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  1. So if your girlfriend... on Twitter Pays $150 Million For Magic Pony Technology (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    does sexting in bad lighting conditions, will this NN have been trained on suitable material to "enhance" the image and will she look like a porn star?

    (There is a serious point about machine learning hidden in than example.)

  2. Since in the books there are 50 characters which actually say something, this sound a like a clear case of overlearning.

  3. So checked C is simila to Pascal?

  4. Re: Break out my Windows 3.11 box on BadTunnel Bug Hijacks Network Traffic, Affects All Windows Versions (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Yay! I'll filter everthing which is not IPX in the router!

  5. Good that it was ancient on Second Gravitational Wave Detected From Ancient Black Hole Collision (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess I wouldn't want to observe something like that if i was only a light year away.

  6. so they will buy it?

  7. My suggestion: on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    (i know this wont prevent shootings, but it will make them much less lethal):

    Weapons with enough firepower to kill humans should have a loading mechanism which requires opening and closing a number (e.g. 10) of screws manually and a 4-6 bullets maximum in one cartridge. (The idea actually comes from a safety mechanism for electrical circuits in coal mines).

    For self-defense 4-6bullets are enough. For hunting, the long reloading time does not matter. On the shooting range, reloading can happen as a service/automated.

    Exceptions should be allowed only for the military and the police.

  8. Re:FrAgile on Playing Politics With Agile Projects (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    As somebody who worked in agile projects:

    The good side:
    * If the customer had no f*****n idea what they wanted, at least they could not act like they had and the failure was due to the dev team.

    The bad side:
    * Instead of taking complicated issues seriously, settling to a well-defined and engineered solution, writing hundred times a variant of "hello world" was the preferred way of presenting user stories to the customer because then "we have something to show in the end of the sprint". This was going so far that the developers had to hide work on the underlying code infrastructure from the product owner.

  9. Energy usage? on Scientists In Iceland Turn CO2 Into Stone (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    How much energy is needed?

  10. That would have been creepy on Facebook Says It's Not Secretly Recording You (fb.com) · · Score: 1

    if they managed to activate my mic trouch my noscript extenstion and without me installing the app, logging in, and their websites being filtered by my proxy.....

  11. Re:Did they know who the culprits were? on Judges Rule Raped Woman Can Sue 'Enabling' Web Site (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Also important:

    * did they state that the photographers were checked by them
    * did the website state a warning (some web sites interesting for potential abusers do)
    * what did the TOS say about whose obligation it is to do what?

    But I mean, seriously, the police knew one of the guys tried to get a 13yo to pose semi-nude while he worked there and they just fired him?

    I mean it's good that the judge allows to sue the website, but i for sure hope that the court will consider the fuckups of the police and possibly the carelessness of the woman when setting the damage to be paid.

    (and yes, to me it sounded like she was careless - and not this is not the the same as "she deserved it". But if meeting somebody in a parking lot without proper identification and references beforehand is the way of conducting business for the digital natives, maybe the website is at fault)

  12. will either

    * take it as a compliment
    * make a joke about disabled people in wheelchairs
    * offend Great Britain as the home country ("They did not send us the best persons")
    * offend all physicists (Anything beyond Newton an Galileo is just for the elites which want to take away everything from us)
    * Suggest to build a big wall against Hawking Radiation ("These Black holes will pay for it, and it will carry my name")
    * Make an offensive joke on the penis size

  13. Scientists: Electric Vehicles Produce As Many Toxins As Dirty Diesels

    is *not* what the original article in the scientific Journal says.

    It more like: Brakes and Tires of electric cars produce as much (slightly more) dust as "dirty diesels" brakes an tires.

    Nowhere there is anything about NOx and particles from the exhaust which is probably the main killer in "Dirty Diesels".

  14. can it decide if any simulation written in this language terminate in a finite time?

  15. He shoud sue them, based on the normal rate (which can be really high for good photos). As far as i understand it is not unusual that the best photos of professional photographers earn them more money than the rest of their work together.

    OTOH, the court should not award him the full sum, since it is obvious that not all uses of the picture would have taken place if they had known cost. What the real, credible amount of damages is should be settled somewhere in between.

