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  1. Re:Fad over? on The X-Files To Return · · Score: 2

    We have got to the point where no camera footage with UFO's in will be believed because footage is so easy to fake now.

    Meteor in the middle of nowhere in Russia? sure, we got clip of that.
    Plane crashing into a river in Taiwan? got one recorded from 30 meters away.
    We are living in a world with more than one video camera (cellphone) per person now, and there is a lot less 'ufo sighting' movies than ever.

  2. Re:I used to love X-Files ... on The X-Files To Return · · Score: 1

    I used to love X-Files until a friend spoiled it for me. He basically said that Mulder and Scully were basically witnesses to whatever mystery they were uncovering. Nothing would have changed if they weren't there. Sure, the random person would have lived or died, but it's not like they solved any big mysteries.

    Wait, if it wasnt for FBI arc would never had ended up in the warehouse. Diana and Fox collected and delivered the arc to the proper authorities for filing, like HEROES!

  3. Re:Fake, not practical on Magic Leap's AR Demo Video · · Score: 1

    oh, so the magic AR system is making prop gun recoil with ... alpha waves?

  4. Lets not forget the keylogger. on Microsoft Has Received 1 Million Pieces of Feedback For Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they count keylogger captures as part of this feedback?

  5. Can't be hushed here! on Google Nest Rumored To Be Moving Into Audio · · Score: 1

    Can't be hushed here, now in 7.1!

  6. Re:Too late on Lenovo Still Shipping Laptops With Superfish · · Score: 1

    you still buy Cisco switches, right? :)

  7. Basic? are you killing future competition? on Ask Slashdot: Best Strategies For Teaching Kids CS Skills With Basic? · · Score: 2

    Are you actively trying to make them future TERRIBLE programmers?

  8. Just kill them on Statistical Mechanics Finds Best Places To Hide During Zombie Apocalypse · · Score: 1

    All those cute Zombie outbreak pandemic models ignore one of the mayor differentiators - we generally do not kill sick people, we setup care centers. No such problem during Zombie apocalypse.

  9. X3 is Rockchip/Spreadtrum/RDA, NOT intel on Intel Announces Atom x3, x5 and x7, First SOCs With Integrated 3G and LTE Modems · · Score: 2

    Intel was forced to "invest and partner' in China, or face same sanctions Qualcomm did. They decided to throw China a bone in form of $1B and license for lowest performance Atom CPU cores.

    X3 will be made 100% by chinese 'partners', if at all - previously Intel dropped ATOMs $40 sticker price down to $4 Allwinter 4core level and there still were almost no takers.

  10. Re:nice try on FBI Offers $3 Million Reward For Russian Hacker · · Score: 1

    They do if you happen to be in the US, and they're just fine with your being kidnapped and brought to the US by third parties

    nah, thats what CIA is for, just ask Italians

  11. He also said that on Obama Says He's 'A Strong Believer In Strong Encryption' · · Score: 2

    He is also a strong believer in
    -closing Guantanamo
    -transparent government
    -closing corporate tax loopholes
    -elimination of no-bid contracts
    -Santa Claus

  12. Re:Who processes the commands? on Smart Homes Often Dumb, Never Simple · · Score: 1

    Figuratively I agree with you, but not literally. We could put computers and software into a house to handle voice recognition. Most of us here probably have enough processing power already

    again, this was NEVER about processing power, Siri used to run locally and on 1GHz one core ARM phones (before it was bought out by Apple, renamed to siri and moved server side).

    Voice recognition algorithms are small and simple (for example walking over HMMs). Its learning that is processing intensive and takes whole clusters and tons of example data.

  13. Re:Who processes the commands? on Smart Homes Often Dumb, Never Simple · · Score: 2

    If we somehow had enough processing power and software _in_ the house I'd consider it..

    We do. It was NEVER about processing power, it was always about control and gathering more data.
    In part this data is later used to retune DNNs, but also to extract usage patterns, habits, scenarios, context.

  14. Re:ha on Mooted: An Undersea Link From Finland To Estonia · · Score: 1

    and 30 by plane (trains are so fail)

  15. Re:ha on Mooted: An Undersea Link From Finland To Estonia · · Score: 1

    It isn't a captive market, competition from the ferries should keep it down. A return ferry ticket is about €50. While you could charge a premium for business class seats, they alone won't fill a train. The Eurostar London-Paris service is a reasonable comparison. Booking in advance, you can usually get a return ticket for that for £100 in off-peak hours. The Dover-Calais ferry is cheaper, but way more inconvenient.

    or you could fly there for 45 pounds ...

  16. Re:Price difference may not matter to everyone on Mooted: An Undersea Link From Finland To Estonia · · Score: 1

    subway is ~1.5 Euro

  17. maker of magnet wristband releases results on Mood-Altering Wearable Thync Releases First Brain Test Data · · Score: 3

    that show its clients felt the improvement, news at 11!

  18. consumption - maybe if you smoke it on The Mathematical Case For Buying a Powerball Ticket · · Score: 0

    >small one to pay for the enjoyment of thinking through how you might organize your life differently if you had all those millions

    see, this is what poor, uneducated proles do, they fantasize about money instead of doing something with their lives

  19. Re:i must click dem! on New Multi-Purpose Backdoor Targets Linux Servers · · Score: 1

    If you are a Windows Administrator who happens to get dumped with the odd Linux server. Xnote may seem like a good option for a text editor. Not as scary sounding things like.
    vi/vim (Ok you got in... Now why can't I type!, or vi short for Virus Infestation)
    emacs (This sounds like a Macintosh emulator to me)
    nano (Disk Compression tool?)

    Windows Admins are use to Notepad being the default text editor. XNote may be a good pick to choose.

    There is always Midnight Commander editor (mcedit) for such idiots like me (hate vi, will never touch emacs).

  20. Re:What happened? on What Happened To the Photography Industry In 2014? · · Score: 2

    Well, about 3 years ago I went from a 10 year old 3.4 GHz machine to a new 3.4 GHz machine and the difference was quite obvious. The new one was about 10 times faster, of course it also had double the cores.

    1) can I borrow your time machine? Pentium 4 3.4GHz (paper mhz due to shitty arch) was released in 2004, 11 years ago, not 13.

    2) 10 years = 55million versus 1.4Billion transistors

  21. Re:Well damn on Confirmed: FCC Will Try To Regulate Internet Under Title II · · Score: 1

    nowhere, because he specifically EXCLUDED unbundling last mile

  22. Re:Wut? on Mobile G-SYNC Confirmed and Tested With Leaked Driver · · Score: 1

    Not only is it awful, but no one uses it :) DP monitors still use EDID :)

  23. its Nvidia FREESYNC on Mobile G-SYNC Confirmed and Tested With Leaked Driver · · Score: 2

    http://gamenab.net/2015/01/26/...

    Sure, its asus releasing the driver, suure

  24. Re:What about the GPU? on New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches · · Score: 1

    Broadcom kinda hired Eric Anholt, former Intel open source GPU driver developer
    http://anholt.livejournal.com/

  25. Re:Still ARM11, still a crappy CPU on New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches · · Score: 3, Informative

    They arent, Its 4x A7 with Neon this time.