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  1. This One Already Does It on Researchers Have Figured Out How To Fake News Video With AI (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    And a bit more, though I could see the tech in the article being combined to give more realistic effects without the face actor in some scenarios.

  2. Re:Cortana and Associated Spyware on 'Windows 10 Is Failing Us' (betanews.com) · · Score: 0

    Nope, I applied that registry hack last year, it no longer blocks Cortana as of a couple weeks ago.

  3. Cortana and Associated Spyware on 'Windows 10 Is Failing Us' (betanews.com) · · Score: 0

    Can no longer be disabled without removing the fucking taskbar. Screw Windows 10.

  4. Re:sacrifices without actually addressing problem on Crypto-Bashing Prime Minister Argues The Laws Of Mathematics Don't Apply In Australia (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    Nearly everyone has something to hide. Not necessarily something illegal but something they themselves care about keeping concealed which can be used to make them do things they otherwise would not do if known by manipulative people.

  5. In this case he doesn't seem to have actually referred to the "laws of mathematics" so much as "a company is making a choice to use a method which avoids political law, so we are going to fine them until they stop."

  6. Re:Cold War 2 on Congress Seeks To Outlaw Cyber Intel Sharing With Russia (onthewire.io) · · Score: -1

    There are 3 world powers: US, Russia, and China. China has a long track record of being untrustworthy, spying, and haphazardly seizing neighboring land while cutting down on free speech. Russia has a long track record of spying and producing hackers who advanced computer security (and in turn privacy and free speech.) Thus far I'm aware of no deal we've made with Russia where they've stabbed us in the back with it, the same can't be said for China.

    The choice is simple: we have a 3-way free-for-all among the dominate nations akin to 1984 with smaller nations able to manipulate all parties involved along the way, or we ally with the more trustworthy of the two and reap the benefits of owning the world. It's obvious why the little pissant nations of the world don't want an alliance, but as far as I can tell thus far the only reasons our own countrymen wouldn't are due to stupidity, arrogance, or corruption.

  7. Re:I see a problem with this? on Congress Seeks To Outlaw Cyber Intel Sharing With Russia (onthewire.io) · · Score: -1

    Probably not. This is a law with three goals

    I bet you think cigarettes and alcohol are taxed for the public good, the FDA approval process on new drugs is for public health, our runaway inflationary debt based currency helps the economy, and that people can't kill people without automatic rifles.

    Stated intentions are rarely inline with actual intentions or practice. Most of the government is still corrupt, it's not going to be used against anyone who isn't easy pickings.

  8. Re:We need to go back to simplicity. on We Need To Reboot the Culture of View Source (wired.com) · · Score: -1

    Agreed. The reason they're horribly inefficient is because programmers don't understand how to use javascript, so they end up using massive frameworks and libraries to do even the most basic things.

    This isn't true, at least for things like Google's home page used in the example. There's a lot of stuff that happens on that home page in spite of a simple looking interface. There's the auto-completing text pulled from the server via AJAX requests, the loading of search results as you type (meaning in itself that textbox and button are just the first step on a multi-step process.) obligatory analytical code, etc. Most (at least popular-non-news) sites these days use AJAX and dynamic-HTML throughout to do things like only refresh the new/changed content when the user needs to see it as opposed to the entire page. It makes for a cleaner user experience when implemented properly (though bad results can also manifest in scenarios where the developer never took into account the need to link to content.)

    There are lots of lazy libraries like jQuery - but you can't really fault that too much. Before the days of jQuery you had to know the nuances of every single version of every single browser and modify your entire freaking codebase on a monthly (or more often weekly) basis just to keep it from breaking whenever anyone released a new patch. jQuery adds a bunch of things like selectors, but it also acts as a common-browser-interface so you don't waste 99%+ of your waking life maintaining shit you already wrote because someone else decided a feature should change. In turn, browsers have adopted a more common interface because of things like jQuery because they can no longer simply try to out-maneuver their competition with changes which break only their competitor's code (which they ALL did before jQuery.)

    TL;DR: you don't have a clue what you're talking about, must be a web developer.

  9. Web Developers on We Need To Reboot the Culture of View Source (wired.com) · · Score: -1

    Are all amateurs.

  10. Re:What exactly makes a private cloud different fr on Microsoft To Offer Local Version of Azure Cloud Service (reuters.com) · · Score: -1

    The cloud hype: a lot.

    What a cloud actually is: nothing at all.

  11. Re: good thing that the GOP will not give out well on Google Home Ends A Domestic Dispute By Calling The Police (gizmodo.com) · · Score: -1

    Welfare doesn't help people, it makes them complacent and dependent. It's the most racist bit of legislation still around in the US.

