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I've read the books. Maybe all of them, though probably not, considering how many he wrote. I don't know if your original post about the three laws was intended to be a joke, but if it was, it managed to be both rich and subtle. Be not offended by the angry nerds, our misguided fury is itself funny to those with the self awareness to recognize when we've been ... well you know https://youtu.be/xLzHj3aFCaE?t...

The three laws sound rational and his stories make the programming seem reliable, but then he proceeds to point out all the ways they can go wrong. Many of the books are essentially boiled down to the idea that sounding good isn't enough to ensure a plan will work. Imagine you believe AI is inevitable so you spend years studying the idea and getting cautionary tales into the public eye in a manner that not-for-nothing, makes you a living.

If I were writing science fiction, I'd make Asimov a time traveler.

The material in question is graphene, which they did not create or unveil.
The structure in question is theoretical, and they have not made it nor do they have any real plans or methodology to do so.

They made a mathematical model and then 3D printed a PLASTIC model in the same shape.
They then crushed the plastic model and noted that it was pretty strong given its density, just as they predict a graphene structure in the same shape to be.

They're not creating the graphene structure, and a macro version of the structure in plastic may or may not exhibit similar properties as a true version made of ultra thin graphene.

https://youtu.be/VIcZdc42F0g

I'm all for improved materials, but let's not make shit up, futurism.com .

I know that was a joke article by the Onion, but they do actually sell 5 bladed razors... actually they're up to 7 now ....

Ha. I laugh at those pathetic little 7 blades. Obligatory "mine goes to 11"

siberian mosquitoes

malaria was once rampant throughout Europe, the United
States, and into Canada, and that major problems with malaria
existed even into the 20th Century. For example, in the 1940s
in the Russian/Finnish War, malaria in Finland was one of the
major causes of morbidity in troops. Even before then, in the
1920s, there was a massive epidemic of malaria—a devasta-
ting epidemic—in 1922 and 1923—which went right up
through Siberia, and into Archangel on the White Sea, close
to the Arctic Circle. Global Warming Won’t Spread Malaria, PAUL REITER, Ph.D.

Sorry for your experience but it had more to to do with the DDT ban than global warming.

On the product page there is a link to a youtube video - at 00:26 it says 'And protect them from malware"...at the bottom of the video in small writing it ALSO says 'Core does not give you 100% protection' - does that mean I dont have to give you 100% of my subscription fee if malware gets through?

UID of the beast, you can't stop me.

OT skit

or you could just rip your CDs, store your files locally and pick exactly what you want to hear, and not pay anything.

Oh, I do that all the time, but I can find music on Google Play that is out of print and/or very rare.

If I want to hear Savoy R&B recordings from the late 40's, it would take me forever to purchase the CDs. Some of the more rare Blue Note recordings are also hard to find. I enjoy some of the Italian soundtracks from movies from the 70s, and good luck finding those anywhere any more except via streaming. Or maybe I want to find something I've never heard before, so I start the "Crying Country" radio station and discover some old Jimmy Wakely and Lefty Frizzell. With classical, I can check out multiple performances of the same piece to figure out which one I like best before plunking down my money.

Even better with new releases. My entire list of favorite new recordings from 2016 came from records that I might never have bought otherwise, like Nick Cave or the Suffers or the latest Radiohead.

I consume a LOT of music from different genres and eras. It's really not practical for me to have physical copies of everything I want to hear.

Here, for your listening pleasure, is an example of a song that I'm not sure can be purchased physically any more.

https://youtu.be/xAP_z-kEhgk

I am waiting for the MacBook wheel!

Oh stop it. Apple would never release anything like that... it's way too thick.

Yeah, if it were any thicker, it would be you.

Here's a link to a presentation by Stallman including this joke so we can see it and judge for ourselves.

This appears to be an inherent security vulnerability in Alexa - it has no voice authentication (see, for example, https://youtu.be/zZ8TJGWdqn4, 7min 23 sec). In general, it is quite hard to authenticate voice in a manner that is not spoofable or replayable (without significantly damaging usability).

