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  1. There was no gender problem on Google Translate Learns To Reduce Gender Bias (cnet.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    We have come to a rather ridiculous stance regarding genders and language. Now we are living inside a small rectangle and shooting at anyone sticking a word outside. Words have multiple meanings. Sometimes he means masculine, sometimes not any, sometimes both. Language is not some Javascript where 0 is never 0,5. If you are unable to present or read context, please do not push your squareheadedness onto everyone else. Go, read a book and enrich your interpersonal skills.

  2. Re:And some idiot just yesterday INSISTED... on A Sleeping Driver's Tesla Led Police On A 7-Minute Chase (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If he vas elected, still no. And more so not if he was chosen for the job by HR, as this has nothing to do with his job. What you do in your free time, is none of your bosses business. But I wonder, how come the autopilot did not react on the tools police use - lights and sound, which is same as red light by autopilot understanding. I doubt Tesla just forgot such functionality when implementing traffic rules adherence.

  3. Law on uncontrolled server? on Washington DC Made GitHub Its Official Digital Source For Laws (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it just me who sees huge risks in putting law on someone elses computer? The git repo admins rights there are laughable compared to root - that somebody else making your nice frontend stick nicely together with backend, able to do whatever with laws therein. Cloud still needs security, some of which it can not provide, at least in this form, without end to end encription and then some. I do not suspect Microsoft going in and changing a law, but why give the chance when temptation would be there already. Why arent they deploying the repositories on own servers?

  4. Since when Linux systems have antivirus as a norm? You could scan some unnecessary executable downloads, but that's it. There is no need for permanent resource hog sitting, eating and making you smile by a security illusion. When some bad code has run, the system has to be reinstalled fully. It's already dead inside. So when you install some unknown code, you could as well do that. The greatest security threat is still the promiscuous user.

  5. How can we justify the need to use your data? on Facebook Filed a Patent To Predict Your Household's Demographics Based On Family Photos (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 1

    Until friday, each of you come up with an idea, patentable, so nobody can ph us, that makes our use of those dumb ph's data legal. No answer is stupid. Lizardman

  6. Ridiculous on Walmart Patents Cart That Reads Your Pulse, Temperature (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    One of the dumb pstents. What innovation is there? What new technology? Just a recombination of existing ones so that some money would become extractable from similar ideas other kids would come up with as well. Should be denied without hesitation.

  7. They are forcing us on Canadian Music Group Proposes 'Copyright Tax' On Internet Use (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    By refusal to answer police officers questions, the man at the door was forcing them to shoot him immediately.

  8. Software should be free from hardware on Greg Kroah-Hartman: Outside Phone Vendors Aren't Updating Their Linux Kernels (linux.com) · · Score: 3

    Phone vendors can not and do not want to support their phones software long term. That is fair deal. But the users should not suffer from that. We need a separation of hardware and software. Like on a PC, where I can update kernel, change repositories, install a new graphics driver, dual boot etc. Not like on phones now, where whole system has to be flashed just to get newer kernel with current security added. And this is a rock in Googles garden. They should make this change in Androids concepts. Require published interoperability documentation for components, standardisation of APIs. And make the first repository to be used regardless of phone model. Then other phone manufacturers could just add own repos with some specific drivers etc. Independent repos with fixes would pop up immediately. No need to reinwent the wheel.

  9. That's not ECG on Apple Watch ECG Feature Could Take Years To Be Approved In UK (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    That is vaguely similar to Lead 1 ECG, but does it even register electric polarisation in heart? I strongly doubt that. Thus you can not just call it ECG. Call it something else and I will be happy to watch how these devices evolve. And get a medic employed to help developers and documentation creators.

  10. If it purchases more than it uses, how does it store or waste the excess?

  11. Violates GDPR on Adobe Is Helping Some 60 Companies Track People Across Devices (neowin.net) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This violates GDPR. Any information is personal as soon as you can associate it with any other information about me, which distinguishes it as mine. So as soon as they know - this is the same user as that, they have my private information, regardless of name, birthdate presence. And more, as soon as I click on one such ads and buy some horse raddish, they combine some very personal identity info. When I buy something, I do not want them know of all my devices. I can only accept opt in, without bedsheets of smalfonted jura lingo. So, Adobe, you gonna get some lawsuits coming. Up to 5% of annual turnaround fines. Can't wait.

  12. Triangulation on How Technology Caught the Austin Serial Bomber (foxnews.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Cell towers are not triangulating. They can do it, but to a very limited approximation only where directional antennas have narrow coverage. And narrow is 30 degrees, that can not give a practically usable location, unless you plan to napalm him. What they use instead is trilateration, by comparing the signal strength at nearby towers. That can give meters of location precision.

  13. What about pizza delivery? on Family of 'Swat' Victim Sues Kansas Police, Lawmakers Propose 40-Year Jail Terms (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Lets also have a rule, whenever someone orders pizza and the deliveryman drives over a pedestrian, the caller is executed, home confiscated and relatives loose citizenship.

  14. US government good, chinese bad? on Intel Told Chinese Firms of Meltdown Flaws Before the US Government (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Why is it automatically assumed US would do good, but China bad? Haven't we seen Wikileaks? I am 100% sure US would keep it secret and use this however they could dream about. They are no Robin Hood. Works, not words define who you are. Both regarding person or country.

  15. When asked for proof, starting a sentence with "Imagine..." is when healthy people get Tourettes seizures.

  16. Re:Many problems caused this on The Fourth US Navy Collision of the Year Was Ultimately Caused By UI Confusion (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    True for any northern Europe country. Navigation is trained for many hours and starting with basics, simplest terrestrial nav, only adding all the electronic devices by years. The watch officer gets quite good at evaluating which inputs weigh more and which can be dismissed. He has control himself not just by chain of command like US has. There in contrast you have full bridge with officers each doing his own narrow part and constantly reporting, which can quickly get dull as the watch officer only gets voice information for his decisions.

  17. You should take a look at HP commercial products interfaces. They are so convoluted and makes simple things so timeconsuming, that every user who has to return to their product usage considers retiring. Two examples: Service Manager (SM7, SM9 etc.), HP Extream (high vol print data design).

  18. Lawsuit to press money onto someone? Another doublespeak? Why not say it as it looks like - I want their land and have enough money to not care about anything. Generations or natives, I don't give a rats tail. I want that land. Period.

  19. Lack of nationwide surveillance? Which satellite did he fell off? I wouldn't suppose a troll would get that high, neither such people tend to joke so hard.

  20. What if someone compresses normal length video to 15 minutes by speeding it up to some 300 fps. Probably unplayable at the "normal" speed unless you happen to have 16 cores and can wrap your brains around such flowrate. A quick videoplayer setting to slow down 10 times and watch it as nothing was forbidden for 150 minutes. Fans are creative, the proopertyheads will never catch up with their rules. If we put our minds to it, all of those rules would be ignorable.