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Comment What price are you willing to pay? (Score 1) 47

by sansud (#59672642) Attached to: Apple Rolls Out Maps Redesign To All US Users

What price are you willing to pay for the mapping services?

With google, you are paying with your privacy. They know every place you have ever been to and, increasingly, where you will be at a future time.

With apple, you take an occasional detour into neighborhood roads. But you get to live privately if you want.

Comment Re:And nothing of value was lost (Score 1) 654

I think the base question is...what has happened to PEOPLE??

Nothing too different has happened to the PEOPLE. A lot has happened to the GUNS.

I mean, we've had guns around in this country since its founding.

Do you really think when the founding fathers envisioned a militia and their right to bear arms, they foresaw the AR style rifles with extra capacity magazines with bump stocks? They didn't even foresee a standing army and instead were thinking of a militia made up of private citizens defending their country....

It was MUCH easier to get guns in the past, I mean background checks weren't even a thing till 1998.

And yet we had a ban on assault style weapons in 1994...

Something has fundamentally changed in society, and I don't know what it is.

Could it be the proliferation of assault weapons? Mind, I am not calling out all types of guns, just a certain kind...

Have we stopped raising children to respect human life?

That's what those who don't want this problem solved would want you to believe. Somehow in one single generation the human beings were "raised" differently to not respect human life and that too in only one country...

I mean we've had troubled people forever, but usually they just offed themselves if it got that bad, but they didn't try to take out a bunch of innocent people.

Or could it be that they did, but couldn't hurt/kill more than a few at best because of the type of weaponry available to them in the past? Couple that with the 24-hr news cycle culture we have now, maybe we just get "informed" more about these incidents and the incidents have gotten much deadlier?

And after all, when a drunk person plows into a crowd of people, we don't blame the liquor or auto industry.....we blame that idiot that was operating the vehicle under the influence.

And yet, since the time idiots were allowed to drive cars, the biggest thing that has happened is the cars have gotten faster. But look what has happened to the guns since the time idiots were allowed to wield them...

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How the Internet Didn't Fail As Predicted 259

Posted by samzenpus from the series-of-popular-tubes dept.
Lord Byron Eee PC writes "Newsweek is carrying a navel-gazing piece on how wrong they were when in 1995 they published a story about how the Internet would fail. The original article states, 'Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.' The article continues to say that online shopping will never happen, that airline tickets won't be purchased over the web, and that newspapers have nothing to fear. It's an interesting look back at a time when the Internet was still a novelty and not yet a necessity."
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Why the First Cowboy To Draw Always Gets Shot 398

Posted by timothy from the more-guns-less-crime dept.
cremeglace writes "Have you ever noticed that the first cowboy to draw his gun in a Hollywood Western is invariably the one to get shot? Nobel-winning physicist Niels Bohr did, once arranging mock duels to test the validity of this cinematic curiosity. Researchers have now confirmed that people indeed move faster if they are reacting, rather than acting first."
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Facebook Master Password Was "Chuck Norris" 319

Posted by samzenpus from the ad-nauseum-roundhouse dept.
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "A Facebook employee has given a tell-all interview with some very interesting things about Facebook's internals. Especially interesting are all the things relating to Facebook privacy. Basically, you don't have any. Nearly everything you've ever done on the site is recorded into a database. While they fire employees for snooping, more than a few have done it. There's an internal system to let them log into anyone's profile, though they have to be able to defend their reason for doing so. And they used to have a master password that could log into any Facebook profile: 'Chuck Norris.' Bruce Schneier might be jealous of that one."
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Mexico Wants Payment For Aztec Images 325

Posted by samzenpus from the montezuma's-latest-revenge dept.
innocent_white_lamb writes "Starbucks brought out a line of cups with prehistoric Aztec images on them. Now the government of Mexico wants them to pay for the use of the images. Does the copyright on an image last hundreds of years?"
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The Path From Hacker To Security Consultant 96

Posted by Soulskill from the curiosity-killed-the-cracker dept.
CNet has a series of interviews with former hackers who ran afoul of the law in their youth, but later turned their skills toward a profession in security consulting. Adrian Lamo discusses taking "normal every day information resources and [arranging] them in improbable ways," describing a time when he broke into Excite@Home's system and ended up answering help desk questions from their users. Kevin Mitnick, famous for gaining access to many high-profile systems, warns today's young hackers not to follow in his footsteps, saying, "A lot of pen testers today have done unethical things in their past during their learning process, especially the older ones because there was no opportunity to learn about security. Back in the '70s and '80s, it was all self-taught. So a lot of the old-school hackers really learned on other people's systems. And at the time, I couldn't even afford my own computer." Mark Abene explains how he got interested in phone phreaking, and how it led to a prison term and a career in computer security. Like Mitnick, he says that easy access to powerful modern computers removes part of the motivation for breaking into other systems.

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