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  1. Birth control on Robot Babies Not Effective Birth Control, Australian Study Finds (sky.com) · · Score: 1

    You know what makes good birth control? Robot sex dolls with real AI!

  2. Van with a DVD player on Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Use Optical Media? · · Score: 1

    My van has a DVD player and it will for some time. Sometimes I use a raspberry pi and let the kids access media that way but it's also always good to have a couple DVDs on hand

  3. Re: Those were marketing claims on Facebook's WhatsApp Data Gambit Faces Federal Privacy Complaint (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    For all intents and purposes, Facebook has a monopoly on the social internet market in that there is no other social network any one person can get all their friends and family onto.

  4. Re: Those were marketing claims on Facebook's WhatsApp Data Gambit Faces Federal Privacy Complaint (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The "if you don't like it don't do business with them" doesn't hold much water with me. Capitalism is supposed to provide consumers with *choices*. Yet if a person's friends are all on Facebook my choice is already made for me. I cannot go to an alternative solution that values my privacy, and if I were not on Facebook I would be missing events. It's not even because there could never be a profitable business that values my privacy, it is because FB got in first and "the masses" will go to anything else.

  5. Re:Pokemon Go killed more people than Tesla Autopi on Second Confirmed Death In Japan Involving Pokemon Go (japantimes.co.jp) · · Score: 1

    I commented on my obvious logic fail but it didn't go through.

  6. Re:Crowd source the egress on Self-Driving Cars Aren't Going To Be So Great Until We Make Our Maps Better (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    But the bag in the wind example is exactly one of the wide breadth of reasons why automated driving is a completely different problem. In a game of chess, the system has no need to consider the environment of the room the chess board is in. When you are diving, you need to consider everything in the environment and determine whether it is important or not. Google needs to figure out how to determine that bag in the wind in the air isn't important while not driving into something else heavy that that may be dangling from a string. Also none of this bears any importance unless it is affordable and marketable. I have heard that LIDAR is very expensive, therefore it will never find its way into consumer vehicles. Also, Google can't release a car that stops at every bag in the wind.

  7. Re:Pokemon Go killed more people than Tesla Autopi on Second Confirmed Death In Japan Involving Pokemon Go (japantimes.co.jp) · · Score: 2

    Sorry, who has *attempted* to commit suicide. Obvious logic fail there.

  8. Re:Pokemon Go killed more people than Tesla Autopi on Second Confirmed Death In Japan Involving Pokemon Go (japantimes.co.jp) · · Score: 1

    When you release something into the world, you should really understand people. For example, I wouldn't leave a bottle of pills on the nightstand of someone who has committed suicide, or give an alcoholic a bottle of wine as a gift. Sometimes you don't know, but these are things that are easily predictable.

  9. Re:Pokemon Go killed more people than Tesla Autopi on Second Confirmed Death In Japan Involving Pokemon Go (japantimes.co.jp) · · Score: 1

    When you release something into the world, you should really understand people. For example, I wouldn't leave a bottle of pills on the nightstand of someone who has committed suicide, or give an alcoholic a bottle of wine as a gift. Sometimes you don't know, but these are things that are easily predictable.

  10. Re:Crowd source the egress on Self-Driving Cars Aren't Going To Be So Great Until We Make Our Maps Better (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Well I just searched on 'vehicles with infrared sensors' and came up with nothing.

  11. Re:Price differences on iPhones and iPads Fail More Often Than Android Smartphones (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm actually wondering if maybe people tend to just toss their Android devices, but if you have spent $500+ on a device you damn well want to fix it. Personally, my Samsung S3 is just on the way out right now though but I did need to replace the battery once.

  12. You didn't do a very good job of hiding your bias. Just sayin.

  13. I am totally against determining the most reliable phone in terms of reliability.

  14. Re:How can a taxi company... on Uber Loses At Least $1.2 Billion In First Half of 2016 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Yet look at all the people praising Uber now for their lower prices.

  15. Re:Crowd source the egress on Self-Driving Cars Aren't Going To Be So Great Until We Make Our Maps Better (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's actually incorrect, you just don't realize the things that humans are doing because you take it for granted. The example I always use is that I as a human know to be extra careful pulling out of the driveway if there are garage doors open down the street, because I know the neighbors and their habits and if garage doors are open there are probably kids running around the neighborhood playing. An automated car would not detect things in this way, by comparison any sensor that it has is a relatively narrow way of seeing the world and as we have seen from Tesla it may not even see all it needs to see for normal driving.

  16. Re: developed ride sharing app around the same tim on Uber Loses At Least $1.2 Billion In First Half of 2016 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    This leads me to ask.. why are people pushing the idea that we need to advance technologically when we are clearly not headed for the kind of world that is better for more people here. Do we like shiny new things that much, that we would sacrifice our entire place in the economy?

  17. Re:"Some" data? on WhatsApp To Share Some Data With Facebook (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Have no fear, next month banks will be relieving you of the responsibility of having credit because you friended someone who is deep in debt. Or you won't be able to get health insurance because of meds the rest of your family is taking and they think it might be hereditary.

  18. Re:Crowd source the egress on Self-Driving Cars Aren't Going To Be So Great Until We Make Our Maps Better (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    A computer recently beat the top champion at go, which is a great deal more computationally deep than chess; but I agree with your point. All of this is really just a simple calculation done over and over on a very grand scale. Experiencing the real world is opposite, there is an almost infinite number of rules that need to be understood and utilized in order to understand it even on a fundamental level.

  19. Re:The problem isn't that they're old... on HP Hit With Age-Discrimination Suit Claiming Old Workers Purged (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    OMG.. their. Sorry. I'm not a professional speller. :-)

  20. Re:The problem isn't that they're old... on HP Hit With Age-Discrimination Suit Claiming Old Workers Purged (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 2

    It's good to hear some people find there niche. There are a great many talented people that never get into a position like that.

  21. Re:The problem isn't that they're old... on HP Hit With Age-Discrimination Suit Claiming Old Workers Purged (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Becoming expensive is the entire point of starting a career. And IT companies wonder why more people don't go into it.

  22. Re:Fix for H-1B on How the H-1B Visa Program Impacts America's Tech Workers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Again, it depends what is more important; success of corporations that no longer contribute to your country or the the health and well-being of the citizens that actually live in that country. Clearly, the people that are in power have selected the former, they do nothing but benefit from the situation. I am full well that this would be painful for the economy and I am prepared to grow my own vegetables and live without technology. I just ask that it be done evenly across the board, rather than watching some aristocratic elite rise to the stop while everyone else starves.

  23. Re:Just no on Facebook Is Testing Autoplaying Video With Sound (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Ads are a SERVICE. Shut up and take it.

  24. Honest question on Tesla Unveils New Model S, Its Quickest Production Car (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    How long will the battery last if a person does the 2.5 second acceleration at every stop light? Because in all honesty I would have trouble not doing that.

  25. Re:Alarming Battery Costs on Tesla Unveils New Model S, Its Quickest Production Car (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Spark plug replacement? people still do that?