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  1. Microsoft is a clueless newbie on Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole In Windows Defender (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Mass search and replace with no testing. A complete lack of understanding of simple principles of numeric comparisons. Not knowing the difference between unsigned and signed integers.

    Sounds exactly like standard operating procedure at Microsoft.

    Microsoft: bringing the Blue Screen of Death to Open Source Software since 2015.

  2. Misread the title on Apple Hires Google's AI Chief (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I was puzzled because why would Apple need a chef who had worked at Google...

  3. "it takes a lot to move an entire nation to agree in the polls"

    How much of "a lot" is due to micro-targeted propaganda using stolen data by Cambridge Analyticica?

  4. Re:can you show me what the disinformation was? on Tumblr Takes Down 84 Russia-Linked Accounts (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Just watch Fox News. They are the main mouthpiece for Russian propaganda. Have been for a while.l

  5. Re:84? on Tumblr Takes Down 84 Russia-Linked Accounts (thehill.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    It's now time to use the T word: you and your slimy cohorts are goddamed traitors. Your vile and ignorant attacks defending Trump make you a de facto Putin supporter. You are acting as an agent of a hostile government.

    You hate democracy and the rule of law. You want to destroy the Constitution. Your goal is a fascist regime in the United States.

    Get the hell out of my country. Go to Russia where you belong.

  6. Re:just pay a fine on SEC Charges Theranos, CEO Elizabeth Holmes With 'Massive Fraud' (engadget.com) · · Score: 0

    Elizabeth Holmes is the Betsy Devos of Big Pharma, so she would be a perfect fit in the Trump Administration.

  7. Re:Down with Winter Darkness time! on Florida Lawmakers Approve Year-Round Daylight Saving Time (tampabay.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We just need to change the axial tilt of the earth. Why has this simple solution not been adopted already?

  8. Convince Trump US Elections are a Video Game on Trump Promises Copyright Crackdown As DoJ Takes Aim At Streaming Pirates (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 0

    Then maybe he will do something about the Russian hacking the US election happening this year.

  9. Re:Too much extra shit on Samsung's New TVs Are Almost Invisible (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Now you have a choice at all price price points to have a 24/7 spy in your house.

  10. How many bars does a 4G phone get on the moon? on Nokia, Vodafone To Bring 4G To the Moon (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    There has got to be a joke in there somewhere. Or up there, or wherever...

  11. Re:"Progressives" vs. "KKKonservatives" on Amazon Is Developing a TV Series Based On Iain M. Banks' Sci-Fi Novel 'Consider Phlebas' (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1
    You poor little White Supremacist, are you feeling a bit uncomfortable? Feeling insecure because those people are not willing to put up with your assumption of superiority? Unhappy that the Black Panther movie is a phenomenal hit?

    Listen up, fool. Since Nixon's "Southern Strategy" the Republican Party and the Right Wing have been embracing white racism, and by now they are the de facto American White People's Party.

    But things change, and the buzzards are coming home to roost. Your whining is pathetic, as are you.

    Schadenfreude can be a wonderful experience, and I am personally enjoying the Republican/Libertarian/Alt-Right/KKK/Nazi squirming over the changes that are happening in the country. Keep on with your puerile bitching, I find it amusing. It's all you're really good for.

  12. Re:Sounds like hybrid memputing on MIT Develops New Chip That Reduces Neural Networks' Power Consumption by Up to 95 Percent (mit.edu) · · Score: 1
    Prior art from 1972

    A Logic-in-Memory architecture for large-scale-integration technologies

    A computing machine is described which is structured around a distributed logic storage device called the Processing Memory. This machine, the Brookhaven Logic-In-Memory Processor (BLIMP), is meant only as a vehicle for simulating and evaluating its concepts, rather than for eventual fabrication. In particular, it is shown that the architecture used is very well suited to large-scale-integration (LSI) implementation technologies. It was first necessary to redefine the various goals of logic design optimization in the context of LSI implementation. Then an elemental building block of the Processing Memory is described as having evolved from associative memory circuits. It is shown that a computer such as BLIMP which utilizes the Processing Memory concept can meet the goals of design optimization for LSI. Design techniques for this project were developed as they were required. Of particular importance is a simulation system called MODEL, which documents the structure and analyzes the behavior of the proposed system.

