Peter Kafka

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This Conan O’Brien Siri Ad Barely Qualifies as a Parody

Really, this one, via Business Insider, seems more like a documentary — pretty sure some of these scenes are word-for-word replays of Siri queries I’ve witnessed in the past few days. (Warning: 30-second pre-roll before minute-long clip.)

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I think the NSA has a job to do and we need the NSA. But as (physicist) Robert Oppenheimer said, “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and argue about what to do about it only after you’ve had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”

— Phil Zimmerman, PGP inventor and Silent Circle co-founder, in an interview with Om Malik