First of all, the link to "announced a crackdown on mining" says nothing of the sort.

Second, none of this is new. China announced intentions to regulate bitcoin as an investment asset years ago.

Third, be very suspicious of all this FUD. All of Condé Nast's publications have very selective pitchforks up against Bitcoin right now, which makes me think a prominent investor has BTC shorted or else is buying the dip.

China only reinterated past anti-speculation legistlation. It did not "ban crypto-currency".

>A footnote also finds a paradox in the arguments of Nick Bostrom, who has warned of that dangers superintelligent AI -- but also of the possibility that we're living in a computer simulation. "If AI kills everyone in the future, then we cannot be living in a computer simulation created by our decedents. And if we are living in a computer simulation created by our decedents, then AI didn't kill everyone.

*What*!? Is this language?

I was experimenting with sentiment analysis in tensorflow, and the other day I started receiving segfaults. Turns out that multiple changes, one of which was in a malloc implementation, had broken my build, and probably all the people using python tensorflow on ubuntu (which is probably like half of all tensorflow users). Not the first time this has happened.

This thing is marvelous, but it's sitting on a high-rise of magic that's a floor too high.

Shuttleworth pulls this shit regularly. Systemd, Mir, Unity, etc.

that Revision Control instantly beats this bullshit.

It's the poster's emphasis, not Wikileak's. Get your head out of your ass.

Drill a small hole into a fire-resistant safe where your power and SCSI/IDE/SATA/USB/ETH cables go, then put your drives in there. Won't be easily stolen and will likely survive a house fire. Googling the terms "fire-resistant safe" revealed dozens of good options.

How long until the NSA/FBI/DHS/CIA begin issuing Letters of Marque and Reprisal to hackers and (online) pirates, to do the surveillance dirty work for them?

This sort of blind faith in exponential economics will be the death of us.

...for cooperating with the Machiavellian pro-war, pro-surveillance, pro-torture old boy's club in the federal bureaucracy.

There should not be a *signal* to do it. Backdoors are too easy, which will also make them easier to abuse. The bar should be high.

There are already microwave transmitters that can fry a car's control system at range (such as the one promoted by SAVELEC). This should be the preferred method. The police should be *so sure* that the driver is a criminal that they're willing to stake a lawsuit on physically destroying a car's control system. That should be the bar.

Let's stop giving the police ways to cut red tape and instead occasionally make the police do it the hard way. Then there's less capacity for easy abuse.

Guess you've never heard of J. Edgar Hoover, then.

It wouldn't satisfy Putin. He took South Ossetia from Georgia and is likely still engineering a wider pro-Russia coup in Georgia. He engineered this situation in the Crimean Peninsula, and he's probably engineering other such incidents in other former soviet republics.

At no point is surveillance involuntary on the parts of our clients, or their clients. Also, our main clients are not insurance companies, and this is generally true of most of the telematics industry. And with the exception of insurance on utility vehicles, there are still ethical, legal, and practical limits to deploying for all the clients of a whole insurance company.

This LoJack thing is advertisement. Relax.