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  1. The flaw on US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Has Died (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you point them out? And no, businesses or corporations having political speech or money equals speech is not a flaw in the ruling. What constitutional basics is incorrect or flawed in it?

    They are not human. That's enough of a flaw to make many democratic country see such entity as having no political right.

  2. Not to this degree on Would You Bet Against Sex Robots? AI 'Could Leave Half Of World Unemployed' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Youa re better off if you find a new work, and indeed past progress *displaced* the worker from a menial job to another menial job. Simplified example : farm people/serf displaced to massive mine working and factory. But the new revolution is that menial jobs are replaced by nothing. Not only that but middle class job are also bound to be affected but they are not displaced they are mostly annihilated. There is no "new" menial/middle class category of jobs.

    So what do you propose in replacement ? The way I see it, if it continues that way society will implode if it does not slow down automation or find a replacement.

  3. wrong on Debating a Ban On Autonomous Weapons (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    "Some researchers argue that autonomous weapons would commit fewer battlefield atrocities than human beings"

    They would commit only as much atrocities as their master giving the order ,e.g. the generals handling the command, would allow them. Therefore it would still be HUMAN being declaring what's the ROE. 5% civilian casualty allowed. 20%. 100%. The number would be set by human. At least in the case of human we can have other human balking at atrocities and rebelling against order or getting taken to task after the war. With machine it would be a "I am not liable the machine misinterpreted etc...." bullshit shitfest. And with no easy way to demonstrate the falseness of it. And if it is machine there is FAR LESS incentive to say no to a war, when there is nobody from your country which will see the consequence. Body bags on TV are a very strong politic brake to wars, when they are "yours". Heap of scrap don't. So it is much easier to decide to go for a war. Which is why by the way we see so much bombing by the US using drone : they know there is nobody protesting much because no US body bags. So they bomb more and more. There is no incentive to slow that down. THIS is the real danger of autonomous or semi autonomous weapons : the lowering of the barrier of moral usage to almost nothing.

  4. Or it was an excuse on Drivers Need To Forget Their GPS · · Score: 1

    To go from Belgium to Croatia you have to go through multiple country. Either the IQ of the woman is so low that she should be barred from driving, or she simply used it as an excuse. "yeah I followed my GPS two day long" bullshit. She wanted to get away from where she was whatever was the reason (could be any reason) then after 2 day of blowing off she realized she was going off the rail and rather than admit anything she accused the GPS.

  5. Explosive do not remove debris on Congressional Testimony Says NASA Has No Plan For the Journey To Mars (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Explosive allows to make the stuff "shovel-able", breaking big chunk into smaller one. You still need the excavator to shovel the stuff out. You would also need something like it on the moon, but it is not that far away.

  6. If you can't spend them... on EU Proposes End of Anonymity For Bitcoin and Prepaid Card Users (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    How does EU legislation have any effect on Bitcoin? Just ignore them, same as those who legislate the value of PI.

    If you can't spend any BT in EU because BT are not traceable as legally required, what do you think is then the usefulness of BT for merchant ? Zero. For all practical purpose this would make for the crushing majority of people BT worthless in EU, barring doing illegal transactions.

  7. this si the flaw of the US process on Perfect Coin-Toss Record Broke 6 Clinton-Sanders Deadlocks In Iowa (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    "Well, d'oh. If you change the electoral process you can get different results"
     
    Then your electoral process is deeply flawed. With a direct process like in my country, it does not matter how many time you partition and recount : sum are commutative and associative in the end you get the same final number. But with a represenative process you have shenanigan like gerrymandering and you can "win" election before the vote and recount can change the results. That alone should tell you haw deeply flawed the process is.

  8. nice looking graphs != useful graphs on What Happened To Norse Corp.? Threat Intelligence Vendor Disappears (csoonline.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    They were glorified scan graphs some other company presented before which I can't recall the name. They used to have a software to which you could feed your firewalls logs and get a similar graphs (reverse lookup on country always showed my home IP as being from half a world away but i digress). The problem is that scanning does not mean threat or attacks, and those graphs means next to nothing beyond marketing. Sure nice looking. But empty of meaning.

