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  1. Re:Swedes try product because of marketing on Contraceptive App Natural Cycles Blamed For String of Unwanted Pregnancies (standard.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    LOL!

    Dinged by the very rare Slashdot woman.

  2. Re:Swedes try product because of marketing on Contraceptive App Natural Cycles Blamed For String of Unwanted Pregnancies (standard.co.uk) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ROFLMAO!

    After after they get married, they only want to fuck like twice a month...if you're lucky.

  3. Whenever I read, "Claps Back", immediately a visage of a McDonald fight appears.

  4. And what the fuck is up with all this High School verbiage?

    "Hits Back", "Claps Back", "Burns", etc. This shit is showing up all over the place in the media.

    Is the national media now just a bunch of fucking High School kids and their school paper?

     

  5. Tie him to a tree.

    Everyone of his victims get one whack at him with a small bat.

    I'm betting it will add up.

  6. You have one trail going from coast to coast.

    I mean to hike it one day.

  7. There is a difference between coming up with a concept and building it out to the entire nation.

  8. Re:Doug Lenat's Test on AI Beats Humans at Reading Comprehension (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    That's the point entirely. People speak in many different ways and you intuitively understand what they are saying despite the sometimes unclear way they say things.

  9. Re:Doug Lenat's Test on AI Beats Humans at Reading Comprehension (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Because people speaking in normal conversation always use the proper rules of English?

    That's the entire point of his work is to enable the computer to understand things that you and I intuitively understand, but which is vague and indeterminate to a computer.

    On the other hand, something AI could benefit from is a properly defined AI interface syntax. Like it does for coding, a properly defined syntax for interacting verbally with computers could move things ahead quite a bit by eliminating the need for the computer to try and figure out what the fuck you are talking about.

  10. Re:YAY for coal? on California Will Close Its Last Nuclear Power Plant (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess all I can say is that Utah should tell CA to go fuck itself and make its own God Damned power.

  11. Re:YAY for coal? on California Will Close Its Last Nuclear Power Plant (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 0

    Except the surrounding states probably don't NEED to sell electricity to CA.

  12. Their Software on The Tech Failings of Hawaii's Missile Alert · · Score: 1

    What the dialog box probably was:

        Send Message?

        Test: (check box...off by default)

        (Send Button)

  13. Doug Lenat's Test on AI Beats Humans at Reading Comprehension (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    “Mary saw a bicycle in the store window. She wanted it.”

    Does Mary want the bike, the store, or the window?

  14. Re:YAY for coal? on California Will Close Its Last Nuclear Power Plant (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And CA doesn't get the power it needs.

    I don't think you get the dynamics here of supply and demand here. CA needs the power, the other states have the power.

  15. Re:Red states demand the most federal aid on California Will Close Its Last Nuclear Power Plant (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Most Red Sates have at least one large Blue City.

  16. Re:YAY for coal? on California Will Close Its Last Nuclear Power Plant (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 2

    WTF would any state feel, "pressure" from CA about how they generate a product CA needs?

  17. Black Colors Absorb Light on When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    ...obscuring contrasts and therefore shapes.

    It would be interesting to see how their algorithm did on pics with various color bit depths.

  18. Re:Disenfranchisement on North Carolina Congressional Map Ruled Unconstitutionally Gerrymandered (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think disenfranchised means what you think it means.

    See the provided definition.

    Hint: Just because you LOSE an election doesn't mean you didn't get a say.

  19. Re:A Few Problems... on More Colleges Than Ever Have Test-Optional Admissions Policies (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    It's one wrong fucking word. Which of course invalidates everything I said, eh?

  20. 25 cents for 25 file copy operations is next eh?

  21. Re:Change the laws on NYC Sues Oil Companies Over Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    So...what...you want to outlaw all fossil fuel?

    Do you have any fucking idea what that would mean or are you just some asshole SJW who doesn't bother to think through what you are saying?

  22. Re: Political tax on NYC Sues Oil Companies Over Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Amen.

    This is like suing the farmer for providing you food.

    If not for Oil and the derived products, these fuckers would still be shoveling horse shit and burning candles for light and wood for fuel.

    What the Oil companies should do is simply boycott NYC. Stop all deliveries of fuel oil, natural gas and gasoline.

  23. A Few Problems... on More Colleges Than Ever Have Test-Optional Admissions Policies (theconversation.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    First, there is no such thing as a "non-profit" college. They ALL profit. Some are just more honest about where the money goes.

    Second, Not relying on tests means relying on transcripts. Setting aside the stupid Pass/No Pass thing, relying on letter grades, however they are derived, is questionable since the grades are so variable. An A in one school could be equivalent to a C in another. Or, in the case of AP classes, an A in a regular class could be a C in an AP class.

    Lastly, excluding any kind of objective or semi-objective measurements leaves only one criteria, the completely subjective measurement derived from essays, interviews, etc. That is how you get mostly illiterate morons accepted over potential geniuses because they interviewed better or expressed some form of SJW sentiments that impresses the interviewer.

    What we have here is the gradual degradation of the US higher Education system due to the lessor of its graduates gravitating towards education where they implement their lessor standards.

  24. UPS Vendors.. on Power Outage Brings CES To a Standstill For Nearly 2 Hours (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    ...are all now sitting there with big grins and expecting a huge increase in traffic.

  25. No one has ever been denied the ability to associate with members of their own party. And they are not disenfranchised:

    Definition of disenfranchise
    transitive verb
    : to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity; especially : to deprive of the right to vote

            disenfranchising the poor and elderly