Just so parent and grandparent, but the frequency with which power and phone service is lost at alarmed locations makes it unlikely the authorities will place as high a priority upon this type of trouble call.

It's a nice feature, but it doesn't generate the sort of priority response that a triggered alarm will.

Keep in mind the police also respond to dozens of false alarms for every genuine burglary.

Focusing on the NSA and the DOJ, arguably the most well known of the privacy violators, ignores the evidence that the majority of the World's governments engage in this sort of behavior.

If the lawsuit were successful, and if the organizations named as defendants in the suit ceased and desisted surveillance operations, all that would occur is a de facto victory in the surveillance arms race for America's opponents.

It's fairly sad, but very true to say this genie is out of the bottle.

There are several $1000 US apps you can purchase, some of which require proof of assets in excess of one million$ to download. People pay thousands for clothing in exclusive locales such as Rodeo Drive for the express purpose of posturing to prove their wealth. So yeah, there's a niche market for this.

The canine olfactory organ is thousands of orders of magnitude more sensitive than ours... identifying drugs, bombs, and cancers is rudimentary to our best friend.

Yet, despite this superpower, they choose roll around in the foulest smelling dead shit they can find.

Are there smells we cannot appreciate in the same vein that there are sounds we cannot hear?

Skilled burglars have been cutting power and phone lines for years, since alarm systems have been in relative widespread use since the 90's. Many homes that report intruder alerts over land lines are easily defeated in this manner, especially if the loudspeaker in the attic can be disabled.

The new systems that report via wifi are still somewhat neutralized by the power outage throwing a main disconnect at the electrical feed, although they may report the power outage as an alarm trigger.

An alarm system company was out in force in our town a year or so ago, knocking doors and offering the wifi thermostat with the whole house protection system. It came with a door keypad entry system, internet accessibility, and a free camera you could place wherever you wanted.

An attractive gal pal of mine had the complimentary camera in her bedroom... the sales rep had recommended installing it there and it never occurred to her what a poor placement that might be. So yeah, maybe there's a sinker...

Hopefully the estimates of the plane's traveling capacity aren't as overblown as the articles predictions for solar energy's takeover of hydrocarbons.

There will always be people willing to exploit the idiots use of free speech to call for its eradication for the rest of us.

Now, where is the daylight savings time article?

I resemble that remark.

Oh... you said right mind.

According to TFA, Fujitsu was forced to scale back A large, long-term facial recognition study it was planning to carry out at Osaka Station because of privacy concerns.

They seem to have several plausible shopper-related motives for tracking people, sort of like in Minority Report, but it doesn't take a Nobel-worthy leap of the imagination to see where this technology might be used to further eradicate personal privacy.

Perhaps that's one the god belief set is still so strongly entrenched in the face of mountains of contrary evidence.... their missionary conversion drive is so much stronger than ours.

You know, meaningful subtext is seemingly an eye of the beholder condition.

I was still a young punk when Terminator (1) hit theatres, and it was my little brain's first grappling with a causal loop.

"Okay, so he has to go back in time to save the mother of the son who will one day lead the human resistance in the war against the machines... oh shit, and he's John Conner's father... but wait, don't the computers know the timeline cannot really be altered?"

We have a consensus.

Protip: If your anti-government, anti-military, anti-establishment stance is greeted with no warmness on /., you probably need to do a little soul searching.

FTA: They're already bioprinting human tissue for drug research, albeit it tiny amounts only guaranteed to live 40 days.

The biggest obstacle to working organs seems to be the inclusion of vasculature to the tissues for sustenance, but that is being worked out.

This seems promising. Financing is an initial hurdle since it's a medical procedure requiring lengthy testing and approval. Investors aren't flocking in for an expected payout of years or decades.

Baby steps, my good coward...

still efforting the 40% threshold for RTFS.

The one I've heard that rings true is the sanctity of life argument: the Cons being against the abortion with the same zeal as the Libs against the death penalty.