Your front windshield is already tempered. This provides much more resistance to chipping and breaking than the glass formulation. Basically, the glass is cooled in a way that the exterior is always in compression (glass is really, really strong in compression). This means when a rock hits your windshield, the force it imparts has to first overcome the glass' innate compression, before it can start to create tensile stresses and have a chance to chip or shatter the glass.

Smarter Every Day has a pretty good explanation of how tempering strengthens the glass. In the case of Price Rupert's drops, there's a weak point in the tail, but the exterior is strong enough to shatter lead bullets. For a plate windshield glass, the weak points are all internal and it's most vulnerable to impacts inwards from the edges.

Your front windshield is already tempered. This provides much more resistance to chipping and breaking than the glass formulation. Basically, the glass is cooled in a way that the exterior is always in compression (glass is really, really strong in compression). This means when a rock hits your windshield, the force it imparts has to first overcome the glass' innate compression, before it can start to create tensile stresses and have a chance to chip or shatter the glass.

Smarter Every Day has a pretty good explanation of how tempering strengthens the glass. In the case of Price Rupert's drops, there's a weak point in the tail, but the exterior is strong enough to shatter lead bullets. For a plate windshield glass, the weak points are all internal and it's most vulnerable to impacts inwards from the edges.

I am waiting for the MacBook wheel!

Oh stop it. Apple would never release anything like that... it's way too thick.

I am waiting for the MacBook wheel!

There are some videos like this one where they demonstrate the car. They clearly have a working platform with apparently great handling and acceleration. The interior is just full of development kit though, only the space model car much in it and none of it seemed to be working.

Also, it's a long long way from a prototype of this nature to a mass production car.

Can you show me one of the reasonable metrics you are referencing? Otherwise it seems you are going by nothing more than feelings

Here's what would happen if they found one on an actual collision course, administration be damned. This is a very good story, but if you're in a hurry, find: "brusquely". I doubt that Bruce Willis could actually do that much.

The premise is different obviously, but the human panic and destruction would be similar. Nature would provide much more fireworks than humans though. Maybe those SHTF bunkers might be useful after all!

Oh, and if you're in the dark already and can't read: here.

VR is not anything new. It is something that has been "re-invented" or more like re-hyped.

Back in the 90s, VR was the new greatest thing. In London there were arcades where you could try out VR in games. Gloves was invented with keyboards to make the user more mobile.
https://youtu.be/rVn3H93Ysag?l...

Of course technology has evolved so VR is easier to use today, than the helmet you had to wear in the 90s.

Since you asked, sure.

It'll take awhile to upload the 4K video (2.75 GB for a mere 2.5 minutes) and YouTube to reprocess it. But the link, when live, will be here:

https://youtu.be/KIeM1y9S5Mo

I don't see why piracy is still a problem. This clip should've put an end to it by now:

https://youtu.be/qPEeaxI0OPU

If i remember correctly, Essen superconductor is an ittrium barium copper oxide one.

Do to the difficult mechanical properties of high temperature superconductors, they are enclosed in metal which is usually (always?) silver. And while the super conducting element itself is super conducting, the cable or wire as a whole is not. Professor Eagar referred to this as "cold silver" and said the improvement was 20% in this video. Considering the cost compared to aluminum, superconducting power transmission is only going to be used where space and weight constraints are critical.

I've done it (although I still prefer the old, simple tech). A 3.5 mm plug is roughly 20 mm long (not counting the wire, of course). You can get a nice bit of torque by pulling on the end of the plug. Enough to trash an iPhone plug. Been there, done that.

No tech is perfect. I'd rather have the plug than fiddle with Bluetooth vagaries. "Connected". Yeah, sure, to the wrong device you whacky gizmo. Annoying dropouts. Batteries. Batteries. Batteries.

I finally found a decent Bluetooth headphone - Sennheiser Momentum M2. About $300 worth. But I'm not cashing in all of my wired devices. I'm looking at YOU Apple. And I friggen hate dongles.

https://youtu.be/1lsn2tT5yTc says a lot on the subject for a song.

Whoa man that is soo out of date and uncool in any Silicon Valley coffee shop man.

Put Outlaw Techno Psycho itch on your laptop baby and watch the chicks and groupies sit and watch you code. Erlang is now cool and hip like what rails did to Ruby

No, just Silver Bullets (TM).

