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  1. Re:It's an answer to a question.. on Mysterious Star Pulses May Be Alien Signals, Study Claims (iop.org) · · Score: 1

    I have my towel.

  2. Re:Phrasing! Click bait headline. on Google's 'Project Zero' Hid A Major Vulnerability in Apple's OS and iOS Cores (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    100% this. The threat to release an exploit is to get the vendor moving towards a fix. When apple did actually work on a fix, Google did the right thing and kept it mum. If it had been caught in the wild as a 0-day then it would have been responsible to release, but not before.

  3. Re:Shut up, indeed. on Google's AI Created Its Own Form of Encryption (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Are you capable of reading the dictionary?

    Full Definition of artificial intelligence 1: a branch of computer science dealing with the simulation of intelligent behavior in computers 2: the capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior

    See? AI is imitation. "TRUE" AI is just imitation. That's all it needs to be to qualify as "AI."

    We have true AI. Today. And it gets better every day. You post your stupid "this isn't AI" comment with every single story about it, and you are dead wrong every single time. I predict that in every future article about AI, you will post the same inane comment, and you will be wrong then, too.

    +1. Once it is no longer imitation we should drop the A from AI. At that point it is just intelligence.

  4. And the crowd goes mild.

  5. Re:We can date the jump into the U.S. in about 197 on New Study Shows HIV Epidemic Started Spreading In New York In 1970, Clears the Name of 'Patient Zero' (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    To judge the medical community of the early 1980s by the standards of the 21st century is absurd.

    But...but.. it's so fun to have illogical hatreds!

  6. Indeed. The 'web' is an application that runs on top of the internet, which pre-existed by a long margin. As such the internet is likely to remain in some form, even when the web is gone for some flashy new app/VR/brain link whatever.

  7. Yet more secret, carte blanche "warrants". Our founding fathers would be so proud.

  8. Re:So pat yourselves on the back on Journalist Cleared of Riot Charges in South Dakota (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Look at the name. I'd wager it's not a chip. Rather he's full of piss and vinegar.

  9. If you like this stuff on Super Mario 'Speed Runners' Are Setting New World Records (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    or if not... Check out this guy playing tetris. At the end the pieces are invisible when they drop in. Crazy stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  10. You can get Google Apps email fro 5 a month. /sarcasm

  11. Re:Thank but no thank you on Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban On Personally Identifiable Web Tracking (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    Step one is useless. Whether you use an IMAP client or not, if its a google account, all inbound and outbound messages touch their servers, with id and authentication information. I use Gmail, but if you consider your data precious, using a mail client buys you no protection from the provider snooping. The only thing that can protect you is encryption or rolling your own server.

  12. Re:AI is not real thinking on Stephen Hawking: AI Will Be Either the Best or the Worst Thing To Humanity (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Would you say a dog is not intelligent? A dog can't fool a human in to thinki g the dog is human. The turing test is a test of AI, I'd does not test for all intelligence.

  13. Re:Well, there goes the 4th Amendment again... on It's Entirely Reasonable For Police To Swipe a Suspicious Gift Card, Says Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    1 and 2. With a dash of 3. Any one of those in isolation is not enough, but the three together, all determined by standard observation are enough for PC. PC then allows you to determine 4.

  14. Re:Well, there goes the 4th Amendment again... on It's Entirely Reasonable For Police To Swipe a Suspicious Gift Card, Says Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
    You won't hear much argument from me here. Modern capitalism is all about socializing the expenses while privatizing the profits. Just one more way to maximize the bottom line, and I do not agree with it in principle.

    Regardless the fact remains, that with the system in place now, they were guilty of a crime and there was certainly reason for suspicion that they were.

  15. Re:Well, there goes the 4th Amendment again... on It's Entirely Reasonable For Police To Swipe a Suspicious Gift Card, Says Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I am normally for extensive curtailing of search and aggressive interpretation of 4th amendment rights. But I do not see the problem here.

    In case you do not know the scam, you go buy low value gift cards and empty them. You then imprint them with the card data from stolen gift cards of the same brand. The scratch off pin is supposed to help prevent this but does not. The stolen numbers may come from skimmers or data breaches. Now you can spend the stolen numbers.

    In this situation, there was enough suspicion for probable cause to confiscate the cards. If the evidence is collected properly with PC or warrant, then it matters little if the officer can scan them or not. If he cannot complete an investigation on the materials with the tools at hand they will be sent for further analysis. This is no different than a white powder or green leafy substance on the dash. Maybe it is spilled and dried lettuce from a taco bell taco, maybe not (don't take that the wrong way, I think pot should be legal). However the same rules apply for any suspected illegal item that is confiscated legally.

  16. Re:banned now, required later on More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I have been to many venues that will take your card, open a tab and issue a venue card they can scan for additional purchases. This keeps the tab open and keeps the employees at different locations from having to look up your tab/find your card.

  17. Re:Net neutrality be damned, I guess. on Google To Divide Its Index, Giving Mobile Users Better and Fresher Content (searchengineland.com) · · Score: 1
    How does this have anything to do with net neutrality? NN is about treating packets the same, not search results. A company providing search results is under no obligation to fairly treat search results, as is evidenced by promoted results appearing above actual results.

    The option here is to go to another search provider if you do not like it. With NN, the object is to protect network users from their traffic being deprioritized in ways they cannot control.

  18. Hey Nutrimatic drinks are not all bad. Did you remember your towel?

  19. Re:What part of this is hard to understand? on Dutch Net Neutrality Law Goes Too Far Say Critics (telegeography.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Vote with my feet? Okay. I will leave comcast and their data caps and shitty customer service. I will walk over to CenturyLink DSL and get terrible speeds, shitty services, and probably data caps.

    Or maybe I should vote with my feet and drop them all, set up some sort of packet radio link or use smoke signals.

    Better yet, I will build my own network, it will be perfect, with cocaine and hookers, except the cost barriers and local regulation barriers are so high as to be impassable.

    Tell me kind sir, how the fuck am I supposed to vote with my feet?

  20. I can't believe this complaint. One, I advocated for a screen and API. I would prefer it to be open, but android auto was held up as an example because it exists now.

    If someone needs to borrow the car and does not have an Android or even a phone to link to the display, so what. They just do not get to use that feature. The could get a dock and use their phone without the in car link, or for longer trips arrangements could be made.

    There is no real problem here except one you are creating. The real question is, what agenda are you following to push a straw man argument like that.

  21. These systems are built quickly, poorly maintained and the engineers have little UI experience. Then they are sold at a huge premium in the higher trim options for the car. Something like Android auto is better. Just give a touch screen and api that we can pipe apps to. Then you can use the app you are familiar with and have regular updates or switch to a new one if that stops being suitable.

    Just about anyone who owns a car will own at least one smartphone, so it is wasteful in the extreme both in dev hours and materials to duplicate this functionality poorly. Take it out and give users the option to roll their own solution with Waze/Garmin/Whatever.

  22. Re:3+ miles for me! on Pokemon Go Could Add 2.83 Million Years To Users' Lives, Says Study (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Might result in this: http://static.fjcdn.com/pictur...

  23. I have the N6 and have 7.0. I got it OTA, but if you don't want to wait get WUG nexus root toolkit. Unlock your bootloader and install the official ROM. It is really easy.

  24. I am old, and one of the geeks that has been building networks and connecting people to the internet since the 94. Can you tell me again what DARPA stands for? Speak up sonny.