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  1. Re:Huh? on Deep Learning Is Eating Software (petewarden.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the AI optimised the sentence by removing the repeated "how"
    Maybe it's learnt that subtly changing the sentence in the summary leads to more clicks, as readers who notice it click on the link to see if the error is just in the summary, or the article as well.

    Or it was just written by someone with English as a second language
    Or someone who isn't very bright.
    Or it was a simple mistake.

  2. Re:Defective by obscurity on 10-Year-Old Boy Cracks the Face ID On Both Parents' IPhone X (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Jokes on them, I'm wearing pants!

  3. They'll just link the separate cookies together with ETags. Unless you're also going to have a separate file cache for each domain too.... not a bad idea actually.

  4. Re:Lock and unlock on 10-Year-Old Boy Cracks the Face ID On Both Parents' IPhone X (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    But it also lets you do better Snapchat masks and animated emojis

  5. Re:Scary on 10-Year-Old Boy Cracks the Face ID On Both Parents' IPhone X (wired.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It also gives your child full access to your ApplePay account. which by default only requires FaceID to authenticate.

  6. Re:Defective by obscurity on 10-Year-Old Boy Cracks the Face ID On Both Parents' IPhone X (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep.
    Security by obscurity -> defective.

    >> "the iPhone X was confused by the indoor/nighttime lighting"
    Security by obscurity. Told you so.

    and they advertised it works perfectly fine in the dark, as your face is illuminated by 30,000 infrared dots from the true depth camera.

  7. Re: So it's defective by design then? on 10-Year-Old Boy Cracks the Face ID On Both Parents' IPhone X (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    ... he looks like his parents, but he can unlock both their phones, and they apparently can't unlock each others phones so they don't look like each other. But their 13 year old son looks like both of them.

  8. Re:So they live longer because... on First Ever Anti-Aging Gene Discovered In a Secluded Amish Community (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's because they never wear buttons but they've got cool hats and their homies agree they really look good in black.

  9. Re:It also gives you an aversion to tech on First Ever Anti-Aging Gene Discovered In a Secluded Amish Community (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Didn't turn out so well for Joffrey

  10. Re:Um diet? on First Ever Anti-Aging Gene Discovered In a Secluded Amish Community (newsweek.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you lived in a tribe in Africa thousands of years ago, you'd be thankful for the "elderly" looking after your kids so you can go out an gather food or hunt for it.
    Once past your prime there are still ways to contribute to the survival of your species, if you live in a society.

  11. Re:Meanwhile in New Zealand on Apology After Japanese Train Departs 20 Seconds Early (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Commuter trains. It's how 30,000 people get in an out of Wellington city every day, nearly 10% of the regions population.
    Those 30,000 people either worked from home yesterday or added to the traffic that has to crawl down 3 lanes of motorway.

    Thanks a lot Transdev.

  12. Re:Not very realistic for transportation on China Builds World's Fastest Hypersonic Wind Tunnel To Simulate Flight At 27,000 MPH (scmp.com) · · Score: 2

    If you have a projectile going at mach 30, you don't need a warhead to destroy a warship. You just need to hit it.
    Every kilogram of mass in the projectile carries the energy of 0.017 kilotons at 12 kilometres per second.
    You'd need only 820kg to match the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

  13. Meanwhile in New Zealand on Apology After Japanese Train Departs 20 Seconds Early (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    No trains were running in the capital yesterday due to industrial action. The French and Korean companies that run them have been trying to claw back conditions from employment agreements they agreed to when they won the operating contract, so the workers went on strike after 6 months of failed negotiations.

  14. Re:Maybe they should hack a dictionary.com ... on Russia Posts Video Game Screenshot As 'Irrefutable Proof' of US Helping IS (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    they speak Russian, those are English words. I'm not surprised.

  15. Re:Indian App on UC Browser Mobile App Disappears From Google Play Store (medianama.com) · · Score: 1

    Alibaba is Chinese, not Indian

  16. Re:Uh huh on Tesla Is a 'Hotbed For Racist Behavior,' Worker Claims In Lawsuit (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    or 2.5) The complainant is partially accurate and the problem wasn't as widespread as they implied, and Tesla has already dealt with it but the complainant wants money.

    see sexconker's reply for an answer to you thinking I'm implying an alleged conspiracy.

  17. That doesn't appear to be a very damning email.

    Next thing you'll be saying is "anything less that execution of the highest management of the company is unacceptable!"

  18. Witnesses he is trying to include in the settlement money payout. That doesn't make for an unbiased statement.

    seeking permission from a judge to sue on behalf of the group

    All members of the group stand to gain financially.

  19. Not necessarily IOT, they're just bluetooth enabled, not internet connected.

  20. or they are, and they're betting Uber doesn't want to cut any of its revenue.
    the worst thing that will happen is Uber makes some changes to make it harder for them to rip people off.

  21. the Chumby software is all open-source, you could always modify it yourself.

  22. Chrome consistently fails to work for me when I have no internet connection
    Firefox isn't any better either.
    I even tried Internet Explorer and Edge.

    None of the web browsers I tried worked without an internet connection! I think there's some collusion going on in the industry. Maybe I should start an antitrust lawsuit.

  23. can't "big data Uber" figure this out, claw back the payments, fire the drivers and refund the customers?

    oh wait.. they'll lose their cut of the profits too.

  24. Re:So I don't get to write the program that I want on Google To Kill a Bunch of Useful Android Apps That Rely On Accessibility Services (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 2

    They're not stopping you doing anything with your own device. You can load any app you wish without the Play Store.
    They're stopping apps using accessibility services for the wrong purpose. They've been criticised for the security issues related to these API's in the past.

    No Android device stops you side-loading apps.

  25. Re:my experience with linux on Linux 4.14 Has Been Released (kernelnewbies.org) · · Score: 1

    I should have noticed "gcc 3.1"