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  1. Re:When AIs write code on Does the Rise of AI Precede the End of Code? (itproportal.com) · · Score: 1

    Computing power also includes data storage. We are only just now starting to get the kind of primary storage space that allows the intermediate state of all those digital neurons to be kept around.

  2. Re:Is it legal? on Ask Slashdot: Is Deliberately Misleading People On the Internet Free Speech? · · Score: 1

    Promoting violence is not illegal. Inciting violence is illegal -- these are very different things.And incitement's a high bar.

  3. Re:Think again curb rash on Fully Driverless Cars Could Be Months Away (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Even supposing the AI can't do this: if a pedestrian knowingly or recklessly steps into the path of an oncoming driverless vehicle he will be legally responsible for any resulting damage.

    I suspect one or two assholes will try this until the consequences make national news and their life is destroyed to pay for the damage they've caused.

  4. Yes, I can. Can you imagine the US finding Mr. Love not guilty?

  5. Re:Whitman would be a better choice, IMO on Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Will Be Offered the Job as Uber's New CEO (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    So it's ok for them to discriminate as an employer, but not for me to discriminate as a consumer?

    Hypocrisy is just, super trendy lately.

  6. Re:I'll Be Amazed on Mazda Announces Breakthrough In Long-Coveted Engine Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Hydrogen, which boils at twenty degrees *Kelvin,* is less volatile than gasoline? I'll have whatever you're smoking.

  7. Re:Enlightenment values on Google May Be In Trouble For Firing James Damore (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    Your second sentence is an outright lie. I read his post, and I think he's wrong, but at least he isn't a liar.

  8. Re:Wolf subspecies and vegetation on Cats and Dogs Contribute Significantly To Climate Change, Says UCLA Study (patch.com) · · Score: 2

    Right? If you were vegan we would have heard about it from the start.

  9. Re:Contract law [Re:Voluntary Contract] on California Lawsuit Wants To Weaken Noncompetes (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    You can absolutely contract rights away, just not those that would cause the court to deem the contract substantively unconscionable.

  10. Re:Voluntary Contract on California Lawsuit Wants To Weaken Noncompetes (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    And even on a severable contract, the whole thing will be void if the consideration is an illegal act or a promise for an illegal act.

  11. Re:Compulsory charity on Oregon Passes First Statewide Bicycle Tax In Nation (washingtontimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Dude, the general welfare clause is literally right next to the common defense clause. If the government can steal my money to blow up brown people in countries literally half a world away it can sure as shit spend some of it on making my community a better place.

  12. Re:This story smells on Amazon Is Getting Too Big and the Government Is Talking About It (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it's not insider trading. Liability for trading on material non-public information attaches only on violation of a duty to abstain or disclose, or from violation of SEC Rule 10b-5, which covers fraud. If he's lying to lower the stock price, that's a 10b-5 violation. If he was given the information by somebody who was violating a fiduciary duty *to* amazon, he could be liable, but since this is information about a government intervention that is extremely unlikely.

    (IANAL, but I am a law student and studying this exact material for my corporations law final in a couple weeks)

  13. Why would it be more efficient to move air constantly (circulation) than to move it once (vacuum)?

  14. And, just for good measure, it's fifty percent higher than the one that Seattle's proposing.

  15. I live and work in NYC and I can confirm we do, in fact, have an income tax.

  16. Dear DICE on Trojanized, Info-Stealing PuTTY Version Lurking Online · · Score: 3, Informative

    I stayed through the beta bullshit. I stayed through Bennett. Autoplaying audio advertisement, and what the fuck ever you're letting through that's running my machine to a crawl with javascript: these are the final straw. Fuck you, I'm done.

  17. You're not doing the book any favors on Book Review: The Terrorists of Iraq · · Score: 1

    With reviewers like this, who needs critics? I sure hope the subject of the review was better written than the review itself.

  18. Re:Money or Art? on The Decline of Pixel Art · · Score: 2

    "I'm misunderstood" is a childish defense. "People misunderstood because I fucked up" is a contrite admission of failure.

  19. Re:Please, BCE/CE, not BC/AD on Ancient Hangover Cure Discovered In Greek Texts · · Score: 1

    Anno Domini means "In the year of the Lord," not "after death."

  20. Re:Women CEO's. on Yahoo Called Its Layoffs a "Remix." Don't Do That. · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or you could vote for a former doctor who is willing to get arrested supporting her cause, who is anti-war, pro-pot, pro-environment, and not in the pockets of a single corporation:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Stein

  21. Re:not a new topic on Can Civilization Reboot Without Fossil Fuels? · · Score: 1

    In an increasingly de-stabilized world with greater proliferation of nuclear weapons... when exactly did the spectre of thermonuclear war stop hanging over our heads?

  22. Re:Christian Theocracy on Apple's Tim Cook Calls Out "Religious Freedom" Laws As Discriminatory · · Score: 1

    I hope you realize you're reinforcing jythie's point.

  23. Re:Be careful of the term "terrorist attack" on Germanwings Plane Crash Was No Accident · · Score: 0

    "I'm not saying he was a muslim, but he was probably a muslim."

    You could just say what's on your mind.

  24. Re:it always amazes me on Feds Attempt To Censor Parts of a New Book About the Hydrogen Bomb · · Score: 1

    Unless this guy signed up for a security clearance, he's under no obligation to keep classified material secret. There is nothing illegal whatsoever about distributing classified information unless you have sworn to protect it.

  25. Re: Security theater on $1B TSA Behavioral Screening Program Slammed As "Junk Science" · · Score: 1

    Did you actually read that article? The system described is nightmarish, authoritarian, and not workable on the scale of US air travel.

    Or do you simply admire their profiling of ay-rabs?