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  1. How bout robot stocking carts instead on Walmart Experimenting With Robotic Shopping Cart For Stores (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They can't be too far away from automated stocking of shelves. It won't be too long until the only people that need to be present in the store are the customers...

  2. Re:Why does the media use the term "gay nightclub" on FBI Director Comey: 'Highly Confident' Orlando Shooter Radicalized Through Internet (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    They guy himself was gay. A homosexual muslim shot up a nightclub to buy his way into heaven and make up for his past sins. If a black man shot up a black church because he was conflicted about his race you wouldn't paint the story as a generic racism tragedy.

  3. Re:Radicalized through Islam on FBI Director Comey: 'Highly Confident' Orlando Shooter Radicalized Through Internet (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2

    The call to 911 is standard ISIS procedure. They literally instruct those who will be carrying out attacks like this to proceed in exactly that manner. You call up the emergency number, profess publicly your allegiance to ISIS. It is in the ISIS SOPs... Also, the guy was gay. He'd spent weeks in that club before. He was part of a culture and religion that caused him to hate himself. The story is a gay member of ISIS kills lots of other gay people and himself to buy his way into heaven.

  4. Re:The technology exists, it's called laws on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Nope on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1
    This is simply not true. Here is a screenshot of a chart showing mass shooting rate per country since 2009: http://crimeresearch.org/wp-co...

    full article: http://crimeresearch.org/2015/...

  6. I actually live on a (small) farm and hunt quite a bit. I would never treat any animal I am killing with disrespect. That act is probably one of the most solemn and respectful things I do in a given month. Of course larger commercial operations are often horrible for animals but then I'd probably never want me kid visiting one of those either.

  7. I don't see one comment yet that is favorable to this article but it is a topic worth discussing. As bots become more a part of our lives and virtual assistants more common, our interactions will become more complex and it isn't healthy for a human being to treat something it is interacting with on that level poorly. Think of an exaggerated example, that of the humans in many futuristic movies we often see tormenting advanced robots. Of course, the robot may not be feeling anything the way a living creature would but it can still make for deeply disturbing scenes.

  8. A shipping container destined for Los Angeles would also be a fairly inexpensive solution.

  9. Re:Tread Carefully on North Korea Restarts Plutonium Production For Nuclear Bombs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You cannot abdicate responsibility for those actions you choose not to take any more than you can those actions you actually perform. If you choose not to kill a murderer and they murder again, you bear responsibility for that choice. So yes, you absolutely do shoot murderers.

  10. Our primary concern with that of course is the amount of armaments pointed at Seoul our south Korean allies. Still, a conclusive first strike seems like a solvable problem. We should just take them out. The Chinese wouldn't be thrilled but they wouldn't do anything -anything more than they are already doing with their aggressive actions in the south china sea..

  11. Re:Pointless and Useless Speculation on Researchers Say The Aliens Are Silent Because They Are Extinct (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    Tools use is fairly common among animals on this planet. Specialization in tools provided such an advantage to us as a species that it is hard for me to believe we would be anywhere near unique especially given the millions of other environments that have life that must be out there.

  12. Re:Don't we have to, you know... *HAVE* something. on Tech CEOs Declare This the Era of Artificial Intelligence (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously... chat bots are supposed to be the new big thing since wearables didn't really take off. It's all about tech and tech journalism needing something to hype.

  13. It is definitely an echo chamber for certain views. The staff have their views and agenda and if something is inconvenient monetarily or conflicts with their world view they censor it. If however you happen to be the same political persuasion as the staff at Twitter, I imagine it is useful enough for real-time monitoring of events to justify keeping an account.

  14. Re:Promises, promises on Gigabit Internet With No Data Caps May Be Coming To Rural America (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I do not want the feds owning the lines but this should at least go to states to build out their infrastructure and allow private ISPs to use and compete on. The major telcos and cable companies have proven that they cannot be trusted with rolling this out themselves. Kentucky is already doing something similar.

  15. Re:Intelligence is genetic and heritable, news at on Scientists Found 74 Genetic Variants Linked To Education Level (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that a fair point though? No amount of genetic fortune would make up for starving someone...

