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  1. Re:Way ahead of you... on How Much Americans Could Save by Ridesharing Driverless Cars Over Owning · · Score: 1

    Luckily, I live in a land of earthquakes, where the roadways buckle and bridges and overpasses collapse! Transportation problem solved! There isn't any!

  2. Re:How Could This Happen... on Blogger Stabbed To Death After Internet Abuse Seminar (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah, if the attacker had had a gun, I'm sure he could have at least gotten two or three other folks as collateral damage.

  3. Next stop... CloudMac on On The Sad State of Macintosh Hardware (rogueamoeba.com) · · Score: 1

    Next Macintosh will be a docking station that connects users' hardware to their virtual Macs in the cloud. Latency might suck for a few, but for 90% of Mac users with simple io devices like mice and other pointers being their only hardware, it would be fine.

    What's a computer?

  4. Re:Is cutting them off necessary? on Hundreds of Thousands of Windows XP and Vista Users Won't Be Able To Use Steam Soon (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Because, due to stupid, it would still generate calls. Better not to run on unsupported systems.

  5. Because he actually isn't? Somehow, I really don't care how good the economy is if my country is being looted by a bunch of crooks. And Trump's administration is the most corrupt in history.

  6. Of course they aren't counting U6. Nor are they counting the under-employed - after all, one should be happy just to have a job.

    And you're right about age discrimination for aged-60+ people. All of those are now "discouraged workers" who aren't counted in the unemployment stats.

  7. Re:They are all "contigent" jobs nowdays. on The Gig Economy is Actually Smaller Than It Used To Be, Labor Department Says (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    I think that means in 20 years your toaster will be running tensorFlow to find optimal toastyness.

    They should be TODAY! And they would be, too, if it weren't for the embedded developers and their little machines. Well, that and the manufacturers and customers who won't eat a couple bucks on putting a real computer in there.

  8. Microsoft? Security? Something doesn't seem quite right.

  9. A movie that was strategically conceived to milk a franchise to death did that! Goodbye Start Wars and good riddance, now that the Mouse has you by the balls.

  10. Re:The bias of reverse bias on Microsoft Developing a Tool To Help Engineers Catch Bias in Algorithms (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The AIs will naturally be confused by being disallowed to latch onto the strongest signals in the data.

    Uh not unless it's a really crappy AI. If you haven't noticed, chances are any human directive will be treated as that by the neural network - another signal that is larger/more salient because it is input by a human. Just the way that the system would be designed to do unless you want it completely independent of human control.

    In short, don't project your own human confusion about neural nets onto the technology just because you don't like the implications of human control of machines.

  11. So? What. on A Star Wars Boba Fett Movie Is In the Works (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    It will be a stupid boring rehash like the last three or four. Disney doesn't just milk the franchise - it uses the whole cow. Until you're sick of seeing it.

    Marvel Universe, Star Wars? Come on. Just too much of the same. In the end you burn out everyone and your "blockbuster" becomes "Oh is that the latest Disney piece of crap?"

  12. Re:First time on ZTE Shuts Down Main Business Operations After US Ban (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Then you haven't been paying attention, moron. The Iran sanctions were mentioned in the reports that initially came out.

  13. Because that's how you contact the people using Twitter? Who like it?

    Bubble much?

  14. Wouldn't it really only sound the best on analog home play, if the source was also at least mostly recorded using analog technology?

    No.

  15. To use this profitably, you need to toss in tons of dirt to get the few nuggets buried in the mountain of crap. The problem is that the algorithm can't tell you why a movie will be successful. If it could do that, you could skip all the crap generation process and just write a hit. Who is the genius out there who is going to figure out how to interpret neural network weights and features to build human understandable models?

  16. Maybe the culture of elitism / hostility should change...

    Maybe?!?!?! The fact that you use this word shows that somewhere down deep you feel entitled to be a jerk on the internet. Why?

  17. Re:Parents? on Wages Aren't the Only Reason Teachers Are Striking (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    You actually need Republicans to stop trying to limit access to them.

  18. Re:Bigger building blocks on New Book Describes 'Bluffing' Programmers in Silicon Valley (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    I was with you until you said " I can still do cool stuff with XML".

  19. Re:I just closed all my dating accounts on You Could Be Flirting On Dating Apps With Paid Impersonators (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    Sorry dude, if you don't have a Facebook site to check, most women will assume you're there for nefarious purposes. Only weirdos on't have Facebook profiles to check.

  20. Easy? on AI Can Scour Code To Find Accidentally Public Passwords (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    telling the difference between a password and normal code for a computer is just like recognizing a dog from a cat.

    Well, unless the code is PERL - then it looks like a password that has been spread over however many lines.

  21. Quite.

  22. Re: Why does basic income keep appearing here? on Finland Is Killing Its Basic Income Experiment (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Working? Yes. Good? Perhaps. Maintainable? Unlikely.

  23. Re:The issue remains - what to do with people on Finland Is Killing Its Basic Income Experiment (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    How does the arm get the trash can? It reaches out and hooks the bar made for that purpose that's built onto the trash can. Most times it doesn't need any human intervention at all - our trucks have one driver/troubleshooter. And if your garbage haulers need two extra guys to do the job, your hauler's running really inefficiently and probably charging higher rates for the privilege.

  24. Re:Unless the description is wrong, this is bad on California Bill Would Restore, Strengthen Net Neutrality Protections (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Why should they? How is your conversation more important than someone else's porn? Packets is packets - besides, if your network is experiencing enough congestion to not get voice packets through in a timely manner, you've got more trouble than people streaming porn.

  25. I find it ironic... on Linux: Beep Command Can Be Used to Probe for the Presence of Sensitive Files (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... that a command that probably started life as putchar('\007'); could morph into some monster needing to spawn threads and have race conditions.