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  1. How pathetic could you possibly be as a teacher? on UK Computing Teachers Concerned That Pupils Know More Than Them · · Score: 1

    Seriously how pathetic could you possibly be as a teacher to be worse at technology THAN CHILDREN??

  2. executives are not interested in data retention. on Do We Need Regular IT Security Fire Drills? · · Score: 1

    Speaking from the viewpoint of someone high up in the echelon of LARGE U.S. corporation I.T. Middle management on up through top management are NOT even slightly interested in data retention. Primarily because it would incriminate them. AND I know this because I've had that conversation WITH upper management.

  3. awww and there was so much we taught them on UK Prime Minister Says Gov't Should Be Capable of Reading Any Communications · · Score: 1

    Yes, over 4 of your former "provinces" have rebelled against you (SUCCESSFULLY I might add) but yet you continue down the same path of monarchy and corruption... I for one vote for NOT freeing you when you are (rightfully?) conquered again.

  4. Are you going to extend fertility years?? on Silicon Valley's Quest To Extend Life 'Well Beyond 120' · · Score: 1

    If you are going to extend the human live span are you also going to extend the years human women are fertile?

  5. Re:HOLY ASTROTURFING FATMAN!!! on California Sues Uber Over Practices · · Score: 1

    Right. So just because you can use 3 syllable words, you appear to be much more intelligent than everyone else, right? I really don't think that you considered the obvious leniency of all the comments posted against Uber/Lyft on this post. Nor did you stop to consider the implications of such. You simply undermined and poo-poo'd my observation, which is EXACTLY what one would expect from an Astroturfer. Which, I believe, has been quite evident to everyone reading these comments.

    Furthermore, you immediately assumed that I was Pro Uber/Lyft, which if you re-READ my comments, I did not make such statements. So that only furthers the incrimination of your intents. Again, I believe the readers can obviously tell who the less than intelligent person is on this thread.

  6. But that would take logic. on New AP Course, "Computer Science Principles," Aims To Make CS More Accessible · · Score: 1

    Programming takes logical thought processes, something women have consciously decided to eschew. So until you change the thinking of EVERY woman on the face of the planet, you are kind of spinning your wheels on this issue.

  7. Re:HOLY ASTROTURFING FATMAN!!! on California Sues Uber Over Practices · · Score: 1

    Thank you for your comments, I believe the readers can tell who the actual "moron" is in this case!

  8. Re:This isn't a betting matter. on Hawking Warns Strong AI Could Threaten Humanity · · Score: 1

    Seriously this is a less than intelligent argument. Let's try to stay on one subject and not distract ourselves with big bright shiny objects shall we?

    So when have you had a conversation with a HAL 9000 device. Was it recently? Where exactly did you have this conversation? Where is this device/machine exactly?

  9. WRONG, just plain WRONG. on AI Expert: AI Won't Exterminate Us -- It Will Empower Us · · Score: 1

    Oren Etzioni's premise is incorrect. We (humans) equate intelligence in conjunction with emotion. Ethics, morality, a sense of right and wrong are emotionally based, but still equated with intelligence. An artificial intelligence (machine?) will have no such limitations, and thus will have no problems reasoning that the extinction of human existence is an appropriate action.

  10. HOLY ASTROTURFING FATMAN!!! on California Sues Uber Over Practices · · Score: 1

    Well it's quite obvious that the special interest parties have astroturfed this topic. Seriously paradigm shifts need to happen, and apparently they've needed to happen to an embedded (corrupt?) industry such as this for a VERY long time.

  11. This isn't a betting matter. on Hawking Warns Strong AI Could Threaten Humanity · · Score: 1

    The whole point of this theoretical debate isn't about betting. Saying that you bet it isn't (going to be a life altering matter) is an idiotic statement in and of itself. This isn't a bet you want to make, because if you lose the bet you've lost humanity. Belittling and poo-poo-ing the ramifications of AI is a losing bet in and of itself. Just because we aren't there yet does not mean that one day we will not be there. Rollo Carpenter has completely missed the entire point of the debate.

