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  1. Re:Like reusing rockets? on Ford CEO Says the Company 'Overestimated' Self-Driving Cars (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You are creating some sort of a strawman by *demanding* that driver-less cars have a God-like driving AI before they can even be allowed on public roads. Top causes of road incidents are distracted driving and DUI. Just by eliminating drunks and drivers distracted by talking on the mobile or just talking to passengers or reaching for the glove compartment we will eliminate 80% of the accidents. You are also way overestimating driving kill of an average human driver who will have no clue which way to turn the wheel if the car starts to skid on an icy road. The reason modern cars have ABS and all kind of assists is because you average human has no clue how to drive.

  2. Air gap is not a complete security solution. There are must be a way manufacturer setup to update the system and it's only a matter of time until someone plugs an infected media into it.

  3. SO much misinformaton in comments... on Vladimir Putin Wants His Own Internet (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The actual goal of these proposals is to ensure that in the event of conflict traffic originating at point A in Russia can reach Point B, also in Russia. That's what "sovereign" Internet means. Considering Internet is not just for d/l warez and cat pics it's a responsible thing to do for any country.

  4. Re:Most people are lazy on Finland Basic Income Trial Left People 'Happier But Jobless' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The standards for disability payments are ridiculously low now. It used to be you had to be completely paralyzed in at least three limbs to apply for SSI, blindness was NOT a disability. Nowadays it seems like every other person is on it. Some impossible to prove "back pain"? SSI! Fear of leaving the room? SSI! I know a real person legally fighting to get SSI because they believe they are fairy and refuse to do any non-fairy activities. Back when America was GREAT Henry Ford said “Out of 7882 kinds of jobs (at Ford), 4034 did not require full physical capacity I am quite sure that (in the future) there will be no dearth of places in which the physically incapacitated can do a man’s job and get a man’s wage.”
    A blind man at Ford was assigned to the stock department to arrange items for shipping. In two days, the non-disabled men there were reassigned. The blind fellow could do all three jobs. Ford even hired bed-ridden people to do small-scale assembly in their hospital rooms.

    TLDR; Cancel SSI, 97% who are on it are fakers

  5. Re:Wow, well I'm shocked! on Finland Basic Income Trial Left People 'Happier But Jobless' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you watched the BBC video? That 30 y/o woman looking perfectly fit and healthy only working 4 month of her adult life? And the social butterfly journalist even worse. I was disgusted. But, wow, so happy she is happy now. But you know who is UNHAPPY? People who were robbed of their hard earned salaries in order to fund this insane commie experiment. Free money make your happy, fuck do you need a PhD in social science to arrive at such amazing conclusion?

  6. Re:Maybe black people should stop robbing on Amazon's Home Security Company Is Turning Everyone Into Cops (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's a gross oversimplification. First, nobody keeps black people in the US in poverty, secondly Youtube is full of channels of new immigrants who came to the US from the worst shit countries with 500 bucks and no education, a much worse start than being born in the worst US ghetto. One guy from Uzbekistan with no education won the diversity green card lottery, came to NYC with no money, on the third day he was already working a construction job, a year later he brought in his wife and little daughter and they are living in an OK neighborhood and paying off a new family car. As the guy below said, the problem is poor cultural attitude towards hard work and education.

  7. Re:Capsule Explanation of the Issue on 'The World Might Actually Run Out of People' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The linked article reads like classic conspiracy trope bs.
    Scientists are incompetent/lying->concerned amateur becomes suspicious->finds one/small group of suppressed scientists who know THE TRUTH (bit noone listens)->amateur goes on a crusade to spread THE TRUTH

    Unless you really think academic researchers get their "vertical knowledge" from movies and pop culture references.

  8. America is not over-policed. America is a brutal police state and a police state must terrorize and intimidate citizens, making them feel confused and helpless, making them feel they can be arrested anywhere for any reason.

  9. Re:Wow, great jobs on Americans Are Lining Up To Work For Amazon For $15 an Hour (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    People get a job at Amazon warehouses because someone they know is already working there and recommends it. Actual Amazon workers say they never heard of the practices described in the press. The click-bait press grabbed onto half-rumors half isolated incidents and made a story out of it.

