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  1. Re:The many benefits of FaceID on Developer Marco Arment Shares Thoughts On iPhone X's Notch (marco.org) · · Score: 1

    When your #1 justification for a controversial design decision by fucking Apple involves the elderly, clearly they're on to something.

  2. No worries on Microsoft's Last 'Bug Bash' Before Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    The undiscovered bugs can always be fixed in the Windows Fall Creator Anniversary Blue Imagine S update. The fuck is wrong with versioning things the old-fashioned way? I can't even recall if Windows Anniversary was 10.1 or 10.2, and I worked on Windows 10 when I was at Microsoft.

  3. Intelligence = mankind's worst buzzword on Wired Founding Editor Now Challenges 'The Myth of A Superhuman AI' (backchannel.com) · · Score: 0

    A society that's still coming to grips with the utter ridiculousness of the IQ cannot be expected to be reasonable about artificial intelligence.

  4. How would TouchID work? on Apple's Next Year iPhone Won't Have the Home Button: NYTimes · · Score: 1

    Can anyone please explain? That seemed to be the only useful addition they did in the past 5 years.

  5. They quite literally don't make anything the way they used to. Do you think a single person these days can create a spreadsheet program that's of any good in terms of feature parity with the other offerings?

  6. Re:Thinner / Lighter ... who cares on Apple Said To Plan First Pro Laptop Overhaul in Four Years (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    As soon as I read "Apple" and "overhaul" in the same sentence, I was waiting for the word "thin" to appear in the list of innovations. Being literally the first item on the list, didn't take that long either.

  7. I work at Microsoft and the first thing on Microsoft: Windows 10 Won't Hit 1 Billion Devices By Mid-2018 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    that came to my mind was: 'tis but a scratch.

  8. Not even Tor devs can predict the output of the new distributed RNG

    No shit Sherlock. No devs of any RNG should be able to predict the output when it's in the deployed. And Tor devs is not a team of Avengers.

  9. Well, it seems to be down by about 10% from 4 days ago!

  10. Re:Why Don't Scientists Kill The Demon In The Free on Why Don't Scientists Kill The 'Demon In The Freezer'? · · Score: 1

    Or the NYT bestseller "I Am Pilgrim". In which the antagonist jihadist steals one of these vials to unleash smallpox on humanity again.

    (But he cuts out some guys eyes first to get through the lab's retina scanner and we all know that can't happen IRL.)

  11. Makes sense on There Were Mega-Tsunamis On Mars (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 2

    a time when Mars was a mere 1.1 billion years old and nearby Earth was just cradling its first microbial lifeforms.

    And Keanu Reeves was the upcoming A-lister in Point Break.

  12. Re:It's amazing on EgyptAir Flight 804 Missing (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Who modded you Insightful?

    I swear I have no idea. It's a mystery on par with the disappearing jetcrafts.

    here's the full playback of its flight, including where it is right now.

    I dutifully kept that link open for an hour but the plane doesn't seem to be moving.

  13. It's amazing on EgyptAir Flight 804 Missing (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    .. how we have sent a rocket out of solar system, are planning to transport (and keep track of) bunch of nanobots to Alpha Centauri, but somehow keep losing 40 ton metal leviathans on pansy little Earth.

  14. Re:What's with the other claims? on Guy Who Didn't Invent Email Sues Gawker For Pointing Out He Didn't Invent Email (techdirt.com) · · Score: 2

    After the controversy unfolded, MIT disassociated itself from Ayyadurai's EMAIL Lab and funding was dropped. MIT also revoked Ayyadurai's contract to lecture at the bioengineering department. [1]

    [1] http://www.bostonmagazine.com/...

  15. Re:Why do libertarians support him? on Billionaire Tech Investor Peter Thiel To Back Trump As GOP Presidential Candidate (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    When talking about Trump, policies and logic aren't really part of the equation. Jeff Bezos is also a prominent libertarian and doesn't look like supporting Trump anytime soon.

    Trump is a cult of personality. His words, his promises, his supporters and his detractors -- everything related to Trump has to do with his personality and not with any incoherent policy crap he tees from /dev/urandom day-to-day.

  16. This is pointless click-bait, made even more obvious by putting iPhone on the top. Why isn't the QWERTY keyboard the most influential gadget of all time? The beloved iPhones still use QWERTY, no? Why isn't telephone itself at the top? That's what connected the world, no? How about telegram, the precursor to both internet and telephone? "Gadget" and "most influential" are both loosely defined terms. The sole purpose of this article was to somehow get iPhone to the top.

  17. They missed a big one on UK's National Crime Agency Publishes Crazy Cyber-Crime Warning Signs (oomlout.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Is your kid a supporter or contributor of a hacking tool known as systemd? I could totally get behind that one.

  18. Er.. on Microsoft Builds Open-Source Browser Using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I work at Microsoft and generally feel glad about open-source advancements made around the company but this hardly warrants a "open-source browser" headline. Welcome to 2005.

  19. It's the music's fault! on Ashley Madison CEO Steps Down, Reporter Finds Clues To Hacker's Identity · · Score: 1

    Australian hard rock band AC/DC. This jibes with the behavior of the hacker(s), who had displayed threatening messages on the computers of Ashley Madison employees, accompanied by AC/DC song Thunderstruck.

    Never have I been more ashamed (and afraid) of having an AC/DC collection ;) .

  20. Who's gonna play Saruman now on Actor Christopher Lee Has Died at 93 · · Score: 5, Funny

    In the upcoming 18-movie adaptation of The Silmarillion?

  21. Re:Didn't we do this already? on A Technical Look Inside TempleOS · · Score: 1

    While this is creepy, and might be interesting in a clinical sense ... why have we started covering the crazy end of the tech spectrum? I'm afraid this just reads like "batshit crazy guy writes gibberish OS, come look at our ads".

    I would've agreed if TFA wasn't posted yesterday and did not add substance to the story. As it turns out, it's a fascinating read and really does a wonderful job of finally doing a technical piece on TempleOS instead of focusing on the creator's mental illness.

  22. Twice conversion to the other side on A Technical Look Inside TempleOS · · Score: 2
    Interestingly, the man claimed to be an atheist at some point.

    He’d grown up Catholic, but later embraced atheism. "I thought the brain was a computer," Davis says, "And so I had no need for a soul." He saw himself as a scientific materialist; he believes that metaphor—the brain as a computer—has done more to increase the number of atheists than anything by Darwin. He still considers himself scientifically minded. "Today I find the people most similar to me are atheist-scientist people," he says. "The difference is God has talked to me, so I'm basically like an atheist who God has talked to."

  23. Wow, much Tor, OTP and Faraday's Cage! on The Unlikely Effort To Build a Clandestine Cell Phone Network · · Score: 1

    Like all the amazing cryptographic solutions from people whose understanding of security boils down to Tor == anonymous and OTP == tehshitz, the article conveniently glosses over the exchange of OTP key or the Twitter account name.

    Whatever channel is used for agreeing upon those essentials, it will complicate claim of "hardly any trace that an interaction even happened" quite significantly.

  24. FML on No, It's Not Always Quicker To Do Things In Memory · · Score: 1

    I opened the link and found that I share my first name with the first author. How am I supposed to live with this now?

  25. It's neither on Is That Dress White and Gold Or Blue and Black? · · Score: 1

    The image is actually a PNG with some lines criss-crossed over a zero alpha-channel, everyone just has different crappy wallpapers.