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  1. Don't be merely evil on Google Removes 'Don't Be Evil' Clause From Its Code of Conduct (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Don't be evil, be heinous.

  2. Uhmmm. isn't this another word for boat? on Floating Pacific Island Is In the Works With Its Own Government, Cryptocurrency (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Why not just get a boat as register it in Liberia. You can still make up your own crypto currency.

    even better, don't get a boat but tell everyone you did get a boat. Call it your own country, so you don't have to register it. Then no one can determine the boat does not exist. take the money and run.

  3. Whiners should be paid in round hockey puck mice

    However the new macs are both awesomely nice and one of the word set of ergonomic choices ever since the puck mouse.

    The touchbar is aweful for some people because just the slightest graze acts cares the key. No mechanical press tequired. I'm constantly activating the music pls button or hitting the escape key by accident . Since the keys move around there is no muscle memory and you have to look with your eyes to find the key to want. It sucks.

    Astonishingly the track pad has finally reached a size where you can argue it's too large . It eats any use of the surface as a palm rest. Lots of accidental mousing results.

    And the stroke depth on the keys is too shallow for what I've become used to. It feels hard against my fingers at the bottom . I dislike it compared to the old one.

    But hell as far as durability goes this is vastly better than the crap HP serves up as a keyboard

  4. Re: Class action = Apple's 2nd tier of tech suppor on Class Action Suit Filed Against Apple Over the Keyboards in MacBook Pro and MacBook Laptops (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Whiners should be paid in round hockey puck mice

    However the new macs are both awesomely nice and one of the word set of ergonomic choices ever since the puck mouse.

    The touchbar is aweful for some people because just the slightest graze acts cares the key. No mechanical press tequired. I'm constantly activating the music pls button or hitting the escape key by accident . Since the keys move around there is no muscle memory and you have to look with your eyes to find the key to want. It sucks.

    Astonishingly the track pad has finally reached a size where you can argue it's too large . It eats any use of the surface as a palm rest. Lots of accidental mousing results.

    And the stroke depth on the keys is too shallow for what I've become used to. It feels hard against my fingers at the bottom . I dislike it compared to the old one.

    But hell as far as durability goes this is vastly better than the crap HP serves up as a keyboard

    Its just not up to apple level expectations.

  5. you win!

  6. All robocalls should come with a robo-bit flipped on Should Calls From Google's 'Duplex' System Include Initial Warning Announcements? (vortex.com) · · Score: 0

    all robot calls should self identify before the phone even rings. a few bytes can signify:

    1. This is an emergency broadcast system

    the rest should be up to my caller-ID to decide if it rings.

  7. Next up the cure for Blue eyes on Potential New Cure Found For Baldness (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Baldness isn't a disease. One does not cure baldness anymore that one cures blue eyes or cure you for not being an olympic athlete. You are just taking drugs to change something about yourself. It's like taking steroids to change your muscles.

  8. The autocomplete apocalypse on Gmail's 'Smart Compose' Feature Will Write Emails For You (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Now instead of simply mis-completeing a word it will miscomplete whole sentences. Then paragraphs. You could accidentally break up with your girl friend with a letter.

  9. Uber and people who authorized this experiment on Uber Vehicle Saw But Ignored Woman It Struck, Report Says (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is a clinical trial. The FDA has long long long long long experience in conducting clinical trials. Now one can argue if FDAs caution is too much but even in the worst case everyone would agree they have a well established process for assuring something is safe and effective before you release it onto the public.

    Uber is conducting experiments on the public.

    If this were a new drug or treatment or medical procedure they would be shut down.

    This is actually far worse than that because most new drugs or treatments have clear lineages from prior ones that give us high expectations of what the outcome will be.

    The argument that something has to be allowed prematurely because in the long run it will save lives is a failed argument for medicine.

    In this case there is nothing to support the claim that this will save lives in the long run. Sure one could imagine that it would. But I don't think thats very well established. And if this were a drug study people would have spent the time and money to establish that.

    The claim that they have conducted 5 million miles (or whatever of testing) is rubbish. Those are not statistically valid tests. We execs dashing in front of the cars going 50 miles per hours in any of those tests? I assure you that did not happen.

    Moreover we already have evidence from those tests that driver re-aqusitions do happen frequently, and there is a substatnial lag in the hand over dues to human inattention. THe fact that they only had one driver in it says Uber is negligent.

  10. Minux in more popular on Microsoft Says 700M Devices Now Run Windows 10 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    But Intel doen't give you a choice. you have to run Minux.

