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  1. Re:self-driving or assisted driving ? on All Tesla Vehicles Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    "The point I was making, that if a human can interpret the visual information it's given, then a car with a bigger sensor set can in theory do it too. It's all about software at that point, but there's no limitation on hardware here that a human doesn't have."

    The second half of your last sentence is at odds with the first half. Either it is all about software or it is about the limited hardware. In reality, it can be about both but your statement precludes that as a possibility. You seem to be very conflicted internally. You are trying to make a point that the self-driving car is easy and here but then you admit that "in theory" something is possible.

  2. Re:self-driving or assisted driving ? on All Tesla Vehicles Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    The definition of "mostly" is "not fully". So, no, they are not there yet.

  3. No comparison on Donald Trump Running Insecure Email Servers (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Except Hillary was a high-level government employee who had been given access to a secured government system and told that all of her official business was supposed to be handled on the secured government citizen and that anything else was a crime.

    Trump is a private citizen conducting private business.

    If you can't see the difference, then you are not very bright.

  4. Re:Misleading results on Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    but I thought being forced to buy a financial instrument from an approved financial instrument vendor was a good thing and would save us all. At least that is what BHO and HRC tell us.

  5. Re:What have they got to show for it? on Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Of course. I forgot that Europeans were able to prevent Russia from moving in all by themselves. Oh wait. No they didn't. Russia moved in and installed puppets in all those Eastern bloc countries and the other European countries did nothing. The US was tired and left Europe to do something and Europe failed. The US left Europe to keep Ukraine safe and Europe failed.

    How much has Europe been paying the US to maintain all those bases that kept Russia at bay? Only an idiot believes that the Soviet Union/Russia would have left Europe alone had the US not maintained those bases, free of charge to the Europeans. Actually, the US was pumping money into the countries where those bases were located.

  6. Re:Interesting, Dave Chappelle. on More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah yes. The first movie theater shooting was at the one theater that already banned firearms so all the others will prevent shootings at themselves by also banning guns. Logical failure.

  7. Re:Interesting, Dave Chappelle. on More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    NatasRevol, interesting that you are willing to put your limits on private venues but completely reject somebody else wanting to impose their limits simply because they are not your limits.

    How about we go back to honoring the actual law of the land (the US Constitution) and let private property be private property and recognize that we are not supposed to have the notion of "class" in this country, especially not a notion enforced by law.

    Oh yeah, let us also not forget that many concerts are actually taking place in actual publicly-owned venues.

  8. How is the proper pronunciation of "have" so unphonetic that it is better written as "of". Have starts with an "H" sound as in ha-ha or he. Then the "A" sounds just like in "at", "hat", "cat", etc. then we have the nice little "V" sound. While true that common American pronunciation of "could have" becomes more like "uv" with the "U" sounding like "ugh" or "up". "Could of" comes nowhere near that.

  9. Re:WhatsApp is just a brand on WhatsApp Won't Comply With India's Order To Delete User Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Fortunately, we also have the right to call you whatever we want as well.

  10. Re:Too big to comply on WhatsApp Won't Comply With India's Order To Delete User Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, they have jurisdiction within India and can, maybe*, prevent their citizens from using those apps but if Facebook maintains no infrastructure or direct employees in India, then no, they cannot tell Facebook how its code operating on processors not in India must function.

    *It all depends on what guarantees the constitution of India says about their citizens rights to access information and how it has been interpreted by their courts.

    I just love how everyone gets all giddy when the government of one country starts telling US corporations how to act inside the US but then gets all bitchy when the US government tells foreign companies how to act outside the US and even inside the US. I still remember people getting all upset that the US government successfully made Swiss banks change their practices and turn over US citizen's information or the executives would face prosecution for having entered the United States and conducted illegal business.

    And then the solution always turns out to be "Well, if the US company doesn't comply then the foreign government can always practice censorship." And I always thought that government censorship was a bad thing.

  11. So, the only financial transactions that any business engages in are securities trades? I guess I need to dig deeper to understand exactly how stock trades get involved in my employer making bi-weekly direct deposits into our (mine and my coworker's) accounts. I'll also ask my brother-in-law what stocks he is using to make payments to the corporation he is a franchisee of and to pay his food suppliers and such.

    Or maybe CaptSlaq and H3lldr0p should find some other deceased equines to pummel.

