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  1. Recently had a car kill pedestrians in Seattle on Toyota Raises Concerns About California Self-Driving Oversight, Calls It 'Preposterous' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If it had been an autonomous vehicle, it would have killed hundreds, not just one woman.

    Sounds like a good idea to have oversight, IMHO.

  2. Re:Flawed Understanding of FOIA on How a Video Game About Sheep Exposes the FBI's Broken FOIA System (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on your definition of budget, actually.

    They underfund privacy for you and overfund the PAFFO ignoring your request.

  3. Re:Trouble wool come on How a Video Game About Sheep Exposes the FBI's Broken FOIA System (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    It's hard to pull the wool over your eyes.

    Shearly impossible, in fact.

    Baaa!

  4. Serfs. You're all serfs. on How a Video Game About Sheep Exposes the FBI's Broken FOIA System (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Sheep in video games have more rights than you do.

    And you just lap it up, like sheep at a pond.

  5. Re:Based on a paywalled paper on Climate Change Doubled the Size of Forest Fires In Western US, Says Study (time.com) · · Score: 1

    The paper is paywalled, so there is no way to check if the claims that 50% of the dryness is human-caused are valid. This is undoubtedly a statistical statement, and who knows what real or bogus assumptions went into those statistics.

    Incorrect, it's open source, try reading the original link at the UW or WSU, in their news links, two of the institutions doing the research.

  6. Actually, research right here on Climate Change Doubled the Size of Forest Fires In Western US, Says Study (time.com) · · Score: 1

    You start with a good and logical statement, that stopping forest fires increases underlying brush and other fire accelerants.

    And then go into La La Land with a false statement that climate change has nothing to do with forest fire acceleration.

    Many forest fires are the result of:

    a. drought (impacted by climate change)
    b. lightning (storm frequency and lightning strikes increased by climate change, increased energy in plus growth patterns from climate change)
    c. migration of people due to climate change (who build in forest adjacent or in forests, increasing fire risk dramatically)

    That is Science.

  7. One is more likely to believe in God on Talking 'Sofia' Robot Tells 60 Minutes That It's Sentient And Has A Soul (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    One is more likely to both believe in God and the existence of a Soul after one has sex.

    Which leads one to wonder if 60 Minutes had Billy Bush doing the pre-interview with the robot ...

  8. In Facebook Workplace, Spying Is Built In on Facebook Launches 'Workplace' So You Can Use Facebook At Work For Work (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    In fact, unlike Russia, they spy on you even when they don't have to, because in FB Workplace, you must be guilty of thoughtcrimes or you wouldn't be working in a place with FB Workplace.

  9. BREAKING: If S7 on Fire, Turn It Off on Samsung Orders the Global Shutdown of Both Sales and Exchanges of Galaxy Note 7 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, turn off your S7 if it's smoking, unless the smoking light is on or you're in the West.

    In the event of a plane crash, you can use your S7 to light a signal flare.

  10. Re:Who's paying for these new roads? on Tesla's Sales Increase - But Next Will We Need Smart Roads? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Toll roads are great, that's where we get toll house cookies

  11. Even the Uber and other tests are only done in "safe" areas of cities without many collisions per VMT or active construction impacts.

    Autonomous cars are kind of like allowing semi-trailers to drive on residential non-arterial roads. Sounds good in theory, but results in a lot of dead kids and pets and accidents that take out entire houses.

  12. Re:Who's paying for these new roads? on Tesla's Sales Increase - But Next Will We Need Smart Roads? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Roads are one of the unrecorded fossil fuel taxpayer subsidies. Electric vehicles tend to require less maintenance, as they use regenerative braking, and cause a smaller amount of wear and tear on roads. They also dump less oil on the roads.

    However, there are some conflating variables that makes this difficult to measure.

  13. I'm sure Zuck wears it with pride

  14. Technically we built it to be the IoT at first on Bruce Schneier: We Need To Save the Internet From the Internet of Things (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Seriously, we built cameras that watched coffee pots, and coke machines, and watched the crystallography doors to see if people went to lunch so we could get console zero and run stuff.

    It's just you n00bZ that think it's all you unwashed masses that we built it for.

    That said, just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.

    My fridge should stop pinging the toaster, it's just rude.

  15. Re:Twitter? not if he blocked you on Judge: Lawsuits Now Can Be Served Using Twitter (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    There's these two features on Twitter:

    Block

    and

    Mute

    Just because you tweet at someone, doesn't mean:

    a. they see it;
    b. they haven't set DMs off from non-friends

    Many public figures don't even enable DMs, and tend to Mute people that are abusive.

