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  1. Did he get rid of those blue haired whiners? on Linus Torvalds is Back in Charge of Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    When you allow too many professional complainers and trouble makers, usually with bizarre hair colour and face piercings, your team or even the whole business will got sh**t. Don't hire those freaks and keep everyone else happy.

  2. Google is censoring search results EVERYWHERE! on Google To Launch Censored Search In China Despite Denials (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 0

    Why are you guys constantly whining about China? Google, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and so on are all censoring search results/posts all around the world!
    If you are not parroting what ever crap allowed by "Central Committee of Truth" your are probably censored or you never show up on the front page.
    China is irrelevant!

  3. Robots Don't Destroy Employment, Politicians Do! on Economists Worry We Aren't Prepared For the Fallout From Automation (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    "I’m not worried about artificial intelligence, I’m terrified of human stupidity."

    "he debate about technology and its role in society that we need to have is being used to deceive citizens and scare them about the future so they accept to submit to politicians who cannot nor will protect us from the challenges of robotization.

    However, there are many studies that tell us that in 50 years the vast majority of work will be done by robots. What can we do?

    We have lived the fallacies of dystopian estimates for decades.

    I always explain to my students that, if we believed the fifty-year-forward studies of the past, it has been seventeen years since we have run out of water, oil, and jobs. Fifty-year estimates always suffer from the same mistakes. First, presentism. Take the current situation and exaggerate it. Second, sweeten the past. No, no past time was better. Third, always estimate an impossible and negative future by ignoring the evidence of human ingenuity and innovation.

    The reality is that today, the world population has grown to 7.5 billion, and we have more work despite the technology revolution. Global unemployment is at historic lows, 5%, global poverty has fallen to unprecedented levels, from 80% in 1820 to 10% today. Infant mortality has been reduced to less than half, from 64.8 deaths per thousand births in 1990 to 30.5 in 2016."

    Keep reading, its good stuff: robots-do-not-destroy-employment-politicians-do

  4. First post on any bitcoin related post should end with "Let the butt-hurt induced whining begin" or something like that.

  5. Re:One step closer to doomsday on OpenAI Built Gaming Bots That Can Work As a Team With Inhuman Precision (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    > how many hardcore Nazis did it take to run Nazi Germany?

    BTW, how many communist it took to murder over 100 million people?

  6. You lost me at "e-sports" on OpenAI Built Gaming Bots That Can Work As a Team With Inhuman Precision (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    Banging on a keyboard and hanging onto a joy-stick is not sport no matter how much you sweat while guzzling down sugar water with caffeine and what not.
    Actually, playing vid games past your teen years is pathetic to begin with.

  7. Re:Well, this will make the Trump trolls squeal. on Democratic Party Files Suit Alleging Russia, the Trump Campaign, and WikiLeaks Conspired To Disrupt the 2016 Election (cnbc.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    it seems you are still butt hurt over Trump winning. LOL!

  8. Clinton is running again, that should be obvious to all now. This is the funniest thing I've seen in a long, LONG time!

    I honestly hope she will be in prison by that time. BTW, as you probably know: "Criminal Referral Issued For Comey, Clinton, Lynch And McCabe; Rosenstein Recusal Demanded" This is getting really interesting and there is hope, that those swamp creatures end up behind bars.

  9. Russian derangement syndrome is fatal.
    How long are those libr-clowns going to milk that dead cow?

  10. Yes, banks are scared shLess of cryptocurrency on Twitter Moves To Ban Crypto Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It has nothing to do with protecting their product (aka you, the user).
    Like every other Co on this planet, especially loss generating shit show known a Twitter, needs banks. Banks hate crypto-currencies. They know it spells the end for them. So, what they do? They coerce businesses to go against it.

  11. No mention of gab.ai? How sad on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Good Alternative to Facebook? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    No mention of https://www.gab.ai? How sad. Probably only place where you can actually have a honest conversatiuon and exchange of ideas. It's not like twitter, where ADL tells you what you can and can not say or even think.

  12. Re:Hmm! - Soros looks like a naked mole rat on Naked Mole Rats Defy Mortality Mathematics (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Soros looks like a naked mole rat for a reason

  13. Re:its just a car. on Toyota Demands Removal of Fan Wallpapers · · Score: 3, Funny

    Lexus is not just a car, it's a pile of shit made for pompous morons.

