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  1. Re:This makes sense on Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users By Race (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    You don't even have to go that far. You might structure entire advertising campaigns, for the same product, for different communities and ethnicities.

    Want to sell iPods to typical white folks? Maybe you aim Taylor Swift endorsements at them. Want to sell those same iPods to some other ethnicity? Maybe you pick a different celebrity endorsement. Maybe you pick different music to play in the ads. Maybe you hire an acclaimed black director to make a campaign aimed at blacks.

  2. Re:Is it really hard to figure out? on Russians Seek Answers To Central Moscow GPS Anomaly (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't think it was really a question that it was the state.

    Take a transmitter that would go in a GLONASS satellite, hook it up to an antenna, and plug it in somewhere. Upload slightly incorrect information. Done. It's not really 'spoofing' the GPS system, because it *is* the GPS system.

  3. Re:Is it really hard to figure out? on Russians Seek Answers To Central Moscow GPS Anomaly (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be a simple matter of putting GPS transmitters in the area, drowning out the weak satellite signals, broadcasting incorrect information?

  4. This. It's not that (or not only that, at least) more people are dying of cancer, or even of specific cancers in this day and age; it's a combination of things like 'instead of having ten people dying of 'consumption' or 'old age' we now break it out into specific cancers' and 'well, a hundred years ago, they usually died of something else, first.'

    And yeah, until very recently, kids were 'shy' or 'withdrawn' and would have undesirable traits beaten out of them; metaphorically or literally.

  5. I could have sworn that he'd recanted, too, but apparently not; from what I'm reading, he's still maintaining that he's both innocent and correct.

  6. Re:What is the point of view? on Nurses In Australia Face Punishment For Promoting Anti-Vaccination Messages Via Social Media (medicalxpress.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, think of it this way.

    A housing development has a rash (pun intended) of break-ins.

    They get together and decide to institute mandatory installation of alarm systems.

    The number of break-ins goes down in direct proportion to the number of houses have alarm systems installed, until all the houses have them installed, and the number of break-ins is almost, but not quite, zero per year.

    After a while, people start to think 'we don't have a break-in problem, why are we mandating these alarm systems?'

    New houses under construction start to be built without alarm systems. What do you suppose happens to the break-in rate?

    The price of freedom (from preventable disease) is eternal vigilance (of vaccination rates.)

    It's real easy to say 'we don't need vaccines' when you've never seen a playmate in polio braces, or when pictures of a wall full of children in iron lungs is a quaint historical anachronism. When you don't have an Uncle Bob who's sterile from a bout of mumps. When having a dead sibling is unusual, and probably the result of accident or something, and not 'measles.'

  7. Re:Thought Experiment on Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Endorses Gary Johnson For President (dilbert.com) · · Score: 1

    Third: Clinton was put through an impeachment process by the Republican party at the time. So why is the Republican party not doing the equivalent by turfing out Trump?

  8. Re:As a married guy with a kid on Netflix CEO: Movie Theaters Are 'Strangling the Movie Business'' (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    They do, but not standard. I've seen quite a few movies at various Cineplex theaters that have involved reserved seating.

  9. Re:Free Speech on VR Devs Pull Support For Oculus Rift Until Palmer Luckey Steps Down (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you joking?

    Explain to me the difference, if any, between Palmer 'retaliating' against Clinton, and Insomniac 'retaliating' against Palmer.

    ANY claim Palmer can make to 'free speech' must also extend to Insomniac. Any claim Palmer makes against Insomniac must also apply against Palmer. Either both Palmer and Insomniac have the choice of who to associate with, who to engage in commerce with, and to attempt to sway others to similar thinking, or either of them can.

  10. Re:The size of the farm shouldn't matter.... on Ask Slashdot: Who's Building The Open Source Version of Siri? (upon2020.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple's dictation software (PlainTalk) was running on System 7.1 Pro 20 years ago, using local hardware 100's of times slower than what I have in my pocket. Basic NLP code was running on the Newton, which was 1000x slower and still managed to handle the basics on top of the handwriting recognition. "Speakable Items" let me run user-writable AppleScripts to automate tasks and was just missing dictatable variable names.

    I helped Apple wreck a nice beach.

  11. Re:challenged? on Scientists Study How Non-Scientists Deny Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's just a fancier way of saying 'better dead than red.'

