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Comment Unintended Consequences (Score 2) 298

My grandpa has an internet connection for the sole purpose of having cameras in his house to watch him. The cameras are not compatible with WiFi encryption. If someone logs in and uses his internet to download, and the ISP ends up cutting off his internet to stop "his piracy", we won't be able to see the cameras or if he's fallen or needs help. I wonder what the ISPs will have to say then if he ends up dying because we couldn't see him?

Comment Who didn't see this coming? (Score 3, Insightful) 449

Honestly, there really is no way to stop people from getting around every roadblock you put down. Walls can only stretch so far. The only way to prevent them from doing what they want is to either destroy the internet or kill everyone in the country. The first could even be worked around with possibly WiFi meshes or usb drop locations.
If the government decides to do the second, well, can't exactly get around that when you're dead.

Comment And then mobile gaming ground to a halt. (Score 4, Insightful) 49

Eventually people are going to want phone makers to make Ratings mandatory to get sold on app stores, and once that happens, you can say goodbye to cheap mobile games, or mobile games in general. Fees and having to wait for your game to be reviewed when hundreds of new games pop up in the review queue daily will bring mobile gaming to its knees.

Submission + - Valve's various databases compromised (steampowered.com)

Pichu0102 writes: "Valve put out a message after finding their forums were compromised, that it's possible their other databases, including passwords, billing info and CC information may also have been compromised in the attack that hit their forums."

Comment Re:This is just scary (Score 1) 800

I would, but in reality, this sounds like a much better way to train voice recognition software than having only a single user teach a new instance of a program like current voice implementations.
The more voice data, if they do it right, the more refined it might get for all users, not just the ones who train theirs regularly.
If they do it right.

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