  14. Re:rm -rf / on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 3, Funny

    rm -rf /*

    it stands for: Read Mail Really Fast
    You can read mail faster, if you are root

  15. Big Mistake of '08 on Atom Smasher May Create "Black Saturns" · · Score: 1

    Locate the TechnoCore!

  16. USA is the land of paranoids and idiots! on Aqua Teen Stunt Costs Turner and Agency $2M · · Score: 1

    USA is the land of paranoids and idiots!

  17. Re:Here is a link to the Estonia story... on Top off Your Parking Meter with a Cell Call · · Score: 1

    actually, SMS parking started July 2000 in Estonia.

  18. Re:Business usage on Firefox Usage Climbing In Europe · · Score: 1

    Interesting, how they have used the color red and green on this equipement12.asp.

    Red is usually used for warnings or for something "bad".

  19. Re:there are relationships though on It's "1984" in Europe, What About Your Country? · · Score: 1

    Direct democracy is a well established part of the Swiss political system.
    Voters have a range of rights which give them a direct influence on policies at every level. Citizens who want to put forward proposals of their own or who object to legislation already passed by Parliament can use the popular initiative and the referendum to oblige the authorities to put the issue to the people as a whole.

    http://www.swissworld.org/dvd_rom/eng/direct_democ racy_2004/

  20. Microsoft's 'standard' promise on Microsoft Open Document Standard Not So Open · · Score: 2, Informative

    from pcpro.co.uk>

    Sun Microsystems is urging the state of Massachusetts not to be swayed by Microsoft's submission of Office XML to the Ecma standards body.

    In a letter sent to Secretary Trimarco, Massachusetts Executive Office of Administration and Finance, Sun's head of corporate standards, Carl Cargill, outlines his concerns over Microsoft's recent move. ....

    While Microsoft has promised to submit its work to Ecma, Cargill emphasises that promises alone should not replace existing open standards.

    'Just as an agency would not purchase a product before its actual availability,' writes Cargill, 'so too would it be a mistake to rely on a single vendor's promise to submit a new product to a standards body at some point in the future. The Commonwealth owes no less to its taxpaying citizens.'

    For more, read:
    Sun warns caution over Microsoft's 'standard' promise

  21. Re:Is Red Hat Linux? on Red Hat Listed Among 50 Top Tech Companies · · Score: 2, Informative

    ... and as you can read form Red Hat Shares Fall on Analyst Downgrade

    Red Hat Shares Fall on Analyst Downgrade
    Tuesday November 15, 12:01 pm ET
    Red Hat Shares Fall 5.5 Percent After Analyst Downgrades Stock on Lacking Near-Term Upside

    NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of Red Hat Inc. dropped 5.5 percent trading Tuesday after an analyst cut his rating on the stock, citing concern that he doesn't anticipate any events that can move the stock price up in the near future.

    Shares were down $1.34, to $23.02 in midday trading on the Nasdaq.

    and so on ...

  22. Re:There's an old saying... on Is There Such A Thing As A Final Cut? · · Score: 1

    This is like in the book "1984".

  23. Re:Well on Terrorist Link to Copyright Piracy Alleged · · Score: 1

    neo-conservative assholes in America need the power. to get the power, they need nightmares that can be sold to public.

    Get a copy of "The Power of Nightmares"
    or read more about it from here
    The Power of Nightmares: Baby It's Cold Outside, ...The Power of Nightmares assesses whether the threat from a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion. In the concluding part of the series, the programme explains how the illusion was created and who benefits from it.

  24. Re:+1 funny? on A Coffeeshop's Weekends Without Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    ...If semiconductors were to vanish tomorrow,

    i'ts about time!


    wherever you are, your government would collapse

    good! it is full of idiots!

    the balance of power in the world would be thoroughly shaken

    i'ts about time!

    and millions, if not billions of people would die within a year.

    i'ts about time!

  25. Re:language on Top 10 Evolutionary Adaptations · · Score: 1

    yes, no reason to worry because species that give it up (sex) almost always go extinct within a few hundred generations