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  1. Re:There are no non-photoshopped images on the net on Adobe Is Using AI To Catch Photoshopped Images (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but you have homogeneity of process. With the typical Photoshop manipulation, you clone part(s) of the image onto itself (which can be detected with 2D auto-correlation), or you clone parts of another image onto it (which can be detected by looking at the noise).

  2. Re:Beer shortage in England? on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If the beer is good, it actually doesn't need to be served at a temperature that dulls your mouth...

  3. Re: I don't get it. on GitHub, Medium Remove Public ICE Employee Data Repository (obsceneworks.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, kind of. I tried to take a train to Paris and the day to day schedule was a nightmare. And the prices were way up since they adopted the same shitty pricing techniques as the airline companies (more demand => higher prices, but since there's less than half the trains running => less supply => higher prices). Eventually gave up so it might as well have been a complete strike.

  4. Re: I don't get it. on GitHub, Medium Remove Public ICE Employee Data Repository (obsceneworks.com) · · Score: 2

    I've lived in France on and off for decades and let me tell you that those 10% with the power to grind everything to a halt are always the same ones: truck drivers (the worst of all), train conductors (currently in their 3rd month of strike with no end in sight, this over trifles), students (and screw the others who just want to pass their exams), airplanes (always at the time of vacations), etc... All the others don't matter, only those get their voices heard by pissing in everybody's broth.

  5. Fine the bosses and the shareholders... on Volkswagen Fined One Billion Euros By German Prosecutors Over Emissions Cheating (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    ...not the company. Otherwise the price of my spare parts will go up !

  6. Re:Check it on Sweden Tries To Halt Its March To Total Cashlessness (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    A bank transfer ?!? My banks block those by default. The only accounts I use are on a whitelist, and that whitelist gets changed only when I physically go to the bank to change it. A cheque is a LOT more convenient. And my accounts don't get hacked every other day by Nigerians asking for a bank transfer by phone.

  7. Re:Check it on Sweden Tries To Halt Its March To Total Cashlessness (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Huh? How do you give someone (not a business) a large amount of money ? Say for renting a vacation place ? Even more so, how do you give a warranty cheque, you know, the kind that you can tear up at the end ?

  8. Re:Easy problem to solve on Police Departments Are Training Dogs To Sniff Out Thumb Drives (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, from experience I know that an SD card can go through a dog and still work...

  9. Re:Vulnerability? on Zip Slip Vulnerability Affects Thousands of Projects (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    How come nobody noticed ?

  10. Re:Isn't Android doing this since years? on Apple Is Testing a Feature That Could Kill Police iPhone Unlockers (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    It depends a bit on the version, but nowadays you have to unlock the phone AND select file transfer (each time), otherwise you can't copy shit.

  11. Re:Different Fingerprints: Different VMs on Apple Is Testing a Feature That Could Kill Police iPhone Unlockers (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't know about iPhones, but on android you can have different users with different unlocking methods (one can be password, the other fingerprint, the other a drawing, etc), each with it's own account. I'm not sure how it merges with an encrypted phone, but, yes, you can basically do that... if you don't have an iPhone (as usual).

  12. Compatible parts on Car Makers Used Software To Raise Spare Parts Prices (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    So because of this there's a huge potential market for compatible spare parts. Are there places where I can type a VW part number and get the equivalent alibaba part or somesuch ?

  13. Not so different from bitcoin on De Beers To Sell Diamonds Made In a Lab (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Diamonds are not so different from bitcoins. In one case you get some bits, in the other you get some miligrams of glass with the difference that you can resell bitcoins. Walk into a jeweller, buy a diamond, exit, go back, offer to sell it back, 'pop!' it's now one quarter the price (or less) because it's 'used'.

  14. Re:China will have a very long way on this matter. on In China's Booming Tech Scene, Women Battle Sexism and Conservative Values (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    it's just a matter of favoring boys because of base manual labor necessities

    When I was in the Andes, all you saw plowing the fields were women (often with babies on their backs) while all the men were at the nearby bar...

  15. Re:PNG Colonial Past on Papua New Guinea Bans Facebook For a Month To Root Out 'Fake Users' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Jews and Moslems do it for the same reason Americans do it: hygene.

    Huh?!? They've never heard of soap and water ?

  16. Re:Please no on Europe Plans Ban on Plastic Cutlery, Straws and More (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, I never touch my teeth with metal cutlery because of that (not that difficult). But I noticed it in another situation: coarse salt. If I get a grain in my mouth I jump in the air like if it was a 9 Volt battery. I know fancy chefs like to sprinkle that shit everywhere...

  17. Re:On the udder hand on Is Cockroach Milk the Ultimate Superfood? (globalnews.ca) · · Score: 1

    Rule 34 ?

  18. Re:Trying to figure out the point on Is Cockroach Milk the Ultimate Superfood? (globalnews.ca) · · Score: 0

    I already grow a yeast to produce a superfood in my kitchen: it's called beer and is awesome when homebrewed.

  19. Re:Betteridge Law: No on Is Cockroach Milk the Ultimate Superfood? (globalnews.ca) · · Score: -1

    It's not like they are gonna tell you overtly. Look at the way hamburger 'meat' in America contains on average 5 to 7% beef ONLY nowadays, depending on brand. The rest is many things, including insects ALREADY. It's hidden under some code like 'animal protein' or E210 or somesuch.

  20. Re:Betteridge Law: No on Is Cockroach Milk the Ultimate Superfood? (globalnews.ca) · · Score: 1

    Well, technically arthropods of the sea... But you are correct.

  21. Re:Youtube Un-boxers on Amazon Is Banning People For Making Too Many Returns (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess it's for items that just came out and that nobody has yet. An early review is always useful in your decision to buy or not.

  22. Re:That's why you get a metal case on The Toughest (And Weakest) Phones Currently On the Market (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    Metal ? Like a faraday cage around your phone ? And then you get 90% signal attenuation and 10 times faster battery drain.... Awesome idea. Wasn't that the problem of the iPhone 2 or 3 that had a metal case and you had to hold just right to maybe have a slight chance of getting a signal with ?

  23. Re:Linux Mint on Ask Slashdot: Some Good Linux Desktop Option For Kids? · · Score: 1

    If you want them to be successful later in life and be able to integrate seemlessly into the modern business and financial world, I would suggest Microsoft Windows

    Ha! Where I work (in research), nobody wants to use Windows anymore. It's either Mac or Linux. The Linux desktop has been perfectly fine for a good 15 years. It may not be great for games, but for work ? It's far better, simpler and more efficient than nagging shitty bloated spying Windows.

    But to get back to OP's question, I'd say Android (sorry): plenty of apps for kids. And it's still Linux, right ? Right ???

  24. Re:The answer to the question on Lenovo Teases a True All-Screen Smartphone With No Notch (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't know what phone he has, but I have a Wiko View 32 which has all those features and more for 140€. Those flagship phones were great 10 years ago but now they only stack useless expensive gimmicks like 3D face recognition and 1mm thinner whatever.

  25. The opposite on Are Two Spaces After a Period Better Than One? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't care much about the 1 space vs 2 spaces debate. But I do care about the many morons on many message boards (inclusing here). Who refuse to use spaces after dots of commas, and who refuse to use upper cases at the start of sentences. They drivel is night on unreadable and should but drop kicked into the 7th circle of hell. That's the kind of thing that makes my blood boil trying to read. And it saves them a whole 2 seconds typing the message.