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  1. "Remember times when an OS, apps and all your data fit on a floppy?"

    We always needed 2 floppy drives, DOS and Windows 2.3 included.
    Tiny core Linux wasn't used by real people.

  2. WTF? on Giant Spiderweb Cloaks Land in Aitoliko, Greece (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    News for people with arachnophobia, stuff that matters for Greeks, not Geeks.

  3. ...they'll find out that merchants have checked the competitor's prices to underbid them for 6000 years, it's a bit late even for the EU.

  4. I thought the s-word was as insensitive as the n-word.
    But anyway, Ticketmaster is no sensitivity champion.

  5. "If we permit flawed machines to make life-changing decisions on our behalf -- by allowing them to pinpoint a murder suspect."

    Why not punish laws as well if they condemn life-changing stuff like abortion, homosexuality, wrong bathroom use ...
    After all they are algorithms too.

  6. Re:Powerful people ARE held to account on We Hold People With Power To Account. Why Not Algorithms? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    "People with power and authority are always held accountible for their misuse of both power and authority."

    Yeah, they'll pay a fine with taxpayer or company money as well as their lawyers.

  7. Re:This is a complete farce. on The Latest Course Catalog Trend? Blockchain 101 (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    "It's astonishing."

    Not at all.
    Instead of putting a name on a piece of paper and signing it, you need a computer an a ton of calculations and I guess the homeless need a computer or a thumb drive instead of a paper card.

  8. If she gets hit by a truck or a house falls on top of her, Trump will claim she died of old age.

  9. Well on Is Tech Billionaires' Educational Philanthropy a Bug Or a Feature? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you'd vote people to congress who'd be willing to actually tax the 1%, they wouldn't need to do this.

  10. On the nose on Nvidia Researchers Generate Synthetic Brain MRI Images For AI Research (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Artificial Intelligence finds artificial brain damage.

  11. All the atomic matter has been found, now only the non-atomic matter needs to be found too.

  12. "Sounds like first world problems, mate."

    No, it means they can't probably type and have very good eyes.

  13. Let's hope... on How Tech Companies Responded To Hurricane Florence (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    ...they moved their UPS and Generators from the cellar to the roof after Sandy.

  14. News for nerds on Why Edinburgh's Clock is Almost Never on Time (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stuff that mattered in 1902.

  15. I‘m from tiny Luxembourg and even we have >60 Satellites.

  16. Yes! on Does LinkedIn Suck? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Next?

  17. When the next video comes out, showing them saying Nazi/racist/whatever stuff, they can just claim:
    Deepfake news!

  18. I'll wait for the version AI Sapienz Sapienz.

  19. ...we need much more a Speaker of the House who is smart.

  20. Re:As opposed to on Apple Is Building An Online Portal For Police To Make Data Requests (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "How they did it before? They have no idea how to work with the police?"

    It's just a small script returning a line saying:

    'Sorry, the data you want is encrypted and we don't have the password.'

    It replaces 200 telephone operators reading that line from a monitor.

  21. Re:A new future... on Wikipedia Seeks Photos of 20 Million Artifacts Lost in Brazil Museum Fire (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "I would love to see museums that haven't been devastated do something of this nature as an insurance policy. Just think if could log into say, 2nd life and virtually tour the Louvre ..."

    Mission accomplished

    Louvre
    http://www.louvre.fr/en/visite...

    Guggenheim
    http://www.guggenheim.org/new-...

    National Gallery of Arts
    http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions...

    British Museum
    http://www.britishmuseum.org/w...

    Smithsonian
    http://www.mnh.si.edu/panorama...

    The Met
    https://www.google.com/cultura...

    and so on

  22. Rather than beep
    Or a rude error message:
    These words: "File Not Found".

    Errors have occurred.
    We won't tell you where or why -
    Lazy programmers!

    Chaos reigns within.
    Reflect, repent, and reboot
    Order will return.

    For a new PC,
    Center of my universe,
    I abandon all.

    The code was willing!
    It considered your request,
    But the chips were weak.

    Everything is gone.
    Your life's work has been destroyed.
    Squeeze trigger? (yes/no)

    A file that big?
    It might be very useful.
    But now it is gone.

    No keyboard present
    Hit F1 to continue
    Zen engineering?

    Website has been moved
    We'd tell you where, but then we'd
    Have to delete you.

    The web site you seek
    Cannot be located but
    Countless more exist.

    Aborted effort:
    Close all that you have worked on.
    You ask way too much.

    Windows 10 crashed.
    I am the blue screen of death.
    No one hears your screams.

    Yesterday it worked.
    Today it is not working.
    Windows is like that.

  23. Re:When does it spy on you? on Vizio May Soon Inform Customers When Its Smart TVs Are Spying On Them (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "Users may choose to opt out at any time by disconnecting the TV from the power source."

    Power source? You mean, so that it can't spy on you when you're not in front of it but only when you use it?

    So it can't watch you vacuuming the floor but only when you masturbate to your porn?

  24. Fantastic! on Vizio May Soon Inform Customers When Its Smart TVs Are Spying On Them (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "it's possible that Vizio users will get a pop-up notification "

    Another popup to ruin my movie nights besides those from 'Logitech update available' and 'Windows Defender Summary.
    Can't wait.

  25. if you pay 79 bucks for 24 months on a free phone (1896) or buy one for 1000 and pay 15 bucks a month, (1360) just do the math.
    Especially since the suckers don't tell you when the 24 months are up and you continue to pay the 79 for months or years.