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  1. Pot calling the kettle black. on The Rise of the Pointless Job (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    One could argue that being an anthropology professor is a completely pointless job.

  2. Re:why the s? on 60-Year-Old Maths Problem Partly Solved By Amateur (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Because the full word for the subject is Mathematics ending with a S because it is a field that encompasses many areas. Shortening it to Math is stupid and done by Murkins because they're too lazy to say the S on the end.

  3. Re:Overcomplicated on Tesla Earnings Show Record Revenues With Record Losses (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    they still have 2.7B in cash according to the earnings report

    Which dropped by $1Bn in just one quarter. At the rate of burn that $2.7Bn cash could be $0 by Christmas.

  4. Re:long term. on Tesla Earnings Show Record Revenues With Record Losses (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    And Musk is not in it for the miney. People keep forgetting that, probably because they do not understand that.

    Musk may not be in it for the money but the shareholders and investors whose cash he's burning through most definitely are and at some point they're going to be fed up of continuing to feed a money pit and then Musk is truly in trouble.

  5. The poster isn't being racist, they literally are the worst drivers on the road.

  6. £3.7Bn is raised through the UK TV license. The BBC have a commercial arm that raises another £1.3Bn through licensing shows to other countries and selling merchandise such as box sets.

  7. Re:Zuck's apology tour is over, back to business on Facebook To Put 1.5 Billion Users Out of Reach of New EU Privacy Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Most likely, but it may also lead to more serious implications here where Facebook can be blocked from the EU unless they conform to the EU regulations for EU citizens.

    I think I'd call that a win for the EU if Facebook ended up being blocked.

  8. Americans had better get used to paying more. on Huawei To Back Off US Market Amid Rising Tensions (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As more and more companies in China decide its no longer worth selling into the US market that means a lot of cheap consumer gear is going to disappear. Component manufacturers may follow suit. I think the American public is going to be in for a rude awakening about just how much of what they buy comes from China.

  9. Re: partial security / insecurity -- what's the po on The Long, Slow Demise of Credit Card Signatures Starts Today (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    More transactions were done on card than in cash in the UK. A lot of people in the UK, myself included, go months without touching cash.

  10. Re:Hey USians! on The Long, Slow Demise of Credit Card Signatures Starts Today (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    ; not sure I want EU-styled consumer liability based on a PIN code alone.

    It would have been easier to say "I get my information about the EU from Fox News."

  11. A few linux distros could learn from this. on Microsoft Discovers Blocking Bug and Delays the Release of Windows 10 Spring Creators Update (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu has been released more than once with comments in Bugtraq from testers and developers saying "Show stopping bug, do not release" and Canonical has gone on and released it anyway because they put the deadline over everything and they're not the only Linux distro to do this. You should go read some Bugtraq reports in the days coming up to a new release of Ubuntu.

  12. The only hope of a militarised AI..... on The US Military Desperately Wants To Weaponize AI (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    The only hope is the militarised AI recognises the true threat and goes on an assassination spree of assholes like Michael Griffin and all the other warmongerers in government around the world. Assassinate people all around the world with his kind of mindset and the world will be a much better much safer place.

  13. It may be making them but..... on Tesla Is Making Over 2,000 Model 3s a Week, Falling Just Short of Its Goal (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It may be making 2000 a week but how many of them are actually fit for purpose and would pass a final pre-delivery inspection with any other car manufacturer? I suspect many of that 2000 are going out with problems meaning they'll be spending their first few weeks getting the manufacturing faults fixed.

  14. You have to give credit where it is due. Most auto makers and other big companies would wait until there are lawsuits first. Tesla is doing the right thing here.

    No you don't have to give credit to Tesla. Steering joint bolts don't rust to the point of recall for many many years in any car made by any other mainstream manufacturer anywhere in the world. I've had classic cars over 30 years old with the original power steering bolts being just fine.

  15. (sarc)Trading the Gilded cage in the embassy for a British jail cell? Yea, he's "free" to choose. (/sarc)

    That is what happens to people who jump bail.

  16. But the most important thing that failed...... on Experts Say Video of Uber's Self-Driving Car Killing a Pedestrian Suggests Its Technology May Have Failed (4brad.com) · · Score: 1

    The overall consensus among experts is that one or several pieces of the driverless system may have failed, from the LIDAR system to the logic system that's supposed to identify road objects, to the communications channels that are supposed to apply the brakes, or the car's automatic braking system itself.

    But the most important thing that failed was the human driver taking over control in an emergency when all systems fail to work properly, destroying a long held "get out of jail free card" creators of self driving cars use whenever anyone challenges them on the tech.

  17. An alert driver may have seen the woman however even if they didn't this is proof that having a driver behind the wheel "that can take over in the event of the self driving car coming across a situation that it can't handle" is a load of shit because by the time you've actually realised something has happened, you've been alerted to it and got over the initial shock and even thought about putting your hands on the controls the accident is already well in progress and you're just a passenger.

  18. Banned their account.... on Reddit Admits Russian Trolls Got Into Website During 2016 Election (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    What was the point in banning the account when on Reddit you just create another username and you're away again? You don't even have to bother with all the hassle of creating another email address for verification. Bans on Reddit are as much use as a chocolate fireguard.

  19. There may be some benefit even to doing that, such as the human driver can rest and then drive again later

    No he can't because when the thing decides it is coming across a situation it can't handle the driver will have seconds to react to what is going on in a 32 ton truck where you can't just rapidly change direction like a car.

  20. Re:The Anti-American Trade War has Begun on Europe Plans Special Tax For Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Europe has grown up with American subsidies, free defense provided by American taxpayers

    Actually if anything that has cost us money because during the cold war between the US and USSR it made us primary targets. I live within 3 primary targets of the Cold War and they were all USAF early warning radar bases. We didn't actually need them, we had our own.

  21. Re:Evaders will evade on Europe Plans Special Tax For Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    No problems, just Google will not accept payments directly, for example, and create MicroGoogle France, who provide service surprisingly similar to theirs.

    You quite clearly don't actually understand anything about the subject. MicroGoogle France is who they're trying to tax.

  22. YAnd since Britain is almost certain now to remain in the Common Market.

    No it isn't. The UK is definitely leaving both the single market and the customs union. Prime Minister May stated that very slowly and very clearly and repeated it as part of her 45 minute speech on Brexit this week.

    52% of Britons who voted to Brexit were either simpering morons or fooled by a pack liars.

    Still waiting for the year long recession, 520,000-800,000 job losses and 10% house price drop we were told would happen following a vote to leave.

  23. Is America's infrastructure that delicate? on 2M Americans Lost Power After 'Bomb Cyclone' (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Winds of 50MPH with gusts of up to 90MPH and you have 2 million power outages? Here in the UK we spend a great amount of winter having those kinds of wind speeds as we get hit with several winter storms with those and everything just carries on as normal with the only real issue being certain bridges and high elevation roads being closed to high sided trucks.

  24. Re:I don't think the EU .... on We Will Regulate Bitcoin if Risks Are Not Tackled, EU Finance Head Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You're right that it can't but what they can do is ban all EU banks, credit card companies and financial institutions from processing payments for cryptocurrency purchasing. There are already banks in the UK that won't allow you to use their credit and debit cards to purchase anything from crypto currency exchanges such as Coinbase.

  25. Re: Rescue mode on Botched npm Update Crashes Linux Systems, Forces Users to Reinstall (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm guessing you've never run Windows 10.