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  1. It's never aliens, until it is.

  2. This is just the tip folks... on Michael Cohen Says He Tried To Rig Online Polls 'at the Direction' of Donald Trump (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Giuliani just admitted Russian collusion, live on national TV. I have no idea what would make him move the goal posts into another solar syste...

    Breaking News: Trump ordered Cohen to lie to congress in order to cover up his Trump tower Moscow project. For a measly 3m up front and 4% of the profits we had our country sold to the Russians. At this point it wouldn't suprise me at all if the pee tape was simply short for pedo.

  3. Re:So, it will still be required on Microsoft is Separating Cortana From Search in Windows 10 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Spot on. My brain left out "in search" for a split second and in that fleeting moment felt the unfamiliar feeling of hope.

  4. Re:This is a travesty of justice. on World's First Robot Hotel Fires Half of Its Robot Staff (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Now bite my shiny metal ass humans!!!

  5. In my opinion it's highly likely likely that actual strong AI will use today's algorithms as simply component parts. After all, autonomous cars are shaping up to use quite a few of the base design details from the Ford model A, they just use many additional elements to achieve the emergent behaviors.

  6. You can even sometimes tell what is frying by the smell and color of the magic smoke. Not much smoke but a highly acrid smell? Likely your typical electrolytic capacitors venting - often smelled from some cheap dimmable LED bulbs that fail after only a few hours. It's not common knowledge but they hide all the colors in any LED, you simply need to run massive current through it and enjoy the short lived show. My coworker could tell what basic type of resistor was over heating by the smell, almost as awesome as my old shop teacher who could taste oil weight. My personal favorite is the bright pink smoke you get from frying a particular brand of power mosfets. I still find it funny one of the best ways to spot problems on boards is to forgo any knowledge of current, voltage or electricity in general and simply use an IR camera to spot what's hot that shouldn't be.

  7. Re:Noisey & Annoying Issues are Addressable on Is Elon Musk Serious About Building A Flying Tesla? (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    Since we are science fantasizing here, why not have the windows be see through LCD panels? You can blast the interior with movies (or let's be honest, ads) while tracking heads to calculate line of sight and making sure private areas aren't visible from inside the vehicle.

  8. Re:Been done on Is Elon Musk Serious About Building A Flying Tesla? (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they'll find a way to tame the rocket and use it more like a turbine engine like Plymouth did (and the one motorcycle Jay Leno has that uses a turbine from a helicopter)

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

    The problem is it's not so easy to quickly change the power and direction of the thrust. You inevitably need some kind of thrust vectoring system adding cost, complexity, and lowering reliability. Also Jays bike is known for heat damaging vehicles behind it. Though it would be cool in a movie, frying people as you throw them back 20 feet through a shop window tends to result in annoying lawsuits. Also gaining supermans power of flight, without the invulnerability, leads to only a short enjoyment of flying. Call me old fashioned, but maybe these won't be ready for prime time around people anytime soon.

  9. Re:Completely missing the market on 'We're Working On Rollable Phones,' Says LG CTO (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    5g operates around 24-86 GHz which allows for much higher bandwidth than wifi but is line of sight only and uses considerable power at full bandwidth. Very useful for multiple 4K connections on a single link, or any other high bandwidth application. I'm not sure how this will help phones in the near term but perhaps could be a way to roll out wireless service as the last mile problem and maybe promote some competition. 5g is also a rebrand of LTE which operates around 600MHz-6GHz with similar bandwidth and line of sight/multiple path issues as existing technologies.

  10. Re:Completely missing the market on 'We're Working On Rollable Phones,' Says LG CTO (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    Not many people are going to want to stream 4K over a cell phone plan to a display of any size unless the data plan prices change dramatically. I'm not sure 5g is even going to be that great, it's almost entirely line of sight only. Even with beam forming it uses a ton of power at high bandwidth which only makes current battery limitations worse.

  11. Finally! on 'We're Working On Rollable Phones,' Says LG CTO (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Thank god someone finally realized the problem with today's phones is they are all still to thick! Who needs a reasonable replaceable battery, a headphone jack, or even a functional antenna? I'm not sure I can handle 5g as my doctor told me people with my conditions should avoid anything over 2g. Please, please, please tell me they cost at least 1500 USD and I'm sold anyway. /s

  12. I mean the competing products don't appear in the search results they are keywords of on any page. They literally hide competing products.

  13. It's actually worse than this. When Amazon is selling competing products to popular items, Amazon will sometimes hide the search results containing the main competing items. You may have to frame the search several different ways, follow a chain of similar items bought, or back out to a browser like google to actually find competing results.

  14. Automation for all on So You Automated Your Coworkers Out of a Job (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Physical automation of specific tasks has been around for a long time, starting with the industrial revolution 250 years ago and leading up to today where more than 99+% of jobs no longer employ heavy labor and this number is steadily falling. Weak AI and smart algorithms are just starting to replace jobs within the last 50 and over the next 200 will likely migrate to strong AI and even more capable weak AI/algorithms which sure is on track to replace 99% of all mental labor. Within this same timeframe, humanoid android systems are also on track to become far cheaper and far more capable than humans for 99% of all jobs. How can a human compete with a humanoid android capable of doing the job better, but also working 23.5 hr days every day, but also works for far cheaper? People forget simply automating some labor screwed working class people for 70 years, probably for the same reason they are in denial that eventually virtually all human labor both mental and physical could be automated.

    Considering these technologies came from and are likely to continue to be created by large portions of the population through mental labors it sure would be nice to have everyone eventually benefit from this to the point of having universal incomes and social safety nets. Because the direction it's headed today is for all of these systems to be handed over to a few people who will then exploit the rest of humanity.

