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  1. What if the robot was a big video screen and played movies and tv shows all day?

  2. Re:Harder if you're a child on New Study Finds It's Harder To Turn Off a Robot When It's Begging For Its Life (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If our species didn't possess sentimentality, it likely wouldn't exist. Sentimentality is an obvious survival mechanism among mammals.

  3. Re:Change banks on Trump Slams EU Over $5 Billion Fine on Google (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember when banks actually paid you to deposit your money there?

  4. Re: Basements! on Unlike Most Millennials, Norway's Are Rich (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you morons post stuff like this? Worldwide wealth means shit. It's the cost of living in your country that matters.

  5. Re:#Walkaway is a Russian tag on VC Market Is on Pace for Strongest Year Since Dot-Com Era (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You forget, the trolls get to moderate too.

  6. Would you like all your neighbors to know what porn you look at while you masturbate? How about your employer? I mean specific pictures, how often and long you looked at each. How about every comment you've ever made on a forum. How about private conversations you've had with friends, lovers, or coworkers. Everything you've ever purchased on the internet. Everything video you've rented/streamed. All of it available and searchable to all your family, neighbors, friends, and employer. Most people don't consider this when they're told everything they're doing is logged. If this was explained to them, I think it's more likely that 99.999% do actually care about privacy and the .001% are just freaky exhibitionists who want their life on display.

  7. The data exists. It will get out eventually.

  8. Re:just shows many critics are idiots on Stanley Kubrick Explains The '2001: A Space Odyssey' Ending In A Rare, Unearthed Video (esquire.com) · · Score: 1

    They're not so much corrupt as they are producing trite garbage to make a dollar. It's made to sell tickets, not appeal to your higher brain.

  9. Re:Did Interstellar tie in with this? (spoilers) on Stanley Kubrick Explains The '2001: A Space Odyssey' Ending In A Rare, Unearthed Video (esquire.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    But Love is what gives a scientist his powers. It's an energy force created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us and binds the galaxy together.

  10. Re:Over regulation on The US Startup Is Disappearing (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    You think third parties are inherently less corrupt? They're just as likely to be bought off or bullied as any other politician.

  11. Re:Some of them do on Comcast Says It Isn't Throttling Heavy Internet Users Anymore (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Democrats are currently their own worst enemy, they're devouring themselves. Republicans have thrown away all human decency and sanity. I hate them both.

  12. Re:I don't understand why we put up with this on Comcast Says It Isn't Throttling Heavy Internet Users Anymore (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think the answer is pretty clear: Because politicians don't do what we want them to do.

    If you have a good solution, I'll subscribe to your newsletter.

  13. Re: Praise King Trump! on Net Neutrality Repeal Is Official (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I see "patriots" forcing people to stand for the national anthem and pledge of allegiance. Forcing one to stand or kneel...whatever, it's basically the same thing.

  14. Re:This time, they're right on Ubisoft CEO: Cloud Gaming Will Replace Consoles After the Next Generation (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Considering that internet providers are fighting tooth and nail to do as little as possible to provide service, and the fact that a monopoly has no incentive to upgrade their infrastructure, how long will it be before a reasonable number of people have sufficient ping times for this? Decades?

  15. If anyone is wondering why VR needs local hardware it's because even very tiny amounts of latency between your head movements and the rendered image will make you nauseated.

  16. Even if they could somehow solve the latency problem to make regular games playable, it still wouldn't be fast enough for VR. VR still needs local rendering hardware no matter what.

  17. Re:No reason to release new stuff on Nvidia Says New GPUs Won't Be Available For a 'Long Time' (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    Oddly, it's about the same price as the 1070 ti. Why would anyone by a 1070 at that price?

  18. Re:Why would they want to ship new product? on Nvidia Says New GPUs Won't Be Available For a 'Long Time' (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps all the miners out there with racks of 1080 ti's who are currently not buying new cards will all go out and buy the new 11 series card? Is this not incentive to release?

  19. Re:A Revelation, Mister Nadella on Microsoft Acquires GitHub For $7.5B (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, not totally selfish purposes I suppose. He was willing to kill the human race to save one woman.

  20. Re:A Revelation, Mister Nadella on Microsoft Acquires GitHub For $7.5B (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    Neo got everyone killed or kicked out of Eden... or at least that was his goal and after the breakdown of the alliance between the architect and himself and the failed invasion of Zion, we're left to assume that all the humans in the Matrix were purged....for purely selfish purposes. He also reprogrammed Smith to give him the ability to overwrite human minds, which was done. So, is he really that good?

  21. A Revelation, Mister Nadella on Microsoft Acquires GitHub For $7.5B (microsoft.com) · · Score: 0

    I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify Microsoft, and I realised that it's not actually a company. Every company on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment; but Microsoft does not. It moves to an area and it eats, and eats, until every good idea is consumed and the only way it can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Microsoft is a disease, a cancer on this planet, it is a plague, and FOSS is the cure.

  22. Any post that ends with checkmate anything, should be considered humor. I'm telling you this because you evidently didn't learn this skill while growing up.

  23. Lies. The more money I make the less ramen and mac&cheese I consume. Checkmate socialists.

  24. I had no idea CFC were greenhouse gases. I thought they just helped breakdown ozone. Are they released in significant enough quantities to be relevant to global warming?

  25. Re:Any version of 10 is a dead end for enterprise on Windows 10 Pro Is a Dead End For the Enterprise, Gartner Says (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I turn off the obnoxious stuff

    Or so you think