Comment Re:The right people? (Score 1) 289
Apropos of nothing, who are the "right people"?
Given who you're talking to, the answer is presumably "people who think like rsilvergun."
Apropos of nothing, who are the "right people"?
Given who you're talking to, the answer is presumably "people who think like rsilvergun."
because Apple can charge more for a phone with a useless charger than for a phone without a useless charger.
They probably can't; after all, if the charger is useless, then buyers won't be willing to pay more for a phone+charger than they were for the phone. And presumably Apple is already charging what they think the market will bear for an iPhone in Brazil.
It is very puzzling how many people think that allowing somebody else to install non-Apple-approved software on their iPhone somehow causes your iPhone to be magically hacked.
I'll bet "older" means at least 5 years old, maybe 10.
People update their phones every 1-2 years without complaining. Desktops and laptops typically cost less to replace, and they often last 5-7 years.
Unless you're saying this "older" computer is 2 years old, it seems reasonable to target machines that are 5 years old or less.
Not too surprising that it's somebody with a 7-digit user ID who thinks that "just buy a new computer!" is a sensible solution to the problem of a webmail application that performs badly.
When it comes to lotteries, well, I'll admit to buying a ticket when the jackpot maxes out. Why? Because a couple of hours of entertainment from the daydreaming is worth the $6 ticket price to me. I know I won't win, but it's fun to dream about, and probably better for my health than another pint of beer.
Why not just daydream that your uncle is going to win and give you a bunch of his winnings? The chance is the same, and you get to save yourself a few bucks.
The best part is that for me, just below a new huge ad, is the checked box labeled "ads disabled"
That's clearly working well. It's fine, that's what uBlock's right-click > block element is for.
The "ads disabled" checkbox has disappeared for me (not exactly sure when, I just noticed it when those huge "Jobbio" ads showed up.)
Just for fun, I tried diabling uBlock to see how many ads show up on a slashdot page. Spoiler: it's insane. On the comment page for this story, I get two banner ads above the article summary, two more below the summary, as well as the big Jobbio block of ads. In the sidebar there's an ad that changes every few seconds, and then a "sponsored links" block with four different ads. In the lower corner of the screen there's a popup with an ad that changes every few seconds. Then at the bottom of the page below the comments, there's another block for "sponsored links" (6 of them), half a screen of full-width banners for Jobbio (5 of them), another generic banner ad, and then a slashdot deals block (6 of them).
I have no idea how anyone browses the web without an adblocker enabled.
I can't eat 8 hamburger buns before they go bad unless I freeze them, and buns don't really freeze. Fruit & Vegetables don't keep all that long either. Especially if they're being sold for a decent price. You can buy less, but then you're making 3+ trips to the grocery store a week....
The problem is in how you're storing your food. Bread can be frozen easily with very little loss in quality. Most sorts of fruits and vegetables can be stored for more than 3 days without going bad.
"an OkCupid study found that women find 80 percent of men unattractive."
When women in general are being that selective, size becomes rather irrelevant.
Have you been to the motor vehicle bureau? Eighty percent sounds about right.
Life involves hard choices. Shut up and make them.
Why should they shut up? It's certainly the employer's prerogative to make policies including telecommuting rules, but at the same time it's certainly they employee's right to express their opinions on those policies.
You say you don't care, but then you're telling people to shut up about it, so you obviously care at least a bit. Maybe because you're afraid that the employees that chose to speak up instead of shut up might end up getting a better deal than you did when you took a less-lucrative job?
Works flawlessly for me and most of my friends.
The few that use android, are just mostly hamstrung in that they cannot send high quality videos to anyone....but I can send to them.
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The upside is that at least messages are encrypted as usual when transmitted: the software on your phone, say, studies the material, and continues on as normal if the data is deemed CSAM-free.
Only if (1) you trust the messaging software to do as it says -- which you can't, since you can't audit the source code or verify what the "phone app" you got from Google/Apple actually contains -- and (2) you trust that the AI "black box" that is scanning for CSAM hasn't been altered to scan for anything else -- which you can't, because most of these "AI models" can't be understood through any conventional analysis.
The first is always going to be a problem with the current model of software distribution on phones, but letting the government inject some AI model that will allow it to capture an unencrypted message whenever they detect something is going to be too tempting an opportunity for them to ignore. They'll just add other training data to detect messages related to any crime that they'll particularly interested in, CSAM or not.
If you go to https://openlibrary.org/ you can search for the books listed; from a spot check of a few books listed in that PDF it looks like they're currently labeled "Not In Library", which I'm guessing means that they've been removed due to this lawsuit.
The reading interface really isn't as convenient as a paper book or a well-formatted ebook, so as a "pirate source" of current books it's probably not great (you'd be better off looking on the usual pirate sites.) But they've got a fantastic selection of older out-of-print books
"permanent" != "ending"
The only thing about DST that actually matters is changing the clocks. Once you get rid of that, it makes no difference whether you call some time "8AM" or "7AM".
Honestly though a lot of drivers would not have considered that so there I think we can say the AI was just behaving as a reasonable average driver would.
This is where AI could really shine though. Right now they pay attention to road markings and cars that exist, but they could go beyond that - they could learn to classify some cars as potentially greater hazards.
One big factor in favor of AI driving is that we can learn from the mistakes and take steps to prevent them from happening again. In contrast, we've got many years of evidence that there's no way to stop human drivers from making the same stupid mistakes over and over again.
Somebody ought to cross ball point pens with coat hangers so that the pens will multiply instead of disappear.
