Have you not been reading these forums? If seemingly intelligent people take a party line (passed to them by news rags) on people who have undermined covert ops, thought-crimes 'are so yesterdaaay'.
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UK spies: You know how we said bulk device hacking would be used sparingly? Well, things have 'evolved'...
Tumblr resorts to AI in attempt to scrub itself clean from filth
YouTube fight gets dirty: Kids urged to pester parents over Article 13
@LDS Re: "Intellectual property is a "right" only insofar as the law says it is"
"And asking people to surrender their rights is totalitarian."
Have we all suddenly become fans of patents (because isn't that a clear example of IP)?
The debate around intellectual property has certainly taken some rather unexpected twists (and I would challenge anyone to make the bold claim they saw this coming 20 years ago).
European fibre lobby calls for end to fake fibre broadband ads
Sorry, we haven't ACLU what happened in sealed 'Facebook decryption' case, but let's find out
@tfb Re: Gendered Connectors
Interesting point, and not universally accepted. But extrapolating from this, we could say the 'active' connector (involving spring loading) is female; this definition makes identification of USB 'sex' quite simple. If the spring is just there to hold the plug (ground connection) then the socket is still male.
Earth pins (in the socket) are just weird--anyone care to hypothesise (or explain) why they were invented?
GCHQ opens kimono for infosec world to ogle its vuln disclosure process
AI snaps business titan jaywalking
IBM's Ginni Rometty snipes, er, someone for being irresponsible with data, haven't a clue who
Doctors join wombats in sh!tting bricks to help parents relax about kids chowing down on Lego
Great Scott! Is nothing sacred? US movie-goers vote Back To The Future as most-wanted reboot
Lush scrubs its card-processing servers squeaky clean
Oh, I wish it could be Black Friday every day-aayyy, when the wallets start jingling but it's still a week till we're paiii-iid
Tech bosses talk kids' books! Could they show a glimmer of humanity? You only get one guess
Blighty: We spent £1bn on Galileo and all we got was this lousy T-shirt
Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg can't remember smear firm, but 'some of their work' crossed her desk
Facebook to appeal against ICO fine – says it's a matter of principle not to pay 18 mins' profit
Can you trust an AI data trust not to slurp your data?
Re: "And now they're redefining the notion of ethics"
According to 'Fowler's', ethics is the principle, morals the practice; by which means it is concluded that ethical and moral (adjective) are much the same. Additionally that the term 'ethical' is often used because 'moral' has connotations of sexual 'misbehaviour'. Oh for the days UK public servants read and quoted these (thought-provoking, not necessarily absolutely definitive) sources.
Influential Valley gadfly and Intel 8051 architect John Wharton has died
Holy moley! The amp, kelvin and kilogram will never be the same again
Re: Sad case of science ignoring the evidence
It seems more that the journalism has been tailored for those less inquisitive and more willing to believe 'new tech'. I'm sure there is an explanation--I would guess when it was removed from the vacuum in order to compare to the other standards.
Are there any physicists around who can argue that gold would not have been a better choice?
If at first or second you don't succeed, you may be Microsoft: Hold off installing re-released Windows Oct Update
I'm not going to throw a snide remark, but how often I've heard wise men warn us against the use of the word 'democratic' for a nation or a party is cause for thought.
Disclaimer: I get to watch the US show from afar. Serves them right too--imposing their Broadway _and_ Hollywood infections on the rest of the world.
Berners-Lee takes flak for 'hippie manifesto' that only Google and Facebook could love
My hoard of obsolete hardware might be useful… one day
Dell upping its margins again: Precision 5530 laptop will sting you for $13m. Yep, six zeroes
Re: New strategy?
Please explain the joke (for readers who may be foreign). Was the lemonade stand IoT enabled? Maybe a physical 'like' button that only required Lucy's customers to accept the biometric Ts&C? Was she going to ride off on that $100 bike just as Charley was about to kick the ball?