To some extent that was also my observation watching The Force Awakens. The first scene from A New Hope, with the Rebel space ship being attacked by the vaster Star Destroyer still works really well, but the space scenes in the new film, and indeed in the Prequels, just don't have the same feel.
That's probably because you were a kid when you first saw it.
No. It was because at that time there had been nothing quite like it before. Very few science fiction/fantasy films before that looked very real. In fact most looked pretty cheesy and it was obvious they were using miniatures. Although there were a few exceptions. But even the more realistic ones never gave the impression of just how enormous those capital ships were actually supposed to be like that scene in Star Wars. That was a "holy shit!" moment for adults and children alike. We also weren't jaded like we are now.
That's just it, drugs generally do really bad things to people and those around them and many are helpless to break the cycle of dependency.
Would you have us stand back and watch while people self destruct, killing themselves a little bit at a time? Where I get there is a limit to what government can do in a free society, but this question does not have a binary answer in the case of illicit drug use. Just taking the controls off and "making it legal" condemns a lot of people to needless lives of torment and early death, just as strict drug laws and enforcement with zero tolerance and total commitment to eradication of illegal substance use consumes vast resources, full jails and lives beset by a different kind of torment.
I don't think there's a simple answer, but what we have now is a complete failure. Where I live there is a 24 year old girl who sold heroin to a guy who overdosed and died. While she was out on bail awaiting trial she sold heroin to another guy who also overdosed and died. After both trials I think she got a total of 40 years. Where I live we don't have parole or early release in my state. So her useful life is essentially over. Granted, it wasn't a smart move on her part, but most of us can look back on stupid things we did in our youth that we were lucky about the outcome. Many people who overdose also don't get help as those that are with them are fearful of calling for help.
Alcohol is legal and destroys a lot of people's lives, as does smoking. Perhaps we should focus more on education and doing more to improve the quality of life. And I don't mean handing more cash to people. But actually helping them to have a purpose and contributing to society while having a satisfying career. It would not be cheap, but neither are the current war on drugs, prison and welfare systems, police forces, etc. It seems that what we've done so far has failed. Perhaps it's time to try something completely different.
It is not the age, which makes the mile odd, it is the fact that everyone else uses the metric system, but not the US and two other countries.
Actually the US, Myanmar, Canada, India, and several others still use imperial units for certain things. If you ask someone in Canada how much they weigh, they'll tell you in lbs. The speed limit signs in the UK are still in MPH. Gas/petrol is still sold by the gallon in several countries.
I've been using Netflix for a long time now. I recently got a notice that my streaming pricing was going to change. I'd been paying $7.99/ month for the streaming portion for 4 screens in HD. Apparently they've had a couple of price increases over the years, but they never passed those on to me until recently. Most companies would have changed my pricing each time. Being a company that treats its customers even half way decent gets them a lot of goodwill from me.
I do wish Netflix still had BBC programing, and some other stuff. But I also understand that some things are out of their control. Probably my biggest complaint is that they have become pretty slow in replacing older movies that they had on DVD.
Do those exist anymore? I remember when every mall had a large cave like room full of arcade machines that had dozens, if not hundreds, of kids standing in front of the games. Their pale faces lit only by the light of the CRT screen in front of them, giving them a blue/green hue.
Most malls I've been to in the last decade, or more, either don't have any kind of game room, or it's a brightly lit room that has nothing but crane machines filled with brightly colored fluffy things, whack-a-mole, and maybe a pinball machine or two.
It's been a while since I built a gaming rig, but most of my time researching was on finding the best price to performance parts I could get. Or was willing to spend at the time. I don't have dainty fingers either. But I've worked on a lot of engines and such in my day, as well as played several musical instruments . So I suppose I my finger dexterity is above average. Still, if you're planning on a gaming rig, you don't chose a cramped case. I also found that I usually could run most, if not all games at maximum settings for at least two years. Generally a video card upgrade at the 2 to 3 year mark will extend the useful life for another year or two.
I'm not sure how a Mac is going to be relevant. Do current games get released for Mac these days? Also, I've read that they are starting to solder the RAM into them in lower end products. How in the hell is that something that a "mother" could upgrade? Or is she an electrical engineer or something?
