It seems like such a miner thing

from here

Just one of the unintended consequences of the crypto-currency craze that's been going on for the past few years. I feel sorry for the gamers who have to pay higher prices for graphics cards because of the high demand from crypto-currency miners who want to repurpose the cards for mining.

Do you know a threat when you see it?

Watch on YouTube

Traditionally the Darwin awards require that the award winner's genes be removed from the gene-pool, so people who have already had kids are normally not eligible to win. This innovative family nearly demonstrated a way to do an end run around those rules by taking their kids with them to the great beyond. I have to wonder if those people are fit to be parents if they're dumb enough to put their kids in that kind of danger. Your car represents a barrier that keeps the dangers away. Stay inside of it in this sort of situation.

I'm also struck by how people who speak other languages have adopted the English phrase "what the fuck" into their every day vernacular.

You may wind up getting a lot more familiar with GPS tracking

from here

How ironic would it be if, in stealing a GPS tracked phone from someone demonstrating the technology, the thief winds up having to wear a GPS tracker of their own?

Yeah but you didn't want vulnerable water, did you?

found on Acid Cow

The things that will need updating (and the actions that will interrupt) are just going to get weirder and weirder.

The future of telephone scams - "Powered By Google"

from here

I think this might actually be the real story behind why Google Duplicity-I-mean-Duplex was designed to trick people into thinking they were talking to a real person - because the people making it were too busy trying to see if they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.

And I'm pretty sure this technology will eventually enable the automation of telephone scams, which won't be good for anybody (other than the scammers).

Meanwhile in opposite world...

found on Meme Base

It's amazing what kind of security folk tales people choose to believe.

It's easy when nobody calls you

from here

Watching you, listening to you, tracking your location - imagine where the NSA would be today if mobile phones never caught on.

Forget the password, I can't even remember the rules

posted to Instagram by Adam.The.Creator

NIST may have changed their recommendations, but it's going to be a long time before we see the end of ridiculous password policies.

Too lazy to uninstall?

from here

I can't imagine how anyone would accept a 92% false alarm rate. I've worked in the FaceRec industry and it's hard to get people to buy something where the alarms are right 92% of the time, never mind something where they're wrong 92% of the time. I kind of wish we could have found customers like this.

The quickest whistleblower

found on Meme Base

The NSA is notoriously secretive. Sharing details about them on Facebook probably isn't what they had in mind when they offered an interview and now they know you don't have the right stuff to be a spy.