In other news today...
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Proof Microsoft should open source Windows Update to improve it
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@TimeBandit They’re really catching up fast.
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she said she was ordered to remove her heavy eye makeup and dark lipstick by security forces while entering the subway in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, British daily The Guardian reported.
The woman wrote that a female security guard called her manager saying that her makeup was "problematic and really horrible" and told her to wipe it off if she wanted to get on the subway.
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Molecule-scale storage pops up again...
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
Molecule-scale storage pops up again...
I'd worry about the long-term stability (as well as the latency) as there's microbes that specialize in eating DNA…
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
I'd worry about the long-term stability (as well as the latency) as there's microbes that specialize in eating DNA…
But that's just convenient! For example:
: We'd very much like to see the internal emails discussing the data leak #875. And we're not asking.
:zuck: I'm indifferent to admit they were stored in our undersea datacenter and subsequently eaten by bacteria.
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@Gribnit and nobody gets the joke that this DNA-storage breakthrough was posted as non-IT related news because of the sheer distance remaining to practical applicability. well, fair enough.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Proof Microsoft should open source Windows Update to improve it
Are they going to dig up the source from the XP PowerToy Calculator?
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Somebody has to do the first gloating, it might as well be me. https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/democrats.judiciary.house.gov/files/documents/AG March 24 2019 Letter to House and Senate Judiciary Committees.pdf
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Context
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
latency
You have to wait nine months for your data to come out of storage, and another couple years before you can understand it.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
she said she was ordered to remove her heavy eye makeup and dark lipstick by security forces while entering the subway in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, British daily The Guardian reported.
The woman wrote that a female security guard called her manager saying that her makeup was "problematic and really horrible" and told her to wipe it off if she wanted to get on the subway.
Does it fool the face recognition stuff they're using?
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
she said she was ordered to remove her heavy eye makeup and dark lipstick by security forces while entering the subway in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, British daily The Guardian reported.
The woman wrote that a female security guard called her manager saying that her makeup was "problematic and really horrible" and told her to wipe it off if she wanted to get on the subway.
Does it fool the face recognition stuff they're using?
Probably, since gothy makeup has a tendency to do that.
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@Carnage I thought that only worked for Juggalos.
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@JBert Fucking face recognition, how does it work?
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@JBert Fucking face recognition, how does it work?
Well with all that excretion, not very well.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8O2iiWlNE8
Two riders have been suspended for two years following this fight . Jorge Martinez jumped on Marion Calvo's motorcycle at the Costa Rica National Motorbike Championship and threw the first punch at competitor after blaming the rider for causing him to lose his balance .
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
honestly, I thought it sucked. Once you break the fourth wall in a serious tone, or put Netflix itself into a path that isn't even that hard to reach, you're doing it wrong. You would have a lot more fun just playing Tales from the Borderlands.
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I feel a little vindicated by only installing the drivers using window's driver installer and not installing the crud from 3rd parties.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I feel a little vindicated by only installing the drivers using window's driver installer and not installing the crud from 3rd parties.
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So Apple had some kind of show yesterday; as near as I can tell they launched a handful of things that aren't phones, tablets or computers.
Huawei had this to say:
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Maybe the Apple crap deserves its own post.
Oprah also showed up on stage as this event’s iconic ‘one more thing’ moment to announce two new shows, as well as plans to create the world’s largest book club.
:womp_wah:
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So, do you hate that AMP crap that Google was pushing on the internet a while ago? Well good news, now you can hate it in your email too!
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
tip: If users are pirating your shit enough to cost you money, that is almost always your own damn fault.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
So, do you hate that AMP crap that Google was pushing on the internet a while ago? Well good news, now you can hate it in your email too!
Night be time to go looking for a new mail service.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Night be time to go looking for a new mail service.
Perhaps, but why specifically at night?
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Night be time to go looking for a new mail service.
Perhaps, but why specifically at night?
Wouldn't want the feds to know you know.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Night be time to go looking for a new mail service.
Perhaps, but why specifically at night?
Because he nay meed to obfuscate his activities omlime.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Perhaps, but why specifically at night?
Higher chance for durnk psots? Better not use your main email for that.
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AMP crap
So now there's an article about it on Ars, and to their credit, most if not all the commenters recognize that this is a horrible idea.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
tip: If users are pirating your shit enough to cost you money, that is almost always your own damn fault.
Ah, the "shouldn't wear a short skirt" theory. I see you are a man of culture
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
So, do you hate that AMP crap that Google was pushing on the internet a while ago? Well good news, now you can hate it in your email too!