  12. Re:Could not recall briefings because of concusion on FBI Releases Hillary Clinton Email Report (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    She supported her husband dropping bombs on a sovereign nation for the sole purpose of giving people something to talk about instead of his committing sexual harassment on federal property. Well, Hilary's own, most trusted, aid has made that claim anyway.

  13. Re:"could not recall" on FBI Releases Hillary Clinton Email Report (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    As soon as Obama personally arranges for them to enter the Witness Protection Program?

  14. Re:"could not recall" on FBI Releases Hillary Clinton Email Report (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes. She sustained this injury early in her life. It is called "I am better than you" syndrome AKA "I am not one of the little people" syndrome.

  15. Re:Apple says "Fuck You" on Apple To Remove Abandoned Apps From The App Store (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    My Galaxy S5 has gone through a few rounds of whole OS updates. My wife's Motorola, none. It isn't the OS, it is the manufacturer.

  16. No, the tabbers care about levels of indentation and then let everyone set their own value for how wide a level-of-indentation is. Spacers are all about making everyone use only what they want. Spacers are narcissistic and tabbers are caring.

  17. Re:Oh, what a brilliant idea on HP Builds One Desktop PC Around a Speaker, Another Modular PC In Slices (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    as opposed to the more psychotic psychopath called Hillary?

  18. Re:Unit conversion not needed on Tiny Particle Blows Hole In European Satellite's Solar Panel (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Why should the US adopt the German Industrial Standards for paper sizes? We won the damn war.

    You do understand what DIN means, correct?

  19. Re:Prepare to be on EmDrive: NASA Eagleworks' Peer-Reviwed Paper Is On Its Way (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Are you 100% positive that you know and understand all the LAWS OF PHYSICS or that anyone currently living does? That is pretty much the attitude that caused clerics to persecute scientists and the guy running the USPTO to state that no further inventions would come around.

  20. Re: Prepare to be on EmDrive: NASA Eagleworks' Peer-Reviwed Paper Is On Its Way (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Exactly what is "actual Science" and why is a possibly new propulsion mechanism not part of that? It seems to me that you are going down the road that looks like this: The female medical doctor wants to study something about how ovaries are affected by diet but the male doctors say that such a study is not scientific because it is uninteresting to them because it won't affect them, physically.

    Just because you are interested in the scientific disciplines studying viruses or whatever, does not mean that the scientific disciplines studying propulsion mechanisms aren't doing "science."

  21. Re:Prepare to be on EmDrive: NASA Eagleworks' Peer-Reviwed Paper Is On Its Way (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Clearly, if the book says they are mental disorders then they are mental disorders and nothing you or any other individual says can possibly change that. My reasoning behind my statement... Simple. You stated that the definition of "mental disorder" is that a group of professionals vote on it. Therefore, no other method can determine it.

  22. Re:Maybe I'm missing something... on Scientists Argue the US Ban on Human Gene Editing Will Leave It Behind (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Only limiting it in so far as no company sees any profit motive for risking its own money but plenty of profit motive for risking my money. I think that is what you meant to say.

    I often wonder how anybody gets along without the government sending somebody by to shove the food down their mouths and wipe their ass when it comes out the other end when I read such tomfoolery as that.

  23. Well, it seems as though the best petri dish for growing these humans and replacement parts turns out to be a real womb after all. At least that is what I learned from the back story novels.

  24. Re:Do I have this right? on Scientists Argue the US Ban on Human Gene Editing Will Leave It Behind (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Food gene manipulations can help cure widespread malnutrition but who cares about that?

    Oh the irony. "Mental detective" indeed. Perhaps you are also in need of a bit of that gene trimming as well?

  25. Re:Do I have this right? on Scientists Argue the US Ban on Human Gene Editing Will Leave It Behind (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the term "Frankenfood" was coined because of Roundup and not to invoke irrational fears about the genetic makeup of the tomato somebody might bite into. Riiiiiight!!!

    BTW, Roundup is an herbicide. The difference between herbicide and pesticide is similar to the difference between a lion and a vegan.

    There are many aspects of GMO crops. Some is to make them Roundup resistant by splicing in genes from other plants that are naturally roundup resistant. Some are to splice in genes from plants that excrete chemicals that repel pests so that farmers can use lower quantities of pesticides. Some are to increase the nutritional value of foods like adding beta-carotene to rice for use in areas where adequate nutrition is not guaranteed. I've not heard of a case of a genetic modification happening to be able to use more pesticide. Why would it? Pesticides don't affect plants.