Posts by Turtle

Apple is all about "control," right?

"When its own Maps software wasn't directing hapless drivers onto airport runways, it was rather rudely deleting whole towns."

Population control!

What ACTUALLY "remains to be seen".

"It remains to be seen whether those same well-wishers will be willing to put those funds towards Ulbricht's legal fees now that he has admitted to owning more than $30m worth of Bitcoin at the time of his arrest."

What actually remains to be seen is what the taxman thinks about Ulbricht having these Bitcoins which, even before the value recently ballooned, were worth a substantial sum. And if this is the first that the taxman is learning about it because Ulbricht hasn't reported it on his tax forms, then he going going to go away on tax evasion charges for a long, long time...

"Androgynous"??

"when teenage girls searched for the deep meaning in the androgynous Canadian pop star's lyrics,"

Androgynous? Certainly not - she's a lady through and through!

Exactly.

"The identity of this new DPR is still unknown. But on Friday he issued a statement to Silk Road 2.0 users saying the site had not been compromised by the recent arrests, since neither of the forum moderators that were charged had access to sensitive material."

That's exactly what the Feds would want him to say.

: )

As I Attempt to Imagine To Myself...

Attempting to imagine to myself a scenario where this type of attack could be carried out in the real world, it seems that, no matter how hard I try, the victim always turns out to be Lou Costello.

Will They Ever Learn?

Be it Samsung or Microsoft or anyone else, will they ever learn that only Apple can do what Apple does, because what works for Apple works only for Apple, and attempts by others to do what Apple does can only lead failure.

Surprise.

"The Edward Snowden affair has not put CIOs off the public cloud"

I find no surprise in this, or anything else in the article.

I'm a little surprised.

Considering the people who got the physics money, I would have expected the same standards to have been applied to the life sciences money. And so I was somewhat surprised to see that there was nothing given to Ray Kurzweil. Or his father.

Regarding The Picture Of Facebook's 'Cold Storage' Arrays

It depresses me to see such advanced technology being used for such trivial purposes.

Can they...

"Under those plans, businesses would have the right to use data that they collect from individuals more freely, and in accordance with the data protection regime, if they pseudonymised the information."

Can they sell it to the NSA? Can they sell it to other parties including European intelligence agencies and then to the NSA? How many parties removed from the original data gatherer must a downstream consumer be before the purchasers and the data are free of all restrictions?

How are those restrictions enforced? Who monitors compliance with them - especially after they've gone to a second, third, or fourth party?

To what degree do jurisdictional and geographical circumstances modify the operation of the restrictions? If the original data gather (or anyone further down the line) sells the data to an entity in, for example, South America or Asia, does the EU admit that the matter is out of their hands? How, in that case, is compliance insured and monitored?

Not everything here is very clear to me.

Clueful. And Otherwise.

'"With many people intrigued by mainstream newspaper stories about Bitcoins, but lacking in knowledge about how to dip their toe into the waters of Bitcoin mining, there is a danger that some folks could take the advice seriously,' Cluley writes in a blog post featuring screenshots of the deliberately misleading flier."

So here we have Cluley attempting to help the Clueless.

Makes sense to me.

The ORIGINAL Statement.

I can't be absolutely 100% sure but I do think that the original statement was "I agree with you that SF isn't for sale but that's because it's already been sold, but don't hate on me for my job when you really should be spending your time looking for a new place to live - preferably in Kansas or Iowa or anywhere far enough away from here that I and other people in my income bracket don't have to have the stench of unwashed rabble like yourselves in our noses. You think I LIKE commuting to Mountain View? I'd like it lots and lots better if I didn't have to share the streets with the likes of YOU. And we're arranging that right now. This protest is dumb. And you're stupid."

Yuppers.

While in principle a very good idea...

It is important that the quality of patents be improved, and vastly improved. But an ex-Googler is not someone I would trust to do it.

Relatedly, I would not want to see anyone working in any capacity, let alone a leadership or policy-making position, for the USPTO unless they agree not to work for any other patent-originating or owning entity for at least five years after leaving the USPTO. (Obviously such a contractual undertaking would need to be worded far more carefully than I have done here but the gist should be clear.)

I'd like to know...

What I'd like to know is what kind of deal Led Zeppelin got from Spotify. I was under the impression that Led Zeppelin refused to allow any downloadable sales of their tracks. Not sure though. But I expect that they got a very very lucrative deal if they are letting Spotify stream their tracks because Spotify's usual payouts could not possibly be alluring to Led Zeppelin. Quite the contrary, I would expect. Same with Pink Floyd.

http://www.slashgear.com/led-zeppelin-hits-spotify-in-streaming-deal-11308390/

The FULL statement, revealed!

"Lunt said: 'By comparing our results to evidence of past climate change, for example from tree rings, ice cores, and ancient fossils of plants and animals, we can validate the climate models, and gain confidence in the accuracy of their predictions of future climate. And we certainly are going to validate those models because that's the reason we're even doing this work at all: to validate those models whether they're right or wrong because it really is time that you gave complete political control over the economic life of the entire world to a group of ideologues who want to extirpate large swathes of the world's non-white population, and simultaneously insure that the vastly preponderant majority of any population that we permit to survive, will live in mud huts or caves. Excepting only, well, you know. So that you can look forward to a more moral and ethical world, where there will be two and only two kinds of people: poor white trash living in the poverty they deserve, and high-ranking greens, living in the luxury that their moral purity has earned them for saving the world. Long live Paul Ehrlich!'”

I'm not exactly sure why parts of this quote were omitted in the artlicle.

Intentions

"[T]he Michigan machine gets the world at least part-way towards a printer that's able to make a gun. Not that this is what the university's Open Sustainability Lab is thinking of."

The Open Sustainability Lab has their intentions for the technology, and those intentions can be very neatly discarded and replaced with new intentions by anyone who has acquired the technology.

@Rampant Spaniel

"The cynic in me believes what they find most attractive about it is the lack of regulation. Cue the next global financial collapse."

That's what I'm thinking too.

And the idea that the supply of Bitcoins is going to be determined by developers and their decisions regarding transaction rate limit and block sizes etc does not exactly inspire confidence. Well, not in my mind, anyway.

Free.

"The FTC said that it has reached a settlement with Goldenshores Technologies, a US developer behind the 'Brightest Flashlight' mobile application, a free download which the FTC said had been installed on 'tens of millions' of Android devices."

So not really "free" then.

Stolen!

"The camera was recovered 100 km from where it was stolen..."

Did they file a police report?