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  1. Re:You'll understand eventually on Apple's Indirect Presence Fades from CES (techpinions.com) · · Score: 1

    ...FaceID is a product feature ...

    Yes, it is a product feature. And it changes a product just like other product features change other products. You're really stretching, and that just proves my point, Again.

    No mention of the Watch I see.

    From my message you replied to: "Apple Watch is a product."

  2. Propably figured someone was monitoring .... on Apparently, People Say 'Thank You' To Self-Driving Pizza Delivery Vehicles (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If one of those cars delivered pizza to me, I'd say thank you also. I would assume that the transaction is being monitored by a human somewhere, so why not be polite? I'd want the car to be polite to me as well.

  3. Re:FaceID is one on Apple's Indirect Presence Fades from CES (techpinions.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...However what is clearly one is FaceID. ...

    FaceID is a product feature, not a feature product. FaceID is something that is added to other products. The iPod is a product. The iPhone is a product. Apple Watch is a product. FaceID is a feature of a product. But the fact that FaceID is the best you can come up with means you see the drought as well.

  4. Re:Fading Apple Star on Apple's Indirect Presence Fades from CES (techpinions.com) · · Score: 2

    ...It’s funny since people like you say this about Apple with every new model... Does it ever tire to be so wrong?

    "people like me?" All I said was that I wondered how long Apple could do it. How can I be wrong when I asked a question? So I'll ask you the same question --- how long do you think Apple can continue to sell very expensive smartphones? And as a corollary, I'll also ask you a follow-up question --- when do you think that Apple will come out of their long, long innovative, paradigm-changing, new product drought?

  5. Fading Apple Star on Apple's Indirect Presence Fades from CES (techpinions.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Apple's star is fading as they have not had a paradigm-changing product release in a long, long while. One has to wonder how long the $1000 iPhones will carry the stock price?

  6. All I want from the newsfeed is... on Facebook Overhauls News Feed in Favor of 'Meaningful Social Interactions' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... a persistent Recent Posts First option, with a persistent option for family/friends only. I want facebook to stop messing with what I see because all they do is screw it up.

  7. ... investigators hired a Munich company (which one is not publicly known) to gain access to his device...

    I thought it was not possible to get into an iPhone without having a back door present?

  8. Thwarting law enforcement? on FBI Calls Apple 'Jerks' and 'Evil Geniuses' For Making iPhone Cracks Difficult (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    ... he was quoted as saying. "At what point is it just trying to one up things and at what point is it to thwart law enforcement? ...

    Why does he presume that people want security in their phones just to thwart law enforcement? I want security in my phone to keep everyone out. If law enforcement can get in, so can the bad guys.

  9. Re:Pop-ups... on SourceForge Debuts New UI and GitHub Sync Tool (sourceforge.net) · · Score: 1

    ...Nope. Still there.

    Oh well. At some point websites are going to start realizing that the best way to have more participation, is to stop chasing away potential participants with annoying web site "features."

  10. Pop-ups... on SourceForge Debuts New UI and GitHub Sync Tool (sourceforge.net) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hopefully they got rid of that annoying pop-up that appears every time I'm sent to the site to download something. There's no way I'd want to use such a site if that is how my visitors would be treated.

  11. Score yet another for MS quality control. on Microsoft's Meltdown and Spectre Patch Is Bricking Some AMD PCs (betanews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Microsoft really seems to be de-emphasizing quality assurance in the Windows product. Makes me feel real good about the forced updates of Windows 10.

  12. Yup. Considering that AI was designed by humans, I'm not sure if this is a surprise. ;)

  13. ...heavy rain and little objects flying around because of strong winds and a little windshield fog obscure their view....

    An obscured view is quite the different problem than this thread's discussion of having a clear view of the object being analyzed. :)

  14. Detail vs shape on Researchers Create 'Psychedelic' Stickers That Confuse AI Image Recognition (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It looks as if the AI is concentrating on the area with the most detail, even though it is not really relevant. I've seen similar, ummmm, distractions confuse AI. For example, disguising a stop sign so that a self-driving car is confused.

  15. Re:what other industry does that? on Your Car May Soon Start Serving You Ads (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    ...Makes you pay more to avoid services you didn't want in the first place?...

    It is an admission by the ad industry that people do not want to see their ads.

  16. Stopping is not parking... on Your Car May Soon Start Serving You Ads (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    ...To prevent driver distraction, "ads only appear when the vehicle is stopped, such as at car startup, traffic lights and upon arrival," Telenav said....

    It is still distracted driving, even if you are stopped at a traffic light. Indeed, many, many distracted-driving tickets are issued at traffic lights. For example, if you're engaged with your device, how are you going to see when the light changes?

  17. Re:Think again sparky on Your Car May Soon Start Serving You Ads (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    ...When are fuckers going to figure out that I haven't paid attention to advertisement after say the age of 10 or so....

    To me it seems that the ad people know that, it's the hidden secret of the industry. However, that does not prevent them from telling the advertisers, i.e., those who buy the ad slots, that advertising works.

  18. More distracted drivers. on Your Car May Soon Start Serving You Ads (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    The purpose of advertising to to steal your attention away from whatever you are doing and focus it upon the ad. How is this going to end up in a happy place for drivers?

  19. My choice: Roll your own... on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Media Streaming Device? · · Score: 1

    I prefer JRiver's Media Center running on an Intel NUC. Raspberry Pi doesn't seem to have enough compute capability for high-quality HD video. The JRiver media Center is quite good across the board.

  20. His real challenge will be... on Mark Zuckerberg's 2018 Personal Challenge Is To Do His Job As CEO (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    ... to prepare to run for president in 2020. He's already been visiting states that are important for that run.

  21. Mediocrity requires aloofness on Ajit Pai Backs Out of Planned CES 2018 Appearance (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity. - Charles Gates Dawes

  22. Looks like the Intel legal team was hard at work.. on Intel Responds To Alleged Chip Flaw, Claims Effects Won't Significantly Impact Average Users (hothardware.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That was one of the most uninformative, denying-we-did-anything-wrong press releases I've read in a long while. Therefore I suspect it came from the legal team. If only Intel's CPU designers were as good as the Intel legal team.

  23. Again with the browser speed... on Windows 10's Edge vs Chrome: We're Faster and Win in Battery Face-off, Says Microsoft (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... the quest for speed caused Firefox to dump much of the useful functionality of the browser. Is browser speed really the issue it is made out to be, or is the quest for speed being done just because browser speed is so easy to measure and compare?

  24. Re:Uh on Linux Mint 19 Named 'Tara' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I've never understood the penchant in the Linux world for naming releases, and having the name be the main headline about the release. It just seems so cult-ish to me.

  25. Not a surprise... on Want to Be Happy? Think Like an Old Person (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "Old persons" have a lot to be happy about. "Young persons" have uncertainty in front of them. To be honest, if I were a "young person," I'd be unhappy about the future in front of me, a future where the greedy corporations have taken over the country.