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  1. Re:Got It Backwards on Stop Adding Cancer-Causing Chemicals To Bacon, Experts Tell Meat Industry (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    You do realize that real intestines are significantly more expensive to obtain and fill than artificial casings, and only premium sausage products are packaged in them? (The same goes for condoms, BTW).

    I don't really understand people who get squeamish about eating any animal organ other than muscle tissue. What makes intestines any more disgusting than muscles?

  2. Not a new concept on Is The World Shifting To 'Ambient Computing'? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "Ambient computing" was first envisioned by George Orwell back in 1949.

  3. Re:I'm sure it won't collect any information... on Windows Server 2019 Officially Supports OpenSSH For the First Time (neowin.net) · · Score: 0

    It's all open source and on github. So go audit the code if you think they're doing something nefarious.

    I did that, and I spotted the new source subtree where they've linked in ncurses and used it to display "live tiles" on the client terminal. By default, the first tile links to an ascii-art version of Candy Crush.

  4. Re:Never Going to Work on Ethereum Thinks it Can Change the World. It's Running Out of Time To Prove It. (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wait until the next financial crisis. Crypto will work. Your bank cards may not.

    I'm sure that people like you back in the 1920s would have said:

    "Wait until the next financial crisis. Gold will work."

    Except that it didn't. To keep the financial system afloat, they simply outlawed gold. They can do the same with cryptocurrency.

  5. Re:False advertising on New LG Gram is the Lightest 17-inch Laptop Ever at Just 3 Pounds (laptopmag.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what I was thinking.

    If this thing really weighed one gram like the name implies, by my calculations it would float away like a helium balloon.

  6. What's next; Parcheesi? Tiddlywinks? Backgammon?

    Global Thermonuclear War

  7. Re:This is where Intel re-labels. on Intel Optimistic About Its Next-Gen 7nm Process Technology (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I just figured that they were going to put a header line at the top of all of their tapeout files:

    #define 10 7

  8. Re:jesus christ on a raft... on Researchers Discover SplitSpectre, a New Spectre-like CPU Attack (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    time to dig out my old kim-1 and forth env.

    Sorry, but security researchers have recently discovered that due fundamental architectural issues, a hypothetical malicious program could trivially access *all* of the data on any 6502-based system.

  9. We're going to need a new hashtag movement on Hulu, AT&T To Test 'Pause Ads' In 2019, Automatically Playing Commercials When You Hit Pause (macrumors.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    #PauseMeansPause

  10. It has a better CYA paper trail, is more searchable going back years, etc

    That's just great.

    It's because of people like you that I've had to set up my own email server in my bathroom closet.

  11. It happens on this site, too.

    I look at one story, and most of the posts are trolls about APK, immanent Trump incarceration, and giant swastikas.

    Then I open an article on a completely different topic, and what do I see? The very same posts about APK, immanent Trump incarceration, and giant swastikas.

    It's downright creepy.

    They even do this down to the micro-level, randomly inserting "â(TM)" into people's posts on my browser, no matter what the topic. I assume that they're targeted promotions for this trademarked "â" product. I don't know where they got the idea that I was interested in â.

  12. Re:no more 2-way conversations on Microsoft Adds Real-Time Captions and Subtitles To Skype -- PowerPoint To Follow (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd be willing to live with that security risk if Microsoft adds a "Cover this meeting for me" button to their bot.

  13. Re:The value of anything is what someone will pay. on Proposed Regulations Would Allow the Majority of US Homes To Be Bought and Sold Without Being Appraised by a Human (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    The buyer and the seller both obviously think that the house is worth X or they wouldn't be doing the transaction.

    But that particular buyer might be an idiot. The bank needs to know if there are any *other* buyers out there who would pay X for the house.

  14. Re:Or, the other side of the coin... on A Sleeping Driver's Tesla Led Police On A 7-Minute Chase (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Would he have even gotten in the car if he didn't know people he had autopilot to fall back on?.

    Of course not. This "overconfidently getting in the car when too drunk to drive" phenomenon is totally new and only happens in Teslas.

    It certainly hasn't been going on all over this country for most of the past century causing SCORES of deaths on a daily basis. No sir.

  15. Re:Or, the other side of the coin... on A Sleeping Driver's Tesla Led Police On A 7-Minute Chase (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Would he have fallen asleep if the car didn't have "autopilot"?

    Of course not. This "falling asleep at the wheel" phenomenon is totally new and only happens in Teslas.

    It certainly hasn't been going on all over this country for most of the past century causing deaths on a daily basis. No sir.

  16. Re:No on Is Linux Taking Over The World? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Doesn't your argument apply equally to WIndows systems? They work smoothly only because the manufacturer created the proper Windows drivers for their hardware. It's the same "special case".

  17. Re:No on Is Linux Taking Over The World? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Linux laptop exists with power management on par with Windows. The basic kernel and userland are fine; it's just that there is no hardware support to speak of. (Sure, it "runs", but it is mostly a battery burner. )

    Millions of Chromebook users would beg to differ.

  18. Re:This is why on Turns Out Mitochondria Can Come From Fathers Too (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    OK... but WTF does that have to do with mitochondria?

    And who said anything that was "batshit crazy"?

  19. Re:This is why on Turns Out Mitochondria Can Come From Fathers Too (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    If you ever meet a scientist who thinks somethings is finitely settled you have met a fool. We look at the universe through the eyes of our knowledge. We assume things based on that knowledge. We dismiss possibilities because we assume there isn't anything we don't know. Neil deGrasse Tyson makes fun of people who believe in an unseen entity while telling everyone we are all just computer AI programs without any proof! The irony is overwhelming!

    So are you willing to allow that the it is not finitely settled whether your unseen entity even exists at all?

  20. Uh, since when is a penguin a little devil/daemon?

    When you're a fish just trying to eke out a living in the Antarctic ocean.

  21. Re: If a human chooses the algorithm, is it AI? on Uber has Cracked Two Classic '80s Video Games by Giving an AI Algorithm a New Type of Memory (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you going to claim that humans figure out basics like gravity without repetition?

  22. Re:If a human chooses the algorithm, is it AI? on Uber has Cracked Two Classic '80s Video Games by Giving an AI Algorithm a New Type of Memory (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    "Oh, that is a room, there is gravity, and it looks like I can jump." A human doesn't need to play through the scenario 10,000,000 times, humans learn in ways besides just reinforced repetition. I would even suggest that is not our primary form of learning, although it is a powerful one in some situations. .

    I don't know about that. Humans spend the first few of months of their lives randomly jerking their limbs around until they've figured out the basics of gravity. It takes a surprisingly long time for an infant to figure out how to roll over on its own, much less jump.

    All of that past repetition learning about gravity and geometry is factored in when you play this video game, so now it just *looks* like intuition.

  23. Manipulation on The People of Ohio Can Now Pay Their Taxes in Bitcoin (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    For many enthusiasts, part of the appeal of crypto has been the very fact that these currencies are not backed by governments. That makes it harder for politicians to manipulate currencies to their own ends, they say.

    Who needs the government to manipulate your currency when speculators already do so with tumultuous and unpredictable swings in value every day?

  24. Nor would it be the same without dorks attempting to make points with irrelevant technicalities.

  25. Hmm, there is a prominent US politician (and linked movement) who wants to limit or stop the loss of jobs to cheap foreigners.

    Unfortunately, he is unable to comprehend the existence or value of any occupation that wasn't practiced by the 1890s. So he'd be of no use at all in this case.