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  1. Re:I was always suspicious of this on The Adult Brain Does Grow New Neurons After All, Study Says · · Score: 1

    Actually Neurogeneis would equate to AI being able to spawn new CPUs... Not impossible, but you'd have to wire your AI to the CPU plant. Or something.

  2. Hi petrol prices will push public transport prices up, and will impact them when they go on trips that require a car.

    Also, nobody needs a car in Central London. If they think they do, then they should pay for the privilege. Same with Paris, and I imagine it's the same in NY.

  3. I disagree with that. Petrol tax will hit the poor more, whereas the Congestion Charge hits wealthier people more -- poorer people tend to use public transport already.

  4. Well London has a congestion charge to drive in the centre, and it's ever increasing. There are also low emission zones which are turning to ultra low soon (which means anything but a hybrid or an electric vehicle is excluded basically)

  5. Re:THERE WAS NO ELECTION MEDDLING on US Treasury Sanctions 16 Russians For Hacking, Election Meddling (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually, deliberately spreading false statements in an effort to sway voters one way or another sounds like election meddling to me -- trying to add votes is called fraud, not meddling.

    US, UK, Italy, Brazil,... People are falling for it everywhere.

  6. Re:Prices all over the place on Hackers Are Selling Facebook Credentials on the Dark Web For $3 (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    Especially on the DarkWeb!!!!

  7. Re:And no one went to jail then, either... on Replace 'Tech' With 'Banks,' and We've Seen a Big Comeuppance Before (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually... If Facebook or Twitter were to fail, apart from employees and shareholders, very little parts of the economy would suffer. Marketing would have to reinvent itself and find new ways of reaching people, end of. WhatsApp could be replaced by almost anything else (is Viber still running?)

    Google, Apple and Microsoft would be a bit different. We'd all lose our emails, support for our phones / computers / wearables etc. But that can be restructured/sold under Chapter 11 proceedings.

    Amazon is "just" a bit marketplace. People would find a way to start selling stuff elsewhere!

    TL;DR: Nobody in the tech industry is too big to fail. Let them.

  8. Re:GPDR could bite hard on 380,000 Card Payments Compromised In British Airways Breach (sky.com) · · Score: 1

    From the reports I've been reading this morning, the data was stolen at transaction time, so most likely some kind of MITM attack or code injection on the payment page.

    Also, it seems that cards saved on the website might be alright, which points to the fact that saved cards are "tokenized" in some way, and not sent across the network in that case. Which would actually good practice in this particular case...

  9. Re:GPDR could bite hard on 380,000 Card Payments Compromised In British Airways Breach (sky.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a feeling a lot of companies will be watching this one closely. IIRC the regulation states anywhere between 20m EUR and 4% of revenues, which would be just under half a billion euros on 2016 figures. (And almost 1bn dollars if directed at parent company IAG).

  10. Re:as apposed to... on Facebook is Rating Users Based On Their 'Trustworthiness' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, someone in the EU should be able to send a GDPR request to find out what their score is. It would be a good test case :-)

  11. Re:Of course on Scientists Claim To Have Solved the Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle (vice.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Everybody knows, darling, it's better down where it's wetter, take it from me...

  12. Re:When will YouPorn get this? on Google Launches YouTube Music Service With Creepy AI To Predict Listening Habits (audioholics.com) · · Score: 1

    The mention to YouTube Red made me smile, I thought I'd misread :-D

  13. Re:Calendaring on Google Hasn't Stopped Reading Your Emails (theoutline.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This. Exactly this. I almost missed a flight because I'd forgotten I was booked on the earlier one, but their reminder saved me.

    For the rest, they know what I spend money on, and their ads are still irrelevant. So either their AI isn't very good yet, or they don't actually link them to the ads I see.

  14. You forgot one point: " I'd pay the artists something if I had a chance, but the majors eat up all the revenue along the way, so why bother? "
    Otherwise it's a good sum up of the last 10 years of /. regarding copyright, indeed.

  15. Amazoned? Never heard the word on How Amazon Became Corporate America's Nightmare (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    But I remember when sites used to get Slashdotted :-)

  16. Re:Chia Bas Letter From Iteret ? on China Bans Letter N From Internet as Xi Jinping Extends Grip on Power (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Score: 5, Fuy

  17. Re:Alternate headlines: on GoPro Quits the Drone Business (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I was going along the lines of Quit GoPro and Quid Pro Quo, but alright :)

  18. Re:Simple solution for Google & Facebook on Google and Facebook 'Must Pay For News' From Which They Make Billions (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Other solution is for these agencies to pool funds together to create their own platform and then forbid the other ones from linking to their articles. In reality it only moves one almost monopolistic situation to another, but it gives them the freedom to fund it. If people like the new platform more than the old, happy days for them. Otherwise, they need to review their business model (and we lose the 4th branch of power)

  19. Re:fucking krauts on Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The interesting point in there is

    a government wary of alienating voters in German coal country. During the summer election campaign, Merkel largely avoided the subject.

    What it really shows is that Americans are just Germans who speak bad English.

    Coal country, in a civilised country. It's just backwards.

  20. Re:That's german engineering for you on BMW Recalling One Million Vehicles in North America (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Acutally it's sensible. They know there's an issue, and they're doing something about it. Continuous improvement.

  21. Re: cause my boss likes us here on Ask Slashdot: Why Do We Still Commute? (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    Peter Principle applied I guess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  22. Re:Last day before or after deletion ? on Twitter Employee Blamed For Deleting President Donald Trump's Account (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    And a Criminal Record in the process. That might restrict their ability to work in some industries.

  23. Re:Are all the editors on Slashdot liberal SJW's? on Twitter Employee Blamed For Deleting President Donald Trump's Account (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, this. It's probably the most famous Twitter account, which happens to be a technology firm, so News for Nerds kind of qualifies. I don't think TFS is very biased either, it's quite factual. The only thing it fails to mention is if said rogue employee will be charged, but I'd be amazed if they aren't...

  24. Re:Testing the waters. on Twitter Employee Blamed For Deleting President Donald Trump's Account (npr.org) · · Score: 0

    Like Star Wars: Rouge One? With the old blue-red "3D" glasses, except the blue one is blocked.

  25. Re:Google can arbitrarily ban me from my own files on Google Explains Tuesday's Drive, Docs Bug That Marked Some Files As Violating Terms of Service (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    There are encryption layers you can add to your Google Drive, so even they can't see what you store (BoxCryptor is the one I use but I'm sure there are many others). Doesn't work for Docs and Spreadsheets, but who uses those anyway??