  15. Re:Funny... on People Older Than 65 Share the Most Fake News, Study Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    CNN makes mistakes. Fox is just trying to bullshit you.

    Actually these days Fox seems to be trying to beam messages directly into the President's head.

    CNN does a bit more than make mistakes, sarin is an odorless, colorless, tasteless chemical used in chemical warfare and yet this CNN reporter huffs a suspected sample. The kind of person who lacks critical thinking and impulse control and tries to huff death spray usually dosent make it to be a reporter so I'm assuming they knew it was fake all along. Even a non lethal minor exposure to your lungs can easily cause permenant neurological damage.

  16. Re: Changing times on People Older Than 65 Share the Most Fake News, Study Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I find in many cases if youâ(TM)re willing to do a bit of your own math you can check a lot of it. Liars just make up numbers, and not very carefully.

    Nine fifths of statistics are made up.

  17. Re:Constant job changes are needed on Even More Americans Have Stopped Biking To Work (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I live in a large midwestern town and bicycling or public transit are poor to non-existent options for many people. There are plenty of bike lanes, many have replaced actual lanes used on busy roads. However very few people use them compared to the previous auto traffic, they were put in place specifically to restrict traffic access to some dense urban areas. Many people commute 20-40+ miles as the city is spread out over several hundred square miles. The low average density means there are no bus or light rail routes to the vast majority of destination and when these routes do exist expect to change between 3-4 lines and take forever. Not to mention there is plenty of rain all year and snow for up to 6 months. The only person I know who has been reliably able to commute 25 miles each way in snow on a bicycle was 23 and worked in a bike store. Take into account the massive CO2 impact for many human foods and you aren't even saving as much pollution as commonly perceived by bicycling. Mass transit often has lower CO2 emission impact than cycling. What we need is better city planning, better public transportation, better acceptance of e-bikes to extend commuter access, and better adoption of clean electricity for electric vehicles both public and private.

  18. Now instead of blowing the remaining balance of the last working credit card people have on stupid digital loot boxes that are full of worthless digital items you can blow it all on digital loot boxes that are full of real world worthless items. Jokes on them though, even if you win that mansion or sports car you can't use it without an internet connection.

  19. Re:Not only for 3D on Sony Boosts 3D Camera Output After Interest From Phone Makers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Those are some of the things they are currently used for. I would like to see more innovative things like using 3-D mosaicking to scan objects into games, or for 3-D printing. These cameras becoming cheap is also a major boost to cheap robust robotics applicarions as well like Simultaneous Localization And Mapping.

  20. Re: Extra charges on Hospital Prices Are About To Go Public in the US (ajc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm not sure you are following this correctly. First off the people and politicans of the same party are in different boats as the flood of healthcare money goes to politicans and not the people. Even republican voters prefer single payer options at around 60% and democrats around 90% although if you call it single payer it drops republican support about 15 points over Medicare for all. In contrast 0 republican politicans support single payer, and almost 0 democrat politicans do as well because to not do so would erode thier campaign coffers. Republicans continually lose thier shit over single payer again and again - just visit Fox News for an example.

    The real takeaway is that republican voters feel the finnancial inequality and hard times and are afraid of the change because there isn't enough money now and so how do we pay for it. Back in reality corporations have been stealing lying and griftng so much citizens don't have any money and even the Koch brothers bias study showed single payer would be 3 trillion dollars cheaper over the next 10 years despite full participation of the citizens and increased use. with single payer somewhere beteeen 70-80% approval across all people the real reason we don't have single payer is we don't live in a democracy, or even a representative democracy

  21. Re:Intelligence requires motivation on Artificial General Intelligence is Nowhere Close To Being a Reality (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm back propagating my comment error in not mentioning that I used that example because it was so old. Is that fresh enough?

  22. Re:Intelligence requires motivation on Artificial General Intelligence is Nowhere Close To Being a Reality (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Genetic algorithms test variations, score them, and essentially delete the inferior copies and then test variations on the winner. So many algorithms essentially incorporate "dying" into optimization it's been used as a concept for decades. It keeps improving my appreciation of Marvin the robot.

  23. Re:Duck hunt on UK Now Has Systems To Combat Drones (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Right, rifling on the shotgun barrel will get you better scatter because its likely a single hit will take it down. Or, my personal favorite, simply train some hawks to knock them out of the sky.

  24. Does a hot dog classify as meat? Does a 'meat' patty served up by the double arches brand count as meat? Recreating all of the natural structures of meat-off-the-bone isn't necessary for producing a base ingredient. People who want the experience of eating steak will likely just want to eat a real steak.

    The lack of organs available for transplant should provide enough incentive for research on cloning human parts.

    Just because it's mostly assholes dosent mean it dosent have veins, tendons, cartilage, skin, and all diversity of real meat. It may not be from a cow, or pig, but yes it's meat. A slime made from a handful of cell types is similar to meat, but not meat and currently requires a lot of work to massage it into a product people would recognize as meat. There really isn't much reason why we can't grow actual steaks close to natural - it's not likely to require much more than superior knowledge and technology to today as after some engineering it should grow itself automatically. Its not about wanting to its more about how are you going to feed 40 billion humans with meat and not use solar, wind and fusion power and vat grow meat in large three dimensional farms? There isn't room to traditionally and sustainably grow what we already do.

  25. This is like thinking maintaining a few applications on a single workstation is the same as all of IT management tasks across a large multinational corporation. Current artificial meat isn't much more than some cultured cell goo, whereas an actual piece of meat is comprised of connective tissues, blood vessels, nerves, vastly more differentiated cells, and real macroscopic structure. We aren't there yet, but it has a promising future if you can look beyond the hype. im actually looking forward to artificial meat technology because it would be nice to walk down to the hospital and pick up some new fingers and a lower back.