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  1. To be fair by Sycraft-fu · · Score: 2 · on Autonomous Robot Intentionally Hurts People To Make Them Bleed (fastcompany.com)

    The definition is unclear. Sci-fi often uses robot to mean an advanced, general purpose mechanical device with an AI controlling it. However in industrial uses it usually means a mechanical device for doing a given task, governed by a computer program. Commonly some of the machines used to build cars get called robots or robotic.

    It is a word that doesn't seem to have a good solid definition.

    Also, that aside, the three laws of robotics are something a sci-fi author wrote in stories, not real laws. They are not laws of nature, not codified laws, etc. They are just a plot device. This idea that they can will and must exist in the real world that so many geeks have is silly.

    It also doesn't take a ton of ethical and/or logical analysis to figure out that they are the kind of thing that doesn't really work as any kind of absolute principle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  2. Kudos to the Slashdotters by Cytotoxic · · Score: 1 · on Autonomous Robot Intentionally Hurts People To Make Them Bleed (fastcompany.com)

    It seems that pretty much everyone saw through this idiotic ruse. My faith in the Slashdot crowd is temporarily restored. Well done.

    Oh, and I've set up a mechanical A.I. that induces the startle response, entirely constructed of an envelope, bobby pin, a steel washer and a rubber band. Let the ethics discussion commence!

  3. Re:TIme flies by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 1 · on It Took 33 Years To Find the Easter Egg In This Apple II Game (vice.com)

    You can see by yourself the relative speed of all characters. But the new version (had to reset the cache) looks about right! Thanks!

  4. Re: Omar Saddiqui Mateen? by x0ra · · Score: 1 · on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  5. Re:Why only the top 3? What about other top 10 cms by Cryophallion · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best CMS?

    Do you have something personal against C5? Because you did almost exactly the same comment to two posts with completely different points?

    Anyway, whether or not drupal did it a few years ago, it's about implementation. I actually DID explain what I liked, but whether you understand what I meant or not, it doesn't mean my points were invalid. The last time I checked (admittedly a few years ago) only one other cms did in context editing. Like, if you had a blog, you could drag a block of content, or an image slider in on that page, right there, while looking at it, tweak the content, and see how it will work. With most things, there is no need to go to the dashboard/backend.

    I arrived at this "need" for a customer that literally said he wanted his website to be as easy to use as his fantasy football site he frequented. Now, the issue is, that site was very good at only one thing, but he liked being able to see the changes inline, as they would appear. And not just having to go into a wysiwyg editor to do all that, but be able to add custom areas with different specialties wherever they wanted. Drag and Drop, tweak the content in a logical fashion (for an image slider, add the images, text, titles, etc, and then just hit save).

    The page centric paradigm C5 had some use cases where data objects would help, so they added it. So, you are offended because they are adding features that you have had, but yet your CMS still doesn't have some features or implementation they do have? This is the WHOLE POINT! Each CMS has it's benefits and drawbacks. Some did X first, others, Y. I pick android as my platform for my phone, you may pick iOS. They both evolve differently. Some people here may be desperate for a feature in one that they didn't realize was native to another. It may be that the implementation of data objects is more or less flexible or usable than in Drupal, frankly, I don't know. If you would like to show me how their in context editing in drupal blows the lid off c5, I'd love to see it. But frankly, like I said, for end users, and I've had a good number of them, they seem to pick up C5 really fast and like the customizing options and flexibility.

    So, you enjoy Drupal for what it does have, and I like C5 for what it has. I was pointing out they were eliminating a pain point in a nice way in the next version, which some people who have evaluated C5 in the past would likely want to know. I was providing info.

    Finally, your point falls on it's head. You asked for a reason that is the case? I said it clearly: "I look at how easy it is for end users to pick up and customize". That's the important part, and when I last checked, C5 beat Drupal by a lot. That could have changed, admittedly, but in just checking a v8 video demo on youtube, it's no where NEAR as elegant and clean and usable for users. It's night and day.

    See for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  6. Agile What Now? by Trails · · Score: 2, Informative · on Playing Politics With Agile Projects (cio.com)

    If you're doing "Agile Projects" or have "Agile Project Managers" you're not doing agile. Agile is a set of PRODUCT methodologies. If you assemble a project, identify scope, get seed funding, kick off, and then decide to delivery you're project "Agile", you've missed the key point of agile: adjust priorities in response to change.

    I get why people hate "agile", it's because most people haven't done the real thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  7. Re:They didn't answer the most important question. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on A Tour of Campus 2, Apple's Upcoming Headquarters (popsci.com)

    There are not supposed to be any right angles on this house.

