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    Apple will remotely install software to scan all US phones for child sex abuse images

    This has been an interesting discussion both here and in the tech press. For me, this functions more as a barometer of who has their eye on the future and who gets mired down in the details. Looking to that future, it is clear that appl and other tech giants view their cloud services and thier...
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    Apple will remotely install software to scan all US phones for child sex abuse images

    I think it would be more accurate to say that, "as it stands, they will not expand -that- system's scope" I deal with this all the time in my work with api's and bio-informatics. Once a subsystem is installed, we can write documentation that says "this" interface/UI/program whatever will do x...
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    Apple will remotely install software to scan all US phones for child sex abuse images

    I appreciate your time and contribution to this discussion. It certainly informed my thinking on this important topic for the better. As an "old" my perspective on technology has shifted over the years as the industry that one sees in media no longer considers me the target market. Putting...
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    8 Things Anita Sarkeesian Wants To Change About Video Games

    Can I just say how much I respect and admire her for making a career out of basically nothing. Every time I see her in the media, she constantly refines her message to straddle that line between, "oh well that's kinda sounds legitimate," to "omg neckbeard rage!!!" From a failed academic to big...
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    Men On The Internet Don’t Believe Sexism Is A Problem In Science

    This study has some questionable research design. First, it looks like to p values are a little off to me at a glance, using quantitative methods on qualitative data is a bit suspect seeing as 800 is not a very large sample for this type of analysis/data set. But I digress... I work in an...
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    U.N. Panel Reaffirms That Climate Change Is “Irreversible”

    That side is pretty much neither. It's a intractable debate so it is a waste of time arguing for either side. Let's say, for example, even if we are not the main cause of climate change (and of course, this argument really isn't about climate change but about global resource management) and...
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    U.N. Panel Reaffirms That Climate Change Is “Irreversible”

    Climate change debates always make me shake my head in disbelief because both sides expend all this energy just to ask to wrong questions. The right question is should we do anything about it. The answer is no. Hell, why not speed the thing up while we are at it. 1. We need a population...
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    NFL Bans Players from Wearing Beats Headphones on Camera

    Live by the marketing sword, die by the marketing sword. As for players protesting... I think there is a line in goodfellas about having to pay tribute every week that covers that.
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    Shadow of Mordor Graphics Compared: Xbox One, PS4 and PC

    This is pretty much a water is wet situation. People who make these comparisons almost always forget the long tail of the PC. In a year, maybe less, this game will be on sale through steam or bundle with all the patches (some official, some unofficial perhaps) and the hardware to run it will...
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    Comments On Articles Should Cost Money

    Never go full retard. Don't they know if they continue making that face it will get stuck like that forever. I love.. love comments. Facebook, youtube, gawker whatever although I never comment myself. Data mining: keeps me in business. I just want to take this opportunity to thank all the...
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    'Chexting' Breaking Up Happy Homes

    This certainly does happen occasionally... I don't know if we really need a new word for it. I had a casual friend of over 5 years cut me out suddenly because of a very jealous and insecure SO. I just took it as an opportunity to jettison dead weight that now isn't worth my time. Found out later...
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    Creationists Demand Equal Airtime Over Cosmos Content

    I tend to agree with DD but I see religions more as a symbiotic organism. It sucks away time, money and in most cases critical thinking but it returns a feeling of superiority, tribal belonging and safety. Religion serves two valuable purposes in society: to provide comfort in death for...
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    Three Mozilla Board Members Resign Over New CEO

    As a very public face/representative of the company, I think any causes you support should be a factor in the hiring of such a position. That is just good business/PR. Besides this allows the people who were already unhappy an out so I don't see the problem here.
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    Computer Science Should Be a High School Graduation Requirement

    Not going to happen, not in my lifetime anyway. Do I agree on principle, sure... but who is going to teach it? Anyone smart enough to know enough computer science is going to figure out pretty quickly that it isn't worth the cost/benefit. Hell, half of the public school teachers I know spend...
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    Why I Walked Out On Apple

    I get what you're saying in principle but I guess I am spoiled/lucky that I work in the bio-tech industry where people focus on the quality of your work and not bullshit like hurt feelings. A) Oh, I agree. I didn't much like going to grad school or the first job after that but I sucked it up...
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    Why I Walked Out On Apple

    I don't know why people get all worked up over their job. It's a job. Not your life. Now, if you have career aspirations and/or have a family to provide for then that should figure into your decision but let's keep it in perspective here. However, one shouldn't quit unless another job is...
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    New Gender Options for Facebook Users

    So all those intersex people in the world... yeah screw them. Guess you missed that day in biology class, eh? Don't worry your head about it, since many countries in Europe and abroad are moving to a three option birth certificate it won't be long before it becomes standard in the US as well...
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    Neiman Marcus Hacked, 1.1M Credit Cards Exposed

    I for one am loving these stories. Only having one credit card for emergencies is crazy, people said... Mmmmm the tears of sadness are delicious. I do so enjoy the look on the face of cashier's when I pay with cash. It like they think I'm a time-traveler from the distant past or something...
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    Google Bombarded By Government User Data Requests

    Indeed. My passport and popcorn is all ready for big show. Wondering how long til Lith1um get this in their inbox: "Your IP has been logged and you have been fined one-half credit for a sotto voce violation of the Verbal Morality Statute."
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    Healthcare.gov Chief Resigns

    I have been saying this for awhile but alas people who aren't students of history take no notice. Both "parties" of the government want to disband the middle: the middle is fickle. It's just easier to dangle that carrot of oligarchy in front of the upper class to control them and to make the...
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    Students Can Get Microsoft Office 365 For Free

    This is a "good" monetary move by MS. If I were them I would offer Office 365 for free to everyone and scrape their data in the cloud to sell to various interested parties. They would definitely make more than the price of the license fee. I mean they are already selling an ad platform that just...
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    Game Dev Abuses Copyright to Censor Negative Review?

