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  1. Re:OpenStreetMap on This Company Is Crowdsourcing Maps For Self-Driving Cars (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    1) they see the difference from their baseline map and exert extra processing power to that part of the image to better recognize the policemen and his gestures (which are usually opaque to me, so good luck to the autonomous car).

    2) They move over for any stopped car on the side of the road, that one should be pretty easy.

  2. Re: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?! on Amazon Is Reportedly Building a Doorbell That Lets Drivers Into Your House (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean consumers will reap the savings?

    950,000 is saved in the scenario described.

  3. Re: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?! on Amazon Is Reportedly Building a Doorbell That Lets Drivers Into Your House (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    In my neighborhood, it's always when they see the truck and watch where the drop offs are. The porch theft is within minutes of drop off.

    It's only about once every eight months though.

  4. Re:The Ads make this a non-starter for me. on Hulu Lowers Prices After Netflix Raises Theirs (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    I love being able to watch a 1 hour show in 45 minutes the day after it airs.

    This time of year it's the service I use most.

  5. Re:Lower? on Hulu Lowers Prices After Netflix Raises Theirs (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    They dropped the free tier a while back.

    Basically it was all stuff available from the networks anyway.

  6. Re:Never an Apple user on Security Researcher Finds a Fundamental Flaw in iOS (krausefx.com) · · Score: 1

    It seems like a case of trying to improve security (require a password to give higher privilege) actually reducing security (making entering password a thoughtless process).

    The simplest fix from Apple I'd think would be to remove all entry of password by default (except for specific cases), then have the dialog pop to request more access be a simple Yes/No with a reminder that Apple will only ask for your password in [list specific cases].

  7. Re:Terrible headline on Security Researcher Finds a Fundamental Flaw in iOS (krausefx.com) · · Score: 1

    Yet when I go to reveal passwords in Chrome, it asks my Windows password.

    I imagine that could be spoofed by an app.

  8. Re: How can they tell if a rock is a "tool"? on 'Staying Longer At Home' Was Key To Stone Age Technology Change 60,000 Years Ago (phys.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is a real issue that archaeologists are having.

    I don't know what's being shown in the arrows in the picture you linked, but one if the hopes is that better 3D scanning/mapping will help differentiate accidental/natural and intentional marks.

    I've seen the discussion most heated in trying to look at what other primates are up to, as there's some debate about their tool use, and tools to make tools use

  9. Oh, I thought the northern part trying to split was north of Sacramento.

  10. Alaska and Hawaii were brought in together for that reason. Alaska was safe dem and Hawaii safe republican (times have changed).

    I don't know what you'd do to balance the territories. Maybe let California split if the north keeps griping, I doubt they vote republican though, but maybe libertarians could get hold in northern California.

  11. Re:Google, we need AFFORDABLE Android phones! on Google Unveils Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL With No Headphone Jack (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Could be.

    I thought it may be Android 7.0 maybe too. I know I had issues with memory management on 5.0, and this seems to be similar.

    Memory fills up, some hangs, and sometimes stuff closes that shouldn't (navigation or music while driving, the opposite of whatever is on top).

    Maybe it's the Amazon customization too.
    It feels more like my experience with $100-150 phones, not $150-250.

    The Camera is better than the BLU though, which is the main reason I got it.

  12. Re:Still better than cable on Netflix is Raising Its Prices, Again (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    If Hulu had day after recent episodes from FXX and not just Fox, I'd be so happy.

    Hulu ad free has made regular on demand un usable for me.

  13. Re:Still better than cable on Netflix is Raising Its Prices, Again (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Netflix is going the HBO model.

    It's approaching it in price ($14 vs $15 now for the premium, or $11 vs $15 for the standard).

    They're getting less and less of "things you've heard of" and doubling down on exclusive content.

  14. Re:Google, we need AFFORDABLE Android phones! on Google Unveils Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL With No Headphone Jack (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a moto G5 Plus and it sucks.

    It hangs far more often than my BLU Life one X 2 (mini or regular), and random soft reboots about every other day too.

    Maybe the G5S Plus is dramatically better, but I don't think it was out yet.

    I was hoping the Moto Brand would be better, I regret replacing the broken BLU phone with it.

  15. Re:No Jack No Problem on Google Unveils Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL With No Headphone Jack (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    Don't decent bluetooth headphones receive the actual audio file and do the decoding themself?

    It should in that case be as good as what's on the phone. I assume that's what "0 latency audio" means.