  10. Nothing special, just Capitalism on Google Memo On Cost Cuts Sparks Heated Debate Inside Company (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    According to Marx under normal circumstances capitalists will only pay workers enough to ensure bare survival and reproduction of labor. Which used to mean some rags to cover yourself and a corner in a workers dorm.

  11. Re:Oh thank god on Linux Community To Adopt New Code of Conduct (kernel.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well how many? And how many bullshit ideas were accepted because criticizing == triggering or worse denying "lived-in experience"?

  12. Yeah, having midlife crisis in your teens sucks. Well, at least they made so me people happy for a little while. They could have been writing meaningless soul crushing enterprise back-ends for 30 years.

  13. Re:Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You are confusing Islam with artefacts of tribal hounor culture. You can easily find equallu horrific crimes commited by mobs of Christians in less developed African countries.

  14. Re:The Nobel Prize Committee blew it on No Nobel For Nick Holonyak Jr, Father of the LED · · Score: 1

    Well.. In his will Nobel did specify that the prizes should be warded for the discoveries that provided "greatest benefits to the mankind".

  15. Re:Argument from authority to counter an ad hom. on Carl Sagan, as "Mr. X," Extolled Benefits of Marijuana · · Score: 1

    In your opinion for how do you need to smoke to notice the described effect. I used to smoke maybe 2 times a month max and did not notice any positive effect(((

  16. Re:I wonder how can they shoot their weapons on ISIS Bans Math and Social Studies For Children · · Score: 1

    By pointing them in the general direction of the enemy? ;)

  17. Re:Why math? on ISIS Bans Math and Social Studies For Children · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and how are they gonna study physics and chemistry (which is allowed according to the summary) w/o math?

  18. Re:Anti-math and anti-science ... on ISIS Bans Math and Social Studies For Children · · Score: 1

    Straw man. Most islamic/muslim majority states are not 'fundamentalist'. Even in Iran elements of secular state and democracy coexist with Sharia law and religious authority, similarly in Iran studying math and science is encouraged month both genders. I anything Islamic fundamentalist states and quasi-state entities are in the extreme minority pointing to Islam's ability to adopt to the modern world.

  19. Re:The obvious question on Jolla Announces Sailfish OS 1.0 · · Score: 0

    Excessive choices often indicates laziness and failure to come up with reasonable defaults rather then a burning desire for freedom.

  20. Re:Dead end on Plan 9 From Bell Labs Operating System Now Available Under GPLv2 · · Score: 1

    Agreed, Linux needs more CORBA.

  21. Re:Dead end on Plan 9 From Bell Labs Operating System Now Available Under GPLv2 · · Score: 1

    Systemd is the last nail in the coffin for Linux, I'm switching to *BSD> The problem with Linux I think is that unlike the BSDs it never head any real UNIX roots. It started from scratch as a UNIX-like hack in Linuse's basement, stuck with following UNIX for awhile and now it's just becoming Windows-like.

  22. Re:Thank You Slashdot on Debian Technical Committee Votes For Systemd Over Upstart · · Score: 1

    Yes this. I sincerely wish a slow and painful death on anyone participating in the amateurish campaign to hijack threads with irrelevant beta hate posts. Die fuckers. P.S. 10+ years Slashdot poster

  23. Re:GPL and BSD give uses the same freedoms on FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback' · · Score: 1

    You idea if a "market success" is to sell me a binary without source. So I will be stuck depending on your crappy expensive support and early upgrade cycle (if I want any bugs fixed, as you will surely roll bug fixes into commercial upgrades). This is a problem I have, as a user, with non GPL code.

  24. Re:ballsy move on Brazil Announces Plans To Move Away From US-Centric Internet · · Score: 1

    forced femenization on government level, just wow.

  25. Re:Race to the Bottom on The Sharing Economy Fights Back Against Regulators · · Score: 1

    Hasn't this been debunked repeatedly. High-tax social welfare are among the most unhappy both subjectively and by suicide rates and people in places like Bangladesh rate among the happiest?