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  1. Re:And where does "velocity" come from? on GPS Always Overestimates Distances (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    I would bet you though that 100% of the smartphone software used for tracking runs does not do that.

    90% of the software used however does smooth out using one algorithm or another the run, because the coastline effect is too noticiable(basically if you had infinitely small polling time, the route would appear infinitely long)

  2. actually they just changed the name.. on Microsoft Kills Off Zune Music Service (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    first they changed the name to windows phone 7 and then they took the design and made windows 8 and then windows 10.

    the design path is far from dead, unfortunately.

    which gets us to why metro along with wp-reboot and windows 8 was such a huge fail. the joke was that windows phone 7 needed downloaded software to integrate with windows while other phones on the market did not.

  3. Re:Hacked? on Hacked Amazon Echo Controls a Wheelchair (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 1

    well,...

    is it really just connecting the motors to light switch relays? how the fuck are you supposed to drive around with joke control like that.

    note that the motors on the wheelchair could have been anything else too

  4. Re:So, they're not fully tested yet? on Google Car Pulled Over For Driving Too Slow, Doesn't Get a Ticket (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    it's never going to be autonomous driving autopilot. you're pretty much not allowed to take your eyes off the road.

    how they can get away with selling something like this with BETA label is a joke though. sell an expensive car and then sell an expensive DLC that you label as BETA that you market to douchebags with the label autopilot and tell them that it's self driving. it's a driver assist system and not the only one in the world at that, other manufacturers aren't just stupid enough to call it BETA autopilot.

  5. Re:That's a first on Google Car Pulled Over For Driving Too Slow, Doesn't Get a Ticket (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    that's driving erratically, suspiciously, unusually or whatever. not for 'driving 10mph under the limit'. in a neighborhood you would think that they would thank them for not going 35+10mph.

  6. Re:$2 Million for 3 episodes??? on MST3K Is Kickstarting Back To Life · · Score: 1

    that's a bit suspect calculation since production setup is part of ep budget or should be for anyone anyways.

    at any rate, the production setup costs could include buying a house to film in.

    the production setup cost is higher than the movies had budget.

    say, if they were riffing avgn movie, the production setup cost would be 200 000 higher than the entire budget for the movie being riffed.

    it's like he is treating it as a studio production for a major network with staff of 10-20, which for the format is rather ludicrous especially in crowdfunded form.

    what I'm saying is that they could afford to MAKE THEIR OWN B-MOVIES for the price.

  7. double the budget than the movie being riffed to on MST3K Is Kickstarting Back To Life · · Score: 2

    meh. look at the cast needed, fx budget needed and just look at the synopsis for mst3k and ST:TNG and it really starts to seem QUITE unreasonable.

    but then again, americans seem to think that everything should give a 100k year salary and showbusiness double that.

    basically, at 660k, they would be running a higher budget per episode THAN THE FUCKING MOVIES THEY'RE RIFFING TO. for example zombie nightmare had an adjusted for 1987 to 2015 inflation budget of 382,499.18 dollars.

    and no, they didn't show it on tv where I'm from so I don't really care. probably would have more value if it was nostalgic, but, mst3k is still known largely for being a show made like it is made due to having to come up with a show that had as little expenses as possible, so comparing it to something like TNG is really fucking unfair.

  8. Re:The malware is injected into Web sites .. on Linux Ransomware Has Predictable Key, Automated Decryption Tool Released (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    apparently it doesn't. it just does what it can as whatever you have wordpress set up as.

    of course, next version could have it try any number of elevate to root exploits available - or simply lay dormant until some maintanence that requires root is done with the wp install.

  9. pay to get the testing done. plenty of companies who will tell you if you're missing a chromosome. it's not standard practice because some people don't want to know - and oh well there is the thing about voodoo only working if you believe in it..

  10. Re:H1-B program die die die on How Outsourcing Companies Are Gaming the H-1B Visa System (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    people will work for 50k. would keep rents reasonable too. really the six figure sums from jobs that are not done six figure even in northern europe is the problem of the american it hotspots and the reason for outsourcing being so lucrative.

    that the h1b has been modelled as debt servitude is just a byproduct.

  11. Re:Fantasy sports is like horse race betting on Fantasy Sports Sites Ordered To Stop Taking Bets In New York State (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    horse racing is regulated and defined as gambling in pretty much any country that regulates gambling though.

    or put in other way, if betting on sports straight up is gambling then fantasy sports betting is gambling too. exactly same amount of 'skill'.

  12. Re:Devil's Advocate on Going Dark Crypto Debate Going Nowhere (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    it's much simpler than that. theres guys who have a job of reading the crap nsa intercepts. these guys push for more money&work for themselves and there you have it.

    add to that the exceptionalism that once somebody is in power then they don't mind it because it keeps them in power, theoretically.

    then there's the normal coppers who rightfully think that they could catch a few more crooks if they just had a little bit more of power and could at will search through peoples cellphones just when they feel like it, to catch someone who had done a deal for few ounces once a week(never mind that as a byproduct they would end up knowing personal relations of everyone if they worked in a small town).

