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  1. Re:Not entirely sure on GE, Intel, and AT&T Are Putting Cameras and Sensors All Over San Diego (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    However, if you only put cameras to the places of the city where crime is most present, it will just simply move. Therefore its a good idea to place cameras into every part of the city.

    Studies of crime in places where cameras are as close to "everywhere" as is practical, such as prisons, Navy ships, and London, show that criminals know where the blinds spots are. A heatmap of crime looks exactly like you'd expect: you can tell where the cameras are from it.

  2. Re:I don't want free shipping on Amazon Quietly Lowered Its Free Shipping Minimum to $35 (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, my mistake - as of last summer you can pump your own gas in rural counties, at night. Freedom!

  3. Re:Echo-chamber fake news on How is The New York Times Really Doing? (om.co) · · Score: 1

    Here's a fact: more people find Trump credible (45%) than the mainstream media (42%). BTW, Trump supporters take him seriously, but not literally. They aren't parsing his words for nuance and subtlety.

  4. Re:Echo-chamber fake news on How is The New York Times Really Doing? (om.co) · · Score: 1

    Point to ANY non-minor, non-retracted error in WaPo or NYT. Show me ONE.

    Forty lies from the mainstream media last week. WaPo tells some whoppers.

    45% of people believe Trump is credible
    42% of people believe the mainstream media is credible
    The MSM did that to themselves.

  5. Re:I don't want free shipping on Amazon Quietly Lowered Its Free Shipping Minimum to $35 (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Oregon, land of mandatory full service, where they don't even trust you to pump your own gas?

  6. Re:Reckless endangerment on Krebs: 'Men Who Sent SWAT Team, Heroin to My Home Sentenced' (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    It varies a lot by state (and even more outside the US). The intent to kill isn't a hard requirement for attempted murder - sometimes the line is drawn at an intentional action that could reasonably cause death. Seems like the sort of charge an ambitious prosecutor might try on.

    Also worth noting: if maliciously calling in a fake 911 call is a felony, then in most states it would be murder if someone actually died as a result.

  7. Re: 3 years probation on Krebs: 'Men Who Sent SWAT Team, Heroin to My Home Sentenced' (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    "Reports of" an active shooter mean fuck-all. Mass shootings are incredibly, vanishingly rare events. The false-positive rate is over 99%. Yes, you want cops in vests, just in case, but there's no rational excuse to go in gangbusters until there's first-hand evidence that it will do more good than harm.

  8. Re:Ways around this on Should International Travelers Leave Their Phones At Home? (freecodecamp.com) · · Score: 1

    Why the fuck do you fucking care so fucking much about his fucking choice of fucking words, snowflake?

  9. Re:Death To All Jews on PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty · · Score: 1

    But why should there be a risk?

    It's newsworthy is PDP turned out to actually be a white supremist or somesuch, given his following. But that's clearly not the case here. This was simply "PDP did something tasteless, like so many of his videos", not even newsworthy.

    But it's not about truth or what newsworthy, is it? It's about forwarding the narrative, and punishing the heretics. And only that.

  10. Re:Death To All Jews on PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty · · Score: 1

    You do understand that "other people lie too" is a logical fallacy, not an valid argument, right?

  11. Re: 3 years probation on Krebs: 'Men Who Sent SWAT Team, Heroin to My Home Sentenced' (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I agree that American police break down doors in far too many instances when they shouldn't, but you need to quit being so dramatic. They got a credible report of a hostage situation - they SHOULD roll up armed

    The correct response to a reported hostage situation is absolutely not to have a bunch of over-armed thugs in mall-ninja gear kick down the door. The correct response is a negotiator, a sniper, some normal cops in vests, and patience. You know, how SWAT teams worked before the cops starting playing soldier.

  12. Re:Totally disagree on Self-Driving Car Speed Race Ends With A Crash (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Robot wars used differing hardware. The fun was in that, not so much the bot AI.

    This will be interesting until the meta-game is solved. Once everyone is using the same optimizations, it's over. I guess that's fine for showcasing advancements in self-driving cars.

    Hmm, OK, I can see this being a longer term thing if used for rally instead of boring circuit races. Having the bots race through mud and ice and so on would be much more interesting, both to watch and in the tech.

    OTOH, once the AI gets good, a series allowing more normal variation of the hardware becomes an interesting engineering show. Without driver safety to worry about, you'd probably end up with cars moving near the speed of sound (as with slot-car racing today).

  13. When I look at my smartphone I see the fucking Eye of Sauron.

    Good choice of background pic!

