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  1. Yet we will have "AI" becoming sentient and taking over the world real soon now, right? Meanwhile we can't even get normal software to work properly. The tech industry is so full of hype.

  2. You must be kidding. Those are numbers in the low millions. You aren't getting very far with that in DC. They are dropping hundreds of millions.

  3. Re: Clearances are a racket on Tech Firms Seek Washington's Prized Asset: Top-Secret Clearances (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Lots of people with bad credit can get clearances. Even the janitorial staff needs clearances. Lots of middle class people have terrible credit.

  4. Re:Clearances are a racket on Tech Firms Seek Washington's Prized Asset: Top-Secret Clearances (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't get it. What does being poor have to do with getting clearances? You get sponsored for clearances for a reason and your company/agency pays for them. The individual doesn't pay for them.

  5. More AI hype on Tech Giants Are Paying Huge Salaries For Scarce AI Talent (santafenewmexican.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I am sure "Element AI" wants to pretend there is such a thing as AI, but there isn't. Playing "Go" is not "AI" and neither is autonomous driving. If you are going to start calling computer algorithms and programs "AI" then everything that runs on computer "AI".

  6. 60,000 hits? That is amazing. How can a website cope with such high numbers? They need to use "AI" to speed it up.

  7. Re:Slashdot AI commentary summary... on DeepMind's Go-Playing AI Doesn't Need Human Help To Beat Us Anymore (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    "Digital computers can't think, but I can because reasons. Free will or quantum mechanics or something else that I haven't thought about at all, probably."

    Digital computers CAN'T think. Digital computers are nothing like how the brain works. You seem to be talking about yourself. You don't think at all. If computers playing games is impressive to you, then you must be easily impressed. Computers excel at games because they have strict rules. Computers LOVE rules.

  8. Henrietta on Over 30,000 Published Studies Could Be Wrong Due To Contaminated Cells (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is Henrietta's revenge. That is what scientists get for stealing her cells in the first place!

  9. Re:Where does the song catalog come from? on Android Oreo Helps Google's Pixel 2 Smartphones Outperform Other Android Flagships (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Internal storage? It is just a bunch of hashes.

  10. All major providers provide backdoor access to the server endpoints (PRISM). That is why "security" is a joke. The providers are selling your data to anyone who pays and they will give it to the government to keep the cash flowing in. They aren't providing "cloud services" for free.

  11. I own a flip phone while I ride the bus with the people who pick up your trash. We aren't all millionaires out here in Silicon Valley.

  12. Re:Desktop, from what year? on Microsoft Surface Book 2 Puts Desktop Brains in a Laptop Body (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong wanker.

  13. Re:You can avoid some of it on Mobile Phone Companies Appear To Be Selling Your Location To Almost Anyone (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Did it quack? It was definitely a duck.

  14. Sure. You are still being tracked. "Anonymous" means nothing. This article has nothing to do with that.

  15. Re:Buy a Librem 5 phone instead on Mobile Phone Companies Appear To Be Selling Your Location To Almost Anyone (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Exactly. People are missing the entire point.

  16. No you don't. No one uses Tor for day to day browsing. Baloney. And Tor is completely broken at this point anyway. The exit nodes are monitored.

  17. "AC" means nothing, neither does proxying. You are still tracked. Browser fingerprinting a a real thing. The point is, this is nothing about FB. It is about MOBILE PHONE OPERATORS.

  18. Re:run a vpn on Mobile Phone Companies Appear To Be Selling Your Location To Almost Anyone (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nope. How would a VPN help? A mobile phone is a location tracking device. It is part of the network design and wouldn't work without it.

  19. "If you must carry a phone take the battery out and only insert it when you want to make a call".

    Give me a break. It is 2017. If you are going to use your mobile phone like that, why carry one at all. And what is astonishing is someone posted this drivel on the Internet. If you are going to all this trouble, why are you using the Internet? The Internet is the biggest data collection machine of them all.

  20. You don't have a mobile phone? Sure. You login to Slashdot and they are selling and tracking you. Good job.

  21. Re:You can avoid some of it on Mobile Phone Companies Appear To Be Selling Your Location To Almost Anyone (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    This has nothing to do with Facebook. Your PHONE is tracking you. Do you have a phone? If so, why do you care about Facebook?

  22. You are carrying a location tracking device in your pocket. Don't be surprised.

  23. Re: When AIs write code on Does the Rise of AI Precede the End of Code? (itproportal.com) · · Score: 1

    A basic set of rules. You mean like a computer program? Wow. Pretty impressive. Computers LOVE rules. They excel at it. That isn't AI.

  24. Re:When AIs write code on Does the Rise of AI Precede the End of Code? (itproportal.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't need AI or a supercomputer to do machine vision research. What does mobile vision have to do with AI anyway? Nothing.

  25. Re:When AIs write code on Does the Rise of AI Precede the End of Code? (itproportal.com) · · Score: 1

    Image recognition has been around since the 1970s. Next.