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  1. My car can back up out of the driveway under normal conditions` by itself, no computer required.

  2. Re:Yawn. on BMW Says Self-Driving Car To Be Level 5 Capable In Five Years (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Flying is hours of boredom punctuated by seconds of pure terror.
    Pilots train long and hard for this.

  3. Re:So what? on BMW Says Self-Driving Car To Be Level 5 Capable In Five Years (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Yeah, I remember being called names and downvoted when I said no way that was going to happen. I even wonder about five years. I took a ferry last week and despite talking with three different people I was still clueless, not to mention the hand signals that people were giving me.

    wait, what lane do you want me to go in?

    Randomly picks a lane, wait for yelling to commence if I guess wrong.

  4. I seriously wonder why this hasn't been used before...but then there are classes like conceptual physics, eg the type of physics that people watch on tv.

    Ohhh, I know if a star goes inside the event horizon of a black hole it will vanish forever because information can't escape a black hole. I know general vague concepts and know how to configure and Ethernet card and b a grammer nazi. IM smart.

    And there the whole the dumbing down and trivialization of education thing.

  5. Re:Berkley didn't do this to be jerks on 20,000 Worldclass University Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them (lbry.io) · · Score: 1

    I use it quite a bit with videos in languages that I don't know (using auto translate+autocaptioning), It's far from perfect, but works on the technical stuff I use it for.

  6. Neither does quantum mechanics, but it's the most accurate of anything science. It's more accurate that F=ma.

  7. Re:Musk is about to dilute shareholders on Tesla To Raise Over $1.15 Billion To Help Offset Risk For Model 3 Production (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you the same AC who was claiming (based on your own personal experience as a rocket scientist I assume) that it was impossible for a non-government entity to get into orbit?

  8. Re:Why I can't take the "experts" seriously on Psychopathic CEOs Are Rife In Silicon Valley, Experts Say (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't that an almost verbatim description of evolution?

  9. Re:Why the surprise? on Psychopathic CEOs Are Rife In Silicon Valley, Experts Say (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody is going to get that.
    Never get off the boat.

  10. What is a normal person if they number more than some minorities?

  11. CEO is #1. Cut and paste (and proof reading) fail.

  12. From

    The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success.

    These 10 Careers Tend To Have The Most Psychopaths

    Lawyer
    Media (TV/Radio)
    Salesperson
    Surgeon
    Journalist
    Police Officer
    Clergyperson
    Chef
    Civil Servant

  13. psychopathy is a 20th century word for the 18th century word tyrant.

  14. I wonder how many are in Hollywood? I have a friend since grade school who was a "Hollywood insider" for a few years before quitting in disgust and in his opinion, they all were.

  15. Re: Business on Psychopathic CEOs Are Rife In Silicon Valley, Experts Say (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Suppose they don't?

  16. Why charge it everyday when you can charge it every hour? In fact, that's how you use it to tell time. Every time you have to charge it, you add an hour to the day. Much like the hour glass except now with computers.

    An interesting historical coincidence: they both have sand inside

  17. Re:Don't worry we won't miss it on America May Miss Out On the Next Industrial Revolution (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I personally own more computing power than the entire DoD possessed thirty short years ago.

  18. Re:Bad assumption on America May Miss Out On the Next Industrial Revolution (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    First mover advantages and disadvantages.

  19. Re:The future's not all it's cracked up to be. on 'The Matrix' Reboot: It's Finally Happened. Hollywood Has Run Out of All the Ideas (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    No, people were wondering about the death of science fiction long before global warming and not only it's affects on media and entertainment, but also in the real world development of technology. A lot of technology was first talked about in SciFI (like communicators, tricorders, computers, robots). But what comes after that? We now have almost everything from Star Trek except the pure fantasy stuff that were required as plot devices (warp drive) and budget saving devices (transporter).

  20. Re:It's not ideas; it's a Name on 'The Matrix' Reboot: It's Finally Happened. Hollywood Has Run Out of All the Ideas (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I liked the battery part, whether it was intentional or not showed that the characters were not omnipotent (or all knowing) and showed them to be somewhat clueless as was stated a few seconds before in that scene. What if the people in zion didn't really know what they were being used for and came up with the battery idea as their best guess and ran with it. How well did they understand the technology they were using? Was it something they had developed themselves or was it leftovers from an earlier era? They could be living in some sort of cargo cult society. What was the year, something like 2100? What if it was really more like 21,000? People just didn't know.
    Though I doubt people would still have Durcell batteries 200 years in the future.

  21. Re:Remake, not "reboot" or "reImagining" on 'The Matrix' Reboot: It's Finally Happened. Hollywood Has Run Out of All the Ideas (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean re-imagining.

  22. I'd pay to see Apollo 13 remade with an all female cast.

  23. Six Million Dollar Man is something that should be a remake.

  24. Whatever it takes to get Fluke to release some new material. 2bp is OK, but not the same.

  25. Re:This just in: slashdotters are OLD on 'The Matrix' Reboot: It's Finally Happened. Hollywood Has Run Out of All the Ideas (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Airplane! was a shot for shot remake of Zero Hour!. Almost. Star Wars had many shot for shot "borrowings" of extended sequences from The Dam Busters.