https://goo.gl/maps/Lvj4ec9pE9...

It's not actually as exciting as it sounds.

Isn't this an antitrust violation? If just bundling a web browser was then surely changing the user's preferred apps to their own and opting users in to advertisements they've already opted out of in the guise of a security update ought to be.

They had to. They were running out of things to remove.

Even if it isn't rare, and human-like civilization also isn't rare, there's still no guarantee that we would have heard from them by now. Our own radio signals have only reached a tiny fraction of our galaxy, which is just one out of hundreds of billions. The Universe is just so stupefyingly, mind-blowingly enormous it's hard to say how common advanced civilizations are based on evidence from the scant few decades we've been listening for them.

The belief that the "shopping experience" of their users needed "enhancing" speaks loudly as to exactly how little Lenovo understands.

They don't believe that. They believe their customers are stupid enough to believe it.

Maybe that's why it took him an hour to print a shipping label: every click was accompanied by a pointless rambling five-minute diatribe.

Times like these we could really use a +1 Horrifying moderation.

Even if it's a hoax the sensible response doesn't really change. Change your password, enable 2FA and don't worry too much about whether it was FUD.

So who exactly is "the OCAP team?" I admit not following crypto research very closely so the only name I recognize on their site is Bruce Schneier, and though there's a few comments mentioning them on his blog he hasn't as far as I can tell said anything about being involved.

The other day I also noticed their text ads sometimes now have contact forms in them with my email address pre-populated. In response I turned off the option in my ad blocker that allowed their text ads. Advertisers are idiots.

I don't either. They make buggy video games with obnoxious amounts of DLC. Somehow that's worse than BofA foreclosing on houses that aren't actually mortgaged?

just ask yourself: what would a "thinking war machine" actually "think" about?

HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.

And now some lowercase letters to keep Slashcode happy: haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate

Interesting that they're free. Just curious: is that distance round-trip or if you drive to Vegas will you be walking back to LA?