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    Alaska’s Last Two Blockbuster Stores Closing, Leaving Just One in the US

    Bear in mind that some places in Alaska are still so remote from Internet and even delivery services that the only way to get any media (TV, movies, magazines, etc) is by air delivery once a year. These would be the first binge watchers. Get close enough to the poles and you can't even get...
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    New Spectre 1.1 and Spectre 1.2 CPU Flaws Disclosed

    This is why our users are on thin clients and can only run approved executables on a VM. BYOD, but nothing touches our servers.
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    Aerial Robot Dragon

    Someone needs to revoke their acronym license for that one.
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    Ever Buy an Original PS3? Sony May Owe You $65

    There were 2 email addresses I used back then... 50/50 shot of getting in the settlement? You can verify by PSN ID name, email address on PSN, or the console serial number. I don't think they'll take a receipt since they can't correlate that with who enabled the Other OS functionality.
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    Violating Website ToS is Not a Crime

    Oracle's docs are behind a login, which mostly fits the definition of private. (Trust me, my not having the company login for Oracle has led to no end of bureaucratic nonsense when it comes to fixing problems in my professional capacity.) That said, if one has "general" access to a site, with or...
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    Violating Website ToS is Not a Crime

    While 80% of the 175 cases that went to the Supreme Court from the 9th Circuit between 1999 and 2008 were overturned (this is believed to be the source of the number quoted by several news agencies and the president), 114,199 cases from the 9th Circuit were appealed to the supreme court, meaning...
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    Scientists Claim They Found a Drug That “Significantly Reverses Memory Loss”

    Spent some time assisting in an Alzheimer's ward, it's why I believe in assisted suicide. Anything that keeps people out of places like that is OK by me.
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    Researchers Create Chips That Are Unhackable and Virtually Indestructible

    Er, even if the hardware itself is unclonable you can still clone its signature if you know what the reader is looking for. I may not be able to reproduce a fingerprint but I can bypass a scanner with a piece of tape.
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    White House Calls for Government IT to Adopt Cloud Services

    Hint: Don't go with the Russian bid this time. It just doesn't look good.
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    Redbox Launches a New On-Demand Streaming Service

    If Redbox is going to leverage anything it'd probably be licensing deals. Similarly priced, if they can get a better license rate than others they can make more money per rental. I don't see it working, exactly, but hey it's their risk to take. Another possibility would maybe be advertising...
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    Microsoft Quietly Adds Native OpenSSH Client to Windows 10

    It's enabled via an admin level area so if they're in that far you're pretty darn borked already. Sure you can turn it on via script but to do that you'd need a system or admin level exploit already, in which case you could just as easily turn on Telnet which was already available. Mostly if bad...
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    Microsoft Quietly Adds Native OpenSSH Client to Windows 10

    Microsoft: Rocketing us to the far flung future of 1995.
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    Apple’s iMac Pro Arrives December 14, Starting at $4,999

    The magic bit is, I believe, a graybeard geek tradition. http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html
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    AI Becoming so Complex its Creators Don't Know How it comes to a Decision

    There's always going to be a trust gap with machines. There's a trust gap with people and we (ostensibly) know how people think. And let's be honest here, most people have no idea why things work the way they do and even if they question it's more because of annoyance factor more than actually...
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    Phantom Auto Plans Remote-Control Centers For Autonomous Cars

    30 seconds could be disastrous on the highway if there's a wreck or something. The accordion effect being what it is if there's enough of these AIs on the road it could create a mini Bridgegate while people are waiting for robotruck to navigate around an obstacle, then the next truck, etc. while...
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