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  1. Do you want Skynet? on The Factory Where Robots Build Robots (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Because that's how you get Skynet.

  2. Something's missing on See Giant Robots Fight. US vs Japan Match On YouTube (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Where was the Shining Finger?

  3. That's nice on Vungle CEO Arrested For Child Rape and Attempted Murder (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Axios notes that "the San Francisco-based company has raised over $25 million in VC funding from firms like Google Ventures, Thomvest Ventures, Crosslink Capital, SoftTech VC and 500 Startups."

    So do they actually do anything, or have they just found that conning VC investors out of their money is a good living?

  4. Re:for free on On the Google Book Scanning Project and the Library We Will Never See (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    I thought it's only when you're trying to sell something that these issues arise.

    You thought wrong. It's a widely held fallacy about copyright, though. Copyright covers any unauthorized reproduction of a work, whether it's for sale or not. The only exceptions are for parody or fair use (which means such things as small quotes in a review of the work).

  5. Re:Units matter! on Amazon Spends $350K On Seattle Mayor's Race (jeffreifman.com) · · Score: 1

    There are no units. It's a ratio.

    Correct. Although its more usual to state it as a percentage (it would be .014%), a bare number is still correct.

  6. "when [a member state] gets a device, how do they get information that might be encrypted on the device."

    You don't. If you could, the encryption would be pointless.

  7. Re: A Cautionary Tale on Activision Patents Pay-To-Win Matchmaker (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    You really shouldn't reply to your own posts.

  8. Re:A Cautionary Tale on Activision Patents Pay-To-Win Matchmaker (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 0

    Amount of evidence you have that the MMR caused the autism: none. There is as much reason to believe it was the orange juice he had for breakfast.

  9. Re:This is why I lost interest in smartphone games on Activision Patents Pay-To-Win Matchmaker (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    This is why I avoided smartphone games in the first place. I keep some Chess games and single-player puzzlers like Monument Valley on my Fire, but multiplayer? That's console or PC, and I'm picky there, and willing to pay on upfront cost to avoid P2W.

  10. You don't need large brains to have a good time!

  11. Re:Laws don't solve the problem on Smartphones Are Killing Americans, But Nobody's Counting (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes and those laws have completely eliminated drunk driving

    Completely eliminated? No. Cut way back on? You betcha. Road fatalities were in a nosedive thanks to drunk driving becoming rarer, before cellphone distraction started filling in for it.

  12. Re:I blame car makers on Smartphones Are Killing Americans, But Nobody's Counting (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually, it doesn't matter. If you're looking or listening to your phone, you're not paying attention to the road. Looking somewhere near the road isn't good enough. http://www.nsc.org/learn/NSC-I... https://www.bostonglobe.com/op... and lots more articles that got pulled up when I Googled for "hands off cell phone safety"

  13. Re:Hm... on What Will Replace Computer Keyboards? (xconomy.com) · · Score: 1

    .There's a reason that PC keyboards are essentially the same today as they were 40 years ago -- THEY WORK, and they work well.

    Extend that back to the essentially identical typewriter keyboards they were copied from and you can date it back to over 150 years ago. Nobody's come up with anything better yet.

  14. And also, we'll be hearing about subverted authenticators who are being paid to authenticate phony goods.

  15. Re:Probably nothing on What Will Replace Computer Keyboards? (xconomy.com) · · Score: 1

    Sixty words per minute is 300 characters a minute, or 5 characters a second. A word for these types of purposes is defined as five characters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  16. Come again? on What Will Replace Computer Keyboards? (xconomy.com) · · Score: 1

    Computer keyboards will be phased out over the next 20 years

    [citation needed]

  17. Re:Union busting? Naw, not Tesla! on Tesla Just Fired Hundreds Of Workers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Whatever they have in China, it ain't communism. It hasn't really even pretended to be for a long time.

  18. Re: And this is why you disable accesss..... on IT Admin Trashes Railroad Company's Network Before He Leaves (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This may be problematic if you're going to fire the very person that would be performing said actions

    If you've only got one person who can do this, then you already have a very large problem.

  19. Cryptocurrency also has all these advantages--it too is very difficult to corrupt, is fairly rare, and will remain after natural disasters. It even avoids the downside of being heavy.

  20. Neither use of which comes close to making it worth $1300 an ounce. You can make breathtaking jewelry out of base metals--it's only "priceless" because of its gold content. Its use in microchips is severely limited because it's so hard to justify the cost of using it there.

  21. A bitcoin is not a lump of gold. You can't actually do anything with it.

    And what, exactly, were you planning to do with a lump of gold that would make it worth what you paid for it? Or do I want to know?

  22. So where are the RED phones? on Down the Rabbit Hole With a BLU Phone Infection (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Reliable Excavation Demolition wants to know!

  23. What could possibly go wrong?

  24. Re: Just virtue signaling on Virtual Zuck Fails To Connect (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Never said or implied that he needed to be born and raised in Hawaii, just that the OP said he was when he wasn't.

  25. Re: Just virtue signaling on Virtual Zuck Fails To Connect (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Although the OP seems to have exaggerated a bit: the owner wasn't "born and raised" in Hawaii, he just had relatives there and went there to visit them every summer as a kid.