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  1. Noise analysis of machines is neither new nor particularly exciting, and neither are wireless microphones.

  2. Worry more about the support... Amazon workspaces? on Ask Slashdot: Which Laptop Should I Buy For My First Employee? · · Score: 1

    * Must be "off the shelf" HW, nothing special (since you seem not to have an IT department available, and support is easier for standard HW)

    * should be possible to use windows

    * Ideally in a managed environment (-> Amazon Workspaces)

    How about an access to Amazon Workspaces (-> backup etc should be easy, especially if you wantto set up your own small network) + a low-end business laptop with windows pro preinspalled on it + a decent keyboard + monitor, since she probably uses the laptop (research) mainly from a single location.

    Or a thin client.

  3. An interesting question: on Anti-Tesla Pickup Truck Drivers Take Over a Supercharger Station -- Again (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Is there anything in the terms when buying a Tesla which allows Tesla to run a license-plate scanner in every Tesla car looking for these people (which may owe them compensation for using the charger station without being a customer)? - I am not suggesting they should do it, but could they?

  4. Re:Oh my Lord? on Will the End of Moore's Law Halt AI Progress? (mindmatters.ai) · · Score: 1

    The personal belief: Exactly nothing, so taking part in a PHD program where this connection is explicitly made and being connected to IDers means that you got science something wrong.

  5. Oh my Lord? on Will the End of Moore's Law Halt AI Progress? (mindmatters.ai) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Eric Holloway:

    * seems to have no qualification in physics/nanotechnology to add anything to the discussion if Moores law will end, and when

    * Seem to bagger along with intelligent design folks, with him re-telling the old stories they usually tell about information science and the rest of science

    * and seems to write no peer reviewed articles any more (after the paper he wrote unrelated and before his PHD research)

    * Did a PHD in a program where the students are identified as "good stewards of God-given talents" (https://www.ecs.baylor.edu/ece/index.php?id=865400)

    * Did a PHD program which contains in its description "Engineering is also a value-based discipline that benefits from Christian worldview and faith perspectives; students can also select supportive courses from religion, theology or philosophy. Course selection is broadly specified to provide flexibility and to accommodate a wide-range of student interest." (https://www.ecs.baylor.edu/ece/index.php?id=863609)

    * Description of the seminar series of his university where it seems that he presented his PHD: (https://www.ecs.baylor.edu/ece/index.php?id=868860): eBEARS seminars are presented by Baylor ECE faculty, ECE graduate students and transnationally recognized scholars and leaders. The topics lie within the broad area of ECE. In concert with Baylor's Pro Futurus strategic plan to be "a place where the Lordship of Jesus Christ is embraced, studied, and celebrated," some eBEARS seminars focus on the topic of faith and learning.

    So praise the Lord for his insights!

  6. VNC over HTML5? on Samsung Wants To Bring Web Browsing, Office Work To the TV (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    There seems to be open source doing that, and given the average quality of Samsungs attempts at SW don't make me very optimistic that their implementation will be more persistent, stable, secure and (ad-)free.

    https://sourceforge.net/projec...
    https://kanaka.github.io/noVNC...

  7. SO what? on What Happens After Surprising DNA Test Results? (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you don't want to know, then don't ask.

    If your respect and love for a child which you cared for years from his/her first months really depend if you share genes with the child, don't try to be a father.

  8. Re:But first.... on We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I would say pretty much everybody who is new in a big town or city, googles for something and clicks on the website button.

    I think you did not get it. It is not about revue you earn on your website, but on the control over it the to avoid your competitors making advertisements on it.

  9. But first.... on We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    shops, clubs, restaurants, cafes should start to at least provide their schedules on an own webpage without forcing abybody to "follow them" on facebook or log in to facebook.

    (And that, for their own sake. Never got why anybody would put more there than a link ot the real web page, because, let's be realistic: If you have a well running shop/cafe, then that would be the most profitable place to advertise for sponsored ads....)

  10. It's not a lie... on T-Mobile Denies Lying To FCC About Size of Its 4G Network (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    it is an alternatively reported size......

