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Comment Genius! (Score 1) 55

A Faraday bags would shield the cell phone from the surveillance state/

The summary says that Fog Data is providing the police with historical location data that was collected from apps such as Google Maps, and your genius solution is "I'll simply put my phone in a faraday bag. Surely, my map app will still work like that!"

Comment Re: "Have you said thank you once?" (Score 4, Insightful) 351

A treaty?? With Iran?? LOL LOL Iran's government is pure evil son. Allowing those sons of bitches to have nukes is like giving children to an Epstein foundation. What could possibly go wrong?

Wait, if negotiating a treaty with Iran is a bad idea that will surely go wrong, then why is Trump trying to negotiate a treaty with Iran?

Comment Re:He's Not Wrong. (Score 1) 240

Sounds like it's time for U.S. auto makers to figure out how Chines manufacturers are making their cars so inexpensive.

And no, it's NOT all from cheap labor. It's also from efficiency, making a fair profit rather than hand over fist, less marble and mahogany in the executive suite, and paying a reasonable amount to upper management. Also less jet setting for execs.

Do we REALLY have to repeat the '70s and '80s when the Japanese manufacturers spanked the big three?

What happened to "free trade" and "deregulate all the things!"

Comment BREAKING: New Version Is The Best Version EVAR (Score 1, Funny) 40

The launch of Claude Opus 4.7 on Thursday comes after Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.6 in February. Anthropic said the new model outperforms Claude Opus 4.6 across many use cases

I am shocked -- SHOCKED -- to hear that a company has announced that the latest version of their product is better than the last version. Usually when company's release new versions, they're all "Hey guys, we're excited to announce that Gooch 2.8 just released. Unfortunately, it's slower than Gooch 2.7, we removed half the features, and the other half simply don't work anymore."

Kudos to the ./ editorial team for bringing us this breaking news.

Comment Re:Easy to say for him (Score 3, Insightful) 152

Yes. This is a pretty straightforward "Guy demands that sellers of complimentary goods accept smaller margins in way that sounds like he cares about user experience".

It may be true that studios and theatres have fallen into a counterproductive trap: there's an obviously self defeating race to the bottom if theatres keep getting squeezed and responding by making the theatre experience worse which then reduces ticket sales and makes their fixed costs even less supportable so they make the experience yet worse; but the studios hold far more of the cards than the theatres do here.

Comment Re:It will never change (Score 1) 152

In an unhelpful sense we know that advertising works by how much is spent on it. What we do not know is whether advertisers justify their cost by influencing consumer behavior as they allege they do; or whether they are exceptionally effective at targeting the people who set ad budgets. Or potentially a mix of the two. Someone is definitely having their behavior influenced in a big way though.

Comment Seems plausible. (Score 2) 91

Given how tightly a lot of meetings are really wrapped up in power (all the ones that could have been an email but are about who you an force to show up and all the ones that could have been an email but are about cutting someone out of the loop in a visible way) it tracks that the desire to be in your meeting while skipping your meeting would come from the top; probably accompanied by some questionable theories about how your management is so valuable that even a mechanized distillation of it will better the minions exposed to it.

Comment Reading is difficult (Score 1) 69

I presume they mean that they extracted oxygen because making oxygen via fusion or fission seems unrealistic.

What's pretty cool about reading is that you don't have to presume anything. Like, imagine a world where you could've been assed to read just up to the second sentence of the summary where you would've learned "Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin ""announced this week that it had developed a reactor that could successfully release oxygen from lunar soil by using an electric current."

You could've spared us from you proudly proclaiming how lazy you are

Comment Making life worse for the blind w/ hallucinations (Score 1) 27

"What if you could ask your guide dog where the nearest water fountain is and hear it answer back...

...with completely made up directions along with an incorrect walk time?"

I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure one of the things blind people appreciate about seeing-eye dogs is that a dog isn't going to hallucinate whether it's safe or not to walk across the street, and they don't have to worry about getting run over by a truck, exclaim "What the fuck!", and have to listen to a dog reply "It appears that you had a 'Don't Walk' sign, and you're right for calling me out on that..."

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