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  1. Re:Don't bitch about the FCC on FCC Ends Decades-Old Rule Designed To Keep TV, Radio Under Local Control (variety.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    With republicans who don't understand the dangers, or with the Democrats who are so impotent because they are burdened down with social agendas to the point everybody who does not live on the east/west coast won't vote for them.

    Holy false equivalence Batman. "Blame both of them, those horrible conman who got the job by offering to work for less than going rates, and the good employees who didn't underbid them"

    Or, more accurately, I blame conservatives. Those who are so horrified about some social agenda that they keep voting for the asshole who enable this in Congress.

  2. Bad subject on FCC Ends Decades-Old Rule Designed To Keep TV, Radio Under Local Control (variety.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't think it's right to call yourself "alarmist". I mean, whether it's state-run or just run directly by the corporations who control the politicians, it's definitely a move to centralize control in a few people's hands. That's just obvious.

    The very least we can do is call this "realistic", "forward looking" or "awake". To call it "alarmist" is to undercut how certain the outcome is.

  3. Re:Why don't they get it yet? on FBI Couldn't Access Nearly 7,000 Devices Because of Encryption (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course if quantum computers get to the point where they can factor 2048 bit numbers reliably then all bets are off I suppose.

    This is very much what I expect to happen

    That said, people are of course already working on alternatives to RSA that don't use factoring or other quantum-computable functions as their underlying mechanism.

    Yeah, I admit my ignorance there as well. I know (intellectually) that such mechanisms are thought to exist, but I don't understand them at all. Truth be told, I don't even know if they're real or invented. I wish I understood quantum computing.

  4. Re:iOS apps that make your Android friends jealous on The Internet Is Ripe With In-Browser Miners and It's Getting Worse Each Day (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    And Tiny Wings was featured by Apple at their WWDC, and received a lot of favorable placement by Apple in the store.. It's third party, but it's not being ported for business reasons. Let's be honest about it.

    Penultimate is based on the iPad Pro pen, so, yeah...

    I clicked on your 23 iPhone-only apps, choose one at random (okay, the first one I thought was interesting, not the repackaged website), Ummo, and lo-and-behold, it's on Android.

    While I understand what you're thinking, especially in the mobile world, cross-platform development is already the standard for native apps. I really don't see anything gained by running everything through a clumsy, hard to sandbox permissions (since it runs arbitrary cold), virtual machine that conflates "wanting to read things" from "want to run code"

    Sorry for not checking out every app, but a list of 43 apps seems like a gish-gallop and I'm pretty busy.

  5. Re:Why don't they get it yet? on FBI Couldn't Access Nearly 7,000 Devices Because of Encryption (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    Encryption is out there. It's not going away

    I doubt any current asymmetric encryption schemes will survive for more than 10 years against state-level actors from this point in time.

  6. Re:Service Workers enable offline mode on The Internet Is Ripe With In-Browser Miners and It's Getting Worse Each Day (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    So no non-(console)-game, third party examples. That is, nothing that's limited by primarily by business concerns (all your examples) or by trying to eke out that maximum performance on sometimes non-standard hardware (e.g. the PS3's cell processor or the 3DS XL's chipset.)

  7. Re:How much does Bill Gates understand about... on Bill Gates Tries A(nother) Billion-Dollar Plan To Reform Education (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Note, the link just claims it was a bad game. The programming behind it may have been excellent.

  8. Re:Specific location? on For Under $1,000, Mobile Ads Can Track Your Location (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not $1000 per location. It's $1000 in total.

  9. Re:Service Workers enable offline mode on The Internet Is Ripe With In-Browser Miners and It's Getting Worse Each Day (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Or do you want a third-party, non-game example on each?

    I kind of did expect a third-party non-game answer. I readily admit games (esp. on console versions) are a totally different beast - most are made in Unity, Unreal or similar, and otherwise HTML5/WebGL is less portable than even native apps (since the fine details depends on browser and OS). And yes, Apple has always been kind of a dick with locking people into their ecosystem. But, MS for instance, has Visual Studio on Linux, Windows and OSX. And for free.

    I also don't believe in your list of goals that many apps will work on both desktop/laptops and phones (tablets probably overlap with both). And, of course, consoles don't even play with each other or with PCs over the network even with native clients on each.

  10. Re:Drug Design and Climate models on DeepMind's Go-Playing AI Doesn't Need Human Help To Beat Us Anymore (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I think our miscommunication is not on ANNs, but on climate models. In fact, like SETI@Home, you can donate cycles to trying to machine develop models.

    I understand the methods are different, but I'm not sure the results are distinguishable.

