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  1. Re:Is This a Joke? on Billionaire Tech Investors Support Divisive Plan To Ban San Francisco's Homeless Camps (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Speak for yourself.

    I live in Seattle, and I am more than enthusiastic about any plan that will help shelter our homeless neighbors. If I could vote a 10% income tax on myself to pay for making sure that everyone here has a safe place to sleep at night and to leave their belongings, I would.

    I believe that mayor Murray's proposed plan announced yesterday is insufficient, but better than the status quo.
    (In response to "well why don't you donate your money then" - first, I do, and secondly, one person's funds only do so much).

  2. Re:thats cute on Russia Builds Microwave Weapon To Take Down Enemy Drones (thestack.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Buddy, you okay?

  3. Re:If it's like Politifake, expect far left bias. on Google News Introduces Fact Check Feature -- Just In Time For the US Election (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    That's because the candidates and establishment are neoliberals. Granted, there are important differences between the candidates, but on many issues they're in lockstep agreement.

    If anyone was far-left, we'd at least be debating Basic Income.

  4. Re:If it's like Politifake, expect far left bias. on Google News Introduces Fact Check Feature -- Just In Time For the US Election (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    You think the establishment is far-left?

    Goodness.

  5. Re:honorary slashdot second story posting... on Inventor of C Dennis Ritchie Honored With Second Death (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    5-year-old news is Slashdot's speciality.

  6. Re:Not adressing the real problem on Google Chrome 55 May Use Less Memory (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, but do you think that of those 12GB, a meaningful amount of memory is javascript libraries loaded more than once?

  7. Re:Not adressing the real problem on Google Chrome 55 May Use Less Memory (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    You could have shared objects that are just copy-on-write.

    However, I'm not convinced that loading 10x copies of a javascript library is the "real memory hog." Even if each library is 10MB, that's only 100MB used. What machine can't afford 100MB? (Mobile devices can use optimization tricks for multiple tabs; as the usage pattern on mobile involves a lot less tab-switching, so it's okay if there's a bit more latency there).

  8. Harris Ford on Upcoming Blade Runner Sequel Gets a Title: Blade Runner 2049 (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh cool, I loved his work in St Wars!

  9. Re:The gauntlet has been thrown on Johnson & Johnson Discloses That Its Insulin Pump Is Hackable (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Considering the proximty and time required for a successful hack, the hacker would stand a high risk of being caught and charged with murder or attempted murder.

    I'm not sure that's true. I don't see anything in the article saying that it takes very long to carry out, and 25 feet is well within the range of "sitting nearby at a coffee shop."

    Additionally,

    it is believed these attacks could be performed from one to two kilometers away, if not substantially further, using sufficient elevation and off-the-shelf radio transmission gear available to ham radio hobbyists.

  10. It also supports the 5GHz wifi spectrum, which is usually much less crowded.

  11. Re:Any tablets/phones with HDR screens? on Google Refreshes Its Streaming Dongle: Unveils $69 Chromecast Ultra With 4K and HDR Capabilities (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The tablet/phone doesn't need an HDR screen. Just the content has to be available in HDR (same with 4k).

  12. Re:Good joke on 'If KickassTorrents is a Criminal Operation, Google Should Start Worrying' (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    How do you provably establish someone's intent?

    Well you see, we have these people called judges, whose job it is to, y'know, judge these sorts of things.

    We regularly convict people on circumstantial evidence, by the way. You've watched too many cop shows.

  13. Contrary to the belief of nerds everywhere, intent matters a lot in court.

    Google having a search engine to help you find anything on the internet is very different than running a torrent site that is obviously designed to facilitate piracy.

    (Sure, yeah, there's like 3 linux ISOs on there, and probably Big Buck Bunny. But the overwhelming majority is infringing content.)

  14. Re:Incentivized is not necessarily fake on Amazon Bans Incentivized Reviews Tied To Free Or Discounted Products (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you think that getting something for free doesn't skew your opinions of the product?

    these incentivized reviews have tended to be overwhelmingly biased in favor of the product being rated.

    Whether explicitly scammy or not, products that reward their reviewers are unjustly getting higher scores.

  15. The what now? on The Microsoft Band Is Dead (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I didn't know about this product before today. I guess it's the new Zune.

  16. Re:"rolled out" - to translate.google.com? on Google's New Translation Software Powered By Brainlike Artificial Intelligence (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    It's rolled out for Chinese->English, with more on the way.

    The Google Translate mobile and web apps are now using GNMT for 100% of machine translations from Chinese to English—about 18 million translations per day. The production deployment of GNMT was made possible by use of our publicly available machine learning toolkit TensorFlow and our Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), which provide sufficient computational power to deploy these powerful GNMT models while meeting the stringent latency requirements of the Google Translate product. Translating from Chinese to English is one of the more than 10,000 language pairs supported by Google Translate, and we will be working to roll out GNMT to many more of these over the coming months.

  17. Re:So how can we try this on our own? on Google Open Sources Its Image-Captioning AI (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1
  18. Re:It's Google on Google Open Sources Its Image-Captioning AI (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    If only the source were open so we could find out....

  19. Re:Pity my MacPro can't run it on macOS Sierra Is Now Available For Download (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you should buy Microsoft, then.

  20. Re:Excellent! on Vim 8.0 Released! (google.com) · · Score: 1

    Bask in the glory that is an updated version number: http://imgur.com/a/er7gT.png

  21. Re:Rivalry on Vim 8.0 Released! (google.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Vim's 8.0 release was actually September 12th. Emacs 25.1 came out yesterday, September 17th.

    Slashdot is just incredibly slow. :)

  22. Re:Self Driving Cars? Never! on Ford Charts Cautious Path Toward Self Driving, Shared Vehicles (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    What a tiresome argument. Human drivers aren't capable of quickly and ethically trolley problems while controlling a vehicle, and we don't expect them to be. Sure, you may think to yourself "Well I know what one *I'd* pick," but in an emergency you're not gonna react the way you imagine your super-rational brain to.

    The car is programmed "Go the speed limit," "maintain a safe following distance," "obey laws," and "Avoid hitting people," and that's about as far as it goes.

    You don't need to rank human life to have a car that avoids collisions.

  23. Re:Different from the Social Security benefits? on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As a guess, it's probably not means-tested. If they get a job, they keep getting the UBI money.

  24. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, we all know that neighbor who's sister's daughter's friend knows that One Poor Person who blows all their cash buying a $600 cellphone every other week. They're all like "well I could pay for rent; or I could get a rose gold iPhone to replace my regular gold iPhone. I sure wanna get evicted." That definitely happens, like, all the time.

  25. Re:He's just changing robbers. on Apple May Bring Back Billions In Profits To The U.S. (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you hit the wrong Reply button.