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  1. This is new? on Geologists Find Where Some Stonehenge Rocks Came From, Debunking Old Research (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    I've been reading this is the established hypothesis for, IDK, prolly 10 years or more now. There's sure as hell a lot o f"documentaries" and documentaries o NGC/BBC/etal that have been saying that as long as I can remember.

    And I am not alone: https://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and...

  2. It depends on what kind of ethics philosophy on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ethical To Purchase Electronics Products Made In China? · · Score: 1

    You can justify pretty much anything with the right school of thought.

    Next dumb open-ended question?

  3. But doesn't Google basically already do this via their Maps API? I don't think the developers have access to the full dataset as a whole, but anything they want to do with the data in an application can be achieved without limitation (afaik).

    So while I could well be wrong, pretty sure google maps is already open to the makers of driverless cars. Now if those companies want to use that data for their own purpose and improve it, yeah they are gonna have to pony up

  4. IBM has a history of, uh, aggressive lawsuits with respect to IP and bend companies over barrels with licensing fees and legal fees. They are valid more often than not, but having a history of corporate shakedowns doesn't make you many friends.
    Some of those patents are, well, not as sound as a lot of tech people would prefer.

  5. Re:I don't get this on IBM To Buy Red Hat, the Top Linux Distributor, For $34 Billion (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Lol you don't have to think. It's literally in the press release:

    IBM and Red Hat will be strongly positioned to address this issue and accelerate hybrid multi-cloud adoption.

  6. Re:Been that way every call center I've worked at on Google is Building 'Virtual Agents' To Handle Call Centers' Grunt Work (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I am most definitely not. You cannot lock yourself out of password reset automation unless you lose your phone or access to your email account. Those companies cannot fix that. They can resend another email or text as needed with the security code.

    I've worked in multiple call centers and now help companies roll out solutions for problems exactly like this. Hell I've written the powershell needed to do it. You're grossly wrong here and I'll trust the Gartner reports that say so in addition to my experience with dozens of companies doing this exact thing, though many of them wanted enhancements to the process as they had already achieved the basic AD password reset anwyay.

  7. Re:God I hate IVR with a passion on Google is Building 'Virtual Agents' To Handle Call Centers' Grunt Work (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    That was actually me. I forgot to log in and was too lazy. Most companies do care about customer service, especially the big ones. That's why you get workers or contractors in dire straits but the customer stays happy (see Amazon, Walmart, Uber, et al).

  8. Re:God I hate IVR with a passion on Google is Building 'Virtual Agents' To Handle Call Centers' Grunt Work (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a very sophomoric way of looking at it. Customer satisfaction is higher and they spend less time on the phone with your support. Companies are putting a premium on customer service again. It's not 2002 anymore. If your company cannot compete with better customer service because of the product or marketing, the support costs aren't going to be what torpedoes your position.

  9. Re:This should worry everybody on this forum on Google is Building 'Virtual Agents' To Handle Call Centers' Grunt Work (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    That statistic is, uh, grossly inaccurate. It's often the #1 reason for people calling in but it's not even a majority. It's also one of the simplest things to automate, even with 2FA involved. Any reasonably-size corporation will mostly likely have this AD password reset automated, so it's treated as a service request (fulfilled automatically) as opposed to an incident. It will require a few dozen lines of powershell and maybe a week of testing to implement. In the event that the systems are not linked in AD, it's merely passed on by the initial support tier to the appropriate support group, which is the primary function of the help desk anyway.

    For smaller companies, they are most likely calling the IT guy directly to get it reset anyway, not a helpdesk.

  10. Re:Every single person involved acted stupidly. on Game Company Fires Two Employees Who Complained About 'Mansplaining' on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
    #2 is debatable but I can see how it would rub people the wrong way
    #4 is comically wrong:
    #6 is also wrong for deroir's part So much for an open discussion I guess. I meant no disrespect AT ALL. Never did. Never will. Neither did I imply I knew better. Nor has this ANYTHING to do with gender. Never did. Never will. I will retract my comment, cause obviously I'm in the wrong forum for this kind of talk.

    In a world where discussions should be encouraged, and not belittled, yet the opposite becomes reality, I've apparently found myself in the midst of a war I never intended to partake in. Disappointed. That's all. #IAmAFeminist

    ou getting mad at my obvious attempt at creating dialogue and discussion with you, instead of just replying that I am wrong or otherwise correct me in my false assumptions, is really just disheartening for me. You do you though. I'm sorry if it offended. I'll leave you to it.

    Unless he's a world class troll the likes of which we haven't seen since Machiavelli, he was, uh, being pretty nice and definitely courteous, if a bit naiive. I disagree with that last bit but I won't flame people for disagreeing with me

  11. Re: Manufactured news debunked on GitHub, Medium Remove Public ICE Employee Data Repository (obsceneworks.com) · · Score: 1

    A russian propaganda site? Well done

  12. Re:Manufactured outrage on GitHub, Medium Remove Public ICE Employee Data Repository (obsceneworks.com) · · Score: 1

    Surely you can try harder than this, bot

  13. Re:Manufactured outrage on GitHub, Medium Remove Public ICE Employee Data Repository (obsceneworks.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Most of those are actually false (1,4,6) or at best distorted. This is not surprising as Breitbart is an awful source of any news and Steve Bannon basically helped dictate this immigration policy.