  12. Whaddup, fellow liberal gunny?

    The issue isn't 'gun violence,' the issue is 'violence.' Somebody wants to massacre a room full of whoever, they're going to massacre a room full of whoever, guns or no guns. Chainsaw, propane tank, backpack full of molotovs (mix in egg whites in the right proportion for simple napalm,) cube van, diesel/fertilizer bomb, baseball bat, whatever.

  13. Re: Who cares? on Smoking Permanently Damages Your DNA, Study Finds (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I think perhaps you're assuming that 'estimated' is directly replaceable by 'guessed.'

    And yes, the solution to pollution may very well be dilution, but that doesn't help the kids that live in a house full of smokers.

  14. Re: So in other words it's used and is useful on Apple Replaced the Headphone Jack On the iPhone 7 With a Fake Speaker Grill (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't, but without good topo data, it's impossible to tell how far you are above *ground* level.

  15. Re:Saitek back in the day on Logitech Buys Saitek (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup, I had the Saitek X-36 stick and throttle combo, and before that, a Gravis Phoenix. Those were the days.

  16. Re:Bad opinion theater on Today Marks The 50th Anniversary of 'Star Trek' (ew.com) · · Score: 2

    The actors were, by and large, fine; they just had utter shit to work with. You be trippin, son.

  17. Re:Best memory eh? on Today Marks The 50th Anniversary of 'Star Trek' (ew.com) · · Score: 2

    Also the fact that the entire original series, and the movies leading up to 3, were about Kirk wanting nothing more than his career and ship, but he throws it all away, without a second thought, for Spock. No debate, no waffling, doesn't even think about it.

    And on the other hand, no hamming it up, no chewing the scenery, no 'Dammit, I LOVE this ship, but SPOCK...NEEDS....ME.'

  18. My chronometer plugs into my iPhone via the headphone jack so I don't need record each and every reading. Single-use-port my ass.

  19. Re:This almost makes me want to move to Canada... on Canadian Telecoms Will Try to Justify Their 'Ripoff' TV Plans Today (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, one of the first things the receptionist is supposed to ask is 'Health card, please.' What they generally actually ask, around here, at least, is 'any change from the card we have on file?'

  20. Re:Science on MIT Scientists Develop New Wi-Fi That's 330% Faster (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    It's dead simple to synchronize wireless gear on completely different networks, if you so choose. The gear just needs to support it.

    GPS input to produce accurate timing, and configurable RF parameters. Polling so that the AP can tell what client to transmit when.

    Sure, banging it into 802.11 is a bitch, but even it's been done; take a look at Cambium's ePMP products.

  21. Re:Wi-Fi speed is not my problem on MIT Scientists Develop New Wi-Fi That's 330% Faster (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    Or just build in synchronization and polling. GPS chips to get timing are dirt cheap. And even if they're not, just make sure that any of the APs in the network that ARE getting good gps timing are broadcasting NTP internally. For local Wi-Fi, that will be more than sufficient.

  22. Re: None of this solves real world problems on The US Army Has Too Many Video Games (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure you could. It's called 'a heater.'

    "Negative US Aircraft Carrier, we are a lighthouse. Your call."

  23. They just would have said no like they always do, which is why asking for permission would have been a bad idea.

    You don't get to steal somebody elses shit, or ride off their brand recognition, just because you want to.

  24. Re:good luck with that. on Canadian Fined For Not Providing Border Agents Smartphone Password (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    No, I'm pretty sure they can't. The Constitution, not to mention international law, still have some meaning.

    Sure, they might arrest you on the spot, but they still have to let you in to your own country.

  25. Re:The phones model on Microsoft Says Upcoming Project Scorpio Might Be the Last Console Generation (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Who cares if the XB1 can play Sagittarius games? The import thing will be that the Sagittarius can play XB1 games, and Scorpio games. And that the Taurus can play XB1 games, and Scorpio, and Sagittarius. And so on.

    Look at how excited everybody got when Red Dead Redemption was finally announced for XB1 backwards compat.

    People expect that their old rig can't play Witcher 3, but people also expect that their brand new, top-of-the-line rig can play the old games, perhaps with dosbox or some other emulation. But gog.com is absolutely a thing that proves that concept.