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That's a valid point only if it could somehow auto-engage on 'drive-mode' and disallow any other function. The burden would be on the maker to ensure that. Otherwise, it maybe coul…

Do we really need to have data on several hundred or thousand injury, maiming and death records for each new type of gadget that comes out? If X requires your attention, it will ca…

“Look, NSA has platoons of lawyers and their entire job is figuring out how to stay within the law and maximize collection by exploiting every loophole,” Interesting how agencies, …

>> Does anyone honestly believe the Germans aren't regularly trying to figure out ways to listen to American officials' communications? Your statement seems to equate "it's usual t…

I agree. While reading the article I can't help but, sort of, empathize with modern AI programs. Me and Watson are very similar, Watson can win Jeopardy but has no understanding wh…

Business such as this is what makes us have to raise our consumer shields up 100% of the time. I'm so very fucking tired of this.

We also have a cronic underdog syndrome perpetuated by countless broad opinions such as this. That only helps to undermine any kind of effort to change the culture of low self-este…

>> Most of my friends had access since they were 10 or 11. We turned out fine. Much akin to "when we were kids we rode in the front seat without seat belts on, we turned out fine",…

Not all psychologists see eye-to-eye on the tests issue. In the case mentioned in the article, even a professional that truly trusts the tests should have taken into consideration:…

The State is the one that must have no expectations of privacy and in fact be held to rigorous transparency an independent audit, not the other way around. Like in software, securi…

> You still see absorb the advertisement passively. Good thing I have control of my software and can opt out. I'm already assaulted at the senses all day long in different forms. T…

" If subjects do not obey, rulers have no power."

I can almost picture NSA analysts vulturing all over the private data collected of these enemies of the state. How soon utnil they send out the drones into the foreign lands where …

>> If enough people move to services outside of the States What service can we trust at this point? After the Evo Morales flight debacle, it's pretty clear that their five dollar w…

The internet is imploding.

Colateral damage aside, doesn't bombing rescuers and funerals classify as terrorism? Seriously...

On one side there is huge incentive to be social on the web, which paramounts to sharing stuff with others. On the other side, no one will let you share their content. If the world…

As long as there isn't such a thing as PrinterSockets for the browser, Java Applets are the only way we can provide printing services for our clients, because a browser can only se…

Currently it's the best way to serve labels for thermic printers that our clients need. There is no direct input to the printer as a byte buffer, the browser will always print a ma…

>> anyone using Instagram should have known that a change was coming and accepted that risk from the outset The ability to perceive a business agenda should not be pre-requisite to…

One comment really caught my attention in there: >> Man, this really blows. FB Purity helps me, a blind user, actually use Facebook more effectively than without it. sighs I do hop…

I'll be saying this as a user. I wish most developers would turn to HTML5 today, like right now, and avoid native apps at all cost unless there is really no alternative. Why? Becau…

Do you mind elaborating a bit on your solution that doesn't rely on Java? We have a similar case though with printers.

> They probably didn't think they could actually kill someone. In Brazil that would be true in the case of a regular car accident, it would be regarded as having no intent to kill.…