Probably going to be shot out of a cannon here but I like the concept of AMP. Every page needing five MB of javascript to run to create god awful pseudo desktop applications is getting on my wick. I learned that the web was a nicer place when I could disable javascript on most pages.
Don't know much about the implementation so don't hang me on it but I don't like anything fancier than text in my emails though.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Probably going to be shot out of a cannon here but I like the concept of AMP. Every page needing five MB of javascript to run to create god awful pseudo desktop applications is getting on my wick. I learned that the web was a nicer place when I could disable javascript on most pages.
The answer to abusing javascript are pages that require javascript to function at all?
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Probably going to be shot out of a cannon here but I like the concept of AMP. Every page needing five MB of javascript to run to create god awful pseudo desktop applications is getting on my wick. I learned that the web was a nicer place when I could disable javascript on most pages.
The answer to abusing javascript are pages that require javascript to function at all?
I think there is a gap in my knowledge here. I liked the concept of a subset of html and javascript to create simple pages that are easier to read and navigate. If they need more javascript to achieve that then burn it to the ground.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
If they need more javascript to achieve that then burn it to the ground.
No, they need javascript to function at all
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Maybe the Apple crap deserves its own post.
Here are the top 6 announcements from Apple's 'Show Time' event
<crickets>
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The experimental male oral contraceptive is called 11-beta-methyl-19-nortestosterone dodecylcarbonate, or 11-beta-MNTDC. It is a modified testosterone that has the combined actions of a male hormone (androgen) and a progesterone, said the study's co-senior investigator, Christina Wang, M.D., Associate Director, Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Los Angeles Biomed Research Institute (LA BioMed), Torrance, Calif.
Wang
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
passed tests of safety and tolerability when healthy men used it daily for a month
That's kind of short for a test
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
passed tests of safety and tolerability when healthy men used it daily for a month
That's kind of short for a test
They stopped when this time of month happened.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I liked the concept of a subset of html and javascript to create simple pages that are easier to read and navigate.
That's what the AMP specs claims it is. And yet he article says:
The embedded AMP content will be able to offer features such as interactivity without having to click away from your inbox
A subset of the previous features offers more features? Does not compute.
its JavaScript library is used to define special tags rather than using conventional HTML
https://www.ampproject.org/docs/fundamentals/spec said:
<html⚡>
"Subset" my ass.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
AMP crap
So now there's an article about it on Ars, and to their credit, most if not all the commenters recognize that this is a horrible idea.
There's quite a few gems:
How about plain text instead? It's an email, not a gaming console.
Every marketing person:
"THIS IS AWESOME"
Every tech person:
"God, fuck everyone who will craft and send these emails."
Sounds like a good way to train your spam filter, though:
if AMP then move to /dev/null
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
It is a modified testosterone that has the combined actions of a male hormone (androgen) and a progesterone
This sounds like it would take a lot more than a month to figure out the side effects.
Also, it seems like they don't even know if it works
Because the drug would take at least three 60 to 90 days to affect sperm production, 28 days of treatment is too short an interval to observe optimal sperm suppression, Wang explained.
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
If they need more javascript to achieve that then burn it to the ground.
No, they need javascript to function at all
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
It is a modified testosterone that has the combined actions of a male hormone (androgen) and a progesterone
This sounds like it would take a lot more than a month to figure out the side effects.
I dunno...I assume this is a standard time frame for this sort of thing.
Also, it seems like they don't even know if it works
"Because the drug would take at least three 60 to 90 days to affect sperm production, 28 days of treatment is too short an interval to observe optimal sperm suppression, Wang explained."
Yes, it's a standard thing to just test to make sure you don't discover anything immediately awful before you start in depth testing (and continue to monitor side effects, of course).
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
passed tests of safety and tolerability when healthy men used it daily for a month
That's kind of short for a test
Depends on what you're testing for. If you're trying to determine whether there are problems with metabolization of the drug, a month is often plenty long enough.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I liked the concept of a subset of html and javascript to create simple pages that are easier to read and navigate.
That's what the AMP specs claims it is. And yet he article says:
The embedded AMP content will be able to offer features such as interactivity without having to click away from your inbox
A subset of the previous features offers more features? Does not compute.
It is a subset of full html+js in browser, but mail clients (for good reasons) didn't allow any or most of js, so there it is not.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Sounds like a good way to train your spam filter, though:
if AMP then move to /dev/null
.Exactly. As noted there, the only people who will send these are marketers.