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Re:Fable ban was never about a jailbreak on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @01:23PM (#48558672)
This article tries to make it sound like Anthropic is playing 4-D chess and sacrificed a pawn to force a better future outcome.

This seems too simple, and too complex at the same time.

HTTP Web Server Bug Mystery with Dnalounge.com, Blocking Sonic.net IP Addresses

I am having a lot of problems trying to diagnose what the issue is. I don't work for DNALounge or know anyone that directly works there, I do love to visit their events regularly, but that has gotten more difficult over the past 6 months or so.On my windows PC I've noticed that my external IP address can become blocked, and then I can only access the website from my Verizon Wireless IP...

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This is going to be a premier headset for research or enterprise:

* Eye Tracking

* Pupillometry ( eye dilation )

* Lower Face ( mouth tracking )

* Heart Rate Tracking

Re:New Game: Minecraft Earth on Friday May 17, 2019 @11:21AM (#19940427)
The ad for Minecraft Earth, reminds me of a cyberpunk novel, Spook Country, by William Gibson.

In the novel, there are layers of augmented reality where people have put their mark on the world with AR Dioramas scattered through-out the world. In the book, AR scenes might depict historical events, art, or information.

If your planing on Playing Minecraft:Earth, you might want to check it out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spook_Country

https://www.amazon.com/Spook-Country-Blue-Ant-Book-ebook/dp/...

Re:Snap falls to IPO price on Monday July 10, 2017 @08:29PM (#14740745)
Based on revenue and flat growth, the company is worth about $4 a share. If it get's to that price I'll think about buying in, if and only if i think the company is going to turn it around.

I've made good money waiting for the time to be right before buying in. This stock is worthless above $8 a share.

I wonder if this is related to Apple joining Twitter

https://twitter.com/apple

Re:Apple Just Joined Twitter on Friday September 02, 2016 @09:30AM (#12412868)
I wonder if these two things are related

"Twitter Stock Jumps After Co-Founder Says It Should Consider Selling" "http://fortune.com/2016/09/01/twitter-stock-jumps/"

Re:Nvidia's new graphics cards are a big deal on Sunday May 08, 2016 @04:25PM (#11655605)
Yeah, I basically want both the CPU and the GPU to be FinFET for a mobile laptop, that is VR ready/ Skylake + nvidia 970 or better.
Re:Nvidia's new graphics cards are a big deal on Sunday May 08, 2016 @10:29AM (#11654173)
Anyone know when the Mobile Fiji, Polaris, Zen, Pascal hardware is coming out?
Re:Nvidia's new graphics cards are a big deal on Sunday May 08, 2016 @10:27AM (#11654162)
I love AMD and I'm rooting for them, but I'm not sure we are going to have another Athlon run here.

AMD is still having trouble beating out nVidia, and Intel. The Zen architecture could in theory have HBM for the system CPU/APU, but I'm guessing they won't.

Finally A lot of Intel performance comes from compiler optimization and design, and last time with Athlon it took years for that to roll out. Unless Zen is years ahead of Intel, I don't know if they will be able to edge that far ahead. Intel has been doing CPU-GPU pairs now for more than 5 years, and they are getting better.

I think for AMD to win this round, they would need to have a power ratio that allowed them to dominate the laptop space, with APUs and eliminate the GPU as a component, and right now AMD and Intel are both on 14nm, so I think it would be hard to win there, but we will see.

nVidia is on the 16nm process, so if AMDs chips are equal in performance, they might draw less power. However, for VR, nVidia has been working very closely on the software with the various companies and I think they will have a strong software advantage for a while.

Re:Java – planned obsolescence? on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @11:29AM (#10304651)
Maybe this is a good thing. Maybe, the community can take it back. It's unfortunate that it won't have a strong internal identity though.
My viewer says 4.3K
Sounds like age, size, density/mass, orbit/location
Re:Skype Switched to the MSN Messenger Protocol (2014) on Friday June 26, 2015 @02:00PM (#9786545)
http://www.cnet.com/news/nsa-docs-boast-now-we-can-wiretap-s...

-- "In 2008, when the company was owned by eBay instead of Microsoft , a Skype spokeswoman told CNET : "We have not received any subpoenas or court orders asking us to perform a live interception or wiretap of Skype-to-Skype communications. In any event, because of Skype's peer-to-peer architecture and encryption techniques, Skype would not be able to comply with such a request."

-- "After buying Skype, Microsoft dramatically overhauled its architecture, replacing peer-to-peer "super nodes" with thousands of servers run by Microsoft -- a more centralized approach that may have made it easier for government eavesdroppers. Around the same time, Microsoft would no longer stand by Skype's earlier claim to be wiretap-unfriendly."

Re:Skype Switched to the MSN Messenger Protocol (2014) on Friday June 26, 2015 @01:56PM (#9786521)
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-c...

Quote:

• Microsoft helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption to address concerns that the agency would be unable to intercept web chats on the new Outlook.com portal;

• The agency already had pre-encryption stage access to email on Outlook.com, including Hotmail;

• The company worked with the FBI this year to allow the NSA easier access via Prism to its cloud storage service SkyDrive, which now has more than 250 million users worldwide;

• Microsoft also worked with the FBI's Data Intercept Unit to "understand" potential issues with a feature in Outlook.com that allows users to create email aliases;

• In July last year, nine months after Microsoft bought Skype, the NSA boasted that a new capability had tripled the amount of Skype video calls being collected through Prism;

• Material collected through Prism is routinely shared with the FBI and CIA, with one NSA document describing the program as a "team sport".

Re:Yahoo Pipes End-Of-life Announcement on Thursday June 04, 2015 @02:39PM (#9661207)
I was looking into doing a Pipes 2.0 sort of project. If you live in the bay area i'd love to get coffee and chat about it. There are a number of the pieces to pipes that are opensource, but none of them are strung together.

I also thought that pipes queries were amazing, but slow, so it was hard to use them as part of an application.

I'm a little disappointed Apple, the new MBP doesn't have a top of the line graphics card, and it's still stuck to 16GB of ram. This is hardly a pro option.

I wonder if I need a #hackentosh if I want 32GB of RAM, and an nVidia 950M or better.

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