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  1. I agree. If we allow it.

  2. Skynet can't come soon enough on Amazon, NVIDIA and The CIA Want To Teach AI To Watch Us From Space (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    You all joke about Skynet, but I for one welcome our robot overloads. It's the period between now and then that really worries -- when the robots are pretty smart, but still under complete control of elitists and despots.

  3. I dub the "Nemesis".

    (Issac Asimov fans know, and *daaaammmm* he was eerily bang on.)

  4. Awesome. Unleashing AI and Big Data on the Law. The fireworks are going to be awesome on this one. I give it 10 maybe 20 years before the whole system implodes. Everyone will be sued into oblivion.

  5. Brilliant Idea! on Massachusetts Will Tax Ride-Sharing Companies To Subsidize Taxis (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    In fact, if they levied a 50% per fare tax instead, then the Taxi company could just call an Uber for you.

  6. Re:Solve the damn problem already! on Password Strength Meters on Websites Are Doing a Terrible Job (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Your idea is valid as an alternative for the last option. I don't understand why no ever seems to understand that this is not a one or none contest. The idea is to use more than one or all of these in combinations as suites the security level.

    - The mark of beast shit is utter nonsense. You use it all the time any way on your driver license.
    - A pin is four to six digit code. It's not meant to be used alone.
    - biometrics is one of the best components of authentication when establishing identity is important
    - nfc OR fob, and again a perfectly good option in a multi-factor approach

  7. Re:Solve the damn problem already! on Password Strength Meters on Websites Are Doing a Terrible Job (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You miss understand. It's not about using one of them. It's about using them in combinations. So lets say I want to log into Slashdot. Well that's low security, so an id code or biometric scan plus a pin is probably sufficient. On the other hand, my bank login will require id AND pin AND bio scan AND a nfc or fob.

  8. Solve the damn problem already! on Password Strength Meters on Websites Are Doing a Terrible Job (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I really want to understand why tech companies are so incredibly inept when it comes to things of actual importance. This password problem should have been solved years ago. It's not that hard, for Pete's sake.

            universal id number
            pin code
            biometric id (finger, hand, eye)
            cell phone nfc
            key fob

    Industry consortium needs to get together to standardize on each of these and then services can mix and match depending on their particular security requirements.

    Personally I am starting to think passwords are still being used *because* they are easy to crack. And oh how they love to ask personal "security questions" -- more like "unsecurity questions". I lie my ass off on those.

  9. What I don't understand about things like this is why the company doesn't just cut a deal with the chaps and make some damn money.

  10. Any one else following what's going on with Manning? There's a whistle blower if there ever was one and the U.S. tortures him/her endlessly.

  11. They are also considering raising the sales tax 0.5% to clean the toxic waste out of the lagoons. The left hand doesn't know what the fracking right hand is doing!

  12. Nice Touch... on Man Builds $1.5 Million Star Trek-Themed Home Theater (cepro.com) · · Score: 1

    The tribbles lining the floor are a nice touch.

  13. Re:I was wrong. on Verizon Nears Deal to Acquire Yahoo (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly my thought.

  14. 48 frames per scond would help on Pixels Are Driving Out Reality (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I wish more film makers would use 48 frames per second. When I saw the Hobbit in the IMAX I was awestruck. I felt like I was watching a stage production. The fast pace action of modern CGI is just too blurry at old school rates. (And forget the haters who panned it. That's just the tired refrain that always comes out against anything new.)

  15. The Fix and the Future on Consumer Reports Calls For Tesla To Disable Autopilot (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 1

    The fix and future of this is simple and it has already been suggested by another car maker (was it BMW?), the car manufactures themselves are going to provide insurance and buyers will have to sign a waiver acknowledging the risks of automated driving, thus letting the car company off the hook (unless actual negligence can be proved) In fact I wouldn't be surprised if this later part is already the case.

    Tesla can't stop offering Autopilot, as unfortunate as it is, accidents that occur while in use are vital to improving it. Thus making it increasingly safer over time.

  16. Why didn't they sue The Internet? It's bigger and has more money.

  17. Please... on Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Vote for Johnson. Even if you think he can't win (so why bother) if he gets just 15% of the vote the Libertarian Party will earn the right of equal footing with the Democrat and Republican parties.

  18. Re:The DNC overlords always get their way on Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    So far left she's come round the other side.

  19. Hmm... let's see... on Telecoms Promise 5G Networks If EU Cripples Net Neutrality (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Stuck at current speeds vs. only being able to use the services a carrier decides I can use?

    I think you know where you can put your 5G.

  20. s/carrying/caring/

  21. Why is it that the pro-Israeli side of this debate never show any empathy for the Palestinians? You accuse others of not carrying about the Jews when they never said anything of the sort. But you have no quibble with wishing this persons children dead?

  22. Re:Balls on Amazon Gobbles Downtown Seattle, Builds Biospheres (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait, who is upset by this? They aren't *that* big.

  23. It was inevitable... on DVD Player Found In Tesla Autopilot Crash, Says Florida Officials (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone was going to be the first, and there are bound to be many more. But the good thing about automated driving tech, is that every time it happens engineers can go back to the lab and figure out how to prevent that situation from happening in the future. And thus little by little (but in rather short order by comparison to the age of the automobile) automated cars will take over the roads.

  24. Re:Once again laws trumps your feels on CBS/Paramount Sets Phasers To Kill On Star Trek Fan-Fiction With New Guidelines (audioholics.com) · · Score: 2

    There is nothing stopping Paramount from working with fan fiction producers, even elevating the really good ones to top production quality with licensing arrangements. There's is clearly more demand then Paramount knows what to do with, which means they are loosing money by their own actions, not the fan film maker's.

  25. Sigh... typos and Slashdot do not mix. Sorry.