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Comment Re:BS: Look at the other car companies (Score 2) 198

by RevDobbs (#57908976) Attached to: What Happened When Automation Came To General Motors?

Yes, GM was behind the trends. No one wants the vehicles that were being produced at the plants that are closing down. "Cars" have fallen out of favor for truck-like vehicles.

Frankly so much has changed since the 70's that comparisons to them are pointless unless done really well, with a level of analysis beyond Quartz. Armchair comparisons may reflect inflation but do they consider all the other quality of life improvements that many of the US's "poor" have these days?

Submission + - Slashdot is on the backscatter.org blacklist 2

Submitted by Raenex
Raenex writes: I noticed I stopped getting email notifications of replies and moderation. I checked my spam log, and found that Slashdot was listed at backscatter.org, via (smtp.lw.sourceforge.com) [216.105.38.6].

Submission + - Walmart moves to Microsoft's cloud (foxnews.com)

Submitted by hyperclocker
hyperclocker writes: Today, Walmart announced that it has established a strategic partnership with Microsoft to, "further accelerate Walmart's digital transformation in retail, empower its associates worldwide and make shopping faster and easier for millions of customers around the world." What that means in reality is, Walmart is embracing Microsoft's cloud services and will run its digital operations by taking full advantage of Microsoft Azure and Office 365.

Submission + - Prosecution of journalist collapses after recording disproves police testimony 2

Submitted by Andy Smith
Andy Smith writes: Slashdot reported last September how I was arrested while standing in a field near a road accident, as I photographed the scene for a newspaper. I was initially given a police warning for "obstruction", but the warning was then cancelled and I was prosecuted for resisting arrest and breach of the peace. These are serious charges and I was facing a prison sentence. Fortunately we had one very strong piece of evidence: A recording of my arrest. Not only did the recording prove that two police officers' testimony was false, but it caught one of them boasting about how he had conspired with a prosecutor to arrest and prosecute me. Yesterday the case was dropped, and now the two police officers and the prosecutor face a criminal investigation.

Submission + - New algorithm determines ideal caffeine dosage and timing for alertness (sciencedaily.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Compared to the original dosing strategies used in the studies, the U.S. Army’s algorithm identified strategies that enhanced neurobehavioral performance by up to 64 percent, or reduced caffeine consumption by up to 65 percent. According to the authors, these results suggest that the algorithm can tailor the timing and amount of caffeine to the particular sleep/wake schedule of each study condition to maximize its benefits.

Submission + - Why Thousands of AI Researchers Re Boycotting the New Nature Journal (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Machine learning has demonstrated that an academic field can not only survive, but thrive, without the involvement of commercial publishers. But this has not stopped traditional publishers from entering the market. Our success has caught their attention. Most recently, the publishing conglomerate Springer Nature announced a new journal targeted at the community called Nature Machine Intelligence. The publisher now has 53 journals that bear the Nature name. Should we be concerned? What would drive authors and readers towards a for-profit subscription journal when we already have an open model for sharing our ideas? Academic publishers have one card left to play: their brand. The diversity and quantity of academic research means that it is difficult for a researcher in one field to rate the work in another. Sometimes a journal’s brand is used as a proxy for quality. When academics look for promotion, having papers in a “brand-name journal” can be a big help. Nature is the Rolex of academic publishing. But in contrast to Rolex, whose staff are responsible for the innovation in its watches, Nature relies on academics to provide its content. We are the watchmakers, they are merely the distributors.

Many in our research community see the Nature brand as a poor proxy for academic quality. We resist the intrusion of for-profit publishing into our field. As a result, at the time of writing, more than 3,000 researchers, including many leading names in the field from both industry and academia, have signed a statement refusing to submit, review or edit for this new journal. We see no role for closed access or author-fee publication in the future of machine-learning research. We believe the adoption of this new journal as an outlet of record for the machine-learning community would be a retrograde step.

Submission + - Wikipedia's Philip Cross problem (craigmurray.org.uk)

Submitted by arnott
arnott writes: What happens when Wikipedia is used in ideological war with wikipedia's support ? 133,612 edits to Wikpedia have been made in the name of “Philip Cross” over 14 years. That’s over 30 edits per day, seven days a week. From Craig Murray, one of the people, whose wikipedia entry was edited by Philip Cross, a blog post:

Because the purpose of the “Philip Cross” operation is systematically to attack and undermine the reputations of those who are prominent in challenging the dominant corporate and state media narrative. particularly in foreign affairs. “Philip Cross” also systematically seeks to burnish the reputations of mainstream media journalists and other figures who are particularly prominent in pushing neo-con propaganda and in promoting the interests of Israel.

Looks like Philip Cross has Jimmy Wales's support.

Comment Re:The fuck are you talking about? (Score 1) 5

by RevDobbs (#56633790) Attached to: Win10 Developers (poorly) Reinvent Display Settings
I'm wondering the same thing. Don't get me wrong, there are a million niggling issues with Win10's UI/UX, not just "changed conventions" but a real problem of hiding settings and features. That said, the premise posted is factually incorrect and it is entirely possible to run different resolution monitors and control (or at least disable) scaling.

Comment No, the duopoly is not ripe for disruption (Score 1) 210

As stated in the article:
1) Off-brand sucks
2) People are too lazy to think ahead and buy on-line.

Most goods are available cheaper/better on-line, but if you're going to wait until you absolutely need it you will be stuck with whatever local pricing and availability is.

... this doesn't even pertain explicitly to batteries, it is a fact of life about most consumables.

Submission + - Peresonal experience: reporting a presumed FireFox "..REQUIRED Manual Update " 1

Submitted by tkjtkj
tkjtkj writes: Today, 4/16/2018, my FF version 59.0 popped up a NON-Mozilla full page stating that I am "REQUIRED" to do a "manual" install of FF 57 (sic!). The originating site was " ffinst.download "
Naturally, it made no sense and I exited the page .., feeling compelled to report this potentially dangerous event.
If there exists a more-proper place to post this warning please do tell me ...
Thanks

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