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  1. I like the idea of inventors profiting off it, even if paid for by government.

    The government will get their money back via increaed economic activity and taxes and other benefits (desire for which drives the research to begin with, remember, to call it into existence where it previously did not).

    The alternative is a system even worse than a communist system, which rewards innovation with perverse apings of capitalism like apartment upgrades and vacation trips. And we know how shitty that is in keeping up innovation compared to the west.

    Here, you propose the genius work for a meager salary and a hearty handclasp for success, then YOU walk away taking the benefits leaving the genius no better off.

    How horrid.

  2. Re:"This Blog" is Slashdot. on This Blog Is Republishing All the Animal Welfare Records the USDA Deleted (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    True. Technically you're just participating in the bitching section below a Washington Post story.

  3. Jessica 6 walks out of the Tinder Teleporter. The fat Slashdot nerd takes her by the hand and says, "Let's have sex."

    "Oh god (Barrffff urgle urgleurgle!)"

    "Darn! I guess I'm stuck renewing a virgin :( oh well."

    (Goes to Carousel) "Damn, it can't lift me. Now sandmen will kill me oh noes!" (flees)

    Sandman: "Waddle, waddler!"

  4. Re:If you think those robots would help the elderl on 'We Need Robots To Take Our Jobs,' Veteran Tech Reporter John Markoff Explains Why (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Nowadays they can't afford it. But in 50 or 100 years? Less if it is popular and useful.

    Like a new medical technique, it is as expensive as shit when it comes out. The alternative isn't lower costs -- it is fewer inventions.

  5. Re:Citizens know illegal labor undercuts on 'We Need Robots To Take Our Jobs,' Veteran Tech Reporter John Markoff Explains Why (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    And robots undercut illegal labor. Thus its solution isn't the one you want.

  6. I forget what game it was, but some company built their clients and servers so PC and console could play their FPS together. People with mice destroyed console players, so they abandoned that goal, and it has been ever thus since.

    I had both the console and PC versions of Max Payne, and playing the console version felt like assembling a ship in a bottle: clumsily and with tongs.

    It hasn't changed and there will be an elite class of destroyers who use something else.

  7. George Jetsomeday on Are Gates, Musk Being 'Too Aggressive' With AI Concerns? (xconomy.com) · · Score: 1

    > 30 to 50 years

    But I wanna sit on my ass nowwwwwwww! :-(

  8. Strangers in a cold land on Sweden Pledges To Cut All Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2045 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Strange. "I will lead Sweden in terraforming the Earth to make Sweden a slightly more temperate land" doesn't have much purchase there, I guess.

  9. Re:No Sympathy on Indian IT Sector Warns Against US Visa Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I worked for a contract house that imported Indians hand over fist. (I guess they saw my resume online and snapped it up to keep up appearances of hiring Americans first. Works for me.)

    Anyway, the brought us into a room one day and explained they paid overtime (which the gigantic customer paid for) but only in excess of the 45th hour. However, they would charge for hours 41-45 anyway.

    This did not sit well with the Indian people. I have no idea what their base salaries were.

  10. Re:Not doomsday on The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Strain on borders over 100-200 years is called migration, not an existential threat.

    Differentials between western lifestyles (and corruption at all levels of government) from the source countries is driving very, very fast migration currently, here and in Europe.

    And there is nothing remotely existential about any of it.

  11. Google you idi9ts on Chrome To Introduce Timer To Throttle Background Pages (ghacks.net) · · Score: 1

    1. Skip "CPU Budget" stuff

    Just have a throttle of 10 or 100 or 1000 script actions per second, set well below browser lockup speed. To hell with reviews your browser is 0.028% slower than IE or Edge or Opera, running balls out locked up.

    ATTN REVIEWERS OF BROWSERS: When you review for script speed, not caring about lockup, you are full of fail. This is all your fault.

    2. I don't care what standard allows popups -- get rid of them.

    3. I don't care what standard allows message boxes -- get rid of them.

    4. I don't care what standard allows music or video autoplay -- have an all off button at the tab level. Let people set it permanently "for just this site."

    5. Investigate why editing is slow and stuttered on Slashdot text entry for a message like this with Chrome on a S6. Whose crappy, chatty script implementation is calculating PI to a million digits between each letter?

  12. Re:"Us" versus "them" on Three States Propose DMCA-Countering 'Right To Repair' Laws (ifixit.org) · · Score: 2

    Your argument assumes the government doing anything other than being ground to a halt is a good thing.

    All judgeships below Supreme Court are simple majority votes now, thanks to the Democrats nuclear option in 2013. Short-sighted buffoons on both sides.

  13. What if...wha...oh. What if Trump's entire campaign is driven by an AI?

    "Now dispute crowd sizes. Celebrities and news media will double down on their loud Hollywood mouths. It matters little in the short run but builds background distrust of them. This will be used in 4 years."

  14. The boy?

  15. The exact same symptom caused simultaneously by two completely different process failures?

    Greg House disappproves.

  16. Re:How large?!? on NASA Is Planning Mission To An Asteroid Worth $10 Quintillion (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I think they might mean it is likely a planet core of iron and potentially the same size as Mars' core.

  17. Re:already exceeding expectations on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They would have been the last of the Reagan Democrat states to flip, and they were.

    I figured something was up when Monday before the election, Trump, Clinton, and Obama were all campaigning in Michigan. This shows their internal polls were much more accurate.

  18. It always leads the way. on Robotic Sleeve Mimics Muscles To Keep a Heart Beating (seeker.com) · · Score: 1

    Soft rubbery thing that contracts regularly that you can slip over a muscle. Or a "muscle"?

  19. Re:Your move, Assange.... on President Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Assange has nothing to fear from the US unless he was actively paying people to commit crimes in the US. If people just dumped data off on him, he is protected.

    Presumably he knows if he was paying for crimes.

  20. Re:Emergency response on Flying Car Prototype Ready By End of 2017, Says Airbus CEO (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Upscaled, computer-controlled drones with redundant blades and motors. Sounds like a plan.

    You won't even need a thing like a small plane chute, which exists, as computer-controlled emergency landings will be safer.

  21. Re: Well, duh. Mass transportation is a slush fund on California's Bullet Train Hurtles Towards a Multibillion-Dollar Overrun (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Government using money taken by threat is the opposite of the free market. It isn't even close to a profitable idea, and will be an eternal high-cost loss.

    Enjoy!

  22. Re:you mean capitalism works? on CVS Announces Super Cheap Generic Alternative To EpiPen (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If CVS did their usual trick of their own generic brand vs. named brands, this pen would cost maybe $500. They slightly undercut Tylenol, cough medicine, etc.

    Good for them for this, but you have to go to the supermarket or a large retailer (you know who) to get significantly cheaper generic brands.

  23. Time-wise, about $4.50 of that anime $5 is Gogo and Vegetable grunting while powering up for an ineffectual blast Freezer shrugs off.

  24. Re:White Blood Cells, part of the Immune System on New Research Suggests the Appendix Has a Purpose After All (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    Is there any validity to this theory?

    I can't even read a sentence like that anymore without hearing it in the voices of the bickering galactic senators, as watched on a TV by little kids sitting on the floor. Thanks, Plinkett!

  25. Re:"News" on New Research Suggests the Appendix Has a Purpose After All (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your chiro would probably tell you the appendix problem was due to sublaxations and recommended some kind of feely-doo. You would now be dead without the butcher.