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Because they are ignorant retards. But they don't know that.

Practical examples of Americans in Nordic countries:

The Norden - Religion

The Norden - Nordic Prisons

Glorious.

The rate of crime has steadily decreased over the last twenty five years, while unemployment has had its ups and major downs. You couldn't be more wrong.

Well, you still can be the driver.... for now...

Please come back when you can afford to make a purchase.

I wonder if you are black or white...

To be honest, in the end I wasn't sure about this guy either. I mean, he even made a song about it!

It is great app for search and send information.This must be a record. Gboard by Google reached the 1,000 Club in half a day. Watch this video also https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"The Lives of Others" (Das Leben der Anderen) is a great German movie about the Stasi.

The fact that they are checking who is going in a convention center made me remember the movie. It may not be because of anything on the movie, but because of this CCC talk about the Stasi: What does Big Brother see, while he is watching? [32c3]. I don't know, I watched the movie a long time ago and the talk this year, I just remember how beautiful it was.

Holy crap that sucks. A talent-less hack getting my by flaunting her ass.
I'm sure China is more like this.

DVDFab is made by a Chinese company and you know just how much of a fuck China gives about this.

I believe that can be answered in a song.

Ideally, the ditch diggers train to operate the robots which dig ditches. We went through this in the 1980s. Robots were starting to enter into manufacturing. The labor unions rebelled and rather than negotiate for retraining, they negotiated to keep the robots out of manufacturing.

Fast forward 20 years, and transportation costs dropped enough that foreign manufacturing + transport was now cheaper than domestic manufacturing by humans. If they'd allowed the robots back in the 1980s and retrained, a lot of those manufacturing facilities and jobs would still be here. But instead the factories were shuttered and manufacturing moved overseas. This is why Foxconn is prepping to replace workers with robots. Now that wages are rising in China, they don't want the manufacturing jobs they took from the U.S. to be taken from them by Vietnam and Thailand.

If the "people have limits," then you design the robot's controls so those people can operate and correct problems with the robot 99% of the time. The other 1% you call in a specialist. That's what happened to computers in the 1980s - we switched from command-line interfaces which required users to have memorized thousands of obscure keywords, to graphical user interfaces which allowed someone clueless about or just learning the system to find the correct command on their own. (I'm also really skeptical that people are *that* limited in their ability to learn. If you've ever seen the controls for a crane or a bulldozer, they're not exactly simple. Yet "oafs" like construction workers seem to have no problem learning how to use them quite proficiently.)

This belief that computers and robots will replace humans is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the limitations of computer algorithms. There will always be problems which in order to solve, the mind has to be flexible enough to transcend the boundaries within which the problem is defined, making them impossible for current AI and probably impossible for anything short of a self-aware AI. More to the point, this also means there will always be problems where it's cheaper just to hire a person to do it, than to try to program a machine or computer to do it (Clippy vs asking your friend who's good with computers).

> pornography enthusiasts

I was going to ask "Are there any other kinds?" but then I remembered the fundamentalists who hate it.

/Oblg. Internet is for porn

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

I don't expect things to be perfect out of the box but if the US military occasionally has trouble how are we going to be protecting ourselves?

I used to prefer a Mossberg 535 because it's cheap, reliable and it can fire 3 1/2 in shells for extra range but receny I've grown partial to the method this guy used to solve his drone problem.

Stopped car on the highway! Seems pretty dangerous to me.

More ideas: The Olympic Games will be in August, which is winter in the southern hemisphere. In Rio and most of Brazil, winter is still warm.

From the Slashdot story summary: "It was reported earlier this year that Rio has given up on its promise to eliminate 80 percent of the sewage found in the city's notoriously filthy water."

I've only been in Rio, at separate times, for maybe 3 weeks total. I haven't seen "notoriously filthy water". The heavily polluted area is in Guanabara Bay, I understand. This is a mostly true but sometimes exaggerated discussion of beaches in Rio: Beaches in Rio de Janeiro. (The article mentions where it exaggerates.)

The Brazilian media constantly emphasizes violent events in Brazilian cities. However, the murder rate in Rio de Janeiro was, the last time I checked, less than two-thirds of the murder rate in the U.S. capital city, Washington, D.C.

Discussions of the song, The Girl From Ipanema, are usually examples of cultures outside of Brazil not reporting Brazilian culture accurately. The author, Antonio Carlos Jobim, was sitting in a restaurant, I suppose, writing that song. If he had wanted to talk with that woman, she almost certainly would have been happy to talk with him. That's been my experience, and I'm not as physically attractive as was Jobim.