  13. So much for the specs on Apple Homepod Review: Locked In (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    How much does it spy on you?

  14. Nobody said the magic word on Wells Fargo Hit With 'Unprecedented' Punishment Over Fake Accounts (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    This is what a Fascist economic system looks like.

  15. You are a peasant, not a citizen. Peasants don't have ultimate control over the property they think they own.

  16. Re:auto photo tickets are like parking to the owne on Ford Patents Driverless Police Car That Ambushes Lawbreakers Using AI (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1
    Obviously you are not from California. I don't think you've ever been in the state, or anywhere more then 20 miles from you're parent's basement.

    Everything you are claiming is delusional. Your assertion is rabid wingnut foaming at the mouth.

    Just to take a guess, I would say that you have a KKK tattoo rather then a swastika. You reek more of nativist ignorance then worldwide paranoia.

    If you don't know all the words just use a dictionary, or find someone who knows what they mean.

  17. Re:The problem for Facebook on Facebook Will Now Ask Users To Rank News Organizations They Trust (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Where do you have your swastika tattoo?

  18. Re:Stationary Thorium Reactor on US Tests Nuclear Power System To Sustain Astronauts On Mars (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If we can just get enough unobtainium and pixie dust to Mars it will be easy peasy.

  19. What about dumb leaders? on Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Those of us suffering under the current US administration want to know how citizens respond to stupid, irrational leaders.

    This question is really important right now. We are desperate to understand how idiots lead, and how people behave under terrible leadership. It's critical to know about bad leadership so we don't all go to hell in a hand basket, say next week. (I'm looking at you Kim Jogng Un.)

  20. The wording of the Apple statement is deliberately misleading. When they say "contribution" to the US economy, what they really mean $350 billion of subsidies from the US economy. That's how they got all that money in the bank in the first place. Direct and indirect subsidies.

    You have to learn how to decode corporate-speak. For example, when a company says that the tax cut saving will go to a bonus, what will actually happen is that amount will be subtracted from people's total compensation. The $2500, or whatever, will go towards corporate profits, and most of it will end up in the pockets of the corporate executive class. It's how trickle down economics works.

  21. Just like your smart phone on Your Car May Soon Start Serving You Ads (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1
    The phone you carry is not for communications. It is not for taking pictures/movies, email, music, streaming videos, or navigation either. It has one basic purpose: to monetize you. All it's other nominal functions are subsumed by that "prime directive". The arbitrary behavior that everyone finds annoying are not accidental, but are the symptoms of how it makes money off you. Bloatware, trackers and their battery draining antics are not a price you pay for convenience, but drive the design and ecosystem of the smart phone environment.

    Even if you don't use it for anything other then phone calls it still harvests data about your movements and that generate profit for someone. You don't even really own it. You can't remove or turn off any of the "features". Ownership means control, and when the user cannot stop intrusive behavior they are no longer in charge.

    Every other economic sector lusts after this monetization model. They want the profit that comes from the simple act of buying a device. You pay for the illusion of ownership, and their profit stream lasts for the life of the device.

    Of course car companies are drooling over this prospect. So is every company that wants to put an always on internet connected device in to your life. There's money to be made on "smart" thermostats and light switches after they are installed. Your boss would love to know when you got to bed and combine that information with where you stopped after you got off work and how much time you spent watching the TV before you turned out the lights. That data could be a great help to an employer who is deciding who to promote or who to fire. And you will be paying to get every device. Sucker.

  22. Your prize is that your identity will be stolen. Again.

  23. Who is going to write the mod? on Firefox 57's Speed Secret? Delaying Requests from Tracking Domains (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Informative
    The one that doesn't even send the tracking data back, or even better sends random results?

    It's not like any of us asked to be tracked, or get any benefit out of it. Our online existence has become a huge source of income while government and big business know far too much about our private lives. Maybe we should be taking the initiative to "opt out" of tracking in a way that will make a real difference.

  24. When do the set up in North Korea? on Google To Open AI Center In China Despite Search Ban (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A market is a market...

  25. Re:Oh great, so the Twitting Twat Twaddler in chie on Twitter Officially Launches 'Threads,' a New Feature For Easily Posting Tweetstorms (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder how long it took Twitter to implement this feature request from the Trump-hole.