Every language goes through this fad phase. It gets used for 20 years, then everyone forgets about for the next 20, then everyone jumps on the bandwagon when retro is hip again.

You see this all the time.

i.e. Hyperlink had been (re) invented two times PRIOR to Timothy Lee Burner butchering it.

Alan Kay - Normal Considered Harmful
https://youtu.be/FvmTSpJU-Xc?t...

Watership Down
https://youtu.be/Q1n8E3ntWUg

The Plague Dogs
https://youtu.be/CKHQuaaZovs

The Plague Dogs. This film was a bit of a shock to everybody vivisection. People used to have working dogs for rabbiting and for killing rats and so on.
The dogs were Lurchers, Whippets, and mongrels most dogs were called mongrels then Staffordshire's pitbull, large bulldogs they were all mixed and just called mongrels not like now. None of them were "American dogs like American bulldogs American pitbull's American Rottweilers and so on it was before that nonsense.

The animals would eat the same food as the owners. Because money was very scarce people used to answer newspaper adverts that advertised for puppies they would give you money for your dogs. They would send around the delivery man to collect your dogs or sometimes even a taxi to collect your dogs. Out of sight out of mind people did not know what was happening to their animals. After this animated cartoon everybody just pretended they had never heard of vivisection. My dad gave a basket full of puppies to vivisection and he told us they were going to new homes. After this film we never ever spoke of it. The only person who ever did speak of it was my mother when ever she had an argument with my father.

Watership Down
https://youtu.be/Q1n8E3ntWUg

The Plague Dogs
https://youtu.be/CKHQuaaZovs

The Plague Dogs. This film was a bit of a shock to everybody vivisection. People used to have working dogs for rabbiting and for killing rats and so on.
The dogs were Lurchers, Whippets, and mongrels most dogs were called mongrels then Staffordshire's pitbull, large bulldogs they were all mixed and just called mongrels not like now. None of them were "American dogs like American bulldogs American pitbull's American Rottweilers and so on it was before that nonsense.

The animals would eat the same food as the owners. Because money was very scarce people used to answer newspaper adverts that advertised for puppies they would give you money for your dogs. They would send around the delivery man to collect your dogs or sometimes even a taxi to collect your dogs. Out of sight out of mind people did not know what was happening to their animals. After this animated cartoon everybody just pretended they had never heard of vivisection. My dad gave a basket full of puppies to vivisection and he told us they were going to new homes. After this film we never ever spoke of it. The only person who ever did speak of it was my mother when ever she had an argument with my father.

So your'e saying the real question is organs or synthesizers?

I'm registered to donate my Farfisa Combo when I die.

https://youtu.be/nXtXo7_C-d4

Ill just leave this here.

https://youtu.be/QwviDPo4Rh4

OH man, you gotta see the knockoff cartoons. One of which is literally copied beat for beat from Cartoon Network's "Gumball"

https://youtu.be/-ZBeMbGAjTU

So much effort into copying...

So did I. Her main scene in the movie for those who haven't seen it.

. . . is an interesting, and potentially lucrative idea

Urban farming is already extremely lucrative! Except, the crops grown are only rarely eaten, and more often smoked.

German politicians are even trying it out on their own rooftops in Berlin, as can be seen in this Ice Bucket Challenge video:

https://youtu.be/REOA3xXR8tI

Hmmm . . . now what is that plant next to German politician Cem Özdemir . . . ?

"E-I, E-I, O, jawohl!" : http://www.ibm.com/support/kno...

A little math and you find that per Germany has 15 times more solar capacity per capita

Perhaps because Germany is so sunny? ;-) It must be true because I heard it on Fox News!!
https://youtu.be/fe3vxu9vxAQ?t...

In all seriousness, Germany's early solar efforts are impressive but China (& India) should catch & pass them within 5-10 years.
And then there's solar water heating where China has led not only Germany but ALL of the EU combined and accounts for more than 1/2 the global total.
America has long been a laggard in the adoption of this tech but made significant gains after 2008.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

There's an explanation of how these vending machines work in this NHK documentary: https://youtu.be/8SNqD6YqVhQ?t=264

It might have something to do with this.

