"One reason online retirement accounts are being targeted is they aren’t checked that much. This gives the hacker time to work, and potentially gain access to a particular account."
"...there is no such thing as “ethical” porn ... How many more videos of children being tortured and abused need to surface before we put an end to this??"
"The bill requires that such controls impose no additional cost to consumers", and would "impose stiff penalties for ISPs found guilty breaking the law."
"The online giant receiving the most traffic is Alphabet Inc which receives almost 120 billion visits a month."
"...Zuckerberg is a pawn. He’s neither the problem nor the solution. Soros is the problem..."
"Fortunately, however, conditions of infection and detection are changing, which in turn changes incredibly important factors that the AI isn’t aware of. And that probably means we’re safer than we think."
"It’s what one would expect from a country that’s controlled by its billionaires."
"I AM STILL NOT SUICIDAL. Hear that, Google? Hear that, Hillary?"
"No amount of trust, can hide the fact that biometric identification is about knowing who you are and where you are at all times. It is not too late to tell corporations and governments that we no longer believe their lies."
"Reflecting on the scale of police evidence collection, and the manner in which a warrant was obtained and phones were searched, Mok is in no doubt that it amounted to a ‘fishing’ operation, and that failure of legal protection in this instance may well point to broader abuse of existing legal protections."
"The good news is that the full extent of this ominous scenario is not likely to completely play out. The bad news is that this is because our society is rapidly moving toward complete and utter collapse."
"There’s a 60% chance you’re reading this article on a smartphone right now..."
"These boys have been through hell and back after having their names smeared by leftist talking heads. The only way to get these people to stop and think about the power their words have is to hit them where it hurts—their wallets."
This is particularly evident in its capital, Addis Ababa, where a slew of transportation projects — from new ring roads to Sub-Saharan Africa’s first metro system — transformed the city.
They come in the night: Drones — lots of them — flying in precise formations over the Colorado and Nebraska prairie. Why are they there?
The idea is that we're going to have technocrats tell us what we can and can't eat, and what we can and can't think.
The internet may be a global network, but many of the gatekeepers are still located in the United States. If international domain suffixes of companies like Amazon and Google are counted, 60 of the 100 websites in the ranking are American.
In 2018 alone, Bark alerted the FBI to 99 child predators. In 2019? That number is more than 300... and counting.
Earlier in 2019, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared that Moore’s Law is no longer possible. For what it’s worth, Intel still says technology in chipmaking always finds a way to advance — while TSMC has recently said the law is actually alive and well.
The allure of jumping aboard a speculative circus is as irresistible as ever, especially with interest rates at near-record lows.
At the same time, more aging cables will be taken offline. Even though signals are no longer traveling through this network of “dark fiber”, it’s still being put to productive use. It turns out that undersea telecom cables make a very effective seismic network, helping researchers study offshore earthquakes and the geologic structures on the ocean floor.
A low level of economic complexity isn’t necessarily a problem. Many countries with middle-to-low scores in the ranking have great standards of living and a high level of wealth. Countries like Canada, Norway, and Australia were all well down the list.
As a recent Amazon press release warns, "today customers can choose from more than 85,000 Alexa-compatible products designed for every room and outdoor space around their homes, with new brands and devices being added every week."
People could literally be arrested by Sidewalk Lab's police and and sentenced by their judges. Sidewalk Lab's police could use "unique data identifiers" to track anyone they want.