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  1. Re:Apple Hardware Program on iPhones Will Reportedly Get the Power To Unlock Doors Using NFC (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    There is institutional fear within Apple of losing control of their own system.

  2. Re: 1st world problem on Papua New Guinea Bans Facebook For a Month To Root Out 'Fake Users' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh come on, it's more efficient to give them papers and count their ghost votes. That's privatization for you, companies will always try to skimp on the quality whereas government backing can provide truly high quality gv.

  3. Re:Arbitrary Intrusions on Papua New Guinea Bans Facebook For a Month To Root Out 'Fake Users' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if it could be bred somewhat easily to come up with an unusual and interesting flavor.

  4. Re:Arbitrary Intrusions on Papua New Guinea Bans Facebook For a Month To Root Out 'Fake Users' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, are those things even edible??

  5. It could be argued that AGPL is actually a GPLv4.

  6. I would argue that law is more important than CS by an order of magnitude. There is no escaping the law. But there's no industry group trying to get cheaper lawyers by teaching it to kids at a young age.

  7. Re:Why the comparison? on In China's Booming Tech Scene, Women Battle Sexism and Conservative Values (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Ironically you seem to be feeling the same frustration that rape victims often do, i.e. that it is so hard to prove and get a conviction.

    Good observation.

  8. Re:DRAIN THE DRUMPF! on Invisible Scum on Sea Cuts CO2 Exchange With Air 'By Up To 50%' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    If you saw the senate hearings on climate change

    Senate hearings are a stage, not science.

    The Dems did not like to listen to this science and brought their own science with them.

    Do you understand that both Dems and Reps only chose scientists who would say things they already like? They would be fools to do otherwise, because that would make them look bad on a stage.

    Because I don't post left all my comments get modded down, bye bye Karma.

    It's not because you don't post left, it's because you post clearly on the right. That is, you mold your opinion largely to match the party.

  9. Re: Please don't encourage them on Mystery Donor Pledges $1 Million To The GNOME Foundation (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Ouch, that's some tough love, right there.

  10. Re:Please no on Europe Plans Ban on Plastic Cutlery, Straws and More (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    No, where? Not why.....

  11. It would take you a week to write a tool to take apart an ELF file and add custom code to it. And of course, once the tool is written, you can do it as much as you want. That's how it is with security exploits: some are really tough, but if you write a tool, any script kiddie can exploit it.

  12. Re: Running it from another drive? on Windows 10 Spring Update Improves Linux On WSL With Unix Sockets and More (anandtech.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Be patient. Eventually the Linux subsystem will be all that's left of Windows. Maybe a legacy support module on the side.

  13. Re:The Musical One Percent - only in USA? on Increasing Similarity of Billboard Songs · · Score: 1

    You're fucking deaf. One is primarily a guitar song, one is completely synthpop. One is recorded to give the artist a natural sound, the other has a heavily distorted voice (not that they need to, both have wonderful voices). Not to mention the rhythms and chordsets are completely different.

  14. Re:This does nothing. on Invisible Scum on Sea Cuts CO2 Exchange With Air 'By Up To 50%' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    As the world continues to heat and the subocean deposits of methane start flowing,

    Scientific consensus is that will not happen.

  15. Re:Please no on Europe Plans Ban on Plastic Cutlery, Straws and More (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I only noticed it when I visited a friend who served me a meal with "fancy" gold-plated cutlery

    Where on earth do you get that??

  16. You need the correct cultural context, of course. China is run by the Communist party. Open Source is Communist, and therefore good for the people. By opposing Open Source, These are opposing the good of the people. Never fear, with some reeducation, Huawei can become again valuable and worthy members of society.

  17. Re:Professor Stefan Halper on Huawei Will No Longer Allow Bootloader Unlocking On Its Android Handsets (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And 9-11 was a libtard job, duh! ae911truth org

    I won't be sad when the current round of political stupidity ends.

  18. "Thank you for your continued support."

    There is no support. I don't have much influence in the phone world, but all that I have will now be directed at convincing people away from you.

  19. Re:The Musical One Percent - only in USA? on Increasing Similarity of Billboard Songs · · Score: 1

    As an old fart (punched card Fortran guy) it seems to me that most pop music has become very homogeneous there; the same four chords and riffs over and over with autotuned well-known-female-voice over the top.

    Nah, if you can't tell the difference between this style and this style, you're deaf. And if that's not enough, this is #1 right now and wildly different.

    In the 60s and 70s it was all guitar and drums. Throw in an occasional piano or trumpet. Now in pop music there is more variety in instruments, more variety in chords, more variety in recording techniques. I like the classics but the skill level in music production has gone up without a doubt.

  20. Re: Please don't encourage them on Mystery Donor Pledges $1 Million To The GNOME Foundation (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Gnome would benefit from spending the money to hire people to fix bugs. It isn't so much the design that is bad, it's the weird bugs and awkward work flows that show up because no one really testef their stuff well. It's jusy quirky. Note that it's still better than the adfest Windows has become.

  21. That would be a benefit. In most cases I've found that neural networks have been wholly inadequate for the task I've chosen, and another approach is better (for example, a standard natural language processor with a strong domain processor to rank resumes. It is true you will get a small improvement at recognizing verbs and nouns with a NN without actually understanding meaning, but the improvement potential of building a solid domain model will make the NN look like a rounding error. You might say that using a neural network to build up a domain model is a good idea, but then you will need to spend tremendously more time building up a data set). Admittedly, I am not an expert, and there are definitely some domains where NN are very useful.

  22. Relevant? on Increasing Similarity of Billboard Songs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Are the billboard top 10 even relevant anymore? It seems like a different metric like "top 100 concert earnings" or something would be more relevant these days.

  23. Re: Leave or deal with it on Coastal Megacity Karachi Is Running Out of Water (earther.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    It goes back into the ocean, and is (rather quickly) diluted so that there is no observable difference. Near the output 'vent' there is higher salt content in the water, which can affect the environment right around the output area, but that can be mitigated through various techniques.

  24. Re: What exactly is an algorithm bias? on Microsoft Developing a Tool To Help Engineers Catch Bias in Algorithms (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    How can the algorithm know that if race isn't used as an input?

  25. Re: Except no on Microsoft Developing a Tool To Help Engineers Catch Bias in Algorithms (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've found that to be a problem in my attempts to make neural networks: too often a complex network can be simplified to just a few variables that, once found, can be hard coded. In some ways it's really depressing.