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  1. If you're going to quote, write the actual quote on China, Unhampered by Rules, Races Ahead in Gene-Editing Trials (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    "Replicants are like any other machine. They're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem." - Deckard

  2. Fuck Intel. Enough is enough. I'm ordering four billion transistors on digi-key right fucking now.

  3. Maurice Moss: [picking up the phone] Hello, IT... Have you tried forcing an unexpected reboot?

  4. Re:Yay, another superhero movie on iTunes Snafu Made 'Thor: Ragnarok' Available Almost a Month Early (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Thor: U2 Edition?

  5. Re:JPEG already replaced, try to beat PNG on Can A New Open Photo File Format Replace JPEGs? (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Those were options in Opera, a few years ago. I don't know if they're still there since I've stopped using Opera the minute they were bought by a Chinese company.

    I've written many times to Apple about adding this to Safari, I never received a reply nor have they ever implemented this feature.

  6. I need to increase the text size once since it's too small by default. On my old 4:3 monitor it means that headline takes three full lines on my display.

  7. The headline is extremely long garbage.

  8. Re:JPEG already replaced, try to beat PNG on Can A New Open Photo File Format Replace JPEGs? (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Just for shits and giggles, I'm tempted to make a bitmap-to-Excel converter that simply fills the cells with background colours to replicate the input image.

  9. Re:I shopped at a conceptually similar place recen on Amazon Opens 'Surveillance-Powered, No-Checkout Convenience Store' (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    What happens if you put something back in the wrong spot? You know, like your OCD uncle, who upon opening something up, must immediately alphabetize everything.

    If I had an uncle like that, I'd give him a box of Alpha-Bits at Christmas and a can of Alpha-getti for his birthday.

  10. Re:Nice challenge! on Amazon Opens 'Surveillance-Powered, No-Checkout Convenience Store' (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    I never shoplifted. I have no idea how people do it either. I mean, how strong do you have to be to lift a shop anyway?

  11. Re:Nice challenge! on Amazon Opens 'Surveillance-Powered, No-Checkout Convenience Store' (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes but that was Switzerland. This is the USA we're talking about here.

  12. Re:Nice challenge! on Amazon Opens 'Surveillance-Powered, No-Checkout Convenience Store' (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    But.... you can't enter through an exit!?

    I mean... that's like... you can't even... diodes, man! Diodes!

  13. Re:The cost savings from no employees on Amazon Opens 'Surveillance-Powered, No-Checkout Convenience Store' (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Meeting in the marketing department:

    The last time alvinrod was in the store, he bought a chicken and tofurky slices, unsalted chips and 500g of sea salt, non-alcoholic beer and two bottles of wines, vanilla ice cream and coconut milk frozen dessert...

  14. Re: we are paying them to train their tracking NN on Amazon Opens 'Surveillance-Powered, No-Checkout Convenience Store' (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Damn, I don't have one of those... Oh, I know! I'll order one from Amazon!

  15. Re:Hmm, I don't have the money for this on Amazon Opens 'Surveillance-Powered, No-Checkout Convenience Store' (geekwire.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Remember, you've identified yourself just to get into the store.

    Not really. I've identified myself as Bill, because he keeps forgetting his phone on his desk.

  16. Re:JPEG/PNG integration on Can A New Open Photo File Format Replace JPEGs? (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I put the blame on Adobe for letting Photoshop and Illustrator save PNGs as hugely bloated files. Still to this day I hear people saying JPEGs are smaller than PNGs, even for corporate logos saved directly from the master file (PSD/AI).

    ImageOptim should be item #2 on the software list of every Photoshop user.

  17. Re:JPEG already replaced, try to beat PNG on Can A New Open Photo File Format Replace JPEGs? (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    PNG was never meant to compete with JPEG at all, it was meant to replace GIF -- which it has mostly done for static GIFs.

    And in an ironic twist of fate, 50MB animated GIFs replaced 1MB MP4s for short silent video clips.

  18. Re:Apple’s format? lolwut? on Can A New Open Photo File Format Replace JPEGs? (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess this is a similar mistake to "Apple's proprietary AAC audio CODEC"...

    which is not from Apple to begin with.

  19. Re: Editors Are Morons! on Apple and Google Are Rerouting Their Employee Buses as Attacks Resume (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure I do. Kelsey Grammer is an American actor.

  20. Re:Thanks, $15 minimum wage! on Amazon Opens 'Surveillance-Powered, No-Checkout Convenience Store' (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Increasing wages, decreasing automation costs and the companies love of money made it possible. Since greed is eternal, the only variables at play are the wages and the automation costs.

  21. Re:Thanks, $15 minimum wage! on Amazon Opens 'Surveillance-Powered, No-Checkout Convenience Store' (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    I never said that this is what needs to happen, but as you say with greed being the major factor, we both know this is what will happen.

  22. Re:Thanks, $15 minimum wage! on Amazon Opens 'Surveillance-Powered, No-Checkout Convenience Store' (geekwire.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You seem to think this situation was avoidable. It was not. The higher minimum wage only made it happen faster.

  23. I believe the question was PC LOAD LETTER.

  24. Re:Safety is important too on Challenging Tesla, Ferrari Will Build An Electric Sportscar -- and an SUV (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    But you don't need A.I. for basic things like detecting obstacles in front of the car and slowing it down so you don't crash into said obstacle. Students do this sort of thing daily on Arduino or similar. It's a good feature that doesn't require decades of work, powerful neural net processors and thousands of dollars of sensors and cameras all over the car.

    I do agree that the price of the battery is the problem, what we need is a standardized battery that works in all brands of cars/trucks/SUVs/etc. Let Tesla, Panasonic, Sony, Energizer, Duracell and others compete.

  25. Like most European car manufacturers, they kinda missed the boat.

    Which is not really important since they're not in the boat manufacturing business.