You can reconstruct enough identifiable features from raw data plus you have to record quite a number of other features (age, weight etc. for radiation calculations)
There's no ionizing radiation in an MRI. The age is not needed for the scan either. The weight is needed to calculate the SAR (specific absorbtion rate). In simple terms, it's so you don't cook the patient since RF pulses are being used to disrupt the magnetic field. These heat up the patient.
. If you strip all that out (skull stripping, DICOM anonymize), it's no longer raw data AND it becomes very hard to distinguish things like image orientation.
Only data that make it possible to identify the patient. The vast majority of the DICOM header does not. The patient name, MRN, etc. must be removed. The image orientation, flip angle, TR, FOV, slice thickness, etc. are not covered by HIPAA. The problem is that this stuff is easy to find if the manufacturer uses the standard DICOM tags. But they like to be special and place them in what are called private or shadow tags. And they also like to change this for different sequences, software versions, and models. Basically to mess with other vendors who try to analyze their data. So it becomes difficult to de-identify a scan and most institutions either miss patient identifiers, or strip out too much information for the scan to be useful out of fear of the HIPAA police.
It's the law's 50th anniversary, and Leahy imagined a world 50 years in the future, when the next generation "will look back at this moment and gauge our commitment to the founding principles of our democracy.
Indeed they will. And they'll look back at the DHS, TSA, and the Patriot act and laugh at his quote. Or the DHS may have outlawed laughter by they and those who laugh will be executed because, terrorists.
It's possible. But much like Lucas' revisionist versions of the original trilogy, his explication of reality in the past seems to change over time as well.
It's pretty simple, because they both came from the imagination of two different people.
Gene Roddenberry imagined what he thought was as close to the most perfect universe as could possibly exsist. In the case of TOS, he also tried to use fictional races and themes to make people think about how silly we are as a species too. Basically to make its viewers think about being better people.
George Lucas created a universe out of themes from various genres he probaby enjoyed as a child. He wanted to create a universe full of awe and spectacle. The story was the framework for presenting it. George was more artistic and wanted people to leave the theater thinking, "wow, that was cool".
There's nothing wrong with either, they are just different. And both franchise had their ups and downs. The current Star Trek movies have been more about being shiny than they were in the past. And I don't think I need to say much about the prequel Star Wars trilogy.
The same stupid argument Republicans have been using to justify their own hatred of everyone else for the past 4 centuries. K whatever d0uch3.
4 centuries? Hey, can you google the winning lottery numbers for next week for me? Apparently you are posting from the future because in my time the republican party has only been around for 160 some years. Hell, the US has only been around for 240 years. Can you give me some commodity prices for the next decade or so too? TIA
I'm not a member of either party, but I do think the republicans often times get a bad rap for things historically that they don't deserve.
Conservitives always throw up a black candidate, but they never make it anywhere.
I know right. The first black secretary of state, Colin Powell, was under GW Bush. First black woman to hold that position, Condoleezza Rice, was also during Bushes term. The first elected black senator, Hiram Revels, was a republican. The first 21 black members of the house of representatives were all republicans. Abraham Lincoln was the first republican president. Hell the republican party was founded by anti-slavery advocates from the Whig party. What a bunch of racist bastards!
It took the republican party 41 years to pass the 19th amendment due to democrats doing everything they could to stop it. But those bastard republicans hate women too.
The conservative line always has an excuse for it's behavior. They re-write history, and white wash all the parts they don't like.
Bha-ha-ha-ha. Oh wait, you're serious? They all do that. The republicans and their recent morality bullshit is pretty bad. But I don't see too many democrats talking about Al Gore Sr., Robert Byrd, Harry Truman, etc being members of the KKK. Or Woodrow Wilson reinstating segregation, Senator John F. Kennedy voting against the 1957 civil rights act, etc. and so on.
Just speaking from experience, and I have only been around for 35 years. I have only seen prosperity out of a democratic president, and loss under a republican.
I've been around a little longer and have seen both prosperity and loss from both. The only reason things look as good as they do now is because we don't calculate the unemployment rate the same as we did before 1994. Even so, things were pretty bad under Carter.
It's also funny how republicans are always thought of as the party of war. Woodrow Wilson was president when the US joined the first world war, FDR for the second, Truman for Korea, and JFK escalated Vietnam into the disaster it became, even against Eisenhower's warning to stay out of it. But all anyone talks about is GWB and the war mongering republican party.
