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  1. Re: What if it had supported "social justice"? on Microsoft's 'Teen Girl' AI Experiment Becomes a 'Neo-Nazi Sex Robot' · · Score: 1

    You referred to what "black people" should do, and what their current problems are. That's racism.

    Nonsense, it isn't remotely racism.

    It's exactly racism. If you believe your kind of racism is good and other kinds of racism are bad, then you're part of the problem. *All* racism is bad.

  2. Maybe we need a "Tragic" moderation.

  3. How many on U.S. Indicts 7 Iranians Accused of Hacking U.S. Financial Institutions (npr.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...indictments for the Wall Street gamblers who not only tried but actually did "sabotage American financial institutions or undermine the integrity of fair competition in the operation of the free market".

  4. Re:Nothing to see here on Microsoft's 'Teen Girl' AI Experiment Becomes a 'Neo-Nazi Sex Robot' · · Score: 1

    I can't tell if CleverBot has gotten into S&M or if it thinks I'm Donald Trump speaking about myself in the third person.

    Or both.

  5. Re: What if it had supported "social justice"? on Microsoft's 'Teen Girl' AI Experiment Becomes a 'Neo-Nazi Sex Robot' · · Score: 1

    "Black Lives Matter Too" is a positive message that the some people need to hear more often. Though more and more it's redundant.

    "Black Lives Matter" is racist and hypocritical. (Much like most versions of 'separate but equal'.)

    So the difference matters.

  6. does this mean Google will store and mine and analyze and profitize

    No, it doesn't mean that.

    Though only because Google is already doing it.

  7. 1) Transcription doesn't require the level of skill that practising medicine does, but it's skilled work and there is a lot more to it than typing.

    2) It's one thing to be replaced by a computer that genuinely replaces the work you do. It's another to lose your livelihood or have your income reduced by software that is terrible at the work. People using transcription software generally are getting less value for their money even though they might be paying less for the first draft, while the talents of transcriptionists who want the work are under-used.

  8. Prediction on Computer Use Could Help Predict Early-Stage Alzheimer's (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Or maybe....

    Decreased computer use (or any other moderately intellectual endeavour) is a symptom of decreased cognitive function.

    Meaning this is the opposite of prediction.

  9. Because Cuba was treated like a colony and then made itself independent.

    Same reason as the irrational hate towards Iran.

  10. Re:This is quite possibly the photo of the year on Obama Lands In Cuba As First US President To Visit In Nearly A Century (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You misspelled "Gorbachev".

  11. Re:Questioning isn't "denying"; it's science! on Scientists: What We're Doing To The Earth Has No Parallel In 66 Million Years (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    There's valid good-faith questioning, and then there's bad-faith denial. Usually they're not hard to tell apart.

    We really do need some scientific questioning about what's happening but tragically that gets drowned out in the denial.

  12. Re:Lack of friends on Autism Associated With Shorter Lifespan, According To UK Charity Study · · Score: 1

    Trying and succeeding, trying and failing, and not trying, are all different things.

  13. Re:Lack of friends on Autism Associated With Shorter Lifespan, According To UK Charity Study · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People with autism don't lack the need or desire for socialization, they lack the instinctive understanding of how to achieve social relationships that everyone else takes for granted.

  14. What's new? on Amazon Employees Launch Matchmaking Startup For Coworkers (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    I suppose it's something that an employer is sympathetic to what we might call lifestyle deficiencies of its employees, but what are they planning to add to the equation? Matchmaking is thousands of years old.

    Maybe they think they can do it "on a computer" and get a patent, but I'm pretty sure there's some prior art.

  15. Re:What about pedestrians? on MIT Study Shows Stop Lights Won't Be Necessary In The Future (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Not to mention bicycles.

    And it's unlikely that every motorized vehicle can be replaced by an autonomous version. Most, perhaps, but there's bound to be exceptions.

  16. Objects on Sexism Is Still a Thing At Microsoft's GDC Party (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the men are being treated as objects more than the women.

    Though of course both are inappropriate.

  17. If the "minority" views are silenced, how can you be so sure they aren't actually in the majority?

  18. what the Republican voters have been saying all along

    ...illustrating the disconnect between the Republican Party and Republican voters.

  19. There's vigilanteism, and then there's disrupting an election. People attempting to silence political opinions that they disagree with are a far greater threat to civilization than Trump is.

    I really don't want to take Trump's side on anything but in this case there is no contest.

    Of course, the Trump phenomenon goes away on its own as soon as the Republican Party puts up a candidate worth voting for. The problem is they've never done that before and they don't know where to start.

  20. Re:Sure be his bogeyman I'm sure he can use you fo on Anonymous Declare 'Total War' On Donald Trump, Threaten To 'Dismantle His Campaign' (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    Anonymous has just painted *itself* as a threat to democracy. Trump will consider it an endorsement.

  21. Re:Simple: You are all cows on Why Do We Work So Hard? (1843magazine.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The fact that you mistake that treatment for respect proves how successful the propaganda has been.

  22. Missing the point on DARPA Wants Ideas On Weaponizing Off-the-Shelf Tech (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm hoping (though I could be wrong) that they don't mean obvious and common sense uses that they already know about. They're (I hope) looking for something innovative and clever that they aren't prepared for, so they can, you know, prepare for it.

  23. Re:Size on Cautious Steps Toward Seabed Mining (maritime-executive.com) · · Score: 1

    The atmosphere is big. I mean huge. Massive. A little CO2 emission isn't going to harm it at all.

  24. Re:The common "Embrace Extend Extinguish" .... on Open Source-happy Microsoft Joins Eclipse Foundation (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not selling software any more -- it's selling services.

    Which is worse.

  25. Re:Question on Viral 'Fossils' In Our DNA May Help Us Fight Infection (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    our immune response can't handle this new virus?

    Maybe if the radiation gave us the right super-powers the problem would be stopping the immune system from ruining everything.