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Comment Re:Yes, people are that stupid (Score 1) 135

Oh sure, but where's the adventure in that?

"After you leave the pavement, you go down the road a bit 'till you see three big rocks. You can ignore them, they just let you know you're on the right road. If you get to the base of a mountain without seeing the three big rocks, you're on the wrong road... So, a ways after the three big rock you'll get to the place where Billy Bob's trailer used to be parked, make a left there. If you hit a pothole so big you think you may have damaged something, that's the road you want. In awhile you'll get to a motor home that looks and smells like a meth lab, don't slow down, it's a meth lab. A bit after that you will see a fence with some cows behind it, we are on the other side of that field but you have to drive around it 'cause there's a bull in there and he's not friendly. Just follow the fence 'till the road dead ends and follow the ruts going down the side of the fence, Look back and make sure no one from the meth lab is following you, those folks are a bit twitchy... When you get to the end of the ruts you'll be in our back yard. Park anywhere but stay away from all the old cars 'cause of snakes. Just knock on the back door or holler, the dogs don't bite but they might knock you down..."

Comment Re:Public records should have higher barriers (Score 1) 160

by FatdogHaiku (#56431061) Attached to: Google Loses 'Right To Be Forgotten' Case

...Posting as AC because I'm technically a felon. No, really. Now get off my lawn.

If you take into account all the laws on the books in any given jurisdiction, I would bet a lot of people are technically a felon...
but not a convicted felon. If you have something on everyone it's easier to make them shut up.
If they won't shut up then you make them go away.

Comment Re:Problematic (Score 1) 471

If humans can't even decide what is "hate speech", what makes anyone believe that an AI system can?

Rule #1:
If an opinion or alleged statement of fact, written, spoken, or otherwise transmitted, questions the utility, morality, practicality, or motives of using AI to monitor, judge, and punish "Hate Speech", it shall be deemed to be de facto "Hate Speech".

Rule #2:
Any dispute or ambiguity shall be resolved using Rule #1.

Submission + - Consequences of doing business in China (npr.org) 1

Submitted by tomhath
tomhath writes:

Beijing-based Sinovel, which provided three-quarters of Massachusetts-based American Superconductor's revenue, refused to accept a shipment of electronic components for its wind turbines — and wouldn't pay millions of dollars it owed for them. The reasons it gave were ambiguous.

Within weeks, the company concluded that Sinovel had somehow obtained the source code for its electronic components and was installing a pirated version in the wind turbines it sold.

"Participation in the Chinese market is for Chinese companies only. Your participation as a Western company, at least to date, is a mirage. They're there to bring you in, be able to figure a way to harvest whatever they can from you, and then spit you out when you're no longer useful."

Submission + - Mercury's 'snakes' get formal names (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: When NASA’s Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft made its first flyby of Mercury in 2008, astronomers spotted strange deposits: blankets of material ranging from tens to thousands of kilometers wide whose color led researchers to informally dub them “red spots.” To date, scientists have cataloged more than 150 of these objects—and now, the International Astronomical Union has given them formal names.

All of the new monikers contain “facula,” which means “bright spot,” because they are brighter than the background terrain, as well as the word “snake” in one of Earth’s various languages. They take their serpentine name not from their appearance, but because the Roman god Mercury often appears with snakes on his staff.

Submission + - PUBG Ransomware Decrypts Your Files If You Play PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (bleepingcomputer.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In what could only be a joke, a new ransomware has been discovered called "PUBG Ransomware" that will decrypt your files if you play the game called PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. When the PUBG Ransomware is launched it will encrypt a user's files and folders on the user's desktop and append the .PUBG extension to them. When it has finished encrypting the files, it will display a screen giving you two methods that you can use to decrypt the encrypted files. Users can unlock it either by playing PUBG, or by entering a secret unlock code of "s2acxx56a2sae5fjh5k2gb5s2e".

The ransomware checks to see if you played PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds by monitoring the running processes for one named "TslGame". Once a user plays the game and the process is detected, the ransomware will automatically decrypt the victim's files. This ransomware is not too advanced as it only looks for the process name and does not check for other information to confirm that the game is actually being played. That means you can simply run any executable called TslGame.exe and it will decrypt the files.

Submission + - Rob Malda (aka CmdrTaco) speaking at Michigan State University! 1

Submitted by Zeppelin012
Zeppelin012 writes: Former Slashdot co-owner and editor-in-chief Rob Malda (CmdrTaco) is currently guest speaking in a CommArts class (MI201) at Michigan State University. Have any questions for him? I'll try to ask and get his answer towards the end of the lecture.

Submission + - File Manager for Windows 10 available now as Microsoft open sources winfile code (betanews.com)

Submitted by Mark Wilson
Mark Wilson writes: Cast your mind back several years and you'll remember Windows 3.0 and earlier. This was when Microsoft started to being home computing to the masses, and for anyone raised on modern Windows, the lack of Start menu, taskbar and other components makes the operating system seem antiquated and unusable.

But use it we did! Back then, there was no File Explorer, but File Manager instead — and it's something that people sometimes feel nostalgic about. A couple of days ago, Microsoft open sourced the File Manager code, and a Windows 10 version has been released.

The source code — as well as the compiled File Manager for Windows 10 project itself — is available to download from GitHub. It has been a ten-year project, having been tweaked and tinkered with by Craig Wittenberg for his own personal use. He has released not only his personalized version of File Manager, but also the original version, albeit updated to run on Windows 10.

Submission + - Privacy Focused Social Network Foxsake.com Aims To Replace Digg Reader, Facebook 1

Submitted by nixkuroi
nixkuroi writes: In light of the recent closure of Digg's RSS reader, and ongoing privacy concerns with Facebook, a new social news site has opened into public beta. Foxsake.com promises users a site free of facial recognition, third party ads, and many of the features available on other social networks. The site allows users to follow RSS feeds in a way that is familiar to users of other social sites, while providing privacy by default on many of its social features.

Submission + - SPAM: Newly Discovered Nazca Lines Hiding in The Desert For Thousands of Years

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Archaeologists in Peru have made a stunning discovery: over 50 previously unknown Nazca lines — and some of them are centuries older than the most famous of these magnificent desert drawings.

Most of these mysterious geoglyphs were created by the Nazca people, who lived in the area 1300 to 1800 years ago. But the researchers believe that some of the newfound ones were created even earlier — by the Paracas and Topará people, who lived there up to 700 years earlier.

The lines have been a source of fascination and wonder for decades. Created by pushing aside the top layer of red desert pebbles to reveal the pale layer underneath, these geoglyphs span vast tracts of the Nazca Desert, between the towns of Nazca and Palpa.

Some of them form geometric shapes, some are simple lines, and some are combined into elaborate depictions of animals and objects.

The most wondrous thing about these ancient symbols is that you often can't see what they depict from ground level. You have to get up in the air to discern the patterns, which is why their full glory wasn't understood until after the invention of airplanes.
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