Comment Re:I would not buy anything Intel right now (Score 3, Funny) 52
Comment Re:Troll-ish headline (Score 1) 61
The interesting thing was that Google dumped some of the AI talent they accumulated
The first obligation of M&A is to eliminate redundant staff, and that includes 'talent'.
Comment Re:Maybe a better article title would be... (Score 1) 61
- Downsizing your staff
- Useless content generation
- "write my code for me"
Comment Re:Hahah (Score 1) 61
Because YT is primarily a content delivery service with far less R&D involved in its day to day operations?
Comment Shame about Retrospect (Score 1) 36
The writing was on the wall when Apple introduced Time Machine for the average user, but Retrospect was an excellent utility for people who might have had more than one type of backup set for their Macs. Here's to hoping it finds a new home.
Comment Re:Web blows (Score 2) 62
What a bitter, reductionist approach to describing the field.
It is also entirely correct.
Comment Stop linking paywalled content (Score 1) 73
I'm super glad you're paying to read Bloomberg, NYT etc. but this is marketing if you only link paywalled sites.
Comment Re:Will be abandoned in 3 or 4 years (Score 2) 9
Except... it's been running since 2010.
Comment Re:question (Score 1) 63
The important thing is that without doing any research, you formed an opinion then asked us to validate or refute it. Good job!
Comment Re:So if I ... (Score 1) 429
Don't be ridiculous. There's no such thing.
Comment novelty of patent in question (Score 1) 56
The use of a nonce to prevent record/replay attacks was not new in 2011, it had already been a practice for preventing Flash streaming media playback from being spoofed by that point and I doubt Adobe were the first to think of it. The PTO were idiots to grant that patent but they're clear that they don't take responsibility for establishing novelty. To be blunt, most of the IP patents related to the Web between 2000–2015 are questionable at best; the Microsoft Word XML patent splitting raw text from formatting has direct prior art in Nisus Writer (which used plain ASCII text files, storing formatting in the files' resource forks; its former developers refused to comment on all requests regarding this) and many of the rest are submarine patents from noncoders.
Comment Re:Welp that's it folks (Score 1) 151
And the year of the Spoony
Submission + - SPAM: More And More Humans Are Growing an Extra Artery, Showing We're Still Evolving
To compare the prevalence of this persistent blood channel, Lucas and colleagues Maciej Henneberg and Jaliya Kumaratilake from the University of Adelaide examined 80 limbs from cadavers, all donated by Australians of European descent. The donors raged from 51 to 101 on passing, which means they were nearly all born in the first half of the 20th century. Noting down how often they found a chunky median artery capable of carrying a good supply of blood, the research team compared the figures with records dug out of a literature search, taking into account tallies that could over-represent the vessel's appearance. Their results were published in 2020 in the Journal of Anatomy. The fact the artery seems to be three times as common in adults today as it was more than a century ago is a startling find that suggests natural selection is favoring those who hold onto this extra bit of bloody supply.
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Comment *cough* (Score 1) 125
Tell me your lawyers told you to post this without telling me your lawyers told you to post this