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by suprgeek 10y ago
What is not mentioned in the very thin article is that this scumbag who ruined many people's lives gets to walk-away with $134 Million [1]. [1] http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2016/10&#x2
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by suprgeek 10y ago
Lets hope that it is a promise for innovation and not a threat of dirty tricks. people should not be declaring it as some kind of "Musk victory". These guys do not play fair and have deep pockets. You can beat Musk to Mars one of
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by suprgeek 10y ago
The scariest part of the whole piece answers this question: Why are back doors with secret keys a BAD idea? "... he had been left out of a decision that hurt users' security, the sources said. Due to a programming flaw, he told th
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Elon Musk to Make Us a Multiplanetary Species (If He Can)(bloomberg.com)
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Google WiFi – New Mesh router(droid-life.com)
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by suprgeek 10y ago
"Manipulating the media" - what about the much more serious concern of the revolving door between Big Pharma and the FDA? This door spins almost as fast as the one between the Big Banks and the SEC. The current commissioner of the
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by suprgeek 10y ago
The Hackers groups are doing what they can to expose Mylan's (EpiPen makers) Greed which is laudable. What is really needed is also an explainer on why a bit of govt. leverage (socialism if you will) is good in Medicine Pricing as well
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The House Intelligence Committee’s Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad Snowden Report(tcf.org)
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by suprgeek 10y ago
Now this is an exercise in doublespeak: 1) Rather than avail himself of the many lawful avenues to express legal, moral, or ethical qualms with U.S. intelligence activities, Mr. Snowden stole 1.5 million classified documents from National S
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Peter Thiel Is Backing a Startup to Fund Other Lawsuits(vanityfair.com)
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Glut of papers confirms: we really don’t understand Ceres(arstechnica.com)
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When it comes to protecting personal data, security gurus make their own rules(mercurynews.com)
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Data points that Facebook uses to target ads(washingtonpost.com)
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Hackers Claim to Auction Data They Stole from NSA-Linked Spies(wired.com)
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“Google System UI” Could Put a Big Chunk of the OS in the Play Store(arstechnica.com)
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by suprgeek 10y ago
The annoying problem of being unable to select via Enter key the first item in the address bar that is shown while typing any text is back. Using OldBar on FF48 on a MAC type text into address bar - Key down to select first entry Hit enter
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by suprgeek 10y ago
Obscured under " Develop a self-driving capability that is 10X safer than manual via massive fleet learning " is the cold hard truth that that learning will be paid for in lives - mostly of Tesla drivers possibly of others. The ra
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by suprgeek 10y ago
Lets not forget that they are speaking about neutrinos - particles that are notoriously hard to detect precisely because they hardly interact with "regular" matter. So the fact that they traveled hundreds? of miles still in superp
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The British want to come to America – with wiretap orders and search warrants(washingtonpost.com)
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A Medical Mystery of the Best Kind: Major Diseases Are in Decline(nytimes.com)
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by suprgeek 10y ago
Note that another possible Autopilot Crash is now being investigated: http://electrek.co/2016/07/06/nhtsa-probing-tesla-model-x-ro... As I have noted before: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply
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NHTSA now probing Tesla rollover accident for possible Autopilot involvement(electrek.co)
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California's struggle over the chemical BPA continues(mercurynews.com)
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by suprgeek 10y ago
While it may be manageable for most, I wonder at what point it becomes downright dangerous for people in critical jobs. It would be interesting to do an analysis of say Muslim Surgeons observing Ramadan fasts and the numbers and types medic
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by suprgeek 10y ago
Here is the meat of the Post: "Neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky, so the brake was not applied. The high ride height of the trailer combined with its positioning a
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by suprgeek 10y ago
I see a future where as the "rise of the machines" takes hold in things like News Items, Stories, Poetry, Paintings, Movies etc, there will be a commensurate rise in Detection software. The detection software would flag things as
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by suprgeek 10y ago
He is not "wrapping" the very language. He is trying to correct the semantic imbalance that is tilted towards the $100 Billion corporation. The thing you need to grok about RMS is that he is a purist. This fact strikes many people
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NIH grants $2.3M to development of FeverPhone, a portable disease diagnosis kit(techcrunch.com)
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by suprgeek 10y ago
Great Product - Congrats on thinking thru and designing for a "Wire-Free" experience, with Solar batteries and the clever hack of the OBD port connector to offload some functions (wake-up on reversing etc). That said - it seems it
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Driver license, passport, visa pics in FBI face-recognition database(arstechnica.com)
2 points by suprgeek 10y ago|0 comments

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