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  1. Re:Errors on The Flaw Lurking In Every Deep Neural Net · · Score: 2

    Even worse, think of all those optical illusions you see places that are based on pointing out errors with our visual processing systems. Those don't go away even if you move your eyes around.

  2. What! on Google Foresees Ads On Your Refrigerator, Thermostat, and Glasses · · Score: 3, Funny

    There's no way I'm going to accept advertising on my souvenir Iron Man 3 soda cup!

  3. Re:Odd Selection on Ohio Prison Shows Pirated Movies To Inmates · · Score: 1

    Cash's songs didn't glorify being a criminal though. They were all about how much being in jail sucked.

  4. Re:Odd Selection on Ohio Prison Shows Pirated Movies To Inmates · · Score: 2

    I don't think movies make people become criminals, but these people don't need to become criminals; they're alredy there. I do worry about movies undermining attempts at rehabilitation by glamorizing the criminal lifestyle.

  5. Odd Selection on Ohio Prison Shows Pirated Movies To Inmates · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is The Wolf of Wall Street the kind of movie you should be showing prisoners anyways?

  6. Re:The Good Old Days! on Game of Thrones Author George R R Martin Writes with WordStar on DOS · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I still miss Reveal Codes.

  7. Re:Definitely good, but there are two sides on EU Court of Justice Paves Way For "Right To Be Forgotten" Online · · Score: 1

    They've been paroled so there's a legal presumption they're not likely to kill again. That being the case, how is the fact they killed people decades ago at all relelvant to your life, other than morbid curiousity?

  8. Re:Definitely good, but there are two sides on EU Court of Justice Paves Way For "Right To Be Forgotten" Online · · Score: 1

    By that definition, the serial killers would be elligible to have the news of their past crime supressed. A representative member of the public would be neither harmed nor benefitted by being aware of that information.

  9. Re:Definitely good, but there are two sides on EU Court of Justice Paves Way For "Right To Be Forgotten" Online · · Score: 1

    There's clearly no public interest in keeping some pictures of a drunken teenager doing something stupid up so that she can be bullied into suicide, but there is clear public interest in recording and reporting on the crimes of serial killers.

    Based on what principle did you make that distinction?

  10. Re:Definitely good, but there are two sides on EU Court of Justice Paves Way For "Right To Be Forgotten" Online · · Score: 1

    But Google is a business that makes money providing services based on public record

    Do you think Newspapers are doing it for the free hugs or something?

  11. Re:Censorship on EU Court of Justice Paves Way For "Right To Be Forgotten" Online · · Score: 1

    How do we know Joe isn't going to become a politician 10 years from now?

  12. Re:Can't Tell Them Apart on Ask Slashdot: Minimum Programming Competence In Order To Get a Job? · · Score: 1

    Then focus on the part of the problem you can figure out. Pi is transcendental, so obvious it's going to be the assymptotic sum of some series even if you don't know that series off the top of your head. So focus on code for keeping track of the accumulation efficiently but using a black box function like next-term-in-series(). Once that's all done, googling the specific series (in this case it turns out to be 4 * arctan(1/F(2n+1)), where F(x) is the xth Fibonnaci number) is easy enough.

  13. Re:So a bicyclist is safer..... on Traffic Optimization: Cyclists Should Roll Past Stop Signs, Pause At Red Lights · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Consider the notion that as a nation we might be all better off if private cars and trucks were banned and people able to use bicycles everywhere.

    Well, people like you would all starve to death due to the inability to transport sufficient amounts of food into urban areas, so I guess there would be some positives.

  14. Re:So a bicyclist is safer..... on Traffic Optimization: Cyclists Should Roll Past Stop Signs, Pause At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    And then we come to the Interstate hwys. and turnpikes. Notice that they almost always have "no bicycles allowed" policies.

    On a highway, you can be ticketed for going under 40mph. Does your bike go 40mph?

  15. Re:Gleefully though? on Traffic Optimization: Cyclists Should Roll Past Stop Signs, Pause At Red Lights · · Score: 1, Insightful

    He already admitted he drives a pick up truck.

  16. Not Getting the Strategy Here on Court: Oracle Entitled To Copyright Protection Over Some Parts of Java · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't get why Oracle bothered to buy Sun since they seem to be systematically destroying the value of everything they got from the purchase.

  17. Re:Security Fatigue on One Month Later: 300,000 Servers Remain Vulnerable To Heartbleed · · Score: 1

    What's the use in spending time and effort on security measures which frequently fail, sometimes spectacularly so in the case of heart-bleed.

    Because it's the job you're being paid to do? Almost anyone can do the easy parts of server admin. Dealing with tedious stuff like this is the only reason to hire professional server admins.

  18. Re:Certificate extortion on One Month Later: 300,000 Servers Remain Vulnerable To Heartbleed · · Score: 1

    Can't you just get one CA signed certificate and use that to sign all the other certificates in your organization yourself?

  19. Re:Retrieving memories causes decay? on Mathematical Model Suggests That Human Consciousness Is Noncomputable · · Score: 1

    And his fascination with that crackpot theory is why he, frankly, hasn't done any significant work in 20 years.

    It's based on assuming their exists a new type particle that we have no evidence to currently believe exists interact with a part of the neuron whose functions are known to cause a quantum superposition despite the fact it's been shown there's no way such a state could maintain coherence at anything close to the temperature the brain is at.

  20. Re:Help! Help! on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 2

    Shift to neutral and coast to a stop?

  21. Re:Radiation! on California City Considers Restarting Desalination Plant To Fight Drought · · Score: 2

    1) It's unlikely there's significant amounts of radiation after having been diluted with the entire Pacific Ocean.
    2) Even if their were, it would be removed during the evaporation process, as it's unlikely this plant is going to be operating at a temperature sufficient to boil heavy metals

  22. Re:Microsoft Has These Patches on Why Microsoft Shouldn't Patch the XP Internet Explorer Flaw · · Score: 2, Informative

    If I invite you over to my house for dinner, that doesn't create an obligation to feed you every night.

  23. Re:Real Solution on How 'Fast Lanes' Will Change the Internet · · Score: 1

    That might work if we were starting from scratch, but as it is we'd be starting from a place where the big corporations are already so entrenched that merely leveling the playing field is unlikely to make up for the decades of corruption.

  24. Re:Real Solution on How 'Fast Lanes' Will Change the Internet · · Score: 1

    Problem is that I don't trust the municipalities to stay out of content filtering. Access to sites based on what's political popular is even worse than access to sites based on who can pay the most.

  25. Re:Real Solution on How 'Fast Lanes' Will Change the Internet · · Score: 1

    Yes, but interconnection issues aren't a last mile problem.