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  1. De-bate on New IBM Robot Holds Its Own In a Debate With a Human (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    New IBM Robot Holds Its Own In a Debate With a Human

    "No it didn't."

    "Yes, I did."

    "No, you didn't."

    "Yes I did!"

  2. Re:Wouldn't this be a great test on White House Issues Strategies To Combat Growing Orbital Debris Risks (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Space living quarters with ion drive and a number of teeny ion robot rockets. Attach to debris, de-orbit, which doesn't take that much, rocket flies back to living quarters ship.

    For that matter, don't need living quarters just a little remote control ion ship.

    A few dozen ships and ground techs to run it.

  3. Re:Trump doesn't do anything but treason on The Supreme Court Will Decide If Apple's App Store Is a Monopoly (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're going to be upset about trivial shit like that while Trump commits ongoing treason, you really have your outrage priorities in order.

    Trump may be terrible, but this is Russian trolling counter-ops. The goal is not to persuade against him, but anger his supporters to make them more likely to vote, thus preserving Trump.

  4. Re:I want Google to be very 'diverse' on Diversity At Google Hasn't Changed Much Over the Last Year (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's called "What this country needs is a good war!"

    In the absence of serious problems, lesser ones rise up to take the place in societal focus, which is a fancy way of saying those in power start the drumbeat so they have an issue to scream about. Just give them the power to address it!

    A good war re-focuses the nation on actually major problems.

  5. Re:Probably atmospheric CO2 on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    This. There was that recent study that showed protein repair occurred during sleep, not to mention lack of sleep for stress and whatnot.

    Also, dumber people aren't weeded out as much thanks to improved safety nets and safer jobs.

  6. Oh whew. I thought it was back to the bad old days where poisoned pictures crashed decompressors in just the right way to take control.

  7. So how do those relate to alephs? And what do you feel about the continuum hypothesis?


  8. Your test scores represent you

    This is EXACTLY what I hate about Europe.

    That and genocide and war within living memory.

  9. Re:For free? on Adobe is Reviving the Stunning Lost Fonts of the Bauhaus (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You should just take it, the fruits of their hard labor, without paying for it, since you weren't gonna pay for it anyway.

  10. But nobody's listening on MIT's AI Uses Radio Signals To See People Through Walls (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks to the Supreme Court, especially Scalia, passive scanners cannot be used without a warrant to see through walls. This was an infrared case.

    And sniffing dogs on a porch.

    Of course other countries without a 4th Amendment migjt struggle a bit, and dictatorships roar ahead with a complete panopticon, while our side is limited to merely monitoring everything you do on the Internet or buy or call, i.e. all your papers, 4th Amendment-wise.

    Sigh.

  11. You realize so much has been documented on so many species genes is because of the patentability, right?

    We would be nowhere near here without it, and almost certainly still would not be by the time the patents would have expired.

  12. And yet as of today, we have the fewest people out of work aince 1973.

  13. Re:What about pet waste? on Chile Becomes First Country In Americas To Ban Plastic Bags (ewn.co.za) · · Score: 1

    Leave Masuka alone, Deb.

  14. Re:Because the politicians don't have a clue on Seattle Repeals Tax That Upset Amazon (apnews.com) · · Score: 2

    You...probably wouldn't wanna study politicians.

    They are congenial not because they are the most empathetic. In fact, the opposite is true. It is the shy folk who care what others think about them.

    Outgoing types don't care what you think about them. Shame runs low on these folk.

    This is why the common feature among top politicians is the abilitu to lie convincingly. There's no concern in there if caught, so they can look you right in the eye and tell you what you want to hear, so you will like it and get on their side.

    They are low-end psychopaths.

    This is who you look up to to rule over evil businessmen.

  15. Re:Instead of repealing it on Seattle Repeals Tax That Upset Amazon (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    "Not us, you ingrates," say businesses as they leave the city they're guilty of bringing jobs to.

  16. Re:I wonder if it's hard to get a hooker on Sweden Tries To Halt Its March To Total Cashlessness (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It's much more serious than that. It is one of the major cogs in a dictatorial panopticon -- tracking all financial transactions. Of what good is being "secure in your papers" if everything meaningful is open for government inspection.

    The point against giving government this power is to deny wannabe kings the ability to begin with. If you don't build it, it can never be abused.

  17. Re:Why is this surprising? on Honeybees Seem To Understand the Notion of Zero, Study Finds (sci-news.com) · · Score: 1

    A new study published in the journal Science finds honeybees are able to understand the concept of zero numerosity, joining the ranks of dolphins, parrots, primates

    , and slashdotters counting girlfriends.

  18. But that requires reading and studying history on Vietnam Lawmakers Approve Cyber Law Clamping Down on Tech Firms, Dissent (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    US law enforcement and politicians should watch as these dictatorships use "harmless metadata" to round up groups of opposition members, to say nothing of mandated backdoors, to western police so they can add a notch in their belt, but to dictatorship enforcers, allowing the boot stepping on a human face, forever.

  19. Energy storage allows the purchase of cheap, low-efficiency popcorn solar cells and whatnot to charge on sunny days. It also allows long-distance electricity with inefficient loss because who cares when the sun is doing it.

  20. Re:One of my favorite things. on Spanish Football League Defends Phone 'Spying' (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Your semi-desire to have it ("I kind of want it but not enough to pay for it.") is exactly part of the leverage built into the system to generate profits for authors that in turn drives innovation.

    In other words, the authors have the honor of denying you and your semi-desire. No, you don't get to take it under the sophistry that you wouldn't have paid for it.

  21. The generated numbers are just the low 16 bits of the internal seed recomputed over and over.

    All you need is a sequence of the outputs and run through the full 32-bit cycle until they match.

    And even that is only a problem if government employees pre-run this to pick different seeds to game the selection for some reason.

    If there is no monkey business and they use a different seed each time that they haven't pre-examined, then the assignment of pseudo-random numbers, no matter how crappily random, is itself random and all is good.

  22. Re:That would be the Constitutional way on Net Neutrality Repeal Is Official (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It is disturbing to see government arrogating a large new power to itself via regulation without Congress mandating it to the agency.

    Just because Congress is supine doesn't change this any more than the president should able to initiate military actions since Vietnam without approval.

    "Sit and do nothing because if we do something and it fails that's much worse voterwise than if we do something and it works is a benefit." -- Clumsy Congressional motto on the back of the 2-dollar bill.

  23. Re:No worries... on Net Neutrality Repeal Is Official (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Cord cutting" is making the cable TV people, who are most of the Internet people, panick. So they are trying to sink their claws into what you pay Netflix (on top of what you pay them) or they will hamper the video service.

    This makes their promise to you for a fixed speed a lie. Do you recall a line on your ISP contract that they will give slower service than what they state to Netflix or Hulu, unless Netflix or Hulu pay them a cut of what you pay Nerflix and Hulu?

    It is fraud.

  24. And forcing prices lower lowers demand for new drugs as a financial incentive.

    The static analysis sounds fine -- give out for cheaper what already exists.

    But the lion's share of saved lives happens from rolling ongoing development that leaves the static in the dust.

    You...can't give it out for free until somebody else invents it first.

  25. MEEE TOOOOOOOOOOO!