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  1. Re:What's the point? on NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Uses 7.1 Billion Transistor GK110 GPU · · Score: 1

    Multi display gaming and 4K monitors right around the corner may also give it a run for its money.

  2. Re:Big deal... on Billionaires Secretly Fund Vast Climate Denial Network · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It can be true with mutators like positive or negative bias applied.

    This is reported by an environment journalist. And while it may be entirely true that the money is explicitly used to attack global warming. There's no mention whatsoever of the money used to attack global warming skepticism that is channeled to the other side of the pond from sources like Al Gore and other people that are investors in greentech.

    This is why I hate the climate debate. It ceased to be science a long time ago, it's all about politics nowdays. Trying to objectively categorise it is the same as being as being a presidential candidate that claims to be 45% democrat and 55% republican: You'll get flakk from both sides and votes from none.

  3. Re:Still overdue on Russian Meteor Largest In a Century · · Score: -1

    A once a century event. And it hit no one that deserved it? Such a shame.
    Though I guess Steve Jobs and Hitler weren't availible as targets.

  4. Re:First strike on Printable AR-15 Mag Gets More Reliable; YouTube Pulls Video of Demo · · Score: 2

    Assault crossbows on youtube? Time to call the think of the children brigade!

  5. Re:first on Updated Model Puts Earth On the Edge of the Habitable Zone · · Score: 1

    What do they mean would happen if the earth moved 1% closer to the sun then? Everything burst into flames, the oceans evaporate and the moon falls down unto our head?

    It seems to me that they are trying to form fit the equations to put earth on the extreme border.

    Or they're playing buzzword bingo and decide to use the worst apocalyptic CO2 forcing knife-edge-balanced runaway GW scenarios which sets the world on fire if solar influx is just slightly elevated.

  6. Refined singularity on Interviews: Ask Ray Kurzweil About the Future of Mankind and Technology · · Score: 1

    Do you not feel a need to refine the singularity concept and flesh it out a bit?

    The idea that I feel you convey is that we have an accelerated progress rate(which I find nothing wrong with), but that this would lead to a lightning-strike like event like a singularity, is lowering a religious rapture-like veil over it.

    Whereas, to use the fundamental view: a exponential curve climbing to a singularity, we'd find nothing instantaneous and rapture like about the singularity moment at all. Because the curve is smoothly climbing. So what's interesting is not the singularity event at all, that's just some endpoint where theoretical mapping of progress may break down. What's interesting is the Rapid Climb for the short period before we get to that point.

    There will be no sharp transition, we'll transition from crippled, to walking(I guess we're here right now), to running, to dashing forward at highway speeds. That's a lot more appealing concept, because I can go out there and join the runners and accelerate with them, as opposed to lie in my sofa, waiting for the divine finger-snap transition.

  7. Re:Subtractive 3D Printers don't harm people on A Robot With a Chainsaw! · · Score: 1

    Just tell them to make sure that the head mesh is attached to the rest before clicking submit.

  8. Based on an almost true story on Norwegian Study: Global Warming Less Severe Than Feared · · Score: 5, Funny

    DENIERS, BUUUUUUUURN THEM!
    Wait wait. How do we know they are deniers?
    Because they look like it!
    Yes, but, we have to prove it.
    Uuuh... they're made of oil... so they float?
    Yes, and what else floats?
    Ducks?
    Yes, so fetch me a duck and I get my scales out....

  9. Re:YABSFMS - yet another buggy system from MS on With MS Research Help, UN Attempts To Model All of Earth's Ecosystems · · Score: 2

    They'll just put politicians as apex predators and key to preserving biodiversity, then claim they've filled in all the important spots and only have to add some minor details to finalize it.

  10. Re:More context provided in the extended clip. on Steve Jobs Movie Clip Historically Inaccurate, Says Woz · · Score: 4, Funny

    It was also before he invaded poland.

  11. Re:Ah! on Why Ray Kurzweil's Google Project May Be Doomed To Fail · · Score: 0

    Being the original grandparent or whatever poster; this is virtually a knife in my own back, but anyway, for neural networks, things will be slow as shit, end of story.

