Driverless Cars Could Crash Police Budgets; Cisco Asks Obama to Stop NSA from Adding Spyware to Routers

Why Lavabit Shut Down | The Sci-Fi Myth of Robotic Competence To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend Driverless Cars Could Crash Police Budgets Cisco Asks Obama to Stop NSA from Adding Spyware to Routers The Sci-Fi Myth of Robotic Competence GM's List of 69 Dirty Words Employees Can Never Say Why Lavabit Shut Down Hot Comment: "An unfired gun is the best defensive weapon that exists. The threat..." From the Vault: Is There a New Geek Anti-Intellectualism? Watch It: Why Linux Is Terrible Poll Booth: Agree or Disagree: We are in another tech bubble. Sponsored Resource: Sophisticated Attacks: Response and Recovery Driverless Cars Could Crash Police Budgets Google's self-driving cars have now logged more than 700,000 miles on public roads--without getting one traffic ticket. This hints at a future where local and state governments will be missing out on potentially billions of dollars of revenue. Sound Off>> Cisco Asks Obama to Stop NSA from Adding Spyware to Routers Glenn Greenwald's book No Place to Hide reveals that the NSA intercepts shipments of networking gear destined for overseas and adds spyware. And it's been severely bad for business for Cisco. So, the company has asked President Obama to intervene and stop this practice. Sound Off>> The Sci-Fi Myth of Robotic Competence malachiorion writes that with the exception of roboticists, everything we assume we know about robots is based on science fiction, "which has no reason to be accurate about its iconic heroes and villains." That was his conclusion after he asked whether a robotic car should kill its owner, if it means saving two strangers. Sound Off>> GM's List of 69 Dirty Words Employees Can Never Say General Motors put together its take on a George Carlin list of words you can't say. Engineering employees were shown 69 words and phrases that were not to be used in emails, presentations, or memos. They include: defect, dangerous, rolling sarcophagus. Sound Off>> Why Lavabit Shut Down Ladar Levison, founder of the encrypted email service Lavabit, which shut down last year because of friction with U.S. government data requests, explains the whole story in an article at The Guardian. Lavabit provided email services to 410,000 people--including Edward Snowden. Sound Off>>  Re: There Is No Demand for 'Smart Guns' An unfired gun is the best defensive weapon that exists. The threat of death is the defensive deterrent. Actually firing is the last resort. If a gang of 10 people are advancing on somebody and the target pulls a gun, all 10 people stop advancing or run away. If you have a taser or stun gun, you're a non-lethal threat to one of them...and you get one shot. Pepper spray is largely in the same boat (plus you have to account for wind). In both scenarios, you have to wonder..." --by MillerHighLife21 Read More>>   Is There a New Geek Anti-Intellectualism? Three years ago, Larry Sanger noticed that a lot of "Internet geeks and digerati have sounded many puzzlingly anti-intellectual notes over the past decade, and especially lately. The Peter Thiel-inspired claim that college is a waste of time is just the latest example." Read More>> Why Linux Is Terrible How do we know Linux is terrible? Because Bryan Lunduke says so. How did he become a Linux authority? By using Linux, of course. But in moments of weakness, he admits that Linux isn't completely and utterly terrible, especially if certain things were changed. Watch the Video>>   Agree or Disagree: We are in another tech bubble. Strongly agree Agree Undecided Disagree Strongly disagree Ask me in 5 years Cast Your Vote>>   Sophisticated Attacks: Response and Recovery Attacks designed to gain continuous access to critical information or to cause damage in critical infrastructure, are becoming more severe, more frequent and more costly. Learn proactive steps that help keep your organization safe, including how to prioritize your business objectives and set your risk tolerance and prepare your response to the inevitable sophisticated attack. Learn More>>   Follow Slashdot on Twitter and Facebook. To unsubscribe, click here or send an email to: unsubscribe-213087@elabs10.com To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images, please add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. Slashdot | 594 Howard Street, Suite 300 | San Francisco, CA 94105 To view our Privacy Policy click here.