Well, my Andorian affectionately call me "Pinky", and it doesn't bother me.
However, I am quite upset that IBM doesn't recognize the ethnicity of "Kid, who grew up on a Polygamous Ranch". I feel inconclusive, or something like that.
In other news, an IBM development manager recently got slammed for blaming "Race Conditions" for problems in their software.
How much more racist can you get than that!
My guess is that the IBM webpages were outsourced to somewhere where they didn't realize that the terms were offensive.
There's nothing really new about a folding phone that morphs into a pad. Various folks have been talking about this for a long time.
I wouldn't be surprised if they even built prototypes and evaluated them internally. That fact that Apple has not even hinted at such a critter probably means that they decided that the product wouldn't be a big hit.
Time will tell if others have success with their models . . .
. . . they'll have to get it the old fashioned way.
They can kiss my hairy ass, and swab their lips afterwards.
We have a positive match of your DNA to a murder crime scene from 1910. This was before you were born, but it could have been an accident with a contraceptive in a time machine.
It doesn't produce plutonium in useful quantities, nor does it teach you much, if anything, about designing the equipment that does produce Pu in useful quantities.
They don't want to produce Plutonium . . . they want to produce Polonium. Very useful for getting rid of pests like Jamal Khashoggi. The butchering in the Istanbul was very messy. Polonium poisoning would have been much cleaner.
He's clearly a psychopath and a danger to society, and should be locked up in a psychiatric institution until he is no longer poses a danger.
Many twenty year olds are horrible people but they usually grow up.
Yeah, but unfortunately . . . sometimes psychopaths are very good at convincing their psychologists that they have been "cured".
Some folks like this never grow up.
Maybe instead of building a wall along the border with Mexico, we should be planting trees along it?
I mean, not normal trees, but Normandy-like hedgerows that were impassable by the US troops in WWII. They needed to mount tusk-like diggers on Sherman tanks to get through.
It would keep folks from sneaking across the border illegally, and be Green, as well.
. . . unless the border crashers get their hands on some Sherman tanks.
The teacher throws all the class's mathematics homework down a staircase. Papers at the top of the staircase get the highest grades; papers at the bottom of the staircase get the lowest grades.
Repeat with English, History, etc. homework.
Yes, very repetitive.
An AI robot arm can toss the papers down the stairs. An AI camera can record which ones are at the top or bottom. An AI iRobot Roomba can collect the papers.
Yes, a great use of AI automation.
The latest Roombas can climb stairs, right . . . ?
Take a 'nightmare of pomposity' like Princeton or Yale: if you subtract the affirmative-action types, you're generally left with world-class professors, especially in non-wishywashy subjects unlike the Humanities.
Don't forget the importance of the students. At Princeton or Yale, you'll be surrounded by world-class students. And sometimes, students learn more from each other than they do from the professors.
The classes won't be held back by a bunch of slackers, like in high school.
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They make it sound like that's the easy part.
Indeed.
Question: What do you call specified parameters of what you want to build? Answer: Source code.
. . . and then the customer says:
That's what I asked for . . . but not what I need!"
Well what else would Homer Simpson be?
Well, my Andorian affectionately call me "Pinky", and it doesn't bother me.
However, I am quite upset that IBM doesn't recognize the ethnicity of "Kid, who grew up on a Polygamous Ranch". I feel inconclusive, or something like that.
In other news, an IBM development manager recently got slammed for blaming "Race Conditions" for problems in their software.
How much more racist can you get than that!
My guess is that the IBM webpages were outsourced to somewhere where they didn't realize that the terms were offensive.
which they coped with by having sex at the office and smoking weed.
Are they hiring?
. . . maybe we could make IT development more popular by replacing our "scrum" with an "orgy" . . . ?
The question though is this: Where is APPLE?
There's nothing really new about a folding phone that morphs into a pad. Various folks have been talking about this for a long time.
I wouldn't be surprised if they even built prototypes and evaluated them internally. That fact that Apple has not even hinted at such a critter probably means that they decided that the product wouldn't be a big hit.
Time will tell if others have success with their models . . .
Sounds like an attack vector for the Internet of Scooters as well.
These scooters seem to have a lot of enemies.
My first thought that this braking was caused by malevolent hackers who are annoyed by scooters.
I really doubt they are being used though, or else you would see porn based on captures from them.
American Airlines: "We're not using the cameras . . . and if the DHS and NSA we're using them . . . we would not be allowed to tell you."
How come the DHS and NSA always get the best homemade amateur porn . . . ?
. . . they'll have to get it the old fashioned way.
They can kiss my hairy ass, and swab their lips afterwards.
