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  1. Re:Time's up, rat... apk on Malicious Apps Get Back on the Play Store Just by Changing Their Name (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    A butthurt RAT has been impersonating me for MONTHS and it's PISSING me off. It's infuriating to see an anonymous UNIDENTIFIABLE TROLL pretending to be me on a daily basis and it needs to STOP.

    I don't see any impersonation here. Anonymous Coward posts anonymously.

    Anyhow, if you don't like seeing that, can't you just block her with an adblocker that allows blocking a div element of class commentBody that contains both bold tags and "APK"?

  2. Re:But damn, our CLIMATE models are PERFECT!!! on Supercomputers Are Driving a Revolution In Hurricane Forecasting (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I assume you either get paid to do this, or you simply can't be bothered to read up on the results from even a single model.

    It could be both.

    Every model has a fairly large range, but - just like the hurricane predictions - that range has narrowed with time.

    Our ability to correlate more data points has also increased with time, but there are diminishing returns - you certainly don't get twice as accurate with twice as much data crunched at the same time.

  3. That isn't what the term "AI" means.

    It's exactly what it means - Artificial Intelligence has buggerall to do with iterating rules to reach a result.

    How the phrase AI is used these days is a different matter, with it being flung around for any complicated or apparently complicated computer task. Hollywood movies and Murdoch era "journalists" must take much of the blame.

  4. Re:Self-importance alert. on Should Calls From Google's 'Duplex' System Include Initial Warning Announcements? (vortex.com) · · Score: 2

    And I don't. Seeing as we're both not Google, our opinions on this topic are pretty much moot.

    Not so. You have wallets, that Google truly needs you to open for its customers, so they in turn will shower Google with green.
    That's a power right there.
    Alienating a large portion of your potential customer base is generally not good business.

  5. Re:I like the way Dagens Naeringsliv thinks on Jay-Z's Tidal Accused of Faking Kanye West, Beyonce Streaming Numbers (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I can see why Tidal would argue this as one of their competitors on "HiRes" streaming and music is the Norwegian 2L.

    What does that have to do with the independent newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv? There's no incentive for DN to favour either service. If anything, it would be even more of a scoop for them if they could dig dirt on a Norwegian service.

  6. Re:Long term: Bad for the web on Firefox Moves Browsers Into Post-Password Future With WebAuthn Tech (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that "something you know" makes a reasonable assurance of intent to authorize. "Something you have" or "someone you are" does not, and opens up for abuse, perhaps especially from those in power.

  7. Re:Notepad++ ? on Windows Notepad Finally Supports Unix, Mac OS Line Endings (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    And yet this is a godsend

    Is it, though? I think it is worse than nothing.
    The problem is that it will now read LF, but any new line you put into the text will still have a CR+LF.
    So earlier, when you opened a Unix style text file in Notepad, you would notice that it was LF-based because everything was on one line. So you would open it with Wordpad or something else instead.
    Now, on the other hand, you will open it, see nothing amiss, modify it, and save it, and because the new lines you made will have CR+LF, it may break the system that then reads it that expects LF separation throughout the document.

    That's worse than nothing in my opinion. A typical Microsoft "solution".

  8. Well it sucks for law enforcement to be restricted from accessing the phones of criminals

    The police are not judges. They are suspects, not criminals. Many of which may be found not guilty, in which case they are innocents, not criminals.

  9. Re:As long as I can disable it... on iOS 11.4 Disables Lightning Connector After 7 Days, Limiting Law Enforcement Access (macrumors.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As long as I can disable it...

    Just like I disabled TouchID and the passcode. I just want easy access.

    I want the opposite - I want to be able to configure those 7 days down to six hours. Or however long I want.
    So yes, this should be a user decision, not a hardcoded value pulled out of some Apple guy's derriere.

  10. Re:Skynet on White House To Host Tech Giants For AI Meeting (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    A Man should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
    -- Lazarus Long (Robert A. Heinlein, "Time enough for Love")

  11. Re:The Best Minds of our Generation... on Uber Shows Its Flying Car Prototype (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Even cars in general were the same at one point and now almost everyone in the country has one. Of the working population, only 3.4% households do not have a vehicle [transportation.org] and we're moving towards the point where about half of households have more vehicles than people in the household that are working.

    This is a cultural problem. In many countries, including those higher ranked for wealth per capita, or with a lower population density, the reliance on personal vehicles is much lower. People walk, bike and use public transportation, and rent cars for the few times they need it. If well off, you may still own a car, but rarely use it.