  8. Toughbook 20 by karl1984 · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Why Do Most Tablet Specs Suck?

    "Where is the rugged 16GB RAM / 1TB Storage / 20-hour battery tablet?" This product exists and is called the toughbook 20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... You might want to re-evaluate your "need" of these features after spotting the price tag...

  9. Re:Stupid thinking by WheezyJoe · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Microsoft Mistakenly Sold Fallout 4 For Free On Xbox (polygon.com)

    I think Microsoft could afford it. and wouldn't it be swell if mean old Microsoft said, "our bad you lucky freaks can keep your game and thanks for buying Xbox over that Sony thing" (and somewhere in Puget Sound, the body of a careless Microsoft employee is slowly picked-apart by the fishes). There, all's well, the universe made right. Would sure make me feel better about buying an Xbox. Instead, Microsoft exercises its DRM muscle to claw back those game licenses that it, entirely by its own mistake, let loose for a few hours. and next time, they'll take your little dog, too.

    In other words, the $0.00 price was entirely their problem, their fault. They should man up and eat it. Instead, it becomes everyone else's problem because, you know, fuck those consumers we don't owe them anything fuck 'em. Well, thanks for nothing, Microsoft. Didn't I read something somewhere about a new 4K Playstation?

  10. Re:MS Office jumped the shark nearly 15 years ago by WheezyJoe · · Score: 1 · on How a Bad UI Decision From Microsoft Helped Macro Malware Make a Comeback (softpedia.com)

    I think you mean 2003, but in all other ways yes. 2003 was the last version before they decided to ditch the menu bar for their precious "ribbon". I think it's because OpenOffice was reaching a point of being a reasonable replacement, almost indistinguishable on the surface, so Microsoft felt like they had to make Office... different.

    The sad thing is they took away some really useful advanced features from 2003... like being able to create your own custom buttons with a little pixel editor and assign them to macros you write for automating repetitive tasks. Gone with the coming of the wretched, unbidden ribbon, the solution for a problem that didn't exist. There are some improvements and bug-fixes that come along with 2007 and 2010, but at the cost of having to train employees on a custom ribbon with the collection of buttons they used to rely on on a toolbar (because with the ribbon, you only get one toolbar... just because). If this included a custom button, you're out of luck.

    I just can't think of how dumb this is, because all the customization capability of 2003 was effective product lock-in for Microsoft, making OpenOffice a less-than-ideal alternative for shops with a lot of time-saving macros (no, not the kind of macros that travel with documents as malware). Microsoft traded this for a fucking ribbon, because... I don't know, pick one:

    1. unless it looks different, nobody will buy it
    2. all the pre-ribbon developers were either retired or promoted to management, and new-hire young developers didn't want to read old code
    3. some VP wanted to make her mark, droning: out with the old, in with the new, change is good, you see that? I did that! Promote me!
    4. some focus group mistook OpenOffice for Microsoft Office, and that's got to stop
    5. copyright/trademark the ribbon, thereby put a stop to free software coming up with same-looking turnkey replacements

    None of the above have anything to do with creating a better, more useful or productive product for the customer, but with proper focus groups Microsoft can astro-turf their way into promoting the ribbon as an improvement. If there weren't a stack of less-visible but important features in Microsoft Office that Open/LibreOffice still haven't replicated (here's an incomplete list), my organization would have shimmied out of Microsoft's shackles long ago.

  11. Re:Yeah, those evil macros. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on How a Bad UI Decision From Microsoft Helped Macro Malware Make a Comeback (softpedia.com)

    The fact that you end your post with "Fuck you, just fuck you" reminds me of a so-terrible-its-funny horror movie with Stephen King.

  12. Re:Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Twitter Denies Breach of 32 Million Accounts (twitter.com)

    In some alternate universe, that's a real quote.

  13. Re:Simple: Restore from your backup by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 1 · on Air Force Has Lost 100,000 Inspector General Records (thehill.com)

    You... do... have a backup, ... right?

    "Backups? We ain't got no backups. We don' need no backups. I don't have to show you any stinkin' backups!"

  14. Ancient Civilization had higher tech than assumed. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful · on The World's Oldest Computer May Have Predicted the Future (gizmodo.com)

    This is clearly impossible. Egyptologists tell us that machines did not exist when the Pyramids and sculptures were created. Point being: Egyptology is wrong, and archeology is politicized to keep findings from undermining a country's sovereignty. (Eg: China did not emerge in isolation, hence the pyramids and mummies with European DNA).

