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Comment Re: This model is running out of steam fast (Score 1) 154

Youtube Premium, and it's a whole $12/month or $18/month for a family. No ads on Youtube, offline content, streaming and offline music, seems like a pretty good amount of value to me compared to $65 for the TV stuff. Even before I signed up I found that my viewing habits had shifted towards the more focused content on Youtube, now it's 90% of what I watch. The other 10% is split between Amazon Prime video and Netflix.

Comment Re:Not racism (Score 1) 352

Nope, it's about racism. While facial recognition is extremely poor across the board, the false positive rate for non-Caucasians is several times higher due to selection bias in training sets. This has been documented across almost all of the major facial recognition engines that researchers were given access to.

Submission + - House Leaders Strike Deal To Protect US Web Browsing Data (gizmodo.com)

An anonymous reader writes: After three days of negotiations, House lawmakers have struck a deal on an amendment to protect innocent Americans from being spied on by their own government online. Discussions were carried out behind closed doors over Memorial Day weekend after news broke Friday that House leaders had agreed to allow a vote on an amendment introduced by Reps. Zoe Lofgren and Warren Davidson to prohibit the FBI from collecting Americans’ web browsing history without a warrant.

The Lofgren-Davidson amendment will require the FBI to obtain a warrant even if there’s only a possibility that the data it seeks is tied to a U.S. person. If the government wishes to access the IP addresses of everyone who has visited a particular website, it could not do so without a warrant unless it can “guarantee” that no U.S. persons will be identified. The House is preparing to vote as early as this week on the surveillance re-authorization bill, which will reinstate several key tools used by the FBI to conduct foreign intelligence investigations.

Submission + - IPv6 will show how many have returned to the office

Tim the Gecko writes: Google's IPv6 connectivity stats topped 32% on Saturday for the first time, but the main story has been the midweek stats. Most mobile phone networks and a good chunk of residential broadband have migrated to IPv6, but the typical corporate network where people used to spend their 9 to 5 is largely IPv4-only. There used to be a big dip in the IPv6 stats during the working week, but widespread working from home has halved that dip, with the typical midweek IPv6 connectivity for Google queries moving upwards from 26% to 29%. Looking at this graph will be a good way of checking how fast people are returning to the office.

Submission + - SPAM: In 1998, 900+ UW Profs Protested Governor's Vision for Distance Learning in 2020 1

theodp writes: "About 850 professors [ultimately 900+] at the University of Washington have signed an open letter to Gov. Gary Locke to say they are worried about the enthusiasm he and one of his advisers are showing for instruction via CD-ROM’s and the Internet,” read a New York Times article from June, 1998. The kicker, GeekWire reports in a new follow-up interview with Locke, is the controversy focused on a group called the "2020 Commission," created by Locke to set a vision for higher education for a year that would see virtual classes become mandatory for professors and students at UW and around the world (UW was the first American university to shut down in response to COVID-19). Locke said he and the professors were actually on the same page, then and now, explaining: "Clearly, using technology can make it easier for both faculty and students. But there’s still no substitute for that human interaction.” GeekWire also reached out to Galya Diment, a UW prof who was quoted in the NYT story, for an update. “Now, you don’t have to convince anyone that [online instruction] is much worse than in-person teaching,” Diment said. “You just have to convince people that, when necessary, it is good enough. And that’s a really interesting reversal of the argument.”

Interestingly, UW is now warning incoming freshmen that they'd better get used to the idea of distance learning in the Fall (should it be necessary), if they know what's good them. From the UW's COVID-19 Admissions FAQs: Q. Can I defer my offer of admission if the UW announces remote learning will continue through autumn quarter 2020? A. The UW continues to closely monitor the ongoing public health situation as it plans for autumn quarter. Whether classes are conducted in-person or via remote learning, the same outstanding, world renowned instructors will be leading your courses. Therefore, the UW is not deferring admission to another entry term due to a temporary change in course delivery method. If you do not wish to attend the UW for autumn quarter, but wish to enroll for a future quarter, you would need to reapply for that term.

Comment Re:They've already pulled back from that (Score 1) 217

Exactly, and low prices of liquids will keep new shale wells from being drilled, in the past the liquid fraction would pay for the drilling and the gas was the profit, with liquid prices in the tank nobody will be starting new wells (heck if it stays low enough they might turn off the pumps because it won't be worth the cost of electricity). That dropping supply will actually raise the price of natural gas barring a huge drop in industrial usage.

Comment Elimination of data caps (Score 4, Interesting) 56

Hopefully this can once and for all kill the fig leaf for data caps and prove that there is zero justification for them. If they can handle this unprecedented load then it's always been a complete farce and we should keep them from re-implementing them under whatever color of law we need to (antitrust seems a good place to start, since it's basically a racket perpetrated by a monopoly)

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