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  1. Ask it to summarize today's emails

  2. Re: GPS Satellites on NASA Awards $127 Million Contract For Refueling Mission Spacecraft (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    The satellites could use some sort of message signing(using a private key), which clients would verify the validity of.
    I would be surprised if GPS doesn't already have it, given it was developed for military use

  3. Re:No, they replaced it was a barometer on Apple Replaced the Headphone Jack On the iPhone 7 With a Fake Speaker Grill (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    No worse than the people who wrote the original article. At least my excuse is not being a native English speaker who was trying to get a first post too.

    What about the poor poor editors and submitter? Don't they have a right to share their piece of wisdom on this hot apple topic before every body realizes there is no story?

  4. Re: VW Engineer on Volkswagen Engineer Pleads Guilty in US Diesel Emissions Probe (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Point being issues deserve attention in media in proportion to their effects.

  5. Re:Its all in the taxes and incentives. on How Wind and Politics Pushed the Price of Texas Electricity Below Zero · · Score: 1

    That is a one good troll

  6. Re: Agreed on Scientology Group Urged Veto of Mental Health Bill · · Score: 2

    And do remember to pay for the four hours the doctor counselled

  7. What kind of shit gets rated 5 star these days. on Heat Wave Kills More Than 1,100 In India · · Score: 1

    The highest temperature ever recorded in Bangalore is 38.9 C (102 F) (recorded in March 1931).
    Citation:http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/this-is-bangalores-hottest-march-in-15-years/article4564903.ece

  8. Re:Sure... on Heat Wave Kills More Than 1,100 In India · · Score: 1

    Without monsoons whole of the Indian subcontinent would be a dessert, they are single handedly responsible for most of the rainfall (consequently irrigation and agriculture) in india.
    From Wikipedia

    Due to its effect on agriculture, flora and fauna and the general weather of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, etc., among other economic, social and environmental effects, a monsoon is one of the most anticipated, followed[3] and studied weather phenomena of the Indian subcontinent. It has significant impact on the overall well-being of subcontinent residents and has even been dubbed the "real finance minister of India"

  9. Re:Missing the key point on What AI Experts Think About the Existential Risk of AI · · Score: 1

    1.) Double the resources doesn't imply mean double the ability, depends on what ability we are talking about.Car Analogy: Double the amount of fuel you have in tank does not double the max speed you can achieve,(though it does double the distance)
    2.) Computers might not have pee breaks but what about Garbage Collection breaks?

  10. Re:Funny, that spin... on What AI Experts Think About the Existential Risk of AI · · Score: 2

    Question :Is diethylcarbamazine dangerous

    Comment: No matter what the real response to above question be, i am sure you'll rather trust the answer given by majority of doctors and not Hawking,Gates or musk

  11. ,,|,

    All you are promoting is waste of worlds resources, energy and time
    How low is your IQ that you can understand that word "he" in this context applies to all sexes(And not just male,female)

  12. Re:Yo dawg, I heard you like keychains... on Ask Slashdot: What's On Your Keychain? · · Score: 1

    Well, but none of them, are as cool as opening one beer bottle with another
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  13. Re:New Jersey and Other Fictions...t on The Economic Consequences of Self-Driving Trucks · · Score: 1

    I never quite got the idea of pumping your own gas, From what i have seen in my country(Call me FES) it just seems more efficient for cars queuing up and one guy quickly pumping and dispatching cars asap.

  14. Re:Question In Headline on Is Sega the Next Atari? · · Score: 1

    Depends on how rare good decisions are and how many you make at which point you know longer can make decisions.

  15. Re:Why bother with tiny data limits on UK Scientists Claim 1Tbps Data Speed Via Experimental 5G Technology · · Score: 1

    Its rather that companies like Verizon think money is scarce, need more.

