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  1. Re:Color me skeptical on Ex-Uber Engineer Claims a Self-Driving Car Drove Him Coast-To-Coast (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That was my point. He said it could have done it without a passenger, but seemingly not.

  2. Re:Color me skeptical on Ex-Uber Engineer Claims a Self-Driving Car Drove Him Coast-To-Coast (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This claim contains an obvious lie. The car does not have 3000 miles range. It can't refuel itself. Even if it could, it can't clean all its cameras if they get dirty (Tesla has the same problem). And one illegal run doesn't prove general capability anyway.

  3. Re:As more silos tighten their content policies on 'Google Isn't the Company That We Should Have Handed the Web Over To' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Won't really help though, because Tumblr and the like are social media. Your own site isn't networked the same way, so it won't get the traffic or be discoverable. You will be screaming hashtags into the void.

  4. I'm going to guess that you never suffered from depression and never recovered from it, but I can tell you that you are very wrong.

  5. Surprised they don't sell you a delivery box. A box big enough for the package, with a lock and a barcode to scan for proof of delivery.

  6. Re:A wider problem on Senate Report Shows Russia Used Social Media To Support Trump In 2016 (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Even if it was a bad movie, that's not the point. It might have been a non-event like Solo or at least just quickly forgotten. But they used it as a wedge to drive division. They will use anything.

  7. Okay, but are you saying that Google should help people set up their own domains? Surely it would need to be independent of Google if it was going to assist people with moving away from Google?

    I can't see what more Google could be expected to do here.

  8. Re:Won't someone think of the medical profession on Lawmakers Push To Create a Three-Digit Suicide Hotline Number (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Those are all emergency services, and in the US some of them are not free.

    Most suicide hotlines are not used for emergencies most of the time, they are used by people long before they reach that point. That's how it should be, the goal should be to address the problem before it gets that bad.

    Maybe this is a kind of free mental healthcare offering by the back door. If so I welcome it.

  9. Suicide due to depression or other mental health problems is a medical emergency that a person can recover from. For people in that situation it clearly seems hopeless, but with help they can usually recover.

    That's different to people who choose how to end their lives for reasons other than mental health problems, such as terminal illness or chronic severe pain. That's a rational decision to deal with something that cannot be put right, or where the chances of recover are very slim.

    It's possible to want to help with both withing being a hypocrite.

  10. Re:Heh - Boomers and their "phone numbers" on Lawmakers Push To Create a Three-Digit Suicide Hotline Number (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously appealing to your humanity isn't going to work, so how about an economic / safety argument?

    A lot of these suicides involve murder. Shooting some place up, attacking the thing they blame for their situation, that kind of thing. How much is preventing that worth? How much is not being murdered by someone with suicidal depression and mental health problems worth to you? Answers in US dollars please.

  11. Re:It's more complicated than that on Senate Report Shows Russia Used Social Media To Support Trump In 2016 (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    It's not that easy. The Russians have the Internet Research Agency, that employs at least a thousand people, likely many more, to spend all day every day trolling. Not just normal trolling, but trolling using tools and techniques provided by experts on trolling. Psychologists, sociologists, spooks, internet experts. The most effective memes, a vast network of fake accounts powered by humans rather than easily identifiable bots.

    They were organizing events that were attended by Americans in the US. They could barely do that during the cold war with spies on the ground.

    Being unrestrained by campaigning laws and what could be shown on TV, ahead of the game on the use of social media to influence people. The political campaigns couldn't just spew memes as fast as they could generate them, because the media would rightly hold them to account. Kinda like asymmetric warfare, the army has big guns but the guerrillas have more effective tactics.

  12. Re:Yep, new confirmation Russia ran BLM ads on Senate Report Shows Russia Used Social Media To Support Trump In 2016 (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The people who you think are "Black Lives Matter" were probably Russian trolls. They weren't supporting Clinton, they were making you think that "sjws", "leftists" and other people you don't like supported her.

    The report cites the example of "Black Matters", an fake organization created by the Internet Research Agency and popular across multiple social media platforms.

  13. Re:Trump's poll numbers don't drop on Senate Report Shows Russia Used Social Media To Support Trump In 2016 (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    the usual foaming-mouth anti-Trump sources/quote

    Like the BBC?

