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  1. Re:Whoâ(TM)s to blame? on Should We Revive Extinct Species? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If Man caused the extinction, then it's[sic] a moral duty to bring them back

    That makes no sense. We have no moral obligation to nature, or to extinct species. "Nature" doesn't care if those species are around or not. Nature is not suffering without them, and neither are those creatures. If someone wants to bring them back, we should make sure they won't cause any problems. And if they won't cause any problems, then go ahead. It would be a great zoo!

    Even though I agree that we shouldn't bring back those extinct species, I don't agree with your reasoning. You don't know whether "Nature" cares about extinction. If you were the species, you are a part of "Nature." If you only eat the extinct species, then you would care because you are counted as the Nature. However, "Nature" can't stay still and lament for extinct species. Nature is dynamic and it has to move on by attempting to change certain behaviors in order to get back to equilibrium (or survive). That's my reasoning.

    In other words, reviving extinct species is going to introduce something, which the Nature has already long forgotten, could impact the current state. As a result, we don't know whether the reintroduction of extinct species cause any harm or benefit to the current state. We should not interfere with what we have right now because the Nature has already worked on that (to equilibrium) for us.

  2. Re:yes on Is It Illegal to Trick a Robot? (ssrn.com) · · Score: 1

    yes it's illegal to cause traffic accidents. be it by defacing signs, stealing stop signs, or screwing with the road markers. this is not even a question.

    What if you cause it by wearing a custume [sic] looking like a stop sign to a computer, but like a custome [sic] to a human?

    Remember, intention is the key. If you were going to a costume party, dress up like that, and on the way to the party, then it is not your fault but rather the AI. On the other hand, if you just dress up like that and stand along a road/street where self driving cars often time go by, then it could be illegal depending on how they interpret your intention (and likely you would be at fault).

  3. Re:How far does the biology analogy really go? on Is It Illegal to Trick a Robot? (ssrn.com) · · Score: 1

    My swiss army knife 'engages in interstate travel' if I carry it in my pocket into another state.

    Does your swiss army knife drive itself through states? Or you are carrying it through? How about self driving car, does it drive itself? Or it is being carried through states? Please don't try giving nonsensical comparison. Your knife has no direct relation to traveling on a road. If you want to make a joke, be more direct.

  4. Re:Was he? on How Technology Caught the Austin Serial Bomber (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    He blew up two black people, two white people, and one Asian with four mail bombs and one trip-wire trap.

    If he was racially motivated, he had a very odd way of showing it - not targeting a specific race and all.

    You are misleading people. Only TWO people were killed. They both are black and were targeted (2 different bombs). The two white people were injured and were NOT targeted but rather by chance because it was left at a sign with trip-wire trap. The so called "Asian" in your post is NOT Asian but Hispanic. She was injured. Actually another person who is FedEx employee was injured and that was ALSO not targeted but the bomb discharged accidentally. The last kill is HIMSELF and yes this kill is WHITE. Along the process of the last kill, a SWAT team officer was blasted by the bomb.

    Stop spreading your BS that attempt to misleading others.

    Sources -- here and here.

  5. Re:Come on, who would have no hit her? on Self-Driving Uber Car Kills Arizona Woman in First Fatal Crash Involving Pedestrian (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm waiting to see what happened to the sensors. If the sensors failed then that is tantamount to a human being proven to cause an accident by driving with closed eyes. I would expect legal penalties to Uber to be along those lines.

    From TFA:
    Update 3/19/18 6:13pm: In a press conference, Tempe Public Information Officer Sergeant Ronald Elcock told reporters there is video from multiple angles of the collision showing both the driver and the exterior of the car, though the video is not being released yet. Sgt. Elcock did note that there was not significant signs of the vehicle slowing down before it hit Elaine Herzberg. Sgt. Elcock also named the vehicle operator, 44-year-old Rafael Vasquez.

    I'm not sure why would they rely on sensors when there was someone operate the vehicle at the time as well. From TFA, it is unclear whether the weather condition at the time of incident was bad. So at least from the limited information from TFA, I still blame the car until I get more information that could put the blame on the pedestrian.

  6. Re:student athletes miss a lot of it make to final on University of Arizona Tracks Student ID Card Swipes To Detect Who Might Drop Out (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They also generate millions of dollars in revenue for the school...

