Specifically, they were measuring cynicism using the Cook-Medley scale, which defines cynical distrust as "A generally negative view of humankind, depicting others as unworthy, deceitful, and selfish"

"Oh, and they probably won't use sentinels to track down the dangerous unvaccinated folks."

*sigh* If only....

I'm very curious as to why they are using a neural network for this. I'm no machine learning expert, but I was under the impression that neural networks were somewhat outdated. And yet it seems like Google is spending rather a lot of time with them lately.

The Home View idea could be nice for the real estate industry.

Too soon.

An 18+ certificate almost implies a promise of immaturity at this point. 18+ games always have the sort of ridiculous violence and awkward nudity that primarily appeal to 18- gamers.

The article is vague, but it sounds like they've reduced the radioactivity by growing it without potassium. Unfortunately, potassium is a very important nutrient, and most people are not meeting their recommended daily intake of it.

At least it's rich nerdy assholes instead of the usual oil barons. That's progress... sort of.

Here in Toronto we have a road called the Gardiner Expressway. It's literally falling apart. We can't afford to fix it. We also can't afford to dismantle it. So it's becoming a more and more serious safety issue over the years. The point of my story is, just laying asphalt is too expensive, and these people want to upgrade to fancy cyber-roads?!

The original comment is an example of the new style of Slashdot karma whoring. Just say something nasty, no matter how baseless, and boom, +5 Insightful.

This isn't applicable to your phone being remotely hacked. Only a trusted authority has access to the encryption keys necessary to read your SE. Their are functioning mobile wallets all over the world, and this sort of attack has never happened. The only major security threat that this opens you up to are what the industry call "ass tappers". I think you can guess what that means.

As for purchasing anonymously, you can't do that with your credit card either. Yet credit cards remain pretty popular.

Theoretically, a mobile wallet that works when your phone is dead should be possible. It's probably the coolest thing about NFC, that only one of the devices needs to be powered. I don't know that anybody has implemented such a thing though.

I agree that it's a solution in search of a problem. But the CC companies don't need to switch off of chip-and-pin to support mobile wallets. Have you noticed that you can tap a chipped credit card against the new generation of POS devices to pay? If you can do that, you can tap an NFC phone as well. Ever noticed how the chip in your credit card looks a lot like a SIM? Not a coincidence, it's the same underlying Smart Card tech.

And about the malicious entities, this really isn't as big a problem as what your picturing. A wallet app is really just a UI. All the meat goes into your Secure Element. Your card info gets put in remotely by a trusted authority, and is read directly off the chip by a POS. Apps on your phone don't have access to it.

Their was an idea floating around that people were more likely to leave their wallet at home than their phone. I'm not sure where that idea came from, it's always seemed unlikely to me. Retailers in a lot of cases are installing the new POSs that read a tap from a credit card. It's the same hardware to read a tap from a phone (both are NFC), so it doesn't cost them any extra. The tap-to-pay really is convenient for low value transactions (usually $50) because you don't need to enter a PIN.

In a mobile wallet, your financial data isn't stored in regular memory. There is a device in your SIM called a Secure Element which talks directly to a POS. Apps on your phone have zero access.