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  1. Re:Yay exponential growth! on Use of Encryption Foiled the Cops a Record 9 Times In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Is it really exponential growth? From 2011 to 2012, growth was infinity%, and between 2012 and 2013 it was only 125%. Growth seems to be slowing a lot.

  2. Re:E-mail? on Goldman Sachs Demands Google Unsend One of Its E-mails · · Score: 1

    This x 10^6 Anyone who has used the internet should have realised pretty early on that sending an email is equivalent to sending a postcard - it will probably arrive at the destination if you use the right address, but there are no guarantees, and you have no control over who sees the email on the way as it is not a private protocol. People should have to get a licence by demonstrating minimal competence before they are allowed to use potentially dangerous technology, just as they do with driving a car.

  3. Solar panels/wind turbines/batteries on Western Energy Companies Under Sabotage Threat · · Score: 1

    There is an obvious solution

  4. Re:Maybe forr once they really have to keep it sec on UK Seeks To Hold Terrorism Trial In Secret · · Score: 1

    From the Guardian article it looks as though CD is only charged with possessing documents: http://www.theguardian.com/law...

  5. Re:Dodgy arrests under the terrorism act on UK Seeks To Hold Terrorism Trial In Secret · · Score: 1

    We seem to know already that the defendant CD is only charged with possessing documents, from how I read the Guardian's report: http://www.theguardian.com/law...

  6. Re:Nonsense on The Flaw Lurking In Every Deep Neural Net · · Score: 1

    I guess you are trolling right? Even Facebook's facial recognition is consistently worse than a human's and a human's is significantly worse than perfect. If by robust you mean "frequently correct, and but wrong sometimes", then OK, but then that is what OP was saying about neural nets.

  7. Average across models on The Flaw Lurking In Every Deep Neural Net · · Score: 5, Informative

    Neural networks are only one way to build machine learning classifiers. Everything we've learnt about machine learning tells us not to rely on a single method/methodology and that we will consistently get better results by taking the consensus of multiple methods. We just need to make sure that a majority of the other methods we use have different blind spots to the ones the neural networks have.

  8. Re:How many code monkies do we really need? on Chelsea Clinton At NCWIT: More PE, Less Zuckerberg · · Score: 1

    Healthcare will be redundant fairly shortly. The main problem facing humanity is too many people and not enough food and water, not too many sick people. The most important 21st century skill is going to be agriculture, and the production of more food from less resources.

  9. Re:Experiment proposal on Curiosity Rover May Have Brought Dozens of Microbes To Mars · · Score: 1

    I'm not an expert on this by any means but I think the problem might be available Nitrogen, given what I saw from the atmospheric and regolith analyses that came out of the early Curiosity experiments. Perhaps someone who knows what they are talking about would care to comment?

  10. Re:Exports for a struggling economy on Russia Bans US Use of Its Rocket Engines For Military Launches · · Score: 1

    I think they will probably struggle on with the gas revenues they earn for keeping the lights on in Europe.

  11. Why are scientists still using LATIN in 2014? on Why Scientists Are Still Using FORTRAN in 2014 · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the cutting edge world of biological research scientists are still using the ancient language latin to name, classify and describe species of organism. The thing is why would they change?

  12. Re:lossy memory on Mathematical Model Suggests That Human Consciousness Is Noncomputable · · Score: 1

    This. Memories are changed by recall.

  13. Re:Hi, I'm a copyright enforcement company. on RightsCorp To Bring Its Controversial Copyright Protection Tactics To Europe · · Score: 1

    Wait, so under DMCA anyone can extort $10 per IP address out of ISPs by claiming they are involved in piracy? Glad I live in Europe where this could never happen.

  14. Re:Added benefit on NYC Considers Google Glass For Restaurant Inspections · · Score: 2

    The funny thing to me is the idea that having a cat in a restaurant is somehow unhealthy. Oh Noes! An Animal! Forget the fact that all the people cooking, cleaning and eating in the place are also animals, and are much more likely to infect you.

  15. Stock inventory? on Ask Slashdot: Which NoSQL Database For New Project? · · Score: 1

    Is this for your stock inventory project? If you want to do anything that involves keeping track of any goods or money or anything of value, then NoSQL is not necessarily the way to go. NoSQL is designed to keep track of value-less things like Twitter messages and Facebook postings, where it doesn't matter if you lose a few thousand transactions here or there. People keeping track of things with actual monetary value usually use SQL for the transactions, from what I've seen.

  16. Re:Why not use GNU/Linux? on UK Government Pays Microsoft £5.5M For Extended Support of Windows XP · · Score: 2

    My guess is that the government cuts to the NHS have led to a situation where they do not have enough skilled engineers with time to support any change to the status quo. The current governing party is ideologically opposed to the NHS and is unlikely to support anything that would improve matters.

  17. Streisand effect? on Details You're Not Supposed To See From Boston U's Patent Settlements · · Score: 1

    Maybe Boston U have seen this coming, and in reality want to publicise the list. I for one had never heard of them owning a patent on blue LEDs before this, and now I see how even the big guys pay not to take them on.

  18. Re:Crypto currencies on Ask Slashdot: College Club Fundraising On the Fly? · · Score: 1

    this. dogecoin. your tower will help get to the moon.

  19. Re:Meat today - Soybeans tomorrow on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 1

    The thing is, it's very inefficient to outsource your diet to animals - have them eat plants and then eat them. If you just eat the plants yourself it take almost an order of magnitude less resources to feed you. We are used to a world where, when we need more resources to make food we just strip another load of primary forest, but there ain't much left any more. The population of the the world is only going upwards and the resources it takes to feed a person are becoming more of an issue. It only take one city to run out of food or water for a few days before we start to see how important this is.

  20. Re:Does it matter? on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 1

    It only matters if you want to have a dependable water supply. Most cities wouldn't last many days without water supply, and they need a steady flow, with plenty of overcapacity to get through the dry periods.

  21. Re:Animals only borrow water. on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 2

    No this is wrong thinking. Most of the water that is used to generate meat goes into growing the crops to feed the animals, and most of this is lost directly through respiration of the plants. The pee is neither here nor there. Outsourcing your diet by growing plants to feed animals and eating the animals is grossly inefficient on so many levels.

  22. Re: Why invest so much money in this... on DARPA Seeks the Holy Grail of Search Engines · · Score: 1

    yes, many times most days and i usually find what i want

  23. Re:Well, I'm gonna mine for... on NASA Now Accepting Applications From Companies That Want To Mine the Moon · · Score: 1

    Only one coin is going to the moon, and I think you know which one! much mine, so moon.

  24. Re:Oh good on Security Vendors Self-Censor Target Breach Details · · Score: 1

    of course they will tell you what it is if you pay them

  25. Re:Oracle is not a person on Lawsuit: Oracle Called $50K 'Good Money For an Indian' · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If a company is not a person, how do they have any rights?