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  1. Re:Social puzzle on Garry Kasparov: The World Should Embrace Artificial Intelligence (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    oh, so there will be immense pressure to improve education and to take education more seriously by a larger section of the populace? I don't see that necessity as bad, only the failure to do so would be bad.

  2. Re:Slashdot Logic on Linux Kernel 4.14 Will Be An LTS Release (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    my are you confused, you can pay for support for many other distros including Debian (my former employer used to support that and some other Linux distros). Open source is about choice, including whether you want to pay at all or not. It's also about having the ability to see into the software, even if you're not into coding you can find things from those who are that are useful.

    Lowering expectations? You're telling me the Windows ports of some of the software I use runs better? No they don't.

  3. Re:Social puzzle on Garry Kasparov: The World Should Embrace Artificial Intelligence (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    computers and more broadly information tech and internet have been changing the workforce and economy for decades. You'll be in error if you project the present into the future where the only that changes is computers doing work. there are breakthroughs in energy production, biology, and yes even info tech that will make all sorts of new jobs even as we have robots

  4. Re: Sad, but... on Xerox Alto Designer, Co-Inventor Of Ethernet, Dies at 74 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    oh yes instead of fiber it was more economical to use coaxial ethernet (and Arcnet) and repeaters for large building and campus/site runs back in the day.

  5. you're funny AC, like anyone even gives a crap about YOU here while you're alive! hahahahaha

  6. Re: Sad, but... on Xerox Alto Designer, Co-Inventor Of Ethernet, Dies at 74 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    that first version could go up to 500 meters before repeater needed, tell me how far your twisted pair can go

  7. let's add in the costs of radiation deaths and maimings...no not of nuclear...but by *coal* and all of a sudden your cost argument becomes trash. non-polluting energy of course has less cost

  8. over 5% of the electrical energy production in the USA by wind...that's huge! Why would you call that insignificant, you are science and math challenged?

  9. Re:Training on Life On Mars: Elon Musk Reveals Details of His Colonisation Vision · · Score: 1

    but people live there and similar places. and most the million would be born there, not screened to live there

  10. Re:All we have to do is... on Life On Mars: Elon Musk Reveals Details of His Colonisation Vision · · Score: 1

    solar panels on Mars get about a third the energy they do on earth. so one just needs 3X the solar panels to get a job done, eh? your first claim is meaningless.

    and then you assume no redundant systems, no spare parts, no resupply of a colony until they can make their own things....perhaps by using solar energy, since there won't be any complaints of an array that is "too big", what with all the unused real estate....

  11. Re:All we have to do is... on Life On Mars: Elon Musk Reveals Details of His Colonisation Vision · · Score: 1

    eh, pump some atmosphere into an enclosed pressurized greenhouse

  12. but do we get something for that money compared to the return on say giving a bunch of inner city savages money?

  13. Re:Who cares? on Green Party Leaders Don't Want Windows In Munich (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    rather ignorant statement to make when renewable energy now supplying over a third the electrical energy there. only 14% now is from nuclear.

  14. Re:What happens when you eliminate subsidies? on Wind, Solar Surpassed 10 Percent of US Electricity In March, Says EIA (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    subsidies are everywhere, in I.T. and textiles and food and vehicles

  15. Re:what happens if a company goes under on Samsung Left Millions Vulnerable To Hackers Because It Forgot To Renew a Domain (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    ah, script kiddies newest target, that mechanism. render massive slice of a market unable to use their internet dependent product.

  16. Re:Firing the starting gun on AGI on US Weighs Restricting Chinese Investment In Artificial Intelligence (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    you're confused, you are the one asserted the existence of something that does not.

    AI is stagnant but for increased horsepower. Whether talking about symbolic AI, neural nets, genetic algorithms...all done decades ago

  17. Re:Last time the US tried on US Weighs Restricting Chinese Investment In Artificial Intelligence (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    sorry, neural nets of many layers are decades old tech. none of the those lists of theorems in the 1990s changed what could be done with the nets. we can throw more horsepower at the problem is all.

  18. nope, about 25 percent of the population support far right wing ideology. All those Nazis supporters and their children did not magically disappear in 1945.

  19. you are the idiot, wasn't that long ago at all (you must be young) and the ideology and populace didn't magically change overnight

  20. Re:Aziz Ansari was spot on on Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    How funny, he supported Obama, who was a member of an organized racist hate group (his church with rabid anti-white leader)

  21. Re:Wait, what? on Germany Plans To Fingerprint Children and Spy On Personal Messages (fortune.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    oh, that country formerly ruled by Adolf Fucking Hitler and the Nazis? LOLZ

  22. Re:Last time the US tried on US Weighs Restricting Chinese Investment In Artificial Intelligence (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    AI is a joke anyway, nothing new for decades in that field other than more horsepower available for same old algorithms. nothing much of value lost

  23. Re:Old Men Yell at Clouds on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    even the infrastructure for using/transporting/persisting its Decimal class (I'll give it some credit for at least having that) around properly. But the broader answer would be the stuff java ee has that python libraries don't.

    I hate Java by the way

  24. Re:Peltier cooler on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If You Were To Put a Computer Inside a Fridge? · · Score: 1

    actually, the main issue is that the peltier are horribly inefficient, they'll take four times the power to move a given amount of heat.

  25. Re:People forget Colleges are not Vo Techs. on Harvard Pulls Student Offers Over Online Comments (go.com) · · Score: 1

    You're funny. Three words for you:

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