Alexa is a dumb bitch.

https://youtu.be/oeNzgwikyYs

Tesla charger prototype finding its way to Model S video

That supermarket has aisles full of cruelty-free and healthy alternative foods that you can buy.

Your philosophy seems to be predicated on minimizing cruelty. Please meditate on the following.

Contrary to what you learned in Disney movies, it is incredibly rare for an animal to die of disease or old age. The ultimate fate of nearly every living non-human animal on this planet is to be eaten alive. The fortunate ones die early in the process. Being diseased simply makes it easier for something to catch you and eat you (usually while you're still alive).

You are incorrectly assuming a zero base state - that by not consuming meat, you are somehow saving these animals from suffering being eaten. That is not the case. You are merely delaying the inevitable. If you allow these animals to live out their natural lives, you consign the vast majority of them to suffer a cruel death just like in the above videos.

OTOH, when I go fishing, I bleed my catch prior to taking it home to prepare as food. Based on testimony from people who have almost bled to death, this is one of the best ways to die - it feels like falling asleep. So given that (1) everything eventually dies, (2) your actions almost always lead to animals suffering a natural death by predation, and (3) my actions lead to them suffering the most painless death possible, my way actually results in less cruelty than yours.

Put another way, your philosophy is based on the incorrect belief that an action (eating meat) means you are responsible for the consequences (an animal has to die), but inaction means you are not responsible for the consequences. But everything has consequences - both action and inaction. Choosing the route of inaction may make you feel better in a self-centered world-view, but in this case it actually increases the amount of cruelty that animals suffer.

That supermarket has aisles full of cruelty-free and healthy alternative foods that you can buy.

Your philosophy seems to be predicated on minimizing cruelty. Please meditate on the following.

Contrary to what you learned in Disney movies, it is incredibly rare for an animal to die of disease or old age. The ultimate fate of nearly every living non-human animal on this planet is to be eaten alive. The fortunate ones die early in the process. Being diseased simply makes it easier for something to catch you and eat you (usually while you're still alive).

You are incorrectly assuming a zero base state - that by not consuming meat, you are somehow saving these animals from suffering being eaten. That is not the case. You are merely delaying the inevitable. If you allow these animals to live out their natural lives, you consign the vast majority of them to suffer a cruel death just like in the above videos.

OTOH, when I go fishing, I bleed my catch prior to taking it home to prepare as food. Based on testimony from people who have almost bled to death, this is one of the best ways to die - it feels like falling asleep. So given that (1) everything eventually dies, (2) your actions almost always lead to animals suffering a natural death by predation, and (3) my actions lead to them suffering the most painless death possible, my way actually results in less cruelty than yours.

Put another way, your philosophy is based on the incorrect belief that an action (eating meat) means you are responsible for the consequences (an animal has to die), but inaction means you are not responsible for the consequences. But everything has consequences - both action and inaction. Choosing the route of inaction may make you feel better in a self-centered world-view, but in this case it actually increases the amount of cruelty that animals suffer.

That supermarket has aisles full of cruelty-free and healthy alternative foods that you can buy.

Your philosophy seems to be predicated on minimizing cruelty. Please meditate on the following.

Contrary to what you learned in Disney movies, it is incredibly rare for an animal to die of disease or old age. The ultimate fate of nearly every living non-human animal on this planet is to be eaten alive. The fortunate ones die early in the process. Being diseased simply makes it easier for something to catch you and eat you (usually while you're still alive).

You are incorrectly assuming a zero base state - that by not consuming meat, you are somehow saving these animals from suffering being eaten. That is not the case. You are merely delaying the inevitable. If you allow these animals to live out their natural lives, you consign the vast majority of them to suffer a cruel death just like in the above videos.

OTOH, when I go fishing, I bleed my catch prior to taking it home to prepare as food. Based on testimony from people who have almost bled to death, this is one of the best ways to die - it feels like falling asleep. So given that (1) everything eventually dies, (2) your actions almost always lead to animals suffering a natural death by predation, and (3) my actions lead to them suffering the most painless death possible, my way actually results in less cruelty than yours.

