Or, you could tell your future-self to have your new robot hack Jibo to refer to a virtual server spun up ad-hoc by the new unit instead of the long-dead remote servers. PRESTO, your new robot has 2 avitars instead of one. ( ok, one has a lot less capacity than the other. But a hack that was set up with a long-game of years is always worth doing)

With only 100 hammer strikes per hour... I doubt the worms would even notice.

My deepest apologies for wasting all of my MOD points before you made this post. --- Awesome.

Actually, no... The whole point is that you CAN prove ( in a court of law) that the GPS data in the phone is also tied by various bio-markers to the Person who owns the phone. With gyro-metric information about the person's gate ( yes, just like the scene from a Mission Impossible movie lately... it IS real tech) , and micro-measure pressure on keystrokes providing fingerprint-like confidence in identity. That's actually the WHOLE POINT of this technology. ( but full disclosure: I didn't read the article, but I DID attend a briefing about this project less than a week ago. -- The briefing wasn't at the classified level, but there was an attendance fee, so it wasn't quite "open to the public")

Firefox for android works fine for when I choose to brows Facebook from my phone. -- you can no longer send messages without the separate massager app (so, I don't use them). I've just told my friends not to use that method to get a hold of me and Presto! ... I know that any message showing there is from somebody who doesn't know me.

Hey, IBM.... Welcome to 2009!

They are also BILLED OUT at a higher rate... You can be sure THAT is the driving force behind the change in classification.... Just Say'n.

Yeah, that stood out to me, too. ... How can you hire a "Chief Scientist" who doesn't understand the basic mechanisms of the environment you're operating within?

Sadly, 74% actually seems low to me. - Just say'n....

What? Why?... The only actual content from this article that I can see is that WHEN the NSA has compromised a system, they look to see if anybody else has also owned the box. ... That's not untrustworthy Government, that is sound, logical procedure. And every single White-Hat organization does this. --- Now don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating for the NSA, but I'm not going to blame them for using industry recognized Best Practices.

so far, yes. I am getting security updates. - hopefully you didn't just jinx me...

Sometimes, citing justification for your actions calls attention to the wisdom of your actions. - Sure. - But sometimes, it just calls attention to how foolish that you have been all along. -- quote :: "85 percent of existing standalone Mobile stores are within three miles of a Big Box store." :: - Who allowed that to happen in the First Place?

I'm sitting here with a Galaxy S5 on my belt... It would be interesting to learn if the obvious nature of this article has reached the actual decision makers, or if it's still perking up. -- and by the way; If you're out there decision makers, the proper conclusion is that your "new features" are not compelling. Higher res screens that are thinner just don't draw customers. ( if they did, the lifecycle would still be 23 months). Nothing, but nothing, beats actually knowing what your customers what. -- Of course, who am I kidding... the obviously take away they will make is that they should make shotty products that fall apart after 23 months.

This makes me want to put a few of theses into shipping envelopes and leave them on some of my coworkers desk. -- The intent being that when they open them, I will see how many of them I can convince to step out of the windows onto the ledge. -- Does this make me a bad person?

ScentCone,

I like your email sig... Perhaps I could interest you in reading mine... - Just say'n...