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  1. This is why a tax on robot labor has been proposed... its not the only way to deal with the problem of wholesale replacement of low skill labor with robots, but its one way

  2. Worse than insecure, it is completely unworkable. What if there is simply some interference... if a self driving car needs data from an external source in order to not crash then simple interference would kill people, no hacking required.

  3. Re: Vehicle Ban? on France Set To Ban Sale of Petrol and Diesel Vehicles By 2040 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    most people don't drive more than 200 miles a day, maybe that means most people are shut-ins but it seems to me like you are the outlier and not the other way around.

  4. Re:Vehicle Ban? on France Set To Ban Sale of Petrol and Diesel Vehicles By 2040 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, we do shit like that all the time, we regulate the way food is produced to make sure it is safe, we regulate the way it is processed to reduce impact to the environment and although it rarely applies to food we absolutely tax and regulate agricultural items that have a negative social or environmental impact

  5. Re:And this is why we need Voter ID on Privacy Watchdog Sues Trump's Election Committee Over Voter Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes its odd how cities where enough people oppose Trumps policies that the Mayors feel confident defying him mostly voted against Trump... There simply must be something to that

  6. Re:Once again, Slashdot predators will deny this on Tesla Factory Reportedly Described As a 'Predator Zone' By Female Employees (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Women by and large ran the massive industrial development necessary during WWII when the US was putting out a ship a day. Able bodied men were in the military and it was women left to get the work done.

    As I recall, we won that war rather than loosing it due to lack of munitions from the home front.

  7. Re:No problem! on EU Parliament Calls For Longer Lifetime For Products (eubusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    They are pretty common in outdoor construction... like decking screws

  8. Re:Then where's the proof? on New Study Confirms the Oceans Are Warming Rapidly (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    And yet those same people, who don't understand the difference, feel totally qualified to shit all over a study done by people for whom understanding such things part of their day to day job.

  9. Re:Missing the point on The New iPad Pro Review (twitter.com) · · Score: 2

    My parents replaced a laptop with a tablet and it does everything they need. I have a work provided laptop and I find that at home, when not doing coding, my iPad is more than sufficient for most daily computing and its not even one of these pro's.

    What you are complaining about here is that it is not a replacement for a PRO laptop... a 4 core monster that can run photoshop or final cut like its nothing.... and thats fair, its not really build to be a replacement for a PRO laptop... but as an alternative to a macbook air for instance? I mean it depends on what specific software you require (though honestly, if you require specific software you are probably looking at pro laptops anyway) but it seems like a pretty legit option to me.

  10. Re:Was going to be snarky, but then on The New iPad Pro Review (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    How long do you think that model would take to render on an MacBook Air?

  11. I suspect that if you looked a bit more closely at the editors posting patters it is based on posting shit that gets the local neckbeard crowd rilled up. Accusations of sexual harassment and other brogrammer stuff tends to bring out a lot of people bitching about how it isn't real and how there is not enough evidence and so on and so forth, this results in a very large number of page views for the site.

    Want it to stop, maybe stop commenting on them.

  12. Bullshit... people badmouth old employers all the time, how do you think places end up with bad reputations?

  13. Thats not what dog whistle refers to.... its not a dog whistle to call something what it is... thats a descriptor.

  14. 30 minutes is super fucking fast for a site that is best known as "THE place to go to see what was on ARS Technica yesterday"

  15. Re:Management wasting another good engineer? on Chris Lattner, Poached From Apple To Become Tesla's Top Software Executive, Quits After 6 Months (bizjournals.com) · · Score: 1

    He was a director at apple, he is not new to engineering management.

  16. He was a manager and a director at Apple, so its not like he was new to the challenge of engineering management.

  17. Re:Why would we be nervous? on Tim Cook Told Trump Tech Employees Are 'Nervous' About Immigration (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So you work for a company that doesn't do continuous integration or code reviews and that for some reason can't check on the quality of engineers work well enough to fire people who can't write code but you expect me to believe that 2 Pakistani developers were the source of all your troubles?

  18. Re:I've worked with man in ex-Palm on 'The Unwillingness To Foresee The Future' (stratechery.com) · · Score: 2

    Don't get me wrong, I agree that apps are key these days and provide a much better option than web pages on these phones, but back then feature phones were absolute garbage by comparison, technically you could connect to the internet but the reality was you couldn't get most of the data you wanted. With an iphone, you could. The internet is a hell of a killer app.

  19. Re:Mod parent DOWN on 'The Unwillingness To Foresee The Future' (stratechery.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, nobody I know has any idea what Amazon is because they don't drive past brick and mortar stores.

    I knew what a sears catalog was before I had been to a sears

  20. Re:I've worked with man in ex-Palm on 'The Unwillingness To Foresee The Future' (stratechery.com) · · Score: 2

    but apps were not the necessary component to the iPhone disrupting the industry, having a full featured web browser was sufficient.

  21. Re:I've worked with man in ex-Palm on 'The Unwillingness To Foresee The Future' (stratechery.com) · · Score: 1

    It didn't come with a market but the phone app was a small part of the overall appeal. Maps and music were there as was the most important thing at the time, a fully functioning web browser. As someone who used mobile web on those old feature phones the difference was night and day, there didnt have to be an app if you could get to the data you needed in the browser... sure, it was rough, mobile websites were crappy and desktop sites didnt work ideally on a small screen, but it was worlds better than anything you could get from a feature phone and that was enough.

  22. Re:Thank goodness we have Trump now on Putin Claims Russia Proposed a Cyber War Treaty In 2015 But the Obama Admin Ignored Them (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Well we are moving to pu sanctions back in place on Iran which cuts off a big competitor to Russian oil interests by driving the price of their oil back up to the point where Russia is competitive again.

  23. There are effectively 3 asset sizes on iOS and one of them is more or less depricated at that point unless you want to support really old phones for some reason. Screens and layouts are done by compositing those assets and using constraints to figure out where things go so you don't need more of those... and even if you did there are only a handful of actual screen sizes in the iOS ecosystem. The SE, the 6/7 and 6/7 plus, iPad, iPad pro 10" and ipad pro 12".

  24. Re:Is that the APPS' problem, though? on The Size of iPhone's Top Apps Has Increased by 1,000% in Four Years (sensortower.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah because the storage on android phones has gone up 1000 fold in the last 4 years.

  25. Re:Symbol adopted by racist sacks of shit on Pepe Is Banned From the Apple App Store (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    What about Richard Spencer who was wearing a pin of Pepe when he got famously punched in the face on camera? Just a conincidence im sure.

    What about the tons of pepe meme I find on alt right facebook groups?

    Are we just arguing that these people aren't racist shitbags.