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  1. You're still hiding the verdict behind "anyone can do it".

    In question was their non UR intent/design. Every overdressed lens flare of press release, every page of documentation, every leashed puppet word from staff, every fine print on the boilerplate. The original point was about their business strategy, and for all your faith in users it still stands.

    Engine oil is UR, with no respect to the capabilities/preferences of the population. By design. This stands whether 100% or 0% of drivers let the local lube shop deal with it for a few bucks.

    Lots of DoD contracts have (indeed, demand) serviceable products. Some of them are products that "any competent person" can service. Some aren't. But the distinction means fuck-all towards who is allowed to touch the shit. That comes from above, as does Apple's MO.

    Your points aren't wrong, just inapplicable.

  2. After they finish the testing TFS mentions.

    Oh wait.

  3. >iphone batteries are user-replaceable

    You're retreating to an absolute metric.

    If you assume the industry has a spectrum of UR/nonUR, iphone is in the non-UR end. Easily.

    If you assume a binary condition for the market's phones, iphone is non-UR. Easily.

    AKSHUALLY won't change the hard facts above.

  4. Re:Why does every Sci-Fi show & movie have... on Why Is Anime Obsessed With Power Lines? (atlasobscura.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the boob tube knows we won't grasp a sense of urgency from mouth words that require mental effort to attend. They need a visual aid, besides loud noises and shakycam.

  5. Re:Shinichi Morohoshi is a scumbag on The Neon Glow of Tokyo Modified Car Culture (kottke.org) · · Score: 1

    >When you look at those cars rolling down the street, understand that they are financed with the broken lives of a great many people.
    This holds true in most countries.

    The only difference is pretending there's an extra Degree of Kevin Bacon or two, so you can sleep at night.

  6. Yes, I will absolutely take the appearance of that car and photograph or draw it. This includes the LPN, which is a concept that makes me uncomfortable, but the fact is that I publicly broadcast that number when I go out, and I fucking stand by the facts of reality, I don't try to warp laws around them.

    Publicly broadcasted imaginary property
    Privately possessed deprivable property

    Don't fucking conflate the two.

  7. Re:What specific problem did NN try to solve? on FCC Won't Delay Vote, Says Net Neutrality Supporters Are 'Desperate' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    https://imgur.com/qa3Ryyd.png

    I won't be hyperlinking the second post's delivery of [CITATION NEEDED]s one by one, but you seem to have a real keen interest on finding specifics so I'm sure you won't mind looking them up by hand.

  8. I just realized who you are.

    You are the same kids we had 20, 30 years ago on playgrounds, the ones who would say "OH YEAH PROVE IT"

    I'm glad you're all doing well.

  9. Re:A problem that has no easy solution on Prepare for the New Paywall Era (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    * I think imaginary property is an oxymoron; we only pretend that someone owns a mental construct, everywhere in the universe simultaneously forever

    * I think creators should be given money for creating, perhaps even more than now; we like what's on git/s.overflow, sure, and in that vein we give thanks for every "good idea" since the dawn of mankind, they are the heroes of the species, not that anyone's sending royalties to the corpses of ancient greeks.

    Those two can stand next to each other fine in my philosophy. I have no idea how to make them stand next to each other in reality.

  10. Fool! ya'll is slang for "Yes I will"

  11. Re:Benefit to American society? on FCC Chairman Keeps Up Assault on Social Media (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Excessive chambering (echo or not) has meant a shift in culture, shift in visibility, events, coverage, and consequently our priorities, values.

    Don't assume I say those in a social sense. I mean fiscal.

    Example: We sometimes point out that media/journalism has vaguely general effects of increased negativity. Good times aren't drama. Drama sells. Events and significance sell. Deviation from peace.

    People remark that Stranger Things (never seen any) is unrealistic because who lets their kids out that long? Don't you watch CSI? Stranger Danger! But a child is more likely to have a heart attack than be abducted by one (source: Protecting The Gift, Gavin DeBecker). Which is relevant because which one are we fearing? Spending attention and money on? Passing laws?

    The POINT being that perception is born of spotlight. And social media drives perception, drives a reality gap.

    As a race we're not capable of handling that gap intelligently and compensating. Visibility is everything. Kickstarters and Gofundmes are built on being high profile, being palatable. That example isn't a problem - it's a symptom.

  12. commentsubject on Facebook's New Captcha Test: 'Upload A Clear Photo of Your Face' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    "we'll delete the picture"

    Jesus Christ. Son of Josesph and Mary, holy son of God, etc, I am invoking the name of a sacred figure because at least you guys should know that means jack, shit, and diddly fuckall.

    They'll use it to cross-reference the rest of their massive data, validate associate collaborate in ways we can't possibly predict. Cuff Example: Code that makes soft conclusions re: ancestry, marking potential associations by facial data that relate well with genetics.

    They're use it to store everything useful about the picture. They have the picture's data.

    They'll delete the actual jpg. Whoopdeefuckingdoo. It's a waste of space after being scraped, of COURSE they delete it.

  13. Re:There needs to be testing and validation... on This Impenetrable Program Is Transforming How Courts Treat DNA Evidence (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Leveson notes that a lesson to be drawn from the [THERAC-25] incident is to not assume that reused software is safe: "A naive assumption is often made that reusing software or using commercial off-the-shelf software will increase safety because the software will have been exercised extensively. Reusing software modules does not guarantee safety in the new system to which they are transferred..."

