User: Mysund

AI will make us leave democrazy behind.

On: Ask Slashdot: How Would a Self-Aware AI Behave? (slashdot.org)

I , for one, will welcome the abandoning of democrazy, when AI makes it obsolete.
Humans tend to get corrupted when they gain political power. AI on the other hand, will be better and more just lawmakers, judges etc. Society as a whole, will get the benefit of any decision, rather than special and hidden interests, like wee see today. No more lobbying. No more buying politicians...

Re:Notepad++ ?

On: Windows Notepad Finally Supports Unix, Mac OS Line Endings (theregister.co.uk)

Next year Microsoft will release their new feature swollen text editor: Notepad#.

Scam?

On: Entrepreneurs Fight Air Pollution With CO2-Reducing 'CityTrees' (cnn.com)

It sounds like a scam. It should then roughly gain weight equivalent to 275 trees, if it stores the same amount of carbon.

Drop is due to government policy

On: Denmark Is Killing Tesla and Other Electric Cars (bloomberg.com)

The DK government changed the taxation on electric cars, to make it more equal to gasoline cars. It is a disgrace.

syntax

On: Ask Slashdot: What Should Be the Attributes of an Ideal Programming Language If Computers Were Infinitely Fast?

It should be able to understand and do whatever comes after "I want you to..." both as a vocal or written statement.

Comal 80

On: Slashdot Asks: What Was Your First Programming Language? (stanforddaily.com)

Comal 80 in the 80's

Or do we?

On: No, We Probably Don't Live in a Computer Simulation, Says Physicist (gizmodo.com)

She and other simulation-sceptics probably have had a mind-manipulating intervention done by our Simulator, as an attempt to hide the fact that we do live in one.
I find it more probable that we do live in one. There might even be a person somewhere, that is an avatar for the Simulator, just to get a 1'st person view in simulation game.

Margrethe's bar.

On: 'It's Tricky': Apple Misses the Deadline To Pay $13.9 Bn To Ireland in Illegal Tax Benefit (cnbc.com)

She must at least have one king size Tullamore Dew in her bar cabinet by now.

Alpha

On: Scientists Blast Antimatter Atoms With a Laser For The First Time (npr.org)

First time i heard of antimatter, was an episode of Moonbase ... Alpha....

Its a matter of flowcontrol.

On: Slashdot Asks: Are You Ashamed of Your Code? (businessinsider.com)

Not been ashamed after i startet replacing all flow control structures with goto's

the cause of this sudden decline

On: US Dementia Rates Drop 24%, New Study Finds (cnn.com)

First thing that jump into my mind: Can this be caused by the removal of lead from petrol/gasoline and other consumer products?

is 400 a special value in nature.

On: Global CO2 Concentration Passes Threshold of 400 ppm -- and That's Bad for the Climate (time.com)

We just see it as a round number because we use base 10.

So it is actually nothing special.about 400. It is all numerology crap/superstition.

If we instead of 10 fingers, only had 7 fingers, the number would be ... Oh crap ... 400 in base 7 is actually 1111.

The world will end.

Why the negative term "Anti-Vaccination"

On: Nurses In Australia Face Punishment For Promoting Anti-Vaccination Messages Via Social Media (medicalxpress.com)

It is so typical that this negative term is used for people who are critical of the benefits of vaccination.

It should be called Pro-Disease.

protection

On: NSA Worried About Implications of Leaked Toolkits (businessinsider.com)

Can we then expect that after some analysis, that most antivirus and FW software will be able to counter those tools?

Its true.

On: Teachers Union: Computers Can Negatively Impact Children's Ability To Learn

Ther was this kid in Helsinki, always on his computer. Lindus Thornwalds or something. I dont know what became of him, but i saw him on youtube recently svearing, and flipping off both the guy filming him, and also somone called Vidia that was not in the screen (strange names they got in Finland). He clearly never got anywhere due to his obsessive computer use...

Isn't that fision?

On: Two-Laser Boron Fusion Lights the Way To Radiation-Free Energy

When Boron releases a helium nuclei, isnt it fision then?

A phone for a 4 year old:

On: Ask Slashdot: Suitable Phone For a 4-Year Old?

http://www.datamath.org/Speech/MyOwnPlayphone.htm

Where are the smarties tubes?

On: Cat-like Robot Runs Like the Wind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9tWYaujtD4

what we see and, what there is...

On: Our Solar System: Rare Species In Cosmic Zoo

As far as i know, the closer a planet is to its sun, the greater the signal footprint we get. So it cant be a big suprise that we havnt found so many minor planets like earth, when we also know that bigger and closer-orbiting planets exists.

Best way to roast a bird.

On: Ask Slashdot: Geekiest Way To Cook a Turkey?

In a proton beam at LHC

one week too early

On: Red Wine and the Secret of Superconductivity

This wasnt supposed to be public before next saturday...

Re:IKEA Forms Nuclear Fuel Bank

On: IAEA Forms Nuclear Fuel Bank

Aye, I did that too.
Now, where did i put my glasses?

HD and quality

On: Video Quality Matters Less If You Enjoy the Show

There has been much crap on TV lately.
Guess that explains why we had to switch to HD.

Re:They died in the great flood

On: Alberta Scientists Discover Largest-Ever Cache of Dinosaur Bones

Yeah! Intelligent Flooding.

Mysterious Transmission Halted

On: Mysterious Radio Station UVB-76 Goes Offline

It is obviously the Dharma Initiative, that is running out of funds.