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  1. I play a doctor, but not on TV on IBM Says Watson Health's AI Is Getting Really Good at Diagnosing Cancer (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1
    Despite the inevitable point that a computer surpasses human ability to diagnose and treat ailments and disease,

    might there not still be a place for humans as middlemen to broker the information to a fellow human?

  2. Want to make six figures? on Google Quadruples Top Reward For Hacking Android To $200,000 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1
    Every year? Bounties are of interest to professional hackers... those with your skills but not the time-consuming albatross that is your day job.

    Just figure out

    how to protect the jerbs in your trade like a good union would. Unions aren't the be-all, end-all, method of organizing labor to purchase political influence; though, they do accomplish that goal, despite union graft, much better than doing nothing.

    On influence and the lack thereof: No organized attempt to participate in the process is plausibly the operative reason H1B is such a threat to the formerly decent living programming used to provide.

  3. Re:FCC cries wolf on Democrats Ask FBI To Probe Reported FCC Cyberattack (thehill.com) · · Score: 2

    Help! All those citizens with opinions are attacking us with their words.

    Which, so far, folks are still able to do. It's not, however, guaranteed to continue forever.

    The movement away from any sense of decorum in the news reporting business is particularly disturbing, and all sides of the political spectrum are to blame. When every negative news story can be discounted as a partisan attack, and the Party faithful on both sides of the aisle fall in lockstep with their representative news coverage(s), the rational voice of the few left still rooting for the good of the nation falls unheard, amidst the cacophonous cry of "Foul Play".

  4. Though it's unlikely there are more malicious exploits out there than there has ever been, they've been getting more mainstream press.

    Why? Is there not enough information to fill the 24 hour news cycle with Trump in the US, Erdogan in Turkey, the Brexit in Europe, ad infinitum...

    Or, and I don't have the tinfoil hat on but it's out of the drawer, will these be used to somehow shunt internet freedoms as the powers that be protect us from another Boogeyman.

  5. Re:Slashdot can't be bothered to post the statemen on Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    U should respect Slashdot for all it gives u - so if we didn't post the content & u did & got karma points, whats the big deal ?

    Water's wet. Sky's blue. Women have secrets. When you're cliff-diving, the judges award you extra points for degree of difficulty.

    When you're posting on Slashdot, bonus points are awarded for deserved condemnation of the editor, and occasionally the OP.

  6. Re:Blame it on Trump? Maybe... on Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation (cnn.com) · · Score: 1
    No matter your political leaning, Wikileaks clearly hindered the Democratic candidate to the benefit of the Republican.

    It seems far more likely a request from President Trump would be for Swedish prosecutors to:

    "Stop the Witch hunt. Leave Assange alone. He's a good man."

  7. Re:Feel good story of the day? on Federal Agents Used a Stingray To Track an Immigrant's Phone (detroitnews.com) · · Score: 2
    If there's anything to feel good about, it's that the law now requires at least a search warrant to be deployed. Though the level of evidence required to attain a judge's signature will continue to vary by administration, alleged offense, and even what circuit the request is logged in, it's still better than pre-2015 when it was up to the discretion of law enforcement.

    I may be jaded, but I simply assume if a technology is at the disposal of investigators, it will be deployed. Any legislation that requires the LEO's to explain what their doing is a win.

    Beware the Boogeymem: Illegal immigrants, Pedobears, and Terrorists. These are the cause du jour where exception to normal protocol is initially permitted, and each time you stoop to a distasteful act, it becomes that much easier to stoop again.

  8. Re:Great.. Methane.. on China Successfully Mines Gas From Methane Hydrate In Production Run (oilprice.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There's such an enormous amount of methane that this won't allay those concerns. If it's going to happen it will still happen even if we're burning it 100% in place of coal.

    There is such an enormous amount of methane (natural gas) being mined already, so much so that the price of natural gas makes flaring it off cheaper than piping it to market in many locations.

    This will help nations like China and Japan who are without ample petroleum natural resources, but the value of liquid crude and condensates will be largely unaffected unless global population trends tail off.

  9. Movie money's fine,

    but name-calling is extra,

    just like when you ask your mom to join us.

  10. Because you're so eager to know she's faking it and she only wants your money?

    If all she wants is my money, why do you suppose it would matter if she's faking it?

  11. Re:The problem with climate science is people on Climate Change is Turning Antarctica Green, Say Researchers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
    Nice post. You're right. Science cannot ask people to believe in what it appears the evidence means, on faith, since faith has been discounted as the necessary tenet in an unprovable belief set such as most religions are built.

    Scientific experimentation is only valid if the results are repeatable in similar circumstances, by others; an admittedly higher standard.

    But, a cautionary tale. Understanding how the greenhouse effect works, and what carbon sequestration is in the ecosystem... If you have to believe in something, it is not out of the realm of probability to imagine that 7 billion people are plausibly having an effect on the world's ecosystem and their burning of fossil fuels, just maybe, might be, a factor influencing weather patterns.

  12. Re:Why is this alarming on Climate Change is Turning Antarctica Green, Say Researchers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    The study was published Thursday in Current Biology, by Amesbury and colleagues with the University of Cambridge, the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Durham.

