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  1. Re:covering ground being the operative word on Waymo's Driverless Cars Have Logged 10 Million Miles On Public Roads (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Waymo's system can't operate in an area where they haven't built a highly detailed 3D map. NYC isn't dramatically worse than San Francisco (which has plenty of bizarre traffic things, but it doesn't matter because the AI has a really good map. It knows what those things are), and Waymo has been operating in SF. If they can build the map, they can handle NY or Boston ok.

  2. "there's no particular reason" on Google Home Hub Is Nothing Like Other Google Smart Displays (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And thus continues the descent of Google into technical mediocrity.

  3. Re:Inept Google on The Breach That Killed Google+ Wasn't a Breach At All (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Google has a lot of good programmers, but lately they've hired a lot of bad programmers, too. There are entire books written about how to pass the job interview at Google, and so the interview process has become less and less accurate at determining skill level.

  4. Re:Why do they think that on James Murdoch In Line To Replace Musk As Tesla Chairman, Says Report [Update] (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The SEC wants to make an example of him so other CEOs don't do the same thing.

    Whether or not he committed 'fraud' by normal English usage is irrelevant: there are a series of highly specific laws CEOs must follow, and it takes a lot of domain specific knowledge for even a lawyer to figure out if he actually broke the law. Unless you have that domain specific knowledge, it's not worth arguing about whether he broke the law or not.

  5. Re: Security as an afterthought on Pentagon's New Next-Gen Weapons Systems Are Laughably Easy To Hack (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    And next will you argue that guns shouldn't have safeties?

  6. Re:Umm, how? on Walmart Patents Cart That Reads Your Pulse, Temperature (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Somebody explain to me with a straight face how Walmart can patent something that I've seen in use for a good 4.5 years now.

    "In a shopping cart."

  7. Re: Security as an afterthought on Pentagon's New Next-Gen Weapons Systems Are Laughably Easy To Hack (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    If they were at the "hello world" stage no one would bother doing penetration testing.

  8. Security as an afterthought on Pentagon's New Next-Gen Weapons Systems Are Laughably Easy To Hack (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    GAO said all tests were performed on computerized weapons systems that are still under development.

    You can't add security on as an afterthought. It needs to be a core feature.

  9. Re:Happy New Year, artsy ladies of Germany on German Art Activists Get Passport Using Digitally Altered Photo of Two Women Merged Together (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Why did China build the Great Wall? It didn't 100% keep the Mongols out - the just climbed the wall.

    More specifically they bribed a guard to open the gate.

  10. Re: Art experts say it is worth 2x shredded on Banksy Artwork Self-Destructs At Auction Right After Being Sold For $1.3 Million (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    YOU'RE a gamble that will become something greater.

  11. OK, that's fine, but if daylight savings time throws your os into an endless reboot loop something is wrong with your head.

  12. Re: elephant in the room called "costs" - & NO on Boeing CEO: First Operational Self-Flying Cars Are Less Than 5 Years Out (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    And literally all the good flying cars in science fiction movies are lifted by some kind of antigravity. So that's where the research better be.

  13. No, this is a reason to keep DST. So we can easily see and laugh at the incompetent programmers.

  14. Re: People need to die on Scientists Are Working To Eliminate Senescent Cells (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Do a web search. Quaker abolitionists were around before Jefferson was born.

  15. Re: People need to die on Scientists Are Working To Eliminate Senescent Cells (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, I'd rather take the risk of not dying, thanks. Your idea is an intuition, not based in fact. It is easily countered by the fact that if our most skillful people didn't keep dying, progress would happen much quicker.

  16. Re: Did any of you read the article? on Scientists Connect the Brains of Three People, Allowing Thought-Sharing (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed, merely looking I to someone's eyes will give you a stronger connection to their brain than this system.

  17. The shredder was built into the frame years ago (according to the artist). So how did he trigger the frame? Any sort of wireless listener would have run out of battery. The tech here is actually pretty interesting.

  18. Re: I wouldn't give you a buck ninety five for it on Banksy Artwork Self-Destructs At Auction Right After Being Sold For $1.3 Million (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    No you haven't haha. Kids don't have the concept of color balance, for one.

  19. Re: Art experts say it is worth 2x shredded on Banksy Artwork Self-Destructs At Auction Right After Being Sold For $1.3 Million (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Be honest, the urinal is worth as much as a lot of startups which also inexplicably get money thrown at them.

  20. Re: More accurately - A **few** FB employees out on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    To be honest I think he should lose his job because he's a fuzzy thinker, has poor logic skills, and doesn't write well. And I don't give a shit about his feelings because an appointment to the supreme court matters a lot more (of course if he doesn't get appointed I'll happily throw a bone to his feelings. Poor guy, etc)

  21. Not everyone. You keep using that word.

  22. I'm no fan of Apple or Amazon, but what vendor exactly are you going with that you presume is better?

  23. If they have chips embedded between the PCB layers, then there is a chip to be found, along with traces (if the chip is to be of any use). Those things are easy to detect. Something hard would be if the chips themselves were modifies, but even that is possible to detect with fuzzing. That is, the chips were modified to do *something* and you can figure out what that was (just like people have been finding "secret" opcodes on Intel chips).

  24. Re: Yet people will still claim automation is harm on New Autonomous Farm Wants To Produce Food Without Human Workers (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    That's too many words. You should have just said, "I'm worried because I don't learn from history and I like to worry." It would have been clearer.

  25. Re: idiots, not from Trump, not authorized by Tru on New Yorkers Sue Trump and FEMA To Stop Presidential Alert (cnet.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is there anything Trump has done that you think is good? If you can't name anything, then you have Trump derangement syndrome.