    The Chinese, Egyptian, Sumerian, Machu Picchu, legends all tell of a more technologically advanced race of Sun Gods who built their temples and gave them the gift of agriculture and city building. These sun gods are described as having European features, such as fair skin, red or blond hair, green or blue eyes and thin aquiline noses. This hints that a more advanced civilization capable of sea faring that existed prior to the end of the last ice age.

    It's stupid as hell to assume the Antikythera Mechanism is the world's first analog computer. The creator certainly built prior models and there were probably many many other similar devices and other sorts of machines with the same or higher complexity. There are Egyptian artifacts which appear to be huge gears and drilling heads. You're a damned fool believing in "the ancients had no machines" propaganda. If you seriously think a single device was created with such a tech level and no prior devices existed using similar tech of equal or lesser mechanical complexity, you're a fucking idiot. Even basic Anthropology would suggest the device is a product of a culmination of existing technologies for this one purpose, and that other machines with other purposes led up to its creation, and most likely other machines existed beyond its capabilities. The chances that you just happened to find the single device that is the pinnacle of the ancient civilization's technological level is nigh on impossible, and anyone suggesting thus should be laughed at and mocked as morons, not fit to give archaeological interpretations. It would be like an alien civilization discovering one of our iPhones and proclaiming it was this planet's first communication device.

  15. Ancient Civilization had higher tech than assumed. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful · on The World's Oldest Computer May Have Predicted the Future (gizmodo.com)

    This is clearly impossible. Egyptologists tell us that machines did not exist when the Pyramids and sculptures were created. Point being: Egyptology is wrong, and archeology is politicized to keep findings from undermining a country's sovereignty. (Eg: China did not emerge in isolation, hence the pyramids and mummies with European DNA).

    The Chinese, Egyptian, Sumerian, Machu Picchu, legends all tell of a more technologically advanced race of Sun Gods who built their temples and gave them the gift of agriculture and city building. These sun gods are described as having European features, such as fair skin, red or blond hair, green or blue eyes and thin aquiline noses. This hints that a more advanced civilization capable of sea faring that existed prior to the end of the last ice age.

    It's stupid as hell to assume the Antikythera Mechanism is the world's first analog computer. The creator certainly built prior models and there were probably many many other similar devices and other sorts of machines with the same or higher complexity. There are Egyptian artifacts which appear to be huge gears and drilling heads. You're a damned fool believing in "the ancients had no machines" propaganda. If you seriously think a single device was created with such a tech level and no prior devices existed using similar tech of equal or lesser mechanical complexity, you're a fucking idiot. Even basic Anthropology would suggest the device is a product of a culmination of existing technologies for this one purpose, and that other machines with other purposes led up to its creation, and most likely other machines existed beyond its capabilities. The chances that you just happened to find the single device that is the pinnacle of the ancient civilization's technological level is nigh on impossible, and anyone suggesting thus should be laughed at and mocked as morons, not fit to give archaeological interpretations. It would be like an alien civilization discovering one of our iPhones and proclaiming it was this planet's first communication device.

  16. Ancient Civilization had higher tech than assumed. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful · on The World's Oldest Computer May Have Predicted the Future (gizmodo.com)

    This is clearly impossible. Egyptologists tell us that machines did not exist when the Pyramids and sculptures were created. Point being: Egyptology is wrong, and archeology is politicized to keep findings from undermining a country's sovereignty. (Eg: China did not emerge in isolation, hence the pyramids and mummies with European DNA).

    The Chinese, Egyptian, Sumerian, Machu Picchu, legends all tell of a more technologically advanced race of Sun Gods who built their temples and gave them the gift of agriculture and city building. These sun gods are described as having European features, such as fair skin, red or blond hair, green or blue eyes and thin aquiline noses. This hints that a more advanced civilization capable of sea faring that existed prior to the end of the last ice age.

    It's stupid as hell to assume the Antikythera Mechanism is the world's first analog computer. The creator certainly built prior models and there were probably many many other similar devices and other sorts of machines with the same or higher complexity. There are Egyptian artifacts which appear to be huge gears and drilling heads. You're a damned fool believing in "the ancients had no machines" propaganda. If you seriously think a single device was created with such a tech level and no prior devices existed using similar tech of equal or lesser mechanical complexity, you're a fucking idiot. Even basic Anthropology would suggest the device is a product of a culmination of existing technologies for this one purpose, and that other machines with other purposes led up to its creation, and most likely other machines existed beyond its capabilities. The chances that you just happened to find the single device that is the pinnacle of the ancient civilization's technological level is nigh on impossible, and anyone suggesting thus should be laughed at and mocked as morons, not fit to give archaeological interpretations. It would be like an alien civilization discovering one of our iPhones and proclaiming it was this planet's first communication device.