  16. Re:What happens in 15-20 years? on Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Looks like both charts project majority output in 50 years.

    100%-(.05%*50)=75%
    or 100%-(20%*2)=60%

    Your point is stronger if you use words like "dramatic reduction" or "just over half of the output remaining" or you don't link to things that contradict what you say as support.

  17. Re: Wait a minute... on Google and Facebook Failed Us (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2

    I suppose that's a valid interpretation of what Google News should do too.

    I check it periodically, and assumed it was ranking popularity of articles from actual news sources (as in that is their business), and not he web as a whole.

    I don't think that's a crazy thing to think it is, or wish it to be. That doesn't involve ignoring sources that one disagrees with, simply ones that aren't news sources (such as some random persons blog, or 4chan, or even /. which is simply a news aggregator on its own). Sure, they should scrub those sources to find what's popular, but the links should be to actual journalistic sites, ones that hire journalists, even nonsense like buzzfeed and maybe vox would meet that threshold.

  18. Re: Can someone please explain? on Tesla Badly Misses Model 3 Production Goals (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, for a purchase to happen, they'll have to be valued far lower than Ford.

    That seems like a very likely future possibility to me. At least as likely as the scenario where they become a dominant car manufacturer and power company both (betting on that outcome would justify their current market cap, as they'd be Ford and more then, not simply Ford).

  19. Re: Wait a minute... on Google and Facebook Failed Us (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't think it's that people think google shouldn't source from 4chan, but that it shouldn't be a source for Google News.

    I don't think it's particularly obtuse to think that sources for Google News have journalists on staff.

  20. Re: Can someone please explain? on Tesla Badly Misses Model 3 Production Goals (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    If Tesla fails, someone will buy it for pennies on the dollar and build batteries obviously.

    They'd be quite inexpensive with low capital investment to recover.

    I don't think that's will happen, but if it does it's hardly a mystery what will happen. It will be like when worldcom failed and dark fiver got cheap.

  21. Re: Can someone please explain? on Tesla Badly Misses Model 3 Production Goals (wsj.com) · · Score: 0

    Tesla may one day be as big as ford is today, but their upside isn't much bigger than ford is today, and their downside is bankruptcy.

    Tesla is almost certainly over valued, and I think they'll pull through and be big one day. I think it's a safer bet to bet ford will pull through and stay big though (thus at the same price I'd rather buy Ford).

    As for missing their targets by 80%, that concerns me, they are using a LOT of people to build not that many cars, why are they so inefficient, even with the model S, which is starting to become an older platform.

    I have concerns about their design chops on the model three too (multi depth touch menu to adjust vents, maybe acceptable if the auto pilot was standard, but seems dangerous and awkward on the highway).

    I think they'll survive long enough to learn how to design a car that the driver can safely interact with the comfortably (or that auto pilot is standard), and I think they'll figure out how to efficiently build cars, but it's a while off. I'm not sure they'll ever compete at the low to mid end. It'll likely be too late for those markets by the time they get the time they get the kinks worked out.

  22. Re: gas stations on Ask Slashdot: Which Businesses Will Go Away In the Next 10 Years? (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a 12 minute commute in a smaller medium sized area (county about 45 minutes across with 500k people.

    I see at least two different electric cars a week (a black Tesla model S, and a white model X). I see leaf's pretty regularly, but not during my commute, so I can't say the frequency as well.

    Also, I see a lot of the Chevy plug in hybrids, and maybe some of their electric, but I don't know what it'd look like.

    I'm not saying they're super common (they aren't), but they aren't even close to as rare around here as they are for you.

    Most people where I live have a driveway, which I'm sure helps.

  23. Re: gas stations on Ask Slashdot: Which Businesses Will Go Away In the Next 10 Years? (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    I'd assume plug in hybrids with gas stations pretty much being limited to highways, and cities where people don't own a place to charge. Maybe rural areas, depends the range on battery.

    I don't think gas stations will die, but they'll be for the people that can't afford a driveway/nice parking garage or on road trips.

  24. Re: Universities on Ask Slashdot: Which Businesses Will Go Away In the Next 10 Years? (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Hardly a new prediction.

    PCU came out in 94, universities are thriving just fine (far better even).

  25. Re: Mozilla will likely disappear before Google. on Ask Slashdot: Which Businesses Will Go Away In the Next 10 Years? (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Asm.js was relevant and basically paved ghetto way for how the standard was done I thought?

    It didn't make them money, but aside from making browser competition a thing a while ago, that's probably their greatest achievement.