  16. The problem is you have people who call themselves hackers, unfamiliar with the underlying code and why it was built that way, trying to use a hammer as a pry bar.

    If you need a pry bar, make a pry bar. Make it from a cold pressed cylindrical bar, not from a piece of metal modifed from a spade.

    We made the hammer, and the underlying code, for a different reason.

    They need to realize if you intend to sup from the well of souls, that you must first be able to drink deeply and without ceasing. And that the act of doing so has impacts.

    And, yes, they do care about you. FBI and NSA searches of specific people who are NOT supposed to be on the lists is a major problem, probably 90 percent of the actual individual searches. Happens in other spy systems as well. People are curious beasts, and they have their own motives which are contrary to the goals of the nation. They even justify violating our own Constitution by failing to understand WHY it says "Don't do this. Ever."

  17. So the hacker of the account is served? on Judge: Lawsuits Now Can Be Served Using Twitter (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, just because some judge has no idea how the Internet works, and that devices are not people, does not make twitter delivery of lawsuits count as "being served".

    You have to serve them either in person or at their place of residence.

    For all we know his twitter account is run by a follower, and not him.

  18. Welcome to 1780s NYC, Serfs! on New York To Test Facial Recognition Cameras At 'Crossing Points' (vocativ.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember, you only have 3/5ths of a vote if you're not a landowning English white male over 35, and only white males are permitted to vote at all.

    Whatever you do, don't wear dazzle masks or shimmer hoodies that defeat such Ubermensch Control devices.

    That would be double plus ungood.

  19. It didn't floss

  20. Re:The problem is the battery itself on Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Phone Catches Fire on Southwest Plane (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I've heard of eight catching on fire, most at altitude, and a related airborne battery problem with avionics systems, hence my supposition.

    If at a gate, it's more likely the rapid charge cycle being used immeadiately after overheating from overuse before boarding, as a design flaw.

    So we've narrowed it down to bad design, then. Unless you think phones lighting on fire is a good design, that is.

  21. Re:The problem is the battery itself on Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Phone Catches Fire on Southwest Plane (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    While others pointed out it was at the gate, I believe I was referencing a fast moving plane trying to pick up and transition between multiple signals.

    If at the gate, could it have been the proximity of lots of people using smartphones nearby, going in and out of range? Or was the person trying to rapid charge the phone, having overheated it playing Pokemon Go and watching vids right before?

    Either way, it's a design flaw.

  22. Re:The problem is the battery itself on Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Phone Catches Fire on Southwest Plane (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah! The Samsung TV commercials crow about "FAST, wireless charging".

    They are pushing it to charge that nearly 4,000 mAh-battery in the same roughly 2 hours that iPhones charge their little over 2,000 mAh one. As a result, my iPhone 6 plus barely breaks a sweat while charging (except on my damn car charger!), while I bet the Samsung is almost too hot to touch. Add to that the heat from the eddy-currents from the wireless charger itself (can't remember the name of that effect, but it's the same thing that makes induction cooktops work), and...

    So, Samsung has a power-hog design/OS, and as a result, has had to put in nearly double the battery as the iPhone. But the marketing people didn't want to advertise a FOUR-HOUR charge-cycle, and so told the engineering team "Damn the torpedos! Full Charge Ahead!"

    I will just BET that's what happened here.

    so they wound their coils too tightly to get a faster charge? Hmm, is the material used shedding too much heat, due to some cost saving (or mass saving to cut down on weight)?

  23. Re:The problem is the battery itself on Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Phone Catches Fire on Southwest Plane (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's even worse. Must have been catching Pokemon

  24. The problem is the battery itself on Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Phone Catches Fire on Southwest Plane (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Never were tested for operation at full power running multiple things in fast-changing environments where the signals keep changing rapidly.

    Stresses the battery, which reacts differently due to the reduced cabin pressure at higher elevation.

    Basic physics. Or at least it was during my Engineering Physics courses this year.

  25. Re:it says "does not exist on our systems" on Yahoo Offers Non-Denial Denial of Bombshell Spy Report (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    The denial says it does not exist on their systems. It does not deny that the software exists or even that it is actually running, just that it is running on the systems they own.

    It is an entirely accurate statement if their systems forward all emails to NSA owned systems in or directly connected to their network.

    It's a feeder system, technically, so it technically isn't Yahoo's systems, just inside it.