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  1. Be sure not to miss the AI-bandwagon!

  2. Facebook as a reliable datasource?!? on Study Finds Link Between Profanity and Honesty (neurosciencenews.com) · · Score: 2

    Then your research results are likely to be skewed from the beginning. As if the Facebook audience is representative for society in the first place. *facepalm*

  3. Real nihilists only drink beer on 'Tooth Repair Drug' May Replace Fillings (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    just like in the 16th century when Europe ruled the world.

  4. Leave out 'expensive' on Apple Said To Be Working on AR Glasses With Carl Zeiss (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    because with enough money every manufacturer can put their label on it's product. Still waiting for a Beats by DrDre headphones with a CarlZeiss logo....

  5. they couldn't explain 911 on NIST Asks Public For Help With Quantum-Proof Cryptography (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    so why are they still around if the Public constantly has to rectify them?

  6. It's about Crushing the Agricultural Association. on Why Did Japan Just Ratify The TPP? (businesstimes.com.sg) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It has nothing to do with international affairs, it has one main national goal : taking on the Agricultural Association tht has more money and power than the government. The Japanese Agricultural Association (JA) is a very powerfull association that distorts vast amounts of money from the Japanese farmers like Italian mobsters. Money that the government wants to have but it did not have any means to take on the JA. Until the TPP came around. Nobody here in Japan knows that the TPP is also about copyrights. As far as most people know, it's about agricultural goods and meat coming freely into the country without having all kinds of associations like JA being able to control that.

  7. Native advertising on IBM's Watson Used In Life-Saving Medical Diagnosis (businessinsider.co.id) · · Score: 2

    .. did not know it would pop up so prominently on /.

  8. Autocomplete does most of the building on AI Will Disrupt How Developers Build Applications and the Nature of the Applications they Build (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    or that was what Microsoft was proclaiming 20 years ago. I would press 'F' and VisualStudio would build me this awesome social network platform. But I do have to admit that lately programming is more like using the right libraries than writing complex stuff by oneself.

  9. Pirates pay more ... on Nintendo Offers Up To $20,000 To Hack the 3DS (silicon.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    .. for your hacks than Nintendo does. $20000 is peanuts. Even the retired ladies cleaning the toilets at Nintendo get a bigger annual bonus for their hard work.

  10. Re:Am I the only one that sees the root cause? on New Stegano Exploit Kit Hides Malvertising Code In Banner Pixels (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    The major issue is that HTML5 could have been replaced FLASH if they would have come up with some decent features. But that committee decided to focus on all kinds of side-issues that no one was interested in. So in order to do something FLASH like, Javascript is needed.

  11. They can't even get a decent popup blocker working on Mozilla Puts New Money To Use Fighting For 'Internet Health' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    so how much can we expect from this? Are they just gonna hire a bunch of lobbyists?

  12. Build-in functionality for many on Earthquake-Sensing Mobile App 'MyShake' Detects Over 200 Earthquakes Large and Small (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have a NTTDocomo smartphone you'll have this feature enabled by default. Whenever there's a big earthquake coming, the phone automatically send an alarm. They base their alarms on the government's earthquake warning system which is a large network all over Japan.

  13. Mackeeper on The Mac App Store Is Full of Scams (howtogeek.com) · · Score: 1

    when does Apple finally take on that piece of junk that is spamming me online every day.

  14. Boss's mistress + Agile on Ask Slashdot: Has Your Team Ever Succumbed To Hype Driven Development? (daftcode.pl) · · Score: 1

    The boss's mistress was on our dev team of our +120 employee Japanese company. And then can Agile around. She didn't like it because it became so clear she was totally incapable and the team was always covering for her. But all it took was 1 complaint from her to have our boss storm into the office, yelling that his mistress would from now on would have to approve such changes. Needless to say, that wasn't a success either because suddenly everything needed her approval. We lost all our clients and most our top engineers within months. Within 7 months the company went bankrupt. That was after the mistress was quickly reassigned a new position somewhere else in the holding company.

  15. Google's accuracy is 60 miles on Google Will Tell You How Crowded Places Are In Real Time (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    ... so this is an utter worthless feature. Last year a marketing agency did a large scale survey to verify how accurate Google knows where your phone is. It turned out that the average accuracy was 60 miles off. Google's technology really isn't that good unless you actively opt in with their Maps services.