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Comment Re:Reporting? (Score 1) 369

Because we remember when 'everyone involved' came out and said that the NSA wasn't spying on phone and internet traffic.

And we remember when 'everyone involved' said that ATT did not have a special room that the NSA connected into the major telco fibers all across the US.

And we remember when the government gave 'everyone involved' retro active immunity for spying on all the phone calls and internet traffic.

Comment Re:Why even bring sea level into the story? (Score 1) 191

Yea, but in a whole lot of places these cables are at risk anyway.

Let's take sea level rise out of the equation for a minute. That saves you right? Wrong. Places like the southern US coast are dependent on re-sedimentation to maintain (and grow) above sea level. Modern water management and bathymetry practices mean that is not going to occur. Even if humans were good little stewards of CO2, the coast is still sinking, and will keep sinking as sediment compaction occurs over the next few hundred million years.

The ocean is not static. The land is not static. If we want to avoid replacing cables around the ocean due to land level/sea level changes, starting an ice age is about the only solution. An extremely stupid solution at that.

Comment Re:Government playing with the Unemployment Number (Score 2) 159

>meant that "unemployment" numbers were being fudged and misreported.

I'm pretty sure you're correct, as today a report was released showing "over-employment" by the jobs numbers, along with very low increases in wages. If real over-employment were occurring wages would inflate rather rapidly. Now we are seeing the lie behind the number of unemployment.

Comment Re:There's No Such Thing (Score 1) 200

This is where you turned off your brain...

It doesn't matter if AI cost 1 billion dollars, because, much like processor development it is spread over how ever many millions of units you sell.

>It needs to be cheaper than Human labor to be useful because we live in a scarcity-driven world.

Yes, the materials to make robots/computers are soooooo scarce. Uh, no not really. See the thing about AI/computers is you can turn them off. Humans keep eating, shitting, and taking up climate controlled space. Over the entire cost of ownership, the retarded robot will be far cheaper than the retarted person. That's why factories are full of machines now, and the humans are disappearing from the assembly line.

Comment Re:HTTPS on LAN requires domain or private CA (Score 1) 214

>Because don't CAs don't issue certificates for 192.168/16

Which is good.

>unning your own CA and installing its root on all devices on your network. The latter is difficult on many platforms.

So if you want security don't buy shitty devices that don't allow you to install certs from your own CA. You are on this strange rant about SSL on the local network. Just fucking ignore the error on your local network.

Comment Re:Companies aren't looking before they leap (Score 1) 173

Amazon is an analytics company. They don't need access to your data. They already have access to your metadata. If you use their internal DNS you leak information. If you route traffic (even encrypted traffic) via their network that is not routed elsewhere via tunnel, they know who you contact.

Much like we discovered how many tanks Germany was making in WWII, Amazon can apply some advanced math at your encrypted traffic patterns and deduce many things about your business.

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