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  1. Re:Interesting. on Kodak Announces Its Own Cryptocurrency, Watches Stock Price Skyrocket (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I fear lots of people will get overexposed and end up washed out financially.

  2. >> stay connected on your PC without worrying that you're missing phone notifications or calls

    Who doesn't have their phone beside them or in their pocket when they're working on a computer?

    Sounds like classic Dell to me. A shovelware solution in search of a problem.

  3. Re:Alternate headlines: on GoPro Quits the Drone Business (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "For GoPro, Not Enough Dough in Drones, So..."

    "GoPro Mows Drone Flow Due to Slo-Mo Dough."

  4. Alternate headlines: on GoPro Quits the Drone Business (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    "GoPro Drones to Go."

    "GoPro Goes No Mo to Drone Zone, Citing Foes"

    "Drones are 'No Go' at GoPro"

  5. "I want repaired processors for free" on OpenBSD's De Raadt Pans 'Incredibly Bad' Disclsoure of Intel CPU Bug (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't ask for free replacement, but as someone who has been looking to build a new machine for a couple years, I would now like to know when we can expect new processors that are not venerable to any of these issues.

  6. Re:2nd gen FireTV on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Media Streaming Device? · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure AmiMoJo meant videos of gaming that are recorded at 60 fps and posted on YouTube, not actually playing games. He just mentions games because that would be a common source of 60 fps video on the site.

  7. Re:I worked a mile from their hq, we used them all on Google Loses Up to 250 Bikes a Week (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess the assumption is that Google doesn't really mind, and thus it is not considered theft...
    And to be honest, I would suspect that Google in fact might not really mind the people that take and leave the bikes at reasonable places. If nothing else, it's advertisement...

    Yes, that's why they are paying 30 people to meander around town looking for them, because they don't care they are gone.

    Google has plenty of brand awareness without having to give away free bikes.

  8. Re:2nd gen FireTV on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Media Streaming Device? · · Score: 2

    2nd Gen FireTV: https://www.amazon.com/Certifi... ...
    The Amazon app store has Netflix, Hulu, amazon Prime Video, and many other streaming video providers.

    The poster specifically lists YouTube as a platform he watches, though. Will he be happy with Amazon's workaround for the Google/Amazon spat?

  9. I've got this great idea on Don't Pirate Or We'll Mess With Your Connected Thermostats, Warns East Coast ISP (engadget.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You wouldn't have to worry about your ability to turn it up remotely if you didn't turn it down to start with before you left home.

    It's a pretty well know fact that it takes [i]more[/i] energy to change the temperature in a home than to maintain a set temperature. If you're only in the house every other season that's one thing, but it's these people who insist on micromanaging their heating and cooling on an hourly basis who are missing the point.

    And as for those people who are worried about pipes freezing -- they shouldn't be turning their furnace completely off to start with. Leave the thermostat at 50 degrees at least. Leave the cabinets open to allow the pipes better circulation with the warm air in the house (it's not like you're home anyway to be bothered by those doors), get pipe warmers and just hook them up and leave them plugged in. Heck. I bet you could set up a smarthome system that would turn them on and off for you using local temperature sensors (no internet needed). But instead, you buy a three hundred dollar thermostat and pay for internet service for an empty house for months you're not there, and you call this "saving money".

  10. Re:Agreed. on Yes, Your Amazon Echo Is an Ad Machine (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    When's the last time you saw a toothpaste ad on TV.

    Probably last week? here's a fairly recent one, and it's for a normal variety. Nowadays, Crest and Colgate are always plugging their whitening/hyper breath freshening varieties.

    I certainly saw a Listerine ad on TV tonight, and I definitely already knew about the existence of mouthwash without those ads, too.

  11. Re:Men will become obsolete on Scientists Get Closer To Replicating Human Sperm (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    It's only a matter of time.
    Besides sperm, we serve no purpose.

    By that logic, women will serve no purpose either, given artificially created eggs (which the article suggests they are just as close to replicating as sperm) and an artificial womb, which is much further along.

    Of course women will still serve a purpose! How else will the dishes and laundry get done? /s

  12. Who's the dumbfuck who place the "Power" icon on this story?

    The development of nuclear weaponry during WWII gave the U.S. the destructive power to end the Pacific theater conflict, and political power to help push the war to its conclusion. : D

  13. Re:I know how to fix this on UK 'Faces Build-up of Plastic Waste' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Labour costs are too high for manual sorting like is widely used in China.

