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Comment Re:I wish there was an easy way to understand it (Score 1) 129

number of dimensions? in what way?

current quantummumbojumbo that has already de-evolved into multiverse, current tech singularity ai-blabla etc already resemble ancient philosophical debates... in that they're silly to most people and seemingly also silly to those familiar in actual research and not "futurology" or whatever.

Comment Re:Google Streams (Score 5, Interesting) 359

yeah.. now they've created 1 billion artificial google+ accounts and they're just dumping them into two baskets? what the fuck?

(*by artificial google+ accounts I mean accounts created from gmail and youtube accounts in a deceptive fashion. they kept changing the prompts and one bad click and boom your gmail account now was your youtube account and at the same time a google+ account. I think they had some bonus scheme going on for the folks involved where if they got x number of g+ accounts they would get x dollars of bonus. the bonus scheme didn't involve people using g+ as g+ though it seemed - and yeah they were counting on having made one youtube comment within the year as being an "active google+ user").

I would venture to say that just 1% of google+ accounts are from people who on purpose wanted to create a google+ account for the sake of using google+.

Comment Re:"Full responsibilty?" (Score 1) 334

there's no war in pakistan... officially anyways.

so this was a police operation or police assistance operation or whatever the fuck - which made _no_ attempt to apprehend the suspects(no attempt at a trial, just a long range killing).

so yeah, he's not taking full responsibility. he knew that when he was saying it. he's not even taking war crime responsibility for it. he's not actually taking any actual responsibility for the act or ordering a hit that resulted in a dead american - or the others which have resulted in scores of dead civilians.

and quite frankly, you should already know that the drone hits are just call-a-hit's for local governments - they define who is a terrorist or not in pakistan, and those actual terrorists they don't want to whack they don't order hits on - they get to choose and USA gets the blame. yemen for example was using them for getting rid of political opposition figures(and now the whole country is a mess).

Comment Re:Caller ID (Score 1) 78

there has been caller id apps on some markets(like, fetching from the phone companies directory the name) ever since shortly after 3g was rolled out.

why 3g was important for this? why not on pre-3g smartphones? on gprs+gsm network your data access got cut when you received a phone call, thus making it impossible to try to query the database just in time and keeping the entire database for a country of 5 million people on a smartphone that had a 16mbyte memcard was not feasible of course.

and you already had this with facebook for your friends who had put in their phone numbers as public too, if you synced the contacts.

of course facebook could just put anybodys phone number matching who is on facebook - but that would be quite a big of a privacy nono so I don't think they're actually doing that.

Comment Re:all they have to do is lure them to a webpage (Score 5, Informative) 134

...read the paper.

it's like he said, you can detect that the network is being used or that there "probably was some user input".

which is pretty far away from keylogging, so far in fact that it's unlikely to be possible at all.

the whole paper up until that is written though as if you could snoop everything in the computer so not to blame you too much.

"e. Instead of the
traditional cryptanalytic application of the cache attack,
we instead showed how user behavior can be effectively
tracked using this method." you know why? BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T FUCKING EXECUTE A FUCKING SIDECHANNEL ATTACK!

Comment why not just ask him.. (Score 2) 230

why not just ask him if he thinks security companies are a bad thing? are companies providing encryption for the police forces doing a bad thing? or should they just forget their data in cars that get stolen unencrypted?

how does he think he can eat the cake and then continue to have it? he can have part of the cake after eating but it's going to smell shitty, so why would anyone use the security companies giving him the cake first...

Comment only worked due to other automatons (Score 1) 310

it wouldn't have worked if others didn't automate their trades.

I don't think it was wrong or illegal, it's just a system that's badly designed and had too many money for nothing traders with automatons that they did not look after.

he pressured the price down by placing orders above the lowest and then the lowest would place lower, and same again. if he intended to fill them or not is rather irrelevant when someone else's algo works like that!

Comment Re:lol, Rand sucking up to the dorks (Score 1) 206

twat,

even malicious should have less. of course unless it results in actual other crimes.

like, if you use unauthorized access to facilitate an explosion or whatever.. the fuck do you need 35 years sentence for the hack for? the perp is on it's way for murder, terrorism or whatever charges anyways.

the old one is like making knife possession equivalent to having performed a deadly stabbing.

Comment Re:Allegedly (Score 1) 310

the complaint just describes business as usual.

it even describes layering as something that "was" sort of an industry standard practice.

I mean, if they describe it as such practice where are the other guys in prison for layering, huh? the other stuff seem like standard HFT bogus trickery as well so how is it that he is a criminal? is it strange to ask for a facility into hft that would cancel unprofitable trades? that's the whole fucking point of it anyways.

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