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Comment external ThinkPad keyboard (Score 1) 363

with the classic really nice feel.
An since it has no numeric keypad, I don't have to reach as far for the mouse! This is basically why I've got it.

Negatives: Having home/end/pgup/dn in the top corner. An occasionally when I remote into this computer, num-lock has changed when I get back to it.

Comment Re:DST all year round for the win (Score 1) 355

... There is no reason that noon has to be the time of day when the sun is highest overhead. That's just tradition for the sake of useless tradition.

In Iceland the sun is highest around ca 13:30, always. Very nice I think.
Unfortunately now some people want to move this closer to noon in order to make it easier for teenagers to wake up in the morning.

Submission + - SPAM: The Hilarious (and Terrifying?) Ways Algorithms Have Outsmarted Their Creators 1

schwit1 writes: Flying saucers have yet to land—at least, not that we've confirmed—but alien intelligence is already here. As research into AI grows ever more ambitious and complex, these robot brains will challenge the fundamental assumptions of how we humans do things. And, as ever, the only true law of robotics is that computers will always do literally, exactly what you tell them to.

A paper recently published to ArXiv highlights just a handful of incredible and slightly terrifying ways that algorithms think. These AI were designed to reflect evolution by simulating generations while other competing algorithms conquered problems posed by their human masters with strange, uncanny, and brilliant solutions.

Link to Original Source

Submission + - Lead even more dangerous than previously thought (theguardian.com) 1

Bruce66423 writes: "Last week, a massive new study concluded that lead is 10 times more dangerous than thought, and that past exposure now hastens one in every five US deaths.... The study found that deaths, especially from cardiovascular disease, increased markedly with exposure, even at the lowest levels. It concluded that lead kills 412,000 people a year – accounting for 18% of all US mortality, not much less than the 483,000 who perish as a result of smoking."

NB — another instance where scientific experts were proved disastrously wrong...

Submission + - 50 million Facebook profiles harvested (theguardian.com)

umafuckit writes: A whistleblower has revealed how Cambridge Analytica stole personal information from Facebook in early 2014 to build a system that could profile individual US voters. The data analytics firm, that worked with Trump’s election team and the Brexit campaign, harvested millions of Facebook profiles in the tech giant’s biggest ever data breach. This has been confirmed by a Facebook statement, says The Guardian.

Comment Re:It's"daylight saving" (Score 1) 366

...In English, you capitalize most words in a title. See for example.

I would actually really appreciate if Slashdot would switch to plain sentence case for all article titles. It is usually much easier to read, in particular for technical stuff where it is often difficult today to tell if some word is a company name or some tech thingy.

Comment Re:News at 5... (Score 1) 451

Sigh... this issue is so bloody simple to resolve.

1. Default to a default set of morals, which include a reasonable (but not excessive) degree of self-sacrifice - based around the sort of decisions a "typical" driver would make.

That sounds anything but simple.

Yes it is, it's all about reusing existing quality code, such as face recognition libraries and Wisconsin's Prison-Sentencing Algorithm. I wonder how many repeat offenders there are in 10 average pedestrians.

Comment Re:Wow, someone gets it (Score 4, Insightful) 96

More good stuff ...

the design team removes all unnecessary design. For example, the pages on Gov.UK – the central portal – don’t have any pictures on them. This is because they distract from the information on the page, and user research showed that they reduced the clarity.
...
“It’d be nice if they like it, don’t get me wrong, but liking is not really a useful metric.” Instead his team looked to see if users have completed an online transaction, or stopped halfway through. Equally, did they find the information they needed and leave a webpage, or did they have to search for more information?

As opposed to having graphical designers design web sites.

Comment Re:This might be part of the reason... (Score 1, Insightful) 125

Here are couple more articles. The level of government sponsored propaganda in Sweden is reaching pretty unprecedented levels ...

How on earth can this be tagged as informative?
The first article discusses possible responses to real growing tensions with Russia. The second is a neo-nazi website, which either tells something about the poster or that he just blindingly googled some crap.

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