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  1. Re:Half arsed on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    This whole thing is just a bullshit bluff they're using to fight raising minimum wage. They know they can't automate most of what they do. If there was any way most of this stuff could be automated, they would have done it a long time ago. I worked in fast food when I was a kid, and can assure you that 99% of the jobs I did couldn't have been practically automated (not without a ton of health code violations, thefts, customer complaints, etc.). At most this thing will take orders. But even then, you'll still need humans there for customers with special orders, complaints, etc.

  2. Are the kiosks going to clean themselves, prepare the food to sanity and safety standards, answer customer complaints, fix themselves, clean the shitstains from the bathroom, deal with the unusual orders, deal with the drunk guy in the drive-thru, etc.?

    At most these things will take orders. But most of the staff will still be needed.

  3. He's already punished himself on Guy Who Didn't Invent Email Sues Gawker For Pointing Out He Didn't Invent Email (techdirt.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    The celebrity wife in question is Fran Drescher.

  4. Re:Well, at least there was something to show for on Peachy Printer Funds Embezzled To Build New Home Instead of $100 3D Printer (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    I would if it had a nice sunroom.

  5. Your genes aren't nearly as important... on Scientists Found 74 Genetic Variants Linked To Education Level (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    ....as your family and your neighborhood.

  6. Re:Open Source on 'I Know How To Program, But I Don't Know What To Program' (devdungeon.com) · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the less-than-welcoming nature of coders working on a existing project. For all its ostensible openness, OSS is filled to the brim with coders suffering from "it's my party and no one else is invited" syndrome.

  7. Re:solve a small problem on 'I Know How To Program, But I Don't Know What To Program' (devdungeon.com) · · Score: 2

    All of the problems in my day to day life are way bigger than any code could handle.

  8. Well, at least there was something to show for it on Peachy Printer Funds Embezzled To Build New Home Instead of $100 3D Printer (hackaday.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Most Kickstarters don't even produce a house.

  9. I hate these "new planet spotted" stories on NASA's Planet Hunter Spots Record 1,284 New Planets, 9 In A Habitable Zone (networkworld.com) · · Score: 0

    What they've spotted is NOT a planet, but the EFFECT ON THE STAR that's probably caused by a planet.

  10. Thou will take what Father Steve giveth on Cupertino's Mayor: Apple 'Abuses Us' By Not Paying Taxes (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    And thou will not complain!

  11. Re:Frivolous lawsuit on Snapchat Sued For Facilitating 107 MPH Car Crash (patch.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wish Snapchat would offer an IQ overlay filter. If the highest one broke 90, I would be surprised.

  12. Re:After the 29 will the simi forced updates come on Windows 10 Now Runs On 300M Active Devices; Upgrade To Cost $119 After July 29 · · Score: 2

    That was the first thing I wondered to. Will I finally have some PEACE AND QUIET after July 29th without having to use GWX Control Panel?

  13. Re:That makes no sense... on Bitcoin 'Creator' Reneges On Promise To Provide More Proof, Says He's Sorry (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It actually all makes perfect sense. Celebrity impostors used to be fairly common, especially back before our DNA, photos, and records followed us everywhere.

    They're not even all con artists. They're often nobodies who see a chance to become a somebody by impersonating someone who lots of people have heard about but have never actually seen or met. So some nobody Polish factory worker becomes Anastasia Romonov and gets to be a somebody for a while. A bunch of forgotten old men become competing Billy the Kids, John Wilkes Booths, and Jesse James and get celebrated instead of dying alone and forgotten.

    Everybody wants to be a somebody, after all. Some people just seize on a chance to appropriate someone else's fame rather than earn their own.

  14. And he used the generic "I'm sorry," no less.

    Sorry for what? Because if you're not willing to say, then you're not really sorry, are you?

    The generic "I'm sorry" is almost as inauthentic as the patronizing "I'm sorry you misunderstood me."

  15. Our antivirus is completely up to da

    Upgrading to Windows 10......

  16. Only for all practical purposes on Are We Alone In the Universe? Not Likely, According To Math (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Having company is meaningless if it's

    Too far away to ever call
    Too far away to ever visit
    Living in a different time period

  17. This is the state we're in on John Kasich To Drop Out, Leaving Trump as GOP Nominee (vox.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    He and Bernie Sanders are the only ones even CLAIMING they'll take on H1-B's, outsourcing, and big business. Is it likely that Trump will actually follow through with this? Nope. Is it likely that he's going to represent the same interests of his rich business friends just like ever other politician? Yep.

    But is there any other choice that's even POSSIBLY going to stand up for the little guy? Not on the Republican side.

  18. And he made them pancakes afterwards! on Prince Quietly Helped Launch a Coding Program For Inner City Youth (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    He was amazing!

  19. I'm tired of Tim Cook teasing my pipeline on Tim Cook Defends Apple, Teases Exciting New Products In The Pipeline (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Put up or shut up!

  20. Re:Where's the 'app!' guy when we need him? on Gas Delivery Startups Want to Fill Up Your Car Anywhere, But It Might Not Be Legal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    There are the guys you're looking for:

    https://flavorwire.files.wordp...

  21. But he IDENTIFIES as Satoshi on Craig Wright Claims He's Satoshi Nakamoto, the Creator Of Bitcoin · · Score: 3, Funny

    And we must respect that, or liberals will boycott us.

  22. Re:ISIS much? on All Belgians To Be Given Iodine Pills In Case Of Nuclear Accident (phys.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So to combat fear and ignorance, they're going to remain willfully ignorant of the very real problem they have with their immigrant Muslim population, because they're fearful of being labelled as racists if they point out the truth?

    Yeah, that makes sense.

  23. What the fuck are you talking about? Do you think that acknowledging that your country has a very real problem with an unassimilated immigrant population that has a propensity for committing terrorism is the same thing as RACIAL GENOCIDE?!?

    Do me a favor. I want you to call up your mother tonight and apologize to her for growing up to be a complete fucking idiot.

  24. This is China. There are no girls, period.

  25. Re:ISIS much? on All Belgians To Be Given Iodine Pills In Case Of Nuclear Accident (phys.org) · · Score: 0

    They're afraid of terrorist attacks on their nuclear plants, and are preparing by handing out iodine pills instead of eliminating the underlying threat.

    Yep, that was the first thing that occurred to me reading this summary too. Belgians have become such politically-correct pussies that they can't even acknowledge that their country has a serious terrorist problem anymore without everyone shitting their pants in fear of being labelled E V I L R A C I S T S ! !