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  1. You might as well suggest that Americans all stockpile water faucets because a bunch of politically and economically unsable countries don't have indoor plumbing.

  2. Re: One sided debate on YouTube Bans Firearms Demo Videos, Entering the Gun Control Debate (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In other words, there's nothing implicitly wrong with censorship.

  3. I .... don't see how you think those two statements are at odds. Those are two different people (Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Abu Zubaydah.) Their interrogations occurred at different times.

  4. Re:Avoid Fake news? on Google Launches a News Initiative To Fight False News and Help Publishers Make Money (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The NYT has added corrections and notes to their article:

    While Ms. Haspel oversaw the site during the torture of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri at the site, she did not supervise the interrogation and waterboarding of the suspected Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah.

    So saying that Gina Haspel having had a role in torture is "completely false" really just relies on what you define that as, which people naturally gravitate towards defining according to personal preference to get the result ("NYT totally lied" or "Gina Haspel is 100% ok") they want.

  5. Re:Misplaced priorities on US Says Russia Hacked Energy Grid, Punishes 19 for Meddling (apnews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's a pretty lousy country where you only have one person who can do one thing at a time.

  6. Re:Google pay anti-trust lawsuit. on Google Will Ban All Cryptocurrency-related Advertising (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Next they will ban paypal and visa

    They've had a decade plus to do that, and they haven't. Anyone can say something will happen if they don't have to be around when they're wrong.

  7. Re:Fix it with some careful regulation on What Airbnb Did To New York City (citylab.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Simple rules for simple people.

  8. Re: How well optimized is CLANG vs Visual C++ Comp on Chrome On Windows Ditches Microsoft's Compiler, Now Uses Clang (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This is some very poor guessing.

  9. You can't poison data collection like this, unless you think enough people will use it. It's like lying on a survey. It's already accounted for in the margin of error. If you don't like it, just turn off the location permission or don't be a customer.

  10. Re:Look! I've re-invented LINT! on Ubisoft is Using AI To Catch Bugs in Games Before Devs Make Them (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    this is ..... not like LINT. Remember LINT? LINT is still in widespread use. This would be a complimentary tool to catch higher level bugs based on code heuristics in valid correct code beyond the safety checks that LINT looks for. This is not for doing what LINT does, and what LINT does is still very useful.

  11. Re:Huh, interesting... on Facebook Silently Enables Facial Recognition Abilities For Users Outside EU, Canada (neowin.net) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Another user from Brazil said it was on by default. I wouldn't rush to assumptions.

  12. Re:I'm in Australia and it's ON by default. on Facebook Silently Enables Facial Recognition Abilities For Users Outside EU, Canada (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    We can experiment on users pretty easily. That's what he's pointing out. Software can behave differently purely out of choice to find out what users do given different options (followed by a survey asking them how their experience was.) When you have a huge install base, this can be useful.

  13. Re:Summary is 100% false. Correct your summary. on Facebook Silently Enables Facial Recognition Abilities For Users Outside EU, Canada (neowin.net) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    when others have uploaded pictures with me in them, it knows who I am.

    Because they tag you, you poor dingbat.

  14. Re: Summary is 100% false. Correct your summary. on Facebook Silently Enables Facial Recognition Abilities For Users Outside EU, Canada (neowin.net) · · Score: 2

    Most likely enabled or disabled based on other settings. I mean, it's software. When you add new switches, you set their default state to whatever makes the most sense based on the state of other settings.

  15. Re:self driving cars will do the same in fleet mod on Studies Are Increasingly Clear: Uber, Lyft Congest Cities (apnews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is literally physically impossible. At some point those cars in those 1000 lanes have to go to 1000 different places, and those places have to exist where the highway isn't. The issue is not large enough roads. If all we needed to do was move one 100,000 car parking lot from A to B, then you might have a point. But that's not what the challenge is. The issue is density, pure and simple, something you can achieve with trains and buses and not with cars.

    And public transport isn't "the government". Good lord.

  16. Re:How do they think they will deal with SNOW? on Automated Cars Are Not Able To Use the Automated Car Wash (thetruthaboutcars.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlike most of the U.S., we actually have heavy traffic here.

    I'm from/live in Toronto, and all I can say is you're an idiot who apparently has never visited anywhere else on this planet.

  17. Re:So WTF happens in the rain? on Automated Cars Are Not Able To Use the Automated Car Wash (thetruthaboutcars.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Car washes put more physical stress on the sensors than rain and road grime. I mean, surely you can't read this and think, "Oh, so these cars' sensors fall off in the rain." The issue is the indiscriminate srubbing of automated car washes.

    And like some others have pointed out, it's an easy issue. Don't take your car to a car wash. They're the very definition of a first world market.

  18. Re:Crypto reduces from by 100% on Visa Claims Chip Cards Reduced Fraud By 70% (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    credit cards and crypto exclusively

    you have a weird understanding of the word exclusively

  19. Replicating a passport is far less of an issue than writing a new one whole cloth.

  20. You don't want it to prevent you from backing up on false positives. As with all things, it's super easy to assume things until you're privy to what the devil in the details are. The more specialized the problems become, the bigger specialists we become, the more we all seem to assume we're experts outside of our silos.

  21. Because it's a 1000 kg hunk of metal hurtling towards other things at high speeds? Your desire for enjoyment is superseded by safety for the majority. Check this cool graph, in particular the deaths per vehicle miles travelled: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Take it to the track, buddy.

  22. Re:Lazy cops and FBI on President Trump: 'We Have To Do Something' About Violent Video Games, Movies (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    The problem isn't so much gun nuts as is it constitution nuts.

    https://www.theonion.com/area-...

  23. Re: Open Standards on Ask Slashdot: What Is Missing In Tech Today? · · Score: 1

    You have multiple levels of cache, ram, gpu ram, gpu cache, ssd, HD, all of which exist because having multiple levels of memory makes economic and hardware geographic sense. Some memory you need a lot of, but don't mind I'd it's a little slower, some you need much faster but can live with less. Not really a technology issue per se.

  24. "If true, this could double Nike's profits in 2 years."

    To you, this is an abuse of English? Methinks you're perhaps overestimating your authority on the subject.

  25. This budget is going to make it nigh impossible for all three of those points to be true in 10 years.