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  1. At long last... on Google Introduces HTML 5.1 Tag To Chrome · · Score: 1, Funny

    depreciated

  2. ...and the angel poured a bowl of 4chan on them... on Robo Brain Project Wants To Turn the Internet Into a Robotic Hivemind · · Score: 1

    Yeah that's all we need... robots that learn to be "humans on the internet". Talk about an apocalypse.

  3. Rupert Murdoch Streisand on News Corp Australia Doesn't Want You To Look Closely At Their Financials · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Don't look at my financials... nothing to see here!!!! seriously go away!"

  4. It's about the money. on Writer: Internet Comments Belong On Personal Blogs, Not News Sites · · Score: 1

    Never gonna happen. Most people just read the headline then jump right to the comments section to roll around like pigs in slop flaming each other. News sites rely on traffic for revenue/value. I don't know about you but I certainly perceive a story as being of less value when there is no comments section.

  5. Re:Just Testing Code on Robot With Broken Leg Learns To Walk Again In Under 2 Minutes · · Score: 1

    How do you know you don't posses "coding" to process information in a particular way and apply it in a new circumstance, because that sounds exactly like what you "learned' I'm sure your train of thought was "what if i do THIS" i.e. going through your list of available problem solving abilities.

  6. Re:Just Testing Code on Robot With Broken Leg Learns To Walk Again In Under 2 Minutes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If a novel break comes along that the programmers have not planned for, the machine won't have a working behavior is it's data banks.

    Just presenting an oversimplified argument, but how would that differ from what our DNA has programmed for us. When I see robots using code for whatever specific reason, what's really going through my mind are that these are just micro components of what will eventually be incorporated into a much larger more complex "organism" Think of robots these days as simple organisms, where the primary concerns are mostly locomotion and simple functionality.

  7. Re:Local testing works? on States That Raised Minimum Wage See No Slow-Down In Job Growth · · Score: 1

    My reading comprehension was just fine thank you. If the sentence meant what you say, then it should have had a comma.

    "Before welfare, blacks and poor whites picked the produce."

  8. Re:Local testing works? on States That Raised Minimum Wage See No Slow-Down In Job Growth · · Score: 1

    Just curious as to why you used "welfare" for blacks, but "poor" for whites... Seems they'd be in the same boat, so why did you differentiate?

  9. Re:A win for freedom on U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception · · Score: 1

    Just try to get a large employer to give you the money in lieu of the benefit.

    So if a benefit isn't worth a cash exchange to a company, by the company's actions, it means that company is overvaluing it's own benefits as presented to employee's. You could ask for compesation of a penny a year, and they would very likely go for that. They key is finding out how much value the company ACTUALLY puts on it's own benefits.Hell, I would go so far as to say there should be a law demanding employers offer a cash value option from companies that offer insurance to their employess, but we all know that will never happen because it's actually good for the PEOPLE, right...?

  10. It's not going to SURPRISE us... on By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' and That Could Be a Problem · · Score: 1
    Right because one day, mr John Q Scientist is gonna walk into lab where some machine is gonna raise a cup of coffee and say:

    "Mornin' John... how'd that thing go with the mrs. last night?"

    ....and he's going to be shocked because he just didn't see it coming or didn't spend decades of his life making mistakes and correcting them in the system.

    AI is not going to suddenly happen, it's going to happen gradually and it's going to be a pristine reflection of who we are as a species. If we're warlike then that's how we'll end up molding our spawned "conciousness".. If all we care about is money or porn or whatever, that's the direction we'll take our AI and that's the end to which it will try and perfect itself.

  11. Put him where he's needed on An Army Medal For Coding In Perl · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Get this man to the VA stat!

  12. If we displace tornadoes from their natural habitat, where will they go? One can only assume that being pinched between the Rockies and the Great Tornado Wall of America, they'll have no choice but to migrate into Canada where they'll be too polite to destroy anything. "Good Morning! eh!... I was wondering if it would be alright if I displaced your mobile home a few feet... no damage or anything, and I'll be gone before you're home from work. P.S. I left a 6 pack for your trouble."