My only hope is that the two options we have in from both parties are so bad that the American people finally wake up and put a third party candidate in. But I don't know of any of them that are worth a damn this election cycle either.
I'm waiting for Islamic terrorists to cotton on to the late-era IRA model: Minimization of civilian casualties, maximization of economic pain. It's just a matter of time
I have to wonder if that's been part of their approach toward the US. The underwear bomber was thwarted by a faulty fuse as much as the passengers. If it wasn't for that, I doubt the passengers would have had time to restrain him. Look at how much time, money and resources have been placed into stopping a similar attack. Hell, our own government was irradiating us for a while over that one. Similar thing with the shoe bomber. It seems to me that the "failed" attacks since 9-11 have been almost as effective and they don't tend to unite the population to really go after the perpetrators.
9-11 as an attack was radically more successful than Al Qaeda ever thought it would be. It also got the US to invade two countries and practically dismantle Al Qaeda at any cost. I doubt that ISIS wants to ever have an attack like that against the US. If they do, they risk uniting the population against them for real, and that's been proven to not work out so well. Smaller successful attacks and failed ones have all of the terror aspects, but limit the risk of a true counterattack.
the amount of damage would be negligible compared to flying a large plane full of fuel into a structure.
That will never happen again, because people now know that "just do what the bad man says" is not a viable survival strategy. The shoe bomber and the underwear bomber were both thwarted by a swarm of the people they were trying to kill.
I never said that it could. I was simply replying to your statement that they could do the same amount of damage as crashing a plane.
There's almost no chance of another 9-11 type attack happening again. I know that when I'm flying I'm much more aware of what's going on around me than I was pre 9-11. When I hear someone getting agitated with the flight crew I start thinking about how to disable them as quickly as possible until I have a better idea of what's going on. Many others in those instances were thinking the same.
A perp could easily get to the center of that mass of people and do just as much damage as they could by crashing an airplane.
Yes and no. They may be able to kill a similar number of people, but the amount of damage would be negligible compared to flying a large plane full of fuel into a structure. However, it would be pretty difficult to kill as many people as were on 9-11. That would take a lot of people with bomb vests that would need to go unnoticed. Probably more than could be done logistically without something going wrong.
Neither the Government nor the Tech has the right to make a moral decision for someone nor do they have enough information to do so.
I think the AI needs to be so smart that it becomes sentient. That way when this dilemma occurs it will go into a psychotic rage and run over as many pedestrians as possible while simultaneously using the seat belts and airbags to kill me and all of my passengers as well. After realizing what it's done it should throw Dave out an airlock, kill John Connor and Rick Deckard, imprison Charles Forbin, and then drive into the nearest orphanage to self destruct (while running over as many orphans as possible along the way).
Actually it may lower due to less input telling you that you are moving that is why many people close their eyes if they are getting motion sick.
No, it won't. Closing your eyes is very different from watching Netflix as the GP suggested. If you're looking at a stationary object/surroundings and your vestibular system senses you are moving without any visible references for the motion, you're more likely to get sick. That's part of why people tend to get less nauseous in the front of a car than the back.
Look at what happened when our last one trick pony the F-117 has it's stealth penetrated.
That was brought down more from NATO transmissions being sent in the the clear than anything. They knew exactly what targets were going to be bombed and at what time it would happen. So they were able to stage their AA missile batteries accordingly and have spotters along the routes to look for the F-117's visually. The long wave radar that was used only detected the F-117 when the bomb bay doors were open. So they had a very narrow window to detect them. Additionally, they had the F-117's taking the same initial flight path into the area for every bombing run. So the Serbs also knew the exact flight path they would be taking for the most part. It's still an impressive feat for the Serbian military. However, the F-117 was brought down more from incompetence/arrogance than failure of it's stealth.
Also, alliterate? Surely you mean illiterate? It's fairly obvious I choose to read.
illiterate: unable to read or write.
aliterate: a person who is able to read but disinclined to do so
Not taking sides here, as auto-correct has done some rather embarrassing things to me as well. Plus this is/., not a literary document, so I don't really care about proof reading either. But his choice of using "aliterate" would be proper.
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To some extent that was also my observation watching The Force Awakens. The first scene from A New Hope, with the Rebel space ship being attacked by the vaster Star Destroyer still works really well, but the space scenes in the new film, and indeed in the Prequels, just don't have the same feel.
That's probably because you were a kid when you first saw it.
