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  1. levels of this? on One in 50 of Us is Face Blind -- and Many Don't Even Realize (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It takes me a *long* time to learn new people's faces, and if I don't see someone for a few years (even close relatives) I can't recognize them. Sometimes this causes embarrassment as apparently most people can recognize others even after 10+ years.

  2. Re:You're kidddin, right? on Russian Trolls Created Facebook Events Seen By More Than 300,000 Users (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    and 300,000 people saw them....so essentially, almost no facebook users even saw these "events"

    Reminds my of our pathetic marketing department trying to justify our website almost no one looks at...so they count "impressions" rather than report the dismal number of unique visitors.

  3. good thinking - no chinese components on Trump Team Considers Nationalizing America's 5G Network (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    this will protect us, because mobile devices aren't made in china

    neither are the components of wireless networking gear

    (pffffft!!!!)

  4. Re:So, how is this forced update thing working out on Microsoft Issues Windows Out-of-Band Update That Disables Spectre Mitigations (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    funny, the windows update on my win 7 box has only an upgrade to win 10 showing now.

  5. Re:I can see the CNN headline now on Tax Change Aims to Lure Intellectual Property Back to the US (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes the Russians did the most work. Our system found the internment of our Japanese citizens to be wrong and compensation and apologies were made. Our system found slavery and racism to be wrong. See, our system is self-improving, we're not the good guys but the guys with a system that can fix itself.

    Gitmo is for enemy combatants and terrorists, your *opinion* of it is may not be held be all.

  6. Re:as a physicist... on Do Particles Have Consciousness? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Some questions are so very insipid physicists should have nothing to do with them; let's not make a laughing stock out of the field. Let's leave unverifiable fantasies to fiction writers and theologians.

  7. Re:I can see the CNN headline now on Tax Change Aims to Lure Intellectual Property Back to the US (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    as I recall our system helped to put down those systems

  8. Re:The remaining 100,000+ people on A Single Line of Computer Code Put Thousands of Innocent Turks in Jail (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    No, the Turkish have pretended to have a democracy for over a century, while engaging in genocide and oppression. Don't whitewash turds.

  9. nonsense, it's just a one meter ball. plenty of bigger *junk* floating around up there, at least this one is pretty

  10. Get real, a space company is testing a launch vehicle, and the advertising and costs are no different than the commercials during a superbowl game

  11. Re:Tesla Stock is a GIANT Bubble on Tesla Employees Say Gigafactory Problems Are Worse Than Known (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    net income of $559M for 2017...am I missing something or are they turning a profit?

  12. Re:I can see the CNN headline now on Tax Change Aims to Lure Intellectual Property Back to the US (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    We have rule of law and your mere opinions on legal things being a "euphemism" are irrelevant. If you get your viewpoints from a stand up comedian don't expect to be taken seriously.

  13. Re: Worst thing is... on Elon Musk's Boring Company Delivers $600 Flamethrower (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    depending on location here in the USA from 15 to 85 percent of the time it's an enslaved or indentured servant woman's services being sold, which is not and should not be legal

  14. Re:what nonsense is this? on Researchers Warn of Physics-Based Attacks On Sensors (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    all the thermal imaging from cameras I've seen would be useless in a court of law to identify someone; for finding and rescuing in building they're great

  15. Re:If imaginary money is stolen is it still theft? on $500 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency Stolen From Japanese Exchange (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I found those and a black sock in my dryer with my laundry, are they yours?

  16. what nonsense is this? on Researchers Warn of Physics-Based Attacks On Sensors (securityledger.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    All analog sensors are susceptible to "physics based attacks" too. Like putting device that gives off a lot of heat under a thermostat to get a nice cool comfy workspace....

  17. Re:I can see the CNN headline now on Tax Change Aims to Lure Intellectual Property Back to the US (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Your childish point of view makes no sense, no corporation is going to pay taxes it doesn't have to. It is not evasion when they legally don't have to pay, quit making up definitions for words outside the dictionary.

  18. Re:Analog chip on Engineers Design Artificial Synapse For 'Brain-on-a-chip' Hardware (mit.edu) · · Score: 1

    the marketers in the 1960s used the "electronic brains" phrase; wow so ahead of their time...

  19. Re:I can see the CNN headline now on Tax Change Aims to Lure Intellectual Property Back to the US (wsj.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    false, you made that up.

    The majority of large companies *legally* do things to avoid taxes; now there is reason to do business here.

  20. Re:I see a lawsuit on the horizon.... on Dell and HP Advise All Their Customers To Not Install Spectre BIOS Updates (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    no, not the microcode, the very hardware of the chip has flaws. Impossible to fix by microcode changes alone, the purpose of any microcode changes released are to allow patched operating systems the choice to avoid using certain features of the hardware, but the flaws will be there and it is entirely possible for the OS to mistakenly or in ignorance still use those flawed features. And it turns out so far all OS I know of that have attempted to conform to Intel's intentions have failures on certain hardware, or continue to exhibit SPECTRE flaws

  21. Re:Analog chip on Engineers Design Artificial Synapse For 'Brain-on-a-chip' Hardware (mit.edu) · · Score: 2

    also, they reinvented something done in the 1960s. kids these days....

  22. that's just fear mongering, nicotine is available now in many forms

    besides, proven that nicotine in itself, meaning not smoked, is less addictive than caffeine.

    no additional harm made by vaping mainstream product mixes, and many benefits to getting rid of smokeable tobacco products

  23. So no solid evidence, and breathing smoke, whether from burning building or tobacco or tree is worse for you than vaping.

    Here's an idea, outlaw cigarettes, pipe tobacco, cigars...and let vaping be unregulated. Watch the lung cancer rates plummet.

  24. Re:Is it the tar or the nicotine that causes cance on Vaping Can Be Addictive and May Lure Teenagers to Smoking, Science Panel Concludes (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    no, there would already be statistical significance of lung cancer from vaping showing....but there just isn't.

    breathing smoke is bad for you, firemen has the increased risk of lung cancer too.

    No, I don't vape or smoke but it's clear why vaping is safer

  25. Re:/. is going downhill. on The Mystery of the Cars Abandoned in a Robot Car Park (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    no there is software problem, the AI system didn't point out it had long abandoned cars.