    But; things can be simplified, trained separately or bypassed by other creative processes, in this case, the end justifies the means, so unnatural and 'inhuman' practices are totally fair play in this case. That said, I hope that dear Ray have a strongly opinioned council of google engineers, becaue, well, I do think they have a very much better clue about how to do thinks better than him: he's a visionary, not a practical implementer.

  12. Re:Ah! on Why Ray Kurzweil's Google Project May Be Doomed To Fail · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The chinese room is the dumbest fucking thought experiment in the history of the universy. Also, Penrose is a fucking retard when it comes to consciousness.

    Now, having put the abrasive comments aside(without bothering about the critique of the aforementioned atrocities: the internet and googles provides a much better job of the fine details regarding that than any post here will ever make)

    SOooooo, back to the topic at hand: Boris Katz forgets a very important detail: A lifetime of experience to a computer cluster with several thousand cores, and several billion Hz of operational frequency, per core, can be passed in a very short time. Now I'm not saying it is guaranteed to work, or to provide any viable resource but I'm saying it's not unfeasible.

    I'm however also not particularly excited about Kurrzweil; he's a good introduction, but the presentation he gives is a bit too shallow and oriented towards laymen(a good method to spread the idea, but a bad one to refine it or get good critique)

  13. Re:Remember on Student Expelled From Montreal College For Finding "Sloppy Coding" · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Crime?
    If I see a bank vault missing a wall, am I criminal for pointing out this obvious and stupid flaw?

  14. Re:Let's not celebrate on the graves of too many on Mathematicians Aim To Take Publishers Out of Publishing · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Converting to mechanized agriculture had its casualties too.
    Converting to steam power had its casualties too.
    Converting to digital IC computers had casualties too.
    Invading Nazi germany had its casualties too.

  15. Re:If you sleep with a dog, you get fleas on The Atlantic's Scientology Advertorial · · Score: 1

    I dont' think opressive scientology ads are important to the livelihood of the atlantic. I think it's important to the expanded profit margins of the upper echelons.

  16. Re:One of the execs on Former Nortel Execs Await Corporate Fraud Ruling · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course its just coincidence.
    We should free these poor, innocent and, more importantly, rich men and pay them $450 million each of taxpayer money to compensate for the terrible suffering and stain of reputation that the legal system have wrought upon them.

  17. Re:Isn't this just bulimia? on Dean Kamen Invents Stomach Pump For Dieters · · Score: 1

    You'll loose ions in the voimit pumpout, so excess use will either need supplementing or monitoring to prevent various complications.

  18. Re:I preferred the BBC's slightly ambiguous headli on Molecular Robot Mimics Life's Protein-Builder · · Score: 4, Funny

    I disagree.

    We are actually big clothed apes.

  19. Re:How has the exploit maker gone unfound? on Java Zero-Day Vulnerability Rolled Into Exploit Packs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Follow the money and you probably find that various three letter agencies are his main customers.

  20. Re:24,000 Americans die each year on Boston Declares Health Emergency Due To Massive Flu Outbreak · · Score: 2

    Elderly and children do not respond with classic symptoms always, along with possible co-infections and whatnot else it's pretty hard to tell if it's actually flu, some passing other infection, or other natural causes.

  21. Re:I'm home sick, now. on Boston Declares Health Emergency Due To Massive Flu Outbreak · · Score: 1

    Where should the treshhold to sick be drawn? A light cough and running nose would mean me staying at home ~1 month per year.

  22. Re:Thank God... on NASA On Full Court Press To Deflate Doomsday Prophecies · · Score: 4, Funny

    The amount of stupidity will exceed the swarzchild limit, luckily nothing will escape from here after that.

  23. Re:Guess who I am! on When Writing, How Anonymous Can You Be, Really? · · Score: 1

    Maybe he don't have a face?

  24. Re:Guess who I am! on When Writing, How Anonymous Can You Be, Really? · · Score: 2, Informative

    >Based on the above, who am I?
    Anonymous

  25. Re:I tell my kids he uses Apple maps. on Google Loses Santa To Bing · · Score: 5, Funny

    The mayans predicted the disaster that is Apple maps. The end of the era is due to Santa using his iPhone to navigate and strays into NK airspace, being mistaken for a US spyplane and swiftly shot down.