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  1. normal human sociosexuality

    As defined by whom? If it was so normal, then why would so many people perceive it as abnormal? Sounds more like a creep trying to justify his own misunderstanding of the world.

  2. What thing are you saying is not true?

  3. Don't blame the law. They can license the trademarks with significant restrictions for $1 or similar tiny fee. Or they could officially work together. Lots of options and the law is not forcing this choice.

  4. Good luck with that. They have CBS All-Access subscriptions to sell.

  5. Re:Just go 5th Element, knock us out on Alaska Airlines Trials Virtual Reality On Some Flights (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Great and as the oxygen masks drop down with the altitude warning blaring, you can blissfully nap away.

  6. Re:Delta is just another company on this line of f on Delta Computer Glitches Force Flight Halts Third Year In a Row (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    And if you're already going to do a bad job, outsourcing starts to make sense. No realisation that it might have value to do a good job.

  7. Re:Red Herrings on Amazon's Aggressive Anti-Union Tactics Revealed In Leaked Video (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Technically, that sounds more like a modern-day guild (in a world where most people don't run their own business) than a union, though a guild would be a great way of achieving collective bargaining.

  8. Re:This is a user flaw not a password manager flaw on Password Managers Can Be Tricked Into Believing That Malicious Android Apps Are Legitimate (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If you were already tricked into downloading a fake Facebook app, for example, it doesn't really matter whether it auto-fills as you'll just choose the corresponding web site when it asks to sign in anyway.

  9. Accessibility options and alternative keyboards is what Lastpass and others used to use. Android now has an autofill API for this. The question not answered in the summary is whether the flaw is with the implementation of this new API or the apps themselves.

  10. Re:I need a second glance for an elephant? on Machine Learning Confronts the Elephant in the Room (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    Confounding information like thinking it's identified an elephant in a room will naturally throw it off because now the identification is wrong or the database isn't accurate - or both. But a 3-year-old would be able recognize a chair or an elephant regardless of whether it is in a room or at a zoo.

    The main reason for this is that the AI is only ever fed pictures. It's never walked around a room before - a 3-year old has. And the AI is not complex enough to build that vast a model of the world around it - just photo analysis.

  11. Re:No I in AI on Machine Learning Confronts the Elephant in the Room (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    AI is not as complex as human intelligence but it operates more on those principles than it does on if statements and algorithms. Maybe you should actually look at research from the last 20 years before drawing an extremely outdated conclusion. Neural networks and machine learning are able to effectively build their own pattern recognition by an iterative process.

    An "AI" algorithm matches something in a picture to something it has been previously trained/programmed to match.

    Trained, yes. Programmed, not so much. You're really going to have to educate yourself here because it's way too much tl;dr.

    Humans learn WHY a class of somethings behaves a certain way. Humans are then able to quickly and accurately apply the WHY to new situations. Algos are not there. Yet.

    That's just better pattern recognition. A why is just a metapattern but not a fundamentally different concept. Today's AI isn't there yet because the neural networks are vastly simplified compared to the human brain, not because the approach is totally wrong.

    Either way, little of this relates to if statements specific to the task at hand.

  12. Re:Still using Office 2010 on Microsoft Launches Office 2019 For Windows and Mac (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you need to reverse that. Word 97 runs much faster and can therefore crash much faster.

  13. If you're bringing Kavanaugh into this unrelated topic, know this. Neither he nor the accuser are in a court case, which defines who is the defendant. So let's just say both are presumed innocent - meaning that the accuser is also innocent of it being a false accusation / slander until proven guilty.

  14. it depends on how much data you have and how close you come to using it all.

    Not really. You're still paying for that data. You could always pay for less.

    I rarely reach the 1GB threshold on my plan (which adds a few bucks to my bill) because of planning. I know exactly how much I'm spending.

  15. Pandora has actually gotten worse at this over the years. I get a lot more repeats than new music. I prefer a wide variety.

  16. Right. And I just paid my cell phone bill. $40.59 for two phones, mostly on WiFi (and VoIP at home) and that's after taxes. The hidden cost of streaming is right on your phone bill.

  17. And that's why I said:

    This is actually more expensive, but the cost of unlimited throttled bandwidth is somewhat hidden

  18. Re:Still using Office 2010 on Microsoft Launches Office 2019 For Windows and Mac (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Open/save XML-based document formats? In reality, the new formats do nothing for you except allow you to open and re-share files created by other people.

    Also, Word 97 does not have High DPI support. On the other hand, opening a second document opens in a separate window. So on the whole it's hard to say which is the winner. I don't have a license to Word 97, though.

    Native PDF export is also nice, but there are plenty of free PDF-printing alternative options for that.

  19. Someone would have to develop those, and I'm sure it wasn't Pandora for the others. Low demand is certainly the cause here.

  20. If you pay $5 more per month you can stream the same channels online. That just makes it even more overpriced at that price point, though. They are saddled with the legacy of satellite launch costs in a world where people are now willing to stream over cellular. This is actually more expensive, but the cost of unlimited throttled bandwidth is somewhat hidden. If you have metered cellular, then you will not want to stream music while driving.

  21. Re:Why are they allowed to do this? on Over 1,100 New Arcade Games Added To the Internet Archive (archive.org) · · Score: 1

    Because if they don't do it now, the source material simply won't be available to preserve when the copyright finally expires.

  22. Yeah, on that note - I guess they are a good fit for each other. If you want a service that focuses on repeating things instead of music discovery, their combined powers will....do more of the same.

  23. OS 9.x was way more buggy than you remember. Being built on bsd code makes OS X way more stable (at least after 10.2). Now, it may have reached its peak somewhere between Snow Leopard and Lion, but that's another debate. Breaking compatibility with their own pro apps just to force you to their app store versions is one of the worse things to come since.

  24. IDGAF about Windows 10 -- and never will. Why aren't you doing the same?

    Because even with the extra bloat, Windows 10 performs better than Windows 8 - almost as much of an improvement as 7 was over Vista.

  25. "Enterprise-grade" only describes capabilities and code quality. Actually subscribing to the Enterprise version means you've paid the protection money to make sure nothing bad happens to the nice set up you've got there.