User: gatkinso

Re:Way ahead of you...

On: How Much Americans Could Save by Ridesharing Driverless Cars Over Owning

GFYMuthaVM

Re:So move your email to a throwaway account

On: Facebook Will Harass You Mercilessly If You Try To Break Up (slate.com)

Yeah, the previous email address is still in their database.

Should have used the throwaway or spam account when signing up in the first place.

This is why you use a spam email account

On: Facebook Will Harass You Mercilessly If You Try To Break Up (slate.com)

Then you simply delete your account, done.

Sounds like welfare not UBI

On: Another Universal Basic Income Experiment is Underway, This Time in Canada (technologyreview.com)

The difference is that right now there are jobs available. I thought UBI was to support the population when no jobs were available because they were lost to automation.

Re:"What's a computer?"

On: On The Sad State of Macintosh Hardware (rogueamoeba.com)

I thought that was a Microsoft Surface commercial.

We need a Consitutional Amendment

On: Richard Stallman On Facebook's Privacy Scandal: We Need a Law. There's No Reason We Should Let Them Exist if the Price is Knowing Everything About Us (nymag.com)

The Right to Privacy.

Re:You are the product at Facebook

On: Sheryl Sandberg: Users Would Have To Pay To Opt Out of Facebook Ads (fastcompany.com)

Really?

Re:#DeleteFacebook

On: Sheryl Sandberg: Users Would Have To Pay To Opt Out of Facebook Ads (fastcompany.com)

Yet the irony is del.icio.us.

He must be fat by now

On: Ecuador Cutting Off WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange's Communications Outside London Embassy (suntimes.com)

I mean, seriously.

Re:Elderly

On: Cutting 'Old Heads' at IBM (propublica.org)

That is a great way to eliminate older competition that you couldn't otherwise get the better of... ...until it applies to you.

Except in your case it will be a machine that takes you down.

Re:Who knows what IBM is doing?

On: Cutting 'Old Heads' at IBM (propublica.org)

Watson, Cloud, mainframes.

The don't really target consumers.

Re:In the early 1980's

On: Cutting 'Old Heads' at IBM (propublica.org)

And yet IBM and mainframes are still around.

Very likely place, actually

On: Florida Lawmakers Approve Year-Round Daylight Saving Time (tampabay.com)

It is very sunny there, and being further south they have less variation in the length of their day.

Software and firmware developers

On: Most Americans Think AI Will Destroy Other People's Jobs, Not Theirs (theverge.com)

Our time is short. When it happens, AI will eliminate our jobs over night.

I was taught this 35 years ago

On: Adult Human Brains Do Not Produce New Neurons, Study Suggests (newatlas.com)

Brain cells don't regenerate over the age of 25(ish).

This is an old hard SF trope.

On: Scientists Say Space Aliens Could Hack Our Planet (nbcnews.com)

Many examples of this abound in various incarnations - Battlestar Galactica, The Killing Star, Species...

Re:Facebook's anti-malware

On: Facebook's Mandatory Anti-Malware Scan Is Invasive and Lacks Transparency (wired.com)

https://osquery.io/

So they are foisting osquery on us, eh?

On: Facebook's Mandatory Anti-Malware Scan Is Invasive and Lacks Transparency (wired.com)

So now our entire OS is to be exposed as a database for their analytics? Color me not interested.

Re:This surprises you how?

On: Facebook Lost Around 2.8 Million US Users Under 25 Last Year (recode.net)

Well, my kids of the same age are allowed to have a FB account - but they don't want it.

None of their friends are on FB.

It is for old people.

5 years ago little kids said they hated FB

On: Facebook Lost Around 2.8 Million US Users Under 25 Last Year (recode.net)

Now they are becoming teenagers.

No mystery here.

Who do you think invented all this stuff?

On: AIs Have Replaced Aliens As Our Greatest World Destroying Fear (qz.com)

Intel? Microsoft? Open source? Please.

Alien AI of course. The emergent wild AI that eventually destroys us is all part of their plan.

Who cares about the *cars*

On: Uber and Lyft Want You Banned From Using Your Own Self-Driving Car in Urban Areas (siliconbeat.com)

The system that controls them is where the money is.

Microsoft vs IBM all over again... and Uber is trying to be IBM.

Re:WTF!?

On: Admiral Charges Hotmail Users More For Car Insurance (thetimes.co.uk)

Maybe that shot shouldn't go on a part of the car that is meant to be sacrificial.

How about no news at all?

On: Facebook VP Says Company Won't Use Experts To Fix Fake News Because It is Worried About Criticism (theoutline.com)

I just want to look at my friends kids and pet pics. Is that so much to ask?

Not "if" but "when"

On: 'Don't Fear the Robopocalypse': the Case for Autonomous Weapons (thebulletin.org)

I really can't think of a reason why a military would not develop such weapons.