  17. Ancient Civilization had higher tech than assumed. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful · on The World's Oldest Computer May Have Predicted the Future (gizmodo.com)

    This is clearly impossible. Egyptologists tell us that machines did not exist when the Pyramids and sculptures were created. Point being: Egyptology is wrong, and archeology is politicized to keep findings from undermining a country's sovereignty. (Eg: China did not emerge in isolation, hence the pyramids and mummies with European DNA).

    The Chinese, Egyptian, Sumerian, Machu Picchu, legends all tell of a more technologically advanced race of Sun Gods who built their temples and gave them the gift of agriculture and city building. These sun gods are described as having European features, such as fair skin, red or blond hair, green or blue eyes and thin aquiline noses. This hints that a more advanced civilization capable of sea faring that existed prior to the end of the last ice age.

    It's stupid as hell to assume the Antikythera Mechanism is the world's first analog computer. The creator certainly built prior models and there were probably many many other similar devices and other sorts of machines with the same or higher complexity. There are Egyptian artifacts which appear to be huge gears and drilling heads. You're a damned fool believing in "the ancients had no machines" propaganda. If you seriously think a single device was created with such a tech level and no prior devices existed using similar tech of equal or lesser mechanical complexity, you're a fucking idiot. Even basic Anthropology would suggest the device is a product of a culmination of existing technologies for this one purpose, and that other machines with other purposes led up to its creation, and most likely other machines existed beyond its capabilities. The chances that you just happened to find the single device that is the pinnacle of the ancient civilization's technological level is nigh on impossible, and anyone suggesting thus should be laughed at and mocked as morons, not fit to give archaeological interpretations. It would be like an alien civilization discovering one of our iPhones and proclaiming it was this planet's first communication device.

  18. Re:I just watched a video about this by klui · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Apple Is Fighting A Secret War To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone (huffingtonpost.com)

    Louis Rossmann has some great repair videos. If anyone is interested in how practical repairs of water-damaged computers are done check his channel out. He also collaborates with another person whose name escapes me at this time who does iPhone/iPad devices at https://www.youtube.com/channe....

    Like him or not, Linus Sebastian also collaborated with Louis on a video after a scathing response from Louis of a LinusTechTips video.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  19. Re:I just watched a video about this by klui · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Apple Is Fighting A Secret War To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone (huffingtonpost.com)

    Louis Rossmann has some great repair videos. If anyone is interested in how practical repairs of water-damaged computers are done check his channel out. He also collaborates with another person whose name escapes me at this time who does iPhone/iPad devices at https://www.youtube.com/channe....

    Like him or not, Linus Sebastian also collaborated with Louis on a video after a scathing response from Louis of a LinusTechTips video.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  20. Re:I just watched a video about this by klui · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Apple Is Fighting A Secret War To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone (huffingtonpost.com)

    Louis Rossmann has some great repair videos. If anyone is interested in how practical repairs of water-damaged computers are done check his channel out. He also collaborates with another person whose name escapes me at this time who does iPhone/iPad devices at https://www.youtube.com/channe....

    Like him or not, Linus Sebastian also collaborated with Louis on a video after a scathing response from Louis of a LinusTechTips video.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  21. Re:I just watched a video about this by klui · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Apple Is Fighting A Secret War To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone (huffingtonpost.com)

    Louis Rossmann has some great repair videos. If anyone is interested in how practical repairs of water-damaged computers are done check his channel out. He also collaborates with another person whose name escapes me at this time who does iPhone/iPad devices at https://www.youtube.com/channe....

    Like him or not, Linus Sebastian also collaborated with Louis on a video after a scathing response from Louis of a LinusTechTips video.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  22. Repair act in Jeapordy.... by mysidia · · Score: 1 · on Apple Is Fighting A Secret War To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone (huffingtonpost.com)

    Apple lobbyists are extremely deceitful

    They use outright lies and Total FUD to attack the proposed legislations supporting a right to repair, so the proposed New York right to repair act is in jeapordy.

    See Louis Rossmann's video on the right to repair, and how Apple lobbyists are arguing things like, Replacing a resistor in a Macbook turns the Macbook into a PC, and the repair shops don't disclose that, so there's an issue, and the independent repair shops are low quality / shady, blah blah blah.

  23. Re:The solution is simple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Apple Is Fighting A Secret War To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone (huffingtonpost.com)

    Or, bring your Apple device to this guy for repair. (I am in no way affiliated with him, just stumbled across his youtube channel recently and he seems to know what he's doing.)