    Sounds like something the market will sort out once plastics are piling up at people's doorsteps.

  14. Re:Or we could work this ... on Call For Tech Giants To Face Taxes Over Extremist Content (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    ... outside social media and address the root of most of the problems.

    " ... violent extremism ... " isn't a social media problem -- it's a conversation about " ... violent extremism ... " in the real world.>

    Fixing social issues is hard. Why would a government do that when they can use it as a means of boosting their revenue from the private sector?

  15. Re:Even a price point of $1000 didn't stop them on Apple's iPhones Were the Best-Selling Tech Product of 2017 (usatoday.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Where are people getting the money to buy these every year?

    They aren't. They're buying them on financing (which is being offered at 0% APR, iirc) and then paying them off over the next two years -- just like when they used to buy them with a contract extension, only without the carrier subsidy for the device cost.

  16. Re:It's too far from the strip on Hardly Anyone Wants to Ride the Las Vegas Monorail (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It really surprises me that the kind of people who have enough money to build a monorail weren't smart enough to think of this.

    Well...

    ...you have to go through the hotels, on a twisty route going through their gaming and stores.

    I'm kinda wondering if this is deliberate.

  17. Compared to what humans? on Google's Voice-Generating AI Is Now Indistinguishable From Humans (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    A research paper published by Google this month -- which has not been peer reviewed -- details a text-to-speech system called Tacotron 2, which claims near-human accuracy at imitating audio of a person speaking from text.

    If anyone remembers "reading groups" from primary school, there is a pretty big range in the term "human accurate reading".

  18. Does Dolby Atmos reproduce a tiny violin well? on Movie Theaters Were Already in Trouble. With Disney's Fox Deal, It's Double (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With control of more blockbusters, not only does Disney gain more leverage over theater chains such as AMC and Carmike Cinemas...

    I'm shedding so many tears for those multi-million dollar theater chains.

  19. BARE NAKED DUNES WAITING FOR YOU! on UK Police's Porn-Spotting AI Keeps Mistaking Desert Pics for Nudes (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    African, Asian, European desert lands all uncovered and untouched by man. Clean shaven of all foliage. Aching for a BBC (big black camera) to shoot all over their majestic vistas. They want long lenses and offer roads for deep penetrations into their wildest areas. Only $9.95/mo gets you all access to hours of video and thousands of pictures. Round, brown mounds of dirt, golden, flowing sands, fiery red sunsets are all waiting for you!

  20. Quality Story... [me checks address bar] on Airlines With the Best In-Flight Wi-Fi (latimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Ah, I'm still on Slashdot. Thought I'd gotten shuffled over to Buzzfeed for a bit there.

  21. Re:What are good replacement options? on Amazon Music Ending Cloud MP3 Storage, Streaming Option (billboard.com) · · Score: 1

    While Plex supports both audio and video, you can't cache media locally on devices with Plex without paying $5/mo for a Plex Pass so your concerns about our remote connection will come into play more. If this is more for music you can use Subsonic or Airsonic instead and spend much less/nothing to have local caching and a greater choice in playback apps.

  22. Interstellar Object 'Om nom nom' on Interstellar Object 'Oumuamua' Appears To Be Wrapped In An Organic Insulation Layer (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Eat too much this holiday season, and you too will find yourself wrapped In an organic insulation layer when spring comes.

  23. Morbid sense of hurmor here... on Your Phone May Send You 'Blue Alerts' To Warn You When Local Police Are In Danger (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 2

    All I imagine is a group of gang-bangers laughing as their phones go off while they are the cause of the threat.

  24. Re: Infuriating on Stolen Car Recovered With 11,000 More Miles -- and Lyft Stickers (sfgate.com) · · Score: 2

    10k miles on a new car, and not a single oil change. What a way to ruin an engine during the critical break-in period (pun not intended) yeah, the car is forever fucked

    Actually, many car companies, one of them Honda, have a specially formulated "break-in" oil put in at the factory. Buyers are told to make sure to drive on this oil for its entire life (until they get down to like 3-5% "useful life" per their maintenance minder iirc). Honda's oil is a synthetic blend.

    My 2004 Accord lists 10,000 miles as the normal oil change interval for maintenance per the owner's manual, even after break-in.

    The idea cars need their oil changed every 3000 miles has not been valid in quite awhile, but continues to be pushed by quick-lube businesses.

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