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  1. Re:wonder why asian elephant? on Woolly Mammoth On Verge of Resurrection, Scientists Reveal (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Harvard? Hoax. But it is unsettling that live Mammoths and Dinosaurs CAN be one of those State Secrets you do not want the learned masses to know about then they would indeed go extinct and secrecy protects them, but now we can credibly claim we resurrected prehistoric DNA and show a specimen around. If you do not have world navigation capabilities it is very difficult next to impossible to just disregard this plot. Worse, if in the future we start getting Mammoth TV dinners because nobody is telling us Pork could finally be chased nearly into extinction...

  2. Re:Can't Be True! on Autism Starts Months Before Symptoms Appear, Study Shows (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but it seems autism was redefined as... NOT HEARING VOICES. Which is NORMAL. It can be proven, argued. Next they will start saying the neocortex is a disease and language ability a nuisance: Guards! THAT MAN says he can COUNT!!!

  3. Re:Same problem as AI, etc. on Ethicists Advise Caution In Applying CRISPR Gene Editing To Humans (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    What they CAN, not what they WANT. Just see: Microsoft Windows #X.

  4. Re:Deport all smelly indo-chimps from on Ethicists Advise Caution In Applying CRISPR Gene Editing To Humans (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Let Ethicists do their own gene splicing first, then complain. Believe me, Philosophy is out. If we wipe out ourselves with gene editing, so be it! The more, the better, someone will come up with a deterrence reply or a solution. We try to regulate before knowing what is going to be regulated. You can achieve an army of clones just by having sex with different women even day, it already happened. Anyway, to see results two generations later by the end of life... unless we can make the girls grow up quicker, of course. If they can accomplish it by gene splicing, they probably deserve it. Better ENSURE standard and typical crimes like fraud, theft, misrepresentation, extortion, kidnapping be stopped before someone can claim somebody else s work in this discipline. Now, can ANYONE get me SOMEONE to turn my airplane mode OFF again so I can keep enjoying of my BT mouse and console controller for GBA/DSi ROMS? The API seems so secretive no solution in the internet can be found and NO ONE seems to be able to just code a solution, like before. A call by a stranger and your lap goes into mute, go figure...

  5. Re:No one tests software on a slow connection on Most of the Web Really Sucks If You Have a Slow Connection (danluu.com) · · Score: 1

    Looks like Microsoft did everything wrong. It failed to snatch leadership then turned into the main internet route but failed to show the way to others. Must have been hiring engineers... rather than naturals, like at birth? And bad or even fake engineers at that...

  6. Re:Removal of visual cues on Microsoft Teases Windows 10's Upcoming 'Project Neon' Design Language (windowscentral.com) · · Score: 1

    I simply do NOT UNDERSTAND why .... Microsoft **developers** do not simply admit it and copy Nintendo videogame interfaces! I am _planning_ to do some such interfaces: background animations, half tone background designs, lots of colour gradients, LED light imitation, sliding rather than popping submenues, icons with abbreviated complementary text, right button explaining popups, visual-ordering lines... I say planning because I once went into it and made a cool and slick interface. This included modifying the main menu to have color. I had to go through a hack to both get menu dimensions and HDCs to complement the paraphernalia of owner-drawn-everythings, and the menu _still_ had an occasional glitch were it would lose color and turn white again briefly from time to time; not that evident but you would see it happening. This also involved going into the non-client owner draw bits of windowing, and the solution was already there, after some experimentation... but that was years ago. Now in the new series of windows I tried to do the old non-client drawing trick and... found galimatias. No longer working as expected or documented. Simply put: did not work. But that was XP. So now I am in Windows 10 and am sort of expecting things to settle down enough that I can attempt the same project again and hopefully find a stable version with no known or hidden bugs and the expectation that it will work as-is for the foreseeable windows versions! No guarantee from the platform-market, though. For God s Sake! I cannot even manage to get an easy no border or full screen window! I calculated the number of style combinations brute way is now is over two billions. And it did not work. Meanwhile, I have Win 3.1 nightmares were I could achieve an interface in no time, go owner drawn and make it work passably, do GUI first because it was the easy part, use controls as-is because they were so cool and professional and standard... then I woke up asking myself where was my only-text, text console current application project... for my eyes only. So it is nice that now we can have fluidity and such goodies to look like sick morning oats over again and again and again...

  7. Re:Cook will have to apologize soon on Apple CEO Tim Cook Tackles Truth in the Digital Age (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Naw, it is easier than that, once all technological actors and technology prone families have been identified, the remaining anthropoids can evolutively select against it, eliminate all such genes, and sink again in their comfortable Antiquity where only Church and Priest mattered and King was just warlord you knew exactly what to expect from according to your role in society: Information? Disinformation? What are you talking about? You are crazy! Guards! We have another incoherent maniac Barbarian heretic here!

