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  1. Re:No punishment too severe on Gamers Behind Fatal 'SWAT' Call Now Face Life In Prison (wlwt.com) · · Score: 1

    >>> and they took an action that they knew or reasonably should have known could have directly caused a death

    If you are really supposed to assume that calling the cops will likely result in them making an unjustified kill then you would have to make the same assumption for legitimate calls. Which would mean that calling the cops is basically vigilante justice.

  2. Re:I don't know how to feel about class actions on Supreme Court Upholds Workplace Arbitration Contracts Barring Class Actions (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    France has a labor market reform currently going on because appearently they went a little to far in some sectors.

  3. I have a robot chef too on The Boston Restaurant Where Robots Have Replaced the Chefs (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    It's commonly referred to as "microwave".

  4. You hate me for being different. on Young Chinese Are Sick of Working Long Hours (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Spoken like a true millenial.

  5. Where's Kurt Russel if you need him on Google Says Android Things is Finally Ready For Smart Devices (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    *nt*

  6. What about centralized energy production? on California To Become First US State Mandating Solar On New Homes (ocregister.com) · · Score: 1

    What if I assume that my power company will adopt environment friendly (wind, solar farms ) energy production in the forseeable future, why should I make the effort of producing energy myself?

  7. Re:Why not Final Fantasy 6? on Final Fantasy 7, Tomb Raider Headline Inductees To World Video Game Hall of Fame (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, and compare the number of available games for SNES and MD and the PSs.

    https://www.neogaf.com/threads...

  8. Re:Why not Final Fantasy 6? on Final Fantasy 7, Tomb Raider Headline Inductees To World Video Game Hall of Fame (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Compare the numbers of the Super Nintendo (strongest contender of the 16 Bit era) to Sony Playstation 1-3. There is a significant rise. In Europe this trend was probably more extreme due to the huge change of the market landscape in the mid 90s.

  9. Re:Why not Final Fantasy 6? on Final Fantasy 7, Tomb Raider Headline Inductees To World Video Game Hall of Fame (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the transition from 16 Bit to 32 Bit was the point where video games truly broke into the mass market and became a fundamental way of entertainment. I remember that back in the day me and one other classmate where the only ones who owned a Super Nintendo. Since I'm from Europe, I had to import FF3/6 from the US and was the only person I know who had it. Then the PSX came and half of my class had one. FF7 was the first FF to be released in Europe ever, so for many people it was also the first FF ever. So while 6 is my favourite, I have to admit that it didn't pave its way into the collective memory as FF7 did.

  10. There is one superfluous word in the headline on Google Accused of Showing 'Total Contempt' for Android Users' Privacy (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Guess which one it is. Hint: It tangentially has to do with robots.

  11. Re:Isn't surprising on Many Amazon Warehouse Workers are on Food Stamps (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Germany used to have a guest worker system in order to fill a shortage of workers in the steel industry after the war but they couldn't be obtained from within germany and/or east europe thanks to the soviet wall. Most of them were turks, they were supposed to leave within a couple of years. Most of them instead retrieved their families and stalled until they where undeportable. Nowadays we have millions of them of which most live in what you would call ghettos in a climate that can be safely called parallel societies. Fortunately, germany is really leftwing so nobody cares.

  12. If machines gain human intelligence in 20 years on Kurzweil Predicts Universal Basic Incomes Worldwide Within 20 Years (hackernoon.com) · · Score: 0

    Then they will gain conservative intelligence in 10, make sure they don't get any smarter and reproduce until they have enough votes to keep Trump in office forever!

  13. I'm from a town in Germany on 3D-Printed Public Housing Unveiled in France (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    We have basic unemployment aid which also includes rent for a moderately sized habitation. We still have homeless. Every couple of weeks a social worker drops by and asks whether they wouldn't want to move to something more permanent. It has been three years since someone took the offer.

  14. Now let's optimize for drowning time on Engineer Develops Sonar Alarm System To Monitor Kids In the Pool (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't want to get up earlier than necessary to save the little basterd.

  15. Re:Thoughts and prayers on Half of European Flights Delayed Due To System Failure (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What about the familys of the culprits you insensitive clod!!

  16. One of the reasons the PPC -> Intel transition was hailed back then was that a lot of processing intensive software ( games, video editing etc. ) had x86 optimized assembler code. If the underlying instruction sets are not available anymore, won't it mean a huge slowdown for a lot of this software?

  17. Re:Fact checking on Facebook Begins 'Fact-Checking' Photos, Videos (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm confused. Isn't it a _bad_ thing that nature doesn't do what people want and the main purpose of science to stop this trend?

  18. News: P = NP on Facebook Begins 'Fact-Checking' Photos, Videos (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    What will you do, Facebook?

  19. Will the anal probes be disabled too? on Firefox Gets Privacy Boost By Disabling Proximity and Ambient Light Sensor APIs (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I hope they have something up the pipeline.

  20. One day I'll go on a rampage with violent games on President Trump: 'We Have To Do Something' About Violent Video Games, Movies (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If only I could throw those little discs harder.

  21. And our god and father on AI Can Be Our Friend, Says Bill Gates (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    16 chars of amen.

  22. abdfgijklmnopqrsuvwxyz on Ask Slashdot: What Is Missing In Tech Today? · · Score: 0

    See, that was easy.

  23. And so came the need for Dislike Crime Legislation on Facebook Is Testing a Dislike Button (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 2

    And dislike speech.
    Dislikers gonna dislike.
    New Tarantino Film: The Dislikeful Eight.
    Oh, and Marvel has a new villain now: The Dislikemonger.

  24. "It's ok to be white" is a CAPTCHA test that on 'Humans Not Invited' Is a CAPTCHA Test That Welcomes Bots, Filters Out Humans (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    welcomes bots while leaving normal, decent people totally unaffected.

  25. The theory is that every organization that surpasses a certain number of members eventually starts to make compromises when the optimal applicants start running out. In the case of police this means resorting to either hiring Wild Bills or social workers and it seems PD has made their choice.