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  1. Re:Is it even possible to buy a new 32 bit chip? on Linux Letting Go: 32-bit Builds On the Way Out (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Cool, but this story is only talking about the i386 architecture (32-bit x86).

    32-bit ARM chips will still be supported.

  2. Re: It Doesn't Matter; It Won't Ever Happen on Drivers Prefer Autonomous Cars That Don't Kill Them (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Alright then, cool. We probably disagree on some definitional stuff, but I think we agree on the larger points. :)

  3. Re: It Doesn't Matter; It Won't Ever Happen on Drivers Prefer Autonomous Cars That Don't Kill Them (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Human drivers don't have morally-derived rulesets that "cover even rare situations." Human drivers are barely capable of obeying traffic lights.

    The AI driver is capable of being safer than any human driver, even if it's programmed to solve the Trolley Problem like this: http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/i...

  4. Re:It Doesn't Matter; It Won't Ever Happen on Drivers Prefer Autonomous Cars That Don't Kill Them (hothardware.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But the car doesn't need to make a psychic "This is the most valuable life" calculation/decision.

    It just uses its regular crash-avoidance behavior (say, hitting the brakes), and maybe somebody dies. The cop on the scene decides that the pedestrian probably shouldn't have been trying to cross the freeway, and everyone else moves on with their lives. The end.

  5. Modern Family on Is The Future Of Television Watching on Fast-Forward? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "I quickly discovered that acceleration makes viewing more pleasurable. "Modern Family" played at twice the speed is far funnier -- the jokes come faster and they seem to hit harder.

    Well maybe, but you didn't exactly pick a show worth watching in the first place...

  6. Re:Can I make one rob a bank as it's win win on Elon Musk's Open Source OpenAI: We're Working On a Robot For Your Household Chores (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Right, though.

  7. Re:Can I make one rob a bank as it's win win on Elon Musk's Open Source OpenAI: We're Working On a Robot For Your Household Chores (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No? They'll just arrest whomever told the robot to rob the bank.

  8. Re:mcdonalds to get sued? on WHO: Drinking Extremely Hot Coffee, Tea 'Probably' Causes Cancer (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    McFact #9: She was the passenger in the car, and the car was parked at the time.

  9. From the article:

    We have no physical separation between the components that we can trust and the untrusted ME components, so we can't even cut them off the mainboard anymore.

    Why do you trust the main CPU, if you don't trust the ME chip?

  10. Re:interesting editorializing... on AMD Announces Radeon RX 470, RX 460 Graphics Cards (gamespot.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I imagine that the Chinese company might receive preference in China - whether that's through tariffs or subsidies or just plain national pride, it might convince a lot of customers (government, business, or consumer) in China to buy it instead of Intel chips.

  11. Re:Why does the media use the term "gay nightclub" on FBI Director Comey: 'Highly Confident' Orlando Shooter Radicalized Through Internet (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Because he shot the place up because he hated gay people. Duh.

    He also had a documented history of racism, which might explain why he went on Latin Night.

  12. Re:Governments are the only ones who censor. on The Web's Creator Thinks We Need a New One That Governments Can't Control (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    A logical conclusion to draw from that is "Censorship isn't always bad."

    For example, I don't need to spend time reading off-topic slashdot posts containing whatever racist/sexist screed the author has bouncing around their brain that day.

  13. It turns out that in addition to having vibration motors, smartphones also have regular microphones.

    Who'da thunk?

  14. Re:Free Advertising on BuzzFeed Ends $1.3M Advertising Deal With RNC Over Donald Trump (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I must have missed the news - when did we elect Buzzfeed as our new government?

  15. Re:Free Advertising on BuzzFeed Ends $1.3M Advertising Deal With RNC Over Donald Trump (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Exactly! We should only criticize ILLEGAL things. Anything that is not illegal is GOOD! Everyone knows that - except HITLERS.

  16. Re:Free Advertising on BuzzFeed Ends $1.3M Advertising Deal With RNC Over Donald Trump (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yeah! The loony left is trying to SILENCE us racists, xenophobes, bigots, and elitists, by using their gosh-darn high-falutin fanny-tootin WORDS! It's high-time these liberal tree huggers learnt them all that we have FREE SPEECH!

  17. (I am a libertarian)

    Don't worry, we can tell.

  18. Re:Fuck No! on How The FAA Shot Down 'Uber For Planes' (fee.org) · · Score: 2

    82x of a low chance is still a low chance. Your source puts general aviation fatality rate at 1.31 per 100,000 flight hours.

    In other words, you've got about a 0.001% chance of death when making the flight mentioned in the summary. Maybe not the best odds, but not really "utterly insane."

  19. Re:Oh hell no on How The FAA Shot Down 'Uber For Planes' (fee.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Right, just like the Uber driver was already planning on driving from my house to the airport. I just hopped in because he happened to be going that way.

  20. Re:Campaign reform may be in order on Scott Walker Rents Out Email and Donor Lists To Pay Campaign Debt (wisconsingazette.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sure, as long as you get the X signatures required to be recognized as an official candidate.

  21. Re:Forking their own product? on Smaller Xbox One Coming This Year, More Powerful Xbox One In 2017, Says Report (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    On the other hand; an advantage of PC gaming is that a lot of what you want to play will run on your cheapo laptop from 3 years ago, which you probably already have. Don't need to go get a $400 gaming machine if your laptop runs the games you want to play just fine.

  22. Re:I'm wishing for help from terminal programs on Pastejacking Attack Appends Malicious Terminal Commands To Your Clipboard (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    On Mac, iTerm2 will warn you "You're about to paste [1] lines ending in a newline. Are you sure?" Or sometimes "408 lines."

  23. Re:Let me guess on Rovio's Desperate Push For 'Angry Birds' Movie (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    If you look at the cast list; it's actually quite the sausage party: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt19...

  24. Re:Uber and Lyft - hitchhiking for money! on Uber Knows Exactly When You'll Pay Surge Pricing (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    "I lived near a rich black person and I didn't hate them, therefore racism doesn't exist."

  25. Re:Strong enough for a man, made for a woman on Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/N...

    Men are the ones doing this. We are talking about what men do. To say "Oh, well, they're not REALLY men because REAL MEN don't do this" is just a transparent attempt by Jeff to distance himself from these men, and serves to distract from the larger point (the behavior of men vs women).