    1. He's enforcing the most draconian option. They claim the kids are unaccompanied but by prosecuting the adults criminally instead of civilly -- they obviously have that right -- they can isolate both the parents and the kids. This is even happening to people trying to claim asylum at ports of entry.
    2. Many do. The vast majority arrive with an adult. The trafickers posing as a family account for .61% of kids.
    3. Many, if not all, of these children have been apart from their parents for more than 20 days. Even a cursory google shows this is heinously out of context.
    4. This is just unmitigated bullshit. It's child abuse (per pediatricians AND psychiatrists) and nothing DHS says has been independently verified. Either way being separated from family and put in a detention center is certainly not GOOD treatment
    5. People are generally not jailed for misdemeanors. Children certainly aren't seized and they get preference in their bail hearing if they are the sole caregiver.
    6. This is just unmitigated bullshit. He kept families together.
    7. Ignoring the fact that DHS has started turning people away from ports of entry, yes they are actively being turned away and sometimes seized. This is, once again, easily findable via basic google. Some actual sources WITH SOURCES!
    https://www.texasmonthly.com/p...
    https://www.npr.org/2018/06/19...
    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...
    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...

    Even if you don't like NYT or NPR, there are other outlets that report it as well, even websites like Snopes and politifact. Basically that was a shit post for covering an awful practice and an even bigger shit post because it was so laughably bad and fake,.

  14. Re:Why would they provide it? on YouTube's Top Creators Are Burning Out and Breaking Down En Masse (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    Have no idea and honestly don't care.

  15. Why would they provide it? on YouTube's Top Creators Are Burning Out and Breaking Down En Masse (polygon.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Don't get me wrong I think that companies should provide healthcare for employees -- frankly thats a topic for a different time -- but I don't really see how this would qualify. Uber probably comes the closest but they are officially on company payroll, go through a background check, are offered a deal of fleet leases, et al. There's much more of a employer/employee relationship than the contractor status which has been turned down by several courts.

    In contrast, Youtube doesn't hire people to create content. They sign up and get no money until they hit XXXX views or followers. Even then it's not them responding to a hail, but rather it's them trying to attract people to their channel.

    Google providing some options would be great and get themselves some much needed positive PR. Not sure if Youtube was ever designed/bought to let external users generate money off of it. I definitely wouldn't plan my income around something where the compensation was 100% at the whim of someone else without an employment agreement.

  16. Easy on Slashdot Asks: Which Is Your Favorite Email Client? · · Score: 2

    Inbox by Gmail Outlook for work (love the focused vs all mail option in mobile) Normal Gmail and outlook are fine as well, but I actually read at least half of my emails from my phone. Desktop is mostly just work email and I have to use Outlook.

  17. Re:What's there to apologize for? on Facebook To Put 1.5 Billion Users Out of Reach of New EU Privacy Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Because you're applying US constitutional law to EU laws? EU has a right to privacy/right to forget that is not necessarily popular or maybe even possible in the US. That said, corporations don't have the exact same set of rights as a human being does either.

  18. Jack Dorsey is a moron.

  19. Re:Huh? on Finland Will Introduce a Mobile 'Driver's License' App (yle.fi) · · Score: 1

    No need. Just have the app make it visible from something akin to apple wallet. I don't have to unlock my phone to use my boarding passes.

  20. Are these guys serious? on Lawyers Faced With Emojis and Emoticons Are All \_("/)_/ (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    There are literally emoji libraries where on can search the meaning. There is literally a word attached to every standard emoji (which in turn is an agreed upon ASCII representation)

  21. Re:Yeah that would be awful on Driverless Cars Could Make Transportation Free for Everyone -- With a Catch (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    They are not

  22. Re:Yeah that would be awful on Driverless Cars Could Make Transportation Free for Everyone -- With a Catch (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    How is forced advertisement utopian?

  23. Yeah that would be awful on Driverless Cars Could Make Transportation Free for Everyone -- With a Catch (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd rather pay to ride public transit or drive my own car instead of living in that dystopian hell. If you think that's a realistic view of the future, I weep for your parents -- they clearly failed you -- and humanity in general.

  24. No I print just the right amount on Ask Slashdot: Do You Print Too Little? · · Score: 1

    I have a multi-function printer that scans/copies/prints. I rarely use it. Maybe one a month or so. By far the biggest thing I use it for is concert tickets I can't bring up on my phone. In a distance second is printing something out to sign and send back to some entity who doesn't know what digital signatures are.

  25. It is not on Why Linux HDCP Isn't the End of the World (collabora.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would it be?