  24. I just watched a video about this by steak · · Score: 2 · on Apple Is Fighting A Secret War To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone (huffingtonpost.com)

    I'm subscribed to this guy's youtube channel and he just put up a video on the subject.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Hopefully this idea catches on.

  25. Re:Coding by thinkwaitfast · · Score: 1 · on Ready CEO: Coding Snobs Are Not Helping Our Children Prepare For The Future (qz.com)

    Try labview. It as been a long time, but I think Lego Mindstorms is also like this. Also BigTrak, 1970's toy.

  26. Re:Sorry, but you will still need to work for it. by thinkwaitfast · · Score: 1 · on Ready CEO: Coding Snobs Are Not Helping Our Children Prepare For The Future (qz.com)
    It's that way with most engineering. Eg, i electrical engineering you learn how to analyze circuits and calculate i and v at every node, but in real life, the experienced engineer will look at a circuit and say something like stick a 22pF cap there and all of a sudden, the circuit works.

    Optimal? Probably not, but does it matter? Not if it woks and meets requirements. As a example, watch Dave Jones design and debug a circuit.

  27. Re:Damn it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on There's No Evidence That Google Is Manipulating Searches To Help Hillary Clinton (vox.com)

    If it's true, that means tech companies end up with slightly better than average say in political outcomes.

    I'm okay with that.

    Gee, superior and privileged much? Live in San Francisco and drive a Prius much? Mighty Whitey your favorite trope / meme?

    Then I'm sure you can appreciate this South Park documentary episode. It's accurate because it's true.

    South Park Smug Alert Please watch for the children, don't they deserve at least that? Don't they?

  28. Google would never shill for Hillary! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on There's No Evidence That Google Is Manipulating Searches To Help Hillary Clinton (vox.com)

    Want to see how Alphabet/Google/Youtube totally doesn't manipulate the public opinion? Go ahead and open this video on Hillary Clinton's official channel, and try to load comments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9W0F2mz1jc

    See, Hillary would never disable comments on her video, she can take criticism just fine! The comments not showing up is just a hiccup on Google's part. Which, uh, has been happening for at least 12 hours - it's undoubtedly a very complicated technical issue. And every single other video on youtube loads comments just fine. Yeah, nothing fishy here at all.

  29. every response will be by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Facebook Now Lets Users Comment With a Video (techcrunch.com)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

    Though I prefer

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEE1a2Ae39o

  30. every response will be by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Facebook Now Lets Users Comment With a Video (techcrunch.com)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

    Though I prefer

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEE1a2Ae39o

  31. Re:I think he's on to something by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Google's Algorithm Displays Racist Results Because the Society Is Racist (fusion.net)

    If you search Black Couple you get black couples.

    If you search White Couple you get a bunch of mixed race couples. This is racist bullshit / SJW propaganda.

    This is because the elites plan to breed Europeans out of existence. No one is saying that Africa needs to be more diverse. It's only the white countries that need to be "culturally enriched" with hoards of migrants. When Barbara Spectre says crazy shit like this it makes you wonder who is really pushing the policies that caused the migrant crisis?

    If you don't think that Google is pushing SJW propaganda and manipulating results for political reasons then you're dumb. Just look at the differences in auto-complete between Bing and Google for Hillary Clinton related searches.

    The CEO of Alphabet, Eric Schmidt, is the founder of campaigning organization “The Groundwork,” the sole purpose of which is to put Hillary Clinton in the White House, by putting Silicon Valley’s technological prowess at the campaign’s disposal. Schmidt is also an active adviser to the current administration, serving as the head of the Defence Innovation Advisory Board, which provides tech advice to the Pentagon.

  32. Re:I think he's on to something by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Google's Algorithm Displays Racist Results Because the Society Is Racist (fusion.net)

    If you search Black Couple you get black couples.

    If you search White Couple you get a bunch of mixed race couples. This is racist bullshit / SJW propaganda.

    This is because the elites plan to breed Europeans out of existence. No one is saying that Africa needs to be more diverse. It's only the white countries that need to be "culturally enriched" with hoards of migrants. When Barbara Spectre says crazy shit like this it makes you wonder who is really pushing the policies that caused the migrant crisis?

    If you don't think that Google is pushing SJW propaganda and manipulating results for political reasons then you're dumb. Just look at the differences in auto-complete between Bing and Google for Hillary Clinton related searches.

