Comment Re:Not all slop is equal (Score 1) 37
Amelia is actually pretty good, considering it's AI. Sadly, they're a bunch of racist pigs.
Comment And when they kill the license servers? (Score 1) 22
That game will then be playable completely digitally, without the need to ever insert the disc, as long as you (or a member of your family account) is logged in.
The ability to convert disc-based Xbox games to digital copies could be especially important, as rumors suggest Microsoft’s upcoming Project Helix console won’t be available with a disc drive. That means claiming a digital entitlement could be the only way to achieve backward compatibility for hundreds of millions of Xbox game discs going forward.
IOW, for as long as Microsoft keeps the necessary department funded and the license servers running.
Comment Re: I think it's missing some nuance (Score 1) 93
Whoosh...
Comment Re:Large scale backlash, not serious discussion (Score 1) 97
If you think solar panels on datacentre roofs are anything more than a rounding error, I have a bridge to sell you.
Comment Re:Why would anyone believe... (Score 1) 29
It doesn't matter what anyone believes. The only thing that matters is what they can prove.
Comment Re:Is it ragebait, or (Score 1) 217
The older people get, the more set in their ways they become, and the less they like change. So basically, people become more conservative as they age, and less tolerant of things they don't understand. They also accumulate more wealth and favor keeping more of it (fiscal conservatism). And so on. This is generally a well-understood phenomenon.
Anyone who was not a liberal at 20 years of age had no heart, while anyone who was still a liberal at 40 had no head.
- Winston Churchill (among others)
Submission + - Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code (archive.ph) 1
fjo3 writes: Vehicle surveillance giant Flock Safety has told the public for years that its technology “cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals.” It has now built a system that does both, an artificial intelligence tool for police that can identify drivers and track vehicles by their patterns of movement alone, WIRED has learned.
Submission + - 23 Years after SimCity 4's release, "Eternal Commuter" bug finally fixed (reddit.com)
Striek writes: RIP Maxis. The greatest city-building game lives on, however, thanks to 23 years of modding efforts by the community.
The "eternal commuter loop" was a longstanding bug in SimCity 4. It features very interesting "region" gameplay, where you can make many different cities that border each other and connect/interact. Due to hardware/software limitations back in the day, limited info was shared between these city borders and only one city was actively "loaded" at at time.
https://www.simtropolis.com/ob...
Due to that lack of live-info-sharing, Sims who traveled across city borders to find a job could accidently get stuck in an infinite loop if they went in a circle and ended up back in the city they started in. Without ever finding a job destination, those Sims would move out of your city and cause ugly abandoned buildings.
This bug was previously considered unsolvable as it was locked away in parts of the game code that were inaccessible. The Network Addon Mod historically updated to Version 50 today, and thanks to advanced Dynamic-Link Library modding, a fix has been implemented for one of the oldest and most frustrating bugs in this game. Free for download on Simtropolis!
https://community.simtropolis....
The "eternal commuter loop" was a longstanding bug in SimCity 4. It features very interesting "region" gameplay, where you can make many different cities that border each other and connect/interact. Due to hardware/software limitations back in the day, limited info was shared between these city borders and only one city was actively "loaded" at at time.
https://www.simtropolis.com/ob...
Due to that lack of live-info-sharing, Sims who traveled across city borders to find a job could accidently get stuck in an infinite loop if they went in a circle and ended up back in the city they started in. Without ever finding a job destination, those Sims would move out of your city and cause ugly abandoned buildings.
This bug was previously considered unsolvable as it was locked away in parts of the game code that were inaccessible. The Network Addon Mod historically updated to Version 50 today, and thanks to advanced Dynamic-Link Library modding, a fix has been implemented for one of the oldest and most frustrating bugs in this game. Free for download on Simtropolis!
https://community.simtropolis....
Comment Re:So where are the actual savings? (Score 1) 71
And who's going to foot the bill?
This question is predicated on the assumption that people are less productive in 4 days than they are in 5. You first need to prove (not simply assume) this to be true for this question to have any merit.
Comment Re:I'm so tired of being lied to (Score 1) 33
Thanks. I actually did do a cursory search but couldn't find anything. I have a whole folder for bookmarks to refer to when I point out the dangers of Flock, and this is definitely going on the list.
Comment Re:I'm so tired of being lied to (Score 1) 33
flock has a training manual that teaches cops how to lie about using flock cameras
(citation needed)
Comment Re:I have this wild idea (Score 1) 111
Another person who does not understand the scale of the problem and who has clearly never witnessed a firestorm like these.
We cannot manufacture enough drones. There are not enough water bombers, and even if there were, there aren't enough runways, pilots, or enough fuel to do what you're thinking. It's akin to spitting in a bonfire and expecting it to make a difference.
These fires are jumping across lakes miles across, and you think making fire breaks is the answer?
When you see the skies turn red, when you see swathes of wilderness the size of Rhode Island burned, then come back with more ideas.
Comment Re:Bring back forest managment (Score 1) 111
Clearly you missed the part of the summary that tells the reader what the fundamental problem with your idea is in the boreal forest. It's larger than Europe and there are no roads.
"There aren't enough people in Canada to do that." The boreal forest in Canada is an enormous and largely roadless expanse bigger than the entire European Union
Comment Re:Download? (Score 1) 218
It really doesn't matter. The point is that border agents can't.
Comment Re:They're obsolete. (Score 1) 238
(citation needed()