  11. I can live with a 1996 cellphone... on Could You Live Without a Smartphone For a Year? (techtimes.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Full keyboard, wide display, email, probably enough to run ssh to my server and a VNC client......

  12. Former QC Researcher here on Is Quantum Computing Impossible? (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    QC may be impossible (we won't know if we don't try), but for sure not for the misconceived reasons stated in the OP.

    * The point in QC is that to control 2^300 states you need to control 300 qubits, and for Quantum error correcting sequences

    * People started to think about quantum error correction about 2 decades ago, and have come great lengths in reducing the overhead since then

    * The big question is not if it is technologically feasible (would be in latest 20 years from now), but if highly entangled Quantum systems actually behave like we imagine they do (zero guarantee for that)

  13. I am with Mr. Weasly here on Should Alexa Be Your Child's Friend? (engadget.com) · · Score: 3

    âoeGinny!" said Mr. Weasley, flabbergasted. "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?â

  14. Yes, because in python there is no such thing as commercial distributions.

  15. Re:6 months later.... on Google Is Training Machines To Predict When a Patient Will Die (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    it's not called "machine to kill" it is called "permanent street view car observation until you get distracted and run into another car"

  16. Clearly women in Mexico flashed their shirts enthusiastically when the goal fell, and the wrath from Allah did come immediately! Call Kazem Seddiqi that he was proven right.

  17. If nuclear "industry" would have had to do the initial investments instead of getting a state-sponsored Manhattan program, and if they would have gotten the same scientific scrutiny for risks and long-term problems which e.g. chemical industry got, they never would have turned on even a single reactor.

  18. Developers? on Should Developers Abandon Agile? (ronjeffries.com) · · Score: 1

    Agile is not for developers, but for project management/execution. If a company lets the developer decide if they want to be agile or not, something is wrong.

  19. Re:2GB RAM are enough, I guess on Smartphone Shipments Declined For the First Time In 2017 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    sorry - i have then non LTE version

  20. 2GB RAM are enough, I guess on Smartphone Shipments Declined For the First Time In 2017 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    My Note II from 2012 has 2GB, and the only reason I updated my phone was because there was no OS update any more. My current phone has specs similar to the old one, and i am perfectly fine with it. So I guess the market saturated simply because replacing your android phones will not give you as my added usability as it was a few years back.

  21. Descent was not the first real 3D game on 'Descent' Creators Reunite For a New Game Called 'Overload' (steampowered.com) · · Score: 1

    * Driller
    * Flight simulator 2
    * Elite

  22. Re:Why in the hell.. on People Are Using Venmo To Spy On Cheating Spouses (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    I am getting old too, and don't get it, too. Why on earth would I want to see my friends payments???

    Probably there is a selfie function which takes a photo, right when you press the "pay" button, to show how happy you are when spending money.

  23. Never break userland. on There Are Real Reasons For Linux To Replace ifconfig, netstat and Other Classic Tools (utoronto.ca) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Do it like it is done correctly:

    Leave the old interfaces/tools in, including their inefficiency. If you dont like to haven these in your special kernel, the proc filesystem can be disabled......

    For those systems which need something more efficient (i suppose things involving heavy use of containers or virtualization), use the new interfaces.

    This worked well for a lot of things up to now in linux.

  24. The problem which I have with all kind of voice recogition is that - right now - they seem not to have a good indicator if they understood "something" of "what you said". Try telling google voice keyboard a random story about a nontrivial event in you life 10 years back - it will understand something - and that something will be take from the set of things people "usually" say. So it is obvious that if you talk enough in presence of these devices and some point they will mishear words and recognize these as one the thing they were designed to do.

  25. Depends on Ask Slashdot: Is It Linux or GNU/Linux? (linuxjournal.com) · · Score: 1

    if i compile a linux kernel with a single process loaded into the init ram disk and running as init and just doing what it should (I could imagine something like this for embedded systems) without any of the usual GNU binaries/programs, then it's just "linux"