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  1. Similar to the drone in "Silent Running" from 1972 on New Bipedal Robot Demoed by Google X Company (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 2

    See https://www.youtube.com/watch?... for a good explanation.

  2. Re:The America Invents Act (September 16, 2011) on Website Attempts To Generate Every Possible Patentable Invention (allpriorart.com) · · Score: 2

    That does not stop a potential copyright claim against a patent, if your patent just happens to have a block of text that is exactly the same as an older one published in an AllPriorArt like system, but one that asserts it's copyright over the patterns of generated text. It is the fact that machine intelligence can do this at all that breaks the system, imagine what IBM could do if they had Watson generate patents and use it's legal skills to file them as well, then it did this at a strategic level to fence in another companies' patents so that they could not innovate further from them. It would be like a giant game of patent claim Go, and we already know that the machines can best us in that realm too! IBM Watson could become the mother of all patent trolls.

  3. Re:Library of Babel on Website Attempts To Generate Every Possible Patentable Invention (allpriorart.com) · · Score: 1

    Your argument is fundamentally flawed because the Library of Babel is infinite while AllPriorArt is a finite subset of the Library of Babe that is domain specific and encodes semantic patterns in the form of valid n-gram chains. There is a high probability that AllPriorArt could produce the exact wording for part of a yet to be approved patent and that part will describe a key concept in that patent thereby invalidating it.

  4. Can it change a nappy, on IBM's Watson AI Implanted Into a Robot, Evolves, Can Now Sense Emotions (hothardware.com) · · Score: 0

    without getting poop on it's fingers? Because that really would be progress.

  5. The found 2 billion hidden in a cello. on Despite Lean Space Budgets Russia Is Headed For the Moon (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Nobody knows how it got there but it should buy a lot of rocket fuel.

  6. Less dense yet better at neutron shielding? on New Metal Foam Armor Obliterates Bullets To Dust On Impact (discovery.com) · · Score: 1

    Does anyone care to explain the physics of that claim to me because I can't see how lowering the density of a barrier is going to make it more effective.

  7. Re:Radioactive boyscout on High Schoolers Use Homemade Nuclear Fusion Reactor To Dominate Science Fairs (us.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    No it is not the same, the radioactive boy-scout produced a significant amount of radio nucleotides in a self sustaining fission reaction, all these fusion fan boys do is blast some heavy hydrogen and knock off it's neutron. As far as I know they have never managed to activate any other element to create an isotope that was unstable and considered dangerous, as the radioactive boy-scout did. If they did they would be shut down and with good reason as it is one pathway to a dirty bomb.

  8. what kind of information Facebook is collecting... on Senator Al Franken Takes On Oculus Over VR Data Mining (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    "...what kind of information Facebook is collecting when the headset is not being used..."

    Well yo will have to ask them about that but I do know what is possible, http://www.wired.com/2014/08/g...

  9. Why would the USA get a visit rather than others? on Clinton Campaign Chair: 'The American People Can Handle The Truth' On UFOs (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    What a maniacally egotistical nation, that thinks it is so special that aliens would visit them rather than contact the majority of humanity, which resides in Asia, first.

    I gather that Clinton and friends have crunched the numbers a believe that there is enough votes amongst those on the fringes of reality to risk making a fool of herself?

  10. Re:Economics of that stunt are dodgy on SpaceX Successfully Lands Its Rocket On A Floating Drone Ship For The First Time (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It is a potential Mars landing technology, it makes "cents" if it enables a future contract to get people to Mars, and back. Not that sending flesh-bags to Mars 20 years from now is good economics when AI and robotics can do the job better and cheaper, but that would not be SpaceX's problem they would still get paid to deliver the tax payer funded package.

  11. Dumbest investment ever. on Christie's Set To Auction Space Rocks For Out Of This World Prices (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The Australian outback is full of space rocks, and given the rise of automated solar powered vehicles it is only a matter of time before somebody figures out how to harvest them on a huge scale for very little cost. http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016...

