Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment Re:First responder perspective (Score 1) 136

AM radios in cars only cover the small intersection of people who don't already have an emergency kit containing an AM radio, but do happen to be in a working vehicle during a disaster.
It's useless for anyone who's outside of a vehicle for whatever reason - eg vehicle is damaged, out of fuel, had to be abandoned, or was not available nearby when the disaster struck.

Comment Re:Element Pro is not Open Source (Score 1) 62

Element Pro is not Open Source. So the EU is swapping a shitty proprietary solution for another shitty proprietary solution. And what will they do when the company that developed Element Pro is bought by an American company ? Swap to another one ?! Stupidity and corruption is deeply ingrained in the European Commission.

The best case scenario is that a US company buys Element Pro. Then the EU can institute fines, fines, fines. EU barely creates, it stands at the finish line and extracts money from the winner.

Comment Re:Groundwork for censorship (Score 1) 104

Censorship is a problem when you are not free to express an idea.

The form of the idea can be limited without it being censorship: for example, you can't protest with a bullhorn in the middle of the night.

Free speech doesn't mean everyone has to listen to you, it means the people who want to listen to you are able to. Youtube demonetizing a video is not censorship. Removing videos because they don't like the ideas in the videos is the worst kind of censorship, because they are trying to control you.

Comment Re:If an individual did any of this hacking by han (Score 1) 52

Yeah, the anti-hacking law is over-broad but makes "knowingly accesses" an important aspect:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

If you didn't knowingly hack the computer, apparently it's not illegal (unless it's fraud or causes other damage or something).

Comment Re:Headline and article disagree (Score 1) 38

It's not hard to make a computer that is unbeatable in Starcraft, because the computer can click perfectly every time. According to your link:

the unauthorized version of Pluto was additionally modified to use a maphack...During some games, Pluto reached several thousand actions per minute... the bot used its micro to surround and neutralize Mutalisks... the bot simultaneously fought in multiple areas of the map, precisely micro-managed its units

So yeah, that kind of clicking (and maybe perfect information, or maybe not) gives the computer a massive advantage, it doesn't even need a neural network to win.

Slashdot Top Deals

Chemistry professors never die, they just fail to react.

Working...