  12. Re:Wrong Focus on Uber Shows Its Flying Car Prototype (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    People keep shooting for complete automation when all that's needed really (in flight) is a system that will reliably get you off the ground, back on the ground and hold a course while staying in communication with ATC if necessary and avoid other aircraft and controlled airspace.

    They all get you back on the ground. I'd add a requirement that it can get you back on the ground without damage.

  13. Re:The Success of the Nigerian Scam on Nigerian Email Scammers Are More Effective Than Ever (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    These scams don't primarily target the desperate, but the greedy.
    Some people are both, but rich greedy folks fall for scams all the time.

  14. Re:It is a form of taxation. on Nigerian Email Scammers Are More Effective Than Ever (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    If a return was the only point of gambling, you'd be correct.
    However, people pay for the thrill of gambling.

    You lose money if you go on a rollercoaster ride too, but still some people do it, for the thrill. Others find it a waste of money, but who are they to judge how others choose to spend theirs?

  15. Re:Don't answer it? on Robocalls, and Their Scams, Are Surging (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That said, I do feel sorry for people who still, for some reason, have a landline.

    When we had a two week local power outage, I was very glad I had a landline.

  16. Re:Scanning a ticket is never the slowdown on Ticketmaster Hopes To Speed Up Event Access By Scanning Your Face (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    So? How does that affect Ticketmaster? Why would they invest millions of dollars to prevent it?

    To quell the competition. Ticketmaster depends on reselling tickets at inflated prices too, and don't want a fair playing field.

    There is a fairer system, and it's called "payment at the gate".

  17. Cause of death? on 'Biohacker' Who Injected Himself With DIY Herpes Treatment Found Dead (livescience.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    In a sensory deprivation tank, nobody can hear you scream...

  18. Re:It would be a wonderful world on 60-Year-Old Maths Problem Partly Solved By Amateur (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    The British often linguistically treat "mathematics" as though were the plural of some noun "mathematic". But the -s is the nominative -s.

    Yes, as you say mathematics, like pyrotechnics, the s is an integral part of the noun, and not a plural. It comes from Greek -ikos.

    Exceptions exist, like "music" which perhaps should have been musics (from mousikos), given that the (once synonymous) technikos became technics.
    On the other hand there is "chiropractic", where the name is as made up as the practice, and it doesn't have an s at the end.

  19. I think outreach is a good thing. I don't see how actively encouraging diversity is a bad thing.

    I don't see how encouraging can be conflated with enforcing.

    At the end of the day, it's the good ideas and execution of them as in writing top code that matters for LLVM. That can be done while encouraging diversity, but it needs to be encouraging, as in being a boon for everyone, not by making it easier for some by making it harder for others.

  20. Re:inb4 on Hawaii To Ban Certain Sunscreens To Protect Coral Reefs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    There are options of protecting oneself that do not involve those chemicals.

    Remember that we're talking about high SPF products here, and skin types prone to skin cancer, but prone to sweating. Products that have a high sun protection factor, survive sweating and only use FDA-approved chemicals are hard to find.
    There's clothing, but unfortunately, much of beach and swimwear is also made of materials or dyes that harm marine life, and most only gives partial coverage.
    Personal / family transparent UV domes, perhaps?

  21. You must be easily impressed. Any 2 year old can discern a car from a fish with 100% reliability. Computers can't.

    Given how people tag photos, I'd say that many grown-ups can't either. And I think this is the big flaw with the system; it lets just everyone tag.
    So you get dolphins tagged as "fish", raspberries tagged as "cannabis", computer cases tagged as "hard drive" and "cpu", and the flag of Ireland tagged as "Italy".
    Unless you pay good people a good salary to do a good job, you'll get crap results. Because, quite frankly, there are an awful lot of well-meaning ignoramuses out there.

  22. Interchange on Scientists Confirmed a New DNA Structure Inside Human Cells (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    - Hey, little piece of DNA, can you tell us what you're for?
    - I'm a frayed knot...

  23. Wake me up when someone publishes something that's guaranteed not to crash Windows...

  24. Re:And phone books? on Will GDPR Kill WHOIS? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You already have a right to not be listed in the phone book.
    What probably will change is that phone companies no longer can charge extra for this, and other 3rd party phone book providers (most of which are scammers) will have a much harder time operating.

  25. Re:Weird on You Could Be Flirting On Dating Apps With Paid Impersonators (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    English needs a simple transitive verb for this. Of course we have "fuck" but that can't be used in polite company, and is often perceived as derogatory. "I fucked your sister last night" sounds offensive even when said by her husband.

    There's copulate and fornicate, but they are bound to get you even stranger looks. Depending on where you are, "shag" might be a less loaded word than "fuck" and "screw".
    Then there's just "do", but it makes it sound like a chore.