  9. Here is a better link than the summary on France To Pave 1000km of Road With Solar Panels (solarcrunch.org) · · Score: 1

    Yeah not in english, but at least it point out that it will be tested on some roads and the article use COULD (pourrait) if test are positive. Not WILL as the slashdot summary points out. http://www.franceinfo.fr/fil-i...

  10. CAn we get a FRENCH link ? on France To Pave 1000km of Road With Solar Panels (solarcrunch.org) · · Score: 1

    Because I have my doubt that they will go ahead and pave 1000 km without a small strip as debut project. So far I am only finding unrelated article in french, so i strongly suspect that in original french it was formulated very differently and the summary or copied article are misrepresenting it.

  11. It does not matter on Europe Now Has Its Own "Most Wanted Fugitives" Web Page (eumostwanted.eu) · · Score: 1

    The web page was maybe in english (because that's a language which can be shared in europe) but it STILL is directed at person of the Europe region which will expect their way of counting. Why the heck should they adopt the decimal point at the same time they use English ? That is a stupid argument sorry. The language and the numerical convention are separate. And in this case since it is an europe web page, it is expected to use the comma point convention as decimal separator because it is expected to be read by people using that convention.

  12. Which region you mean ? on Europe Now Has Its Own "Most Wanted Fugitives" Web Page (eumostwanted.eu) · · Score: 2

    That's a Europe region web page for an Europe audience in an Europe zone by Europole and therefore use convention that most of europe uses (e.g. decimal notation). Do you have any other extremely evidence question question ? Alternatively you go there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and count the countries in Europe which uses point as decimal separator. Hint : only UK , and SWISS (only for currency). In fact the majority of the world use comma as separator. Look at the picture.

  13. switched , and . at that last sentence. on Europe Now Has Its Own "Most Wanted Fugitives" Web Page (eumostwanted.eu) · · Score: 1

    switched , and . at that last sentence. Mistyped.

  14. Worst than that on Europe Now Has Its Own "Most Wanted Fugitives" Web Page (eumostwanted.eu) · · Score: 1

    I could pardon not knowing what decimal and thousand separator is. But there is what is written : "12.353," see 6the comma at the end ? The submitter did not even THINK why there would be a comma at the end. Even if I did not knew that , can be a thousand separator in some regions , if I see 12,000. $ it is quite obvious the . is a thousand (or hundred in some region !) separator and the comma a decimal separator.

  15. Gee learn to read on Europe Now Has Its Own "Most Wanted Fugitives" Web Page (eumostwanted.eu) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It was 12K euro not 12 euro.

  16. legal sale? on Facebook Expands Online Commerce Role, But Says "No Guns, Please" · · Score: 4, Interesting
    "So in effect, they are suppressing behaviour that is completely legal"

    Porn magazine and otehr sex toy paraphenelia are legal to sell to 18+, roughly like guns, and yet some outfits refuse to stock them. As a private entity it is up to facebook to see what it wants to put up with. As such you can certainly see why a corp would avoid any non licensed sale, as it could bring them heat.

    secodnely, the definition of violent crime differs in the US and UK. When you look at the crime which are considered violent in Uk they are not even in the stats in the US :

    US

    âoeIn the FBIâ(TM)s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, violent crime is composed of four offenses: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Violent crimes are defined in the UCR Program as those offenses which involve force or threat of force.â (FBI â" CUS â" Violent Crime)

    http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cj...


    * And ehre is UK : https://www.gov.uk/government/...

    Violent crime contains a wide range of offences, from minor assaults such as pushing and shoving that result in no physical harm through to serious incidents of wounding and murder. Around a half of violent incidents identified by both BCS and police statistics involve no injury to the victim

    So you get pushed and shoved, and hurt your ankle ? In UK a Violent crime. That would not even count as aggravated assault in US : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...


    Basically when you look into it, the myth that there is more violent crime in UK than US is jsut a myth, usually misused to pretend gun are needed for self defense. They are not. They are escalation tools, they lead mugger and petty crime to escalate the force they use in their crime.

