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  1. Working for masters is overrated.

    Eating is not.

  2. It may be possible to run a fleet of not-yet-ready-for-prime-time autonomous cars along a few restricted routes and not in bad weather. Fewer unknowns to deal with.

  3. Fight against message encryption on France Says Fight Against Messaging Encryption Needs Worldwide Initiative (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    .. and you're supposed to do international money transfers how again?

  4. Re:Low cost on Robocalling Scourge May Not Be Unstoppable After All (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up. It's naive to think you can extinguish the problem that easily. The money in robocalling obviously offsets the pesky legal issues...

  5. "Sleeping with amber-tinted glasses..." on Can Blocking Blue Light Help Bipolar Disorder As Well as Sleep Issues? (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seriously? Don't know about you but when I sleep my eyes are shut.

  6. What the DA Wants on New York DA Wants Apple, Google To Roll Back Encryption (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course the DA wants a backdoor to encryption. And he probably wants to get rid of that pesky Fifth Amendment, too. So many crimes could be solved if only people could be forced to testify against themselves!

  7. Re:well well well on Clinton Campaign: Russia Leaked Emails to Help Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    to me, unless you can show the integrity of the original messages was compromised, then the "who did it" does not matter as much as "what the emails say".

    That's the problem, though. If I send you a file I say contains so-and-so's emails, and the content looks authentic, there's no way to verify that it is 100% authentic. I can edit any part of any message I want to make so-and-so look guilty as hell.

  8. Contaminated content on Clinton Campaign: Russia Leaked Emails to Help Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If the source of the emails is a Russian hacker, who's to say that any of the content is genuine? What if some of it were doctored? Source can't be trusted.

  9. Staying in bed is fun for a day or two but boring in the longer run. It takes more discipline to stay in bed than go out and do something.

    Having said that, I believe automation will render more and more work simply unnecessary. The whole mentality of working to live will undergo a major seismic shift for better or worse.

  10. If the tractor mfr's want to go this route, why not just do a lease? Pretty much same terms apply, and they do the maintenance.

  11. Re:The Republicans want to make everyone work on The Case Against a Universal Basic Income (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    The country was founded almost 300 years ago, when automation meant horses and mechanical clocks. The longer the pols believe there's a magic formula to create more jobs to keep people busy, fat & happy, the more suffering there will be as jobs simply go away.

  12. Re:That huge cost on The Case Against a Universal Basic Income (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    $2.3T, according to this

  13. The Orange Man chose Mr Pence, not Mr Gingrich, as his running mate.

  14. Re:So will they be passing that savings onto us? on Hostess Saves Twinkies By Automating, Fires 94% Of Their Workforce (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    What's passed along is the cost of supporting the thousands of unemployed.

  15. Re:Eternity on How Richard Feynman's Diagrams Almost Saved Space (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 0

    "Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company..." -- Mark Twain

  16. Re:Some points of note on Second Tesla Autopilot Crash Under Review By US Regulators (time.com) · · Score: 1

    The owner *claims* that the car was in autopilot, but we don't really know yet.

    Hmm... get in a crash, blame autopilot...

  17. Robocall laws are a joke on Entire Federal Government Exempt From Robocall Laws, FCC Rules (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    I get BS robocalls all the time and the IRS is gonna sue me. Fly-by-night robocall companies thumb their nose at the law and operate almost as if it didn't exist.

  18. Drag? on Pod Planes Could Change Travel Forever (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Larger cross-section = greater drag, lower fuel economy, slower top speed?

  19. Better than flying monkey drones on Rolling Drone Delivery Robots Have Arrived (starship.xyz) · · Score: 1

    Makes much better sense than flying drones, but not without problems...

  20. So to mask the voice you're stuck with some kind of frequency or pitch shifting, both of which have artifacts. It's not going to sound like a man would sound naturally. So the interviewer didn't hire the creepy-sounding man.

  21. Ain't gonna happen... on US Efforts To Regulate Encryption Have Been Flawed, Government Report Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    With congress members already struggling to understand basic science issues such as the age of the earth and AGW, something like cryptography lies largely and forever out of their grasp...

  22. Slashdotted? on Drivers Prefer Autonomous Cars That Don't Kill Them (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Moral Machine not working. Morally bankrupt?

  23. Liberal bias is a problem only if conservative views are good for self and society.

  24. Looks like patent troll... on Apple iPhones Found to Have Violated Chinese Rival's Patent (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Affected company apparently has no website, phone, or email.

  25. What's to be gained, information-wise, by exploring the wider universe? Once you've figured out the laws of nature, and see they apply everywhere, there's not much point in examining chunks of rock other than the one you're sitting on. Entertainment, on the other hand, the creation of limitless novel fantasy universes, might be where all sentient beings are headed. So maybe advanced civilizations just aren't interested in colonizing the galaxy, or communicating with it.