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  1. 6) Google car waits for cars to pass to create an opening, then slowly moves back towards the center of the lane.

    If it has an opening, then no accident, right?

    7) Bus decides not to yield to the Google car that's ahead of it in the lane, trying to pass it anyway.

    I see now, the google car was brake checking a 20,000+ lb vehicle by drifting into its path.

    People dont do that because they dont want to get hit by a 20,000+ lb vehicle. Google car did because it doesn't know better.

  2. Re:The *US* missile is "controversial"?!?!?! on New Report Cites Dangers of Autonomous Weapons · · Score: 1

    ..not to mention the current American workhorse, the cruise missile, whose current incarnation is initially guided by GPS but uses automatic target recognition (artificial intelligence) one close to the target.

  3. So there was this human controller... on New Report Cites Dangers of Autonomous Weapons · · Score: 1

    ..who mistook a maternity ward for a computer center...

  4. Re:"Destroy ing innovation" on Rubio, Cruz Try To Kill Neutrality On 1-Year Rule Anniversary (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    The guy who fears that lobbyists will write the net neutrality laws is still modded "insightful" even though its been well publicized right here on slashdot that AT&T/etc wrote the net neutrality laws.

  5. that most users would be able to understand the lingo

    We do understand the lingo. Thats the problem. Its the author/editor that doesn't.

  6. Re: pretending that back doors dont exist on Apple Lawyer Ted Olson: Creating Unlock Tool Would Lead To 'Orwellian' Society (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Where in the Constitution is the enumerated duty to force Apple to fabricate software?

    The commerce clause, silly.

  7. Re:Seriously thats how they compare? on Are CEOs Overpaid? Not Compared With College Presidents (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    AFAIK few CEOs have been prosecuted for anything in recent decades

    Ah yes, the "as far as I know" metric of veracity.

    Just off the top of my head I can think of a dozen in the past decade just in the tech industry. Everything from the CEO of WorldCom to the CEO of Computer Associates.

    One has to wonder why you had to explain to us that you dont know anything on the subject you then pretended to be an expert on.

  8. Re:Why does that bother you? on Are CEOs Overpaid? Not Compared With College Presidents (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    If the politicians want to give the publics money to billionaire profit-making machines like NFL stadiums, then maybe you should be mad at the politicians. Just sayin'

  9. Re:The only hope on Rubio, Cruz Try To Kill Neutrality On 1-Year Rule Anniversary (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    We're always going to get higher taxes and more government spending.

    As long as defeatist twats think that this is true, sure.

  10. Re:"Consumers should be driving the market" on Rubio, Cruz Try To Kill Neutrality On 1-Year Rule Anniversary (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    That's because many people can't do math.

    It is because their variables are different from your variables that you dont understand their math.

    Such a plan would be ideal (save them money.. you know, the fucking math you were waving your hands ignorantly about) for almost every one of my friends.

  11. Re:"Destroy ing innovation" on Rubio, Cruz Try To Kill Neutrality On 1-Year Rule Anniversary (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    THE LOBBYISTS who specialize in these officials GOT TO THEM.

    The lobbyists wrote the current net neutrality law.

  12. Re:Playing Devil Advocate on Microsoft Unhappy With Beta Testers, Demands Answers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The user "Billy Gates" is a notorious liar. Yes, you caught him lying again. It wont stop him in the future because for him the feels are more important than the facts.

  13. pretending that back doors dont exist on Apple Lawyer Ted Olson: Creating Unlock Tool Would Lead To 'Orwellian' Society (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Pretending that back doors don't exist is what will create an Orwellian society.

    The back door is already there. Thats the problem. The problem isn't that the government wants Apple to use it, and certainly not that the government wants Apple to create one (remember the original narrative?)

  14. Re:Do a million things right and three things wron on Tackling The Future Of Digital Trust -- While It Still Exists (ieee.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obligatory reflection on identity theft.

  15. I have lots of steam games on Valve's SteamOS Now Supports Vulkan, The Cross-Platform Alternative To DirectX 12 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 0

    I have lots of steam games, but I dont trust the steam client and therefore certainly dont trust the steam OS.

    Here is the deal. Steam includes a web browser (currently based on webkit I think) but on windows you cannot disable flash in the steam client. The only thing that you can do is remove the client from your global flash plugin folder, which means flash will no longer work in any browser that uses this location, not just steams.

    Over the years the valve forums have been inundated with requests for this ability, pointing out that multi-player game servers can force valve games into rendering arbitrary html and flash content in their "message of the day" ... and for years valve was fucking silent on the matter.. refused to even acknowledge a problem...

    ...and later when it finally became "common knowledge" that flash wasnt safe all they fucking did was allow you to disable "message of the day"s rather than fix the fucking security nightmare.