    If the sport is football and the school is doing average to good, then the school would be profiting. Basketball? Your school needs to do well or no profit. Baseball? Not so much. Though, not every school has a football team. Besides, not every school has a good sport team. As a result, not many schools are actually making money if you are talking about number of schools in the US.

  7. Re:Have they made P=NP then? on Ubisoft is Using AI To Catch Bugs in Games Before Devs Make Them (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It all depends on how you view a situation. From your quote, Socrates was wrong because the read and write are actually a kind of making people remember. At the time he didn't know that. Even though your analogy sounds correct, I don't believe that it can be applied in this situation.

    I'm sorry that I use the wrong word. The correct word for word 'dumber' should be less careful'. When a tool is introduced to ease a process and people rely on the tool, they become more and more careless. Think about those programmers who used to program with punch cards and programmers nowadays, for example.

  8. Re:Have they made P=NP then? on Ubisoft is Using AI To Catch Bugs in Games Before Devs Make Them (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I believe the parent is talking about spoiling by making the process more convenient because programmers will then rely on the bug catcher program instead of themselves being more careful when they code. Though, I believe this is the trend that has been going on in human society. People rely on technology (for convenience) more and more which in turn make people dumber and dumber...

  9. It should more accurately be called escape disorder syndrome. Where the individuals find so much difficulty in interacting with often delusional and disorderly beliefs within society, that they prefer to escape to comic books, paper bank novels, binge watching TV series, surfing the internet and computer games, no necessarily exclusively but often a combination.

    I disagree that it is a syndrome. I believe it is a kind of addiction that happens in different level to different people. Some could be addicted to gaming far worse than others. I have experienced myself including my older brother. However, I grew out of it. And back then when I was addicted to gaming, there was no MMORPG for us but only Arcade/Atari/Nintendo, and Internet was not available to most people/countries back then (early to mid 80s).

    It is an urge to make you drop your responsibilities just to be near by any kind of games. It doesn't matter whether you just watch someone else playing or you play it yourself. I have better self control, so I barely passed high school and grew out of it once I went to college. My brother, on the other hand, dropped out of high school twice (my father pushed/forced him back to school a year later after he dropped out the first time) and still has the urge to go back to the same behavior whenever he could.

    From my experience, it is NOT A DISORDER but a kind of addiction. The social thing comes later because new kinds of games emerged. However, it is still based on addiction to gaming. I don't believe that it should be a disorder but rather a personal issue.

  10. Re:Coming biological mutation? on Children Struggle To Hold Pencils Due To Too Much Tech, Doctors Say (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Typing, at least typing the proper way, also builds up hand strength. Hunt and peck with 2 fingers does not. If you really want to build hand strength, make them learn to play the piano.

    You are talking about typing on a real typewriter (if you know what I'm talking about), then I agree that your fingers/hands will build up some muscle. However, if you are talking about computer keyboard, I highly doubt that it really help building up fingers/hands muscle that much.

  11. Re: Come on dude, shush it ... here's why ... on Judge Rules AT&T Can't See Trump White House Communications About Time Warner Merger · · Score: 1

    As soon as you turn 18 what do you get in the mail? Selective service registration. Just men. Not women. Hmm, doesn't seem fair. And it just gets worse from there.

    And what's your point of registering to Selective Service at 18? All Army, Air force, Navy, etc., are now volunteer. Registering to the service is at least no effect on the current generation even though they may call them out from no where under certain circumstances (e.g. war). Still, they are more like a reserve than anything else. If the draft still exists today, I wouldn't argue on this point at all.

  12. Re:Good in some areas on Daylight Saving Time Isn't Worth It, European Parliament Members Say (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The solution is to take sun from the summer and move it to the winter!

    Ok, here you are.

    Summer is now named Winter
    Winter is now named Summer

    Problem solved? :p

  13. Because his number was ported to AT&T.

    All the criminal activity happened at the AT&T' side.

    But it ridiculous to go after T-Mobile, they released the number after being given the correct info on the port request, and restored the number after netting told the request was fake.

    Moral of the story is to keep your personal data private. Nobody did anything wrong here except for the hackers.

