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  1. Apps from manufacturers and carriers on HTC Removes Many of Its Android Apps From the Play Store (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Has ANYONE ever appreciated a single one of these? Poorly conceived, never updated.

  2. hardly the first use on More Than One Reality Exists (in Quantum Physics) (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    of "alternative facts"

  3. Re:So, pilot error? on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree that an excessive of modal behaviors, that might differ between aircraft, is a problem. It might be that moderate specialization might be ok as long as a simple and unmistakeable (seizing the yoke, firewalling the throttle, etc) set of actions cause them to desist immediately.

  4. Re:So, pilot error? on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably both. Why this first incident did not, at the minimum, result in a post-in note stuck to the control column for the next pilot is unpardonable.

    At the same time, any aircraft should disengage all automatic pilot behaviors, with a suitable audible indicateion, if a human in the cockpit moves a control axis through more than 50% of its range within one second's time.

  5. Was this interaction perhaps followed by... on A Doctor Remotely Told A Patient He Was Going To Die Using A Video-Link Robot (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    ... a screen inviting the patient to swipe a credit card?

  6. Tracy Kidder should write this one up on Nike Bricks Its Shoes With a Faulty Firmware Update (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Sole of a New Machine

  7. Is this the trend, then? on Ask Slashdot: Could An AI Conceivably Create Futureproof Product Designs? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do we all just assume AI can do what mankind cannot?

  8. Have Christo build the wall on Should America Build a Virtual Border Wall? Or Just Crowdfund It... (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    The Democrats should provide some funding for the wall, but stipulate that it be constructed of colorful, diaphanous material.

    Point made!

  9. Re:What a difference a year makes on Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's 2018: We've Changed, We Promise (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What other candidate could win several states by promising a chronological news timeline?

  10. before

    after:

  11. Re:camera or the lens or the sensor? on Motion Impossible: Tom Cruise Declares War on TV Frame Interpolation (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It is the lighting set-up, which is a standard array meant to minimize or eliminate the need to alter lighting when shooting successive scenes. That is, it flattens everything out since it must work from a variety of camera positions.

    I saw a good web article on it, but that is the short take

  12. change the default, and add some control data on Motion Impossible: Tom Cruise Declares War on TV Frame Interpolation (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Perhaps broadcasts and streaming should contain in-band data to suggest to display devices optimal settings for the content. I don't want my day-time soaps to look like a Tom Cruise movie.

  13. The first step on Richard Stallman Announces GNU Kind Communication Guidelines (gnu.org) · · Score: 1

    The first step toward showing kindness toward others is to wash your hair every so often.

  14. Why are employers involved in our healthcare, at all? They need something done and will pay us to do it for them. Why are they managing our health?

    It is like going to Starbucks for a coffee, and when you offer to pay, the barrista asks, "Thanks, but ... aren't you going to house-sit my miniature pinscher?"

  15. So you crossed the sea, Columbot on Robot Boat Sails Into History By Finishing Atlantic Crossing (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that indigenous robots have rights, too.

  16. Tech guru prognosticatorfactor off the charts here on SAP Founder Hasso Plattner Fears the Scourge of Social Media (afr.com) · · Score: 1

    You had me at "he invented SAP", and then you told me that he was 74 years old.

  17. A better idea would be... on Tesla Files Patent For Automatic Turn Signals (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Have autopilot execute the turn, but only after the turn signal has been activated (by the driver) an appropriate amount of time.

    That is, make it so that the cars make turns that have been properly signalled.

    It reduces driver workload and enforces safe driving habits.

  18. "Translation for double-amputee scientists"

    fixed it for you

  19. it's not the DPI, people: it's the filters.

  20. Call me when they are driving miles per hour, because that is what real-world cars do.

  21. Modest proposal: Tab should lose its ASCII code on Is Python the Future of Programming? (economist.com) · · Score: 0

    Tab should have a key-code, but not a ASCII code, like Shift. It has no place in a document, whether it be code or prose

  22. Why send a ship into battle carrying so much gold?

    Why drop armor shards when you're killed in the arena?

    It's because THAT'S HOW IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN!

  23. These flaws are confined to test cases and proofs of concept. I'm going to wait for Spectre 2.0 (or 2.1, for the bugfixes)

  24. It is safer to wait for tech to close this small vulnerability than to shoulder the social burden of having a landline.

    It's like AOL

  25. Pronounced "Clippy" on Microsoft Also Has An AI Bot That Makes Phone Calls To Humans (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "Hello! I see that you answer a lot of phone calls!"