Nice idea, but sadly it would not work in the current system. For years I have called credit card companies in advance to make a statement that I am traveling to a foreign country so don't put my charges on hold when I use my card there. First charge, they always ignore the statement and put my card on hold until they can contact me. After that they will allow it to be used. No credit company is going to follow any special instructions from the consumer given to a rating agency. Sometimes lenders will not even check for a freeze on credit at the rating agency and will issue a card- so you can't even depend upon that.

They are simply going to have to stop using SSNs as authenticator values and come up with something more secure.

Wasn't his point simply that simulating a 'wet' neural network on silicon would be so much slower and more difficult to construct than using an actual neural substrate as to make it not worth pursuing?

Do you mean Louis C.K.? If so, I agree!

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Maybe Terminators, or maybe this

But such supreme knuckle-heads are surely likely to make so many mistakes — like advertising on Facebook or searching there or in chatrooms for co-conspirators — that sophisticated and costly communications data banks are scarcely needed to track them down

The Boston Marathon duo were supreme knuckle-heads and the NSA still did not discover them. So even the knuckleheads aren't found with their surveillance.

FTFY