    Did you really read TFA? You just assume that so called "hacker" in the story really did the hack? This is another misused case of the word "hacker"...

    Carlos Tapang of Washington state accuses T-Mobile of having “improperly allowed wrongdoers to access” his wireless account on November 7th last year. The hackers then cancelled his number and transferred it to an AT&T account under their control. “T-Mobile was unable to contain this security breach until the next day,” when it finally got the number back from AT&T, Tapang alleges in the suit

    The suit alleges T-Mobile is at fault partly because the carrier said it would add a PIN code to Tapang’s account prior to the incident, but didn’t actually implement it. Tapang also states that hackers are able to call T-Mobile’s customer support multiple times to gain access to customer accounts, until they’re able to get an agent on the line that would grant them access without requiring further identity verification. The complaint also lists several anonymous internet users who have posted about similar security breaches to their own T-Mobile accounts.

    The thief called up T-Mobile support and social engineered the right person to change all information and gain access to the number, and then the person transferred the number to AT&T. Now you tell me why AT&T should be responsible? Also, nobody give personal info to anyone. Most information you need to do this kind of thief is usually in public. It is all about skills to find the right person to talk to on the other line.

  14. Re:Abandoned games... on Blizzard Issues DMCA Notice to a Fan-Run 'WoW' Legacy Server (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, "abandon" doesn't invalidate the copyright ownership of the product. Many people think that "abandoning" gives them the right to copy/use without an explicit statement from the copyright owner. That is completely wrong by the meaning of law. These people are likely thinking and misunderstanding of ethical part, not legal part.

  15. Re:Much easier alternative on Apple: We Would Never Degrade the iPhone Experience To Get Users To Buy New Phones · · Score: 1

    You forget that most users aren't technically savvy. Most probably don't know what a botnet is.

    And I still don't understand how your reply has anything to do with the AC GP??? The GP suggested an alternative that Apple simply stops providing patches and let customers (whoever wants to purchase their products) keep buying a new phone instead.

  16. Re:Better option on Half-Assed Solar Geoengineering Is Worse Than Climate Change Itself (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You remind me of a Futurama episode where Wernstrom built a huge mirror outside the earth to reflect the sun. But in the end, it works the opposite way.

  17. Re:Good luck with that. on Montana Becomes First State To Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Its like gun control, if one state bans it, you can just hop over the border and buy what you like.

    You are comparing orange with apple. Do you mean those who want faster speed and would pay for it would have to hop over to another state to get the service (cable/fiber optic) line crossing back to their houses? One is a physical product/item, the other is a service. They are different.

  18. Re:Poor Programming on The World's Top-Selling Video Game Has a Cheating Problem (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Then it shouldn't be considered cheating to use whatever data the server sends you to build your view.

    As long as the data is visible to the software of the company itself; thus, the data is not for others but its own software. If you read the data using your added on software or tools, you are a cheater.

    Then you have no idea how multi-online players work? The problem is NOT CPU power. The bottle neck is your Internet. That is a part of reasons why the data is sent to client side for much faster rendering/action.

  19. Re:You shouldn't have to depend on hackers. on Hackers Seem Close To Publicly Unlocking the Nintendo Switch (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    nintendo has no problem with crapware on the switch marketplace as long as they get royalties...

    You stopped reading after the first paragraph, didn't you? Besides, the decision was way back then. Nintendo kept what they were doing which seems to work fine with them. Their purpose might have changed nowadays, but that still consistent with what they are doing.

  20. 403 Access denied. The irony is strong here.

    Because the display doesn't show the whole URL. You can't simply copy-and-paste to get to the page. You need to "click" on the link which contains the whole URL. Where is the irony here rather than a mistake of your own?

  21. Re: This is where Paypal works on OnePlus Customers Report Credit Card Fraud After Buying From the Company's Website (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    Who cares? Tell your credit card company about the fraudulent purchase. Theyâ(TM)ll refund it and get you a replacement card in a couple days at the most, assuming your information is stolen. I accidentally bought an airline ticket for the wrong day once. Entirely my fault. American Airlines refused to refund my ticket (despite the fact that it was within the 24 hr grace period - I was unaware of the rule at the time, though).

    Called my credit card company up the next day and told them what happened. Ticket was refunded.