    The coverage was a little muted because this is just the warm up. The Senate will now act on this report somehow, which is when the fun really starts.

  14. Re:I hope tumbler on Tumblr Porn Vanishes Today · · Score: 1

    I wonder what happens when peopel start flagging every post?

    Unfortunately this is what will happen. Like how videos that 4chan doesn't like on YouTube get mass flagged. Anyone on Tumblr who becomes a target will be flooded with false reports that take a long, long time to get resolved, if at all.

  15. Re:Puritanism rears its idiotic head again. on Tumblr Porn Vanishes Today · · Score: 1

    It's actually really bad for kids. A lot of women in China feed their babies with baby formula instead of their own breast milk because it's socially unacceptable to breastfeed in public and even somewhat embarrassing at home. The formula stuff isn't as good as the natural milk, and in fact I believe the current recommendation is not to even start formula until at least 6 months old, ideally not at all.

  16. Re:Puritanism rears its idiotic head again. on Tumblr Porn Vanishes Today · · Score: 1

    social justice circles that porn objectifies women and is demeaning and offensive

    Which circle is this again? Mainstream feminism is generally sex-positive and quite supportive of sex-workers.

  17. Re:Puritanism rears its idiotic head again. on Tumblr Porn Vanishes Today · · Score: 1

    Read the GP's post again. They got booted from Apple's store because they failed on a technical level, i.e. their image classifier was shit and they couldn't adequately police their network. Probably because they are losing money and can't afford the army of human classifiers needed to do the work.

    So they chose the nuclear option. And now the SJWs, or "feminists" as normal people call them, are pissed off because boobs are banned but they don't consider boobs to be a problem, especially when man boobs are apparently okay and these bans tend to affect images of breast feeding too.

    It's just Tumblr being shit, no need to blame the boogyman for their incompetence.

  18. Re:But I like "female-presenting" nipples on Tumblr Porn Vanishes Today · · Score: 1

    Disney's adaptation of Aladdin gave the princess a belly button but had to remove Aladdin's nipples.

  19. Re: Why would the DOD need a report? on US Ballistic Missile Systems Have No Antivirus, No Data Encryption, and No 2FA, DOD Report Finds (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they have a huge stack of spare floppy disks (that they test regularly) or if someone is still manufacturing them for military use.

  20. Re:Nice one on Germany Refuses To Ban Huawei, Citing Lack of Real Evidence (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the NSA does care about Chinese spying, if only because it justifies their behaviour.

  21. To be fair the guy is only claiming that the hidden div messed up the Edge battery test benchmark, so they probably did test with Edge and see that layout and playback and functionality were all correct. Energy consumption is probably not something they regularly test the site for.

  22. Re:And they will respond ... on France Will Tax Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon In New Year (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Fortunately selling user data in that manner is illegal in the EU. Good thinking!

    They can rise prices, not sure how that works on their free services but okay. Anyway, if they jack up prices it just helps other services compete with them, so it's a win for us.

  23. Re:And Mozilla helped with that. on 'Google Isn't the Company That We Should Have Handed the Web Over To' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    They took them away and I was left with no reason to keep it.

    So did you switch to something else? Pale Moon or WaterFox maybe?

    Firefox is still massively more popular than either of those two, which suggests that Mozilla probably did the right thing by keeping Firefox competitive in terms of speed and security.

  24. The hidden element is probably used for optional features like subtitles or the end of video screen. Or maybe to accept input for controlling 360 videos (you can pan the camera around manually).

    This is a fairly common technique. Use the hidden element in the HTML to position it in the DOM properly, because that's the easiest and most robust way to do it. Then when you want to activate it you can just inject content with Javascript.

  25. Well what is the better alternative? Setting up your own domain is beyond most people. Their ISP will delete their email account if they ever switch ISP. Every other free service will at most let you redirect.

    At least with Gmail they make redirecting to another service as easy as possible. There is a dedicated API that other services can integrate (like Microsoft did for Live Mail) or you can use IMAP/POP3.

    Google doesn't even delete old accounts so you can keep that @gmail.com address going without needing to periodically log in.

    What more can you reasonably ask for?