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  1. Re:Of course they are in raptures on Star Wars: The Last Jedi Has Critics In Raptures (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    wait...is she hot? because if female has prominent role in movie, I want her to be hot.

  2. so it's essentially zero on The Environmental Cost of Internet Porn (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    the USA used 4 petawatt-hours in 2015. So pornhub used 0.000006 petawatt-hours....so what?

  3. Re:See O.C. Bible on What Does Artificial Intelligence Actually Mean? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Not in those trashy prequels which yes had a plot arc with hidden computers, but somewhere in Frank's works there is a single sentence that mentions they secretly used such machines for genetic forecasting. Also in Heretics of Dune the Ixians were making them.

  4. Re:so? on AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We're All Screwed (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    always been easy to do.

    fooling experts is still hard, photoshop is NOT the way to do that

  5. Re:Really quite simple on What Does Artificial Intelligence Actually Mean? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah, certain algorithms are called "AI" that are done on computers. Neural nets, inference engines, expert systems.....they shouldn't be called that, but they are.

  6. Re:Why are Slashdot editors so obsessed.... on Why Is Anime Obsessed With Power Lines? (atlasobscura.com) · · Score: 1

    his finger was greasy from cheap delivery pizza his mom brought down and it slipped

  7. Re:Not just SV, but SV is really bad on The Silicon Valley Paradox: One In Four People Are At Risk of Hunger (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    seems to me airlines could arrange transport to big airport from 2+ hours away commuters..from small private airports. "everyone meet outside hanger #3 at Joe's Executive Airport"

  8. Re:See O.C. Bible on What Does Artificial Intelligence Actually Mean? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    but of course in Dune various groups including the Bene-Gesserit did just that because they had applications that needed it

  9. Re: May emit showers of sparks on Why Is Anime Obsessed With Power Lines? (atlasobscura.com) · · Score: 1

    Samsung made the battery backups inside the consoles.

  10. Re:Why are Slashdot editors so obsessed.... on Why Is Anime Obsessed With Power Lines? (atlasobscura.com) · · Score: 1

    4chan/a/ anon spotted

  11. Re:It is called a visual style.... on Why Is Anime Obsessed With Power Lines? (atlasobscura.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    My Waifu says you're wrong, it's reality!

  12. Re:barefoot and pregnant on The First Women in Tech Didn't Leave -- Men Pushed Them Out (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    the human race would end if 4 out of 5 women didn't end up pregnant, it's not a bad thing it's necessary.

  13. Re:How can Trump be sure the moon is there? on President Trump Is Sending NASA Back To The Moon (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    sad news for you, according to our best model of gravity (General Relativity) objects don't fall to earth, the surface of the Earth indeed accelerates up to those objects which are in free fall, following a space-time geodesic.

  14. Re:so? on AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We're All Screwed (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    you're hilarious, various tricks for creating "fake photographs" are 200+ years old. Putting people that weren't present into a photo, changing the location, extreme touchup to change appearance, creating what we might call fantasy / sci fi effects...all old hat. Faked photogaphss have tricked experts in the courtroom too.

    "Then came photoshop", pfffffft. Get off my lawn, kid.

  15. Re:Ignore the pundits on Launch of Bitcoin Futures Trading Crashes CBOE Site (thestreet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the money paid for that energy was not. Don't worry about the energy, there is no shortage of energy on this Earth or in this universe. Take comfort that the money is never lost, only changes hands.

  16. Re:Same for asteroids... on Google's Machine Learning Is Analyzing Data From NASA's Kepler Space Telescope (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    We don't yet have the means to see if atmosphere of "earthlike" planet has signs of biological activity or composition favorable to life. The James Webb Space Telescope to be launched next year will be able to do that, as will other telescopes to be made in the next 20 years. So expect an announcement between say 2019 and 2040.

    Since Earth had single cell life for so very long, and that even evolved more than once, likely that kind of life is common while complex multicellular organisms are rare.

  17. Re:Study fails to understand what happened. on Researchers Say Human Lifespans Have Already Hit Their Peak (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    No, drinking and smoking don't kill at all in most cases. Not even a question of impacting evolution then, there can't be.

  18. Re:Right conclusion but wrong reasoning on The Case that Bitcoin Is a Bubble (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    The software algorithm is part of the tech, and the designers of bitcoin chose poorly for making a scalable system. The crash of bitcoin will make most people think the other better designed systems are too risky. Bitcoin will ruin the concept of "cryptocurrency" even though it never attained the status of a real currency.

  19. Re:Study fails to understand what happened. on Researchers Say Human Lifespans Have Already Hit Their Peak (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    but the "statistic fact" is NOT that smoking or drinking shortens *every* human life. And by the way we're not talking of outliers here, there are MANY drinkers and smokers that live to life expectancy or beyond.

  20. Re:Study fails to understand what happened. on Researchers Say Human Lifespans Have Already Hit Their Peak (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    my very longest lived relatives did the unhealthy things like drink and smoke, getting cut down in their 90s from their filthy unhealthy habits. Well there was my great grandmother who didn't use tobacco or alcohol and didn't exercise but had a bag of chips and a can of soda pop (sugared) every afternoon about 3 o'clock. She lived to be 101.

  21. Re:Ignore the pundits on Launch of Bitcoin Futures Trading Crashes CBOE Site (thestreet.com) · · Score: 1

    don't worry, no money will be lost, not one cent.

  22. Re:Study fails to understand what happened. on Researchers Say Human Lifespans Have Already Hit Their Peak (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    you write an illogical thing, that "there are people still smoking cigarettes, drinking to excess, etc."....guess what, plenty of people do those things and (over half of them) have a lifespan just as long as anyone else. Those things might just weed out the less fit, ha!

  23. Re: Do you remember when... on People Who Can't Remember Their Bitcoin Passwords Are Really Freaking Out Now (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    no, but your bank might have an overdraft protection system for you where any such becomes a credit card loan. I'd advise against it, interest rates too high. Instead live within your means.

    anyway, my point is that losing money due to forgetfulness is hardly a recent thing, old as money itself.

  24. Re:Sweet! on 'Cards Against Humanity' Gives Out $1000 Checks (nbcchicago.com) · · Score: 1

    you're confused, Martin Luther King didn't give anyone rights, the Republicans in government at the time did (and the traditional southern gentry type Democrats opposed it)

  25. Re:Experiment? on New Satellite Experiment Helps Confirm Einstein's Equivalence Principle (presse.cnes.fr) · · Score: 5, Informative

    General Relativety states that the acceleration due to gravity on two bodies that start at same position and with same velocity will be the same regardless of composition. The sattelite has a reference accelerometer with an electrostatically suspended mass of one material, and a test accelerometer with two test masses of two other materials.