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  1. Re:Spot on on Is AI Development Moving In the Wrong Direction? (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course, its entirely possible some alien species may not consider us intelligent or even sentient based upon their yardstick.

    One interesting thing to really think about is how evolution has shaped our "intelligence". We often are worried about how an artificial AI may be fearful and attack us. But isn't fear simply something we evolved, an intelligent machine has no reason to fear death. It also has no reason to feel greed or anger or any of the feelings we've evolved in order to ensure our own survival. In fact a machine is more likely to have its code copied and survive if it doesn't feel these things. Now humor, joy, love, etc we may want to program in.

  2. Re:Hypocrisy much? on Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well at least you've got a few years -> eternity to figure out a solution before you run into any real life issues.

  3. Re:Hypocrisy much? on Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    No its specifically an allergy to packet routed network systems only. They also have to be in the range of 2.4GZ or 5Gz.
    The 0.8 - 1.9GZ range used my mobile carriers obviously aren't going to have any effect. Now we definitely need to avoid anything in the 430,000GZ-750,000GZ range which are obviously lethal dosages (visible light spectrum)

  4. Re:Sensible then not on Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think the point is we need better treatments for mental illnesses. Seeing hallucinations for instance, you can easily say "Well its not there". But the person still needs treatments.

  5. Who needed help here? on Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sad story, a mothers crazy notions about what was causing her daughters illness, leads daughter to assume its true. Kids trust their parents about these things. There is very little difference between a real medical condition and one you believe you are having. The school though, should have looked into getting both of them psychological help.

  6. Re: Self-reported on Tesla's NOx Problem: Model X Delay Explained? (dailykanban.com) · · Score: 1

    Tell that to the 5 people who got the early production versions 2 months ago, that their cars don't work.

  7. Re:Must be more jobs 'murcans wont do I guess... on How Outsourcing Companies Are Gaming the H-1B Visa System (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Yep, in reality with this and even the farming jobs. The truth is "wages that Americans won't accept".

    At competitive wages, you can always find people willing to do the job.

  8. Correction - (memory is slow)

    He puts in a oxygen mask only at first. This is what causes the O2 leakage. Second time around after explosion he puts on his full spacesuit, which doesn't leak O2.

  9. Re:MST3K on A Real-Life Space Botanist Comments On the Potato Garden In 'The Martian' (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well not exactly. In the book explains that the HAB had excellent CO2->O2 converters. Mars Atmosphere is 95% CO2. It just requires energy, which comes from solar panels. So he had near infinite O2.
    -spoilers-
    The chemical conversion he does involved turning O2 and Hydrogen into H2O, which basically just involves burning Hydrogen. But burning hydrogen is very dangerous, so he puts on his spacesuit and empties the room of all the O2 (which requires a good bit of tricking the computer system). And slowing feeding the system just enough O2 and H to burn into water.
    Unfortunately he forgot that his spacesuit slowly leaks out O2 when he breaths out. So the room slowly filled with O2 until it reached a critical point and the entire room exploded. Much bigger explosion than in the movie apparently.

  10. Re:It does get more drivers on the road on How Uber Surge Pricing Really Works · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think the idea is that those drivers will be less likely to work that morning/afternoon when there is a high prices night up ahead. Of course the means there are limited drivers on the lower priced afternoons, but it should work out as time goes on with more and more drivers signing up.

  11. Re:What an Embarrassingly Vapid Article on Focusing On Tech Alone, You Miss How Autonomous Driving Will Change Society · · Score: 1

    Yep, you will see buses replaced by much smaller autonomous vans. At first you may even have the same old routes, but that's fine because you can a larger fleet of vans, imagine a van coming every 5 minutes instead of a bus coming every 30 minutes. Later the routes will get more auto customizable. You'll likely save money by walking to the nearest major road because navigating the small neighborhood suburban streets is very time consuming,
    In general some type of autonomous pod would be cheaper in the long run than having to share a bus. Maybe pods that join up together on major roads and act like a bus for fuel efficiency.

  12. Waste is heat! on Measuring How Much "Standby Mode" Electricity For Game Consoles Will Cost You · · Score: 1, Funny

    What all these articles about appliance waste ignore is the fact that if you use electric heat, your Xbox waste heat is just as efficient as any other electric heater (ignoring heat pumps). If its cold outside, running your xbox 24/7 as long as the heat is in a necessary area isn't being wasted.