  16. Fits to my observations in Christianity on Jihadis Twice As Likely To Be Students of Science Than Of Sharia (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The more people studied about theology and the bible, the more they actually could reflect on the relative value of any short-lived interpretation of their religious values in terms of a possible absolute law.

    If you actually know and understand how religion is transferred into laws, then you wont make up your rules just to justify raping, killing and stealing.

  17. I mean the Movie was a little bit stupid and only focused on effects, but one could bear to watch it. The important question is if the next 4 have an actual story..... (i guess not...)

  18. Do what you want, on Google's Android N OS Will Support Pressure-Sensitive Screens (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    but google, i beg you: let rudimentary functions like opening a menu identical.

    In the last 4 years if have seen more pointless UI changes on Mobile devices than i like

    Thanks.

  19. Re:Start planning your landing pad in your backyar on Autonomous Robots Begin Testing For New Delivery Service · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'm not too sure of sidewalk delivery but octocopters will be a thing. They are resilient to motor failures even while carrying a lot of weight.

    No they wont. Sidewalk delivery is safe, energy efficient, and a drone can not easily lift a few hundred kg and still be allowed to fly over peoples heads.

  20. I don't work in the US, but good to know, maybe i will.

  21. Disclosing your salary on Yelp Employee Posts Open Letter About Cost Of Living And Low Wages, Gets Fired (modernreaders.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In my contract it is forbidden that i discuss my salary with anybody, especially in public in connection with my employer.

  22. Clever on US Asks VW For Electric Cars (news.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Instead of punishing, force them to invest. Maybe for a few years that is a loss for the company, but if played right it could actually help them in the long run. (Since it forces shareholders to accept reduced earnings for some time, which they normally would no be willing to).

  23. To me, everybody is missing the point on Carole Adams, Mom Who Lost Son In San Bernardino Shooting, Sides With Apple (washingtontimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The presumption is that apple can update the OS running in the phone in a way that it circumvents the cryptography in the phone, i.e. disables the HW mechanism securing the key storage.

    There are several options:

    a) the keystore mechanisms (which i would have supposed to be on a lower level) ignores such a change.
    a1) the keystore mechanism accepts "signed binaries" as OS (like TPM does), which makes the request to apple less a "make changes to the OS" but more a "sign off the changes for us"

    b) it does not ignore it - and deletes the key. (This could be done if everything is really happening inside the SoC and runs on an independent machine/microcontroller, very much like the HW token on you bank chip card).

    If a) is true (and i suppose it is, since otherwise Apple could openly state that just replacing the OS is impossible), then the mechanism of deleting the key store after a given amount of attempts is completely worthless against state-level actors (Which is my Hypothesis all along) - FBI is not a state-level actor since they are pretty much tied up by laws. Which makes this case just a case of marketing (in both directions!)

    If a1) is true, it's more interesting. Signing a code as "non-malicious" and "conforming to the description of the device" is less a technical service, but has more implications. It's not about "i help you to find the position in the binary to set the limit to 1 billion attempts" but it's more the "i sign that devices accepting this binary will follow the specifications i promised, even though i know that this is not true". And as apple said, would such a signed version get out in the wild (and it would, since lawyers of possible defendants who phone with the owner of the phone could request access to it to verify that it does what it says), all iphones in the world are open to manipulation.

    The real point (and that is the same as with TPM/UEFI boot): would you give the power to sign off/approve changes to his device completely to the user, then you would never run into this problem.

    The discussion right now is about a company who love to control everything on their devices - and doesnt even think about giving this choice to the user - but now is not willing to accept the consequences).

  24. Re:ahhhh advertising, my good friend! on PVS-Studio Analyzer Spots 40 Bugs In the FreeBSD Kernel · · Score: 1

    $5K =~ 25-50developer hours.

    All SW i work with is either free or costs more than 5K per seat. (I think that the SW licenses used by me should account to about $10k-$20k/year)

    If i believe that a tool licensed for as little as $5k helps me in doing my job (and the job of colleagues) more efficiently, the money usually is not the problem.

  25. Re:Crypto? on Paris Attacks Would Not Have Happened Without Crypto (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, i should have marked that as irony.....