  11. Your wish is granted. on Devices Supporting Google Assistant Have More Than Tripled In Last Four Months · · Score: 1

    There's already lots of voice assitants for Raspi. Additionally the $49 kits also come rolled up with Google AI goodness too if you want them to take advantage of that. The tricky part of this is that the array based microphone technology is pretty important for being able work reliably in a noisey enviroment. So the single microphone raspi hats won't work so well as the array based ones. That's the secret sauce to make it non-frustrating and more of an appliance than just a demo.

  12. Google assistant is aptly named on Devices Supporting Google Assistant Have More Than Tripled In Last Four Months · · Score: 1

    Those who assist others assist themselves? It certainly does assist google at positioning itself as the gatekeeper. And it assists other companies that want to piggyback on the spy ware platform. But yes you can tell your dishwasher to start itself from across the room. You still need to load it yourself.

  13. Whorls, foam, and the tell tale line in the water on Apple's Eddy Cue To Be Deposed In Qualcomm Patent Battle (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Those are the cue's I look for when I see a large rock in a flowing river. Usually there's a Eddy on the other side of the Eddy Line.

    I did not know Eddy Cue was a monarch or the the forces of Qualcom sought to depose him.

  14. Re:nice power point on NASA Successfully Tests New Nuclear Reactor For Future Space Travelers (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Remember they are simulating space conditions where you need enormous surface areas to avoid overheating. On earth we don't have that problem. I think the large jackets in one photo, or the large fins in the moon mock-up are there to simulate space conditions and would not be needed for a car.

  15. Re:nice power point on NASA Successfully Tests New Nuclear Reactor For Future Space Travelers (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Are you joking or not. If Not I sure would like to know more about your experience and why you lacked power and the other details.

  16. I already have a space heater in my house.

  17. Re:nice power point on NASA Successfully Tests New Nuclear Reactor For Future Space Travelers (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    Actually they are affordable when ammortized over their life (just like a solar roof is only affordable when amortized) These things are amazingly cheap. There's multiple companies already selling 100KW and Megawatt scale regional pwer plants to bury in the ground. TOshiba. Hyperion.

  18. Re:nice power point on NASA Successfully Tests New Nuclear Reactor For Future Space Travelers (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm not really sure how big it is. All the photos show it with large thermal jackets around it. But I suspect those are part of the test harness. Car engines are pretty big too. Especially a big diesel truck.

  19. Re:Krusty? on NASA Successfully Tests New Nuclear Reactor For Future Space Travelers (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's so safe, even Homer could install it.

  20. Re:10Kw for MULTIPLE homes? on NASA Successfully Tests New Nuclear Reactor For Future Space Travelers (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    there's a difference between peak load and average load. your furnace does not run all the time. Not even most of the time. Moreover this thing is going to give off much more than 10KW of heat in addition to the electricity. So it is the furnace too. Examine your power bill. A typical 1 bedroom electric bill is $50/month in states with cheap electricity and taxes. that's less than 500KW/hours per month. not per day

  21. nice power point on NASA Successfully Tests New Nuclear Reactor For Future Space Travelers (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's nicely at a power point where it could power a small apartment building and recharge all the electric vehicles fully overnight. If it were 30KW it could even power a highway capable SUV. While one might worry about crashes, remember these thermo-nuclear-electric power packs on sattelites are hardened to survive a rocket explosion and hard re-entry.

  22. Phrenology and Astrology on Ask Slashdot: What Should I Study? · · Score: 2

    Historically Phrenology has been a more reliable source of income than AI skills. AI comes and goes in popularity. Phrenology and Astrology are forever.

  23. Except this is not remotely new: homepod on Researchers Want To Turn Your Entire House Into a Co-Processor Using the Local Wi-Fi Signal (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    People have been farting around with optical processing ever since the laser was invented. In the 1980 JPL used optical correlators for image processing. Faster than any computer back in the 1980s.

    These days it's used routinely to have wave pattern defined sub-cells on cellular towers. That's not the same thing as beam steering because it's relying on reflections.

    Apple's homepod sounds better than one can imagine because that's what it is doing too.

    And of course seeing around corners with scattered light is still an active area.

    This particular application is utterly moronic for the simple reason that to do any of the above you need a lot of antennas, There just are not a lot of antennas in a house

  24. Stuff your talking points on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "right to work" is just talking point brainwashing. It's all about a right to negotiate collectively.

  25. Or any aircraft carrier on Russia Launches Floating Nuclear Power Plant That's Headed To the Arctic (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    any nuclear powered navy ship is by definition a floating nuclear power plant. The Orion project was a flying nuclear power plant.