OK, see, this attitude of yours is actually a large part of why Trump won. Imagine your average hypothetical swing voter:

• On one side of the fence, the Trump supporters are shouting about all the perceived problems this country has that Trump will fix. The swing voter has major doubts about whether those problems are as bad as they are, or if they're even real, or if Trump could indeed fix them.
• But on the other side of the fence, the only thing the Clinton supporters are shouting is "If you even think about joining those Trump bastards, you're a stupid racist bigoted backwoods redneck!"

Which group do you think the swing voter will feel more disposed to joining?

Personally, if a laptop comes with fans, I like a little fan noise to reassure me that the fans aren't dead and are doing their job. Obviously, in a laptop without fans (a la most Chromebooks) I relish the silence, but powerful laptops need fans and I need to know they're working as expected.

No, not new; I just haven't had all the idealism crushed out of me yet.

That's a cynically lazy attitude. Corrupt people need to be held accountable, or the situation will only get worse.

And even if all politicians are corrupt, they still vary by degrees of corruption. Remove the worst offenders and the average corruption of the whole goes down.

The GOP had this coming. Back when they decided to start cozying up with the Tea Partiers, they didn't have the foresight to realize that this would be the inevitable result, and now their party is ruled by whoever manages to shout the loudest and act the craziest.

I disagree. Cheap phones are slow, and trying to scroll through barely-responsive webpages at 10fps gradually frays one's mind. I'd pay a good sum to avoid going back to that again.

...Unfortunately, the phone makers know it, and keep releasing updates that suck away more resources right around the time a newer, faster, more expensive phone is released. Not naming names, but iHate it when companies do that and I wish they'd Think Different.

I don't buy that at all... the computer in this case is still learning through visual feedback only. If you replaced the screen buffer with a camera, the neural net would very quickly learn to ignore the areas outside of the monitor. Similarly, using a mouse and keyboard would be more of an accomplishment for the hardware engineers rigging up the appropriate servos than for the AI learning to use them.

They say they're moving on to Quake but I can guess that, because of how machine learning generally works, the AI they've trained for Doom will be utterly helpless at Quake until fully retrained.

I prefer to think of it as a pay-by-weight buffet. Except every single item you put on your plate comes with a 10-pound piece of hardtack plastered with advertising.

Google should absolutely not "choose to cut them a break".

This is one of the biggest problems of the takedown system: the big boys get their own special set of rules and are insulated from the fallout of the horrible systems they put into use, while everyone else has to deal with the massive collateral damage of these out-of-control takedown bots. The only way it will stop is if Google stops shielding these companies from their own stupid decisions.

This is advanced stupid. It takes a whole lot of bad decisions and a high-grade lack of skill to manage a remote exploit via a password field.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that, in lieu of hashing and salting the password, and/or using one of the many freely available tools to sanitize inputs, it drops the password field directly into a database query of SELECT * FROM PWNED WHERE PASSWORD = x. Because IoT means cheap crap developed by the cheapest programmers. Hell, even doing a plain text comparison of if (passwordInput == passwordStoredInPlainText) would have been more secure!

In related news, I will never install an IoT device into my house that I didn't design and program myself.

Everyone's here talking about how censorship is wrong etc. etc., but I'm more interested in why this is news at all.

I mean, Yahoo using an abuse-detection isn't news, since they had an older one in place that the new system is beating.
So then the news is that they set up a better machine learning algorithm with better training data, and the results were better? Color me shocked.

11 vs 48? More like 48 vs 48, IMO. Hillary Clinton is completely, utterly corrupt. Her government experience is therefore a bad thing, because it allows that corruption to inflict more damage. Enough damage that I'm not entirely convinced that a Trump presidency would be worse.

Honestly, it's like choosing between dying of stomach cancer or skin cancer. And each time you say you're voting for not getting cancer, the stomach cancer people yell at you for "handing victory to skin cancer".

I disagree with the notion that automation will take over everything. Especially in the realm of fast food, because it's been tried before. Has anyone had a meal at an automat lately? Not since the 1970s, you say? Yeah, that's what I thought.

An easy-to-find security hole is still a security hole.