  11. Re:Drug Design and Climate models on DeepMind's Go-Playing AI Doesn't Need Human Help To Beat Us Anymore (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm talking about the endpoint. The actual climate model isn't "modeling", its a bunch of math. A bunch of math that happens to be designed to model climate. And the NN is a bunch of math designed to pattern match climate. I don't follow the distinction you're positing.

    And, when I said "I don't see any difference", I was making an implicit statement that I don't think you defined a difference. I'd be interested in seeing it, but I don't follow whatever you're thinking.

  12. Re:Google explores ways to break non-google web ap on Google Engineers Explore Ways To Stop In-Browser Cryptocurrency Miners in Chrome (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    e've already seen Google start to flex their muscle a bit in the same way Microsoft did

    It's not desktop muscles they're flexing (yet). It's search. How fast websites render in Chrome (okay, according to rules that totally happen to randomly perfectly align with Chrome) influences pagerank

  13. Re:Service Workers enable offline mode on The Internet Is Ripe With In-Browser Miners and It's Getting Worse Each Day (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    That's nonsense. With very rare exceptions most native development is in a virtual machine language or is in a language that is compile-able on multiple systems. I'm not even sure the last time I saw a native app not crossplatform (iOS/Android or Mac/Windows). Well, on iOS/Android I've seen a few, but only where the OS/libraries made the app only work in one location.

    So, it's solving a problem already solved by C/C++ (cross compile) or .Net/Java (native apps in a virtual machine). Heck, even Python solves scripting well.

    Meanwhile, I'll enjoy owning my data, and usually having human readable source on top of that

  14. Re:Drug Design and Climate models on DeepMind's Go-Playing AI Doesn't Need Human Help To Beat Us Anymore (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I really don't see any difference, other than one is equations derived by humans, the other by a guided random walk.

    And feeding the output of one state into the next is a very common NN technique.

  15. Re:Drug Design and Climate models on DeepMind's Go-Playing AI Doesn't Need Human Help To Beat Us Anymore (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt there is any chance that a neural network can be used in a meaningfull way in ... climate modeling.

    You mean a system that is pretty much defined as a series of interlocking simple equations? One of the few areas where the outputs of humans look like neural networks already?

  16. Why do we imagine that its mining or ads, not mining and ads?

  17. Re:It’s multi-day battery life as long as it on Microsoft Teases Multi-Day Battery Life For Upcoming ARM-Powered Windows Devices (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    You could just put a realistically sized battery in there. Power draw minimization is one thing, power capacity is another.

  18. Re:Easy on Ask Slashdot: What Are Ways To Get Companies To Actually Focus On Security? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We shouldn't punish leaks, we should punish bad security. Heartbleed was unpredictable. There's a difference between unpatched WPA2 today and one week ago.

  19. Re:Service Workers enable offline mode on The Internet Is Ripe With In-Browser Miners and It's Getting Worse Each Day (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Or must all applications with an offline mode be native and therefore OS-specific?

    Sure! I'd be ecstatic. Then again, I don't use online applications, and have no idea what use that would be. I mean, forums sure. But those don't need JS. And applications that use the internet, also sure.

  20. Re:Not going to happen.. on Voice Assistants Will Be Difficult To Fire (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, AFAIK, Google working with Target and WalMart to have it's voice assistant served by those retailers as a backend. But, I don't know. Because I don't have a Google thing (or Amazon thing) either.

  21. There are exceptions, of course, but they are rare enough to safely ignore.

    No, the exceptions are usually worse. Of course, by exceptions I mean Google, Facebook, etc. Those who prioritize collecting and monetizing all that data, and would never dream of selling such an asset.

  22. Well, odds are your browser self-identifies as a mobile browser. So they will know that. But it will protect the rest of your data.

  23. Re:There's no escaping it on Mobile Phone Companies Appear To Be Selling Your Location To Almost Anyone (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Facebook might not know you want anti-snoring things. It could be that the people they are selling the advertisement to (on offer, an ad to Sporkinum, bid now) know you would be interested in it.

  24. Re:I'll start using it on The Impossible Dream of USB-C (marco.org) · · Score: 1

    None of those seem like problems I have. I don't have, nor expect to have in the next decade, a phone that uses USB-C. I don't care about change for change sake. And, frankly, I hate the idea of small, breakable posts inside my port. Lightning cables seemed correct (much like headphone jacks), a breakable post on the cable, and a durable socked in the device.

  25. Re:Easy enough solution on EPA Says Higher Radiation Levels Pose 'No Harmful Health Effect' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    While that seems high, it's well within the range of what some (sick) people get. Not a great idea, but a 'tolerable' level of radiation.

    And if you compare it to radiation therapy, it's downright less!!