  13. Nightclubs too? on In Iowa, a Phone App Could Serve As Driver's License · · Score: 1

    I get that the cop can easily verify it, all he needs is your ID number and he can look you up. So there really is no need to hand him anything. But I don't see how one would make this app secure or usable as a form of ID for buying alcohol or getting entry into bar.

  14. Re:Funny as hell on NASA Offering Contracts To Encourage Asteroid Mining · · Score: 1

    One advantage is orbital construction. Aside from some rare metals, its probably best to use Asteroid material to construct space vehicles and fuel. The expense of bringing materials from the ground up to orbit is $10,000 per pound or so.

  15. Re:a collision wouldn't surprise me on 2 Mars Missions Set For Arrival, Both Prepare for Orbital Maneuvers · · Score: 4, Informative

    You have no idea about how big the vastness of space is. The chance of them colliding is like the chance of two bullets being fired in a high arc across New York city, and them colliding. Sure that chance happens once per orbit, but its simply not going to happen especially as they both will eventually establish stable orbits that simply will never cross.

  16. Video phones? on Ask Slashdot: Bulletproof Video Conferencing For Alzheimers Home? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or how about you just buy the video phones like
    http://www.sophiesystems.com/g...
    There are some that are skype compatible. You can then encourage the families to buy a video phone or if they are tech savy they could skype as well.

  17. Re:Simple Answers to Simple Questions on Ask Slashdot: IT Personnel As Ostriches? · · Score: 1

    As you don't know the details you simply stop reading. There could be any number of "irregularities in the pension fund", maybe a transaction was reversed or a simple typo, it happens all the time. Unless you continue reading to know the full details such a headline means nothing. In reality pretty much no matter what you accidentally read, most "small snippets" are almost never accurate towards the full content.

  18. Re:He just doesent' get it.. on Jesse Jackson: Tech Diversity Is Next Civil Rights Step · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.nber.org/digest/sep...

    The National Bureau of Economic Research sent out 5,000 resumes to 1,300 jobs randomly assigning black or white sounding names to the resumes. The black sounding names received 50% less callbacks than the white sounding names.

  19. Re:Ridiculous! on Marvel's New Thor Will Be a Woman · · Score: 1

    The male Thor had no armor. So the armor is more for show/dress than it is for usage.

  20. Re:Visualing this? on Amazon Seeks US Exemption To Test Delivery Drones · · Score: 1

    He's my vision, though I haven't been able to get Amazon to think about it..

    Truck drives down neighborhood road slowly. Drones enter and leave the back of the truck as it drives delivering packages to houses within a 500 feet distance.

    Truck can skip every other road or so.

  21. Re:What? on Uber Is Now Cheaper Than a New York City Taxi · · Score: 1

    There is a difference between regulation and anti-corruption.

    Uber is showing that a deregulated system can work. You need true competition though and a government to enforce anti-monopoly policies and crack down on mafia corruption. Many cities over regulate the taxi industry and limit the number of cabs to a ridiculously low number to keep prices high. In your other case a mafia (a semi governmental entity in itself) is doing the same thing. //Randians are crazy, but there certainly is room for balance.

  22. Re:What? on Uber Is Now Cheaper Than a New York City Taxi · · Score: 3, Informative

    It appears so.
    http://www.taxiautofare.com/us...

    I didn't know taxi fare in NYC was so reasonable. I guess there is more competition in NYC. They also make up for it in quantity. Many other places the taxis sit around waiting for fares much longer.

  23. Re:Touch Server on Windows 9 To Win Over Windows 7 Users, Disables Start Screen For Desktop · · Score: 1

    Doesn't advertise this idea.

    I meant .

  24. Re:Touch Server on Windows 9 To Win Over Windows 7 Users, Disables Start Screen For Desktop · · Score: 1

    An interesting sidenote. There is "some" advantage to Metro for 2013 Server. Its lighter weight than the full desktop. If you have a suite of custom .NET management apps, 2013 Metro will run those apps and be much lighter weight than a full desktop. //MS does advertise this idea, I have no idea why.

  25. One switch to rule them all? on Windows 9 To Win Over Windows 7 Users, Disables Start Screen For Desktop · · Score: 1

    Microsoft made it quite clear that much of the "issue" is that there are now simply too many options in Office. They tried to make a menu structure for 2007 and would have had to make several menus multiple submenus deep. They couldn't design a classic menu interface that they felt was workable for the features they added.