  13. Re: Ok to pollute because others are worse? on VW Engineers Have Admitted Manipulating CO2 Emissions Data (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I think we've found the reason for the california drought. no more particles, no more rain! it all checks out!

  14. Re:Dreamweaver isn't a CMS, and neither is Frontpa on WordPress Now Powers 25% of the Web · · Score: 0

    sure they are content management systems. they're used to manage content for millions of websites, even for the governments. the content is created, edited and generated from them and in some cases automatically uploaded.. just because they suck doesn't mean that they're not content management systems.

    \\"A content management system (CMS)[1][2][3] is a computer application that allows publishing, editing and modifying content, organizing, deleting as well as maintenance from a central interface.[4] Such systems of content management provide procedures to manage workflow in a collaborative environment.[5] These procedures can be manual steps or an automated cascade. CMSs have been available since the late 1990s."

  15. Re:what happened to personal responsibility? on The FCC Says It Can't Force Google and Facebook To Stop Tracking Their Users (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    you don't have to load those either? I suppose you don't have to visit pretty much any webpages either or read any news. or you can use hosts *cough*.

    even that isn't foolproof though.

    and once they introduce facial recognition cameras on the streets that tag you when you walk past starbucks you can just wear a bag over your head too.

    just how the heck are you supposed to know in ADVANCE that cnn.com has facebook and google tracking on it, or your local newspapers page, when they go out of their way to purposely make it not that obvious even when you]re LOOKING at the page.

  16. 1) they probably don't understand it themselves but that just means having a web connected device in your pocket. tadaa you're connected! basically that excludes just few people in china and africa nowadays.

    2) yeah yeah shown to who..
    3) you can still use oil to make cheap electricity.
    4) tesla started such competition anyways. tesla is unlikely to co-operate with anyone.

    but that they're calling it a tool means it will be more for commuting etc, 2cv style.

  17. running at 1080p.

    on low settings.

    a game that also runs on xbox 360.

    a game that you describe as 'new'

    sure, it'll run shovelknight etc.. but duh. the point is pretty much that it's as fast as a budget card from 3 years back.

  18. Re:and how does it get on? on Android App Mutates Source Code, Spreads Virally and Enables Mesh Networks (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    well, I reckon the authors made it deliberately sound like that to get more PR.

    because deliberate propagation through peer to peer transfer.. well hot damn that's only 15 years old stuff on smartphones. furthermore, wtf kind of killswitch are they thinking of? all the variations they have would be under it of course(not signed by the store? kill it with fire, doh.)

    secondly it's on android because android is open that you can do things like this if you want. mentioning porting it to WP or iOS is fucking stupid, if they don't at the same time mention how the fuck are they going to enable sideloading to regular users.

    never mind that the mesh network itself is useless without apps that use it, which would have easily fingerprintable code portions. never mind that an actually functioning mesh network would be far, far, faaaaaaaaaaaaar more interesting than self packaging and resending because that we have had for one and a half decades on consumer mobes but I'm still waiting on actually usable dynamic mesh networking.

  19. well, it either uses some exploits (Spreads virally) making the 'not needing root' a bit pointless or something.

    OR the article is just bullshit and the mislead the writer on purpose which I find FAR FAR more likely.

    basically the blurb is such a piece of shit that you would think that the mesh networking app 'mutates' itself from being a game into a calculator app. like, if it can do coherent apps by mutating itself then hot damn fucking forget the mesh network.

    ok, maybe, maayyybe it works by repacking an app already on the device and bluetooths/wifi sends it over to another device, but iirc that would need root(or exploits giving you root). like first one gets it inside a game application and then it gets resent in a calculator app forward. you don't really need a full compiler either if you're just shifting bytecode back and forth or changing symbol names.

  20. Re:wrong term on Nine Out of Ten of the Internet's Top Websites Are Leaking Your Data · · Score: 1

    leaking also would indicate that it is unintentional. the websites are mainly leaking through ad networks and are doing it on purpose to get money(or analytics).

  21. Re:Exploit will be sold, kept secret from Apple on Somebody Just Claimed a $1 Million Bounty For Hacking the iPhone (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    well, every version of safari so far has had remote execution bugs in it.

    it's kind of puzzling how many they can have, actually, or if they just keep adding shit that creates new holes.

  22. Re:What's up with the ' on Slashdot Asks: Notes For Next Hallowe'en? · · Score: 1

    honestly i'm surprised the "poltergist" did not come out of "boxen".

  23. Re:What's up with the ' on Slashdot Asks: Notes For Next Hallowe'en? · · Score: 1

    you can try to substitute every V with a W if you're writing in finnish and TRY to claim that it's correct since many people used to write like that 300 years ago. you would fail your highschool finals for trying to do idiot shit like that though.

  24. Re:changing times my ass on HP Is Now Two Companies. How Did It Get Here? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    your first line contradicts your second line.

    who comes up with the reward schemes.. heck, basically that is the only job the ceo has now in a big enough company. thats how the steering is done.

  25. Re:What language is this written in? on Botnet Takes Over Twitch Install and Partially Installs Gentoo · · Score: 1

    was the install broadcasted on twitch? you'd think that users were trying to install arch linux on twitch's servers and some strange botnet showed up or some shit like that