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  1. Creepy to a next level on RealDoll CEO Aims To Make Its Sex Dolls Love You Back Via AI App (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Sex dolls were already creepy, but now if people talk to them...

  2. Re:Soviet's side of the story? on How a 1967 Solar Storm Nearly Led To Nuclear War (space.com) · · Score: 1

    You seem to assume USSR military gear was as rusted and unreliable in the sixties as it was when USSR collapsed. I am not sure it was the case, otherwise USSR would not have been considered a threat.

  3. Automated coding on Has The NSF Automated Coding with ExCAPE? (adtmag.com) · · Score: 1

    The choice of 'automated" word is unfortunate. This helps coding, but an human operator still has to tell the machine what to do, which is programming.

    True automated coding could only be claimed the day human operator will be removed from the process.

  4. Already experimented in France on Billionaire Launches Free Code College in California (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "42 US" reproduces the "42" school created in November 2013 in France. I still have no opinion on that experiment, but at least US students can expect organizational details to be sorted out, since it was already done elsewhere.

  5. Soviet's side of the story? on How a 1967 Solar Storm Nearly Led To Nuclear War (space.com) · · Score: 1

    The solar flare must have jammed USSR's radars too at the same time. How did they react? Do we have some information on this?

  6. Shame on Ireland for extraditing one of its citizen to a country that would certainly not do the same for its own citizen.

    That person should have been prosecuted in Ireland.

  7. Why old systems should be bad? on More Airline Outages Seen As Carriers Grapple With Aging Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It seems we assume old systems should be bad. I am not sure modern stuff is more reliable than what was produced decades ago.

  8. Alternative summary: A new game is mediocre. Why is this a news?

  9. Canvas reuse on X-Rays Reveal Hidden Portrait Under Painting By Edgar Degas (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    It is not the first time we discover a hidden painting below a master's piece. Nowadays famous artists were poor when they painted, and canvas reuse was a common practice to save money.

  10. Brazil acceptance on 1,000+ US Spies Are Protecting Rio Olympics, Says Report (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 0

    I would have thought that Brazil would be fed of with US spies after Snowden's leak showed US spied on Brazil president Roussef...

  11. Why should we care about the views of a couple of antipiracy lobbying NGO?

  12. FBI stingrays on New Illinois Law Limits Police Use Of Cellphone-Tracking Stingray (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Is a state law like this able to limit federal agencies usage of stingray?

  13. If it is not a money, then VAT should be paid on it.

  14. Obviosuly TSA lacks some counterpowers. It seems justice and press were not enough, so what can be done?

  15. Can the SEC filling have consequences? Can it lead to cancel the sales to Microsoft? Or result in a fine?

  16. High court of Paris? on Google and Bing Have No Obligation To Censor Searches For Torrents (betanews.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What is this "high court of Paris"? There is no court named like that in France. Is it Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris? or Cour d'Appel de Paris? Or even Cour de Cassation, which is french supreme court?

  17. Re:Makework on The Case Against a Universal Basic Income (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    technological progress is killing some low-skilled, low-paid jobs then you are failing to notice that it creates other, higher-skilled, better-paid jobs

    Yes: New jobs that are higher-skilled, better-paid jobs, and... much fewer.

    The core of the problem is that we head to a level of productivity where we require few jobs to provide for the needs of many. How do you keep a sustainable demand in such a situation?

  18. Re:Technology Buzz Words on DARPA Will Stage an AI Fight in Las Vegas For DEF CON (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    The term AI has become synonymous with "something we'll see in 30 years".

    You mean we could say producing electricity using nuclear fusion is AI? :-)

  19. Re: This is fucking stupid on DARPA Will Stage an AI Fight in Las Vegas For DEF CON (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Blocking ports is not the end of the story. Stuxnet was designed to attack systems not reachable from Internet

  20. Re:Makework on The Case Against a Universal Basic Income (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    In today's world of increasing automation, how many of those jobs are essentially going to be makework?

    This deserves mod points. The key problem is that we are bending toward a world with much less jobs. If we want jobless people to live and the economy to keep working, we need to give them money somehow.

  21. Re:Jupiner again? on Juniper OS Flaw Allowed Forged Certificates (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    We know that the NSA hunts SysAdmins in order to gain control over the systems and networks they manage. With that level of access inside Juniper, the NSA could easily have added these features themselves.

    Hunting sysadmins is perfect to get access to data, but that is less effective to alter stuff. I am certain Juniper uses some version control tool. Modifying something leaves trails.

    I am more inclined to think about an NSA agent being hired by Juniper as developer (or a Juniper developer being hired by NSA) in order to add subtle security bug in a legitimate software change.

  22. Jupiner again? on Juniper OS Flaw Allowed Forged Certificates (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Juniper already had a backdoor in VPN products.

    Does it means they had NSA-corrupted engineers, or that they have better processes than others to find this kind of stuff that would happen everywhere?

  23. Re:Sustainability on Slashdot Asks: Would You Eat Lab-Grown Meat? (dmarge.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem with pork is handling its shit. But if someday we get smart, it could replace chemical fertilizer for farming.

  24. It is an open secret that the Jihadis are finding the informants and forcing them to "redeem" themselves by carrying out attacks.

    This confirms terrorists are recruited within muslims wannabes. Real muslims that attend mosques are more likely to know about sixth commandment "Thou Shalt Not Kill"...

  25. EU does not care about elections (Remember referendums in France, Netherland, Ireland, Greece?). Mr Junker even openly said there was no democratic alternative to EU treaties.

    So why EU would care about public opinion from a public consultation? Be sure they will discard anything they did not want to hear.