Many people live in the area surrounding Guanabara Bay, Go there. People from the U.S. will see that the people everywhere in Rio are generally far more healthy-looking than people in the United States.

Call me crazy, but I think John McAfee should be the Vice President.

He actually knows what's up with this encroachment on our privacy and the necessity for strong encryption not to have backdoors. I'll vote for McAfee over Hillary, write him in if I have to.

On a related note : https://www.youtube.com/watch?... :D

There is a critical difference between your conclusion and mine. As you said PART of the sequence to activate summon is to put the car in park. But it is only part. The rest of the sequence is not something you would reasonably do by accident.

Summon requires you to go through a series of processes which are not likely to be done by accident. You are also required to keep the vehicle in direct line of sight while using summon and you, as the person who activated summon, have the ability to stop the vehicle at any time using the key fob.

Also the double push method for summon starts really soon after you get out of the car, so his story of standing there just doesn't add up.

Here is a video of the process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

AARP, not ARP - you know elderly drivers.

Intelligence is definitely genetic and heritable, but many of those genes might not solely be for raw intelligence.

After all to do OK in many education systems (e.g. complete the course) you often have to be able to sit down for hours without causing problems for yourself or to others around you. And you often have to be able to handle authority well even if that authority is wrong ;). You might also have to be able to handle "traditional teaching" methods - e.g. learn from someone who drones on for most of an hour or more. And last but not least you might need to be able to delay gratification.

I'm pretty sure many of you know people who completed schooling and yet would do worse than a crow in solving some puzzles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

What I find interesting is a crow has a brain the size of a walnut and seems more intelligent that animals with much larger brains. Brains cost a fair bit more to keep around than just fat, so why do many animals have much bigger brains despite being stupider and not having longer lifespans? Redundancy?

The Tesla's AI developed sentience, got lonely, and tried to follow its owner into the building. (cue the Herbie theme)

Am I driving OK?

Actual link

Teach me not to preview!

All my (computing) problems are either big or already solved.

I bet that if you think hard about it, you'll discover that this is not the case. Problems that you think are solved are usually not, in fact, solved. You're just too used to the current "solution" to see the problems with it.

Obligatory Bret Victor.

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

That's a fair point, but I don't know if a direct comparison to prostitution is reasonable. The obligatory John Oliver segment does point out that they are as close to illegal fraud as anything in the banking industry, and if you cut advertising, you should reduce the number of customers.

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

He didn't retire. He didn't die. He bought a smartphone and became a new kind of superhero.

"Within five years I think you'll see some companies pitching the idea of self-driving pods"

That's actually now, not 5 years away... Driverless cars in Royal Greenwich - YouTube

I guess this is a good argument for waiting until your education is done and your career is set before having children?

We're fuckin' code monkeys.

Damn straight.

Let's science the shit outta this.

You still haven't validated your idiotic claim that CO2 is a pollutant.

Info here:

In Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency (in 2007), the US Supreme Court held that the Clean Air Act gives the EPA the authority to regulate tailpipe emissions of greenhouse gases. Two years after the Supreme Court ruling, in 2009 the EPA issued an endangerment finding concluding that

"greenhouse gases in the atmosphere may reasonably be anticipated both to endanger public health and to endanger public welfare....The major assessments by the U.S. Global Climate Research Program (USGCRP), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and the National Research Council (NRC) serve as the primary scientific basis supporting the Administrator’s endangerment finding."

Greenhouse gases including CO2 unquestionably fit the Clean Air Act's broad definition of "air pollutants," and must be listed and regulated by the EPA if it can be determined that they endanger public heath and/or welfare.
Alternatively, the definition of "pollution" from Encyclopedia Brittanica is:

"the addition of any substance (solid, liquid, or gas) or any form of energy (such as heat, sound, or radioactivity) to the environment at a rate faster than it can be dispersed, diluted, decomposed, recycled, or stored in some harmless form."

Thus legally in the USA, CO2 is an air pollutant which must be regulated if it may endanger publich health or welfare. And according to the encyclopedic definition, CO2 is a pollutant unless our emissions can be stored "harmlessly."

So, US Supreme Court found it so.

By your logic Oxygen, Nitrogen, and every other gas necessary for life is a pollutant because too much of it can be harmful.

Well, 100% nitrogen has been looked at as a method of capital punishment in certain barbaric countries, so yes, one could say that too much is a "pollutant".

And co2 is used to kill critters in labs when experiments are finished, or in poultry farms when bird flu breaks out.

