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Re:What did you expect? by Opportunist · 2019-03-06 04:01 · Score: 1 · on Jibo, the $899 'Social Robot', Tells Owners in Farewell Address That Its VC Overlords Have Remote-Killswitched It (boingboing.net)

Like that Outer Limits episode?

Re:Oh good by fbobraga · 2019-03-06 03:53 · Score: 1 · on Linux 5.1 Continues The Years-Long Effort Preparing For Year 2038 (phoronix.com)

Fixing the link (forgot to preview the post...): Google Fuchsia

Re:You're a liar with disgusting yellow fever Mitc by LynnwoodRooster · 2019-03-06 03:26 · Score: 1 · on Pacific Northwest Relying On Nuclear Energy During Cold Snap (forbes.com)

Precisely. And natural gas and nuclear are about 60% of our electricity generation - and we're ignoring all the gasoline/diesel used for transportation (which dwarfs electric consumption). "GND worshippers" love to focus on renewable generation of just electricity, which is a small sliver of our total energy use.

Re:Nuclear power = Socialism by LynnwoodRooster · 2019-03-06 03:22 · Score: -1, Flamebait · on Pacific Northwest Relying On Nuclear Energy During Cold Snap (forbes.com)

Socialist economy summarized. Which country has that? Which country has the "social dividend" defined for all companies? Which country has "The ownership of the means of production can be based on direct ownership by the users of the productive property through worker cooperative; or commonly owned by all of society with management and control delegated to those who operate/use the means of production; or public ownership by a state apparatus."? None in the EU that I know of...

Re:Doesn't this depend on rotation? by colinwb · 2019-03-06 02:40 · Score: 4, Insightful · on Deflecting an Asteroid Will Be Harder Than Scientists Thought (upi.com)

"Ten days? Have a world-wide "End of the World" party." - Including watching the 1999 Canadian film "Last Night"... Plot: In Toronto, a group of friends and family prepare for the end of the world, expected at midnight as the result of a calamity that is not explained, but which has been expected for several months ... In 2014, Colin McNeil of Metro News wrote "Last Night is perhaps the most upbeat end-of-the-world movie you’ll ever see." ...

Rogert Ebert's review ... Note: On a talk show in Toronto, I [Roger Ebert] was asked to define the difference between American and Canadian films, and said I could not. Another guest was Wayne Clarkson, the former director of the Toronto Film Festival. He said he could, and cited this film. "Sandra Oh goes into a grocery story to find a bottle of wine for dinner," he said. "The store has been looted, but she finds two bottles still on the shelf. She takes them down, evaluates them, chooses one, and puts the other one politely back on the shelf. That's how you know it's a Canadian film."

Re: In before Republicans lie. by aliquis · 2019-03-06 02:20 · Score: 1 · on Report Finds Widespread Contamination at Nation's Coal Ash Sites (washingtonpost.com)

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

All our nuclear power plants was made 1972-1985, so there's been none for made for the last 34 years and they started showing up 47 years ago.

(That power do pollute too but less, then again wind- and watermills are older, and we still make almost half of our electricity using hydro power.)

Re:Deflection by necro81 · 2019-03-06 01:08 · Score: 2 · on Deflecting an Asteroid Will Be Harder Than Scientists Thought (upi.com)

Now put that rock in a vacuum and tell me how you figure on coupling enough energy though nothing to do this?

One can use a gravitational tug to "couple enough energy through nothing". It's not a panacea, but it is one method that is largely unaffected by the asteroid's internal strength.

Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-05 23:46 · Score: 0 · on Arizona Prosecutor Says Uber Not Criminally Liable In Fatal Self-Driving Crash (reuters.com)

These "automation surprises" where nobody knows who's in control

That would be substantially more convincing of the links corresponded to the points you were trying to make, and were not completely unrelated.

Re:Nuclear power = Socialism by ilguido · 2019-03-05 20:33 · Score: 2 · on Pacific Northwest Relying On Nuclear Energy During Cold Snap (forbes.com)

China. Still today, the banking system (that is the "capital" of capitalism) is firmly under the control of the state, that is the Communist Party.
As for having success, modern India and modern China at their birth, at the beginning of the '50s were pretty equal (well, India was actually in a better position, with a somewhat greater gdp) and similar (very large pre-industrial, agricultural societies etc.). Nowadays it is clear that Communist China surpassed in every conceivable way Capitalist India.
That's a pretty big success story to me.

Re:Huh? by Ichijo · 2019-03-05 20:32 · Score: 1 · on Arizona Prosecutor Says Uber Not Criminally Liable In Fatal Self-Driving Crash (reuters.com)

there is a cognitive disconnect between the autopilot and the 'backup driver' that is supposed to suddenly become situationally aware in a split second

Bull fucking shit. It's about as disconnected as using cruise control and asking people to keep tabs on how fast or slow traffic is going. Just keep your goddamn eyes on the fucking road, it's not brain surgery.

Nice try but we know that if operators are relieved of too much work, their attention will start to drift. And there are other examples of catastrophic consequences of automation.

These "automation surprises" where nobody knows who's in control are like the old quote, "A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure."

Re:Huh? by Ichijo · 2019-03-05 20:32 · Score: 1 · on Arizona Prosecutor Says Uber Not Criminally Liable In Fatal Self-Driving Crash (reuters.com)

there is a cognitive disconnect between the autopilot and the 'backup driver' that is supposed to suddenly become situationally aware in a split second

Bull fucking shit. It's about as disconnected as using cruise control and asking people to keep tabs on how fast or slow traffic is going. Just keep your goddamn eyes on the fucking road, it's not brain surgery.

Nice try but we know that if operators are relieved of too much work, their attention will start to drift. And there are other examples of catastrophic consequences of automation.

These "automation surprises" where nobody knows who's in control are like the old quote, "A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure."

You asked for it by NewYork · 2019-03-05 20:13 · Score: 1 · on Vladimir Putin Wants His Own Internet (bloomberg.com)

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

Re:Salvia? by cdsparrow · 2019-03-05 18:15 · Score: 1 · on What It's Like To Smoke Salvia For Science (vice.com)

Nope, we're talking about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia_divinorum

Re: Huh, I have an idea to reduce their electric b by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-05 17:54 · Score: 5, Insightful · on Pacific Northwest Relying On Nuclear Energy During Cold Snap (forbes.com)

I suppose you would have called for an end to all airplanes when Thomas Selfridge died in the first fatal airline crash in 1908. Or, perhaps you would have called for an end to all heavier than air transport back in 1896 when Otto Lilienthal died piloting a glider?

And I assume you would have eliminated all software or hardware control of medical treatment devices after the Therac-25 radiation therapy device killed three patients back in the mid 80's?

I assume you also, personally, eschew all forms of motorized transport as they are not yet perfect and kill tens of thousands of people in the US alone every year?

Fukushima was a very expensive accident. However, it was not a very dangerous one in terms of human life.

Nothing is completely safe, but we learn from each failure and improve, rather than abandon, technology.

Nuclear power is almost essential if we are going to provide reliable power without spewing CO2 into the air that our ancestors will curse us for.