Odd Stuff (Part 1)

Fantastic car horn - isn’t that the Godfather theme…?

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Yup.

A new study finds a potential risk with self-driving cars: failure to detect dark-skinned pedestrians
The findings speak to a bigger problem in the development of automated systems: algorithmic bias.

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Silent Merc, holy e-car… Mflllwhmmmp! What is that terrible sound?
‘There is no e-sound. It has to be invented’

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/06/sound_of_electric_cars/

I should be shocked/surprised at this… but sadly I am not.

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Of course not…

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Disruptive, right?

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I mean, hey, who cares if thousands of people lose their jobs, as long as rich assholes get cool toys and maybe trips to space, AMIRITE!!! /s

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Good Omens, Trailer Two! Ook ook oook!

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“Only for legal tobacco use” doesn’t really apply in this situation, but kudos to these kids for using that line.

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Rawwr!


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Berryessa revisited:

http://www.spiegel.de/video/us-amateurvideo-vogel-verschwindet-in-gigantischem-glory-hole-video-99025546.html

While this CEO may be stiff, his customers are rather stiffed: Quadriga wallets finally cracked open – nothing inside
This is the crypto-exchange that said only dead boss could unlock $137m in wallets

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/07/quadrigacx_wallets_empty/

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The NSA published one of their tools as open-source software.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/06/nsa_ghidra_joyce/

An interesting article. Especially the flip-flopping over whether concerns about no-deal are justified or ‘Project Fear’.

More importantly - does this mean that we can finally go back to the traditional tracing paper/wood chip toilet paper all patriotic Britons remember and long for?

Too long have our nether regions been cossetted by foreign toilet paper - possibly French in origin!

How can we rebuild an Empire without the sort of fortitude and resolve that is built by years of intense self-harm when going to the toilet?

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“Here at Wetherspoons we have put greaseproof paper back in every bathroom!!”

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