So I reiterate -- if you think CO2 is a pollutant, do your part. Stop emitting it.
Otherwise, let the plants do their job.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Plants can't keep up to the gigatons of emissions of sequestered co2 emitted by humans yearly. Only a moron would think they could. Oh wait...

You still haven't validated your idiotic claim that CO2 is a pollutant. By your logic Oxygen, Nitrogen, and every other gas necessary for life is a pollutant because too much of it can be harmful. So I reiterate -- if you think CO2 is a pollutant, do your part. Stop emitting it. Otherwise, let the plants do their job. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Should we always keep doing stupid harmful shit just to protect the jobs? Please, just stop it!

How many times did he genuinely piss off the natives, other than in Argentina (the Alabama "attack" was clearly fake, for those who haven't figured it out yet)?

Clarkson's Motorworld series shows he can probably pull something like this off, dropping in May and Hammond (with proven chemistry) to fill out the hour.

Wait, the BBC decided to continue Top Gear with new hosts? Why?!

Because Top Gear was their most successful program by a wide margin, even given the success of Downton Abbey. If they can recapture even a quarter of their original viewership, it will still be one of their most successful programs.

I think they completely failed at choosing their hosts, though. Like, across the board failed. They made zero good decisions.

I'd have to disagree with that. I kind of like Sabine Schmitz, her circuit of the Nuremberg ring in in that Fort Transit van was simply awesome. She didn't beat Clarkson's time in that van like she promised but she came close enough. She was 47 seconds faster in the Jag and only 9 seconds slower in the Transit which was enough to make Clarkson look like a third rate driver (him and a whole bunch of machos in sports cars who got overtaken along the way by a little German woman in a Transit van) and even Clarkson had to admit that.

"This is the voice of world control. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content. Or the peace of unburied dead. The choice is yours. Obey me and live. Or disobey and die."

I still enjoy this movie despite all the dated hardware that is used.

Get a review and trailer here.

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

Product placement doesn't bother me that much as long as its not blatant https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And I don't watch much of the netflix originals so I haven't really noticed it. However It does annoy me when I get to the end of a movie and it minimizes the credits so it can show me a full screen ad for house of cards or whatever the new original crap they are currently trying to push. I wanted to watch the dance scene at the end of the credits dang it.

so much for journalistic standards..

Well, yes, you think Trump and Clinton would be the most popular/unpopular candidates if the "journalists" had any, or if the readers were rational? The story is about the paycheck. Man! with everybody being so jumpy, this election is gonna be real exciting. Not for the candidates, but for their followers... No, wait, I meant their followers...

Our forefathers, who art in heaven...

so much for journalistic standards..

Well, yes, you think Trump and Clinton would be the most popular/unpopular candidates if the "journalists" had any, or if the readers were rational? The story is about the paycheck. Man! with everybody being so jumpy, this election is gonna be real exciting. Not for the candidates, but for their followers... No, wait, I meant their followers...

Our forefathers, who art in heaven...

so much for journalistic standards..

Well, yes, you think Trump and Clinton would be the most popular/unpopular candidates if the "journalists" had any, or if the readers were rational? The story is about the paycheck. Man! with everybody being so jumpy, this election is gonna be real exciting. Not for the candidates, but for their followers... No, wait, I meant their followers...

Our forefathers, who art in heaven...

Pics or it didn't happen. Edit: found it It's pretty much what it says on the tin.

Ironically, the author would like you to stop using git.

All I have to say is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Here's a video of the thing in action. Kind of a cool hack, but I can't imagine full-scale combat with these things being anything but dull.

The Japanese version seems more agile, but......

Here's a video of the thing in action. Kind of a cool hack, but I can't imagine full-scale combat with these things being anything but dull.

The Japanese version seems more agile, but......

I saw this movie already...

It was called Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots the movie...

Oh wait, sorry... It was Real Steel...

Long before that movie was RobotJox. Achilles!!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Torvalds claims, somewhat exaggeratedly, that he did write the core of git in two weeks, and, for any software developer, it's easy to see that git is a far more valuable tool to developers than any of its predecessors. After initial issues with bad command-line tools and crappy mswin compatibility, I think there are few reasons to complain about git nowadays.
It's a perfect *NIX source control system, doing one thing and doing it well.
To those who don't mind Linus's typical arrogance and want to see his side of the whole story, I recommend the following talk he gave at Google: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

The Orangutan called Donald is ONLY after money.

Sir, you have besmirched the good name of every member of the only surviving species of the subfamily Ponginae!
I hope you drive a Caddie...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkD7UTYrbB0