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  1. Re: Can they see and avoid small animals? on Self-Driving Car Company Zoox Is Now Allowed to Carry Passengers (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Reports are they don't deal well with bad weather at all.

  2. Re: SO what? on What Happens After Surprising DNA Test Results? (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently, more relevantly, she is NOT capable of using a condom.

  3. Re:Visionary on Tim May, Father of 'Crypto Anarchy,' Is Dead At 67 (reason.com) · · Score: 1

    We could have had decentralized services a long time ago, but they weren't profitable enough. In 2018 the Internet is more centralized than ever before.

    It wasn't about profit..........it was about people not knowing how (or not being willing) to use the technologies available. Most people didn't know how to set up a personal website with RSS feeds. Then Facebook came and made it easy and took a profit.

    But if the distributed protocols, etc, had been easier to use in the first place, Facebook wouldn't have been able to dissuade people from using HTTP and RSS. But it's too hard, so Facebook wins and gets to extract money. Sad.

  4. Re: The true solution, or a usable solution? on An Amoeba-Based Computer Found Solutions To 8-City Traveling Salesman Problem (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a problem with 8 nodes.

  5. Re: The true solution, or a usable solution? on An Amoeba-Based Computer Found Solutions To 8-City Traveling Salesman Problem (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    The traveling salesman problem doesn't need an estimate, we can find a correct solution, and it is easily parallelizable. If you have many processors (or amoebas acting like processors), you can find it easily. The trick here was training amoebas, not solving the problem.

  6. Re: Well, maybe you shouldn't have faked some of i on YouTuber Admits Aspects of Viral HomePod Glitter Bomb Video Were Faked (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Once you've found a thief to apply blue dye to, finding the thief again is relatively trivial. The difficult part is enticing a thief to come to your porch in the first place.

  7. Re:Well, maybe you shouldn't have faked some of it on YouTuber Admits Aspects of Viral HomePod Glitter Bomb Video Were Faked (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a really cool project, though. Apparently it's more difficult than you'd expect to find package thieves.

  8. click the link on Mars Express Beams Back Images of Ice-Filled Korolev Crater (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's one of the sweetest pictures of Mars I've ever seen.

  9. fwiw they already do financial transfers. The only thing extra here is a cryptocoin, which doesn't particularly make sense.

  10. Re: Not a zero-day on Microsoft Issues Emergency Fix For Internet Explorer Zero Day (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    What are you going on about? It was discovered by Google

    Yes, it was a zero day. Once Microsoft knew about it, it became a day-1 exploit. (Whether it was being exploited in the wild or not is irrelevant).

  11. That is fascinating.

  12. Who knows what the author thinks a zero-day means, but it's wrong.

    A zero day means "The software company has known about it for zero days." There won't be many defenses against it, because it's been known about for zero days. In this case, Microsoft has known about it for a few days at least, and there is a patch available. So it is a 10 day exploit, or 15 day exploit.

  13. Re:It's encrypted on Facebook's WhatsApp Has an Encrypted Child Porn Problem (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    To give it perspective, we still haven't solved the problem of murder, either. We do try, but we also have safeguards (like jury trials).

  14. Re:Can we please stop helping the Boomers? on Breakthrough Ultrasound Treatment To Reverse Dementia Moves To Human Trials · · Score: 1, Troll

    It's all been downhill since Cro decided to stick out his Magnon. Things were good before then, back when we ate a real paleo diet.

  15. Re: Unforgivable on China Hacked HPE, IBM and Then Attacked Clients, Report Finds (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    How much would you have to be paid to sell your credentials?

  16. how on Amazon's Grocery Push Keeps Stumbling After Whole Foods Purchase (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How is this profitable? Are the major grocery stores doing this at a huge loss? It seems like delivery should add a hefty fee on top of the grocery bill.

  17. Re:The anti-harassment team pulls double duty on Debian's Anti-Harassment Team Is Removing A Package Over Its Name (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    The advertisers pulled their ads in mass for about 90 days, but then noticed that being off Youtube for 90 days didn't effect their sales in the slightest, so a lot of them never came back (or only do the occasional "branding" campaign). This is referred to as the Adpocalypse in Youtube land.

    Did that really happen? If so, that makes me all warm and happy inside.

    . Nobody, and I mean nobody, likes SJWs. Even other SJWs don't like SJWs. Folks hate the extreme political correctness that's associated with SJWs just like regular folks are weirded out by religious nut-jobs (and for the same reasons).

    How exactly does one find SJWs? I tried looking for a website where they hang out, but I couldn't find anything. Admittedly, I didn't try very hard.

    To be honest I think that racism is gradually going away and with it the "Southern Strategy" (e.g. using race to keep folks in the South voting for right wing policies that negatively impact them). Anti-SJWism is Southern Strategy 2.0. It's the new enemy to focus your anger on so you won't notice you're being robbed blind.

    That seems reasonable. Anything that makes people emotional can be used to make them vote irrationally for you.

  18. Re:The anti-harassment team pulls double duty on Debian's Anti-Harassment Team Is Removing A Package Over Its Name (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    if there wasn't a growing anti-SJW community riding a massive overreaction to an overreaction for YouTube videos and Patreon donations (with a healthy dose of money from right wing think tanks) we wouldn't have even noticed.

    What Patreon donations?

  19. It's not ok to show a woman in underwear if you try to sell a chair (and the scantily clad woman is just decoration / an object to draw attention to the ad)

    Wage the good war, but that's a fight you're not going to win. Using beautiful people to sell things will be here.

  20. Re: Someone Somewhere on Emergence of Lab-Grown Meat Poses New Questions for Religious Leaders (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    If I get a chance, I will try spaghetti bolognese with wagyu because it is a little hard for me to imagine

  21. A lot of them aren't micro-plastics, they come in centimeter-sized pieces, too. Those are diffuse in the ocean though, they aren't piled up, as you said.

  22. Re: It's almost as if simple answers on Giant Trap Deployed To Catch Plastic Littering the Pacific Ocean Isn't Working (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    That is arguably the entire point.

  23. Re:Someone Somewhere on Emergence of Lab-Grown Meat Poses New Questions for Religious Leaders (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Entirely serious. It is a different type of meat and cannot be cooked the way you would cook Angus.

  24. Re:And 30% of Americans blame this on ... on Saturn's Rings Are Disappearing At a 'Worst-Case Scenario' Rate, NASA Says (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    19% of the US population voted for Trump. That's all, most of them didn't vote and it's causing the rings of Saturn to disappear.

  25. Re:Someone Somewhere on Emergence of Lab-Grown Meat Poses New Questions for Religious Leaders (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, wagyu doesn't taste good if you cook it like a steak. Gordon Ramsay tries that, it doesn't work too well.