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  1. Re:How is this different from ... on Ivanka Trump Used Personal Account For Emails About Government Business (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Oh for some mod points. Exactly this.

    Clinton's server was, assuming it was configured competently, secure. Ivanka is using a cloud service backed server (Microsoft).

  2. Re:So jail for violating an EULA? on Man Spoofs GPS To Fake Shop Visits For Profit, Gets Caught (nikkei.com) · · Score: 2

    Do I really have to say it? Slashdot has been running for, what, 20 years now, and you still haven't worked out you should RTFA before posting?

    "suspected misappropriation of electromagnetic records and use of the same." From google translate of the linked article.

  3. Backwards on Only 22% of Americans Now Trust Facebook's Handling of Personal Info (fortune.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think the crazy thing here is that 22% of Americans still trust Facebook with their private data. That number is astonishingly high.

  4. Oh, meant to add, that 72 core board uses just 5W of power.

  5. Re:$7/core on SpiNNaker Powers Up World's Largest Supercomputer That Emulates a Human Brain · · Score: 4, Informative

    According to their website, they had custom silicon designed and built. A basic box with these things has 4 CPUs on it, and each CPU has 18 cores onboard, complete with their own high-speed memory for data and instructions.

    Check it out over here http://apt.cs.manchester.ac.uk...

  6. Start of a Trend? on Man Who Uploaded Deadpool To Facebook May Get Six Months In Prison (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I am excited to see this continue, and the FBI start investigating freebooting (companies who cut/copy popular videos from youtube to facebook for ad revenue) and start sending their arses to jail too!

  7. Well of course he's not sure about landing someone on the Moon, this isn't about that.

    The planned flight, if you'd looked at the website or video at all, is to do a fly-by of the moon.

  8. I refuse to take your refusal.

  9. Re:This just never gets old on SpaceX Successfully Launches Its Used Block 5 Rocket (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    That was fascinating, and makes a lot of sense. As those things come down, they brake late from supersonic speed, so it's not just the thrust setting the boat wobbling, but four loud thumps hitting the deck as the pressure waves catch up. Thanks for the link.

  10. Region Restricted on Star Trek: Discovery's Season 2 Trailer Teases Spock, Christopher Pike, and Tig Notaro (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The youtube video linked is region restricted. A trailer/sneak peek. Restricted. What the actual fuck?

  11. This will be great. So if ISPs are akin to cable providers, I get to charge the ISP every time one of their customers uses my internet service, right? That's how cable works: the cable provider pays for the content they are offering.

    "Dear user of Comcast Internet. Your provider has not made Youtube available in your area."

  12. Re:Gitty McGitFS on Microsoft Addresses Pressure From Developer Community, Promises To Rename GVFS · · Score: 1

    Damn it, I was coming in here to say this. Bravo, anon, bravo.

  13. At the most all this will do is probably save some people at SIGINT from having to review more maps. It will save on manpower, ultimately.

    As for the other comments, everyone seemed to jump straight on the idea of this software being used in the decisions to deploy weapons directly, for which I hope Alphabet would get a little more than $9m for making.

    As for high horses, I avoid them.

  14. Came here. on Google Promises Ethical Principles To Guide Development of Military AI (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Came in here with modpoints to vote up anyone who actually read the article and noted that the contract is to supply image-analysis AI to flag content for human review. This is sensationalist journalism at its most flagrant.

    Anyway, there's no one actually reading the linked story. You're all just spouting the sensationalist bullshit that /. cherry picked for you.

  15. Re:eNeuro on Scientists Transfer Memory Between Snails (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not the worst of it. Apparently the article linked and Slashdot (who took the time to find the source) both missed out on this being about sea slugs, not snails.

  16. Re:The Definition: on Did Google's Duplex Testing Break the Law? (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Found the relevant line:

    For the purposes of this section, “person” means an individual, business association, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, or other legal entity, and an individual acting or purporting to act for or on behalf of any government or subdivision thereof, whether federal, state, or local, but excludes an individual known by all parties to a confidential communication to be overhearing or recording the communication.

    An AI is none of those things.

  17. The Definition: on Did Google's Duplex Testing Break the Law? (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Conversation, noun:

    A talk, especially an informal one, between two or more people, in which news and ideas are exchanged.

    How many people were involved? Or are we already granting AI status as a person?

    From all the available (I don't live in the US) law information I can find, CONVERSATION seems to be a key word in all of it.

  18. Wrong Terminology on AI Can't Reason Why (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Basically, what you're saying is that AI is not AGI. Well duh. We don't know how to make an AGI right now, but hopefully we will soon.

  19. Re:From underneath the rock on 'Yanny vs. Laurel' Reveals Flaws In How We Listen To Audio (theproaudiofiles.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey! Lower the rock. You're letting all the pop-memes in!

  20. Re:If the method works... on Google's Selfish Ledger is an Unsettling Vision of Silicon Valley Social Engineering (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Probably because this was a thought experiment. This was a video that the source reports was released internally with the intention of showing unsettling things they do not plan on doing.

    Slashdot just loves them some controversial headlines and stories, so they conveniently left that out with their blurb.

    Another non-story.

  21. Re:I'm not a pod person on Lenovo Teases a True All-Screen Smartphone With No Notch (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Me either. I tried the links in the /. story, most were links to other /. stories or to websites that wanted to load (not even joking) hundreds of web scripts from dozens of sources. Then you have GSMArena which flat out said "you can't visit here because your adblock software is bad" when I don't have adblock. In short, I have no idea either what a notch is in this context nor am I inclined to want to find out given the soup of links that seem to be a huge circlejerk of companies trying to one-up each other with marketing.

  22. Re:Fantastic Work! on Large Island Declared Rat-Free in Biggest Removal Success (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    Absolutely. I am racist against all politicians.

    Just remember, you were the one who brought race into it.

  23. Fantastic Work! on Large Island Declared Rat-Free in Biggest Removal Success (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can you do the Whitehouse next?

  24. Re:I'm more worried... on US Congressmen Reveal Thousands of Facebook Ads Bought By Russian Trolls (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Next thing you know they'll be deploying multiple bangs!!

    Oh heck! It's started!

  25. I'm more worried... on US Congressmen Reveal Thousands of Facebook Ads Bought By Russian Trolls (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... about the writer's use of a four-dot ellipsis. What the heck were you thinking?