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  1. Re:AIs, or Sentients? on Google CEO Predicts AI-Fueled Future (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Possibly you're correct, but prediction is hard. AI systems are showing pretty remarkable advancement beyond just "searching a huge decision tree" at this point.

  2. Re:Facebook HATES turkey. (turquise K) on Google CEO Predicts AI-Fueled Future (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    yesterday I submited a request to Google to exclude a result including my name that is related with a personal matter. if Google doesn't give a fuck about my carreer (brilliant scientist, charity entrepreneur, just a funny guy with the double of your IQ)... just IF that damn result keep people imaging the reason why I CAN'T be realted with social media, THEN that CEO dude definetely was just talking about some interesting observations that he read on someone else's Twitter.

    Prototype Google Artificial Insanity engine?

  3. AIs, or Sentients? on Google CEO Predicts AI-Fueled Future (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    When people say stuff like this, I wonder about what happens when the AI gets too good. "Smart" devices are fine, but once machines acquire sentience, they're going to need civil rights, or we will have created a comfy slave state for ourselves.

  4. That's a nice network you have there... on Businesses Pay $100,000 To DDoS Extortionists Who Never DDoS Anyone (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3

    ... it would be a pity if anything happened to it.

  5. Hell, I've been doing it for free.

    Bern Bros on the internet are almost all completely full of shit. I'm glad to hear somebody is mounting an organized response.

  6. Whatever else he is on Google's Ray Kurzweil Wants To Live Forever, and He Thinks It Includes Nanobots (playboy.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Whatever else he is, Kurzweil is undeniably a self-promoting hack who is almost always completely wrong about everything.

    Sorry. He's going to die just like the rest of us.

  7. Hooray for Norway! on Anders Behring Breivik, Norway Murderer, Wins Human Rights Case · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Long-term solitary confinement is cruel and inhuman, and should be illegal. Period.

  8. Fuck systemd! on Ubuntu Linux Continues To Dominate OpenStack and Other Clouds (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Neckbeards yell at clouds.

  9. Re:Your tuition fees at work on UC Davis Spent $175,000 To Bury Search Results After Cops Pepper-Sprayed Protestors (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Your tuition fees at work. Shouldn't that money be spent on a good education?

    Pepper spray for you, troublemaker!

  10. I don't know which is more depressing... on UC Davis Spent $175,000 To Bury Search Results After Cops Pepper-Sprayed Protestors (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... the fact that Davis tried to bury this in the first place, or that they were gullible enough to flush $175K down the toilet for that kind of scam.

  11. Great idea! on Phone-Friendly Movie Theaters For Millennials Could Be Reality Soon (variety.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Separate auditoriums for people who text in the theater! Just lock the doors and leave them in there permanently.

  12. Re:I bet Hillary likes this... on House Panel Approves Bill To Protect Older Email From Gov't Snooping (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Not that I have a full understanding of the whole private email server fiasco (TLDR requested), but either she was indited for a crime and a warrant could legally be issued for said emails, or there wasn't just cause, in which case these privacy protections would prevent officers from going on a fishing trip. What are you arguing for exactly?

    This. "Servergate" seems to be largely being propagated by people who don't seem to know how email works. If I'm allowed to access, for example, classified emails from a personal device, then they are, by defnition, copied to that device. Whether that device is a "server" or not is utterly irrelevant.

  13. Great plan until you have multiple devices.

    Because there's absolutely no way to work around that problem.

  14. Just store your old emails locally, instead of with your mail provider. Unless the provider logs everything, for all time, they can't cough it up, even with a warrant.

  15. I would be more impressed by what he's saying if I didn't know he founded Medium, the biggest McIntellectual pile of crap since TED talks.

  16. Re:Stable relationships still an important value on Genetic Studies Prove Cuckolded Fathers Are Rare In Human Populations · · Score: 1

    Who let David Brooks in here?

  17. Oh, hurray... on Ubuntu Budgie Could Be The New Flavor of Ubuntu Linux (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    ... another Windows Start Menu clone.

  18. Re:Wouldn't this only block us from one viewpoint? on Lasers Could Hide Us From Evil Aliens (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Given the vastness of the galaxy, it seems inevitable that the earth is transitioning the sun from some distant viewpoint on the galactic plane essentially all the time. Are we supposed to continuously fire lasers (which would probably screw up our own astronomy) in all directions at all times?

    This. You would have to be shining the laser in the opposite direction from the sun continuously, unless you already know where the aliens are you're trying to hide from. But only away from the sun, since all you have to mask is a transit.

    You'd also better hope the aliens don't do spectroscopic measurements.

  19. Re:The Real Question on Man Builds 'Scarlett Johansson' Robot From Scratch (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does it run Linux?

    The real question is does it run systemd.

  20. Who edited this? on Study Says People Who Continually Point Out Typos Are 'Jerks' · · Score: 1

    Sophie Kleeman writes at Gizmodo that according to a study at the University of Michigan people who are more sensitive to written typos and grammatical errors

    You should comma after an introductory clause, like this:

    Sophie Kleeman writes at Gizmodo that according to a study at the University of Michigan, people who are more sensitive to written typos and grammatical errors

  21. Re: No amount of evidence is enough on The Arctic Sets Yet Another Record Low Maximum Extent (nsidc.org) · · Score: 2

    PS: Look into a city called Venice (the one in Italy).

    You couldn't have picked ironically appropriate example.

  22. Re:No amount of evidence is enough on The Arctic Sets Yet Another Record Low Maximum Extent (nsidc.org) · · Score: 1

    Since when is this not EXACTLY how the scientific process should work?

    No, it's now how science should work. Science allows you to actually reach actionable conclusions about the world. That's the point.

  23. Re:No amount of evidence is enough on The Arctic Sets Yet Another Record Low Maximum Extent (nsidc.org) · · Score: 1

    Kill the ban on breeder reactors in the United States and license French reactor designs. Could be done in 10-15 years and cut our carbon output 50%. Unfortunately there is no political will to do what needs to be done.

    Agree completely.

  24. No amount of evidence is enough on The Arctic Sets Yet Another Record Low Maximum Extent (nsidc.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It really doesn't matter how much compelling evidence continues to pile up that global warming is an imminent threat, deniers will continue to deny. If I believed in an afterlife, I would sincerely hope that those choosing inaction would spend eternity hearing the cries of the billions who will suffer as a consequence. But there will be no such luck.

  25. Re:With a name like Chamath Palihapitiya on One of Silicon Valley's Most Esteemed VCs Says Startups Are 'Mostly Crap' (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Racist.

    How do you know her as anything but a white blue-eyed blonde Valley girl, except by her annoyingly long and unpronounceable name?

    "Racist", right back at'cha!

    She's also a dude. From Sri Lanka. You know, a country which speaks fucking Tamil and Sinhala, and doesn't give two shits about what a couple of English-speaking dumbfucks think about how they name their kids.