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on Tuesday February 21 2017, @03:35AM
from the will-they-crack-down-on-el-presidente dept.
from the will-they-crack-down-on-el-presidente dept.
Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard
Twitter has launched a new way to punish users for bad behavior, temporarily "limiting" their account.
Some users are receiving notices their accounts are limited for 12 hours, meaning only people who follow them can see their tweets or receive notifications. When they are retweeted, people outside their network can't see those retweets.
Some speculate these limitations are automatic based on keywords, but there is no hard evidence.
This would be fine if this was used uniformly to clamp down on harassment, but it appears to be used on people, simply for using politically incorrect language.
Source: http://heatst.com/tech/twitters-new-tool-to-crack-down-on-politically-incorrect-language/
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(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday March 03 2017, @02:57AM
I wouldn't call Boston Dynamics part of "The Military Industrial Complex." Anymore, at least.
They had their shot. Sure, their robots look cool and yet creepy enough for the military, but after the shock and awe dissipated amongst the present pentagon and DARPA officials during the demonstration Boston Dynamics' robots were found to be remarkably inefficient and too loud (they utilized gasoline motors and later all-electric power but still sound like all the action of a chainsaw without all the wood). The primary application the military was looking for, from us, was that of an all-terrain mule which could carry gear through mountainous regions without toppling over, quietly, on strictly-human missions. The only (well, one of the only) problem(s) is that good LIDAR has to spin, and mechanically-scanned sensors are a high point of failure at the points involved in the rotation of mechanical scan. It can see wisely, but when that one motor fails, its over. In contrast, modern phased arrays can fail gracefully on an element-by-element basis.
As cool as my employers' robots are, at this point they are most science for science' sake. In other words, a cost center for Alphabet.