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  1. Fine seems fair on A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    $1.24 per nuisance call seems pretty fair. Hell, even $5 per unwanted call seems reasonable and would quickly end robocalling.

  2. Good old days on 'An Apology for the Internet -- from the People Who Built It' (nymag.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Things were fine back before normal people invaded our utopia...

  3. Re:Generalizing The Entire Person on AI Can Generate a 3D Model of a Person After Watching a Few Seconds of Video (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    ...In the next stage the system uses the phenotype information shown in the video combined with the 99.9999% shared genetic information between all humans to create a nearly exact genome for the person. ...In the final step the AI system uses your likes, preferences, cookie trails and other information gleaned from your online life to fill in the life experience portion and recreate your personality.

    This all allows the marketers to then pinpoint your exact weaknesses to advertising so that you BUY, BUY, BUY, BUY!!!!

    You've got two different Futurama episodes mashed together there. Seriously, do yourself a favor and brush up on our religious texts.

  4. Jesus... Everything is AI these days. That's like calling a newborn baby making fart noises a classical musician. At best, the baby could be employed for background music in mumble rap songs. A classical musician? Heavens no.

  5. Will the tables turn? on Trade War Or Not, China is Closing the Gap on US in Technology IP Race (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does this mean all the other countries of the world can start stealing their intellectual property soon? It's been a bit one sided so far...

  6. Re: Oh right, the power question on A Coal Power Plant is Being Reopened For Blockchain Mining (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure you meant to say "I'll be dammed"...

  7. DRM for emails? on Google is Testing Self-Destructing Emails in New Gmail (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    DRM for emails? Do not want.

  8. You mean Gojira? Naw, that is made up. Pulgasari, however, is real.

  9. Re: Something is seriously wrong on How Will Automation Affect Different US Cities? (northwestern.edu) · · Score: 1

    Are you bragging or complaining about making $20k a year? I'm nonplussed.

  10. My 6 digit ID is at least 13 years old.

  11. Re: Because greed. on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 1

    Is it more like rocket surgery or brain science?

  12. Seems all these articles these days are getting overly redundant in an unnecessary and redundant way. Here's the basic formula:

    $COMPANY can't find enough cheap workers and comes up with $STUPID_IDEA to try to explain why competent people still cost $TOO_MUCH.

    As a bonus for this article, we can have fun pointing out obvious lurking variables because they obviously don't realize things may not be as they seem.

  13. Re: There's a far simpler explanation on An Up-Close Look At the Parker Solar Probe -- the Spacecraft That Will Skim the Sun's Surface (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Let us how you really feel. No need to pull your punches.

  14. Re: The sun doesn't really have a "surface" on An Up-Close Look At the Parker Solar Probe -- the Spacecraft That Will Skim the Sun's Surface (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Props to you and good luck!

  15. Lazy judge on Coffee Requires Cancer Warning, California Judge Rules (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A smarter judge would simply require everything to have a cancer warning and be done with it. Life is a cancer risk, and we should nanny state proper. This half assed shit needs to be stopped.

  16. Next step is to miniaturize 3D printers to the point that I can print my own medications, food, and Star Trek DVDs...

  17. Re: What is this "pinterest" you speak of? on 90 Percent of Affiliate Ads on YouTube and Pinterest Aren't Disclosed, Says Study (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    According to Ali Wong, Pinterest is a site for women... And occasionally men who are pinterested in men. I know nothing further.

  18. Re: It's just easier to have a 2nd device on Ask Slashdot: Why Are There No True Dual-System Laptops Or Tablet Computers? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think you said the same thing twice. I also think you said the same thing twice. ;-)

  19. Re: Because those people boot from a disc on Ask Slashdot: Why Are There No True Dual-System Laptops Or Tablet Computers? · · Score: 1

    SoC are great for amateur robotics and other electronics projects. Source: me. I'm about a dozen Raspberry Pis deep about now.

  20. Re: I live in the Atlanta suburbs and my favorite on Atlanta, Hit by Ransomware Attack, Also Fell Victim To Leaked NSA Exploits (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    After this shitstorm, I think it'd be better if she was Mayor Soiled Bottoms...

  21. Largest organ? on Meet the Interstitium, the Largest Organ We Never Knew We Had (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The desire to make dick jokes when seeing "largest organ" is too much... Must... Walk... Away...

  22. It's been a bad day for Apple on Slashdot...

  23. What if someone is trapped in that facility and is figuring out some clever way to hack their systems to dial out and we're just ignoring them completely?

    Obviously that person should be familiar with Robot Chicken Season 4. Hint: read the episode titles. It could save your life.

  24. So wait, Spalter said "Broadband providers have worked hard (to) uphold net neutrality protections..."

    That level of lying and double talk just now seg faulted my brain...

    Oww....

    Oww....

  25. What a strange world... on Apple Announces New $299 iPad With Pencil Support For Schools (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    The world has changed. Apple is now trying to do what Microsoft did 20 years ago. Unfortunately for Apple, you can't get the next generation hooked on your goods if they're not good enough and not the right price. Add in issues getting affordable software into their damned walled garden, and I'm completely confused as to why Apple would even go down this road.

    Maybe all the C* levels doing Himalayan amounts of cocaine while their engineers routinely micro-dose on acid is the explanation...

    From what I'm seeing, the price is still 2x-3x too high for giving to kids. Kids break shit all the time. Unless the iPads are completely indestructible, $300 will quickly turn into $900 after the inevitable third time the kid drops it from a height of only 0.5 meters. A better price point is $100-$150 in which the Chromebooks dominate.

    And as others have said here, tablets aren't that useful for anything more than casual use (like reading an ebook, watching YouTube while taking a shit, and shit-posting on your favorite social media). If you want your kid to actually be doing research, writing up papers, and doing homework, tablets are not the device to use.