Obscurity through Security
perhaps
Posts by Forget It
324 posts • joined 1 Aug 2007
NatWest customer services: We're aware of security glitch
Facebook U-turn: React, other libraries freed from unloved patent license
WordPress has adverse reaction to Facebook's React.js licence
It's official: Users navigate flat UI designs 22 per cent slower
P≠NP proof fails, Bonn boffin admits
I say, BING DONG! Microsoft's search engine literally cocks up on front page for hours
Our day with Larry Page: Embedded with one of the world's richest men
Microsoft hits new low: Threatens to axe classic Paint from Windows 10
DeepMind says it's given AI an imagination. Let's take a closer look at that
Creative sub-editor?
Creativity - word used in title but not article.
Creative sub-editor then?
Creation is one thing
- pushing boxes around's slightly less
imo
Google DeepMind trial failed to comply with data protection – ICO
Mozilla dev and Curl inventor Daniel Stenberg denied travel to USA
UK and Ecuador working on Assange escape mechanism
Why not just send a squad of Assange look-alikes to the embassy. then he can walk out with them while the police dither trying to guess which one to arrest - See Pale Fire by Nabokov or I was Sadam's double, etc.
We know what you're thinking: Where the hell is all the antimatter?
Feynman diagram here
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Double_beta_decay_feynman.svg/375px-Double_beta_decay_feynman.svg.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_beta_decay#Neutrinoless_double_beta_decay
UK to block Kodi pirates in real-time: Saturday kick-off
Zuckerberg thinks he's cyber-Jesus – and publishes a 6,000-word world-saving manifesto
Google mistakes the entire NHS for massive cyber-attacking botnet
Cassini sends back best ring-shots yet en route to self-destruct dive
Q: Why is the bath in a student flat like Saturn?
A: Coz it's got permanent rings around it.
[No Uranus replies please]
Google launches root certificate authority
Meet 'Moz://a', AKA Mozilla after it picked a new logo
Reducing the browser to a protocol? browser://
Shouldn't dinosaurs still be on the attack?
Why the UK is unlikely to get an adequacy determination post Brexit
I know we are talking about privacy issues here
but who is the "I" referred to in this article?
Credit Kudos etc to the "I" - the author!
I don't find the name of the author
anywhere here
nor on their original blog.
TV anchor says live on-air 'Alexa, order me a dollhouse' – guess what happens next
What's the first emotion you'd give an AI that might kill you? Yes, fear
Microsoft's cmd.exe deposed by PowerShell in Windows 10 preview
British politicians sign off on surveillance law, now it's over to the Queen
Re: Eat the rich
> If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
> George Orwell
To die hating them, that was freedom.
The sharks of AI will attack expensive and scarce workers faster than they eat drivers
Computer forensics defuses FBI's Clinton email 'bombshell'
Brexit judgment could be hit for six by those crazy Supreme Court judges, says barrister
Non-doms pay 10 times more in income tax than average taxpayer group
Inside our three-month effort to attend Apple's iPhone 7 launch party
Well could Adam ever get back in to the walled garden
to take another taste of the Apple?
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
Milton 1667
Blink and you missed it: Asteroid came within 90,000 km, only one sky-watcher saw it
Jovial NASA says Juno flyby a success
just love it
Spooky all this happens at the very time
Jupiter is in conjunction with Venus (just love it)
that made their combo very bright in the
sky at sunset.
WhatsApp is to hand your phone number to Facebook
Practical advice on how to not accept this:
https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/general/26000016
Before you tap Agree to accept our updated Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, tap Read.
You will see a control at the bottom of the screen. If you do not want your account information shared with Facebook to improve your Facebook ads and products experiences, you can uncheck the box or toggle the control.
believe it or not
Bee queens are Notch-blocking their minions, say boffins
Emily Dickinson
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee.
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.
Next big thing after containers? Amazon CTO talks up serverless computing
Tim Bray's take on this
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2016/03/31/Serverlessness
Linus Torvalds in sweary rant about punctuation in kernel comments
UEFA's Euro 2016 app is airing football fans’ privates in public
Boffins decipher manual for 2,000-year-old Ancient Greek computer
Hooves in spaaace: Goat Simulator goes galactic
Mercury to transit Sun: Viewer discretion advised
Why should you care about Google's AI winning a board game?
Wikipedia to build and give away speech synthesis code
I this really necessary with the browsers now implementing Text To Speech that uses the native voices on the OS?
See:
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/01/firefox-and-the-web-speech-api/
Demo http://mdn.github.io/web-speech-api/speak-easy-synthesis/ [Firefox]
BTW the IVONA voices are so real - I could listen to them all day.
