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  1. far more likely for an automated system whose concentration doesn't lapse over long hours of monotonous travel and who can monitor hundreds of items independently to react faster when needed.

  2. $50 million is only a part of what it costs them. many are FIFO workers, they have flight and accommodation costs as well as all the training, you are probably looking at 75-100million a year.

  3. Re:Not quite ready for prime time on Australian Autonomous Train is Being Called The 'World's Largest Robot' (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    That was a HUMAN driven train and the incident seems to have resulted from HUMAN error though the investigation is still underway. If anything this proves the need for this system, humans make mistakes.

  4. These are Ore trains weighing upwards of 30,000 tonnes. No driver can stop that in time regardless of what they see on the track.

  5. Re:I want to know on Hackers Make a Fake Hand to Beat Vein Authentication (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Very few do, but it is a significant increase in security to do so. As others stated you seem to have confused your terms.
    Identification is WHO YOU ARE. Bio-metrics handy for that.
    Authentication is proving who you are or at least that you have the associated secret/device.
    Authorisation is simply given who you are, are you allowed to perform Y Action or Access X Resource. e.g. an ACL lookup, adding biometrics to this would be a significant increase from what 99.999% of systems do today. basically authorisation comes post identification and authentication.

  6. Re:They'll just buy more from overseas on The EU is Banning Almost All Coal Mining on Jan 1 (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    yep. After all coal isn't just used as fuel, it is also used to make steel and cement and other more low volume products like carbon fibre.

  7. Re: They don't care because it's in a EULA on Several Popular Apps Share Data With Facebook Without User Consent (ft.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    GDPR is defined by location AND citizenship, it is most definitely NOT confined to the physical continent of Europe. You can do transactions completely external to Europe that can send your company into a GDPR legal mess.

  8. Re:The list... on Several Popular Apps Share Data With Facebook Without User Consent (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the list. Dropbox and Speedtest both removed from my phone and life for that matter, though to be fair dropbox has been dead for ages just never gotten around to uninstalling.

  9. Re: There's no such country as Kurdistan on Google Erases Kurdistan From Maps in Compliance With Turkish Government (kurdistan24.net) · · Score: 1

    That is the equivalent of the tobacco industry publishing information on the health benefits of smoking.

  10. Customers already were receiving the saving by not being charged an extra 15% for using iTunes.

  11. Re:Seriously? on Slashdot Asks: Your Favorite Movies and TV Shows of 2018? · · Score: 1

    I do partly agree, though I did enjoy Infinity War. Black Panther was so bad I still have only watched the first half, not sure what the fuck others see in it, maybe it gets better later in the movie? regardless I can't think of a single movie this year that was standout.

  12. You were in normay, a piece of old boot leather would have tasted delicious compared to the local food.

  13. strange state on A Woman on Twitter is Abused Every 30 Seconds (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    That stat sounds incredibly low. The amount of shit and abuse on all social platforms for all users is insane. What that suggests to me is maybe Woman are not as abused as men on twitter?

  14. Japan has kept them open losing money for 30 years now in the guise of scientific whaling. Various Industries all over the world are funded by governments while making a loss with no real prospect of ever turning a profit.

  15. Even in Japan there isn't much of a market for it, it is not something people enjoy eating and was traditionally only eaten as a source of food when there was not much else. There have been stories about how even much of their "scientific" whaling meat gets wasted as it isn't popular.

  16. Re: Windows XP on Chrome OS To Block USB Access While the Screen is Locked (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    and what about a keyboard that fails or has a drink spilled on it?

  17. Re:$17 million is cheap... on Kansas is Trying to Unload $10M in Unused Computer Equipment (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of the breaches (at least at the moment) are from the clowns that self host, usually with poorly skilled staff.

  18. Re:if normal on Apple Confirms Some iPad Pros Ship Slightly Bent, But Says It's Normal (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If normal, why did bending not appear on older models?

    I've owned well over a dozen aluminium chassis devices from laptops to tablets and phones but I've never bothered to check one for absolute straightness and as-advertised dimensions with a ruler and calipers. Have you?

    No but I do regularly put my devices on hard flat surfaces which would clearly reveal any slight bends.

  19. Either WOOSH! or might want to buy yourself a calculator.

  20. Re:at the rate of $50 per domain name... on Australian Court Orders ISPs To Block 181 'Pirate' Domains, Including Subtitle Sites (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    or those sites could enter a profit sharing scheme with the ISP's :-) create 10000 alternate names go 50 50 on the blocking fee. win win and it still wouldn't affect actual users anyway.

  21. Re:Yes, it is juvenile. on Debian's Anti-Harassment Team Is Removing A Package Over Its Name (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep and kinda a shame as the juvenile nature of the community makes it unusable in many an organisation or government body.

  22. yep, but in fairness this is EXACTLY the approach the west has also taken over the past century, it is only when we are on the losing end of that transaction that people suddenly think it is wrong.

  23. no, not even theoretically.

  24. Re:16 Years Of Failure For MS Consoles on Microsoft's Next-Gen Xbox Consoles Are Codenamed 'Anaconda' and 'Lockhart' (windowscentral.com) · · Score: 2

    When sales levels are in the 10's of millions (e.g. 40m for xbox ~85m for ps) it really doesn't matter, both get great support, both are very successful and profitable (yes one more so then the other but from a users perspective those numbers just aren't relevant.)

  25. Re: Sad and emblematic on Tumblr Porn Vanishes Today · · Score: 1

    I think it helps them feel more normal if they can point at everyone else and accuse them of being the same, then they don't feel like the sick fucks they are.