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Comment Re:Nice laptop, but dislike the keyboard design (Score 1) 592

A recent employer issued me a new 15" MacBook Pro. I really liked the weight, battery life, screen quality, and the feel of the keyboard. But the non-PC keyboard layout drove me nuts. I.e., the absence of stand-alone keys like home, end, page-up, alt, etc.

You should happy they removed home and end. At least if you are running OS X. You might end up hitting them otherwise, and then chaos and stupidity ensues. It seems Apple instead of fixing the retarded behavior of home and end in OS X just removed the buttons so users would hit them and be thrown around and lose the position in the document they were working on. Typical Apple; fixing the problem, not by admitting any fault but by removing user options.

Comment Re:Here's an interesting follow-up idea (Score 4, Insightful) 291

What would be interesting would be to see what a polygraph says about their false memories. Can it distinguish between an event that occurred and one that was from a false memory? If not, that would be the final nail in the coffin.

What coffin? Polygraphs are a hoax intended to scare stupid criminals into confessing. It does even work on real memories, why would it work on false ones?

Comment Re:Microsoft: No evidence flaw successfully exploi (Score 1) 263

Uh, isn't that what Google's proof-of-concept does - demonstrate the flaw being successfully exploited? Does Microsoft need to see N. Korea exploiting it before they believe it's real?

If you personally create a remote account for a North Korean spy and he uses this exploit to see you power control settings. You really were asking for it, not sure what but something.

Comment Re:"Forget about the risk that machines pose to us (Score 4, Insightful) 227

No, forget you. Yes journalism is crap and yes sensationalism rules the day. That doesn't make AI in 2015 and ongoing any less persistent a threat to humanity.

You are right, it doesn't make it any less of a threat, which is to say any less that non existing. You are exactly who this article is about, you have been conned into thinking AIs are actually real and could in any near future cause a threat to you, when that is in fact not the case. AI do not exists, all those software emulating AI are all smart systems working either deterministic based on specific rules set out or does stastical modeling to make guesses at what you mean or what they are looking at. Stastical modeling that makes a black yellow striped pattern look like a school bus, because it has no concept of anything and not intelligence in any sense of the word and that is the just what fits the statistical model.

Comment Re:Fuck Me (Score 2, Informative) 553

Kind of hard to do on Debian.

"apt-get install openrc" is hard???

Why are you trolling? Debian might BE switching to systemd, but it is still optional in Jessie, all the other init systems still work.

Besides systemd is modular, you only need to install the modules you want and need.

Comment Re:doesn't meaning anything ... right? (Score 1) 393

It sure is a good thing that players' behavior as modeled in games has no effect whatsoever on their offline behavior, or in any way informs us about their attitudes toward the real world. That might be disconcerting.

That is not the interesting part. The players behavior might not match their offline behavior, but it does match the offline behavior of some politicians.

Submission + - UK Prime Minister seeks to resurrect the zombie of compulsory key escrow

Dr_Barnowl writes: The BBC Reports that UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, has vowed to introduce a "comprehensive piece of legislation" aimed at there being "no piece of communication" .. "which we cannot read", in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris.

The only logical means by which this could occur would be by the introduction of compulsory key escrow, and the banning of forms of encryption which do not use it. While the UK already essentially has a legal means to demand your encryption keys (and imprison you indefinitely if you don't comply), this would fall short if you have a credible reason for not having the key any more (such as using an OTR plugin for your chosen chat program).

The US tried a similar tack with Clipper in the 90s.

As we all know, terrorists with any technical chops are unlikely to be affected, given the vast amount of freely available military-grade crypto now available, and the use of boring old cold war tradecraft.

Ironically, France used to ban the use of strong cryptography but has largely liberalized it's regime since 2011.

Comment Re: Who gives a fuck (Score 1) 104

While it is absolutely the case that emoji has no place in certain text fields, as a web browser it is Chrome's responsibility to handle all valid and compliant UTF-8 symbols, including emoji symbols, within the application. Emoji are not some imaginary pseudo-symbol type or image format sent in-line. Where the symbol is seen, an image from a font will be displayed instead of a conventional character. As such, is it really that different than needing to support Cyrillic characters in text fields?

It was already working. This was just allowing Chrome to use the color fonts for Emoji on Mac. They were already supporting color fonts on Linux.

Comment Re:Bets (Score 1) 340

Not possible.
You need more than a 5% edge over the other players, because for every hand you win, the house is going to take a small cut, and for every hand you lose the house will take a small cut from other players. If there is not a big sucker at the table, the players will leave and look for a better game. Thery are not going to sit around dying a slow death of small rakes to the casino. And if you can't spot the sucker, it's you.

This must be without a house. If it is optimal then two of them should get a draw, and break even. That is not possible if anyone takes a cut.

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