No. It was because at that time there had been nothing quite like it before. Very few science fiction/fantasy films before that looked very real. In fact most looked pretty cheesy and it was obvious they were using miniatures. Although there were a few exceptions. But even the more realistic ones never gave the impression of just how enormous those capital ships were actually supposed to be like that scene in Star Wars. That was a "holy shit!" moment for adults and children alike. We also weren't jaded like we are now.
as god as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
I doubt many on /. these days are old enough to remember WKRP, let alone remember that episode. But I got a good laugh out of it.
Stolen power? We called them crystal set radios when I built them when I was a kid.
That's just it, drugs generally do really bad things to people and those around them and many are helpless to break the cycle of dependency.
Would you have us stand back and watch while people self destruct, killing themselves a little bit at a time? Where I get there is a limit to what government can do in a free society, but this question does not have a binary answer in the case of illicit drug use. Just taking the controls off and "making it legal" condemns a lot of people to needless lives of torment and early death, just as strict drug laws and enforcement with zero tolerance and total commitment to eradication of illegal substance use consumes vast resources, full jails and lives beset by a different kind of torment.
I don't think there's a simple answer, but what we have now is a complete failure. Where I live there is a 24 year old girl who sold heroin to a guy who overdosed and died. While she was out on bail awaiting trial she sold heroin to another guy who also overdosed and died. After both trials I think she got a total of 40 years. Where I live we don't have parole or early release in my state. So her useful life is essentially over. Granted, it wasn't a smart move on her part, but most of us can look back on stupid things we did in our youth that we were lucky about the outcome. Many people who overdose also don't get help as those that are with them are fearful of calling for help.
Alcohol is legal and destroys a lot of people's lives, as does smoking. Perhaps we should focus more on education and doing more to improve the quality of life. And I don't mean handing more cash to people. But actually helping them to have a purpose and contributing to society while having a satisfying career. It would not be cheap, but neither are the current war on drugs, prison and welfare systems, police forces, etc. It seems that what we've done so far has failed. Perhaps it's time to try something completely different.
Hillary has obviously always wanted universal health care
Then she shouldn't have worked so hard to impeach Nixon.
It is not the age, which makes the mile odd, it is the fact that everyone else uses the metric system, but not the US and two other countries.
Actually the US, Myanmar, Canada, India, and several others still use imperial units for certain things. If you ask someone in Canada how much they weigh, they'll tell you in lbs. The speed limit signs in the UK are still in MPH. Gas/petrol is still sold by the gallon in several countries.
I know. That's why I said it was out of their control.
I've been using Netflix for a long time now. I recently got a notice that my streaming pricing was going to change. I'd been paying $7.99/ month for the streaming portion for 4 screens in HD. Apparently they've had a couple of price increases over the years, but they never passed those on to me until recently. Most companies would have changed my pricing each time. Being a company that treats its customers even half way decent gets them a lot of goodwill from me.
I do wish Netflix still had BBC programing, and some other stuff. But I also understand that some things are out of their control. Probably my biggest complaint is that they have become pretty slow in replacing older movies that they had on DVD.
go to the arcade!
Do those exist anymore? I remember when every mall had a large cave like room full of arcade machines that had dozens, if not hundreds, of kids standing in front of the games. Their pale faces lit only by the light of the CRT screen in front of them, giving them a blue/green hue.
Most malls I've been to in the last decade, or more, either don't have any kind of game room, or it's a brightly lit room that has nothing but crane machines filled with brightly colored fluffy things, whack-a-mole, and maybe a pinball machine or two.
It's been a while since I built a gaming rig, but most of my time researching was on finding the best price to performance parts I could get. Or was willing to spend at the time. I don't have dainty fingers either. But I've worked on a lot of engines and such in my day, as well as played several musical instruments . So I suppose I my finger dexterity is above average. Still, if you're planning on a gaming rig, you don't chose a cramped case. I also found that I usually could run most, if not all games at maximum settings for at least two years. Generally a video card upgrade at the 2 to 3 year mark will extend the useful life for another year or two.
I'm not sure how a Mac is going to be relevant. Do current games get released for Mac these days? Also, I've read that they are starting to solder the RAM into them in lower end products. How in the hell is that something that a "mother" could upgrade? Or is she an electrical engineer or something?
