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  1. Re: Good on Facebook Will Force Advertising On Ad-Blocking Users (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    What you have to understand is that if you are receiving a service for free on the internet, what is actually happening is that YOU are the product being sold.

  2. Re:FB should did it on Police Asked Facebook To Deactivate Woman's Account During Deadly Standoff (abc7.com) · · Score: 1

    Say that to someone who isn't mentally competent enough to know how bad an idea it is to punch a cop in the face, and you'll be liable not just for the assault on the cop, but for whatever happens to your victim.

  3. A musician is someone who loads $5000 worth of gear into a $500 car to drive 100 miles to play a $50 gig. There's just not a lot of money in live entertainment unless you're one of the .1% that make it big.

  4. Re:Fucking CNN on Small Asteroid Discovered Orbiting Earth (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    ^ This. The rock is absolutely orbiting the Earth, for now at least, as well as the Sun. That orbit may not be stable, which is why it's a quasi-satellite and not a satellite, but it's going to be doing circles around us for a while.

  5. Re: "Enhanced Interrogation" is Torture. on CIA Watchdog 'Mistakenly' Destroyed Its Only Copy Of A Senate Torture Report (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    The Korean War is between North and South Korea. The US never declared war on North Korea, instead officially acting under the UN to defend South Korea from invasion.

  6. Re: AI could with by cheating with insane micro on AIs vs Humans - Next Battle: Starcraft (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    Right, you can't build the AI this way and expect to succeed. In Chess, there are a maximum of 32 pieces sharing 64 possible locations. In Starcraft, there could be hundreds of units on the map at any of millions of possible locations. Chess is a complete information game, Starcraft is not. (Your knowledge of your opponent's position and strategy is dependent on what you can see and largely on indirect intuition about what you DON'T see.) In Chess, turns are taken and there is plenty of time to compute each action optimally. In Starcraft, there are orders of magnitude more possible actions you could command, and you must choose which units are most important to focus on at any moment. There's just a fundamentally different approach required. And I think a much more challenging one.

  7. Yes, it's the Republicans who are helping the poor people climb out of poverty by kicking their ladders out from under them and just yelling at them to stop being so goddamn poor.

  8. Oh, but he's "unelectable" and "can't get things done" and "isn't a real Democrat". This is one of those posts I should have saved mod points for.

  9. Re:oh you mean like it says RIGHT IN THE SUMMARY? on Heavy Social Media Users 'Trapped In Endless Cycle of Depression' (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but every other sentence in the summary vaguely (for varying values of vagueness) implies that the social media use is causing the depression.

  10. Do you believe he could have prevented the U.S. government from knowing his name? Because if they knew who did it, and we the people didn't, Snowden's fate would be much, much worse than his current predicament.

  11. Re:How well would it understand this? on Google Brain Researchers Make Significant Progress On Language Modeling (arxiv.org) · · Score: 1

    That's a HIGHLY advanced function, though. For right now, it's far better to focus on correctly interpreting and generating meaningful, well-formed English. More casual language can come much later.

  12. Florent Malouda was French and did play for Chelsea, as well as Lyon.

  13. Re:NOT SPEED!!! on Scientists In Japan Build 100Gbps Wireless Network Using Terahertz Transmitter · · Score: 1

    Light can travel 3000 miles (across the country) in about 16 milliseconds (source: the Google) so unless you're complaining about latencies in that range, i don't think the speed of light is your problem. The packets being caught and retransmitted by many devices along the way is much more responsible for the latency.

  14. Of course it is on Democratic Super PAC Buys Newtgingrich.com · · Score: 1

    In a world of gerrymandering, voter suppression, fake recall signatures, and the lies, damn lies, and statistics being pushed as fact by various players, dirty tricks are the new black.

  15. Re:Headline Misleading on Study Suggests Magnets Can Force You to Tell the Truth · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the headline couldn't be more wrong. These subjects had no incentive or reason to lie or to tell the truth - they had a free and unbiased choice between lying and truth-telling, and the magnets affected their arbitrary decision. It's not like they wanted to lie and couldn't.

  16. Not the best plan on As of October, FBI To Allow Warrantless Investigations · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They want to sit in a black vehicle for hours at a time on a sunny street in August? Just so they can decrypt my midget porn? Joke's on them.

  17. It's easy! on Diablo 3 Developer Explains Health and Potion Changes · · Score: 1

    One on your back, two on each arm, and one... well... you know. There.


    ...or, if you don't have a prehensile tail, you could just hang it on your penis.

  18. Not exactly... on Americans Refusing To Wait For Mainstream EVs · · Score: 1

    I've never thought of Canada as a regime. I'm pretty sure that what little oil America buys abroad it gets from Canada.

    Canada leads, but Saudi Arabia is close behind. Notably, Venezuela is fourth on the list.

  19. Re:This reminds me of... on EFF To Appeal Court Order Vs. Subway Hack Demo · · Score: 2, Funny

    I actually had a potentially infinite Hardee's gift card for a while. I put $20 on it, and I would estimate I got around $60 worth of food out of it, because the vast majority of the drive-thru monkeys at this particular Hardee's unintentionally (I assume) rang up the purchase as "gift" instead of "gift card.

    I also effectively had an infinite gift card to Taco Bell, while I was working there. However, be careful what you wish for; infinite fast food has hefty consequences.