  16. Re:Only 100 meters on UK Scientists Claim 1Tbps Data Speed Via Experimental 5G Technology · · Score: 1

    When comparing bandwidth its also important to compare what frequency we are talking about, after all there is exponentially more bandwidth available at higher frequencies(i.e. only 100MHz between 2.35 and 2.45GHz but 100Ghz between 2.35THz and 2.45THz

  17. Re:E for reference, tree's my preference on The Case Against E-readers -- Why Digital Natives Prefer Reading On Paper · · Score: 1

    For me its other way round, I can read linear content on ebooks easily, but for notes and reference material where i am going to be jumping around a lot i prefer physical book . Though a properly hyper-linked e-book does work too but that is not always available.

  18. Ereaders are still way behind books on The Case Against E-readers -- Why Digital Natives Prefer Reading On Paper · · Score: 1

    I Personally feel the user interface in ebook readers vs a physical book is completely lacking in features. Consider the following areas in which books certainly excel
    1.)Browsing Around: A real book allows you to move forward or backward way more easily then small next/forward,scroll bar does on a ereader. Further when moving between pages, the discontinuous screen refresh in any ereader contributes to you loosing focus.
    2.)Viewing Multiple Pages: On a real book you use your hand as a temporary bookmark to quickly jump between two pages, On a ereader this might involve navigating menus, waiting for screen refresh and other annoyances.
    3.)Taking Notes: Handwriting beats typing any day for small notes which may contain figures, underlines Symbols. Even with a $1 pen beats any stylus out there.

    Of course there are numerous areas where e-readers excel like augmented content, search tools, information to weight ratio etc. I am sure all these will change in time some with ui innovations and other with improved technology.

    I am personally surprised no body used a physical knob(iWatch like but larger) for navigating between pages on a ereader.

  19. Re: What did you expect? on Google Handed To FBI 3 Wikileaks Staffers' Emails, Digital Data · · Score: 1

    You are under estimating the literal tin-foil hat wearer, after all they believe government is reading thoughts right out of your brain.

  20. Re:So on Micromax Remotely Installing Unwanted Apps and Showing Ads · · Score: 1

    You both over estimate the salaries of Indian techies and underestimate the cheapness of Indians.

  21. Haskell on What Language Will the World Speak In 2115? · · Score: 1

    Haskell

  22. Re:Always struggling with a Dodgy NVS mobile... on AMD Catalyst Linux Driver Catching Up To and Beating Windows · · Score: 1

    Well when you are replacing a Zembronics http://zebronics.com/ 450W with corsair its comparatively solid gold.

  23. Re:I always thought on The Dominant Life Form In the Cosmos Is Probably Superintelligent Robots · · Score: 1

    We, if guys like you don't reproduce than a few generations from now only people alive will be the ones with the primary aim of reproduction. After all a child's behavior does have a high correlation with his/her parent's behavior..

  24. Don't underestimate natural selection on The Dominant Life Form In the Cosmos Is Probably Superintelligent Robots · · Score: 1

    There are stark differences in stability of an engineered product and product(animal or any other species) created via natural selection.
    Engineered products almost always deteriorate when environment changes from the design parameters, often with a completely unplanned behavior.
    Natural selection takes up long time to build its product . The product is well tested under a large set of environment conditions at a scale much much larger than an engineered product. After evolution has had long enough time to operate a natural evolved species will respond to any change in environment by changing its behavior in a nearly optimal direction.Further each production is kept a bit different from each other further reducing the risk of universal destruction to a any single random fluctuation.

    Based on this an artificial species may although be able to defeat and destroy an intelligent naturally selected species, but after that it may itself deteriorate as soon as first few variations from its design parameters. Consider a solar storm, what good would a super intelligent software do if the processor itself is misbehaving, while at-least some humans are likely to survive.

    Hence forgive me but i sure do not welcome artificial alien overloads, they are just a bubble.

  25. Re:wont last on Customers Creating Fake Amazon Pages To Get Cheap Electronics At Walmart · · Score: 1

    Its strange to see people talking about a corporation deserving to be taken to cleaners for being fools, but same company is classified evil for launching a slimy scheme trying to benefit on gullible people. People and their companies are evil, not companies.