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“[A]fter the airline sent a text message to relatives saying it “deeply regrets that we have to assume beyond any reasonable doubt that MH370 has been lost and that none of those onboard survived.”
From ‘All lives are lost’ [cnn.com]
By Michael Pearson and Jethro Mullen on CNN.com
What the fuck? A text message? An SMS? Wouldn’t want to be the person who decide that was the best way to inform people their friends and family on MH370 are dead. Worse than firing people by SMS.
Ahem. <cough> A haiku:
I forgot my phone
In the living room at home
I feel so alone
Being separated from the instantaneous global communications and the soft LED glow of mindless entertainment is all well and good, even desirable, when I’m on vacation but annoying when I’m at work.
This post [gizmodo.com] over at Gizmodo shows the official patch for the NROL-39 [wikipedia.org] satellite launch:
This comment from Mariani [kinja.com] sums it up best:
Any child who saw this logo in a TV show would immediately identify it as belonging to the Bad Guys. Who was the dipshit at NRO who thought this was a good idea? Or have they actually dropped the act and chosen this as their way of owning up to what they truly are, because buying revolving chairs and fluffy white Angora cats for every staff member to pet menacingly is just too expensive?
Yep, 80’s cartoons taught me that a giant octopus devouring the Earth is a bad guys wet dream.
I call bull shit.
According to this Associated Press story [ap.org], researchers are teaching an AI program common sense using pictures on the internet.
In mid-July, [the program] began searching the Internet for images 24/7 and, in tiny steps, is deciding for itself how those images relate to each other.
I call bull shit because if it was really learning anything from pictures on the internet it would mostly know what strange sexual fetishes are.
The internet if for porn. ;-)
So, Adobe got hacked. I got a letter in the mail explaining this. Ok, fine. Thanks. And email would have been better. Why a physical letter? All the way from Ireland to Singapore.
It arrived a day after I got an email from Evernote telling me:
There were published reports recently of a security breach at Adobe that may have exposed private information, including Adobe passwords, email addresses and passwords hints of millions of users. The list of compromised Adobe accounts has been uploaded to the web. We compared this list to our user email addresses and found that the email address you used to register for an Evernote account is on the list of exposed Adobe accounts.
Now that’s what I call service.