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  1. Re:Maybe this is a good thing? on WSJ Columnist: Robots Aren't Destroying Enough Jobs (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 2

    Tell me, what purpose did dinosaurs and passenger pigeons have?

  2. #Badda Badda BADDA badda# on Why Amanda Palmer Left the Music 'Industry' For Crowdfunding (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    "If, as an artist, you ever listen to your fans' demands, and their demands are always insisting you make the last thing they liked again, you would go nowhere."

    Hey, it worked for Status Quo.

  3. Re:Yeah... on WSJ Columnist: Robots Aren't Destroying Enough Jobs (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But who writes those news articles?

    An infinite stack of turtles, perhaps.

  4. Re:Maybe this is a good thing? on WSJ Columnist: Robots Aren't Destroying Enough Jobs (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 2

    What's different this time? Before, there were always empty niches because nothing out-humaned humans, at least not at everything. The AI you proposed would by definition do precisely that.

    And you, of course *do* have a crystal ball? Until such time as you do, shove your scare quotes up your arse.

  5. Re:Will they have doomsday clock? on Nuclear Experts Form International 'Nuclear Crisis Group' (teenvogue.com) · · Score: 2

    There's no such thing as an animated jpg, right? And yet if I stare at it long enough, it starts to move.

  6. Re:Will they have doomsday clock? on Nuclear Experts Form International 'Nuclear Crisis Group' (teenvogue.com) · · Score: 1

    If they've just formed how can they be the same as a bunch that have been around since the cold war, and why do they have a different name?

  7. First poett on EFF Warns Most Of Intel's Chipsets Contain 'A Security Hazard' (eff.org) · · Score: -1, Troll

    having them lurking in a highly privileged, low-level component with no OS visibility or reliable logging is a nightmare for defensive cybersecurity

    Don't worry, Lennart promised us there's no backdoors or bugs in it.

  8. Re:I heard his next project is: on Developer Creates An Experimental Perl 5 To Java Compiler (perl.org) · · Score: 2

    You can get mainframe emulators (the best known is called Hercules) that will run JCL, if you're bonkers enough to want to.

  9. Re:Maybe this is a good thing? on WSJ Columnist: Robots Aren't Destroying Enough Jobs (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 2

    364 days on the trot the turkeys saw the farmer coming, and when he arrived he fed them.

  10. If wages outpace inflation

    They must have done over quite a long period, or wouldn't we all be living in mud huts and eating dirt?

    Or is it perhaps the case that comparisons on such timescales are meaningless? It's just that some people keep saying this graph is wrong, because poor people now have mp3 players and they didn't in 1947.

  11. Re:Maybe this is a good thing? on WSJ Columnist: Robots Aren't Destroying Enough Jobs (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 2

    The real reason is that they think somebody they don't like might be getting something they haven't "earned" or don't "deserve".

  12. Re:They need a decent marketing dept... on Open Source SQL Database CockroachDB Hits 1.0 (infoworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Yorkshireman here, fuck off and stop talking shite.

  13. Will they have doomsday clock? on Nuclear Experts Form International 'Nuclear Crisis Group' (teenvogue.com) · · Score: 1

    Will they have doomsday clock like the other bunch?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  14. Re:Watch all the Freedom-loving Brexiters dance! on British PM Candidate Promises Social Media Crackdown (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    She was so lukewarm that I'd class here as a Brfence-sitter, waiting to see which way the find blew.

  15. Re:Maybe this is a good thing? on WSJ Columnist: Robots Aren't Destroying Enough Jobs (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 2

    Now, I think it would be great if AI replaced all our jobs, and we got a basic income in the six digit figures range

    The first one will never completely happen, though it might get to 80 or 90%.

    The second one won't at all, because OMG commynissum!

  16. Re:Maybe this is a good thing? on WSJ Columnist: Robots Aren't Destroying Enough Jobs (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    Those times there *was* somewhere to go, even if it was only mowing lawns or going to other countries and shooting all the dirty heathen darkies.

    They're already part way to automating those.

  17. Re:They need a decent marketing dept... on Open Source SQL Database CockroachDB Hits 1.0 (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't mean idiot. It's a rather generic insult, which is why it's often clarified by adding an adjective - stupid git, lazy git, fat git ...

  18. You can take the daughter out of the vicarage ... on British PM Candidate Promises Social Media Crackdown (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    You can take the daughter out of the vicarage, but you can't take the vicarage out of the daughter.

    Not that anything will happen. It's just throwing a bone to Daily Mail readers which is pretty pointless as they're all dedicated Tory voters, especially now the BNP has imploded.

  19. Re:Not a PM Candidate on British PM Candidate Promises Social Media Crackdown (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    ... *not* PM.

    Preview schmeview.

  20. Re:Not a PM Candidate on British PM Candidate Promises Social Media Crackdown (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    Does Theresa May aspire to be elected to an office? Yes.

    That office would be the MP for wherever it is, PM.

  21. Re: Freedom, States and Irish passports on British PM Candidate Promises Social Media Crackdown (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    The way things are going you might leave *before* you want.

  22. Re:I'm not sure I like the idea... on Slashdot Asks: Should Businesses Switch To Biometric Passwords? (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    Important thing (bank, production server) use your right thumb. Unimportant thing (crapdot, pinterest) use your left pinky.

  23. Monitoring, monitoring, eggs, beans and monitoring. That hasn't got much monitoring in it.

  24. Re:As the US on French President-Elect Macron Urges Action On Climate Change (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    So how much land (and how many slaves) did these hicks take off George Washington, and to whom did they give them?

  25. Re:As the US on French President-Elect Macron Urges Action On Climate Change (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess you're talking about the coming one. Because the one in 1776 was nothing like what you said.