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  1. Lawyers are salivating on Singapore Launches World's First 'Self-driving' Taxi Service (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Eventually we will have the opportunity to observe collisions between self-driving vehicles using different implementations from different suppliers. The determination of liability will be interesting, worrying, disgusting, and expensive.
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    Cheap, Fast, Good -- you have selected "None of the Above", OK?

  2. slashdot contributes to global warming on Global Warming Started 180 Years Ago Near Beginning of Industrial Revolution, Says Study (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    There is much more heat than light in here.
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    Breaking news: real scientists seek funding.

  3. Re: No, it's lightweight virtualization / jail on New RancherOS Offers Lean Linux Functionality Within Docker Containers (rancher.com) · · Score: 1

    Docker is not virtualization just like wine is not an emulator .

    "wine" has the self-referential/recursive attribute.

    Could someone please explain how "docker" exhibits this attribute.
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    I'd rather you do it wrong, than for me to have to do it at all.

  4. Re:Guess based on no data. on Maybe There's No Life in Space Because We're Too Early · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, from a sample of one we cannot estimate the variance.

    The standard deviation may be arbitrarily large.
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    Statistics are used as a drunken man uses lampposts -- for support rather than illumination.

  5. Re:Re:Misspelling on This Is What the World's Spies Used Instead of MSN Messenger (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it should have been called "Operation ABENDing Freedom".
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    The best predictor of future actions is past actions.

  6. To get around this nonsense, Google/Youtube could set up a streaming site outside the US and the legal reach of DMCA. Maybe in some place like Belgium.
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    Help fight continental drift.

  7. The Donald and his budget on Clinton Campaign: Russia Leaked Emails to Help Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Well if he led a super indulgent lifestyle from age 20-something to age 70 and still has $100M left he might know what he is doing.

    He is either planning to live another 100 years, or he really needs to up his game and spend faster.
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    If the RNC had been two weeks later, Trump could have picked Bernie for his Veep.

  8. Re:Why would Putin fear Clinton? on Clinton Campaign: Russia Leaked Emails to Help Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    off to play golf for the last 25-30 years, he be 3x-5x as wealthy as he is now

    25 years of 'projects', wheeling and dealing, real estate, steaks, wines, universities, casinos.

    Sounds like he has had a lot of fun. Golf is kind of boring by comparison.

    He appears to still have more money than I know how to spend.
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    Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness.- Thomas Paine

  9. Re:Public Admission of Stupidity on Tesla's Autopilot Mode Reportedly Saves Pedestrian's Life (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    ...the noise added to electric cars could be something pleasant or natural sounding...

    Hoofbeats. From clop-clop-clop at low speeds to a thunderous gallop at higher speed.

    Only in urban areas, of course.

  10. Re:Primitive today on Robotic Exoskeletons May Become Skintight Suits (robohub.org) · · Score: 1

    See [Japanese] anime Patlabor, about a police division equipped to deal with nutters in power suits.

  11. A mark once asked W C Fields, "Is this a game of chance?"
    to which he of the prominent proboscis replied, "No, not the way I play it."
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    The first thing you do when you find a $100 bill is ask "Why me?"

  12. getting to the point on Study Shows Thumb-Sucking and Nail-Biting Can Be Good For Kids · · Score: 1

    Just eat more dirt.
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    I was a beta tester for dirt. We never did get all the bugs out.

  13. Re:asking this before they voted? on In the Aftermath Of Brexit, Brits Google About Irish Passport, Meaning Of EU, and Why it All Happened · · Score: 1

    Before the referendum most of Google's responses were lies.

    The English are a stolid, stubborn, fearless lot.
    Churchill knew this.
    Project Fear was doomed.
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    As the Chinese curse goes, we begin to live interesting times,

  14. Scotland seems to want to stay in the EU

    So do a couple of other bits.

    Why not let the United Republic of Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Gibraltar succeed to the UK membership in Brussels and let the Great British Kingdom of England and Wales go free?

    Then any worried bankers can decamp to Edinburgh instead of having to move to Hong Kong, Singapore, or Frankfurt.
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    My foggy crystal ball's predictions are invariably gloomy and usually correct -- Dijkstra

  15. No. It is still Airstrip One, according to the Ministry of Truth.
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    Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Sprache, Ein Geld, Ein Mutti

  16. Re: The Naked Truth on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    ... the United States of Europe, one border, one currency, one everything.

    Ein Volk, Ein Sprache, Ein Geld, Ein Reich

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    Apologies for my ancient rusty schoolboy German, Frau Merkel

  17. ...building buildings... on Siemens Now Commands An Army Of Spider Robots (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Look higher. To the vacuum of space and beyond.
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    If you're doing science just for the money, you're doing it wrong.

  18. Candidates for Darwin Award on Microsoft Warns of ZCryptor Ransomware With Self-Propagation Features (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    It's evolution in action.

  19. good old days on Study: '50% of Misogynistic Tweets From Women' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What happened to the good old intertubes, where men were men, women were men and the children were FBI agents?
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    "MAYBE THERE'S JUST ONE ELECTRON!" Feynman shouted.

  20. Re:Easily circumvented on Netflix and Amazon Could Face Content Quotas In Europe (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
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    I'm pretty sure I've been replaced with a simple shell script.

  21. Full Blown?? on Developer Installs Windows 95 On An Apple Watch (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Win95 was a DOS extender, just better disguised than Win3.1 and Win3.11
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    The great thing about multitasking is that several things can go wrong at once.

  22. In other news... on 2016 Hugo Awards Shortlist Dominated By Rightwing Campaign (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It turns out Sturgeon was an optimist.
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    I'm pretty sure I've been replaced with a simple shell script.

  23. Re:Piss off FAA! on Drone-Shooting is Now a Federal Crime, FAA Confirms (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't waste a perfectly good camera -- sell it.
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    Government is force, like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master.

  24. Re: The Feds seemed to be pretty thorough on VPN Provider's No-Logging Claims Tested In FBI Case (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    Airtight circumstantial evidence is indistinguishable from parallel construction.
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    With age comes a modicum of cynicism.

  25. Nitrogen as a greenhouse gas on Paris Climate Deal Adopted · · Score: 1

    Nitrogen helps keep us all cool.

    Without it, we would have a 98% oxygen atmosphere, briefly,

    before everything caught fire.
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    I exhaustively researched this topic until I found a blog post supporting my beliefs.