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Re:Google Now's smartphone is the real deal on Friday February 15, 2013 @01:05PM (#5227441)
Hummm another app that will know where I go, what I eat, dress, with whom I speak, meet, have sex, what I read, what music I like, and where I am all the time, sweeet and free. A real killer app. I hope one day It can make choices for me, ow wait, It is already happening.
This is a secure problem, have your camera open just because once you enter a website is absurd, jut because you open your house's door when is necessary doesn't mean you should leave it open. This idea that SSL is all what it takes for a server to be reliable is nonsense.

Hello people, it's Chrome opening up your camera for "good"... or bad

https://twitter.com/ChromiumDev/status/298925039519166465

Chrome Developers (@ChromiumDev) tweeted at 10:44 PM on Tue, Feb 05, 2013:Chrome's permission bar will not re-prompt, once accepted, for Camera & Mic (getUserMedia, Web Speech API) if page is served on HTTPS(https://twitter.com/ChromiumDev/status/298925039519166465)

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Re:Hamming: "dubious that great programmers can be trained.." on Monday December 24, 2012 @11:52AM (#4963352)
+1
Re:Is Poke Proof That The Facebook API Is A Trojan Horse? on Saturday December 22, 2012 @05:07PM (#4957651)
They did not get 800lb by happenstance, so stop being silly with all these trojan APIs and put-all-your-data-here-in-my-cloud trap, build your own stuff.
Re:Coursera is booted out of Minnesota on Friday October 19, 2012 @04:20AM (#4672697)
Education=Evolution, a problem for those who want to perpetuate in power. Keep it up hackers.