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Comment Re:Sigh. (Score 1) 229

There's one solid technological solution which would help even the odds a bit, and has been shown to cause folks to think twice before joining a lynch mob, but I don't believe it's available to folks in India. I'm referring of course to the firearm, which operates on the principle that a single individual imbued with the strength to defend against multiple attackers is too high a risk to attack, as even though one wouldn't necessarily be able to shoot a mob of 100 swarming them, nobody in that mob wants to volunteer to be one of the 3-15 that _do_ get shot.

Comment Re: Wayback Machine doesn't have the 2018 SOTU (Score 1) 508

Given my timezone error, that explains why I'm not seeing it at the time I was looking - however even with the error I was seeing the Obama SOTU promotion on applicable dates. that being the case, it would make sense to revise the statement to be "Obama's SOTU addresses were promoted for a much longer time in advance", rather than "exclusively". Still unfortunate, but a distinct case from what was stated.

Comment Re:Wayback Machine doesn't have the 2018 SOTU (Score 1) 508

Given my timezone error, that explains why I'm not seeing it at the time I was looking - however as even with the error I was seeing the Obama SOTU promotion on applicable dates. that being the case, it would make sense to revise the statement to be "Obama's SOTU addresses were promoted for a much longer time in advance", rather than "exclusively".

Comment Wayback Machine doesn't have the 2018 SOTU (Score 1) 508

Ignoring the "not technically SOTU", the Jan 30, 2018 address was promoted, right?

Curiously I can't find it on the Wayback Machine, though Obama's are indeed there from well early each morning on the days noted.

Here's Jan 30, 2018 mid-afternoon:
http://web.archive.org/web/201...

Can anyone point me to the right time of day, or alternative to archive.org which has a capture showing what's claimed in the article?

Comment Re:this seems like it only has one market. (Score 1) 273

You may have missed the point. I was referring to, you know, literal monsters. Like under your bed. Or in your closet. Everyone knows bad people exist. The parallel I was working to draw was that using their language is feeding their narrative, which increases their influence. I may not have expressed my though clearly enough, but I hope this helps clarify.

Comment Re:this seems like it only has one market. (Score 1) 273

Seriously. Racism has far too much popular support lately, coming almost exclusively from those who claim they're defending against it. Drop this theme people, the emphasis is making it worse, not better. Didn't your parents explain about how believing in monsters is what makes them real?
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The Uncanny Valley of Voice Recognition 83

An anonymous reader writes: We've often seen the term "uncanny valley" applied to the field of robotics — it's easy to get unsettled when robots act close to being human, yet fail completely in a few key ways. GitHub Engineer Zach Holman writes that we've now reached uncanny valley territory in speech recognition as well, though the results are more frustrating than they are disturbing. He says, "Part of this frustration is the user interface itself is less standardized than the desktop or mobile device UI you're used to. Even the basic terminology can feel pretty inconsistent if you're jumping back and forth between platforms.

Siri aims to be completely conversational: Do you think the freshman Congressman from California's Twelfth deserved to sit on HUAC, and how did that impact his future relationship with J. Edgar? Xbox One is basically an oral command line interface, of the form: Xbox (direct object). ...it's these inconsistencies that are frustrating as you jump back and forth between devices. And we're only going to scale this up."

Comment Do they track each others kernels? (Score 1) 576

I wonder if anonical, SuSE and RH track each others kernels, perhaps to see what the competition is up to, ensure compatibility, and lift useful additions. If so, they would be in a good position to catch suspicious developments, and would have motivation to make it public.

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