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  1. Re:Clippy Lives on Microsoft Launches LinkedIn-Powered Resume Assistant For Office 365 Subscribers · · Score: 1

    It actually sounds like it could be useful for grabbing common ways of describing things to get your resume past the HR filters. You have to get through those before a real human would end up looking at your formatting.

  2. Re:Controversial study on Ultra-Processed Foods May Be Linked To Cancer, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't it quaint to think private ownership of firearms will prevent fascism? With modern tech, they'll drone organized units of opposition, and ferret out disorganized groups by monitoring their comms and put them in our plentiful prisons. Even with private small arms you'd need to turn over an armory to get anywhere, with the militarization of the police.

  3. Re:Does it have to be one or the other? on Ultra-Processed Foods May Be Linked To Cancer, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You've got to kill the botulinum somehow... if you don't use chemicals/salt/sugar then you'll use heat. Did the heat turn the food into carcinogenic chemicals or degrade its nutritive properties?

  4. Re:Oiled wood. end of story on Apple's HomePod Speakers Leave White Marks on Wood (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That and you don't have to sand shellac to get marks out, just a quick wipe with ethanol.

  5. Re:talking out your wood on Apple's HomePod Speakers Leave White Marks on Wood (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What oil are we talking here? Mineral oil maybe, but BLO shouldn't get marked up by a silicone whatever sitting on it...

  6. Do you suppose people will be paying Uber guys to drive around with their phone all day?

  7. Re:Desparate times, desparate measures on Russian Nuclear Scientists Arrested For 'Bitcoin Mining Plot' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, borrowing a super computer to make bitcoins is actually a pretty funny idea. At an academic supercomputer that'd be an awesome prank of sorts. Connecting an intentionally offline computer to the network to do so should've given them pause, though...

  8. Re:Can they charge me instead? on Viacom To Launch Its Own Streaming Service this Year (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    My kids get annoyed enough by the PBS promos for other shows. Real commercials confuse them, unless they are movie trailers, which they find mesmerizing.

  9. Re:So you don't want money? on Nvidia Will Focus on Gaming Because Cryptocurrencies Are 'Volatile' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    If you can't trend it then you can't forecast production based upon it. They're being sensible about planning their future capacity rather than ending up in a lurch with a bunch of unsold product once the crypto bubble pops.

  10. Re:Still will be quite useful on 'Modern AI is Good at a Few Things But Bad at Everything Else' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I want an AI that is as easy to interact with as a dog, but can do everything I use my smart phone for and more. Instead of fetching a pheasant, fact checking a conversation in real time. Ideally, it'd be something I could trust as much as my dog, too, but I'm sure the first ones will be mostly recommending me solve all of my problems by buying things on Amazon...

  11. Isn't that true with most jobs, though? If we study what salary burger flippers stabilize at, I'm sure part of it is because they eventually become shift managers or graduate and get on to a high paying job.

  12. Re:Population levels and social media on US Suicides Spiked 10 Percent After Robin Williams's Death, Study Finds (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    I hadn't heard of that paradox before, it was a very interesting read!

  13. They'll just imbed some 3G radios in there and have it phone home on some low bandwidth connection paid for by the advertising research money without telling you next. You'll probably have to watch from inside a faraday cage.

  14. Is it a good market? on Now Google Might Make a Game Console and Game-Streaming Service (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Nintendo is in there because that's their whole deal, Sony and MS felt kind of luke warm about even getting around to replacing 360 and PS3, but would probably keep their platforms going so long as it breaks even for brand exposure or something. NVidia and Steam have hardware no one buys, too, right? I guess they could make sure to price it so it isn't a loss leader for peripherals and then also claim it mines bitcoins or something.

  15. Re:Counting Crows on Many Animals Can Count, Some Better Than You (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    I've had few interactions with crows but witnessed a few glimpses of their famous intelligence. One afternoon I was in the back yard and heard very unusual crow calls, which is telling since usually their calls already sound unnervingly like a human conversation in a language you don't know. Two crows were coordinating with one another to harass a young red tail hawk into leaving the area. The hawk was of course better suited for combat, but the crows were interspersing generic calls of aggression with some novel (to me) chatter and taking turns diving on the hawk and distracting him again before he could try to riposte. I've seen songbirds harass bigger birds similarly, but they seem to rely on their small size and greater agility, whereas the crows being more on par in size and acrobatics seemed more dependent on their partner to keep them safe.

  16. Animal Psych on Many Animals Can Count, Some Better Than You (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I took an animal psych class back in college and at the time it was believed that most animals could count to at least 7 linearly, and beyond that were excellent at estimating logarithmically. The smarter the animal, the further it could count linearly, in general.

  17. Re: If you believe in lies, then you become extrem on Fake News Sharing In US Is a Rightwing Thing, Says Oxford Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    It is weird when you get through some philosophy electives and when at some campus party can begin to recognize who is having an honest conversation and who is playing rhetorical games to 'win' a discussion. They look surprised when you 'skip a few moves ahead' as it were. Contrast that in the workplace where someone trying to be difficult just responds with "so what you're trying to say is..." until you give up and are left to decide if whatever is worth going over their head for.

  18. Re:What's in a name? on Senate Cryptocurrency Hearing Strikes a Cautiously Optimistic Tone (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Aren't the governments in Asia turning on them first?

  19. Yeah, its like when a little kid goes limp in protest of you removing them from a situation, you don't realize how much someone helps when they want to be picked up.

  20. Re:The Sky is Falling on Tablet Shipments Decline For 13th Straight Quarter (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah it is just a saturated market. If it can stream Netflix and has a web browser then you're set for 99% of people, I'm sure.

  21. PS4 users comparison? on Sony's PlayStation 4 Has Nearly Outsold the PlayStation 3 (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you have to install 50 GB of data to play PS4 games? We got an Xbox One S to play 4k movies and the little ones make my gaming time rare, but for the few games I have played so far on there, each needed to download 50-100 GB on the drive before I could play. Consoles sure ain't what they used to be... sure its prettier than when everything ran off disc, but it really is just a slow gaming PC in a box that looks nice under the TV. Also weird, it plays the movies just fine, but the capability to play them was a downloadable app rather than already built-in. I guess they really want you to have to connect it to the internet to make it work.

  22. Re:You got the wrong insects! on Insect Die-off: Even Common Species Are Becoming Rare (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    You only really need to drive the ones that bite humans extinct, many of which are technically invasive species for much of the world.

  23. Could you elaborate? You went oblique there and it just reads like concern trolling that maybe they're not 'the good guys' like it seems. Honestly if it wasn't for Slashdot posters I'd never have heard of DDG so I'm not sure what you're talking about with the adverts, either. I suppose I should try them out, I use different browsers for different things and so about half my searches are on Google and half on Bing, and we know those guys are slurping whatever they can.

  24. Re:Fireflies on Insect Die-off: Even Common Species Are Becoming Rare (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Something weird happened with them... they seemed to really be a lot less of them but this past year they seemed to rebound.

  25. Re:Do we want to keep the ICE? on Mazda Says Its Next-Gen Gasoline Engine Will Run Cleaner Than An Electric Car (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    That'd be a shame, they're such fun to drive for the price. My Mazda3 went 11 years without any problems before it got totaled. I replaced it with a CX-5, which if it lasts as long will probably end up replaced either by some self-driving electric thing or a horse/dog team.