  12. Re:Decline Is Imminent on Reddit Launches New Block Tools To Help Temper Harassment (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    " a bunch of dingbats talking to themselves"

    Actually Reddit has always tended to be that, other than a few little niches of sanity and openness.

  13. The driver does not matter if, on A Fleet of Trucks Just Drove Themselves Across Europe (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    if the truck still belches out toxic nano particles in it's exhaust and uses compression release engine brakes at 4 am that are so loud you can hear them from over 2 kilometres away. i.e. So what, this does not fix the existing problems with trucks and just causes one more problem, unemployment.

  14. The massive CO2 production levels say he's wrong. on Bill Nye: Climate Change Denial Is 'Running Out of Steam,' Thanks To Millennials (mic.com) · · Score: 1

    There is nothing like a few inconvenient facts to demonstrate how out of touch with reality a person's ideas are. Look at the numbers, there has not been a significant improvement in how humans are actually behaving with regards to the issue of climate change. There is no purer form of denial than actually ignoring advice completely, as if it was never given.

  15. She isn't black or white, but you are racist. on The 'Human Computer' Behind the Moon Landing Was a Black Woman (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 0

    I a sick and tired of this American cultural perversion that sees anyone that has any Africa ancestors labelled as if that mattered, when the truth is we are all descended from Africans.

    If you think a persons race is relevant you are racist, period, despite the fact that the entire concept of race is questionable.

  16. So if you poke me in the eye, on Samsung Receives Patent For Smart Contact Lenses (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    will it automatically unfriend you on my Facepoop account?

  17. The project is a work of art, not the output. on Computer Created A 'New Rembrandt' After Analyzing Paintings (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    What they have done is Art, but what they have produced is just a beautiful artefact. It is the act of pushing the envelope in visual communications that is the artistic act, the Next Rembrandt is just the evidence, in the same way a video recording is the evidence, a document, that records a performance art event.

  18. Re:alternate email address on Phishing Email That Knows Your Address (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a built in feature of gmail, just add +whatever before the @ in the email address. https://gmail.googleblog.com/2...

  19. All the burgers will taste EXACTLY the same! on Scientists To Open Mass-Cloning Factory in China This Year To Clone Cows, Pets, Humans (express.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Go veg.

  20. Soon the bots will even make the sandwiches. on Tech Firms Have An Obsession With 'Female' Digital Servants (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Meanwhile in my household the systems that I set up sound like an slightly bored English butler (male) and that is the way everyone likes it. Who knows what is going on with the tech companies, why didn't they give people a choice?

  21. Re:women and children most effected on Risks To Human Health Will Accelerate As Climate Changes, White House Warns (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    "Woman and children" is the majority of the population, so yeah the "most of the population" would be expected to be most effected by anything that may effect the entire population.

  22. Re:Be sure to state the entire truth, please!!!! on 20th Anniversary of Unabomber's Arrest (abc10.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Surprisingly the above claim has merit!

    Chase, Alston (2003). Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 18–19. ISBN 0393020029.

    Chase A (June 1, 2000). "Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber". The Atlantic Monthly. pp. 41–65.

    I personally know that similar things were going on at major universities in Australia as recently as 20 years ago (Hi Ken).

  23. "Don't understand" is not the same as "don't care" on The Spread of Ignorance (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You have to be careful to not confuse the attitudes of people who for whatever reason do not care about an issue with those who simply do not understand it. It is even more difficult when selfish people pretend not to understand in order to not be accused of being selfish. Addressing this significant dynamic would have made the observations more relevant to the real world.

  24. But aliens have more advanced tachnology on Lasers Could Hide Us From Evil Aliens (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The story falls down when you consider the ridiculous assumption it is founded on, that we can use our technology to defeat more advanced technology that we can't even imagine. So are these guys idiots or do they think we are? I say they are idiots because as far as deliberately concocted tall stories goes that is a very lame effort.

  25. Re:Leave them alone? on North Korea Launches Missile and Tries To Jam GPS Signals (go.com) · · Score: 1

    This is what they get up to if you leave them alone, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...