    I'm sure Thelasko meant well, we hold faith in science driven by observation, but we're not speculating about string theory, we're declaring that someone did, by this court's finding, commit X and deserves to Y. The declaration is different than musing "we consistently observe Z so protons would be Q." in a report, which doesn't actually assert Q is fact.

  14. Re:profoundly failing to understand justice on This Impenetrable Program Is Transforming How Courts Treat DNA Evidence (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    "Justice" is probably in regard to dispute of "the courts find this blackbox satisfactory"
    as in "the courts find this box sufficient means for achieving their goals"
    as in "the courts find this accomplishes their job"
    as in "the courts find this accomplishes justice"

  15. Re:Calling John C. Randolph (jcr)! We need your in on MacOS High Sierra Bug Allows Login As Root With No Password (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The correct response, as always, is for people to chime in with Mine Works Fine/I've Never Had A Problem posts.

    Seems like a pointless thing to show up and say, but tradition is as tradition does.

    This isn't an apple-exclusive phenomenon, but they are the masters of it.

  16. Re:Watch the timer, step on the train on Apology After Japanese Train Departs 20 Seconds Early (bbc.com) · · Score: 1
  17. Re:I need to go see an eye doctor now on An Inside Look At the First Church of Artificial Intelligence (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    We're nowhere near systems that are even remotely capable of such abstract conclusions as "ego", "respect", "deserved treatment", things which are ultimately built (most everything is) around our coded need for seeking/showing/acquiring mate fitness. It's in our DNA. It's not in theirs. They haven't any.

    Several SMBC jokes are built around this freshman-grade understanding of mate fitness driving nearly/all human activity. I've seen children with better grasps of their own cognition.

    We're not at the stage where AI is (1) at a vantage point (in code scope) that enables it to observe exponentially massive vistas of physical existence and intent (2) has such layer-obfuscated and unknown code that it unexpectedly* has cause to explore said astronomically-wide abstract for no apparent reward/yield (3) has the raw capabilities of observing (to say nothing of computing and concluding) the obscenely wide, distant, and irrelevant mediums needed to recreate these biological impetuses from sheer whismy.

    *fortunately I expect future programmers to be lazy, myopic, and made of copy-pasta from the AI-github and AI-stackover of tomorrow

  18. Re:AI Question Regarding Murder on An Inside Look At the First Church of Artificial Intelligence (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Congratulations on the Get.

    Murder is a human concept, built around our limitations and concerns, like deprivation and scarcity. "How/if these elements apply to computers" is where to begin discussion.

  19. Re:So in other words... on Yelp Ordered To Identify User Accused of Defaming a Tax Preparer (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Courts aren't much concerned with degree of viewer belief or gullibility.

    Courts are very concerned with factual claims and objective assertions, in this case whether yes/no the "advisor" actually made that divisive and consequential statement.

    Courts aren't supposed to be concerned with personal opinions and namecalling, but our justice system is the best money can buy.

  20. the comment subject is comment subject on Thirty Countries Use 'Armies of Opinion Shapers' To Manipulate Democracy (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't specify a 50 cents club per se, but https://xkcd.com/1019/ was the same idea.

  21. That's pretty much what their support would happily tell you, yes.

  22. Re: 2016 MacBook Pro! on Ask Slashdot: Which Laptop Has The Best Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    I wonder if that's why they renamed their backspace. Anyway, fn+backspace will work as a delete. If you don't have an fn key, I'm sure apple had a great reason for taking that away too.

    fn+up/down sometimes works as pgup/down. Sometimes.

    Neither of these negate the need for a dedicated key. I don't press alt+ctrl+right when I want an enter key.

  23. Re:Very sad on The Booming Japanese Rent-a-Friend Business (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I finally came back to RTFA.

    Most posts here (including some in this thread tree) keep talking about prostitutes and escorts. Which isn't unreasonable given TFS.

    But TFA goes further. It's surreal. This sort of acting, of... reality orchestration, is the kind of shit reserved for fiction. The Truman Show. It's unexpectedly similar to Dollhouse, if you've seen it:

    [regarding a 60-year-old man whose wife died]
    Morin: "Did she have the same memories as the wife?"
    Yuichi: "There are certain memories, yes. There’s a blank sheet, and the client writes the memories that he wants the wife to remember."

    This is the stuff of fantasy, Hollywood CIA professionals who replace people (could be friend, could be foe) with a trained lookalike. If you told me such a business existed, I'd mock the sheer practicality of it (many posts have) but it turns out people will take what's available. Limited durations (not if the money keeps flowing) or capabilities aren't a problem for some scenarios. Give TFA a read, people. I can see how various "apology" actors would be useful.

  24. Re:Hm.. on The Booming Japanese Rent-a-Friend Business (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    WTS facetweet followers, bulk rates only. Ask about our app/yelp/amazon review factory! Great for parties!

  25. Re:All teary-eyed for them. on Indian Capital Declares Emergency as Toxic Smog Thickens By the Hour (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    la la la can't hear you from inside my bubble and hand-drawn worldview