  8. Re:This doesn't sound like a ban on booth babes on RSA: Ban On Booth Babes Has Been No Big Deal (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    WRONG door. Where booth babes have to be forbidden is in VIDEOGAME conferences. IT is where you would expect them to just disappear and never again be heard of again, not from a cryptographic conference!! I think these ones got CONFUSED INFORMATION. They heard something in conference ambients but it was referring to videogame conferences, and decided to assume the rumors and avoid any further blame or guilt! Meanwhile, in videogame conferences... I still have a suspicious picture, I cannot see her face because of the disguise but... I suspect she ended up there instead of finding me because I was looking for her and the picture appeared where I could find it to deliver the message that... whatever message it may have been. Obvious to say I have been saving the picture for years and no news nor ways to learn anything... just another booth babe, that is it. The REAL solution is to professionalize, of course. Professional hostess, conference no nonsense, that would be nice and not as easy as a ban.

  9. Re: Hipster food on Scientists Successfully Decode the Genome of Quinoa (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I JUST found out that quinoa made **potato** chips taste SO MUCH BETTER... that they taste like the original **potato** chips! Potato chips seem to have been born and grown with me... So now I totally prefer quinoa based **potato** chips, but have only found them in one store, chain store, and they are like three times the cost of an equivalent bag of potato chips. So I would actually expect them to go out of the market soon, because I already tasted them ONCE. This same thing happened with SUPER-DUPER-DELICIOUS apple made **potato** chips: only one store, better tasting than anything else, three times the cost because I had to buy three bags to satisfy myself, AND I CAN NO LONGER FIND THEM.

  10. Re:900 is 90 times hotter than Earth? on We Finally Have a Computer That Can Survive the Surface of Venus (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    NO wonder it is all CAD, but seldom CAM.

  11. Robots need an infimally successful portfolio to.. on Are Robots Coming To Take Investor Jobs on Wall Street? (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    ...successfully finance their activity, including depreciation, upgrading (learning costs) and construction costs, in perpetuity, to keep achieving their goals... but up to that point. They have no other use for the money, unless you use them ALSO to control other manufacturing processes. But not consumption, it would get subsumed by intermediate goods in robot-production-oriented company costs. Investment in the Stock is meant to cope with market and fluid money deficiencies in money storing of value and income directed distribution of resources, and that is all. Robots (bots) make the Market more accurate, or should make it so...leaving individuals to make real economic decisions as saving vs investment vs consumption vs production consumptions. There will be investors even if there are robots, no doubt, irregardless of the rate of substitution we observe in robotic activity in the Market.

  12. Orient: either work for money OR have The Girl!!! on 'We Need Robots To Take Our Jobs,' Veteran Tech Reporter John Markoff Explains Why (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    But not both! You will NOT change that mind frame. Why do you want the money (by working), when you can just have the girl and that is it? That is why you want that horribly materialistic thing called money, right? So if I offer you the girl I do not want because otherwise I cannot have another one... you simply start having the world and that is it! There are biological reasons for this to be true of Oriental thinking... So this frame of mind actually happening means a reduction in the work force and a lot of futility sending our processes to those countries...

  13. And... is Trump aware THEY are being accused over a period of years of stealing code and producing fortunes from stolen code? And also of sedition implicitly and treason overtly. They are trying to protect Indians or Mexican or Orientals believing they ARE the best programmers but in fact they only use stolen code, hide the evidence and call themselves programmers from copying and changing some documentation example, (of which the documentation is quickly gone...)? Sorry, but COMPUTING was supposed to be a tenet of America first, THEN of the European world THEN a tenet of Occident! The evident sign of the Industrial Revolution and associated revolutions being successful. Instead, it now looks like the undoing of Occident and these guys are confirming it when opposing Trump to actually get better wages and better foundational economic conditions.

  14. Re:Doing it wrong? on Developer Argues For 'Forgotten Code Constructs' Like GOTO and Eval (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    Pardon me but: 1) GOTO is IRREPLACEABLE in the original BASIC; 2) GOTO is deemed harmful because it makes some compiler emission code and optimizations inefficient; 3) exception handling provides a GOTO mechanism where it was most useful, ie, bailing out of deep code unable to continue; and 4) following GOTO is less stylistically elegant and much less aesthetic MOST OF THE TIME than a full fledged deep branching-looping algorithm, including the mostly arbitrary goto tags, which usually go better into comments. Those are the reasons why GOTO is better avoided and why it is still included in parsing. I have used code twice to completely bail out of a complex algorithm in the meanwhile while I could come out of the mind boggling effort of producing the same code with branch exhaustion. Only temporarily to make ends meet, waiting for a further optimization effort, or for the other case, to test deep branches before engaging in code clutter by programming other deeply inner branches and calculating their foldings to become a one-time-pass algorithm. As for recursion... the problem with recursion is that you relinquish control of the execution stack to the language compilation and maybe OS support, so you DO lose control of your process while it is recursing. IT is more than OK for functions you know will execute short, like in Fibonacci you know will not be called beyond the tenth level. I have counted 200 recursions start becoming problematic, for instance... But the solution is simple, just implement recursion using your own pair of stacks, which can be encapsulated in a nice recursion class framework for total transparency.