    The CEO of Alphabet, Eric Schmidt, is the founder of campaigning organization “The Groundwork,” the sole purpose of which is to put Hillary Clinton in the White House, by putting Silicon Valley’s technological prowess at the campaign’s disposal. Schmidt is also an active adviser to the current administration, serving as the head of the Defence Innovation Advisory Board, which provides tech advice to the Pentagon.

  33. Re:chemical photography by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Ready CEO: Coding Snobs Are Not Helping Our Children Prepare For The Future (qz.com)

    Except the article's analogy is pants on head retarded.

    It's trivial to learn how to develop film in a dark room. My highschool had a Photography class as an elective, and children learned how to develop the film and take neat pictures, even do compositing and other effects. We even made our own photosensitive chemicals and plates and took pictures with pinhole cameras so we could do the entire photographic process 100% from scratch.

    No one knows how to develop a digital photograph. Snapping the picture is not the same as developing the picture. That's the same as using a camera with a roll of film. Any idiot could do that with digital or film, it's still point and shoot, maybe adjust a lens for focus or fstop for lighting, but that's simple shit and you have fstop and manual focus on digital cameras too.

    The article is wrong because the full chemical photography process can be done by highschool children. However, high-school children aren't going to learn microprocessor design, lithography to make ICs, create CMOS and write an assembler from scratch for the BIOS / Firmware. Implement C (or Forth first for bootstrapping, because it's smaller). Write image processing software and implement JPEG standards along with USB and SD Card drivers and all the other bullshit it takes to get a single digital photo from scratch and into your other hardware.

    Nand to Tetris is the closest we have to that, but it doesn't cover all the bases in terms of software design, OS design, hardware interface implementation, etc. While SOME highschool children can pull it off, those are going to be a very small minority and most kids will be lost as fuck, fail, or so bored they'll sabotage themselves instead.

    Coding isn't for everyone, just like Nursing isn't for everyone, and Varsity Football isn't for everyone. Humans specialize. This bullshit where we try NOT to specialize is destroying education, on purpose BTW. If you want coding in school you just need to make it available and have ZERO CURRICULUM, like the Sudbury Schools, where kids are free to work at their own pace and learn whatever they want whenever they want. This is better because kids learn different things at different rates at different times in development. We're all unique individuals. The old kids can hang out with the younger kids while they teach each other the skills they discover. Their grades are better than the graduated public school with "standardized testing" method.

  34. Re:Anything good about not being white/black/brown by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1 · on Google's Algorithm Displays Racist Results Because the Society Is Racist (fusion.net)

    As a white male, I can get a rent-a-white-man job to represent black males in society. Pays quite well.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7LOXDA0A0Y

  35. Google Censoring seaches video. by BrookHarty · · Score: 2 · on Google's Algorithm Displays Racist Results Because the Society Is Racist (fusion.net)

    Saw this video today, demonstrating google censoring their searches.

    Does indeed look valid.

  36. As they say on Avenue Q.... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 2 · on Google's Algorithm Displays Racist Results Because the Society Is Racist (fusion.net)

    Everyone is a little bit racist.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RovF1zsDoeM

  37. Re: What about Rust? Is it any better? by tepples · · Score: 0 · on Visual Studio 2015 C++ Compiler Secretly Inserts Telemetry Code Into Binaries (infoq.com)

    Yo dawg, I put a ship in your ship[BWRAAAAMMMM]

    But who or what is this ship in love with?

  38. Re: Yeah - not at all an advert. by vossman77 · · Score: 1 · on Woman Uses 'Hey Siri' To Call An Ambulance and Help Save Her Child's Life (networkworld.com)

    This needs to be put to song like Laika's song "Bad Times". Lyrics:

    If you receive an e-mail with a subject of "badtimes", delete it immediately / Without reading it. this is the most dangerous e-mail virus yet. / It will re-write your hard drive. not only that, but it will scramble any / Disks that are even close to your computer.

  39. Re:Hilarious and Intense? by AthanasiusKircher · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Movie Written By Algorithm Turns Out To Be Hilarious and Intense (arstechnica.com)

    I blame the translation - I'm sure it sounded much more coherent in the original Klingon. :)

    While I know this comment is meant to be funny, there's potentially something really insightful here. Thinking about this comment after watching a bit of the film here made me think about a rough analog to this film in comedy, namely the classic stand-up act where a comedian "imitates" a foreign language without actually knowing how to speak it. Sid Caesar, for example, was particularly well-known for this. (If you've never seen what I'm talking about, here's an example of Sid Caesar doing this schtick.)

