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  1. Re: Couldn't a tool developed on Microsoft Developing a Tool To Help Engineers Catch Bias in Algorithms (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    Equally, it can be used to avoid liability. You can say, "Maybe it's biased, but we did due diligence, it's not our fault!" Maybe though, maybe Microsoft is trying to avoid another Tay.

  2. Re: Leave or deal with it on Coastal Megacity Karachi Is Running Out of Water (earther.com) · · Score: 1

    Or build desalinization plants. There is no shortage of water, it's a problem of infrastructure.

  3. Re: The Tyranny of Surety on How the Math Men Overthrew the Mad Men (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're good at seeing where the numbers are wrong, you can make money like Steve Jobs did.

  4. Seriously, install an ad blocker on How the Math Men Overthrew the Mad Men (newyorker.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If you've ever worked in advertising, you'll find that anyone who's been there long has developed some kind of internal justification for why it is ok to work in an industry where harassing and annoying people is most of what they do. At my previous company, saying, "We are trying to replace Mad Men" was a common justification. Find an enemy who is worse than yourself.

    Seriously, if you haven't done it yet, install an ad blocker.

  5. Anyway, you seem to be a debutant, you forgot to end with "F1RST POST!"

    Yeah humor doesn't come naturally to me.

  6. Flamebait on Are Google's Cat-Loving Employees Killing Burrowing Owls? (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is the biggest flamebait article I've seen in a long time, and I blame Trump. Not only does it have cute little furry animals, it simultaneously calls Google employees geniuses and really dumb. It makes environmentalists mad, but also people who hate the environment (and kill cats).

    It's probably all because of Hillary.

  7. Re: Legalized bribery on Ask Slashdot: Did Baby Boomers Break America? (time.com) · · Score: 1

    What sort of people do you think we'll be when we are more evolved?

  8. Re:Legalized bribery on Ask Slashdot: Did Baby Boomers Break America? (time.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    unless we're a bit too distracted and/or time-constrained by our busy little lives.

    And if the people aren't paying attention, there is no law you can make that will get rid of corruption. Vigilance is the price of democracy.

  9. Re:The reason why it is dangerous on Oracle Calls Java Serialization 'A Horrible Mistake', Plans to Dump It (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course, avoiding making every application developer write his own application-specific serialization/deserialization routines was largely the point of this Java feature, but in hindsight it appears that was a bad decision.

    Yeah. It seems like there's no really good way to make this feature work. Whitelists can help, but ultimately there is no way to avoid thinking about security when you read things off the wire.

  10. Re:Build it with Agile! on 5.3M Cars Recalled Because 'Drivers May Not Be Able to Turn Off Cruise Control' (freep.com) · · Score: 2

    If they build it using agile methods, it can be cheaper, too. Win-win, right?

  11. Re: Golden State on Companies Are Using California Homes As Batteries To Power the Grid (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Poor people are leaving, rich people are coming in. Net is that more people are leaving than coming.

  12. Re: Golden State on Companies Are Using California Homes As Batteries To Power the Grid (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    They're leaving too, check it out: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/1...

  13. Today's real engineers also understand how cimputers work, so you'll have to throw assembly onto your list or something.

  14. He's been in a dialogue with Charles Babbage.

  15. Re: Short term or Long term? on Eric Schmidt Says Elon Musk Is 'Exactly Wrong' About AI (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Young children have better algorithms, data structures, more processing power, and probably better learning techniques (although that is arguably algorithm).

  16. Re: Anti competitive on Apple Blocks Steam's Plan To Extend Its Video Games To iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a lot of writing attempting to justify a bad decision.

  17. Re: Anti competitive on Apple Blocks Steam's Plan To Extend Its Video Games To iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You are an Apple fanboy. Come back when you turn your brain back on.

  18. Re:Attack surface on Microsoft Explains Why Windows Defender Isn't Ranked Higher in New Antivirus Tests (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    it doesn't create an additional attack surface

    Unfortunately, yes it does.

  19. Our customers need greater transparency and optics

    Oh, they are laying fiber now?

  20. Re: Anti competitive on Apple Blocks Steam's Plan To Extend Its Video Games To iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A company that locks you in to their platform, but generally respects your privacy (at least to our knowledge), or a company that's far less locked down, but pisses all over your privacy.

    You can do something about the privacy problem. You can't do much about the lockdown problem.

  21. Re: Anti competitive on Apple Blocks Steam's Plan To Extend Its Video Games To iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I can and do fault people who give their money for this locked down, anti-freedom system. It is true that many people do not understand the issues, but a lot of techies do (or should) and buy this stuff anyway. Despite repeated examples of why it's a bad idea, they allow themselves to be locked into a platform. "This time will be different" or some such nonsense. Well, here is a good example of why it's bad, right here. This time is not different.

  22. Re: Fascinating Buddha discussion on Ask Slashdot: How Would a Self-Aware AI Behave? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    You complained above that translating dukkha as "suffering" is something

    That word "suffering" misses the meaning of "unsatisfying" and it is not just me saying that. Even if you had everything you wanted, even if you magically had health and immortality, and could completely remove any problem any suffering, you would still find a deep sense of unsatisfactoriness in life.

    This is the legendary situation the Buddha found himself in, late at night after a party, looking at the beautiful women sleeping all around. He realized life was short and impermanent, and he left.

  23. Re: I hope the world survives this madman . . . on Trump Cancels Singapore Summit With North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree with your point here, an agreement is the best possible outcome for Kim. He makes things better for his people and doesn't get assassinated.

  24. Re:Still need to take this with skepticism on First Cuba, Now China? A Worker In US Embassy In China Experienced 'Abnormal' Sounds, Brain Damage (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem with these reports is that the U.S. has been intensively monitoring for various forms of sound, radio waves, radiation, etc.

    Sounds like the monitoring devices are causing brain damage. (Seriously? Brain damage?)

  25. To be fair,it took one death plus dismissal of the head of the program and losing a lawsuit to google (yeah they settled, but)