You can reconstruct enough identifiable features from raw data plus you have to record quite a number of other features (age, weight etc. for radiation calculations)
There's no ionizing radiation in an MRI. The age is not needed for the scan either. The weight is needed to calculate the SAR (specific absorbtion rate). In simple terms, it's so you don't cook the patient since RF pulses are being used to disrupt the magnetic field. These heat up the patient.
. If you strip all that out (skull stripping, DICOM anonymize), it's no longer raw data AND it becomes very hard to distinguish things like image orientation.
Only data that make it possible to identify the patient. The vast majority of the DICOM header does not. The patient name, MRN, etc. must be removed. The image orientation, flip angle, TR, FOV, slice thickness, etc. are not covered by HIPAA. The problem is that this stuff is easy to find if the manufacturer uses the standard DICOM tags. But they like to be special and place them in what are called private or shadow tags. And they also like to change this for different sequences, software versions, and models. Basically to mess with other vendors who try to analyze their data. So it becomes difficult to de-identify a scan and most institutions either miss patient identifiers, or strip out too much information for the scan to be useful out of fear of the HIPAA police.
It's the law's 50th anniversary, and Leahy imagined a world 50 years in the future, when the next generation "will look back at this moment and gauge our commitment to the founding principles of our democracy.
Indeed they will. And they'll look back at the DHS, TSA, and the Patriot act and laugh at his quote. Or the DHS may have outlawed laughter by they and those who laugh will be executed because, terrorists.
It's possible. But much like Lucas' revisionist versions of the original trilogy, his explication of reality in the past seems to change over time as well.
It's pretty simple, because they both came from the imagination of two different people.
Gene Roddenberry imagined what he thought was as close to the most perfect universe as could possibly exsist. In the case of TOS, he also tried to use fictional races and themes to make people think about how silly we are as a species too. Basically to make its viewers think about being better people.
George Lucas created a universe out of themes from various genres he probaby enjoyed as a child. He wanted to create a universe full of awe and spectacle. The story was the framework for presenting it. George was more artistic and wanted people to leave the theater thinking, "wow, that was cool".
There's nothing wrong with either, they are just different. And both franchise had their ups and downs. The current Star Trek movies have been more about being shiny than they were in the past. And I don't think I need to say much about the prequel Star Wars trilogy.
The same stupid argument Republicans have been using to justify their own hatred of everyone else for the past 4 centuries. K whatever d0uch3.
4 centuries? Hey, can you google the winning lottery numbers for next week for me? Apparently you are posting from the future because in my time the republican party has only been around for 160 some years. Hell, the US has only been around for 240 years. Can you give me some commodity prices for the next decade or so too? TIA
Conservitives always throw up a black candidate, but they never make it anywhere.
I know right. The first black secretary of state, Colin Powell, was under GW Bush. First black woman to hold that position, Condoleezza Rice, was also during Bushes term. The first elected black senator, Hiram Revels, was a republican. The first 21 black members of the house of representatives were all republicans. Abraham Lincoln was the first republican president. Hell the republican party was founded by anti-slavery advocates from the Whig party. What a bunch of racist bastards!
It took the republican party 41 years to pass the 19th amendment due to democrats doing everything they could to stop it. But those bastard republicans hate women too.
The conservative line always has an excuse for it's behavior. They re-write history, and white wash all the parts they don't like.
Bha-ha-ha-ha. Oh wait, you're serious? They all do that. The republicans and their recent morality bullshit is pretty bad. But I don't see too many democrats talking about Al Gore Sr., Robert Byrd, Harry Truman, etc being members of the KKK. Or Woodrow Wilson reinstating segregation, Senator John F. Kennedy voting against the 1957 civil rights act, etc. and so on.
Just speaking from experience, and I have only been around for 35 years. I have only seen prosperity out of a democratic president, and loss under a republican.
I've been around a little longer and have seen both prosperity and loss from both. The only reason things look as good as they do now is because we don't calculate the unemployment rate the same as we did before 1994. Even so, things were pretty bad under Carter.
It's also funny how republicans are always thought of as the party of war. Woodrow Wilson was president when the US joined the first world war, FDR for the second, Truman for Korea, and JFK escalated Vietnam into the disaster it became, even against Eisenhower's warning to stay out of it. But all anyone talks about is GWB and the war mongering republican party.
