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  1. Re:fake news, Philo tried in 1930s to be recognize on TV Turns 90 (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not confused, I know of even more television systems than those.

    The point is even the electromechanical systems were coupled to radio transmission, which makes it electronic television. Just as a fax machine, scanner, copier are electronic devices.

  2. the stoic knight watched on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do With An Old Windows Phone? · · Score: 2

    the apps crashed, the browser loaded infections, the flesh melted off the users' cyber-presence and he screamed in agony.

    "he chose.....poorly", deadpanned the knight

  3. Re:fake news, Philo tried in 1930s to be recognize on TV Turns 90 (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    You have it backwards, Farnsworth was the one in the 1930s who wanted the title and used courts.

  4. Re:Why would they even create this? on AI Can Detect Sexual Orientation Based On Person's Photo (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So you're assuming that the people who run this world wouldn't want to create that kind of problem in many situations?

    Issue not irrelevant to them.

    How many gays do you suppose are in the Trump administration? What if it was found out a straight married person in that admin was "getting some on the down-low"?

  5. Re:fake news, Philo tried in 1930s to be recognize on TV Turns 90 (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I know of those works, but anyway prefer to think of the 1920s work as "first", even though the system you mention is superior and more like what was in use until very recently with the advent of all-digital service

  6. Re:According to the release calendar... on AskSlashdot: How Do You See Your Life After Firefox 52 ESR? (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    this rapididly spinner counter that is the version number, lost meaning to me years ago. version fifty-something, I won't even remember the exact number two minutes from now.

  7. Re:fake news, Philo tried in 1930s to be recognize on TV Turns 90 (axios.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    bullshit, the information was transmitted by electronic means. scanners and fax machines have electomechanical parts too, they aren't electronic devices?

  8. fake news, Philo tried in 1930s to be recognized on TV Turns 90 (axios.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    John Logie Baird in 1926 sent television images by radio.

    If sending by wire instead of free space is acceptable as criteria, television was invented in the mid 19th century.

  9. Re:7M km is "close"? on Near Earth Asteroid 'Florence' Makes a Close Pass (space.com) · · Score: 1

    not useless at all, 46 million is the minimum, 140 million miles is the average and 401 million miles the farthest. The distance of this asteroid's closest approach being a chunk of all those distances (1/6, 1/20 and 1/50) means this asteroid was pretty fucking far away.

  10. yeah, and they have a bigger body count than Hitler an the Nazis.

    Oh wait, he was a Roman Catholic too, wasn't he?

  11. Re:Will this Finally stop being delivered? on Demise of Yellow Pages Confirmed as Yell Aims For Digital Transformation (thedrum.com) · · Score: 2

    In the USA there is no one company that has the rights to use the trademark "Yellow Pages" and so several do. Whether the particular companies putting dead trees on your porch bother to respect that list is an open question. Where I live they don't

  12. Re:AI 2020! on AI Could Lead To Third World War, Elon Musk Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    there are some feats forever beyond digital computation; the Turing machine has hard boundary to its subset of solvable problems

    https://xkcd.com/1875/

  13. yes, let's talk about that Church and the type of people that are influenced by stories, and led about by an old man in funny hat spewing nonsense

  14. better at chess on AI Could Lead To Third World War, Elon Musk Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    In many things computers can and will excel, but for starting WW III my bet is on the humans unparalled excellence at destroying their own kind for reasons of power, resources and ideology.

  15. Re:7M km is "close"? on Near Earth Asteroid 'Florence' Makes a Close Pass (space.com) · · Score: 2

    that made no sense whatsoever.

    How about saying it was 1/20 the average Earth / Mars distance...in other words, pretty fucking far away

  16. plenty of SJW types think Hollywood molds reality, and that if a movies depics their version of a world they've won somthings. They willl even favorable mention parts of movies that agree with whatever nonsense is between their ears.

  17. Re:How does that work? on New Kind of Gravitational Wave Source Detected? (nature.com) · · Score: 2

    currently the direction of the first two detected events was an oblong shaped slice of sky about 600 to 800 square degrees, over 1.5% of the sky...very crude. When the Advanced Virgo detector in Italy helps, things will be much better

  18. Re:They were on GSA Schedule on FBI Warns US Private Sector To Cut Ties With Kaspersky (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 1

    if you are a U.S. citizen the biggest threat to your privacy, liberty and security is the U.S. government, not the Russian one. What's messed up is the the U.S. government IS backdooring systems, while allegations of the Russian governmet doing so are without proof thus far.

  19. Re: After 2021 on Hyundai To Build a 300-Mile-Per-Charge Electric Car (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    that mythical LR model is not sold yet. Real price in USA will be around $60,000 not $44K

  20. Re: Depends on the license on Oracle Now Wants To Give Java EE to an Open Source Foundation (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    morals you made up between your ears. they don't exist, no one has to live as you say.

    The programmers chose to use the BSD license. if they didn't like it, they could use GPL or other licensed framework. Nothing stolen, nothing immoral.

  21. Re:Depends on the license on Oracle Now Wants To Give Java EE to an Open Source Foundation (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    and the BSD license would allow the original minecraft.

  22. pointless looking for "atonement" or "guilt" or "remorse"...take out the trash!

  23. Re:What about left-wing extremists? on Discord Bans Servers That Promote Nazi Ideology (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    yes you're hilarious citing cases of a few deaths when I am talking about hundreds of murders per year.

  24. Re: After 2021 on Hyundai To Build a 300-Mile-Per-Charge Electric Car (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    yes, a $100,000 car has 315 mile range (not the 335 you cite), useless for the average person.

    driven slowly gets X. yeah that's funny. my honda civic can roll downhill for a 100 miles on a teaspoon of gasonline too.

  25. not the big problem with java on Oracle Now Wants To Give Java EE to an Open Source Foundation (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    minor version number changes breaking API so apps no longer worked, that's the big problem Java EE under Oracle has. Incidentally, it's now also the problem the Oracle DBMS has had since version 10.x