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Comment Re:Title Correction: (Score 2) 161

The modern internet runs on an uncomfortable bargain. We want endless news, videos, forums, tutorials, memes, investigations, reviews, guides, maps, weather reports, and communities. We want them instantly. We want them searchable. We want them updated every hour of every day. Then we install software specifically designed to remove the mechanism that pays for all of it. Ad blockers feel like a victimless act. One click, a cleaner page, a faster load time, fewer distractions. The individual benefit is obvious. The collective cost is less visible.

And if ads weren't occasionally a vector for malware, fewer people would be determined to block them all. Imagine an alternate universe where one in ten million vitamin pills is cyanide. Who'd take a vitamin pill every day?

Comment Good luck finding a local gas station in 6-8 years (Score 3, Insightful) 135

I've seen a couple of gas stations in my neighourhood turned into residential lots already, and another is boarded up. Half the internal combustion cars on the road means only half the gas will be sold, and so you only need half as many gas stations.

How many residential/local gas stations will be left when EVs are 70-80% of the market?

Comment Re:UK police false positives on facial recognition (Score 2) 86

Thanks, that is very interesting. But something smells fishy.

1. 1 false positive from "over 641,533 faces" seems too good to be true. Very few systems of any kind are that good, and facial recognition? I don't buy it. And that's an oddly specific number to be "over". It does not pass the smell test.

2. "Shows no bias" is similarly too good to be true and doesn't pass the smell test. Didn't Apple have some problem in the last year or two with trying to spiff up faces, where black skin didn't work as well? "No bias" is not credible.

3. "Zero unlawful arrests" is weasel words. Just because an arrest has conformed to various legal standards, such as having a warrant, being cautioned, not beaten up, etc, does not make it a proper arrest. Lots of people are acquitted at trial after having been lawfully arrested.

4. The rate has not changed. Well, yes, it must have, if this is the false positive rate, since it presumably once upon a time had 0 false positives and now has 1, and the denominator has been increasing all this time unless the first 641,533 faces were all recognized in the first day.

5. The only credible answer. There may well be no national false positive rate.

But it's an interesting response. Thanks.

Comment Re:Yeah what you want is irrelevant (Score 1) 86

I don't know what she's been doing. But from the fact that it took 40 years to track her down, and that only because a non-cop found her, I'd say the evidence is strong I know what she *hasn't* been doing -- terrorism, or training terrorists.

Seriously, if she's been living for 40 years training terrorists who haven't done anything to draw attention to themselves or her, she's either been running a false flag terrorist school with the government's connivance, or she hasn't been running a terrorism school.

If society wants to punish her for what she did 40 years ago, fine. But stop pretending the police took a dangerous terrorist off the streets.

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