Re: [LINK] How the NSA can make your phone pretend to turn off

2014-06-08 Thread andrew clarke
On Sun 2014-06-08 17:50:16 UTC+1000, Kim Holburn (k...@holburn.net) wrote: http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/06/technology/security/nsa-turn-on-phone/ How the NSA can 'turn on' your phone remotely Even if you power off your cell phone, the U.S. government can turn it back on. This sounds

Re: [LINK] web: A third of NBN not working, figures reveal

2014-06-08 Thread Karl Auer
On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 21:33 +1000, Andy Farkas wrote: it already! And what exactly is an inferior connection ? A FTTH connection either works or it doesn't. With pretty much any networking technology that I know of, it's entirely possible to have a connection that suffers from intermittent

[LINK] web: Computer simulating 13-year-old boy becomes first to pass Turing test | Tec ...

2014-06-08 Thread Jan Whitaker
OK, this seems possible, but I'd like to see how an unknown set of questions from a panel would determine that this was or wasn't a real 13 y.o. boy. Anyone have more detail on how this test was actually conducted? According to the article, they test 3 machines. That means there wasn't a

[LINK] web: Uber and Lyft told to shut down by Virginia as rows erupt worldwide | Techn ...

2014-06-08 Thread Jan Whitaker
Not just Victoria/NSW, it seems http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/06/uber-lyft-virginia-as-rows-erupt-worldwide Melbourne, Victoria, Australia jw...@janwhitaker.com Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between

[LINK] web: Internet users cannot be sued for browsing the web, ECJ rules | Technology ...

2014-06-08 Thread Jan Whitaker
This is interesting nit picking, especially the very last sentences: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/05/internet-users-cannot-be-sued-for-browsing-the-web-ecj-rules The battle between Meltwater and the NLA started in a copyright tribunal, which ruled that the NLA had to

Re: [LINK] web: Computer simulating 13-year-old boy becomes first to pass Turing test | Tec ...

2014-06-08 Thread Kim Holburn
It only convinced 33% of the judges, so not a complete pass. I always remember a story Robert Ornstein told in one of his books: he was asked to be on a Turing test panel and he asked the computer: Why don't you come round here and give me a kiss? On 2014/Jun/09, at 9:04 AM, Jan Whitaker