  14. But you have a smart phone?

  15. Re:UBlock = inferior + inefficient vs. hosts on YouTube Will Kill Unskippable 30-Second Ads Next Year (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    But the question is: does YouTube work normally (except without ads in from of the videos)? Or does it hang, and refuse to play some videos?

  16. Re:ads on youtube on YouTube Will Kill Unskippable 30-Second Ads Next Year (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I mostly get videos (on YouTube directly) that refuse to play if any adblocker is enabled. Just the "static" screen. What do you use that works?

  17. Re:Death To All Jews on PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty · · Score: 1

    Wow, didn't even read TFS?

    If I show some idiots showing a sign saying "death to all jews", and I say that I can't believe those idiots did such a thing, does that make me anti-Semitic? Are people on YouTube not allowed to engage in social commentary? WTF man?

  18. Re:Death To All Jews on PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't see anywhere that he intended them to say "death to all jews", outside the hitjob pieces in the MSM - and they lie about everything. I'm not going to watch a PewDiePie video to see, because I can't stand watching that guy, but I believe him when he says

    Though this was not my intention, I understand that these jokes were ultimately offensive.

    As laughable as it is to believe that I might actually endorse these people, to anyone unsure on my standpoint regarding hate-based groups: No, I donâ(TM)t support these people in any way.

    As far as I can tell, the MSM created this wholecloth from malicious editing, as they've done time and time again to create a narrative. From photoshopping all the black people out of Tea Party rallies and them calling them racist, to maliciously editing the 911 tapes in the Trayvon Martin shooting to completely change the story. Making shit up is what they do.

  19. Re:Death To All Jews on PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If I have a little news vlog where I show a picture of some idiots saying "death to all jews" and I ridicule them as idiots, is that bad?

    Context matters! Malicious editing matters.

    If he paid them to "show something shocking" and then they came up with "death to all jews", and he was shocked and appalled at the result, tell me again what he did wrong?

  20. Re:People like Musk need to do more homework on Elon Musk Is Really Boring (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, if that's your Utopia, enjoy. Just don't force it on others.

  21. Re:Linus is a dumb ditch digger on Linus Torvalds: Talk of Tech Innovation is Bullshit. Shut Up and Get the Work Done (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's not the implementation that's interesting, but the use case. You keep ignoring that for some reason. Innovation is solving problems no one had solved before, the techniques used are a different story.

    Otherwise, the only innovation in the field was "the Turing machine" and "the quantum computer". Everything else is just implementations of those.

  22. Re:Leading Indicator on Tech Jobs Took a Big Hit Last Year (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    The economy cycles every 8-10 years. We're 9 years into a growth phase.

    No, it really doesn't. 2000-2013 were like the 70s: one economic cycle moving sideways, with minimal growth. We're about 3 years out of the "great recession", just getting comfortable with the growth phase. People are buying durable goods that they were putting off before out of fear. It will be a few more years before we see the start of real tech sector growth ("social" bubble nonwithstanding)..

    Outside of companies that sell tech, IT is just an expense.

    "IT" is the new buggy whip manufacturer. It's not so much cyclic any more as fading, as much of "IT" moves into the cloud.

  23. Re:People like Musk need to do more homework on Elon Musk Is Really Boring (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    And you're going to have jobs for them in walking distance? Seems unlikely. No one middle class wants their maid and gardener living in the same neighborhood they do. Nor will that big-box superstore be in their neighborhood. Sound like a lots of wishful thinking.

  24. Re:Linus is a dumb ditch digger on Linus Torvalds: Talk of Tech Innovation is Bullshit. Shut Up and Get the Work Done (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Everything is "bytes on a wire"; not much use in saying so. It's the way the RPC calls were used.

    The cool idea was that in a UI focused on sync user interaction, the client would work async to make that better. Terminals never did that (and HTML forms are very similar to mainframe/terminal interaction). Doing so required the client to be usefully do sync and async operations in parallel, and that just wasn't very practical until clients had some real computing power. And even then no one thought of it for a few years, it seems.

  25. XML was conceived and pitched from the getgo as a Swiss Army knife-type tool that could be a near-universal application-level network protocol and file format substrate. They were wrong.

    Perhaps, but that doesn't change the fact it's good for natural language mark-up. IIRC, all the examples in the standard are of that sort of thing, e.g. using custom-defined &entities; for copyright date. And I recall an interview with one of the creators, who was taken aback at the prevalence of XML for object serialization.

    So, "pitched", sure lots of people were pitching XML for all sorts of things. But "conceived"? I'm not sure of that. We'd need to ask Tim Bray, Jean Paoli, and C. M. Sperberg-McQueen.