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  1. Then why do you need to be tracked?
    3 points
  2. All countries and regional powers come up with bad laws from time to time, I've seen enough stupid ones from the UK and US over the decades so it's nothing new. Anyway, what should really worry us Brits isn't this kind of law they scrap but laws the UK scrap that are in the interest in keeping them for the British public, so watering down on workers rights, food standards and so on as the EU has high standards in a lot of areas like that and I can only see the UK standards getting worse which will only hurt the UK public.
    2 points
  3. Zoomers unite, another opportunity to put short bits of ###### online that will only be held as a testament of those of the future, as to how futile our existence really was.
    2 points
  4. Star Trek: Picard (CBS All Access)

    It's not that it left, it was tied up in red tape with the whole CBS and VIacom split. Now they're one big happy family again.
    2 points
  5. Google added icons to search results and now I think it's all spam

    It's not the favicons that bother me or the murking of ads vs actual results. It's the demotion of the good old URL that I'm angry about. Some extremely bad design decisions which should addressed by Google: 1. Bring back FULL URL, NOT some ridiculous breadcrumbs style. This is the open web, not Windows File Explorer. URLs are around since forever. No need to pervert them. Just present them as they are. Web browsers show URLs in the address bar and people aren't scared of them. We don't see breadcrumbs in browser address bar. 2. Bring back URL in green or prominent color 3. Move URL to 2nd row and blue page title to top row as it was. All reasonable requests. It’s devious of them to remove the URL as it exists and present it in the perverted breadcrumbs style Current design is AWFUL and it's not just a question of getting used to change. They are needlessly perverting the URL
    2 points
  6. Whilst I don’t mind this system, it’s a waste of money as the thugs wear hoodies and look like Kenny wannabes. So it is pretty much redundant already
    2 points
  7. At this point does anything Google do surprise people? From messing with their sites so they don't play well with other browsers, to all the search bs to boost their ad heavy bottom line and so on. At this point it's clear, they'll do anything on the down low and sit back to see if enough people notice and react to it, then change it, for now. Watch them do something like this again down the line, or something close to it so that they can keep that ad revenue coming in.
    2 points
  8. It's quite a leap from your neighbours seeing when you pull into your driveway and an anonymous visit to a store (assuming the stores you go to don't have facial recognition systems). This is real-time ID tracking around a city.
    2 points
  9. change or upgrade parts in older samsung aio?

    i think i will just leave it be for now.... until hdd dies... at that point will give more ram and give it ssd for Windows 7 either manually or support from someone else... thank you so much thank you for your thorough help!!
    1 point
  10. It's the UK... our government will reject this so they can come up with an even more ridiculous directive.
    1 point
  11. Surface Pro 7 review: It finally has USB Type-C

    The bezels are actually narrower than this dude's thumbs. And you need something to hold onto anyway. It's still a tablet, after all. I don't know how "delete bezels" became such a trend. This. There are other concerns worth noting with the Surface Pro series, but the bezels aren't something I'd complain over, as having bezels is the reason I chose the specific model of iPad that I did. Gotta be able to hold the damn thing... If we were talking laptops, that's a diff story. This!
    1 point
  12. If someone wants to monetise their "reviews and reactions" then they should be paying for a license to use the content. If you want to show a clip of copyrighted content on a TV/radio show you have to pay money for a licence, why should it be different on the internet? There's already laws in place for fair use, they limit the clips length etc specifically for reviews, reactions and other things like comedy skits etc. This has been the norm for quite some time. To come and change it out of the blue now to the effect that even a simple meme that is just a still image from a movie is banned? Come on. And that aside, my stance on the length of copyrights for media, movies/music is way too long. In the US mostly thanks to disney so they don't lose Micky Mouse to the public domain, so they've spent loads of money to get govs to extend the time limits.
    1 point
  13. Of course no one is surprised. Unfortunately they happen to have the best search engine, the second best (apparently, not sure I believe it) is bing and in comparison I would actually class bing as entirely useless. Clearly google knows this, so they have free reign to so whatever. I ditched Google as a search engine more than a year ago for Bing. Turns out, it's good enough. DuckDuckGo being my second alternative and only if all else fails I check Google - and more often than not, in those cases, not even Google is worth a damn. Same here. Haven't ever really used Google as my main search engine. Do use it on my phone occasionally though if I need to look up something real quick, but that isn't very often.
    1 point
  14. What if they just start wearing burkas and bypass the scan entirely lol
    1 point
  15. Star Trek: Picard (CBS All Access)