We have a positive match of your DNA to a murder crime scene from 1910. This was before you were born, but it could have been an accident with a contraceptive in a time machine.
Soooo...people who are healthier have less diseases. Well done!
I outsource my push-up doing . . . does that count . . . ?
It doesn't produce plutonium in useful quantities, nor does it teach you much, if anything, about designing the equipment that does produce Pu in useful quantities.
They don't want to produce Plutonium . . . they want to produce Polonium. Very useful for getting rid of pests like Jamal Khashoggi. The butchering in the Istanbul was very messy. Polonium poisoning would have been much cleaner.
Which is the most "sophisticated state actor" you can think of?
Why, Ronald Reagan, of course.
I rejected some as just being awkward and rewrote them, but they didn't make it into the ad.
. . . like the one where you made a shameless plug for Slashdot . . .
Now that would have been über-geek: Planting a Slashdot plug in an IBM ad!
Clearly a horrible person, but life in prison?
He's clearly a psychopath and a danger to society, and should be locked up in a psychiatric institution until he is no longer poses a danger.
Many twenty year olds are horrible people but they usually grow up.
Yeah, but unfortunately . . . sometimes psychopaths are very good at convincing their psychologists that they have been "cured". Some folks like this never grow up.
Ergo either they suspect he paid for it, or are harrassing him, knowing he cannot be found guilty of anything.
I think they are aiming to make him guilty.
Like, "Un-American Activities", back in the McCarthy days.
Wait a minute... we can dance?
Well . . .
Ah we can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind
Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
Well they're are no friends of mine I say, we can go where we want to, a place where they will never find
And we can act like we come from out of this world
Leave the real one far behind,
And we can dance
Etc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
But after watching that video . . . maybe we should just leave it be.
Yet we still hear calls for socialist ideas ringning loud and clear.
Well, The Economist thinks that this is yet another thing that we can blame on The Millennials:
Millennial Socialism: https://www.economist.com/lead...
I've always said if Amazon wants to be really beneficial and transformational, place their HQ2 in a rust-belt city.
Bezos doesn't own a home in a rust-belt city. Unlike Washington, DC or NYC.
USA leads in climate change denial.
Maybe instead of building a wall along the border with Mexico, we should be planting trees along it?
I mean, not normal trees, but Normandy-like hedgerows that were impassable by the US troops in WWII. They needed to mount tusk-like diggers on Sherman tanks to get through.
It would keep folks from sneaking across the border illegally, and be Green, as well.
. . . unless the border crashers get their hands on some Sherman tanks.
It makes me worry, that the only thing stopping some religion people from being mass murders is the fact they have religion.
Now only if religion could stop their priests and ministers from abusing their congregations' children . . .
Why the Newspeak ?
One man's dividend . . . is another man's tax.
The really sad part is it won't even make it to Shelbyville.
With those billions that they wasted, they could have bought e-scooters for everyone in Shelbyville.
And for everyone in San Francisco and Los Angeles, as well.
Then all those folks could e-scooter their way between San Francisco and Los Angeles . . . via Shelbyville.
Did you just compare the human rights/freedom situation in China to the free/democratic ISRAEL??
We should be honoured the top post statement.
US Congress Critter Rep. Ilhan Omar is participating on Slashdot to ramp up her 2020 Presidential campaign!
Grading homework is boring repetitive work.
The teacher throws all the class's mathematics homework down a staircase. Papers at the top of the staircase get the highest grades; papers at the bottom of the staircase get the lowest grades.
Repeat with English, History, etc. homework.
Yes, very repetitive.
An AI robot arm can toss the papers down the stairs. An AI camera can record which ones are at the top or bottom. An AI iRobot Roomba can collect the papers.
Yes, a great use of AI automation.
The latest Roombas can climb stairs, right . . . ?
Take a 'nightmare of pomposity' like Princeton or Yale: if you subtract the affirmative-action types, you're generally left with world-class professors, especially in non-wishywashy subjects unlike the Humanities.
Don't forget the importance of the students. At Princeton or Yale, you'll be surrounded by world-class students. And sometimes, students learn more from each other than they do from the professors.
The classes won't be held back by a bunch of slackers, like in high school.
Wasn't Slashdot's value written down to $0?
That would be an underachievement for Slashdot users if we were merely valued at $0.
I would hope that advertisers see us as a highly negative value.
In other words, advertising to us actually hurts their product sales.
And maryjooanna - AKA devil's lettuce -makes black people violent!
Well, that makes sense. Virginia Governor Ralph Northam latest explanation is that a bong hit made him wear blackface.
. . . or maybe it was his measles vaccination . . . ?