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  1. No, it's worse, it's sotftware. You buy a signing key from an unscrupulous employee, write some code, plug in a USB stick and the computer replaces the autopilot itself.

  2. Re: Horribly bad and confusing summary on Google's DeepMind Develops New Speech Synthesis AI Algorithm Called WaveNet (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Two possibilities: The same reason that Wikipedia wants secondary sources instead of primary. Less biased is supposedly more accurate. Two: The submitter submits the story frow where he usually sources his news and that's what they go with. My personal experience sumitting stories and looking at stoy submissions suggests it is usually two.

  3. Re: Stop linking to CNNMoney. on Wells Fargo Fires 5,300 Employees For Creating Millions of Phony Accounts (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Being able to read and actually bothering to read when there is usually so much that is unsubstantiable in these sorts of articles are two different things.

  4. That may be the case, or it may be the case that a lot of people have learning difficulties the teachers never handled properly and got called lazy and other things because of it and are thus ill-equipped for skilled trades, but it is much more satisfying to many people to go with your answer.

  5. Re: Cashless Society on Wells Fargo Fires 5,300 Employees For Creating Millions of Phony Accounts (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    We have such a demand for capital that solutions like Bitcoin will keep popping up to meet the need.

  6. Re: gasoline == old fashioned?? on Costa Rica Has Gone 76 Straight Days Using 100% Renewable Electricity (vox.com) · · Score: 0

    Don't make me go ballistic on you. I know you trolls get off on that sort of thing, but I can give you so much of it you'll live to regret it. Remember that bartender in The Simpsons? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

  7. Re: gasoline == old fashioned?? on Costa Rica Has Gone 76 Straight Days Using 100% Renewable Electricity (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Intelligent and stupid use the same alphabet, so it is okay to use stupid when you mean intelligent. I don't like your reasoning, but I don't mind the end result.

  8. Re: So I have a purpose on It's Official: You're Lost In a Directionless Universe (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    There are several different clocks in a person and they speed up and slow down in relationship to each other and everything else.

  9. Re: So I have a purpose on It's Official: You're Lost In a Directionless Universe (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    And there's no guarantee that any given particle doesn't "decide" to go a different direction in time from what it was before.

  10. Re: So I have a purpose on It's Official: You're Lost In a Directionless Universe (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    To explode, of course. https://youtu.be/l8oBZR4Ih-s

  11. Re: So I have a purpose on It's Official: You're Lost In a Directionless Universe (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    I give my life purpose. I decide for myself what that purpose is. I don't understand the original question about the direction of the universe, though.

  12. Re: Not again! on IBM Launches New Linux, Power8, OpenPower Systems (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    People like to talk in absolutes, though. Central planning is always bad or always good. Capitalism is always bad or always good. Vaccines are always good or they cause autism and you won't like hugs. Instead we should be looking out for appropriate use cases and look for potential problems and where they crop up with everything.

  13. Re: For those of us who don't speak American on Apple Cites 'Courage' As Reason To Remove 3.5mm Headphone Jack (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... suggests several sources.

  14. Re:For those of us who don't speak American on Apple Cites 'Courage' As Reason To Remove 3.5mm Headphone Jack (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The server at lmgtfy.com is taking too long to respond. https://www.bing.com/search?q=...

  15. It's a computer. Can't say for the Apple, but the Android phones do computer things even better for me sometimes than a laptop or desktop. I can have 90 tabs open on the things. My one without what they are now calling RAM doesn't keep track of what's in textareas too well so avoid those. My Huawei Valient was a bit... okay very sketchy and its first battery stopped working fast and after I stopped using it, the second battery decided to swell up, but that was about three years ago. The Alcatel OneTouch Fierce XL had power button issues. LG makes them so thin they decided to put the power and volume buttons on the back. I have more of an issue with my fingers accidentally brushing the screen because of the thinness rather than battery life. I forget which phone my mom has, but it developed dialing program problems. You want a phone with 8GB of storage, "RAM", and preferably support for MicroSDXC cards, but those things can be very capable computers.

  16. Re: The Master on We Risk Programming Inequality into Our DNA (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, at least you had Sharon Osbourne stumping and voting for you, and that Prime Minister gig, so there's that. But The Doctor and his companions still managed to fix things in the end.

  17. Re: And that's the problem on We Risk Programming Inequality into Our DNA (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Besides the genome in one human being need not remain constant throughout the life of that person. A person could also swap back and forth between fully biological to fully semiconductor. How far away are we really from being Star Trek's "Q".

  18. Re: Most nonsensical summary/title ever on We Risk Programming Inequality into Our DNA (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Our society is not big on common good because of several missteps in moral philosophy

  19. Re: Attica! Attica! on We Risk Programming Inequality into Our DNA (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Neonatal Retinas will be grown separately and grafted onto the fetus at the appropriate stage of development. The article and most of these comments aren't even trying to think outside the box.

  20. Re: Most nonsensical summary/title ever on We Risk Programming Inequality into Our DNA (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course the original Brave New World book had Epsilons, too, but the book was written when elevator operators were still a thing. Roof!

  21. Re: Most nonsensical summary/title ever on We Risk Programming Inequality into Our DNA (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, i really envy those rich people with their cars, computers and three meals a day us poor people have to do without. Oh wait...

  22. Re: Attica! Attica! on We Risk Programming Inequality into Our DNA (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The still relevant issue is about dicarded embyros though. According to some, they should have full human rights and that hasn't gone away.

  23. Re:demand an manual court of each vote and if you on US Investigating Potential Covert Russian Plan To Disrupt November Elections (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If I'm the one who is the idiot, then how come that's the best you can do?

  24. When you talk about politicians as if they were all the same, you're reducing them to a function; you're removing the human factor from the equation. Usually that's a sign of a flawed perception and lack of empathy (like when feminazis say that all men are rapists) and can lead to radical positions.

    I've called people out on that myself, but when it comes to the belief that the government should oppress the people, the organization doesn't let people advance that don't toe the line. Hobbes felt that the organization was vastly superior to the individual.

    There are politicians that will gladly rig the vote not because they think they need to impose their will on the little monsters but simply because they want power for the sake of power.

    The power to rig the vote has largely been removed from the individual, being subsumed into the organization proper.

    When it comes to politics the functions are distributed across people. In the writings of the Hamiltonians (I'm looking at Federalist Paper 10, at the moment), they practically out-and-out say they wish we were like the Borg or the Cybermen, except of course those characters didn't exist back then.

  25. Violence is inherent to the human condition but not necessarily on the scale that leads to wars. I see attempting to make nations have a monopoly on violence a bad idea. Right now wars are mainly a dumping ground for societies' most belligerent members.