    I liked it. It has more of the classic Star Trek storytelling pace than Discovery and the story itself is intriguing and potentially wonderful. Picard is played accordingly to his age apart from few shots during running all scenes were done by Patrick Stewart...or by some really advanced CGI All that sad, 1st episode should have been stretched to 2 episodes as the story and characters needed more time and dialogues needlessly suffered on occasion. Looking forward to the rest of the season.
    1 point
  16. I'm hopeful we have more sense on this occasion, however with the whole Investigatory Powers Act 2016 controversy it wouldn't surprise me sadly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016
    1 point
  17. It is always grandpa politicians making decisions about stuff they do not know anything about.
    1 point
  18. Pls give us old.google.com
    1 point
  19. Hello, I am curious if this means that the UK will implement something that is worse. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky
    1 point
  20. Of course no one is surprised. Unfortunately they happen to have the best search engine, the second best (apparently, not sure I believe it) is bing and in comparison I would actually class bing as entirely useless. Clearly google knows this, so they have free reign to so whatever. I ditched Google as a search engine more than a year ago for Bing. Turns out, it's good enough. DuckDuckGo being my second alternative and only if all else fails I check Google - and more often than not, in those cases, not even Google is worth a damn. Yeah I use a combo of DDG or Bing. #GoogleFree
    1 point
  21. Of course no one is surprised. Unfortunately they happen to have the best search engine, the second best (apparently, not sure I believe it) is bing and in comparison I would actually class bing as entirely useless. Clearly google knows this, so they have free reign to so whatever. I ditched Google as a search engine more than a year ago for Bing. Turns out, it's good enough. DuckDuckGo being my second alternative and only if all else fails I check Google - and more often than not, in those cases, not even Google is worth a damn.
    1 point
  22. I bet that's not true otherwise Epic wouldn't have shelled out for the game and it's developer. It must be, they had to cut corners and streamline. At this point it seems they're more interested in exploiting, there haven't been any interesting updates for a while, just esports and seasons crap. I'll take your word for it, I've never played the game and I have no interest in it beyond this being another ###### thing epic is doing.
    1 point
  23. change or upgrade parts in older samsung aio?

    Hello, According to the specifications, the Samsung Series 7 DP700A3B-A02US AIO computer has an Intel Core i5-2390T processor, which is a second generation Sandy Bridge (Intel Core) CPU. More specifically, a 35-watt CPU that fits in an LGA-1155 socket (aka Socket H2). Another second generation Intel Core CPU that might work is Intel Core i5-2500T, but it is a 45-watt part, so good thermal paste and a working CPU fan would be required at a minimum. There are some third generation Ivy Bridge (Intel Core) series CPUs that might work as well. In particular, an Intel Core i5-3470T, which is a 35 watt part, or an Intel Core i5-3570T or Intel Core i7-3770T, which are both 45-watt parts (again, with the same provisos about cooling). In order to definitively know what CPU upgrades are possible, if any, I would suggest asking in Samsung's own support forum, as that is the place where experts and fellow users on this system are going to hang out and know. At the very least, you will want to upgrade the system to the newest BIOS (UEFI) firmware possible before attempting a CPU upgrade. Also, keep in mind that while it may be technically possible to perform the upgrade, it might be expensive to purchase a CPU for what might bring only a minimal upgrade in terms of performance. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky
    1 point
  24. The issue is that a lot of the models that they use for facial recognition are trained on certain data sets. These datasets if biased towards particular genders or races can cause the model to better differentiate one group over another. For example if you train it on 1000 white men and only 20 black women, the model is likely to consider all black women as the same person because the data set doesn't offer enough training points. However, the only way to really eliminate bias in these models is to give them some real world training globally and tune them. Otherwise there's not gonna be enough data to train them accurately just in simulations and labs. Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks for explaining Emn1ty!
    1 point
  25. I don't now why but when I first got that new design about 2 months ago (must of been a test region?) it just made looking at results harder... everything felt like it was an ad... felt unfinished and cluttered... i liked the old google design much better you could tell ad's from search results easily, text looked better, felt nicer... the spacing feels odd too now
    1 point
  26. I've asked that before and someone brought up a very good point for use case. This kind of thing is great for the blind or partially blind, for those that can't quite see what the buttons are on the microwave. Voice Activated would be great for those types of people that still want some Independence. a good friend of mine Keith is mostly blind and so he is in that use case and this be perfect for him . also i think you can re-program it to start up based on a command so i could imagine using the activation word " Engage" or " Make it so"
    1 point
  27. More alarmist crap. Track the hell out of me- I don't mind and I'm not that interesting and don't do anything wrong, anyway.
    1 point
  28. The issue is that a lot of the models that they use for facial recognition are trained on certain data sets. These datasets if biased towards particular genders or races can cause the model to better differentiate one group over another. For example if you train it on 1000 white men and only 20 black women, the model is likely to consider all black women as the same person because the data set doesn't offer enough training points. However, the only way to really eliminate bias in these models is to give them some real world training globally and tune them. Otherwise there's not gonna be enough data to train them accurately just in simulations and labs.
    1 point
  29. change or upgrade parts in older samsung aio?

    Only you can answer that. If you're not comfortable with taking it apart ... you may have to take it your friendly neighborhood PC shop. As Brandon pointed out ... there really isn't much information regarding this aio. My usual source for service manuals didn't have this particular model, Samsung webpage on this model was a joke (.exe user manuals...really?), couldn't find anything on YouTube ... only thing I found was that fixya post.
    1 point
  30. change or upgrade parts in older samsung aio?

