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  1. Re:Minority Report was right... on UK Police Plan To Deploy 'Staggeringly Inaccurate' Facial Recognition in London (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Which is really impressive considering he died over a year ago

  2. A false positive in BOLO is tolerable a false positive in arrest is not. At the time of arrest some human needs to have verified the match.

  3. What browsers should do on Is Google's Promotion of HTTPS Misguided? (this.how) · · Score: 1

    Is allow the http site content to be displayed but not allow any scripts to run.

  4. Re:Suicidal Relative saved by this on China's Surveillance State Will Soon Track Cars (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    A license plate reader is a passive system if your car is not on the highway or going somewhere with a toll its not tracked. What china is talking about is active tracking.

  5. Re:FIRST TO FILE on Inventor Says Google Is Patenting His Public Domain Work (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    First to file only protects against a competing patent. It does not prevent a patent from being invalidated because someone else invented it prior to disclosure,

  6. Im not sure you can really differentiate the two on Next Year, People Will Spend More Time Online Than They Will Watching TV. That's a First. (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    People watch their favorite programs on netflix or amazon is that counted as tv watching or being online?
    People can watch live channels of both tv and radio online. When someone watches streaming tv on their phone
    does that count being online , watching tv, or being on your phone?

  7. Re:Best possible big buyer I can think of on Linux Foundation Celebrates Microsoft's GitHub Acquisition (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    They will turn Github into a nice tax write-off. A company that makes billions and billions likes having having tax writeoffs

  8. You want to know scary as f--- on Emirates Planes Could Be Going Windowless (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    If you think turbulence is scary try turbulence in a pitch dark cabin after the
    virtual windows have failed. Space Mountain would have nothing on that level of terror.

  9. Re:This is not for US-ians on YouTube Can Be Liable For Copyright Infringing Videos, Court Rules (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    RTA Its Vienna Austria it says so in the first line of the article

  10. The problem was with the budget not just the film on 'Solo' Will Lose $50+ Million In First Defeat For Disney's 'Star Wars' Empire (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem really was that it was $250 million film that should have been a $100 million budget film.
    It basically had the same budget as TFA and Rogue for a film that should have been a smaller scale piece.

    If I had done a solo movie
    You do $100 million film set the damn thing on Kashykk with wookies galore less cgi, more guys in furry suits.
    Show how Solo and Chewbacca met and have the climax of the movie having Han win the Falcon.

  11. The reason why a star trek reboot worked is because the original star trek movies had been gone for 25 years and
    the fans were ready for a reboot.

    Harrison Ford had just been on the screen as han solo 3 years ago.

  12. Re:This makes no sense on Uber Facing Ban In Turkey After Erdogan Backs Taxis (sbs.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Uber is a per trip car hire service. It is not metered like a taxi.nor do uber drivers wear uniforms nor do they work
    full time like Taxi drivers do.

  13. Re:Unregistered trademark? on Microsoft Sticks With Controversial 'GVFS' Name Despite Backlash (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Or gnome for that matter?

  14. Unregistered trademark? on Microsoft Sticks With Controversial 'GVFS' Name Despite Backlash (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Im wondering if Github has rights to an unregistered trademark vis a vis the Lanham act which has a "prohibition against commercial misrepresentation of source or origins of goods."

  15. Re:IMHO, we need nuclear on Trump Orders a Lifeline For Struggling Coal and Nuclear Plants (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    No what you said nuclear needs to be undemonized and mentioned other newer types of nuclear power. What I said is what Trump did does not do that and does not create incentives to do what you want. It was not "just what I said"

  16. Re:IMHO, we need nuclear on Trump Orders a Lifeline For Struggling Coal and Nuclear Plants (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nuclear is an option but propping up old nuclear and coal plants is not the answer and does not incentivize new nuclear designs.

  17. Re:The cost of high wages on Alibaba Co-founder Says Many Americans 'Want To Stop China' From Upgrading Its Tech (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If we get the manufacturing back, the job wont come with it. More jobs will be lost to automation than to china in the next 20-30 years.

  18. Re:Maturity curve [Re:or...] on Alibaba Co-founder Says Many Americans 'Want To Stop China' From Upgrading Its Tech (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Chinese viewpoint...easier and cheaper to ask forgiveness for ip violations than permission.

  19. Now there are innovative and competitive chinese products out there. Trump just likes stroking the "Were number 1" jingoism among the old timers some more.
    Your not number 1 unless you earn it and keep earning it.

  20. Re:A lot of broadcast TV is dreck... on When Did TV Watching Peak? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    One thing FCC did wrong with DTV is allowing junk channels (shopping networks, chain repeats) to control too much of the OTA airwaves.
    The broadcast channels have allowed the secondary channels they own to go basically underutilized.

    In the UK OTA Freeview includes 24 hour news channels such as bbc news and sky news, OTA movie and sports channels.

  21. Re:The Anti-Trump Drivel on Slashdot is Astounding on Bill Gates Shares His Memories of Donald Trump (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Then lets use another example Ronald Reagan. Reagan spent years debating issues and reading. You may disagree with Reagans policies but he was
    not ignorant he understood his own beliefs and why he believed they were right. He usually hired very competent people to advise him. In last few
    years he was suffering from alzheimers but before that he was fairly quick witted and could laugh at his own shortcomings and could
    sit down and make a deal with his political opponents. Im a liberal democrat and I liked Reagan as a decent human being. Now compare that
    with Donald Trump a man who is notoriously thin skinned and believes he knows more about everything than experts do.

  22. No its not on US Births Dip To 30-Year Low (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The USA during the 19th century EAGERLY recruited immigrants. The homestead act of 1862 allowed immigrants, former slaves and single women to apply.

  23. Theres nothing wrong with luck/good fortune as long as your leadership is smart enough to take advantage of it. Reagan was smart enough to take advantage of Gorbachev reaching out to the west following the chernobyl disaster. I will say honestly Reagan was smart man, I say that as a liberal Democrat. In 2003 Iran shocked at the US ease destroying the iraqi army. offered George W Bush a grand peace deal that included putting issues such denuclearization and recognition of israel on the table. George W. Bush refused because he wanted regime change he couldnt overcome his ideological biases to seize the moment.

  24. The difference is China will not allow US to take over North Korea they would rather do it themselves if need be. After denuclearization as long Kim Jung un does what China wants and prevents N Korean refugees from swarming into china he will be allowed to stay in power.

  25. They make lots on wireless and they own the fiber, they also moved a lot of their uverse customers over to directv which lowers ATT's costs.
    ATT's uverse has the advantage of not being the fastest but being cheaper and good enough for most people. ATT also doesnt have the customer hate that comcast does.