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  1. Re:If I were an FBI agent on the take... on Hidden FBI Microphones Exposed In California (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    Which they somehow forgot to do and went for the hail-mary of telling the court "uhhh, we just recorded everything everyone said and hoped we heard something good"

    I would be tempted to agree with mi on this, but honestly after seeing the behavior of the FBI with respect to Apple, it seems that the current game plan at the agency is to just beat their head on walls until someone installs a door where they want it. I'm sure that they hope the outcome of this case will be that they can go to the public and tell everyone they have to be able to record everything everyone says or else "The terror^Wpedo^Wreal estate agents will be able to get away with horrible things!" (Do we need to add a fifth horeseman of the infocapalypse now?)

  2. Re:The cognitive dissonance, it burns! on Hidden FBI Microphones Exposed In California (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Monkeywrenching them on Hidden FBI Microphones Exposed In California (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.

  4. Re: How about replacing the CEO with a machine on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes

  5. Re: How about replacing the CEO with a machine on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    So the answer is no, you can't show me any research that says that wage inflation causes price inflation because of people having more money, and not because employers have to charge more to pay the inflated wages.

  6. if it were that easy to automate fast food, McDonalds would have done it years ago.

    As technology progresses, things get easier. Eventually, they get "that easy".

  7. Re: How about replacing the CEO with a machine on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you assuming the price of goods and services will remain the same after everyone starts receiving $2000 a month free? Where is the analysis with altered prices?

    If a person in a small town wins the lotto, how much does that increase the price of an apple?

    If the minimum wage goes up to $15 and the grocer is forced to raise prices to pay the workers, how much does that increase the price of an apple?

    Can you show me a study that proves that people having more money makes prices go up, compared to companies paying more money in wages?

  8. Re:DEC logo on DVDFab Has Ignored Court's Shut Down Order, AACS Says (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Somewhere along the long line of people who have owned and operated slashdot, the site administration has lost all of the people who had any idea what DEC was. Since it has the word "digital" in it, the current editors assume the icon can go with anything digital, like Digital Millennium Copyright Act

  9. Re:So it's a glorified Paralegal, then? on BakerHostetler Hires Artificial Intelligent Attorney 'Ross' (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure if they tried to have an AI lawyer, the human lawyers would have a law passed against it post haste.

  10. Segmentation fault, soul dumped.

  11. We'll just add it to the other extra labor available for other things. Someday maybe someone will come up with a use for all of it.

  12. Re:Do Something! on Drones Could Replace $127 Billion Worth Of Human Labor (businessinsider.com.au) · · Score: 1

    And Amazon isn't going to be flying packages to a world of people who were unemployed by robots

    If they won't, Wal-Mart will. Or someone else will, because whoever does it first and does it cheaper will undercut the companies that don't, and will sell to those other companies employees until those other companies roboticize or go out of business. Once all the other companies go out of business?

    "Not my problem, this quarter's numbers are awesome" - CEO, board, and stockholders of RoboShipper.

  13. Re:Bro, Do You Even Bet? on Swarm AI Correctly Predicts Kentucky Derby Superfecta, Turns $20 Into $11,000 (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    it is rare to be able to CONSISTENTLY do that, which is why most people lose

    If they stop now, they'll be able to claim they won 100% of the time :)

  14. Re:Will the forced upgrades stop? on Microsoft: Windows 10 Will Remain Free For People With Accessibility Needs (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    No. Starting July 29th, Microsoft will assume that anyone not on Windows 10 is blind and therefore could not see the "upgrade now" popup. As a service to the blind community they will provide all of them with an automatic free upgrade to Windows 10.

  15. Re:Boaty McBoatface would have been something ... on 'Boaty McBoatface' Polar Ship Named After Attenborough Despite Less Votes (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm pretty sure he'd have voted for "RRS It's Bloody Cold Here". It certainly seems like a name a Ship would choose.

  16. Enough of Microsoft's users need that handholding to not run the word.exe that some website's malware dropper dropped in their Downloads folder.

  17. Re:There is only one reason they are doing this on FDA To Regulate E-Cigarettes Like Tobacco (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    That's strange, they can tax the fuck out of it without forcing the companies to prove that their mix doesn't make formaldehyde when vaporized.

  18. Re:Simple question on Aging and Bloated OpenSSL Is Purged of 2 High-Severity Bugs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I use OpenSSL in an EBCDIC environment, you insensitive clod!

  19. I'm not going to lie. I tried paying the use tax once (no, seriously). I went to the state and was immediately met with such a barrage of over-the-top jargon and legalese that I suspect that anyone trying to actually make good on this tax requires both an accountant and a lawyer to have a snowball's chance in hell of correctly doing this. Heretounderforeforthwiths aside, it appears that I have to personally know every taxing authority that applies to my address (they suggested that a database mapping addresses to the appropriate tax authorities and tax rates could be purchased for a not-insignificant amount) and personally divvy up my contribution to their coffers (the transportation tax zone collects 0.5% of every purchase except for those related to vehicles in which case it is 1%, except when your location has an overlapping road improvement zone in which case the transportation zone always receives 0.5% and the road improvement zone always receives 0.5% and blah blah blah.

    That was over a decade ago. It looks like things are a slight bit better now, there's apparently an online system to find which tax authorities determine your rates. I say apparently because the link gives me a 404 error. Half the stuff on the page seems to be for people selling things (why the hell would I have a sales tax certificate number?) It also appears that they have consolidated receipts now so that I would make a payment to the Texas Comptroller rather than having to hunt down the address for all of the different authorities to send them a check for $0.08 whenever I make a purchase.

    Maybe I'll send in a check this year.

  20. Re:Also, fire. on Without Encryption, Everything Stops, Says Snowden (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    actual or possible compromises

    Do you have compromises to propose?

  21. Re:Also, fire. on Without Encryption, Everything Stops, Says Snowden (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    So what "real world context" do you want him to inject? Screaming about "what he didn't say" isn't informative, not without telling us what you wanted him to say.

  22. Re:Yeah i thought of this ages ago on Gas Delivery Startups Want to Fill Up Your Car Anywhere, But It Might Not Be Legal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Then you go to the wrong car and you get shot at before you can explain you're siphoning gas INTO the car.

  23. Still a job for us on With AI Getting Better at Cognitive Abilities, Humans Will Have Even Fewer Jobs (koreaherald.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since the computer cannot feel, we humans will still have a job as test dummies to be subjected to whatever the AI comes up with in order to record whether we feel it to be pleasant or not.

    Now, please look into the camera and experience Musical Composition #0x382F493 for 48.732 minutes.

  24. Re:No, I am Spartacus! on Craig Wright Claims He's Satoshi Nakamoto, the Creator Of Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    First few characters are the same, looks legit.

  25. Re:Yep, it's a body transplant on Doctor Ready to Perform First Human Head Transplant (newsweek.com) · · Score: 2

    if you had a way to support the brain and eyes, you could separate the skull from the spine, then lift the skull off from the front, swap them, and then reattach the skull to the spine (and the throat and the arteries and so on). You'd have to split open the back of the skull and neck (and remove the back of the eye sockets) so it just slips off/on over the brain and brainstem and spinal column.