    Found this post on fixya which is from someone who claims he has the "B" with written instructions on how to access the RAM/HDD (appears to be a little work...so have fun!). https://www.fixya.com/support/t25107863-change_ram_samsung_dp700a3b_a01us Crucial says both RAM and HDD can be replaced.
    1 point
  31. change or upgrade parts in older samsung aio?

    shame. was worth a shot. That's the closest I found on my search. hopefully the same parts are replaceable though so I'd try opening it up to see what you can identify
    1 point
  32. Likewise - surprised to see this deal given the purchase. I wasn't surprised. Apple is going to want to get a 5G iPhone out soon (rumor says this year), and everyone knew Intel hadn't even started. I would expect to see them at least have something designed by next year. Apple uses TSMC for fabrication, so it isn't like they need time to retool factories.
    1 point
  33. change or upgrade parts in older samsung aio?

    HDD/SSD should be swappable or upgradable. In a lot of cases though the CPU and sometimes even RAM are soldered in on AIOs
    1 point
  34. It's more Big Brother.
    1 point
  35. It's quite a leap from your neighbours seeing when you pull into your driveway and an anonymous visit to a store (assuming the stores you go to don't have facial recognition systems). This is real-time ID tracking around a city. And? Unless I'm in some sort of fascist regimen that only allows me to go specific places, what do I care? And no, retail stores have been called out for tracking consumers via video feed, and tying PII to track them and their purchasing habits, and as of yet I haven't had any ill effects of said tracking. Also the point of nest and ring, those videos can be used as evidence already. Not to mention police have attempted to survey neighborhoods for doorbell cam footage to follow a persons movement after committing a crime. This type of infrastructure has already been in place for the police to use... the only difference is now they have their own cameras and don't need to go house to house obtaining video evidence.
    1 point
  36. I wouldn't buy this after reading some of the reviews. Seems like the air fryer is not working right and the oven takes forever to preheat. It's one of those things that probably needs 2-3 product cycles before it does what it should satisfactory.
    1 point
  37. it says oven but it's not an oven in the traditional sense. The picture in the article is the product. It's a microwave with air-fryer capability. Microwaves are not exactly known for loud end timers most of the time so it's easy to be in another room of the house and not hear it. That's where having Alexa notify you in the room you're in could be useful IMO
    1 point
  38. It's coming for everyone, but I hope the pushback continues. At least the hope will be that guidelines for the use of, and storage of, 'catchall' data. Yes it's meant to catch the bad guys, but good guys are going to be tracked too.
    1 point
  39. if not...repeat next year
    1 point
  40. Twitter brings emoji react feature to its Direct Messages

    They had that photo from a previous twitter story about killing old accounts. I guess the author of this story was unaware of that images use. https://www.neowin.net/news/tw...alizes-those-of-dead-users/
    1 point
  41. Star Trek: Picard (CBS All Access)

    Just watched episode 1 - and wow I am looking forward to this season for sure!
    1 point
  42. Microsoft has canceled its Windows Insider PWA

    I'm not surprised cause PWAs suck in comparison to UWP Apps.
    1 point
  43. Nox App Player 6.6.0.1

    Most emulators have version 7 as the newest possible and that's pretty good as it will be supported long enough for them to take their time to go through 8, 9 and 10 before support ends. Doesn't matter what version is, as long as it works. And security updates and emulators kinda don't go hand in hand. Usually people use them to play some game and shut them down, not using them full time like the phones in their pockets so it doesn't matter.
    1 point
  44. Boeing Starliner Orbital Flight Test (OFT)

    The simulations weren't even that good compared to what SpaceX has done/is doing are they? ---- I might be getting confused with reading a bunch of comments somewhere else when they had the clock issue and why that never showed up in a simulation.
    1 point
  45. Its impossible to add my own ringtone to iPhone

    1 point
  46. Star Trek: Picard (CBS All Access)

    Well excuse me professor.....LOL 🤣
    1 point
  47. Mac OS Desktops: 1Q 2020

    Screenshot of my new 16" MacBook Pro (i9). Loving the new screen size and keyboard. The performance is outstanding.
    1 point
  48. Surface Pro 7 review: It finally has USB Type-C

    The bezels are actually narrower than this dude's thumbs. And you need something to hold onto anyway. It's still a tablet, after all. I don't know how "delete bezels" became such a trend. This. There are other concerns worth noting with the Surface Pro series, but the bezels aren't something I'd complain over, as having bezels is the reason I chose the specific model of iPad that I did. Gotta be able to hold the damn thing... If we were talking laptops, that's a diff story.
    1 point
  49. Bell Fibe/Fibre internet (PPPoE) and UniFi

    I live in Ontario and have Bell FTTH going directly into a SFP Port on my US-8-150W. The Internet traffic is tagged with VLAN 35 not VLAN 34 as Farchord is seeing in Shawinigan. In my journey to get this up last year I noted that the VLAN tagging varied across providers and geographic regions so just make sure that you note the way it is tagged by your provider. 🙂 "Show me a person paying for porn tv and I'll show you someone who doesn't know how to use the Internet"
    1 point