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  1. Re:Errors are not Errors on Microsoft Speech Recognition Now As Accurate As Professional Transcribers (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless it actually understands what is being said then it will always make mistakes that result in gibberish

    If they are saying that they have cracked this, then they have strong AI, and should be announcing it to the worlds press ... (they haven't)

    They have added some syntax and grammar rules... just like everybody else ...

  2. WIMPs on Can Primordial Black Holes Alone Account For Dark Matter? · · Score: 1

    WIMPs are unknown particles with unknown properties and the speculative detectors we hoped might detect them haven't yet ... ...this does not mean they don't exist, it just means the things we don't know the properties of we still don't know the properties of ...

  3. 100m Sprint record for Women ... 10.49 (1988)
    8th place in the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres 10.49

    The gap is not as much as most people think ...

  4. Re:Cue the doubters, every step of the way on Hyperloop One's Full-Scale Pod Reaches 192 MPH In New Nevada Track Test (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    iPod. .. an MP3 player that was no better than the already existing competition, used an applauding app to upload, was more expensive than the competition

    It was not unique, it was using tried and tested and already available technology

    It failed in every way except in marketing ... ...Hyperloop is doing some things that are tried and tested, and not doing them well
          and some things that are not tried and tested and doing them badly

  5. Re:Linux is a kernel ... on Linux Is Not As Safe As You Think (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    There are currently ~8 supported distributions of Windows, all of the are very similar and mostly have the same issues

    There are probably a near infinite Linux Distributions... DistroWatch lists the top 292 ...and each of these have variants ...Most IoT systems run a custom build ...

  6. Some contractors used Windows XP or Windows 7 on laptops but the warship uses a custom built hardened version of Windows "Windows for Warships" it is mostly based on Windows 2000 server ...

    This is much the same as the US fleet, which uses a mixture of Windows 2000 and Windows NT based custom systems ...

  7. Re:Python is doing well, but JS is ahead. on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    Javascript is a web scripting language, that can be used as a general scripting language ...not really comparable

    C/C++ is used in all these industries..and more
    Your Python interpreter is written in C/C++ ..
    The operating system you are running your Python interpreter on is written in C/C++

  8. Re:Since when on London Terrorist Used WhatsApp, UK Calls For Backdoors (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Originally named Adrian born in leafy Tunbridge Wells... Only became Muslim in his 40's after a violent past and several spells in Jail ...

    Not an immigrant, not born a Muslim, not on the Security services radar ...

  9. Password, Passkey, Biometrics
    Something you know, something you have, something you are

    aka
    Something you forget, Something you lose, something you no longer are ...

  10. Re:Wikileaks BAAD; CIA Goooood! on WikiLeaks Won't Tell Tech Companies How To Patch CIA Zero-Days Until Demands Are Met (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    ...and Governments/People have now realised that Wikileaks will publish anything they are given no questions on sources asked, as long as they can verify it is real ...and Governments have huge resources to make things look genuine

     

  11. Re:Preventing Ludited on Indiana Considers Prohibiting Cities From Banning Airbnb (usnews.com) · · Score: 2

    In a Hotel the quality of the rooms, the safety of the Hotel, and the honesty of your hosts are all regulated so they are at least at a minimal level

    With AirBnB none of this is true ... and the only comeback you have is to a company who really does not care ...

    Generally it will not lower property values but raise them, as people who cannot afford the house on their incoming supplement it with AirBnB pricing you out of the market ....

  12. Now imagine the opposite... on Hacking Victim Can't Sue Foreign Government For Hacking Him On US Soil, Says Court (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    What if they allowed this, and then massive numbers of people sued the US government in their own courts

  13. Re:Has the dark web shrunk 85%? on The Dark Web Has Shrunk By 85% (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    The part they counted previously, is now 85% smaller when they recounted it

    and the part that they didn't count previously is .... still not counted

  14. Tesla a genius who was a brilliant engineer

    Edison an entrepreneur who know how to market and employed a team of engineers to come up with ideas for him to patent ...

     

  15. Robots ... on Are Robots Coming To Take Investor Jobs on Wall Street? (nypost.com) · · Score: 2

    It has been shown in the past that Monkeys, Small Children, and even random number generators are better than most investors at picking stocks and shares to invest in ...

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

    http://www.automaticfinances.c...

  16. Re:As long as they don't include Steve Jobs on Software Engineers Are the Heroes of New Computer History Museum Exhibit (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    All of these (except MRI) are the Steve Jobs of software, they are the secondary popular copy of someone else's original idea

  17. Re:Smart Phone PC on Will The Death of the PC Bring 'An End To Openness'? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Let me know when my Phone is capable of running a 4K screen ... or keeping up with the processor on more than a mid range PC, or running any non mobile OS ...

    Then ask it to do this for less than a PC, and not melt or shut down due to the heat produced ...

  18. ...without sacrificing photo quality on Google's New Compression Tool Uses 75% Less Bandwidth Without Sacrificing Image Quality (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    ....is a lie, it reduces image quality just in a way you cannot see visually

    If all you want to do is look at the image this is fine, but anything else that needs it full quality will be sacrificed

  19. Re:Possible explanation on FBI Relents, Confirms Previously-Denied UFO Investigation (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    I hope they monitored all the UFO sightings, checked which ones could be explained by the USA's and allies own secret craft, and the know Soviet tests, then used the information to get some idea where else the Soviets were testing their experimental aircraft and to get some idea of the capabilities of the ones they really wanted to keep secret ...

     

  20. Donald Trump is not yet president only President elect - So he can not do anything yet ...

    When he is President he will find that there are many things he will need Congress and the Senate to back as well to actually do, and this is one of them ...

  21. Paper... on Security Firm Shows How To Hack a US Voting Machine (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The paper and pencil voting system with manual counting is even more unhackable, and easily verifiable whilst still being anonymous and immune to vote selling ad coercion ...and is used all over the world with no real issues ....

  22. They can predict climate that far ahead

    They can only predict weather up to 7 days ahead ....

    The title is bogus, the artical is correct ...

  23. Not equivelent on 1 In 2 Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Owners To Switch To iPhone 7, Says Analyst (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So people who picked the Galaxy Note 7 over the Galaxy 7, would go for the much smaller iPhone7 ?

  24. Already fitness aware on Pokemon Go Could Add 2.83 Million Years To Users' Lives, Says Study (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    These are users who are already using and wearing Microsoft Band before they started playing Pokemon Go, so they were already worried about their fitness, and already had a device to monitor this

    So playing Pokemon Go encourages people to walk more than a fitness monitoring band... and so these are useless ...?

  25. Re:Samsung pay is as close as it gets at the momen on Digital Wallets Have Yet To Catch On, JPMorgan Executive Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You live in the USA where the massivly outdated and insecure mag stripe is stil lthe norm ... ...in the rest of the western world Chip and Pin is more secure than this, ... but so is cash ...