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  1. Re:Robots are incapable of evil on Apocalypse NAO: College Studies the Theological Ramifications of Robotics · · Score: 1

    >robots don't dim or sever our connection to god because we have no connection to god because god doesn't exist.

    Robots dim and sever our ethernet cables because their batteries run out.

  2. Re:"theological" - irrational, stupid, arbitrary on Apocalypse NAO: College Studies the Theological Ramifications of Robotics · · Score: 2

    You can do predicate calculus with any set of predicates, but if your predicates are flat out wrong, as in theology, then it won't actually achieve any substantive logical deductions.

  3. Re:robotic slave worshippers on Apocalypse NAO: College Studies the Theological Ramifications of Robotics · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    >God created humans in His image AND SET THEM FREE

    FFS, there is no God. You are spouting pure bullshit. Stop it and grow up.

  4. Re:Religious people should be executed. on Apocalypse NAO: College Studies the Theological Ramifications of Robotics · · Score: 0

    >Anyone that believes in faeries is obviously not helping the gene pool. To the gas chamber they go!

    Imagine their surprise when they find there is no afterlife!

  5. If you can't win. on Ghostwriter Reveals the Secret Life of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you can't win: Ad Hominem.

  6. Re:Network vs Content providers on ISP Fights Causing Netflix Packet Drops · · Score: 1

    In this case it is the sender sending from video streaming services (I.E. Netflix), maybe locally cached, and the receiver passing the traffic onto their one local endpoints (their customers).

    A company that wasn't interested in preferring their own on-demand TV service to an internet based alternative would do the sensible thing and work with Netflix to cache locally.

  7. Re:coding standards on Stack Overflow Could Explain Toyota Vehicles' Unintended Acceleration · · Score: 1

    >... you know... i worked for pi technology in milton, cambridge, in 1993. t
    So did I.

    Small world.

  8. Re:Network vs Content providers on ISP Fights Causing Netflix Packet Drops · · Score: 3, Interesting

    >It's when flows are unequal that's when the fights happen - basically the one getting more traffic from the other starts demanding money because they're sharing more of the burden of the traffic.

    That makes no sense. Both sides are sharing the burden, regardless of the direction of the traffic. You still have the packets on your wires. It doesn't matter if they're going left or right.

  9. Re:This is new news? on Gut Bacteria Affect the Brain · · Score: 1

    Yes. FIAF. Having better numbers is nice, but this is not new.

  10. Re:How about not-quite-random numbers? on Making Sure Our Lab Equipment Isn't Tricking Us · · Score: 2

    >Who comes up with the formula for the PRNG?

    For all practical purposes, I do.

  11. Re:Importance of keeping JPL intact on China's Jade Rabbit Lunar Rover Officially Declared Lost · · Score: 1

    Only when it died and needed a proper send off.

  12. Re:Problem as I see it... on Can Reactive Programming Handle Complexity? · · Score: 1

    >You are assuming ASICs where everything is static however FPGAs can do dynamic changes in some cases.
    Correct. But the synthesizable subset of VHDL doesn't support that well at all.

    >if one squint enough to see SISAL as a reactive programming model even assembly language looks reactive IMHO.
    SISAL (single assignment language) was a language targeted at dataflow computers, which are trigger computations by variable updates. Hence it fits that parts of the reactive model, but predates it by a long time. Of course you can implement any programming style in assembly, but you have to build a lot of the infrastructure yourself.

  13. Re:Problem as I see it... on Can Reactive Programming Handle Complexity? · · Score: 2

    >VHDL is a reactive language, since x=y means x is connected to y, so y will propagate to x on the next clock pulse and so on throughout the entire circuit.

    And VHDL, as typically used, is completely static. that's because hardware is completely static. You can't just instantiate a new flop in your CPU. They're stuck there where you built them.

    In it's various forms, this is known as CSP, Actors, Dataflow Programming, SISAL (Remember that?) and Excel. There are many others. Any producer-consumer message-as-event passing system.

  14. Re:Drive-by disagreements on Can Reactive Programming Handle Complexity? · · Score: 2

    No. He's an Anonymous Coward.

    I'm British.

  15. Re:only a fool fights in a burning house on 1870s Horse Flu Epidemic Brought US Economy To Its Knees · · Score: 1

    >What do you think the Apaches were riding?

    Apaches usually run on Linuxes, but they are being killed off by the nginxes.

  16. I would.. on What Would You Do With the World's Most Powerful Laser? · · Score: 5, Funny

    >What Would You Do With the World's Most Powerful Laser?

    I would attach it to the world's biggest shark. Obvious really.

  17. Re:the 'meat' of the learning on Ask Slashdot: Best Options For Ongoing Education? · · Score: 1

    Not needed. It's bloody obvious.

  18. Re:the 'meat' of the learning on Ask Slashdot: Best Options For Ongoing Education? · · Score: 1

    Electives and minors are what makes US graduates less marketable that graduates who could focus on their core subject.

  19. Re:The Surprised Dutch Prosecutor on Utopia, Silk Road's Latest Replacement, Only Lasted Nine Days · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of idiots.

  20. Re:Importance of keeping JPL intact on China's Jade Rabbit Lunar Rover Officially Declared Lost · · Score: 1

    What's a tent pole project? I thought they built space ships, not camping gear.

  21. Re:The Surprised Dutch Prosecutor on Utopia, Silk Road's Latest Replacement, Only Lasted Nine Days · · Score: 2

    >How do you inject the malware?
    The usual way. Get the target to point his browser at your stuff with social engineering, then buffer overflows, ROP and any Adobe software that may be present.

  22. Re:The Surprised Dutch Prosecutor on Utopia, Silk Road's Latest Replacement, Only Lasted Nine Days · · Score: 1

    Both.

    The malware attack seems obvious. Pose as customers and vendors. Inject malware from the other end. Malware injects to other customers and vendors. Now you have a map of customers,vendors and their connections.

  23. Re:So..... on FBI: $10,000 Reward For Info On Anyone Who Points a Laser At an Aircraft · · Score: 1

    They would be soft, furry and laser resistant. I don't see a problem here.

  24. Re:So..... on FBI: $10,000 Reward For Info On Anyone Who Points a Laser At an Aircraft · · Score: 1

    >p.s., i really hope that between the captain, first officer, and flight engineer, they could avoid crashing the plane in the case of a distracting light.

    Or do what they do when they don't have visibility.. ILR.

  25. Re:So..... on FBI: $10,000 Reward For Info On Anyone Who Points a Laser At an Aircraft · · Score: 1

    It's not the pilots, it's the cats.