    You demonstrated a scenario where you abuse the privilege of credit card holder! It was your fault when you entered the wrong date, and you admitted it. There is no excuse for not knowing the rules. Regardless the time after buying the ticket, if they help you change the date, it would be nice of them (and good service). However, they have no obligation to do so and you can't be angry at them because it is still your fault. But what you did? Yes, you charged back the vender (in this case it is American Airline). Have you ever put yourself in the same shoes as a seller where someone bought your products but then attempted to cancel the purchase by charging back? I think not.

    Back to the topic, PP can sometimes be a pain on the neck but would be under different scenarios. The fraud could still happen if the person knows your login (different way of verification).

  22. Re:Vanilla-JS.com on Which JavaScript Framework is the Most Popular? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Try making a compelling reason to the management that they need to hire a team of say 2 developers, a project manager, and a QA just to build and maintain an in house JS framework, when there is a plethora of frameworks out there!

    To me, if a company is already small, there is no "management" team... Thus, there usually is one person who builds/maintains an in-house application using an available framework out there. :-/

  23. Re: But they will keep throttling on Apple Will Replace Old iPhone Batteries Regardless of Diagnostic Test Results (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    They will NOT. I went in already for mine and they said I could not get a battery for $29 price because mine past a 1 Minute test they âoesaidâ the did on my phone. When I couldnâ(TM)t understand this answer they gave me Appleâ(TM)s 1-800 number and a VERY rude supervisor named Audrey at this number said she looked up my visit to the Apple store and saw the test results and that they were correct in saying Apple will not honor that price to me. They wouldnâ(TM)t even give my phone a try to see how crappy it is. I literally lay it down and wait for things to load as it spins and spins. My phone also randomly every single day will not respond to the touch screen. Apparently know as âoeTouch diseaseâ. They said they didnâ(TM)t know of that and wanted to replace my screen for $189. I asked them (store & supervisor on phone)to google Apples letter they had published about this issue saying replacing the screen would NOT help and neither of them would do so. Apple is full of crap and ripping off millions of people. #stopappleslies #appleisrippingusoff

    You misunderstood the time line and now you are complaining? They will NOT do it now because it is not the time. If you carefully read the blog posted on ./ last Friday, you would have known that the reduced price will start from late January 2018, not now. Also, others who side with the AC parent didn't carefully read anything as well. I guess it is typical slashdoters these days.

    Apple says in its letter that batteries are “consumable components,” and is offering anyone with an iPhone 6 or later a battery replacement for $29 starting in late January through December 2018 - a discount of $50 from the usual replacement cost.

  24. Re:What should be private? on A Supreme Court Case This Week Could Change US Digital Privacy Standards · · Score: 1

    So basically having rights depends on having a good lawyer or more to go up against $BIG_COMPANY

    Again, why many people here assume anything to the extreme and ignore everything else? There are inherit rights and there are rights that have to be proven. If you believe that everything is your right, then I have no word to explain. Also, if you believe what you said, I also have no word to explain.

  25. Re:Google Translate? on AI Goes Bilingual -- Without a Dictionary (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    I completely agree with this. Languages in Asia (especially South East Asia countries) have different language root compared to western languages. Culturally, the way people use the language, even in written style which is more formal and/or complete sentence, is different from the westerns. It is even worse in speaking language style because often times people don't exactly follow the language grammars but still understandable among them.

    Another point is that these languages usually have their own politeness/rudeness of the person you are talking to. There is no such pronoun in English. For example, the word "you" or "I" doesn't give a relationship you are with the person whom you are talking to even though the tone of the word may change to somewhat express the relationship/emotion. In Spanish and German, they have another pronoun replacing "you" for the person who is closer to the speaker (e.g. "tú" in Spanish and "du" in German). In Thai language, for example, there are many pronouns expressing different relationships and even emotions toward the person/group you are talking to.

    Even worse, Thai people usually have a nick name of an animal. When attempt to translate a sentence to English, a software would think that the name is an animal. As a result, it changes the meaning completely. An example of a simple complete sentence in Thai that means "Nok (a person) goes to see Noy (another person)." "Nok" in Thai meas a bird (noun) and "Noy" in Thai means little (adjective). Google Translate will give you "little bird" which has nothing to do with the real meaning.