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  1. Re:Who needs Sony? on Sony Cracks Down On Sexually Explicit Content In Games (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    a decent gaming PC that will blow it out of the water.

    You keep your playstation in the water?

  2. Re:All I see here on Is Amazon's AWS Approaching 'War' for Control of Elasticsearch? (datanami.com) · · Score: 1

    And were those interests your own also, coolguy?

    What's that got to do with it? The code is there, and it doesn't care one way or the other about the interests that created it.

  3. Re:Climate change on California Declared Totally Drought Free For First Time in Seven Years · · Score: 1

    I've been told wet weather is a sign of climate change. Two years ago, drought was a sign of climate change.

    What you've "been told", in general, is not a solid foundation for reasoning. People say all sorts of things.

  4. Re:Benefits of a in-house app without being one on Apple Says Spotify Wants 'the Benefits of a Free App Without Being Free' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know what the breakdown is, but surely there are more users of spotify's free, ad-based service than there are subscribers. Maybe by a lot. So Spotify pays 30% for some small slice of users, 15% for a somewhat larger slice, and 0% for everybody else. They're just taking a shot at getting more money. There's no downside to trying. If it doesn't work then nothing changes. They're freerolling.

  5. Re:Benefits of a in-house app without being one on Apple Says Spotify Wants 'the Benefits of a Free App Without Being Free' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    While I think Apple's 30% tax is extortionate

    It's 30% for the first year of a subscription, then 15%. Spotify is not paying anywhere near 30%.

  6. Re: Apple music should pay the 30% fee on Apple Says Spotify Wants 'the Benefits of a Free App Without Being Free' (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Are we just going to pretend nothing happened in Christchurch?

    Do you do that in real life too? Just run up to people in a conversation and tell them to stop talking about what they want to talk about and start talking about what you want to talk about?

  7. Ok, how can a robot object to anything?

    And if it could, why would the objections be measured in units of its weight?

  8. My sound waves do travel up. That's why I have to talk down to people.

  9. Re:Morton's Fork on YouTube Videos Could Get Demonetized If They Have 'Inappropriate Comments' · · Score: 1

    The catch, be-all end-all, is that this is just youtube trying to solve things with algorithms instead of people

    I think it's the other way around. They want people to do it, but by "people" they mean the poster of the video, not somebody they have to pay a salary.

  10. Re: Of course Brin & company will... on YouTube Videos Could Get Demonetized If They Have 'Inappropriate Comments' · · Score: 1

    Worse it seems to happen particularly if you have a polite comment backed by links etc. that is considered wrongthink.

    For example?

  11. So what happened on South Korea Rules Pre-Installed Phone Bloatware Must Be Deletable (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Considering that this is from five years ago, how did it work out? Was it effective?

  12. and just as intelligent.

    How did you measure this?

  13. Re:MORE OF THE NAZI MAGA COWARD DREW DANNEMAN: on Google Criticized Over Its Handling of the End of Google+ (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    One of the comments on that video: "For anyone who cares, Drew Danneman is NOT the MAGA kid. Danneman graduated from Covington Catholic last year and is older than the MAGA kid."
    Are they lying?

  14. Re:This is why we can't have nice things on Album Sales Are Dying as Fast as Streaming Services Are Rising (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    My favorite part is how condescending you are when so blatantly wrong:

    Here on the internet it's almost a requirement.

  15. 1) Why would you want to LISTEN to an Edison wax phonograph - technically superior? *

    Dude, every true audiophile knows that the subtle nuances captured during the analog waxing process can never be truly and faithfully reproduced by your digital "music".

  16. If that's the dumbest statement you've ever heard you've lived a charmed life.

  17. Re:Add a few 360 degree cameras... on Loon's Balloons Will Fly Over Kenya in First Commercial Telecom Tryout (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    What would be the point of surveilling primitives who burn feces for heat? What information could possibly be gleamed.

    And eventually those primitives would even know the difference between gleamed and gleaned.

  18. If the movie is included into your Prime subscription, you’re fine.

    Unless you travel outside the US. Then 90% of the titles are "not available in your area," and the only way to know which ones is by actually trying to watch one. Before that moment there's no indication at all. It's close to useless. Ridiculous customer experience.

  19. I have just as much trust giving Netflix my Credit Card number as I do giving it to Apple.

    I already give it to Apple, so for me I want to avoid giving it to anyone else. Even if Netflix is an equal risk, it still doubles it.

  20. Re:Software is not AI on AI Automatically Sorts Cancer Cells (asianscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not going to call you.

  21. So your position is that if some things can be done then all things can be done?

  22. Because right now we have just pattern matching software and it's nowhere near as capable as a brain.

    That's some fine logic there, Lou.

  23. Re:Software is not AI on AI Automatically Sorts Cancer Cells (asianscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Can we please stop calling a program that analyzes pictures AI?

    Exactly. The popular press needs to learn that the proper Slashdot definition of AI is "Things computers can't yet do."

  24. Generating class-action lawsuits against Apple.

    That's part of the reason for all the disclaimers. The other part is that it's much easier to get clearance to sell it when the claims are minimized. I'm sure that it actually does a pretty good job.

  25. Re:The entire watch costs less than a singe ECG te on Apple Watch Series 4 ECG, Irregular Heart Rate Features Are Now Available (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, I had an ECG done as an add-on to a complete blood workup while traveling in Asia. The total cost was about $20 US.