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  1. Re:NEWSFLASH is a little out of date. on How 'SimCity' Inspired a Generation of City Planners (latimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Will SimCity let you create a busy street suitable for playing a violent video game such as Frogger?

  2. Re:How the hell did on How 'SimCity' Inspired a Generation of City Planners (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    > You must be one dumb ass urban planner to not know towns, cities, and neighborhoods needed to be "planned."

    True. And the cities they didn't know how to plan speak for themselves.

  3. Re:google lets you learn about butthoals, on Google Tool Lets Any AI App Learn Without Taking All Your Data (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you send the raw sensor data to the mother ship, or are you using federated learning?

  4. Re:Translation on Google Tool Lets Any AI App Learn Without Taking All Your Data (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    The summed up part is one or more matrix of interconnection weights. So the original raw data is no longer present in what is sent to the mother ship. That's the point.

  5. Re:Bender! on Vladimir Putin Wants His Own Internet (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Hookers?

    You must be referring to those bent wire things in the closet that I hang my shirts on?

    One time at this one hotel, I looked in the closet and there were only three hookers in the closet! And I have more than three shirts! So I called the front desk and insisted that they send at least a dozen hookers to my room IMMEDIATELY !!!

  6. Re:I made my own internet in college on Vladimir Putin Wants His Own Internet (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You can get acceptable levels of bandwidth if you are willing to give up latency.

    What is the bandwidth of a cargo plane loaded with 512 GB micro SD cards making an eight hour flight? (but ignore the latency)

  7. Re:France's Minitel is for sale on Vladimir Putin Wants His Own Internet (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Russia may already pwn the current intarwebs, and that may be the very reason they want their very own intarweb tubes -- to protect from retaliation.

  8. Re: In Other Words, Being Distracted... on Listening To Music May Be Damaging Your Creativity (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Choking is a sign of inexperience.

  9. Re:Burn them on Anti-Vaccination Conspiracy Theories Thrive on Amazon (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Anti-Vaccination books would rate very low on the Trump Book Flamability index.

    Climate Change books would score a much higher flammability rating.

  10. The real crime here is that they don't send the password also to a grammar checking service.

  11. Re:This guy should be in prison on Congresswoman Destroys Equifax CEO Mark Begor About Privacy (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    It was Enron, I think, that triggered congress.

    Ever hear of Sarbanes-Oxley?

    Or: Knew or Should Have Known?

    Now you see that in corporations, from the Cxx's on down, they are very careful that financial information they release is truthful.

  12. Re:Let the ISS keep them on Computer Servers 'Stranded' in Space (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If they don't have BASIC in ROM then are they even worth returning to the earth? Let them become new satellites.

  13. Re:This guy should be in prison on Congresswoman Destroys Equifax CEO Mark Begor About Privacy (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The jail time would need to be an option for willful negligence where profit was prioritized over actual data security.

    The point of a financial penalty IS to force them to prioritize correctly. The costs of investing in security will be less than the cost of a breach. That incentive is exactly backwards at present.

    If this is willfully ignored, then the jail time option needs to become available.

  14. Re:This guy should be in prison on Congresswoman Destroys Equifax CEO Mark Begor About Privacy (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The only way to fix this is to make data breaches MUCH more expensive than what it costs to make their systems secure. With a side order of mandatory executive jail time just to be sure.

  15. Re: My computer restarts randomly at night on New Study Shows Windows 10 Home Edition Users Are Baffled By Updates (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    And that's what I mint.

  16. Stop calling it Windows 10 already on New Study Shows Windows 10 Home Edition Users Are Baffled By Updates (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dear Microsoft: start calling Windows OS X.

  17. Re: Elderly don't get Win10 on New Study Shows Windows 10 Home Edition Users Are Baffled By Updates (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Microsoft: your marketing people can tell old people that it's not Windows being confusing, but that they are getting Alzhiemers.

  18. Re: My computer restarts randomly at night on New Study Shows Windows 10 Home Edition Users Are Baffled By Updates (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You must have meant it was installing Windows Updates the whole time?

  19. Re:I thought this was USB-C on USB-IF Confusingly Merges USB 3.0 and USB 3.1 Under New USB 3.2 Branding (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    While USB-C makes sense, there must be a continuous stream of new USB standards in order to sell you more cables, dongles, and adapters.

  20. You must mean senseless animal names for Linux distribution releases such as:

    Choking Chicken
    Dancing Dragon
    Exercising Elephant
    Fondling Ferret
    Genital Gerbil
    Humping Hamster
    Inventive Impala
    Jacking Jackal
    Kinky Kakapo
    Lubricated Lizard
    Masturbating Monkey
    Nerking Neanderthal
    Opening Octopus
    Pounding Peacock
    Quenched Quail
    Rubbing Rabbit
    Scratching Snake
    Teasing Tang
    Unloading Uguisu
    Varnishing Vulture
    Wanking Weasel
    Yanking Yak

  21. Rebranding: why don't they call it 5G?

    Try new USB 5G!

  22. After I hang out with some guys, they already walk differently for up to an hour later.

  23. Re:How about this : on Self-Harm Clips Hidden in Kids' Cartoons (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How could you leave out Facebook which is tearing apart the very fabric of society?

  24. Re:Or you could just get over it on Self-Harm Clips Hidden in Kids' Cartoons (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Q. What kind of music will the next generation of teens listen to?
    A. Whatever seems to be most shocking to the adults.

  25. Re:Pagers are GREAT! on The UK's Health Service Told To Ditch 'Outdated' Pagers (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Getting rid of outdated pagers, such as more. Use a modern pager such as less because it offers many features.that the UK Health Service might find useful. However 'less' is not useful for sending those picts you mention which might be an important bit of information about the patient's health.