A planet has more than just orbit-clearing characteristics.
Additionally, its mass should be enough to form a spheroid. Pluto looks like a goddam potato.
A planet should stay in its own orbit.
Because the orbit is elliptically challenged, Pluto is sometimes the seventh planet and sometimes ninth, making Neptune sometimes eighth and sometimes ninth. Planets gotta make up their minds.
The fucking tater-shaped object travels all the way out to the Kuiper belt.
It's gotta be a publicity stunt. I smell money somewhere in all this.
It's kind like the parallel argument, "To prevent more handgun violence, we need more handguns," when in fact it's, "The gun industry wants to broaden its consumer base."
We can manufacture plastic, no... make that biodegradable... noses, ears, hands, lips, and stuff to make potato heads and sell it as, "Artificial Intelligence," with the disclaimer that, as with the current state of the technology, it's "For entertainment purposes, only."
Slashdot Mirror
I would barf for the same reason I get air/sea sick.
Not exactly, but maybe.
Who knows?
Certainly not me because I ain't gonna try that shit.
Let Mikey try it. He'll eat anything.
You're probably thinking of Lovelace.
Oops. You are right. Vesta.
Thank you for the catch.
A planet has more than just orbit-clearing characteristics.
Additionally, its mass should be enough to form a spheroid. Pluto looks like a goddam potato.
A planet should stay in its own orbit.
Because the orbit is elliptically challenged, Pluto is sometimes the seventh planet and sometimes ninth, making Neptune sometimes eighth and sometimes ninth. Planets gotta make up their minds.
The fucking tater-shaped object travels all the way out to the Kuiper belt.
It's gotta be a publicity stunt. I smell money somewhere in all this.
... argues that governments must step in now to force companies developing connected gadgets to make security a priority rather than an afterthought.
Banks, anyone? How about fast food joints and places like Target?
Yahoo!?
Equifax?
No?
OK.
... I love this.
I'm 72 years old and we did shit like this when I was a young lad.
Put a stop to the Vietnam war, we did.
Jump-started the Civil Rights movement.
Fucking Woodstock.
We're long due a happening.
Right on!
... on the commute.
... where the real AI is.
Stop.
The AI I am referring to is precisely what we are calling AI right now. Machine learning algorithms.
The former is AI and the latter, MLA.
You have a right to your opinions, but you don't have the right to mix acronyms. AI != MLA.
Why do you think that we need to go into minutia now?
well, duh.
It's right there in the Constitution:
A well regulated minutia ...
You're so unAmerican.
If you are not from America:
We should worry about the goddam details before we shit in our mess kit.
DON'T TREAD WATER ON MARS OR GIVE ME DEATH!
I saw it on a menu once ... ONCE!
The restaurant was not full service.
No barf bags.
Plants & CO2 & sunlight
Sunlight is orange at daylight sometimes, but it doesn't have a Twitter account.
If you are going to eat meat, you should know ...
how to chew.
We get water from the seven seas.
Yes, meat and milk and any other goddam source that supports survival.
Crap, humans even eat snails **shudder**.
Forward thinking is a must.
If our intent is to extract all the water and put on the surface, what, precisely, are the ramifications for the structure we removed the water from?
Shit.
That does make sense.
It's kind like the parallel argument, "To prevent more handgun violence, we need more handguns," when in fact it's, "The gun industry wants to broaden its consumer base."
Well done.
What protective strategies will fend off hackers who want to embed malicious worms and viruses?
I see where you're going with this.
We can manufacture plastic, no ... make that biodegradable ... noses, ears, hands, lips, and stuff to make potato heads and sell it as, "Artificial Intelligence," with the disclaimer that, as with the current state of the technology, it's "For entertainment purposes, only."
Interesting proposal. I'm weighing the specific gravity.
... dreams are made of these CO2.
The "AI," you're referring to doesn't mean what you think it does, because it doesn't exist. Hence, "vacuous."
Go back and review the state of the art.
The "A" doesn't stand for "Automation."
And, the "I" part stands for, "Intelligence."
The intelligent part refers to human intelligence.
We will never have that because we will not allow for quirks, independence, and insanity, and other aspects of intelligence.
"My AI thermostat went nuts and the fucking house was freezing. I told the machine it's WAY to cold.
"Looking at the logs, it had an entry: IT'S TOO GODDAM HOT IN HERE FOR ME."
That's an intelligence served up by an artifact.
I don't like it when people call me smart.
I makes the assumption that I am better than they.
I'm not.
The word you're looking for is "experienced."
Experience + exposure = expertise. ~ © 2018 CaptainDork
... years, the universe was in an expanding opaque plasma state so dense that photons could not travel very far.
Coincidence?
Yes, I'm sure of it.
In reaction to your sig:
I recently re-read "Nineteen Eighty-Four," because my first reading was so long ago.
Good read, but what a goddam depressing book!