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Comment Not just Aquaman (Score 5, Insightful) 187

Frankly...beyond Superman and Batman, DC doesn't have much—at least that anyone has heard of and/or cares about. Wonder Woman, Flash, and Green Lantern do at least have some following, but they haven't aged well and I'm not sure they can translate to film nearly as well as, say, Iron Man.

IMHO, they'd be better off finding some more offbeat superheroes from their back catalog (a la Guardians of the Galaxy) or biting the bullet and inventing some new ones.

Still, Marvel has done an amazing job of refurbishing characters like Captain America and Thor, so maybe DC can do the same.

Comment Re:IDWISOTT (Score 1) 101

I mistakenly thought the API was public; it would be nice if certain clueless news sites (and the author of TFS) would point out this is a reverse-engineered interface.

It might as well be public, though, considering how long ago it was discovered and how many apps/services/libraries are using it. Snapchat is supposed to be in the business of privacy; if they won't give full effort to protecting their users they deserve this fiasco.

Comment IDWISOTT (Score 3, Insightful) 101

Ars Technica identifies the culprit as SnapSaved, which...secretly saved [users'] images on a SnapSaved server

In related news: Mysterious Twitter-related injuries traced to users of popular addon service TweetAndWeHitYouWithASpanner.com

(and why in god's name does a service like SnapChat have an API?)

Comment Re:Have the solutions converged? (Score 4, Interesting) 77

TFA ironically begins with the quote '"I don’t think we will ever have enough [computing power] to satisfy us,” says researcher.'

The summary is vague, and the article not much better, and neither say anything about whether the 'new model' is matching observations any better than the old.

It would be nice if they could at least clarify if the sole pair of comparison images are even the same forecast, because the new model shows not only more detail but a completely different prediction.

Come on kids, this isn't a network news sound bite. This is the Internet, and you're a tech news site. Would it kill you to go past the press release?

Maybe I'm just bitter about this because I live in mountains where a coin is a more accurate forecasting tool than the weather service.

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