    I don't know for certain that this team of research scientists are more qualified than you or I to expound on the meaning of the moss's exponential growth, but if I had to bet the light bill money one way or the other, I would at least carefully consider their opinion.

  13. less than 1mm versus 3mm per year on Climate Change is Turning Antarctica Green, Say Researchers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Scientists would agree that this is an alarming trend.

    The problem with climate science, as always, is explaining the significance to the general voter, who might be unlikely to attach the same degree of concern for a +/- 2mm annual growth spurt... even if the millimeter is a measurement the voter understands.

    Further complicating the dilemma is exaggerations like the click-bait title, as you have to read down a ways to discover that "Antarctica is not going to become entirely green, but it will become more green than it currently is." Stooping to the same level of deception as your adversaries backfires, more often than not.

  14. Thank you for correcting that other bastard.

  15. Man. You're smart and I can see it in your posts, but even if you're someone who leans conservative, you have to at least consider the possibility that this guy might look better outside of the tent looking in.

    because being at the top of the food chain on that subject matter makes that that person's call, period.

    Dude is fucking tired of being President. He's never had his decrees questioned as Baron of a fiefdom for decades, and now he has to deal with the most hostile a press we've ever seen...

    The deck is stacked against a gut who has another job opportunity as a 70 yr. old billionaire.

  16. He was chosen as G.W.B.'s attorney general on 09/04/2001, so he has a hot week in office before the WTC fell.

    Director Mueller, along with Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey, threatened to resign from office in March 2004 if the White House overruled a Department of Justice finding that domestic wiretapping without a court warrant was unconstitutional.

    Obama kept him on for two years after he was elected, and Comey was not only his assistant, but his successor.

  17. Re:h8 crymes on 'U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1
    I spanked the arse of my two boys a total of four times; once for the oldest, and thrice for the younger... boy has a steak in him. In all four cases they'd acted out in the sanctuary of the public realm. In each case, I told the respective child, "Stop that or you'll be getting one when we get home." I said it four times when they failed to respond and four times the corporal punishment was administered.

    My oldest son was seven years young when he nearly walked into the path of a distracted driver in a supermarket parking lot, but he stopped mid-step when I hollered his name.

    There's a good deal of parenting to friendship for our offspring that might better be served with parenting as caretaker.

  18. Re:What culture? on Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone Is Returning to the Company (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Other than this story, the only time you hear about Twitter is in regard to Trump.

    Yes. President Tweety. "I taht I taw a puddy cat! Or I wouldn't have I grabbed it."

    That proves Twitter is useless to thinking people. Thinking people care more about the world than they do making America even better.

    It could be that thinking people are not now, or were questionably ever, in the majority.

  19. Yes, and they earned them. The Ludlow massacre was barely a hundred years ago, which is quite eye-opening for Americans who perceive governments attacking their own citizens to be something done in other places.

    Baseball players and the entertainment industry owe their respectively successful unions to the sacrifices made by much lower profile employees, many of whom now suffer job loss and income shrinkage. US automotive worker job losses are well documented, as US automakers lost their world dominance in part because of the high salaries and overhead created by the unions.

    People often argue whether or not we still need the unions today, and it may be careless to conclude that we do not based on the snapshot of the present.

  20. Unions on Streaming Services Will Pay Writers More Under New Writers Guild Pact (deadline.com) · · Score: 3, Informative
    I would like to think the writers of our movies are well compensated, as I find writing to be at least as important to the movie's quality as acting.

    I do, however, find it funny (funny strange, not funny ha-ha) that the oddest bunch of employment fields remain union shops.

    Baseball players, automakers, the entertainment industry; but not coal miners or their daughters.

  21. Re:What was the ROI? on WanaDecrypt0r Ransomware Earns Just $26,000 In Ransom Payments (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    WTF is randomware?

    It's like when you say Pron or Frist psot in order to avoid bot scrutiny.

  22. Re:I normally like Krebs, but... on WanaDecrypt0r Ransomware Earns Just $26,000 In Ransom Payments (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1
    Spot on. The logical fallacy (that Krebs is subscribing to) is that people who would stoop to this form of income generation would be bothered in the slightest by the imposition their activities cause others.

    You see examples of this all the time. Perpetrators cause thousands of dollars in damage to a vehicle to steal tens of dollars worth of loot. Air conditioning equipment worth thousands is rendered worthless for a few dollars in scrap copper.

    You might say the give-a-shitter is broken in these folks.

  23. Re:Who? on Why Amanda Palmer Left the Music 'Industry' For Crowdfunding (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 3, Informative
    She's not all bad.

    She spoke at a TED talk recently and she's for the free sharing of digital content.

  24. Re:Really? on Human Sense of Smell Rivals That of Dogs, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2
    A Sheriff might set roadblocks with a Game Warden, since the Warden could search the vehicle for hunting violations without a warrant.

    The bottom line: People who enforce the law want to look through your stuff? They'll go to some length to make it look as legitimate as possible, but they'll be looking through your stuff.

  25. Re:Really? on Human Sense of Smell Rivals That of Dogs, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    But a pig will work with any handler, and will consider any human to be their equal.

    Shit, if this is true, pigs are superior to most humans.