Comment Re:Dammit YouTube! (Score 1) 152
Just because I'm paranoid it doesn't mean they are NOT out to get me!!!
FNORD!
Just because I'm paranoid it doesn't mean they are NOT out to get me!!!
FNORD!
Some of that music can't ever be found again. I was a fan of the Israeli band Purple Wage and couldn't stop listening to their songs "Tired", "Daydream" and "Indeed" on MP3.com
After the site went down, I couldn't find that band again. It simply vanished.
And I can't find those damn mp3 files on my backups
You are in luck. The Apple ARM dev kit is pretty much a Mac Mini.
Indeed. I've seen one of the authors of the open letter to the WHO explaining on Twitter what they really wanted to say and the dillemma of using technical terms vs public communication:
1) Airbone vs "opportunistic airbone":
I am one of the scientists who wrote the paper. A critical problem, described by @apoorva_nyc, is lack of nuance on "airborne."
More accurate is "opportunistic airborne", transmits well indoors under crowded, low ventilation, long duration, no masks. Avoid each of those!
2) Aerosol vs true airbone (measles)
Terminology is indeed very confusing. Most importantly, the same word is used to mean very different things by different communities.
Aerosol = nuclei = microdroplet + dry particles (particles below 30 microns or so)
Airborne = through aerosols. BUT means "like measles" to docs
No, but I intend to use the brakes while we're all going gown this very steep hillside called Covid-19 Pandemic.
"Liberal" in this context is contrasted to "radical feminist" (radfem), so it's supposed to be understood as liberal as in moderate, not as liberal as in leftist. Radfems oppose every kind of porn, when liberal feminists usually accepts consensual porn.
You have Macs and give Windows machines to the GRAPHIC DESIGNER? That's... cold.
Just Dance 2020 - How would this even work? It couldn't be any better than the Wii version (just using controller accelerometers and gyros), plus lag kills it.
It will probably be just like Just Dance Now, which uses your smartphone as an accelerometer and your smart tv as a screen. It's already a streamed game and I haven't heard much complaining about lag.
Maybe the higher-ups didn't want to alert members of the Google Calendar team (who knows how many people has access to that source code) about that backdoor. Also, if they used GCal as a spying software -- even if the target were their own employees -- and got caught, the backlash on clients and potential clients would be ENORMOUS.
Hey, the Raspberry Pi isn't the best machine for emulation, but it IS inexpensive. Having the option to play a lot of games on a $35 nearly-disposable computer is a GOOD thing. And it can also work as a nice HTPC.
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Can't bribe or influence an AI the way you can humans; so it's a no-go for replacing any existing government.
Yes, you can.
Google "algorithm bias site:slashdot.org".
There are literally a dozen articles here on Slashdot about bias on social-sensitive algorithims. If they can be biased (and they can), their developers can be lobbied or even bribed.
Here, I'll give you not one, but five well-documented examples of AI showing prejudice in their algorithms.
Just like the classic game of telephone, bribing a programmer to influence an AI has way too abstract and indirect a result to really matter the same way old fashioned direct human graft has - and even worse, it has a paper trail of actions by the programmer.
You should google "International Obfuscated C Code Contest" and then resume participating in this discussion.
Variables don't; constants aren't.