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  1. John Kanzius already found the cure for cancer. There is no need to waste time with this stuff. All efforts should go into his method of destroying cancer with radio waves and making it available to the public.

  2. Other browsers on Chrome, Safari and Opera Criticised For Removing Privacy Setting (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    I was sad to see that Vivaldi browser has this enabled by default.

  3. Re:Absolultely shocking... on Congress is About To Ban the Government From Offering Free Online Tax Filing (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    "I never said that!" - Sun Tzu

  4. Re:Why aren't public displays monitored 24/7? on London's BT Tower Broadcasted Windows 7 Error Message Over the Weekend (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Someone can easily monitor them 24/7, but they don't necessarily have to care or be given the tools to fix something if a problem arises.

  5. Re:END? on The End of the Desktop? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    2050s - how do we make a fire?

  6. hardware changes on The End of the Desktop? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If and when this happens, the hardware will also start to change to this model. Nvidia and AMD might stop making 3D cards for what's left of the desktop and just concentrate on making "cloud server" cards. Where would that leave Linux & MacOS? Would those users be forced to use increasingly older hardware?

  7. Re:Life is chaotic on Cringely Pans Self-Driving Car Hype, Says They're Years Away (cringely.com) · · Score: 1

    To address your 2nd point, many people are anti-vaccination because they don't like the government telling them what to do. Should the government be able force you or your children to drink water? To take caffeine? To take anti-depressants? If your answer to any of those is no, then why should the government be able to force you to put anything into your body, including vaccinations?

    The same thing goes for the government NOT allowing you to put something in your body. If you want to use drugs, drink 6 2-litre Coke bottles a day, or eat nothing but kale, the government should have no say in it.

    Just let people do what they want and stop being so controlling.

  8. Re:Life is chaotic on Cringely Pans Self-Driving Car Hype, Says They're Years Away (cringely.com) · · Score: 1
  9. Re:As per an archived comment from 2017: on Three Pioneers in Artificial Intelligence Win Turing Award (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Stuff like translating language and driving cars are just following a set of rules, which machines/computers are really good at. But things like understanding the underlying meaning of language, or that the car needs to follow the directions of a cop who is directing traffic are much harder for them. That is the line between just following rules and actual intelligence.

  10. Re:Not sure if it’s a “flaw” on Microsoft: Windows 10 Devices Open To 'Full Compromise' From Huawei PC Driver (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    I watched the whole video you linked and nowhere in it was the CIA mentioned.

  11. It's simple, stop trusting google to keep anything. Just stop using their services, because at any point everything you've worked so hard for could go away. They have done this repeatedly over the years, and have shown that they really don't care about anything that they or you create.

  12. Can anyone truly be prepared for an emoji?

  13. McCormick is way overpriced on The World's Biggest Spice Company is Using AI To Find New Flavors (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Now that Badia is all over I will never buy McCormick again. Their prices are outrageous compared to Badia!

  14. Crohn's disease is anything but easily treatable. Scientists don't know the cause, and there is no cure for Crohn's. It is a fatal disease. There are various medications, but they can only treat the symptoms. Most Crohn's patients undergo dozens of surgeries that remove different parts of the entire digestive tract, and they eventually die due to complications from the disease. Life with Crohn's is miserable with frequent pain, going to the bathroom 20 times per day, and bleeding.

  15. Re: Not as dead as ... on Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Java? (jaxenter.com) · · Score: 1

    The browser code inspectors/debuggers will easily and instantly catch the vast majority of syntax errors. Debugging in javascript is one of the easiest things you can do.

  16. Track-tastic! on Google Brings Instant Tethering To 3rd-Party Chromebooks (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Because we couldn't have 1 seconds of not being able to track you, now could we?!

  17. So the anti-vaccinators claim that vaccines cause autism. Well, now that we have several decades of the anti-vax movement, a simple test would be to see what rates of autism exist among them. That would either prove or disprove their claims. Of course, if it disproves them, some of them will still believe, but maybe some of them will leave the movement and others might not join.

  18. There will be much swearing.

  19. Re:Robots what now? on Engineers Create a Robot That Can 'Imagine' Itself (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Despite repeated warnings by sci-fi authors, video games, and movie producers, scientists insist that this must happen. Even though we all know AI would probably at least rule us, at worst kill us, they keep running their experiments. Why do people who are allegedly so smart want to do something so reckless?

  20. from Krzanich to Swan on Intel's Interim CEO Bob Swan Gets the Job Permanently (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Intel Inside

  21. Re:But I mean, how do we know? on Facebook Shares Shoot Up After Strong Q4 Earnings Despite Scandals (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless those numbers are being validated by an independent 3rd party that isn't being paid off by FB, you are correct. If they are reporting their own numbers, they literally can report anything and noone has a way to dispute them.

  22. Re: Nice advertisment on Schools Are Locking Students' Phones Away to Help With Concentration (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Get that 3% blockchain up to at least 7%, add in some API's and Apps, and we'll talk!

  23. A "tech start-up Yondr" makes bags to hold phones? Ummm... that's hardly a tech company. At best, it's a packaging company.

  24. Re:Mother Nature. on Ask Slashdot: What Could Go Wrong In Tech That Hasn't Already Gone Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Along those same lines, what about an EMP?

  25. Re:basic security becomes an up-sell feature in cl on Ask Slashdot: What Could Go Wrong In Tech That Hasn't Already Gone Wrong? · · Score: 2

    That's correct. If you can brute-force guess, phish, or steal usernames you can merrily start locking everyone out.