  12. Re:Government Subsidy on Elon Musk Promises World's Biggest Lithium Ion Battery To Australia (cnn.com) · · Score: -1

    No, he *is* complaining about subsidies - he would rather work in an environment without any subsidies!

    Of course he would, he's already used them to get his.

  13. Wrong Solution on Getting Rid of Carpool Lanes Could Double Travel Times (sciencemag.org) · · Score: -1

    The correct solution would have been to keep the carpool lanes running, find anyone drugging babies or using drugged babies to carpool, and sterilizing or executing every party involved. Selective breeding techniques are applicable to Humans in scenarios like these, not all poor people are degenerate enough to drug babies and not all other people are degenerate enough to use drugged babies.

  14. Re: Girl on Afghan Girl Roboticists Denied US Visas (bbc.com) · · Score: -1

    You don't understand? Setting an attitude makes it your problem, or rather Trump's.

    What are stupid things leftists believe.

  15. Only one type of person defends Elsevier in keeping knowledge behind a paywall: someone paid by Elsevier.

  16. Re:The problem with systemd on 'Severe' Systemd Bug Allowed Remote Code Execution For Two Years (itwire.com) · · Score: 0

    You're being a bit generous there. SystemD exists as it does to put a security hole in Linux. Pottering is likely just an oblivious mentally-deficient ego-driven tool for some alphabet agency.

  17. Re:Everything's going according to Trump's plan on China's Rocket Fails After Liftoff (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Trump's NSA programmed a stuxnet worm that fucked up the chinaman's rocketship! Down with China! MAGA!!!

    If only they had just not peed in our coke.

  18. How is it aligned? on Something Big Is Warping Our Outer Solar System (futurity.org) · · Score: 0

    Does the warp rotate with the sun? Is it aligned with the milky way, perpendicular, etc? It might not be a planet, we already know physics is broken just because relativity doesn't mesh with quantum mechanics (to say nothing of the dark matter/dark energy fudge factors thrown into the equations,) this might be a hint of where it's wrong.

  19. Re:those fucking plastic bottles on Study Claims Discarded Solar Panels Create More Toxic Waste Than Nuclear Plants (nationalreview.com) · · Score: 0

    Are more of an actual problem/threat.

    Can we talk about real solutions to that instead?

    Things don't get regulated for health or safety, those are just how the regulations are sold, they get regulated because there are people who profit from the regulations.

  20. There are people getting paid to survey how fat dogs and pets are. Good thing we don't have any actual problems, like mortality.

  21. How is it possible for them to enforce that outside of Canada? Or are they counting on Google being willing to destroy free speech world-wide at the bequest of a foreign nation? Isn't that illegal on Google's part to do? (i.e. they derive their authority as a corporation from the US government, the US government doesn't have the authority to stop free speech so it logically lacks the right to give that ability to a corporation.)

  22. Re:Jeff Bezos, In His Personal Capacity on President Trump Attacks Amazon, Incorrectly Claiming That It Owns The Washington Post For Tax Purposes (recode.net) · · Score: 0

    Bezos FOUNDED Amazon.com, he is the CEO, and he has sold a sizable stake to others, it doesn't make it any less "his." A company is like a child for a founder, that's how they see it. Saying Amazon isn't Bezos' company is like saying Apple wasn't Jobs' company - he effectively has absolute control over and if he left prematurely it would likely flop the same as Apple did before Jobs came back to it.

    Likewise, Gawker owning WP and Bezos owning Gawker doesn't mean Bezos "indirectly owns" WP, it means he fucking owns it.

    Your descriptions of business structures and taxes in the United States sounds like that of someone who understands the legal definitions, but is grossly ignorant to the reality of how businesses function and conduct their day-to-day activities. Hell, the case could be made on social connections alone, but you don't even have to drop to that level of proof with Amazon-Bezos-WP relationship.

  23. lol, no such thing. If someone owns two companies they are effectively the same company, Trump knows this because he owns many companies, and knows how to skirt taxes with them while shifting funds between them as needed. There is no "personal capacity" for Bezos, all his assets are "personal capacity" and he writes off loses on WP to cover gains from Amazon.

  24. Re:Is there even a word for this level of stupidit on Britain's Newest Warship Runs Windows XP, Raising Cyber Attack Fears (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    The die-cision to use anything from Microsoft in a mission-critical environment, let alone a 16+ year old OS with a giant list of known exploits goes so far beyond amazingly stupid I can't even find the words.

    Microsoft makes different military and civilian versions of Windows.

    It's nice you felt you had the knowledge to speak on the subject anyway. /s

  25. Re: Cyber specialists on Britain's Newest Warship Runs Windows XP, Raising Cyber Attack Fears (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    Why would we want the Americans to control the software? Did you read the article? Do you think we trust your president?

    It's America's internet too, get over it or get off, filthy Brit.