Put another way, your philosophy is based on the incorrect belief that an action (eating meat) means you are responsible for the consequences (an animal has to die), but inaction means you are not responsible for the consequences. But everything has consequences - both action and inaction. Choosing the route of inaction may make you feel better in a self-centered world-view, but in this case it actually increases the amount of cruelty that animals suffer.

That supermarket has aisles full of cruelty-free and healthy alternative foods that you can buy.

Your philosophy seems to be predicated on minimizing cruelty. Please meditate on the following.

Contrary to what you learned in Disney movies, it is incredibly rare for an animal to die of disease or old age. The ultimate fate of nearly every living non-human animal on this planet is to be eaten alive. The fortunate ones die early in the process. Being diseased simply makes it easier for something to catch you and eat you (usually while you're still alive).

You are incorrectly assuming a zero base state - that by not consuming meat, you are somehow saving these animals from suffering being eaten. That is not the case. You are merely delaying the inevitable. If you allow these animals to live out their natural lives, you consign the vast majority of them to suffer a cruel death just like in the above videos.

OTOH, when I go fishing, I bleed my catch prior to taking it home to prepare as food. Based on testimony from people who have almost bled to death, this is one of the best ways to die - it feels like falling asleep. So given that (1) everything eventually dies, (2) your actions almost always lead to animals suffering a natural death by predation, and (3) my actions lead to them suffering the most painless death possible, my way actually results in less cruelty than yours.

Put another way, your philosophy is based on the incorrect belief that an action (eating meat) means you are responsible for the consequences (an animal has to die), but inaction means you are not responsible for the consequences. But everything has consequences - both action and inaction. Choosing the route of inaction may make you feel better in a self-centered world-view, but in this case it actually increases the amount of cruelty that animals suffer.

Today, President Elect Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin both announced that they plan to expand their nuclear arsenals. Of course, Trump made his announcement on Twitter.

Duck and cover, motherfuckers.

https://youtu.be/snTaSJk0n_Y

Rather Twitter than CNN or any of the other news propaganda media. The news media does not like Twitter any more unless they are using it for their news stories. Donald Trump, was elected by the people and is telling the people directly what he plans on doing. News media does not like it good!

Hillary Clinton, and her cronies in the news media have spread so many lies and so much fake news that when genuine news does happen nobody is going to believe it. The U.S. media has made a mockery of the U.S. and now Russia is feeling dangerously powerful because of it.

Today, President Elect Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin both announced that they plan to expand their nuclear arsenals. Of course, Trump made his announcement on Twitter.

Duck and cover, motherfuckers.

https://youtu.be/snTaSJk0n_Y

Most sensible people expect that self-driving cars will go significantly above the speed limit, because the reasons for limiting them to the speed limit (inability to look everywhere at once and see people pulling out of driveways, see kids about to run across the street unexpectedly, etc.) don't apply when you have a dozen cameras being monitored continuously by an AI, nor do most common human failings like inattentiveness, inability to properly assess speed of traction loss on curves, poor judgment of road conditions in general, etc.

Here is a video from a few days ago of a self-driving car running a red light. So, sadly, no. The belief that a machine which has been programmed by humans is now incapable of making mistakes is one that I'm surprised to hear from a Slashdot user.

https://youtu.be/_CdJ4oae8f4

It depends on a RPAS pilot. For example, for a pilot like in this video it is not an issue to fly in narrow spaces: https://youtu.be/WQyVEivFMrA

https://youtu.be/jNiO2sTe2wo

Similar in the UK. A video was release of two armed officers who were dealing with a report of some teens with a handgun. Their getting if the situation was pretty damn good.

https://youtu.be/ehzq9OdE2w0

It's bizarre. Police in the states seem to be trained in conflict escalation - immediately point your firearm at the suspect - but I suppose that's a side effect of having an armed population.

Take for instance the British army, they are trained to always have their weapons pointed at the ground as deescalation is the priority when dealing with civilians.

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker...

I don't know if any of you are basketball fans, but I want my personal digital assistant to be voiced by Timberwolves (and former Bulls) coach Tom Thibodeau. If you've ever heard him speak, you know why.

https://youtu.be/IK6MsBDCUkg