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You can't "mistype the account number", as it has control digits. I mean, there's a possibility, but it's really slim.
I would like to know where you get that

1) It clearly does not work (as opposed to "it has a low accuracy" which just means they will have to filter manually) and

2) They are pursuing a goal of policing with fewer police officers and

3) Having a working solution would mean they could police with fewer police officers (cameras can't detain suspects or intervene when problems arise, AND police officers don't carry a mental database of all suspects like a computer could have, so having cameras does not replace having police officers).

Re:Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results on Saturday June 30, 2018 @05:15AM (#17430114)
!g is a bang or whatever they call it. If you put "potato !g" in DDG, it redirects you to google search
Re:Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results on Saturday June 30, 2018 @05:15AM (#17430113)
DDG is super super bad. I don't know why people recommend it at all. Now that you mentioned !g I remembered all my DDG experiments... 1) change my default search engine to DDG, 2) use it for some time, 3) use !g in half of my searches, 4) use !g in all of my searches, 5) say "fuck it" and switch back to google
Re:Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results on Saturday June 30, 2018 @05:08AM (#17430094)
So change the law or whatever, but as it is, they own the copyright, whether you like it or not. Saying otherwise is at the same level of discourse as using the word "Micro$oft" and similar puerile rubbish.
Re:Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results on Saturday June 30, 2018 @04:48AM (#17430044)
In what parallel reality are the proper owners of the copyright "scam sites"?
I don't believe this is grave.
Do we really care about the kind of people who care about "cultural appropriation"? Just don't pay attention to them. http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Just_Don%27t_Look#Lyrics

The same can be said about many, many other "online mobs".

Re:Devuan ASCII 2.0.0 stable release on Sunday June 10, 2018 @07:58AM (#17277693)
Who's going to think a fork of Debian in 2018 is "limited to a few characters only"? Don't be ridiculous.
Re:The 640K memory limit of MS-DOS on Saturday June 09, 2018 @05:23PM (#17275081)
Good post, but believe me, you can write a post without ending every paragraph with an exclamation mark. It's possible, but only if you try!
Re:“Fork Me on GitLab” Ribbons (GDPR Compliant) on Saturday June 09, 2018 @01:25PM (#17273983)
Hmm, should've specified better. It reminds me of those webpages professors have in the website of the university, for which they write the HTML themselves, and they always use Times New Roman with some horrible colour scheme, heh
Re:“Fork Me on GitLab” Ribbons (GDPR Compliant) on Saturday June 09, 2018 @01:15PM (#17273926)
Those colour combinations are simply awful. It's like they were designed by a university professor.
Re:When does satire become misinformation? on Saturday June 09, 2018 @10:35AM (#17273227)
You're just confirming what the parent says: only people with enlightened, progressive ideas can say whatever they want.
Re:When does satire become misinformation? on Saturday June 09, 2018 @09:53AM (#17273019)
What does that have to do with hating homosexuals? I know of many people who don't like feminists but don't have a problem with homosexuals.
Re:OpenBSD, C, httpd and SQLite – Web App stack on Saturday June 09, 2018 @08:59AM (#17272802)
It's surprising to me that someone could be a programmer without knowing anything about C.
How does not reevaluating asbestos in homes benefit Russia?
What people's disgust? 0.00001% of their userbase? This is completely useless, why don't we move on?
Re:Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened? on Friday June 08, 2018 @04:00PM (#17269202)
Filter it by section...

man -k -S1 password

Re:Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened? on Friday June 08, 2018 @03:58PM (#17269167)
Must depend on eras, yes, because personally I avoid using the phone at all costs. I'd rather take my eyes out with a spindle gouge than talk to someone over the damn phone
Reddit does not allow mods or admins to modify comments from the website UI, but that didn't stop the admin from modifying comments by editing the database directly.
Many people here have some edgy anarchist vibe to them. Fight the power, brother.
Re:Linus Torvalds on aliasing on Friday June 08, 2018 @06:53AM (#17264187)
You'd be surprised to see how many comments are removed from HN by the mods each day. What you see here is not what HN users actually are.
Re:Facebook bug set 14M users' sharing settings to public on Thursday June 07, 2018 @06:34PM (#17260948)
HN moderators can edit or remove this post I'm currently writing. What's your point?
Apple makes that in what? Ten minutes? ;-)
Re:Google faces EU antitrust fine over Android case on Thursday June 07, 2018 @11:27AM (#17256627)
You can fork AOSP, which I'm sure can't run any of the top 10 apps of the Play Store unless you install Google Services, which are closed source and require a licence from Google (which in turn requires you to bundle Chrome, make Google Search the default, etc).

AOSP by itself is pretty useless because it can't run any of the apps the public is interested in.

Chrome comes with a whitelist; it's possible that Reuters is in it.
Re:Google faces EU antitrust fine over Android case on Thursday June 07, 2018 @11:21AM (#17256571)
66% is not even close to a monopoly, and even if it was, "consumer spend" is not a metric that defines a monopoly.
Re:Google faces EU antitrust fine over Android case on Thursday June 07, 2018 @11:12AM (#17256460)
Being a monopoly is not illegal in the EU either.
Re:Google faces EU antitrust fine over Android case on Thursday June 07, 2018 @11:10AM (#17256430)
How many computers did Microsoft sell in the 00s?
Re:Google faces EU antitrust fine over Android case on Thursday June 07, 2018 @11:04AM (#17256374)
Google has a near monopoly on smartphones--In my country Android has like 95% market share.

You can only abuse your dominant position if you have a dominant position, and Apple does not have one.

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