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  1. Re:Training database seems skewed on NVIDIA-Powered Neural Network Produces Freakishly Natural Fake Human Photos (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, they can. Haven't you heard of VR porn and its accessory devices?

    The difference here is that no bargaining need be involved. You don't need to say "Blow me and I'll make you a star!" you just say "Blow me, then go away, I'm tired."

  2. Re:Upscaling application? on NVIDIA-Powered Neural Network Produces Freakishly Natural Fake Human Photos (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    You've obviously never seen CSI. Didn't you know they can take a 12DPI resolution image from a shitty security camera and turn it into 1080P? It actually uses its own assembly language, which they managed to trim down to a single instruction: ENHCE -- Enhance. Instead of typing in that program and using loops, you literally just use voice-to-text, stare at a screen and say "Enhance! Enhance! Enhance!"

  3. I don't get it. Based on the summary, it sounds like they are taking a picture and then tracing it, and another program is constantly saying "you traced wrong, go back and do it right!". So... they can take a picture, and from it render the same picture? Haven't computers been able to do that since... oh.... forever? Without AI involved at all.

  4. Re:Is that surprising? on Perl is the Most Hated Programming Language, Developers Say (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It originally stood for "Personal Home Page" -- as it was written for a guy's personal home page.

  5. Perl is the most hated language on Perl is the Most Hated Programming Language, Developers Say (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Perl is the most hated language by people who have never heard of ruby. Fixed the title for you. You're welcome, Slashdot.

  6. Re:Pantic has been out of the real world too long. on 'We Can't Compete': Universities Are Losing Their Best AI Scientists (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd hire someone with 4 years of work experience over 4 years of college experience any day. You wouldn't have to train them how to do the most basic things.

  7. omg! People with marketable skills are getting hired? WHAT HAS THE WORLD COME TO?????

  8. Re:They knew the risk. on Android Oreo Bug Sends Thousands of Phones Into Infinite Boot Loops (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    gmail was beta for a thousand years whilst I was using it. Even past the invite-only period.

  9. Why break with the common pattern these days? Icongate!

  10. Yeah!!! And if you're lucky, you can live in a Russian embassy for the rest of while you're considered useful to them!

  11. Re: Benedict Judas Quisling goes all Boeing on BlackBerry CEO Promises To Try To Break Customers' Encryption If the US Government Asks Him To (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    "We will only attempt to do that if we have the right court order. "

    What part of this is difficult for you to understand?

    The definition of the word "right".

    I think he means those secret courts that you can't appeal or even disclose that you have to give up. They're called the FISA Court: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  12. Re: Funny, I can do all of the above on one box on How Kodi Took Over Piracy (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    You plug in a game controller? Are you a time traveller from the 1980s?

    To a computer. You're already right up against the screen.

  13. My family didn't even have a hard-to-pronounce name and was spelled just like it sounds. They gave out new names to "Americanize." Reasoning this was to help them is revisionist history..

  14. Parents often name their babies after some event that happened on their birth date. Perhaps certain groups in society are more disposed to this practice?

    Just wondering...

    Like... oh I dunno.... seeing some gelatinous foods?

  15. Really advanced tech from the 1940s? It wouldn't matter anyway. Prior art rules were revised a few years ago that now it's "first to file" not first to invent.

  16. Re:Real value: $0. on Hewlett-Packard Historical Archive Destroyed In California Fires (pressdemocrat.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah, they are appraised high to raise the net worth of the company such they could borrow against it. Equity!

  17. Just like iris scanners can be fooled with a picture of someone's eyes... betchya a picture of said object can be the key.

  18. Re:Let's not forget what brought us here on How Data Science Powered the Search for MH370 (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    GPS data isn't available throughout an entire flight and isn't completely accurate. And it doesn't get reported to authorities.

  19. Not accurate on How Data Science Powered the Search for MH370 (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    Having worked a lot in aviation (even specifically with Inmarsat) I really doubt these results, even beyond the statement that they created this model from scratch (and thus unverified/untested). Navigation isn't even very accurate in planes, so much so that you have things like NAT tracks ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) which establish fixed routes across the Atlantic where there is little radar coverage, GPS is not complete ( see RAIM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) and often inaccurate. They need the fixed tracks so that planes don't run into eachother and actually make it across, almost blind. Over land, airports and whatnot broadcast an analog signal that basically says what's nearby and where they are, and based on these a plane can normally tell where it is. The point is -- planes generally don't know where they are, and if they do it's because of a combination of equipment, so the inmarsat ping doesn't contain something like "I received this at XXX N by YYY E". To think that you could track a plane at all with things such as latency to a signal is either the biggest breakthrough in avionic nav ever, or a load of crock.

  20. Re: News for nerds? on Virtual Singer Uses Crowdsourced Songs To Become a Star In Japan (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    "significant delay" is how Reggae was born. Also... I assume you're making these statements from experience?

  21. I thought they had already done this many years ago with www.americasarmy.com (the "official" game of the US Army). Even years ago, I remember that game devolved into basically folks memorizing the angles to point a rifle augmented with grenade launcher such that you'd hit through windows or the start point. Do these kinds of tactics work in real life? No. Also, there's no civilians on any of the battlefields.. Just a recruitment tool "Hey kid! You like killing people in video games? What if you could do that for a living?"

  22. Re:IPV4 addresses in CIDR format on Facebook Exec: 'Just Not True' That We Listen To Your Phone's Mic (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    but how does I puts that in my hosts file?

  23. Re:Support Right to Independence on Catalonia Declares Independence; Spain Approves Central Takeover Of Region (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    It also specifies that the Federal government only has the right to govern interstate commerce, yet the FDA can prevent a drug manufacturer in a state from producing and selling only within that state. And the DEA can legally bust a farm that grew pot EVEN IN STATES WHERE POT IS LEGAL, and only for personal use (i.e. doesn't cross state lines). Unfortunately there's this thing called the "Necessary and proper" clause that since Andrew Jackson has been interpreted to mean the federal government can do whatever the fuck it wants.

  24. Re:Support Right to Independence on Catalonia Declares Independence; Spain Approves Central Takeover Of Region (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Even smaller than that, native american's have autonomous governments even in a small subset of the jurisdiction population, but draw along ethnic bounds and they become a majority. All depends on where you draw the lines.

  25. Re:What they should be doing as well: on Walmart Tests Shelf-Scanning Robots In Over 50 Stores (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    But think about it, with RFID on everything you could obsolete cashiers altogether. Just drive the card through the door, scan all the RFID's in the cart, and the RFID on your credit card, all good-to-go.