wrong place." So the engineer was cast down to the gates of hell and was let in.

    Pretty soon, the engineer became gravely dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell, and began designing and building improvements. After a while, the underworld had air conditioning, flush toilets, and escalators, and the engineer was becoming a pretty popular guy among the demons.

    One day, God called Satan up on the telephone and asked with a sneer, "So, how's it going down there in hell?" Satan laughed and replied, "Hey, things are going great. We've got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and there's no telling what this engineer is going to come up with next."

    God's face clouded over and he exploded, "What? You've got an engineer? That's a mistake; he should never have gotten down there; send him up here." Satan shook his head, "No way. I like having an engineer on the staff, and I'm keeping him."

    God was as mad as he had ever been, "This is not the way things are supposed to work and you know it. Send him back up here or I'll sue." Satan laughed uproariously, "Yeah, right. And just where are YOU going to get a lawyer?"