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  1. 75% of drivers think they're in the top 10% of driving skills.

    What worries me though is that no one mentions the famous Google self driving cars will only work in the small areas that they have pre mapped and pre recorded routes for. Self driving is just a marketing term for now.

  2. So the future xboxes will come with PC problems on Microsoft To Unify PC and Xbox One Platforms (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    ... like, for example, graphical artefacts on xboxes released in march-november 2018, and crashes on xboxes from the second half of 2017. But the game runs just fine on consoles from 2019, you just need to upgrade!

  3. Re:Eric Brewer = Moron on Google Proposes New Hard Drive Format For Data Centers (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have 12 GPUs in a box, i fail to see how using a SDD or HDD would make any noticeable difference in power and heat...

  4. So how will this limit desktop users? on Google Proposes New Hard Drive Format For Data Centers (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a feeling that in a few years we'll be left with just expensive SSDs and even more expensive "datacenter" drives.

  5. Did they actually have customers? on Barracuda Copy Shutting Down (barracuda.com) · · Score: 1

    For one, I only heard about their service when looking for Dropbox alternatives explicitly. It wasn't so visible.
    Two, I signed up then gave up because their sync was damn slow. So slow that paying for dropbox seemed like the better alternative. They may have improved it after, but I never tried again.

  6. Re:Don't they own House of Cards? on Netflix Teams With LG For 'Prepaid' Streaming Worldwide (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I haven't started the free trial yet, but the comments of people who did that in Romania are... disappointing.
    Their flagship isn't available, the old movie collection is limited too... 3 titles for each of de Niro, Pacino, and other great actors?

  7. Don't they own House of Cards? on Netflix Teams With LG For 'Prepaid' Streaming Worldwide (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Apparently it's not available in the newly opened 130 countries... or at least in some of them.

  8. It will be as succesful... on Virtual Reality Predictions For 2016 and Beyond (medium.com) · · Score: 0

    ... as 3D TVs.
    Yaaaaawn.

  9. It wasn't a movie on Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It was an extended trailer for the next movies. They barely managed to introduce all the characters.
    It's the beginning of a long lived Disney(tm) franchise.

    While Lucas went batshit insane with episodes 1-3, and shouldn't be allowed to write a script ever again, all of his movies at least had memorable scenes. It appears JJ Abrams can't do that, I don't remember any specific scene after seeing episode 7. None. And that goes for the other film by him that i tried to see, the Star Trek reboot a couple years ago.

    Saw this one in cinemas, not sure I'll bother with the next 12 to 20 episodes.

  10. Dear Mr Cook on Systemd Absorbs "su" Command Functionality · · Score: 1

    If you're not sponsoring Poettering yet, it looks like it would be a good idea to do so.
    He has done more than anyone else to convince Linux users to switch to OS X :)

  11. Github had an app? :) on GitHub Desktop Launches To Replace Mac and Windows Apps · · Score: 1

    And more importantly... do they have any plans to make their repositories non accessible through the plain command line git client?
    I pay for private repos there, but I don't want any other help from them thank you very much.

  12. ... how do i check if i'm on google+ and if i am (i never was intentionally but who knows what i clicked wrong) how can i remove myself from this abomination?

  13. Perhaps this senator on Sen. Feinstein Says Anarchist Cookbook Should Be "Removed From the Internet" · · Score: 1

    ... should have a chat with Barbara Streisand ... ... or maybe hire a kindergarten kid as his/her advisor of digital matters ...

  14. Have money for lots of lawyers... on License Details Hint MS Undecided On Suing Users of Its Open Source Net Runtime · · Score: 1

    ... if you want to do business with the likes of MS and Oracle.
    If you're small, it's safer to just stay away.

  15. Wrong title on No, It's Not Always Quicker To Do Things In Memory · · Score: 1

    It's slower in languages with automatic memory management, or with a VM, which is no surprise.
    It would be much faster than disk if you wrote the time critical parts in a language designed for, you know, speed...

  16. Re:No Phone on Yahoo Debuts End-To-End Encryption Email Plugin, Password-Free Logins · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have one, but I don't *trust* Yahoo with it. The moment i won't be able to log in without my phone is when I give up on their services...

  17. 130 hour weeks and "people first"? on Marissa Mayer On Turning Around Yahoo · · Score: 2

    "When Google was a young company, she worked 130 hours per week and often slept at her desk." Ref: http://www.entrepreneur.com/ar...
    I don't think Yahoo is a place I'd like to work at. And come to think of it, she was promoted pretty high in the food chain at Google, which says something about working at Google too?

  18. Useless before... useless after? on Google Wants To Rank Websites Based On Facts Not Links · · Score: 1

    Does a search engine that doesn't try to guess what i'd like to see and gives me generic results not tailor made for me exist any more?

  19. Face detection, perhaps? on Breakthrough In Face Recognition Software · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I didn't read the article, of course, but the summary sounds like they're doing face *detection* not recognition.
    Detection: find which portions of an image are faces.
    Recognition: compare to a database of faces and find out whose face it is.
    First is way easier than the other.

  20. Let me translate on Using Machine Learning To Find a Better Job · · Score: 2

    They've automated the work of the drones that spam my linkedin profile after matching keywords and NOT reading anything in the free form text?

  21. May I suggest... on Ask Slashdot: Gaining Control of My Mobile Browser? · · Score: 1

    ... moving your browsing elsewhere if your favourite sites require NoScript to be readable?
    This is free, platform independent advice.

  22. Re: .NET is NOT “Open Source” .. on Microsoft Open Sources CoreCLR, the .NET Execution Engine · · Score: 1

    I don't know shit about Fortran. I do Android, iOS and (embedded) Linux.

  23. Re: .NET is NOT “Open Source” .. on Microsoft Open Sources CoreCLR, the .NET Execution Engine · · Score: 1

    It's the cost of doing business in the US - you have to expect being sued.

  24. Re: .NET is NOT “Open Source” .. on Microsoft Open Sources CoreCLR, the .NET Execution Engine · · Score: -1, Troll

    Okay, it's MIT licensed, and there's a patent promise - which i personally don't trust, but you're welcome to.

    However, what the hell is a "CoreCLR" and how does it help?
    I gave up on .NET back in the 2000s when I scoured MSDN for half a day to find out an overview for someone who wants to learn this "dot net" technology. Couldn't find any. I still don't know what they mean by .NET, and I have a feeling the meaning has changed every 2 years.
    This is just the bytecode execution runtime, right? As in: no GUI libraries, for one - which makes it useless for porting Windows applications to other operating systems since, well, there aren't many command line Windows applications.

    Actually don't bother answering. Honestly, it's been a long while since I cared what Microsoft does. You can make a very decent living as a developer while totally ignoring them.

  25. Re:How many... on Microsoft Open Sources CoreCLR, the .NET Execution Engine · · Score: -1

    Oh, that promise is legally binding? I don't think so. And CEOs change.