    In his act, Caesar would make it sound (sort of) like another language by doing two things: (1) throwing in a few random words, names, or phrases that might be known to tourists or might be associated with the language (e.g., proper names), and (2) filling up the rest of the stuff around these actual foreign words with gibberish that incorporated some of the sounds and cadences of native speakers. (How successful he was at this gibberish imitation is of course up for debate; but it was close enough to work for comedy.)

    Anyhow, the ONLY difference I can see between Sid Caesar's gibberish and this screenplay (and most "AI chatbot" output these days, for that matter) is that the constituent parts of the language to create the "gibberish" are larger. For Sid Caesar, he didn't know the languages, and memorizing thousands of words or phrases in the language for a comedy schtick would sort of defeat the purpose of the act.

    But for a computer, it's trivial to feed in millions of words and phrases in English (or whatever language), or even millions of words and phrases from various sci-fi screenplays. So, rather than gibberish happening on the level of a phoneme or the level of a few syllables that sound like common words in a language (as in Sid Caesar), instead we have gibberish happening on the level of combinations of words, phrases, and whole sentences -- which sound like they're thrown together somewhat haphazardly.

    The other thing that "sells" Sid Caesar's routine are those "anchor words" or proper names that do carry at least some meaning (often random or nonsensical, but at least they're familiar to the audience). Same thing with this AI: there is a spark of familiarity to sci-fi dialogue or phrasing in places, which in a better film might be an allusion to another movie or something, but here it often just sounds weird and arbitrary (like Sid Caesar's routine).

    And the last thing that one needs to make Sid Caesar's routine work is his acting -- the way he declaims and shapes the sounds, as well as his body language and gesturing, is also what adds a cultural note that makes it all more "human." That's what the actors add in this filmed version too: if you just look at the text screenplay, it all seems like nonsense. But the actors here TRY their best to make SOME sense out of it.

    I think it's very telling that some people are trying to characterize this as "hilarious," while other people in this thread have compared it to bad art films or something. I think zany comedies and art films can contain a lot of stuff that seems confusing or random, often because they're deliberately defying convention (or sometimes deliberately alluding to another film or cultural idea). The randomness in zany comedy comes from the knowing juxtaposition of elements that will seem bizarre. The confusing elements of art-house film to those "not in the know" are often due to knowing frustrating of convention or allusion to a complex web of previous films or whatever.

    This screenplay has these random elements -- except not because the AI is deliberately going away from conventions, of course. The AI just doesn't "understand" ANYTHING. So, it comes across as a really bad imitation of zany comedy combined with "art" cinema, since the reference

  40. We're all doomed by RubberDogBone · · Score: 1 · on Parents Are Worried the Amazon Echo Is Conditioning Their Kids To Be Rude (qz.com)

    Comcast Xfinity keeps running these ads promoting their voice remote control, where you can tell your cable box what to show. It's stuff like this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    There's another version with a woman asking for rom coms and other similar movies women would like.

    Both ads promote this world where you can ask for and demand only the things you already like, and in so doing avoid anything that might be the slightest bit unknown or new to you, or something you never heard of but might like anyway. Nope. You get to dictate every single moment of your life.

    Show me only food I like. Show me only people of colors I like. Show me only people who are of idea body weight but have larger than average ears and no tattoos. And who are we kidding, it will turn in to Show me boobs. Show me only political opinions I like. Show me only shows with no profanity. Show me Wheel of Fortune. Show me videos of cats beating up dogs, in Russian.

    The kids today are going to grow up in a world where they can ask and demand anything they want from their phones, from things like Echo, from their goddamn TV remotes, from their cars (if they drive at all), and they will expect the same from school and work and life and won't they be sorely disappointed when life has a way of throwing shit at you whether you like it or want it, or not.

    Every kid will be a special snowflake if they aren't already. But only if they can ask some gadget or robot to do stuff for them. Put one of these kids in an empty room, or worse, outside in an open field with no gadgets and nobody to talk to and they will go nuts. And probably die where they stand because they won't know how to walk for help or food or shelter without a gadget telling them how to move, where to go, or just to summon help.

    Fuck, people ALREADY abuse those damn emergency rescue devices to call for help when they are out on a trail and end up too tired to walk back, or somebody decides they really want to go home. So they pull the cord meant for a catastrophic life or death emergency and a rescue force shows up looking for injured people and find only some asshole who had an empty stomach and was too tired to walk back.

    Maybe it's too late and we're doomed as a society and possibly a species where we are too soft to do anything and too stupid to know how anyway, so we ask our machines to do it. What purpose then, do people actually have? Once the robots do all the work and the gadgets order items for us, why do we need to be here at all? This is becoming like some bad scifi film where the people forgot how to live and all died off leaving behind legions of robots dutifully carrying out stuff like reordering paper towels from a robot warehouse which is restocked by robot trucks coming from a robot paper mill which is fed by robot logging machines. They just keep making and delivering paper towels because some human, long dead, put it on auto order.