  17. Any evidence for that ? on YouTube and the Modern Mad Scientist (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    PPM is more like building an open system that only coincidentally appears closed because we don't yet know how it it is not closed.

    Once a PPM has been built we can discuss the merit of your statement. Until then I think it is safe to say that ppm are only a nice idea but impossible with the known evidenced law of physic.

  18. This is not a closed system on YouTube and the Modern Mad Scientist (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Law of thermodynamic pertaining on PPM only works on closed system. Your geothermal is actually an open system. A closed one would be earth+geothermal+motor+sun. That system is closed and you only shift energy from one part to another with loss and the entropy of the whole rises. PPM are more like I have an box, put stuff in it, close it hermetically, say "shazam" and when I open the box I have more than what I put in.

  19. And yet you ignore cascade failure on At How Much Risk Is the US's Critical Infrastructure? (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    As shown a few years ago a simple software bug in an operator room led to a breakup, which led to a cascade failure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... read the sequence of event. You may not even need a big emp, a few well placed C4 charge on important transformer and equipments in the power network may be enough as this above demonstrate.

  20. A better representation and a godwinning to boot would be that the denialist deny the holocaust in spite of plenty of evidence and the other side has all historical data to show holocaust happened. Climate scientist are not about accepting stuff at face value they have research to back it up. At some point being skeptic of that research without having any evidence that the research is flawed is pure "religious" denial. Your attempt to paint climate change as religion and denialist as skeptic has been noted, and the sadness of seeing a +5 insightful on that also noted. The problem with that stupid rewriting of history is that denialist never have peer reviewed solid article about how climate change is wrong. Climate change scientist do have solid peer reviewed article. Denialist always have the same stupid objection which have been shown to be wrong 100 times over to the point that there is a web site dedicated to listing those objection and why they are wrong. Try to paint yourself as skeptic, but the truth is plain to see.

  21. Everybody does it even US manufacturer on What's In a Tool? a Case For Made In the USA (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    " This includes things like "crimes of omission", where they will actively seek to work around the spec and poke holes where the inspectors may not be looking or may not have even thought to look. "

    That is not a crime of omission it is a wqay to make a tool cheaper which is still up to the original spec. Everybody does it even in the US. Those who don't will offer the same spec for a higher price and same quality perceived and will therefor disappear by getting less of the market. This is especially visible in non tangible good like service and software. You spare where you can , getting cheaper, if only to bring more in for your shareholder. Anybody pretending this does not happen in the US (or EU or...) is fooling themselves.

  22. How ? Probably the same as with other classes on The President Wants Every Student To Learn CS. How Would That Work? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    1) have a goal which is doable e.g. basic CS

    1) Make a curriculum offering very basic CS (In France when i was 11 it was some absic stuff like convert binary/hex, understand processor (basic level) RAM , how basic programs works (used logo and basic for this) and have a project (often this was a game to wake interest in all people)

    2) Hire people and add 1 or 2 hours to curriculum. Personally i recommend to do it early as it was done in my "experimental" middle school : 11 or 12 year old. I credit it to my lifelong interest into computers.

  23. Because of the ally after WW2 on Copyright Expires On Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf · · Score: 1

    The ally imposed a series of drastic law aiming at censoring nazism the idea of them was to avoid resurgence , thus there is strict restriction on showing nazi symbol in germany, which is why among other wolfenstein new order was censored, and south park too. Those law were never revoked.

  24. Only 1 method on The Three Possible Classes of Interstellar Travel (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    The only method we could have access is generation ship. And access is a big word seeing how much resource we would need and some problem at the moment seem quasi intractable. The rest, is speculation as we have no way to create anti matter and store it in meaningful quantity and speculative tech is just that : speculative. This is just a fluff piece from forbes. Probably something they have in stock for long holidays while writers are away.

  25. We human excel at finding specific shapes, like a human shape or face. Change the shape , like to number and letter , and we are far less good as show the problem people also have with captcha. Get a random shape, and computer will *excel* way over human to decide where it should go. So I would argue that our "finding shape out of random noise" is actually much more specialized than surmised.