    Until valve shows some fucking responsibility towards the users of their software, there is no fucking way that I will run their fucking operating system. I dont give a fuck how "open source" it is, because shit being "open source" doesnt protect me if the people writing it are some fucks that wont lift a finger to prevent their users from getting fucked by notorious security holes that they themselves enabled.

  16. Re:Run or cycle to work on Big Health Benefits To Small Weight Loss (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    and the bacteria don't create the smell

    100% of the bacteria that is washed off doesnt produce body order. You are still focused on whats been washed off, right? It seemed real important to you, asking studies about the very topic of washed off bacteria.

    Is your rank smelly disgusting gross ignorant fuckass picking up what I am putting down? TAKE A FUCKING SHOWER.

  17. Re:President Trump isn't "owned" by corporations. on Former Disney IT Worker's Complaint To Congress: How Can You Allow This? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Trump is a bully who's core support comes from disenfranchised xenophobes.

    And the problem is that the disenfranchised....

    a) dont deserve a voice
    b) shouldnt be alloewd to have a voice
    c) fuck those guys

    It is a, b, or c?

  18. Re:Run or cycle to work on Big Health Benefits To Small Weight Loss (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    That's not how it works.

    Thats how remembering things works.

    Instead, why don't you provide some studies that show that show how many bacteria are actually removed by showering

    The amount of bacteria removed doesnt determine smell. You are now proving that you dont care about an evidence-based approach since you made sure to only look for "evidence" that cant refutee your bullshit premise.

    TAKE A FUCKING SHOWER INSTEAD OF LOOKING FOR REASONS NOT TO

  19. Re:Run or cycle to work on Big Health Benefits To Small Weight Loss (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Hate to have to clue someone in on this on slashdot....

    Body sweat doesnt smell.

    Repeat that to yourself 3 times, because its a fact. If you smell when sweating its because you were already gross before you started sweating.

    The grandparent is right. Take a shower. When you are doing so thoroughly rinse the key areas with soap and water.. asshole, crotch, armpits, and tits. Remember also that soap isnt magic. The purpose of soap is to lower the surface tension of the water that you are rinsing yourself with. Washing isnt simply a matter of rubbing soap on and then rinsing it off.. the soap is a tool. The objective is to rinse yourself off with soapy (low surface tension) water, not to rinse soap off with water.

  20. Re:I thought leftists supported public shaming? on How Donald Trump Uses Twitter As a Weapon of Fear · · Score: 1

    It's mostly the anti-feminists saying that they should not be criticised

    Whats this, did someone forget to inform me that we are to treat things as completely opposite to reality today?

    You, AmiMoJo, are a fucking serial liar on the subject and have proved it once again.

  21. Re:Impeach Obama on Obama Administration Set To Expand Sharing of Data That NSA Intercepts (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because racism

  22. Re:Game theory is usually about dickheads on Rubio and Kasich Are Living Out a Classic Game Theory Dilemma · · Score: 1

    only to realize that it was not solvable by your toolkit.

    When your toolkit does not include any sort of applied logic....

  23. Re:Equivalent to 500000 cars over what time period on Damage Report: LA Methane Leak Is One of the Worst Disasters In US History (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 2

    Just because there are glaciers in the world remaining does not mean that many glaciers in the world have already been lost.

    Sure, but when you tell politicians that you predict that a particular glacier is very likely to melt, and then it doesn't do what you said... this failed prediction is a data point that goes into the column keeping track of the veracity of your predictions, and within this column the distribution of errors better turn out to be normally distributed

    If all the science is rigorously peer reviewed then of course the prediction errors will be normally distributed, but peer reviewed science isnt what backed the prediction that the IPCC told policy makers (based on an editorial from the world wildlife foundation, really?), and guess what... the error falls towards alarmism. Are we likely to see more alarmism play a role in the prediction errors coming out of the IPCC?

  24. Re:Great, one less reason for males on New Research Shows You Can Grow Sperm In a Dish (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Never heard of a vasectomy, have you? If you don't want to father kids, then it's your responsibility to ensure it doesn't happen, not hers.

    Sounds like a good argument against abortion too.

  25. Re:Assumes viewers don't think on Rubio and Kasich Are Living Out a Classic Game Theory Dilemma · · Score: 2

    The argument that this is a classic game theory dilemma assumes that only the actions of candidates matter and that voters don't think and aren't aware of this situation.

    Early-career politicians have different motivations than as does late-career politicians. The best move for the young/new players is to always to keep running, to keep building up their own constituency. If you want to play the presidential election game you have to build up a reliable base of supporters on a national level.

    Staying in for them is a dominant strategy.

    Its certainly no prisoners dilemma if a player is playing a dominant strategy. The entire premise is bullshit.