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  1. Re:Let me get this straight... on Samsung To Roll Out In-TV Ads To Legacy Displays Via Software Update · · Score: 1

    The ones I've seen online had no tuner and no speakers plus were more expensive than an ordinary smart tv. Real bargain for sure.

  2. Give it a little battery backup then in case the main power needs to be shut off. Pilots have no control over all the phones and laptops in the cabin and they manage to deal with that, a little satellite radio wouldn't be any different.

  3. Re:This very study is problematic... on Study: '50% of Misogynistic Tweets From Women' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, not quite 100% are from the victimized group:

    https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

  4. iTunes claims you can "buy new songs from the 43 million tracks in the iTunes Store to build a personal music library". Should it be illegal for them to make such a claim on their site?

  5. The Apple iTunes page advertises that I can "buy new songs from the 43 million tracks in the iTunes Store to build a personal music library", it doesn't say anything about buying licences. Is that a bait and switch? Maybe the stores should have to be more upfront about what you're actually getting.

  6. Re:I've been predicted that on Foxconn Cuts 60,000 Jobs, Replaces With Robots (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    Benefits are another big cost of additional workers. If health insurance was provided by the government that would help quite a bit probably.

  7. Re: Give the option on Google Chrome To Disallow Backspace As a 'Back' Button (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The flags are all intended to be temporary while they are testing features.

  8. Re:Give the option on Google Chrome To Disallow Backspace As a 'Back' Button (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Microsoft, you mean. This feature started in IE and all the other browsers copied it from there.

  9. Re:Give the option on Google Chrome To Disallow Backspace As a 'Back' Button (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the Chrome developers have some horrible aversion to preferences. If that weren't the case this issue would have been resolved many years ago.

  10. Re:Corporation trumps government on Pfizer Blocks The Use Of Its Drugs In Executions · · Score: 1

    So the companies move out of the state (assuming they have any presence there to begin with), no more tax leverage.

  11. Re:Machine learning? on Google Unveils 'Gigapixel' Camera To Preserve and Archive Art (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok, have fun playing with your own special definition of AI that no one else uses.

  12. Re:More like "gigapixel-panorama" camera... on Google Unveils 'Gigapixel' Camera To Preserve and Archive Art (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a camera, and it produces gigapixel images of artworks. No, you can't take it out and take gigapixel snapshots, but no one claimed otherwise.

  13. Re:a painting is not an image on Google Unveils 'Gigapixel' Camera To Preserve and Archive Art (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, a painting isn't just an image. It has a texture, smell, and taste too. Most museums won't let you experience those however, so the image is pretty much what you're limited to either way.

  14. Re:Machine learning? on Google Unveils 'Gigapixel' Camera To Preserve and Archive Art (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, as long as you can always redefine "Real AI" to mean whatever we haven't yet done.

  15. Re: may might predicts on Will Self-Driving Cars Clog Our Highways? (go.com) · · Score: 1

    There were no commercial flights on that one day in the US, but the airline's still existed.

  16. I find it scary that they remind me from scanning my email that a bill is due or that if I take this route I'm 26 minutes from 'home'.

    Why is it more scary for the company that holds your email to scan it for relevant information that you might be interested in than for them to scan the information for the spam filtering and routing that every email provider needs to do?

    They have the information in your email and you know it, so why not use it for your benefit instead of pretending that they don't actually have the data that you've asked them to hold for you?

  17. The data isn't being sent to Google because he's using Gmail. It's stupid giving a company your email messages and then getting freaked out that their computers actually have the data in your email.

  18. Re:Killing jobs? on Slashdot Asks: How Long Before Self-Driving Cars Become Mainstream? · · Score: 1

    Also it won't be falling at free fall speeds, maybe that could also be used to determine it's not a massive object.

  19. Re:Killing jobs? on Slashdot Asks: How Long Before Self-Driving Cars Become Mainstream? · · Score: 1

    Do you have a point? No one's talking about cars that follow programmed paths.

  20. Re:Killing jobs? on Slashdot Asks: How Long Before Self-Driving Cars Become Mainstream? · · Score: 1

    Situations where I have 30 seconds notice certainly happen more often than the examples you've given which are probably once in a lifetime situations at best.

  21. My understanding is that as of the Nexus 6, Wi-Fi calling is supported in standard Android.

  22. "Every once in awhile a Red State or conservative news source would have a story. But we would have to go and find the same story from a more neutral outlet that wasn’t as biased."

    Sounds like a tempest in a teapot to me. If a news story is only available on conservative blogs, it's probably BS.

  23. Re:Oh great on Disposable Lasers Created Using Inkjet Printer (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Likely the replaceable component will be in a plastic cartridge like everything else. Plus, even biodegradable things are a problem in a landfill due to the lack of air for the bacteria.

  24. Re:Perk? on Uber Plans To Kill Surge Pricing With Machine Learning (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I don't know what Q is supposed to mean, but the driver gets some of the surplus of course. They want to motivate more drivers to work during these peak times.

  25. Re:What do you mean, think? on 76% Of Netflix Subscribers Think Netflix Can Replace Traditional TV (cordcutting.com) · · Score: 1

    No local games from the MLB app, that's kind of a major problem, isn't it? Those are the games most people want to watch.