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  1. Re:I call BS on Is the Optical Cable Dying? (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Bluetooth gained momentum because it's convenient rather than performing well. Push a button and you're connected, also no cable required. Quality sucks though.

  2. Re:Getting scary on Algorithm Can Identify Suicidal People Using Brain Scans (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I am not. I am chronically depressed, have attempted suicide in the past and genuinely think that preventing somebody from committing suicide is interfering with their personal rights. Helping them climb out of the depression pit is a different thing.

  3. Re:Domino99 on Algorithm Can Identify Suicidal People Using Brain Scans (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Mod parent down, spam links to some bullshit Indonesian betting games.

  4. Re:I call BS on Is the Optical Cable Dying? (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Betamax had potential too...

  5. Re:Getting scary on Algorithm Can Identify Suicidal People Using Brain Scans (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I hope this algorithm will help prevent suicides.

    Why?

  6. Re: eSnoop on Algorithm Can Identify Suicidal People Using Brain Scans (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    How about just asking me?

  7. Re:particularly people of color ???? on Indiana Is Purging Voters Using Software That's 99 Percent Inaccurate, Lawsuit Alleges (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 2

    I guess they're just as likely to have the same birthdate, but more likely to have the same firstname+lastname combo, possibly due to culture differences. Smaller specific name pool?

  8. "Vague" as in "necessary but not sufficient" criteria.

  9. Re:Wrong on Why Do Web Developers Keep Making The Same Mistakes? (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, at least they all _pretend_ they value security :)

  10. Re: No Preview on mobile on Apple Fires Engineer After His Daughter's iPhone X Video Goes Viral (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm talking about autocorrecting misspelled words and you're talking about next word prediction.
    Different things.

  11. Re:No Preview on mobile on Apple Fires Engineer After His Daughter's iPhone X Video Goes Viral (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but the Preview button only helps with proper tag closing. Spelling should be even easier on mobile, because the keyboard features take care of that (through autocorrect - not perfect but it's a prop).

  12. So don't hit it until you're sure?

  13. Re:Wrong on Why Do Web Developers Keep Making The Same Mistakes? (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    Well yeah, because most are web developers; very few are web developers AND security experts at the same time, and they are usually way more expensive.
    Code written by web developers must go through a security audit and insecure parts need to be rewritten to close the security holes.

  14. Re:wut on Samsung Made a Bitcoin Mining Rig Out of 40 Old Galaxy S5s (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually NiceHash mines whatever coin's more profitable at the moment and converts it automatically to BTC. It's all transparent to me.
    Of course, manually mining some more obscure coin and converting it exactly at the right time might prove maybe twice as profitable, but I value my own time more than the difference. Auto is good enough. I'm not doing this to become rich, and it's a long term investment. If BTC reaches very high values sometime down the road, I could become rich. If it crashes, it won't make me any poorer because the investments would have had written themselves off a long time ago.

  15. The mighty state of Romania. Amazingly, it's somewhere in the huge white area outside of the USA on the world's map.
    I pay about 40 bucks a month while mining.

  16. "not that too many people are mining bitcoin on their desktops these days"

    Um... you sure?
    NiceHash runs on two of my PCs right now... their main usage is not mining rigs, but they earn their keep while I'm not using them. Making about 6 bucks a day before electricity cost, using about 500W of power.
    Plenty other little fellas like me, making a buck.

  17. Re:Comments on Google's Sentiment Analyzer Thinks Being Gay Is Bad (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Not so. The minority is only negative when it's undesirable. Blue eyes, for example, are a minority but not a negative.
    Gay sons are undesirable for obvious reasons (subjectively - don't hate). Parents want grand-kids, it may be as simple as that.

    Go to some Arabic countries and see that blue eyes are negatively perceived.
    Also, if gay couples would be allowed to have kids, parents having grandsons wouldn't be a problem anymore, would it now? :)

  18. If someone sneezes near me, no big deal.

    ...for very large values of "near".

    Feeding her video evidence into her mathematical models, Bourouiba concluded that, thanks to the cloud dynamics, many of the larger droplets can travel up to 8 metres for a sneeze and 6 metres for a cough, depending on the environmental conditions, and stay suspended for up to 10 minutes — far enough and long enough to reach someone at the other end of a large room, not to mention the ceiling ventilation system.

    Source: http://www.nature.com/news/the...

  19. Re:"In the beginning..." on CERN Scientists Conclude that the Universe Should Not Exist (ign.com) · · Score: 1

    monica was only one and her last name was Lewinsky.

  20. Re:Comments on Google's Sentiment Analyzer Thinks Being Gay Is Bad (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    No, stating I like both men and women. And so does my wife.

  21. Re:Just say no to Engare on The Geometry of Islamic Art Becomes a Treasure of a Game (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, you definitely won the "retard of the day" award.

  22. Re:Comments on Google's Sentiment Analyzer Thinks Being Gay Is Bad (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Being bisexual myself, obviously I have nothing against fellow gay people. Quite the contrary. However, I think Google's API is spot-on. Even in TFS they say "The problem is the API labels sentences about religious and ethnic minorities as negative" - well thanks, Captain Obvious, the majority will always see the minority in negative ways - because they're different.

    What we need to focus on is what the cause for negative perception is and fix things there, not replacing a correct algorithm with a lying one.

  23. Which is totally irrelevant.

  24. If anything you should be more worried about someone sneezing around you. The danger to your health is orders of magnitude higher.

  25. Re:What are Trello, Wrike and Asana? on Google Launches Gmail Add-ons and Brings a Range of Business Tools To the Inbox (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    I would if TFS wouldn't have called them "big-name services".