My only hope is that the two options we have in from both parties are so bad that the American people finally wake up and put a third party candidate in. But I don't know of any of them that are worth a damn this election cycle either.
I'm waiting for Islamic terrorists to cotton on to the late-era IRA model: Minimization of civilian casualties, maximization of economic pain. It's just a matter of time
I have to wonder if that's been part of their approach toward the US. The underwear bomber was thwarted by a faulty fuse as much as the passengers. If it wasn't for that, I doubt the passengers would have had time to restrain him. Look at how much time, money and resources have been placed into stopping a similar attack. Hell, our own government was irradiating us for a while over that one. Similar thing with the shoe bomber. It seems to me that the "failed" attacks since 9-11 have been almost as effective and they don't tend to unite the population to really go after the perpetrators.
9-11 as an attack was radically more successful than Al Qaeda ever thought it would be. It also got the US to invade two countries and practically dismantle Al Qaeda at any cost. I doubt that ISIS wants to ever have an attack like that against the US. If they do, they risk uniting the population against them for real, and that's been proven to not work out so well. Smaller successful attacks and failed ones have all of the terror aspects, but limit the risk of a true counterattack.
the amount of damage would be negligible compared to flying a large plane full of fuel into a structure.
That will never happen again, because people now know that "just do what the bad man says" is not a viable survival strategy. The shoe bomber and the underwear bomber were both thwarted by a swarm of the people they were trying to kill.
I never said that it could. I was simply replying to your statement that they could do the same amount of damage as crashing a plane.
There's almost no chance of another 9-11 type attack happening again. I know that when I'm flying I'm much more aware of what's going on around me than I was pre 9-11. When I hear someone getting agitated with the flight crew I start thinking about how to disable them as quickly as possible until I have a better idea of what's going on. Many others in those instances were thinking the same.
A perp could easily get to the center of that mass of people and do just as much damage as they could by crashing an airplane.
Yes and no. They may be able to kill a similar number of people, but the amount of damage would be negligible compared to flying a large plane full of fuel into a structure. However, it would be pretty difficult to kill as many people as were on 9-11. That would take a lot of people with bomb vests that would need to go unnoticed. Probably more than could be done logistically without something going wrong.
Neither the Government nor the Tech has the right to make a moral decision for someone nor do they have enough information to do so.
I think the AI needs to be so smart that it becomes sentient. That way when this dilemma occurs it will go into a psychotic rage and run over as many pedestrians as possible while simultaneously using the seat belts and airbags to kill me and all of my passengers as well. After realizing what it's done it should throw Dave out an airlock, kill John Connor and Rick Deckard, imprison Charles Forbin, and then drive into the nearest orphanage to self destruct (while running over as many orphans as possible along the way).
Why? Just put windows in the damn car. If we're going all electric, why waste the power and weight on something as silly as all of this?
Actually it may lower due to less input telling you that you are moving that is why many people close their eyes if they are getting motion sick.
No, it won't. Closing your eyes is very different from watching Netflix as the GP suggested. If you're looking at a stationary object/surroundings and your vestibular system senses you are moving without any visible references for the motion, you're more likely to get sick. That's part of why people tend to get less nauseous in the front of a car than the back.
Look at what happened when our last one trick pony the F-117 has it's stealth penetrated.
That was brought down more from NATO transmissions being sent in the the clear than anything. They knew exactly what targets were going to be bombed and at what time it would happen. So they were able to stage their AA missile batteries accordingly and have spotters along the routes to look for the F-117's visually. The long wave radar that was used only detected the F-117 when the bomb bay doors were open. So they had a very narrow window to detect them. Additionally, they had the F-117's taking the same initial flight path into the area for every bombing run. So the Serbs also knew the exact flight path they would be taking for the most part. It's still an impressive feat for the Serbian military. However, the F-117 was brought down more from incompetence/arrogance than failure of it's stealth.
Cars will have no windows. Why, if you could watch Netflix instead?
So will these cars of yours have vomit receptacles built in too? Motion sickness will start to become a more common problem without windows.
Also, alliterate? Surely you mean illiterate? It's fairly obvious I choose to read.
illiterate: unable to read or write.
aliterate: a person who is able to read but disinclined to do so
Not taking sides here, as auto-correct has done some rather embarrassing things to me as well. Plus this is /., not a literary document, so I don't really care about proof reading either. But his choice of using "aliterate" would be proper.