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  1. this is not targeted at parents but at children who don't have access to their parents amazon accounts to browse for themselves. It's so little Suzy will say, "daddy, daddy, I want this dolly rocket house, and this stuffed animal, and this...." Now not only are ads everywhere on the web, but your children are now effectively turned into yet another ads. /s Thanks Amazon /s

  2. I guess some places are air tight, but the rock where I live if full of holes and I could only imagine would leak profusely.

  3. The lines are the problem on Creating the First Quantum Internet (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is the fleshy creatures on either side of the communications line. Alas that meat bad will likely be the weak point.

  4. New Uber Perk on Uber CEO: We're Going After Groceries Next (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the new cafeteria plan for the drivers. It'll supplement their low income and high hours by making food available.

  5. We should just turn the fans on. Burn coal and dump the power into the wind farms.

  6. Political parties should also be broken up.

  7. Re:Anyone have a handle on what this actually does on Senate Passes Music Modernization Act With Unanimous Support (billboard.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought the same thing. It only states what it's suppose to do, not what the actual provisions are. I suspect that the platitudes won't be fully realized instead we'll have something else.

  8. Re:Success without college on Do Businesses Really Need to Hire CS Majors? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Part of self-learning is recognizing when you need a mentor and seeking one out.

  9. What the goal of filtering is on Researchers Find That Filters Don't Prevent Porn (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    No filtering won't prevent a determined individual from accessing porn. However, it goes a long way from preventing accidental exposure, which as someone that doesn't want to see porn and as a parent wants keep my children from running across in casual browsing.
    That said the only sure porn filter is a personal determination to avoid it. This is only achieved through learning and teaching correct principles and allowing the individual to implement those principles.
    Those correct principles are: Viewing porn makes your personal life miserable and ruins your ability to have meaningful and deep relationships (both sexual and non-sexual) with people of the opposite sex.

  10. So you just point a camera at the person and they tell the AI the symptoms? Or do they mean you have a doctor get the symptoms and AI (google search) looks up matching diseases.

  11. Landfills on Almost 45 Million Tons of E-waste Discarded Last Year (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    valuable mineral deposits of the future.

  12. Re:Nothing changed but the language on Sexual Harassment In Tech Is As Old As the Computer Age (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    If you make it a point not to include sex as part of a relationship until after your married then you don't have to worry about that. You make it clear that you want to know the person as a person, no sexual pressure, no harassment.

  13. Re:I'd like to see a comparison on 'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' (grist.org) · · Score: 2

    When computers are running at 5% of CPU then they automatically scale down its power consumption. If you were to use the "idle" CPU cycles you would would cause the computer to use significantly more power.

  14. Re:Nature of the Failure Mode on A Programing Error Blasted 19 Russian Satellites Back Towards Earth (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's reffering to the age of the people doing the pre-flight checks. Perhaps their memory is going.

  15. Police will love this on Hackers Say They've Broken Face ID a Week After iPhone X Release (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Well it looks like the police won't need to rely on the prisoner to divulge a password anymore. They can just do a 3D mug-shot, make a mask and open up the phone.

  16. Well until there's a bug in the software that does it triggering a panic.

  17. Start a war on Should Private Companies Be Allowed To Hit Back At Hackers? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "you can't have companies starting a war. That's an inherently governmental responsibility" I would argue that it's the government's responsibility to prevent war when possible and never to start one!

  18. Re:advertisement is an advertisement on LastPass Reveals the Threats Posed By Passwords in the Workplace (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Even strong passwords have a problem when you re-use them. If you get Phished you've just comprimised all your sites not just one. Where as a with a password manager you don't enter your strong password into a web page (at least not the PM I use) so you won't loose everything with one mistake. I also use my PM enough to remember the strong password.

  19. Re:Only one solution on Smartphones Are Killing Americans, But Nobody's Counting (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
    Except for me that would definitely increase my distraction on a long trip. Having nine children I count on their phones to distract them so they don't distract me, the driver.

    Remember not everyone is alone in the car, there are passengers that using a phone would be fine for.

  20. I'd love the unintended consequences of this. We'd reign in foreign meddling pretty quickly.

  21. I guess Mexico will be paying for the wall after all.

  22. Re:Version Control = Good on Developer Accidentally Deletes Three-Month of Work With Visual Studio Code (bingj.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing that his 3 months of work would have been 3 days of work for an average programmer. On the bright side he's learned a lesson that he won't soon forget. And now he has that opportunity to refactor his code he's secretly been wanting to do anyway.

  23. I agree this is excuse-hunting. I mean the guy made a life sized paper mache doll to put in his bed. Do they have craft time in prison? And wouldn't that be kind of a suspicious art project? Or did they think he wanted to cuddle with it? How in the world could he hide that without lax security or inside help.

  24. Seems as sensible as on Scientists Propose Plan To Re-Freeze the Arctic (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    a land war in Asia in the winter.

  25. Exactly, especially if it were all dumped at once in one glorious flaming ball.