  13. Re:It's Chicago on Chicago Adding Sensors For Public Monitoring · · Score: 1

    Sometimes I forget that Slashdot is considered a "liberal" site...

  14. Re:TX Law on Mad Cow Disease Blamed For Patient's Death In Texas · · Score: 2

    There's a difference between "steak sedition" and actual defamantion of a beef provider.

  15. MAN STEAK! on Mad Cow Disease Blamed For Patient's Death In Texas · · Score: 1

    I say MAN STEAK! MOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Mad Human Disease is here!!!!!!!!!

  16. Rockem Sockem Fanboys on Google Overtakes Apple As the World's Most Valuable Brand · · Score: 1

    Can I get some flame war butter for my fan boy popcorn please.

  17. Re:are you kidding? on Scientists Race To Develop Livestock That Can Survive Climate Change · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just playing devil's advocate here, but if there is so little CO2 in the atmosphere and changing it's level can change how the atmosphere affects us, isn't that basically showing how delicate our environment can be?

  18. Insert Coin on Report: Comcast and EA To Stream Games To TVs · · Score: 1

    So basically we're back to the arcade.. only in your living room..

  19. Re:Let's keep it simple on Obama Says He May Or May Not Let the NSA Exploit the Next Heartbleed · · Score: 1

    And there isn't thing one you can do about it.

    That's the only thing I disagree with... so I fixed it..

    "And there isn't thing one you WILL do about it."

  20. No Rules, Just Right on Obama Says He May Or May Not Let the NSA Exploit the Next Heartbleed · · Score: 2

    Rules with broad sweeping generalized caveats basically means, no rules. It means WE (as in the people who made the rules) are going to decide on in a subjective way whether we broke the rules or not... and anyone who even knows the most basic aspects of human nature, knows that we as people in general don't like incriminating ourselves, and a government is just a group of people.

    So this is basically just lip service from the government, to calm public anger while at the same time giving us the finger.

  21. Re:a car analogy on Illustrating the Socioeconomic Divide With iOS and Android · · Score: 1

    Actually Fiat owns Ferrari, also Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Lancia, Maserati, Ram and SRT

  22. Re:a car analogy on Illustrating the Socioeconomic Divide With iOS and Android · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Many people would love a Ferrari, but they are expensive, so they drive Toyotas instead.

    I know of VERY few people who lust after an Android device. They lust after Apple, and buy Android because that's what they can afford. The low end of ANY market is always a lot bigger than the high end. Cars, houses, phones, whatever. Toyota outsells Ferrari by quite a lot too.

    oh that's a load of horseS#$T, I know a LOT of people who lust after flagship android devices, The Samsung Galaxy line and HTC models are amazing. iPhones are fine devices to be sure, but they aren't the "Ferrari's" of the world no matter how much your ego would like to believe that.

  23. Re:3D printing = "transcendence of state"... on The 3D Economy — What Happens When Everyone Prints Their Own Shoes? · · Score: 2

    ...in the same way 2D printing = "paperless office".

    (+1 Oxymoron)

  24. Re:America is boned on Job Automation and the Minimum Wage Debate · · Score: 1

    "The concentration of government power has never produced positive results, rather the contrary. I hope you're enjoying this Orwellian nightmare." "This Orwellian Nightmare" has been going on for as long as governments have been able to collect information. It has nothing to do with "socialism"... The only difference being your indignation is born of someone you disagree with being in the whitehouse. Once it's someone you politically agree, I'm sure you'll forget about all your moral indignation.

  25. Re:America is boned on Job Automation and the Minimum Wage Debate · · Score: 1

    "You long for "true socialism" as defined in your texbook. Sorry, has never happened and will never happen."

    ...and you think that pure unregulated capitalism is going to happen? Pure unregulated capitalism is too unstable for a healthy economy. There needs to be a balance between regulation and unchecked greed. Also since you think America is too "socialist" right now, could you please provide some examples of more purely capitalist societies? I think you'll find the US isn't quite so "socialist" as you'd like to believe.