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  1. Re:Wait, wat? on Apple is 'Intransigent, Closed and Controlling' Say Banks (afr.com) · · Score: 1
    And these people are only just realising that Apple are closed and controlling?

    They are banks. They probably are unaware of the kind of activities bears get up to in woods.

  2. Re:Now put it to good use! on Microsoft Claims Its Speech Transcription AI is Now Better Than Human Professionals (qz.com) · · Score: 1
    by machine or just illiterates

    No. This is a whole new technology: artificial stupidity. Its going to change the world, I tell you. (Mostly for the worse, I suspect!)

  3. Eye thin queue meant two say: Lie canny hue man wood thin cab out mill core "owe pen reminders" when he ring "Show meme I Moe stat risk copper tune it ease.

    Hey! It looks like you have obtained illegal access to the system used to caption news broadcasts!

  4. Robots are a small percentage of that, and will be for my lifetime.

    Not all robots look like R2D2. Go in the bank sometime: when you need to pay money in, you don't stand at the counter - you shove it into a machine*. Bang go three tellers' jobs.

    * Obviously if you live in Backwoods, AR, YMMV

  5. Where does the cash come from?

    Make the robots pay income tax! They took our jobs, make them pay our tax!

  6. In fact, this short-sighted narcissistic thinking destroys communities.

    Yay, but its the American way

  7. The problem is the government (oppression of the individual freedom by the collective), the solution is removal of the problem.

    You might want to try living in a failed state sometime.

  8. as they tend to cost between $750 and $1200 a pop.

    For a unit worth about $250.

    FTFY

  9. a family member or friend who does not have an equivalent Android phone?

    When you emerge from the basement, you will discover that people have family members and friends and they all have at least one Android phone. Even the seven year olds.

  10. That includes driving in a foreign country.

    Probably not a European one. Try London - from day to day the one way streets get reversed, random streets are blocked off either for road repairs or permanently, and accidents can block areas of several square miles for hours on end. Printed maps are useless within minutes of being printed.

  11. Re: $$$ Workstations on PC Industry Is Now On a Two-Year Downslide (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
    Any ideas on possible solutions?

    Bin your Python/PHP and write everything in Algol68 - like its 1973 all over again!

  12. So who ate all the turtles?

  13. Re:Robotic Nirvana on Talking 'Sofia' Robot Tells 60 Minutes That It's Sentient And Has A Soul (vice.com) · · Score: 1
    Rust will get you, ... Then you can have your peace.

    No. They you will be haunted by Python.

  14. In the hallways? on The Real Reasons Companies Won't Hire Telecommuters (oreilly.com) · · Score: 2
    I have worked in several companies where you were told to "get on with your work" if you were found talking to colleagues. It was completely unacceptable to find out what you are supposed to be doing, or explain the wretched comms protocol to the people trying to implement it. This might be a difference between the UK and the USA, I don't know.

    Just write the damned code there is no requirement for it to actually work seems to cross all cultures.

    Yes, productivity is higher if you don't keep being interrupted, but if you are off site, emails texts and even voice calls can always be used to destroy productivity if there is any risk of it actually happening.

    But its hard to operate CNC machines from home, and group hugs are also a problem for telecommuters.

  15. Re:"and prevent any societal upheavals" on CIA 'Siren Servers' Can Predict Social Uprisings Several Days Before They Happen (sociable.co) · · Score: 5, Funny
    In the olden days, the solution was to let James Brown play live on TV.

    Somehow Justin Beiber just does not have the same effect.

  16. Except people rarely say could have, usually they say could've,

    You might want to get out more. Not everyone lives on the same block you do, and some people are actually literate. Most people do say "could have" round here.

    In the olden days, I ran a BBS (like a blog, but old tech). I had people who spoke no English complaining of spelling mistakes or typos because they literally looked up every single word in the dictionary. I got the message.

    These days, they probably use Google translate, but that is pretty easy to confuse too.

  17. Re:Duh...? on Vint Cerf Warns About the Perishability Of Human Knowledge (vice.com) · · Score: 2
    You need to inscribe your data onto stone tablets.

    Do you happen to have a stone writer with a SCSI-2 Interface I could buy? I will settle for 1600bpi PE if it has read-after-write and full documentation in Latin and English.

    Seriously, has anyone tried writing digital data onto clay using a Scully disk cutter? Bake the clay, and you will have a good few millenia of data life!

  18. Re:"New company?" on HP To Issue 'Optional Firmware Update' Allowing 3rd-Party Ink (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
    They just need to start filming it before Christopher Lee dies, because it's hard to imagine anyone else playing the role of Carly Fiorina.

    Come on, that role would justify raising Lon Chainey Jr from the dead! (Or just maybe, undead?)

  19. Re:Just don't buy HP on EFF Calls On HP To Disable Printer Ink Self-Destruct Sequence (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
    HP. However, it's not so bad that I would have recommended against them

    Their software, however, is the work of the devil, and its "quality and reliability" entirely justify jailing the entire board of directors - possibly to several life sentences each.

  20. I mean I just expect him to be terrorizing the world from a giant mechanical spider to which our weapons are useless

    expect? I would link to the videos but the NDA prevents it.

  21. I don't do business based on my personal hatred.

    This, a thousand times this.

    I would rather crunch numbers on a chain gang in Alabama than use an Oracle product ever again.

  22. Re:What we should really do. on Oldest-Ever Proteins Extracted From 3.8-Million-Year-Old Ostrich Shells (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1
    I think we can walk and chew gum at the same time.

    You must be new here!

  23. Cyberdyne Shares on Robot Snatches Rifle From Barricaded Suspect, Ends Standoff (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I see Cyberdyne Systems shares are up today.

  24. Re:Unnecessary cushioning on The Moon's Gravitational Pull Can Trigger Major Earthquakes, Says Study (nature.com) · · Score: 1
    a third agent responsible both for earthquakes and full/new moons

    Yes - its agent Gibbs - don't you watch NCIS?

  25. Flexible users? on Twitter Will Extend Its 140 Character Limit On September 19th (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
    give users more flexibility

    I, for one, look forward to someone bending and twisting a few of these new, flexible twits.