What happened to that Singularity we were promised by now...?
I didn't promise anyone a singularity. Did you?
Sure, it'd be nice if it came along before I shuffle off, but right now life's too short to keep getting annoyed because you think you're entitled to stuff from sci-fi.
Javascript posting/expanding is coming, apparently. Personally I wouldn't have gone live without it in place (with fallbacks, obviously). It's not like it's hard to implement.
And +1 to your post, as I've had exactly the same experience (when GreaseMonkey has failed to remove the elements completely, that is), and I rather suspect that was the idea. "See?" says Google, showing the EU commission a CRT screen with a page of search results on it. "The ads are obvious!"
but one of its products has been making bogus data-driven predictions. A study of Google's much-hyped flu tracker has consistently overestimated flu cases in the US for years.
the metadata has no names or content. Who is contacting all these people?
Call 100 of these source numbers at random, and ask "Hey, who's that?" [reply] "[reply] who?"
You'd probably get plenty of hits, and that's without any fancy-schmancy social engineering. And since you know the numbers they're calling, that would be a lot easier too. "Hey, it's the abortion clinic again, just need to confirm a couple of things with you..."
Yes. He'd certainly find it a lot easier than if they'd cut his knackers off. Chemical castration reduces libido but does not, as far as I can ascertain, impair actual fertility. And it's reversible.
Slashdot Mirror
What happened to that Singularity we were promised by now...?
I didn't promise anyone a singularity. Did you?
Sure, it'd be nice if it came along before I shuffle off, but right now life's too short to keep getting annoyed because you think you're entitled to stuff from sci-fi.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
. o O ( Huh? What does that mean? Better say something smart so no-one thinks I'm dumb )
Takes one to know one!
Only a fool would take what he reads for granted. Especially in a two-thousand-year-old book, but especially in a Slashdot post.
Metro!=Windows 8
Javascript posting/expanding is coming, apparently. Personally I wouldn't have gone live without it in place (with fallbacks, obviously). It's not like it's hard to implement.
If person A doesn't vaccinate and that kills person B's 6 month old baby, how is that evolution in action?
It is in the sense that I was deliberately assuming a grossly over-simplified model of epidemiology for comedy purposes.
But is it made of chemicals?
How do you think we can get through to the anti-vaxxers?
Let nature take its course. Evolution in action.
make the ads more discernible from the search results?
Which, as far as I can tell, is what they've done. This looks more obvious than the off-white box, to me. YMMV.
And +1 to your post, as I've had exactly the same experience (when GreaseMonkey has failed to remove the elements completely, that is), and I rather suspect that was the idea. "See?" says Google, showing the EU commission a CRT screen with a page of search results on it. "The ads are obvious!"
This, at least, looks better to me than the ever-so-pale-background box, which I can barely see unless I'm looking at my screen from an angle.
Not that I ever see it anyway now, thanks to GreaseMonkey.
Wednesday the geeky cartoonist behind XKCD
I thought his name was Randall.
Oh my god, it's you! Hey everyone, it's the guy whose opinion is also objectively true!
I've got a list of questions I've been saving for you, now where did I put it...
If the engines ran for 4-5 hours and they flew in a straight line
I think you missed that bit.
but one of its products has been making bogus data-driven predictions. A study of Google's much-hyped flu tracker has consistently overestimated flu cases in the US for years.
Bogus? Are you sure they weren't just... wrong?
It's a prediction.
the metadata has no names or content. Who is contacting all these people?
Call 100 of these source numbers at random, and ask "Hey, who's that?" [reply] "[reply] who?"
You'd probably get plenty of hits, and that's without any fancy-schmancy social engineering. And since you know the numbers they're calling, that would be a lot easier too. "Hey, it's the abortion clinic again, just need to confirm a couple of things with you..."
Replicant OS Developers Find Backdoor In Samsung Galaxy Devices
Replicant Hackers Find and Close Samsung Galaxy Back-door
Totally different story.
Caveat: self-identifying audiophile here
192kHz audio [...] is just a waste of space.
No true audiophile would admit to such heresy!
Wouldn't that be "grosstete"?
Implying that he could still father a child?
Yes. He'd certainly find it a lot easier than if they'd cut his knackers off. Chemical castration reduces libido but does not, as far as I can ascertain, impair actual fertility. And it's reversible.
Chemically, not surgically.
Is there nothing he couldn't do?
until its been posted on some blog somewhere first...
No, that would be ridiculous. It has to be posted on one blog and linked to from another blog.
And get off my lawn!
Vacate my grass-encoated outer-building frontage!