    The real problem here is the three strikes auto take down of a channel. Youtube ran into similar muck with Sega and their bullshit recently. I remember they also had a problem with streaming the nebula awards because their shitty AI bot took down their stream even when the awards organizers had...
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    Intel On GTA 5 PC Release

    Meh. I play most if not all of my games on PC for the simple reason of mod support. Skyrim, Civ 5, Fallout NV all are still in my rotation because of various mods keeping them fresh. Now, I don't know if it is because of the type of games I play but I don't see the appeal of playing on console...
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    Debt-Ceiling Shutdown Will Close Some Gov’t Websites

    Awww how quaint thinking that the rule of law actually exists or that it even matters. Laws are just arbitrary rules only bound by the states ability to enforce them and the amount of power and money one has to overcome them. Reminds me of driving around with my grandfather in Boston and him...
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    Debt-Ceiling Shutdown Will Close Some Gov’t Websites

    I never said it wasn't discriminatory or right. I'm saying it would be effective. I have some colleagues that work at the CDC (which is running at severely reduced capacity, see I related it to the thread) and people always think we are horrible when discussing how another natural plague or...
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    Debt-Ceiling Shutdown Will Close Some Gov’t Websites

    Actually, eugenics is population control through punitive legal means. If I were to say let's make poor people having babies illegal then THAT would be eugenics. I'm just saying keep the benefits (that are already in place mind you) for responsible parents and remove those benefits for others...
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    Debt-Ceiling Shutdown Will Close Some Gov’t Websites

    I had a great idea about stop the cycle of poverty awhile ago but of course that assumes one actually wanted to stop it in the first place. It is really simple: Population control. Setup a standard of living... let's say two years of living above the poverty level according to ones tax records...
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    Adobe Hacked, 3M Accounts Compromised

    Good. Sometimes you have to get burned in order to learn not to grab a hot pot off the stove...
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    Debt-Ceiling Shutdown Will Close Some Gov’t Websites

    I think you have something here. The problem with the healthcare act is in the marketing. They should just reintroduce it next session as "A Modest Proposal". Problem Solved. Well, I'm well past my expiration date and if this jewel in my hand is any indication, I best be getting on my way to...
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    Debt-Ceiling Shutdown Will Close Some Gov’t Websites

    Or more simply if they shifted their attitudes from an "I don't care if I don't win as long as the other guy loses" to a "right tool for the right job mentality" the US government would get alot more done. Alas, it probably is a pipedream at least in my lifetime. Where if I might ask...
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    Debt-Ceiling Shutdown Will Close Some Gov’t Websites

    Burn it down and salt the earth. I have lived in other countries and I always have to stifle a laugh when people in the US get so caught up on a few third-rail issues that do nothing but distract you from how much both sides are stealing from your pocket. In other news, the US is still the...
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    Google: All Your Passwords Are Belong To Us

    Not at all surprising. Nothing is free and people using google's services should expect more of this in the future. That is why I don't use a third party for my emails (except for work which I have to go through the university for) and I digitally sign my emails. Come on people, this is just...
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    California Abruptly Drops Plan For RFID Driver's Licenses

    Don't forget that most of them are huge farm/ag towns. If these are the same people as the "jeffersonian statists" then they all live close to the border of Oregon and Nevada. They might be a little "pissing into the wind" for my taste, personally speaking, but they do have a point why should...
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    Fired For Calling Out Non-Tipping Customer On Twitter

    I usually tip something if not well because I have worked as a server before and I know much of a crap job it can be. However, if a place does the whole mandatory gratuity for large groups thing then I pay in cash minus the gratuity and leave whatever change I have left be it two dollars and...
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    Ballmer Admits Surface a Flop, Windows 8 Sales Are Disappointing

    Surface as hardware is pretty decent (we won't speak about the abomination that is RT). Locking everybody into their stupid "we think we can out apple, apple" store is just plain ridiculous. From a software developer standpoint their is absolutely no reason to develop for surface. None. Tiles...
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    1 in 4 Young Adults Regret Social Media Posts

    I was up for a new promotion recently and part of that job deals with social media on a light basis. The interviewer asked me why I should get the job when I don't have a personal fb or twit account... I told him that is exactly why you should hire me. Long story, short: I got the position...
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    House Narrowly Rejects Bid To Curb NSA Domestic Surveillance

    This vote was pretty much meaningless. If it passed, they would just reroute funds and keep going business as usual and if it failed as it did then it would be good pr for people who voted for it (look look we care about you plebeians see!!) without risking any actual movement on the issue.
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    Buy Office 365 and Get Free Year of Xbox Live Gold

    I think the cloud is an interesting (re)development from a tech support perspective. If the responsibility for up-time is shifted to MS or whoever then it reduces the load and cost considerably. It means less jobs but fewer headaches. Office acting up, reinstall the client... are you files...
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    The Best Skills to List on a Tech Resume

    Actually, it's pretty easy to get a mid level tech job at a big company. Keeping it is another story. The simple solution for this is to get past the HR screening by lying your face off. Lie like your life depended on it because it pretty much does in this economy. Now, I am not suggesting lying...
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    Student Gets Prison For Rigged School Election

    Should have had a schmuck ready to go to take to fall for him. That was his only mistake in a operational point of view then he could have had plausible deniability.
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