Comment Siri (Score 1) 119
"Siri, show me pictures of the Serengeti."
"Didi you say spaghetti!"
Comment Re:As if the prequels weren't bad enough (Score 2) 79
Don't even think about taking that crown away from its rightful owner.
Oh hai, Mark
Comment Re:Can the new buyer be worse than DICE? (Score 3, Insightful) 552
Sure it could. HuffPoo, anybody?
Comment Re:What they say (Score 1) 143
... thank Hedy Lamarr for laying the groundwork for spread spectrum....
"It's not *Hedy*, it's *Hedley*. Hedley Lamarr."
Steve Albini: The Music Industry Is a Parasite -- and Copyright Is Dead 189
journovampire sends word of another thought-provoking rant from Steve Albini (mentioned here last a few years back for his
paean to the beauty of analog tape for recording): The veteran producer addressed an audience in Barcelona on Saturday: "The old copyright model – the person who creates something owns it and anyone else that wants to use it or see it has to pay them – has expired."
Comment Re:This never works (Score 1) 304
I disagree. Subtle facial expressions are part of acting, better resolution can show them better.
I reckon that makes Kristen Stewart one of the greatest actresses of all time.
Comment Re:No more "Cloud", please (Score 1) 60
Enough. No, I do not want "Cloud" services, thanks.
So don't use them. Last I checked, no-one was being forced to do so.
Yet.
Comment Re:Did anyone care anymore? (Score 1) 105
The Internet started long before the web. But you already knew that, right?
Senator Dianne Feinstein: NSA Metadata Program Here To Stay 510
cold fjord writes "The Hill reports, 'Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) predicted Sunday that lawmakers who favored shutting down the bulk collection of telephone metadata would not be successful in their efforts as Congress weighs potential reforms to the nation's controversial intelligence programs. "I don't believe so," Feinstein said during an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press (video). "The president has very clearly said that he wants to keep the capability So I think we would agree with him. I know a dominant majority of the — everybody, virtually, except two or three, on the Senate Intelligence Committee would agree with that." ... "A lot of the privacy people, perhaps, don't understand that we still occupy the role of the Great Satan. New bombs are being devised. New terrorists are emerging, new groups, actually, a new level of viciousness," Feinstein said. "We need to be prepared. I think we need to do it in a way that respects people's privacy rights."'"
Submission + - NSA App Ideas to Popularize Spying and Big Data (jeffreifman.com)
reifman writes: Perhaps the reason the NSA's surveillance programs are so unpopular with Americans is that we haven't seen any of the potential consumer benefits that spying and big data can provide. Here are ten ideas for the productization and monetization of the NSA's spying infrastructure to inspire Americans to consider the bright side of the dark arts.
Comment Re:But how does it sound? (Score 1) 315
I have always pronounced it Gif, even though I know it is wrong, and jif is correct. I figure if people can get away with hair ace ment instead of hair ass ment I can do this
I thought that the new, properly sensitive way of pronouncing it was "harris-ment" rather than the traditional "her-ass-ment" because the the latter was too sexually harassing...
US Suspects Iran Was Behind a Wave of Cyberattacks 292
A reader writes in with this Times article about more trouble brewing between the U.S. and Iran. "American intelligence officials are increasingly convinced that Iran was the origin of a serious wave of network attacks that crippled computers across the Saudi oil industry and breached financial institutions in the United States, episodes that contributed to a warning last week from Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta that the United States was at risk of a 'cyber-Pearl Harbor.' After Mr. Panetta's remarks on Thursday night, American officials described an emerging shadow war of attacks and counterattacks already under way between the United States and Iran in cyberspace. Among American officials, suspicion has focused on the 'cybercorps' that Iran's military created in 2011 — partly in response to American and Israeli cyberattacks on the Iranian nuclear enrichment plant at Natanz — though there is no hard evidence that the attacks were sanctioned by the Iranian government. The attacks emanating from Iran have inflicted only modest damage. Iran's cyberwarfare capabilities are considerably weaker than those in China and Russia, which intelligence officials believe are the sources of a significant number of probes, thefts of intellectual property and attacks on American companies and government agencies."
Comment Re:it doesn't matter if he's a "real" racist or no (Score 1) 890
"white american man"
I do believe that "racist sexist homophobe" is the term that is currently in vogue.
Comment Re:Not anymore (see NDAA) (Score 2) 582
According to his voting record and platform, he absolutely was a liberal. There was no reason to believe he'd be in favor of a bill like the NDAA at time we voted for him.
That's right -- there was no way that anyone could see it coming at all.
Comment Re:here we go again (Score 1) 244
Worst that can happen: Britain says no, what can the United States do then? Britain has to agree for the extradition, yes? If this guy gets extradited it's not only on the American government that's responsible
No, the worst that could happen is that he fights extradition in a British court and loses, with the judgement rendered in such a way that it drastically lowers the bar for future cases.
