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  1. User Experience? on Google Returns As Default Search Engine In Firefox (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    The use of the term "user experience" is a clear flag to me that they are on the wrong track still.

  2. What pattern? on Wall Street's Research Jobs Are the Most Likely To Be Upended By AI (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Using AI to recognize patterns is fine if you already know there is a pattern, like visual cues that guide a driver. Aside from obvious correlations between macro-indicators, it still is not determined that there are actual patterns in price movement of stocks, indexes or even currencies. Setting an AI to discover a pattern there might be the same thing as asking it to prove there is a god.

  3. My first thought too

  4. Even assuming your comment was sarcasm, I still think it's worth investigating how this 'bug' appeared only months after the acquisition.

  5. Well, now that I know that it was acquired by Microsoft I immediately uninstalled it. A lot of more interesting alternatives out there.

  6. This particular big fish has a history of making misguided buying decisions. Has M$ ever bought something that didn't either go under within 10 years of had to be written off the balance sheet?

  7. Re:written by the NSA on Academics Build a New Tor Client Designed To Beat the NSA · · Score: 1

    Yes, but they wouldn't mention Israel. That would trigger too many red flags.

  8. Sheep getting ready for the butcher on California Passes Law Mandating Smartphone Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    Every population gets the government it deserves.

  9. Doesn't that come with another problem? on World's Fastest Camera Captures 4.4 Trillion Frames Per Second · · Score: 1

    Red light is 430 trillion hertz. So about 100 red light waves per frame.

  10. Re:Phew. on Microsoft Black Tuesday Patches Bring Blue Screens of Death · · Score: 0

    You'd think the guys at M$ had already done that. Isn't that why you pay the yearly extortion fees?

  11. Too late now... on New Russian Law To Forbid Storing Russians' Data Outside the Country · · Score: 1

    Google should have cut ties with the US when that was still a useful option. Now the world is looking for other options and the US is suddenly very small.

  12. Re:When you win the prize... on Cisco Offers $300,000 Prize For Internet of Things Security Apps · · Score: 1

    I just saw you already covered that :-)

  13. Re:When you win the prize... on Cisco Offers $300,000 Prize For Internet of Things Security Apps · · Score: 1

    And correct use of the phrase "for all intents and purposes"

  14. No more Volvo? on Apple To Unveil Its 'iOS In the Car' Project Next Week · · Score: 1

    I hope Volvo will think again before committing itself to a brand that has only 13% market share and is disliked by most of the rest. I will look for another brand after 18 years of loyalty.

  15. Re:think different, man on How To Take Apart Fukushima's 3 Melted-Down Reactors · · Score: 1

    Down to China. Do you know where Japan is, relative to China? Are you from the US?

  16. Re:I have a plan on How To Take Apart Fukushima's 3 Melted-Down Reactors · · Score: 1

    I hope you're not an engineer lol. Filling that sealed chamber with water will cause a pressure cooker to build itself and explode, thereby spreading the problem over all the pacific and beyond.

  17. Re:Wait for better robots on How To Take Apart Fukushima's 3 Melted-Down Reactors · · Score: 1

    You have a point. Also US$15B will be US$100B in 40 years. And I think 40 years is optimistic.
    I hope these costs will be added to the energy bill of the consumers, so that the 'cheap' nuclear energy will be honestly valuated against those 'costly' solar sources.

  18. Re:It's OK -but needs help. on Why We Need OpenStreetMap (Video) · · Score: 1

    He doesn't mean the links are dead, but that they fail to prove your point. The OSM map in your example is still more detailed than that in Google Maps.

  19. +1 this Re:You're of course assuming... on Anti-Polygraph Instructor Who Was Targeted By Feds Goes Public · · Score: 1

    No mod points, please assist

  20. Re:Work on the basics on Ask Slashdot: It's 2014 -- Which New Technologies Should I Learn? · · Score: 0

    Except I wouldn't recommend tying my future to Apple.

  21. Confiscated on Phil Zimmerman Launching Secure "Blackphone" · · Score: 1

    They will be confiscated by the US border control, every time you pass it. No reason given.

  22. Re:The ideal conclusion on Weapons Systems That Kill According To Algorithms Are Coming. What To Do? · · Score: 1

    There must be a 'cost' involved. The losing side should pay. We used to pay with human lives. If we use (virtual) robots some other currency has to be developed.
    Without cost for the enemy it's not a war.

  23. Re:Killer Robots CANNOT KILL on Weapons Systems That Kill According To Algorithms Are Coming. What To Do? · · Score: 1

    It is rather ironic that after decades of citing these laws, the first really autonomous robots humanity will see are actually designed to kill humans. Predictable, in hindsight.

  24. Re:Dupe Plus Packs Two Articles into Same Subject on PC Plus Packs Windows and Android Into Same Machine · · Score: 1

    Why do people like you still linger around, are you getting payed to write this nonsense? This is all wrong, and you (should) know it:

    1) People 'know' the previous Windows because it's what they are fed to eat. Every few years this is completely changed, that is why Vista and W8 failed. Show them a simple KDE or XFCE Linux install and within minutes they will know their way.

    2) Who cares what you 'want' to screw around with. Any decent admin can find out how to get Wine runnning and port the oh-so-essential app to it. After that people will be very pleased because in most cases it will run better> than before.

    3) If your problem is 'serious' bug reporting then try it on a Windows machine and see if it produces the same problem. If so, report that. Also, consider switching to an opensource alternative. They mostly have their bugs fixed within hours or days after reporting, certainly if they are security related. Compare that to the same bug reappearing in MS-Office for year after year, even across major releases.

    So stop, Linux is fine for most people, especcially for small business desktops that run the same app all day. The big advantage is no vendor support, but real support.

  25. Re:This can only mean one thing on Chromebooks Have a Lucrative Year; Should WinTel Be Worried? · · Score: 1

    And eventually, the threats that Microsoft makes when an OEM doesn't put Windows on everything will not have enough teeth to be effective.

    It's not only the OEM that are threatenend. I heard stories about a big MS client that was making motions to move away from the lockin, being told by an account manager of MS that a lot of unpaid licenses were 'discovered' in his company. If he would upgrade to the next cycle these would be 'forgotten' about. Needless to say this client took the hit and now decided to move ALL his stuff away.
    Clients have been harassed so long now that they are determined to escape the embrace and never come back.