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Comment Re:For those who don't know (Score 1) 80

By having an algorithm that was so dumb it doesn't understand context, and auto censors based on a 3 character string. "Ass" isn't inherently sexual. Even when referring to the butt it's not. It can also refer to donkeys, Arsenic Sulfide, a german playing card manufacturer, or a bunch of other things easily found in Wikipedia's disambiguation page.

Yes, but how exactly did APPLE screw up here?

Comment Re:For those who don't know (Score 1) 80

ASS stands for Sub Station Alpha. No joke. The guys who invented apparently chose that name and the use of the reverse acronym because they have senses of humor like Beavis and Butthead. Yeah, Apple screwed up here for sure, but the name and abbreviation were chosen in the first place so they could say ASS because they thought it was hilarious! Sigh.

How exactly did apple screw up here?

Comment Re:If you are aiming for the moon ... (Score 3, Informative) 65

If you are aiming for the moon, literally, can't you at least go with 5G rather than 4G?

I'll take this as a serious question so here goes:

4g uses less power than 5g unless you're going full bore on the link. Meaning uploading a little here, a little there, 5g is less efficient.
4g has a range of 10 miles. 5g has a range of 1000 feet.
4g gives up to 200mbps, 5g has a theoretical 10gb speed
The advantages of speed don't really overcome the limitations of power and distance.

Comment Re:Can only help Fallout (Score 1) 99

4 isn't on par with those and they try very hard to hide it. Your dialog options for example, ever notice it doesn't actually list what your character is going to actually say?

Here is one encounter which shows the example. 4 options to say the same thing. There is no choice in the vast majority of your conversations.

https://i.imgur.com/zLiI3Ri.jp...

In other instances you'll have 2 or even 3 dialog options that are the same thing.

Comment Re:Cable Internet (Score 2) 150

Frankly, this isn't supposed to replace cable broadband. It's meant to replace DSL or dialup in areas where that is all that exists, or even worse, Hughes Satellite.

If you have terrestrial high speed internet (I don't count DSL as high speed) then you aren't the target customer. You might purchase it because it's an option, but don't expect it to compete on price with your current cable connection.

Comment Re:Nothing out of the ordinary (Score 1) 204

An interview in local Finnish news with the head of laboratory in the Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority says that releases like this happen usually a few times every year. The statement didn't discuss whether the levels seen this time were also usual, but it does seem to imply it. It was also said that most times the source of the release does not get identified. So there's no real major news here, stuff like this seems to happen every now and then.

Got a link to the local Finnish news article?

Comment Re:Why only males? (Score 1) 67

In China, it's closer to an 8:5 ratio of men to women due in no small part to their former "One Child Policy". Just for clarification.

Citation needed.

Right now the ratio is 1.06:1 male:female according to the CIA: https://www.cia.gov/library/pu...

At birth the Ratio is 1.11:1, or 11% higher.

No where are males at a 60% higher (8:5 or 1.6:1) ratio.

Comment Re:Some good some bad (Score 1) 77

Also what's with the split memory bandwidth? Did they not want to bay for a 320bit bus all around?

See CityZen's thread here: https://games.slashdot.org/com... It's because of how the memory is laid out. Some of the memory chips are larger than others, so when you hit the max of the smaller chips, the bandwidth they provide to the overall system goes away, leaving you with less chips providing the last of the memory.

Comment Re: Based on what? (Score 1) 115

Yay censorship! I'm so glad we have have SMART people like you thinking us what information we're allowed to read. Wow it must feel good to be so SMART!! I hope some day I can be smart enough to dictate what other people are allowed to think...

Think what you want. Just don't lie and say it's fact. We don't need more stupid.

Comment Re:Based on what? (Score 1) 115

I didn't say it was a crime or First Amendment issue, they are perfectly within their rights. It is, however, censorship, and virtually all censorship is a bad idea.

Consider it "moderation" rather than censorship. Rhino Horn doesn't cure Covid-19 or give you super hard erections. Lets get rid of the videos saying it does.

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