  16. Re:Intelligence is genetic and heritable, news at on Scientists Found 74 Genetic Variants Linked To Education Level (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Couldn't it also be that those traits are linked to certain racial groups? Those of European descent for example might be more likely to stay in school longer and share certain genetic markers but that tendency could be completely cultural rather than linked to intelligence.

  17. Re:Intelligence is genetic and heritable, news at on Scientists Found 74 Genetic Variants Linked To Education Level (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Were this correlated only to the hard sciences I'd assume that to be the case. In this study, it might only correlate to how docile and malleable someone is. It isn't like it is a challenge to get a masters these days in a crap field. It is simply what is expected of you today.

  18. Re:Conservative? on Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not a christian but just because someone thinks there is a higher standard that man should be held to, that doesn't make them "holier than thou" in their attitude. Those types are just busy-bodies and they are in all parties. It has been a while but if I remember my sunday school the "deal" with christians is that they believe all men are fundamentally messed up and that it is through striving toward a standard no man will ever meet (submission to god's example) that we become better. The alternative of course is simply to adjust your moral and ethical compass to reflect the limitations of man. I can't say I'm particularly enamored with either approach... but I don't seek to demonize people of either persuasion because, hell, it isn't like I have anything better to offer.

  19. Re:In other news, water gets things wet... on Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    You certainly didn't deserve to be modded flaimebat and if comparing Sanders and Clinton you probably have a point. I'd say though that the NY Times being owned in large part by a Mexican billionaire caused it to have quite a bit more of an anti-trump bent.

  20. Re: Control on Neuroscience Explains Why Dieters Rarely Lose Weight (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems like you were on the right track with your eating habits but were perhaps eating the wrong things. Maybe give it another go with a much much larger percentage of the diet being protein to maintain satiety then fat then a little bit of carbs. So things like eggs, bacon, sausage, steak and eggs, pork chops and eggs.. As you can tell I've found that breakfast type meals are the easiest to eat right on if you spend a lot of time in restaurants.

  21. Re:This article smacks of fat acceptance on Neuroscience Explains Why Dieters Rarely Lose Weight (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah. If someone feels they need to work out that much they're doing it wrong. Maybe some occasional high intensity barbell work or something but nothing more than say 10-20 minutes a handful of times a week is necessary -just to boost resting metabolic rate a bit. People think working out is the way to burn calories and it does of course but trying to offset poor diet by working out is a misery that isn't likely to ever yield long-term results.

  22. Re:The real reason? on Neuroscience Explains Why Dieters Rarely Lose Weight (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd say it even in that case, it still boils down to diet -the food you provide the bacteria. People that get (ugh) fecal transplants for example see immediate benefits but need to repeat them periodically. This is most likely because the bacteria that thrive in the environment they are creating in their guts (through their diet) crowd out the new / introduced bacteria fairly quickly... that is what I would guess anyway.

  23. Re: The real reason? on Neuroscience Explains Why Dieters Rarely Lose Weight (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like what you are describing is chasing dopamine response. If that is the case then maybe you should replace it with some other addiction. I would recommend something fun like sex or bare knuckle boxing but there is always chemical dependency.

  24. Re:better than malnourishment on Obesity 'Explosion' In Young Rural Chinese A Result Of Socioeconomic Changes, Study Warns (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually since obesity usually corresponds to a non nutrient rich and varied diet malnourished might still be an accurate way of describing them. If you look on the ingredient labels of most processed foods people eat it is pretty much the same ingredients seasoned slightly differently and molded into different forms.

  25. Re:That's a funny new definition of "entitlement" on After Netflix Crackdown On Border-Hopping, Canadians Ready To Return To Piracy (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Conversely, it seems to me that Intellectual property should only really apply to commercial endeavors by the end user -trying to redistribute the performance etc. How someone can claim that a person is stealing from them because they are observing something is beyond me. You don't have a right for people not to copy what you are doing. You have a right to a finite period of time in which only you can profit off of what you are doing. That is it.