  15. Re:Weaponization is *the point* of AI on Are Gates, Musk Being 'Too Aggressive' With AI Concerns? (xconomy.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, INCIDENTALLY, do you want AI, TRULY? Then... you are expecting a quantity and level of ERRORS comparable to HUMANS, to Human EFFICIENCY! What we want is no error applications, COMPUTING processes, not error prone ones... Paradoxical, ironic, sarcastic, tragic, dramatic and melodramatic at the same time, if not also comical and tragi-comical issue...

  16. After which article all related video tutorials were removed and similar tutorial kits for other disciplines where removed as well by pressure from universities and schools fearing competition would lower their federal budgets and prevent them from downtoning (graduating) and selecting students and talents who would follow the DIY way, citing lots of federal and local regulations that were transgressed by such learning materials and practicers who should find better ways to spend their time rather than showing it can be done...

  17. Re:Don't deuterostomes form the anus first? on Scientists Find 'Oldest Human Ancestor' -- A Big-Mouthed Sea Creature With No Anus (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    200 million years from microscopic devil (devils have no anus), to Dinosaurs? Arent these people lost in fake figures? I guide myself by what I learned when I was five, I dislike how time is being shortened recently in this matter... I see a forced guideline behind this to avoid having people lost in time so everything had to just have happened in this civilization recently irregardless...

  18. Re:psychedelic drugs and animals on Why An LSD High Lasts For So Long (pbs.org) · · Score: 1

    Evolutionary speaking it is our duty and prerrogative to experiment it. The keyword is receptors, if it was a destructive effect would be different, but the moment it binds, the result is controlled. Seemingly all people who try it, like it! That simple. Though we know that (for reasons), even something as delicious as pork was forbidden. If cows are sacred in India ad prefer to starve, what can we expect from something you like, even if the binding tells us our bodies are ready to use it?

  19. Re:The Whole Game Is Rigged. on Secret Rules Make It Pretty Easy For the FBI To Spy On Journalists (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    And they call journalist ANYONE writing beyond... say three posts and monosyllables? Journalist is like Muslim: it is not well defined ipso direm, so even the opposites can be named such... very convenient if you do not ASK what was the guy SMOKING! For instance... :|

  20. I did tell people about Africanizing glasses... before any such were hinted at in markets, meaning I knew how to make them real, not just conceiving an idea. Went slightly thrillerish because of it, unwantedly. But nothing. I am not surprised by these product, only hope it does sell in the market and does not become obsolete in the next two months, (not because of new technology but just because, like ALL the XXI century products I cannot find in amazon or elsewhere again...).

  21. Re:Exactly how does this affect my life? on Milky Way Is Being Pushed Across the Universe (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    But, will the form of the Galaxy be changed by this? In one framework this does affect your life... like in from an armed galaxy into a globular cluster one...

  22. Re:The point on 'Australia Is Stubbing Out Smoking' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You do not believe but I can tell if someone smokes or not: non smokers look gone and distant and ghostly, smokers all look solid and very much in this World. now I am going OUT to take a smoke while my coffee lags in this cafeteria... when it is so easy to promote the air conditioning industry instead and require air extractors in coffee shop places...

  23. Ah! They are reinventing Human Being! What now? on 'Australia Is Stubbing Out Smoking' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    We ll smoke electric sparks now that we **invented** electricity? I just realized all my drinks are based on herbs, everything I drink is a herb or some other herb. Obviously when inventing Fire we invented smoke and... smoking. They will realized something is missing but maybe too late. OR do you think Britain crossed half planet to go to India and get... spices... some cummin (now missing from most supermarkets here) or saffron? They went to get the SMOKES. This is not very well documented, but we do not document underwear much either, though any grown up knows about it. Truly, no other animal can smoke, only US. WE are the Animal That Smokes. This alone can distinguish a Human from any other animal for any hypothetical Extraterrestrial.

  24. Idiotic, idiotic, I want to own the software, not on Microsoft Reports New Subscribers For Office 365 Plunged 62% (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    ...give others an excuse to doubly sabotage me by affecting the bank account and the subscription paid with it. Microsoft can calculate the amounts for a fair time before the software needs to be repurchased, and finance the lump sums to get their monthly payment from another account as if it was a client subscribed. I switched to 7z because after buying WinZip four times AND losing to hackers the account I used to pay the software, I was not willing to pay it again. And I did well, I may have just lost some other paid software to robbery. One lump payments and eternal re-download is OK and REAL.

  25. Re:Dino Arigato on Can A Robot Fool 'I Am Not A Robot' Captchas? (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Who was that AC? It is one of the computers stolen from me. Mind this, eh? I need all files back.