    This is a nightmare we're making for ourselves and our future.

  41. Re:Linux users should be getting worried. by marcello_dl · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Has Created Its Own FreeBSD (microsoft.com)

    > You have no problem to apt-get remove all the systemd packages

    Not so easy, since a total linux noob like Knopper takes one hour to attempt.

  42. My God, it'll be beautiful! by Okian+Warrior · · Score: 1 · on Apple Creates Energy Company, Looks To Sell Excess Power Into The Grid (9to5mac.com)

    Apple's self-driving electric vehicle will need charging stations across the 50 states.

    Expect them to partner with a roadside diner chain. charge car battery, get a bite to eat while a Genius services your iPad...

    My God... it'll be beautiful!

  43. Re: Warranty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Tesla Suspension Breakage: It's Not The Crime, It's The Coverup (dailykanban.com)

    We are all dumber for reading your idiotic comment.

  44. Obligatory John Oliver by UnknowingFool · · Score: 4, Informative · on Oklahoma State Troopers Use New Device To Seize Bank Accounts During Traffic Stops (news9.com)

    John Oliver addressed civil forfeiture a few years ago.

  45. Re:If it was that easy and worked that well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Pilot Test Of Storing Carbon Dioxide In Rocks Shows Impressive Outcome (theaustralian.com.au)

    i found this in a documentary about billionaires.

  46. Re:It's about time by Coren22 · · Score: 1 · on Larry Page Is Secretly Working On a Flying Car (bloomberg.com)

    It appears you might have missed the joke. Here is a video demonstration.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  47. Re:Orangium by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Four Newly Discovered Elements Receive Names (theverge.com)

    PopeRatzo wrote:

    When I'm president, all new elements will be named after me and it will be tremendous. They will be classy, classy elements. Not loser elements like Nihonium.

    LOL, I can hear drumpf's voice. Dana Carvey just did an impression of drumpf on Conan:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0xoX_9fAzQ

    This video is funny too:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uXJ1mgkyF0

    This video is friggin hilarious::

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vMptxLtIUY

  48. Re:Orangium by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Four Newly Discovered Elements Receive Names (theverge.com)

    PopeRatzo wrote:

    When I'm president, all new elements will be named after me and it will be tremendous. They will be classy, classy elements. Not loser elements like Nihonium.

    LOL, I can hear drumpf's voice. Dana Carvey just did an impression of drumpf on Conan:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0xoX_9fAzQ

    This video is funny too:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uXJ1mgkyF0

    This video is friggin hilarious::

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vMptxLtIUY

  49. Re:Orangium by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Four Newly Discovered Elements Receive Names (theverge.com)

    PopeRatzo wrote:

    When I'm president, all new elements will be named after me and it will be tremendous. They will be classy, classy elements. Not loser elements like Nihonium.

    LOL, I can hear drumpf's voice. Dana Carvey just did an impression of drumpf on Conan:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0xoX_9fAzQ

    This video is funny too:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uXJ1mgkyF0

    This video is friggin hilarious::

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vMptxLtIUY

  50. People feel better when they think life is fair by Trachman · · Score: 1, Interesting · on Disadvantaged Students Stay In College If They're Told Everyone Struggles (arstechnica.com)

    Some people just feel better when they learn that someone else is also doing badly. Studies have been made and it has been proven again and again.This new study, again, supports it.

    Most famous empirical, yet cruel real life exercise took place in Soviet Russia in 1920-1930. They were building socialism, and anybody who was successful (irrespective of whether individual was loyal or not - that did not matter) was under the risk to be reported as a bourgeois government hater. Millions and millions people were pushed to the soviet class warfare mincer by their neighbors.

    The rich and powerful started doing everything to look like they are normal people. No efforts are spared to be "accepted". That is why rich and powerful are polite in public, hate scandals, despise scandals of other rich people and try behaving like most of us mortals: Hillary riding subway, Warren Buffet living in his $600K house, IKEA owner driving a beater car, governor attending baseball game and so on and on. However, that does not change reality and to quote cynic George Carlin: There is a club and you ain't in it.

    The study is merely a repetition of the experiment about monkeys, cucumbers and grapes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Except that it was done on humans, who were made to believe that everyone else is getting cucumbers. This is a well known phenomena, because positive attitude, (or, as experiment demonstrates, ignorance of the true state of affairs) combined with a good word, encouragement can do wonders for the inherently capable people.