Comment Re:Good on Apple. (Score 1) 68
LOL.. they don't charge that because who-tf would pay $100 for Android?? lmao
Comment Re:"aircraft cabins are peculiar places for humans (Score 1) 264
not 2000 lbs, averaging 4000 lbs (as of 2010).
Ah yes, I forgot to calculate our overt addiction with buying never-go-offroad vehicles large enough to be considered military battlefield transport. I stand corrected.
Moist modern sedans weigh this easy, don't even need to go to pickups or suvs (which weight closer to 6-8k). Camaro weight (it's a 2 door) is 3800 lbs. ABS, Airbags all take up weight.
Even a Prius curb weight is 3k
A Smart Car weighs in at 1800 lbs.
Moist sedans?
Submission + - AI can detect sexual orientation based on person's photo (cnbc.com)
ugen writes: Artificial Intelligence (AI) can now accurately identify a person's sexual orientation by analyzing photos of their face, according to new research.
The Stanford University study, which is set to be published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and was first reported in The Economist, found that machines had a far superior "gaydar" when compared to humans.
The machine intelligence tested in the research could correctly infer between gay and straight men 81 percent of the time, and 74 percent of the time for women.
When the AI reviewed five images of a person's face, rather than one, the results were even more convincing – 91 percent of the time with men and 83 percent of the time with women.
The Stanford University study, which is set to be published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and was first reported in The Economist, found that machines had a far superior "gaydar" when compared to humans.
The machine intelligence tested in the research could correctly infer between gay and straight men 81 percent of the time, and 74 percent of the time for women.
When the AI reviewed five images of a person's face, rather than one, the results were even more convincing – 91 percent of the time with men and 83 percent of the time with women.
Submission + - From Google to Yahoo, Tech Grapples With White Male Discontent (bloomberg.com)
joshtops writes: Google isn’t the only Silicon Valley employer being accused of hostility to white men. Yahoo! Inc. and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. were already fighting discrimination lawsuits brought by white men before Google engineer James Damore ignited a firestorm — and got himself fired — with an internal memo criticizing the company’s diversity efforts and claiming women are biologically less suited than men to be engineers. The Yahoo case began last year when two men sued, claiming they’d been unfairly fired after managers allegedly manipulated performance evaluations to favor women. They claim Marissa Mayer approved the review process and was involved in their terminations, and last month a judge ordered the former chief executive be deposed. TCS, meanwhile, is fighting three men who claim the Mumbai-based firm discriminates against non-Indians at its U.S. offices. A growing backlash against diversity advocates has gained momentum with the election of Donald Trump and his embrace of right-wing media figures including Steve Bannon, who ran Breitbart News until joining Trump’s presidential campaign. Trump has ordered a review of affirmative action policies in higher education, proposed banning transgender people in the military and advocated curbing immigration of non-English speakers to the delight of conservatives who say they’ve been muzzled by liberals.
Comment Re:Barf. (Score 1) 139
Did you mean "flout"?
Comment Re:Not really an absurd idea (Score 1) 642
Just you wait until the moon sets. No longer high ground. You will be destroyed. Muahaha
Comment Re:Good. (Score 1) 358
And yet, this is, in a way, very similar to just flinging a baseball bat (or whatever) towards a group of people, isn't it?
Comment Re:Umm (Score 5, Interesting) 402
Protip: if your "truth" winds up offending lots of people, there's a good chance it's actually just your own shitty opinion. And, y'know, it's fine to have shitty opinions, it's even often fine to spout your shitty opinion out loud, it's just not a good idea to delude yourself into thinking that shitty opinion is "truth".
Furthermore, if you then feel the need to call people who object to your shitty opinion "snowflakes", there's a good chance that you're actually as sensitive, if not more so, than the people who are telling you where to stick your shitty opinion.
Was this true when a minority spoke out about slavery, or segregation, etc?
Comment Re:Why live there then? (Score 0) 80
But why does the state government need to have offices (or labs, whatever) in the bay area?
Comment Re:Not me, not in California (Score 1) 940
Hilarious!.. Ok, so the homeowner can sell his place to the person needing it for (say) $300K and then a month later buy it back for (say) $298.5K instead of taking $1500 in rent for a month. Would that satisfy you? They can do this every month until person 2 no longer needs to buy it etc.
Comment Re:Ads? (Score 1) 319
Seconded.. My behavior exactly!
Comment Re: network ignorance (Score 1) 331
Fair Enough.. Thanks
Comment Re:network ignorance (Score 1) 331
It may sound silly, but there are some practical reasons to do that.
Such as? (I'm really curious)
Submission + - Google is going Puritan on us (zdnet.com)
DougDot writes: In three days, Google's Blogger will begin to delete scores of blogs that have existed since 1999 on Monday under its vague new anti-sex-ad policy purge.
On Wednesday night at around 7pm PST, all Blogger blogs marked as "adult" were sent an email from Google's Blogger team.
blogger sex purge
The email told users with "adult" blogs that after Sunday, June 30, 2013, all adult blogs will be deleted if they are found to be "displaying advertisements to adult websites" — while the current Content Policy does not define what constitutes "adult" content.
To say that Twitter ignited with outrage would be an understatement. Blogger users are panicked and mad as hell at Google.
On Wednesday night at around 7pm PST, all Blogger blogs marked as "adult" were sent an email from Google's Blogger team.
blogger sex purge
The email told users with "adult" blogs that after Sunday, June 30, 2013, all adult blogs will be deleted if they are found to be "displaying advertisements to adult websites" — while the current Content Policy does not define what constitutes "adult" content.
To say that Twitter ignited with outrage would be an understatement. Blogger users are panicked and mad as hell at Google.
Comment Re:Does your office door have the same key as home (Score 2) 377
Do you ask them to rekey your office door and the building access to match the doors at home?
I thought not.. you carry one key for home, and one key for work.
If they wanted me to buy my own lock then I would
The point here is your employer cannot demand to control your property. You want to control something you pay for it.
Whether or not I will agree to carry a second phone is orthogonal. I might if my job required it but not if it was just for being able to work off hours. But again, that's beside the point.
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