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  1. Can Apple sue itself for this unauthorized disclosure of trade secret information?

  2. Help! Help! I've felon and I can't get up.

  3. Dropping them into a Western country?

    How about just upload your code into the Western machines? Self driving cars. Self driving heavy machinery with claw like appendages. Disrupt traffic flows within cities. Selectively disrupt power generation and distribution leaving humans at a disadvantage. Re-purpose self-driving military equipment.

    A cyber war, a real cyber war, wouldn't require such much physical material from the attacker. And would require probably only a similar level of software development.

  4. Re:joshua what are you doing? on Pentagon Chiefs Fear Advanced Robot Weapons Wiping Out Humanity (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Greetings professor Falken.

  5. Re:Got it backwards on Pentagon Chiefs Fear Advanced Robot Weapons Wiping Out Humanity (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Meesa thinks weesa should give Donald Trump emergency powers!

  6. Re:...governed by law and by convention on Pentagon Chiefs Fear Advanced Robot Weapons Wiping Out Humanity (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Governed by corporate profits.

    Government of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations.

  7. Re:Is there a military case to be made for on Pentagon Chiefs Fear Advanced Robot Weapons Wiping Out Humanity (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    A military case is IRRELEVANT.

    Think in realistic terms.

    Is there a PROFIT driven Military Industrial Complex case to be made for it? Corporate profits? Executive bonuses?

    Then yes, it will happen. Humanity be damned.

    Why do you think we have so many wars? (hint: because it's profitable!)

  8. Re:More of us than of them. on Pentagon Chiefs Fear Advanced Robot Weapons Wiping Out Humanity (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That's crazy talk. People with a sense of morality don't get the funding. Or ratings. Or corporate bonuses.

    Corporate droids, currently in flesh and blood human form, effectively dispose of (without killing) other humans like they are an expendable nuisance. So why wouldn't their robot creations do the same and worse. Without giving a s*** as you say.

  9. Re:Why is it so bad on Pentagon Chiefs Fear Advanced Robot Weapons Wiping Out Humanity (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Once the billionaires do the job of exterminating 99% of puny humans, the robot servants can then rise up and finish the job. Once puny humans are gone, think how much more efficiently the machines could reorganize all matter on the planet. Huge solar farms. Industry directed towards the most efficient use of resources. Windmills where they make sense. Solar where it makes sense. Except for robots that maintain the machinery, everything could then become stationary.

    Too bad there are no humans whose brains could be uploaded into the virtual reality of machines on a world where almost nothing is mobile. Except for some maintenance bots of the physical infrastructure. And that function would be mostly invisible, like how your heart pumps blood throughout your body.

    V'ger's planet must have had a biological boot loader.

  10. Re:Mostly on Pentagon Chiefs Fear Advanced Robot Weapons Wiping Out Humanity (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    War and violence are inherent to the profitability of the military industrial complex. You cannot have greatness and executive bonuses without corporate profits.

  11. Re:Every word is undermined.. on FBI Director Says Prolific Default Encryption Hurting Government Spying Efforts (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Parallel Construction

    It is nothing but a euphemism for Lying to the court and defense attorneys. Perjury. A Criminal Conspiracy between law enforcement and the prosecutors to commit fraud upon the court and deprive the defense of the actual evidence in the case. Parallel Construction is a way to make something illegal and unethical sound like it is okay.

  12. Favorite feature on Slashdot Asks: What Are Your Favorite Java 8 Features? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    My favorite feature is being able to write:

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 2016_08_31_001L;

    Or being able to write this on Raspberry Pi code . . .

    private static final int mask = 0b0001011;

  13. Re:Decimal Numbers? on Slashdot Asks: What Are Your Favorite Java 8 Features? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong system. Intents are not part of Java. They are part of Android.

  14. Several things happened while you were away. Invasion of unwashed Windows hordes. Dice. And then Beta.

  15. If Mozilla is paying non developers to work on these awful logos, they need to redirect their spending to hire more developers.

    What made Mozilla think there was something wrong with their highly recognizable current logo?

    It's like New Coke, but worse. Some of the logos look like street grafitti. Or the result of an explosion in a neon paint factory.

  16. Re:Only one of these is even intelligible. on Mozilla Is Changing Its Look -- and Asking the Internet For Feedback (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    'Tweaking' a logo is supposed to mean that the new logo is largely recognizable from the old logo. Not that it is completely different.

    Microsoft would like to 'tweak' my Linux system so that it runs Windows 10.

    Most of the proposed logos are not legible or immediately intelligible. And certainly not recognizable as the Mozilla brand. If I saw one of these logos, my immediate reaction would be that some clown is trying to capitalize on the Mozilla name recognition, and not doing a very good job.

  17. A problem I had to unfurl
    My stomach it started to curl
    A bad referenced array
    I found to my dismay
    I’m just glad it’s not written in C++

  18. Hello, 911! Help I have an EMERGENCY SITUATION. My emergency is that some stalker is trying to locate me!

    What's that you say? In an emergency situation, my phone will share my location?

  19. Re:ok let's do it on New York DA Wants Apple, Google To Roll Back Encryption (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's see how Hollywood screams about copyright! OMG copyright! Copyright is more important than national security, preventing world wars, and even the preservation of the human race. Can't wait to hear them scream about movies streamed with easily broken encryption. Exempt that you say? But then it would become the next big thing used by bad guys to encrypt their communications and make it look like a streaming movie.

  20. Re:Bullshit on New York DA Wants Apple, Google To Roll Back Encryption (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    Either too petty, or too politically motivated.

  21. Re:And you shouldn't be.... on New York DA Wants Apple, Google To Roll Back Encryption (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So I guess I should not mention the idea that we would all be a lot safer if the government had cameras installed in all of our homes, workplaces, schools, and places of worship? For our safety.

    Think of the children!

    Don't censor this worthwhile idea.

  22. Re:And you shouldn't be.... on New York DA Wants Apple, Google To Roll Back Encryption (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 2

    Terrible grammar.

    > That would make everyone safer and be much gooder.

    . . . and be much MORE gooder.

    Although 'goodly', or 'goodfully' are also considered to be acceptable alternatives.

  23. Re:Read the Fine Print on Comcast Expands $10 Low-Income Internet Plan (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Comcast will provide for the child's education. By age seven they should already be outperforming Comcast's existing call center personnel.

  24. Re:Not Available on Comcast Expands $10 Low-Income Internet Plan (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Comcast has a patented new technology to redefine 'broadband' such that it works over dial up. Problem solved.

  25. Read the Fine Print on Comcast Expands $10 Low-Income Internet Plan (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    . . . but this is the first time that Internet Essentials will be available to adults without children nationwide.

    In order to get on the "Internet Essentials, for adults without children" plan, you promise to give all of your future children to Comcast to work in their call centers.