  12. Will not EVER happen. on New Global Plan Would Crack Down On Corporate Tax Avoidance · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The companies involved also PAY for the campaigns and prostitutes for the "elected" officials. So this supposed "crack down" will never happen. In point of fact these tax dodges were created by and endorsed by said "elected" officials.

  13. To really cut emissions we need population control on To Really Cut Emissions, We Need Electric Buses, Not Just Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Instead of band-aid's and pointless get rich quick schemes, population control is the ultimate problem. It isn't what people are doing, it's how many people are doing it that is the real issue. Failure to see this fact and to belittle or marginalize it are anti-productive.

  14. Missing the point? on Phoenix Introduces Draft Ordinance To Criminalize Certain Drone Uses · · Score: 1

    Is this legislation (and I am a Phoenix resident) about legislating a solution to the inescapable problem, or is it merely a method to subjugate those who film illegal activities, most likely perpetrated or endorsed by the same government?

  15. What on earth would be the purpose for this? on Senate Bill Would Ban Most Bulk Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Ok first off, the agencies in question repeatedly have shown no compunction what-so-ever to following ANY laws. They certainly will not follow this one. On top of that all they have to do is say "National Security" and the point it moot. So someone please tell me why this is anything other than political band-standing, a complete waste of taxpayer money, and completely idiotically pointless.

  16. And now for the improperly spun article of the day on Wearable Robot Adds Two Fingers To Your Hand · · Score: 2

    Ok, so I read the snippet of the article and got one image in my mind, then when I went to the article and saw the picture... Let's just say less than impressive. Those aren't fingers those are sticks.

    Wake me when I can strap two extra tentacle like arms with actually human(ish) hands on the end of them to my back. Oh and they should be partially intelligent too.

  17. Real language is becoming PERL. on The FBI's Jargon List: Internet Acronyms Galore · · Score: 2

    Ever notice (with all the acronyms) how much language is looking more and more like PERL?

  18. AYBABTU on The FBI's Jargon List: Internet Acronyms Galore · · Score: 1

    So basically the FBI is saying AYBABTU (All Your Base Are Belong To Us)?

  19. All Your Base Are Belong To Us. on Report: Watch Dogs Game May Have Influenced Highway Sign Hacking · · Score: 1

    Would have been the perfect message to have posted on these signs.

  20. Re:Or call your credit card company ... on AT&T To Use Phone Geolocation To Prevent Credit Card Fraud · · Score: 3, Insightful

    THANK YOU! Somebody FINALY got what's really going on here. This isn't about helping customers (at all) it's about AT&T attempting to find an "EXCUSE" to keep and monetize location information. This is a VERY bad idea for consumers.

  21. Whoooptie f'ing do. on Teen's Biofuel Invention Turns Algae Into Fuel · · Score: 1

    Seriously are you freakin' kidding me? Yes... Yes.. YES everyone's child is a freaking super-genius. Right. Oh... and gads... this one can actualy READ by the 8th grade. How wonderfully miraculous.

  22. Re:It needs a name...SLi batteries. on New All-Solid Sulfur Based Battery Outperforms Lithium Ion · · Score: 1

    And I have $5 that says this technology is never seen again.

  23. It needs a name...SLi batteries. on New All-Solid Sulfur Based Battery Outperforms Lithium Ion · · Score: 1

    Ok so we have nickel cadmium (NiCd), nickel metal hydride (NiMH), lithium ion (Li-ion), and lithium ion polymer (Li-poly) batteries, so this would make Sulfur Lithium (SLi) batteries. Actually that's a pretty cool name.

  24. Seriously??? ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? on Space Coffee, Just the Way You Like It · · Score: 0

    THIS is what you spend your college days doing? Developing COFFEE for non-existent space flights? Oh how proud your parents MUST be. I know I certainly am. You definitely deserve a high paying position when you get out of college for this *incredible* feat of mental fortitude. Society in general DEFINITELY needs more useless people such as yourselves. Whoop, Whoop!

  25. Re:Don't you know who your cousins are? on In Iceland, Tap Cellphones To Avoid Incest · · Score: 0

    SERIOUSLY??? In a country that is SMALLER than PARKS that we have in the US. You seriously don't know who your own cousins are?? REALLY?? I know all 43 of my cousins, and they live in 7 different states (which is like countries for the Euro's).