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  1. Re:Tight margins, huh? on Vizio Wants Next-Generation Smart TVs To Target Ads To Households (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, there's also the problem of audio: DVI wasn't designed to carry audio signals, and the only way to get it to work is to converts from DVI to HDMI while relying on a non-standard configuration that some video card manufactures use for this purpose.

  2. Re:Not worth it at free on Locast, a Free App Streaming Network TV, Would Love to Get Sued (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree. Years of using on-demand streaming services has spoiled my appetite for scheduled, commercial-laden television.

  3. Re:FYI: Users are not anonymous on Locast, a Free App Streaming Network TV, Would Love to Get Sued (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    At least on the PC, it doesn't appear to be doing anything to filter IP addresses. It seems to just be using the HTTP geo-location response; I spoofed my location as in New York, and it quite obligingly connected me to 15 different broadcasts.

  4. Re:$5 on The Magic Leap Con (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    ...FISH!

  5. Re:$5 on The Magic Leap Con (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    FISH!

  6. You may have a hard time believing it, but it's generally believed to be true.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  7. Re:WaPo = Fake News on Fake News 'Crowding Out' Real News (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    So ABC was the one reporting that Manifort pled guilty to manslaughter, and the Washington Post was just reporting on the fact that ABC had made a mistake in doing so? Uh-huh.

  8. Except they state: "Edge providers would not be allowed to impose "take-it-or-leave-it" offers that require customers to consent in order to use the service."

  9. Re:Great! on Trump Administration Cracks Down On H-1B Visa Abuse (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends. Places that pay 15$/hr think so. McDonald's thinks so. A lot of businesses think so. Some employers don't, though; some care very much about getting the right employees, and don't believe they can be easily replaced.

    My wife is a Federal employee now, and her workplace is having an awful time keeping people, because their contract supports the "fungibility" of the employees; they can apply for a transfer to anywhere in Canada shortly after starting work. So, the new local shop needs hundreds of employees really fast (a payroll center serving the entire country got opened up here), and people from all over Canada applied for the positions, then, when they GET the position, they immediately ask to transfer back home, which they get because workers already in the system get preference over hiring someone from outside the system. The end result is they can't keep people here, so they had to start offering limited employment contracts instead of immediately offering permanent positions.

  10. Re:But other recent studies... on Antarctica Is Losing Ice Faster Every Year (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I trust the IPCC, but I also trust NASA. Now, I am completely confused. Has the NASA study been discredited? If not, wtf is going on.

  11. Partly? Some quick research shows that many phones DO have neural-network code running on them, sometimes for passive auto-focus (active auto-focus, the type that uses range-finding sensors, does not seem to be very common on smartphones). Apple and Huawei actively advertise the use of NN tech in their phones, but not necessarily for auto-focus (face recognition and image enhancement seem to be what they are selling). The dedicated chip part is usually referred to as the ISP, or Image Signal Processor, a dedicated DSP chip that can run NN code. There's lots of papers out there that explain the NN tech with regards to smartphones, going back a couple of decades. So it seems like SOME phones do this, but not all.

  12. That could make it practical to run neural networks locally on smartphones

    I thought EVERY smartphone had a neural network chip in it already: that's how modern auto-focus works, unless I was misinformed.

  13. Re:as reported by the British Reuters on Tech Firms Let Russia Probe Software Widely Used by US Government (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    we should take in the stride as we take other US corporations

    Can you explain what you mean by that? I'm familiar with the expression "take in stride", but I'm totally lost on what you are trying to express. What are we taking in stride? What about other U.S. corporations do we take in stride? Are you referring to their inspection of software? And what does Reuters being British have to do with the report? Actually, Reuters isn't British: the headquarters are in the U.K., but Reuters is a division of the Toronto-based Canadian media company Thomson Reuters, so it's actually Canadian.

  14. Re: Damn! on The Doomsday Clock Just Ticked Closer To Midnight (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    'Bout that time, eh chaps?

  15. Re:as reported by the British Reuters on Tech Firms Let Russia Probe Software Widely Used by US Government (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Genuinely interested, not trying to be a jerk or anything, just want to know: your point is ...?

  16. Re:Paradox of intelligence on Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    High IQs are a disqualification for autism.

    You sure about that?
    Try googling "can autistic people have high IQ?" and reading a bunch of the links.
    Here's one paper on the subject to get you started: it's nuanced, but it claims something different than what you do:
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

  17. Re:EDM? Maybe 15 years ago on Is Pop Music Becoming Louder, Simpler and More Repetitive? (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected. I remember hearing this story that Alex was ruining some of their later albums by mixing them too hot, but I can't find anything about it online, so it was probably just an unfounded rumor. Vapor Trails was a mess, but I can't find anything that says Alex did the mix on it.

  18. Re: Designed for the Left on Is Pop Music Becoming Louder, Simpler and More Repetitive? (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Oooo, sign me up for radical centrism! I like your brochure.

  19. Re:EDM? Maybe 15 years ago on Is Pop Music Becoming Louder, Simpler and More Repetitive? (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Yup. They let the (deaf) guitarist mix the albums. The result was a sound so compressed that Neil's cymbals sounded like static.

  20. I' m not British, BTW, I'm Canadian.
    http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/1...

  21. And yet our crime rates, murder rates, gun death rates are all so low compared to yours. I wonder why?

  22. Re:PLATO I Hardly Knew Ye on A Book Recommendation for Bill Gates: The Story of PLATO · · Score: 1

    I'll counter with some proof: a local high school identified the most "at-risk" students it had, mostly by attendance records. It then took the worst of the worst and put them in a special class. They had one instructor, who made them a deal: if they spent the mornings on self-paced learning modules in PLATO,, he'd teach them how to make video games in the afternoons (and allow them to PLAY video games as well). The end result? That class went from the MOST at-risk to the LEAST at-risk in one year. The self-paced PLATO modules, while ancient and clunky, freed the students from the strictures of having to follow along with a set curriculum at a set pace, and that was what these students needed to succeed.

    That's fucking success.

  23. Is the McAfee signed by him, or his hooker, or his accountant? I'm still looking for one with the accountant's signature, but can trade you a foil "hooker-signed" for it.

  24. THIS is the real reason they set it up like that. I just refuse to play all the new games that feature crappy game mechanics that are intentionally "broken" so as to increase grind if you don't wish to spend oodles of extra cash on gambling or just outright purchasing powers/boosts/items etc. Looking forward to Monster Hunter World with 0 lootboxes and all free DLC.

  25. Re:Thanks, Phish fans on Thank You, Phish Fans, For Caring About Net Neutrality (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    EXACTLY!
    With net neutrality, the little guys and startups can try to compete with the big boys. Without it, they will never be able to get in the game.