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  1. Re: Finally on Why Automation Won't Displace Human Workers (diginomica.com) · · Score: 1

    The current AI 'revolution' isn't going to give us computers with mental capabilities that match most humans.

    It doesn't have to, because you can have more than one AI. One that plays chess better than any human, one that can direct air traffic better than any human, one that can shoot enemies better than any human...

  2. Re:layout == replacement? on A Windows 10 Alternative: Ubuntu-Based Zorin OS Linux Distro (betanews.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You will have to admit though that tablets and smartphones these days feature apps that are easy/intuitive to use and often beat clunky desktop apps with slow development cycles.

    No I won't. Take your fixie and fuck off on it.

  3. Re: Extrapolation? on Why Automation Won't Displace Human Workers (diginomica.com) · · Score: 1

    A study in the UK was done not long ago that proved automation since the Victorian era created more jobs than destroyed - they failed to read your book?

    Or other options took up the slack, i.e. going to brown people's countries and shooting them. But that doesn't prove a causal link.

    Your argument whiffs of post hoc ergo propter hoc to me.

  4. Re: Finally on Why Automation Won't Displace Human Workers (diginomica.com) · · Score: 2

    Learn to punctuate.

  5. Re: Finally on Why Automation Won't Displace Human Workers (diginomica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Fucking rubbish. The UK abolished slavery before you colonials had that nasty North v South spat. Domestic servants only really declined in number when WW1 started.

    That's a half a century after.

  6. A CLI is a still a UI, even if it's not a GUI.

    It will just do what it thinks you want, or what it thinks you *should* want.

  7. Re:I'm al looking to move away from the Mac on Slashdot Asks: Which Windows Laptop Could Replace a MacBook Pro? · · Score: 1

    Oh, and battery life ranges from "Acceptable in a budget machine." to "You're only gonna unplug to move it across the room, right?"

    I still have a rebranded D900T. Even when it was new it wasn't like a battery so much as a built-in UPS.

  8. Are you intending to do actual work on Slashdot Asks: Which Windows Laptop Could Replace a MacBook Pro? · · Score: 1

    Are you intending to do actual work, or are you just going to use it for dicking around?

  9. Re:I'm al looking to move away from the Mac on Slashdot Asks: Which Windows Laptop Could Replace a MacBook Pro? · · Score: 2

    No, it comes with it as standard. You can pay to have it removed.

  10. Re:yes they should on Slashdot Asks: Should The US Abolish The Electoral College? · · Score: 1

    So if you were born into a shit economic environment in a rural state and could never scrape together enough to keep yourself alive and afford to move to a more enlightened urban area, your vote shouldn't matter?

    He didn't say that.

    Why should that person's vote count more than that of someone who was born in the godawful bit of Detroit near the Silverdome that I risked running out of gas on I-75 rather than stop in?

  11. Re:yes they should on Slashdot Asks: Should The US Abolish The Electoral College? · · Score: 1

    So the only people that matter will be the majority of the people?

    Fuck me, how undemocratic! Bring back King George!

  12. a transaction black and white a foreign country?

  13. They should get a medal. on Apple's Chip Choices May Leave Some iPhone Users in Slow Lane (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What incredible courage!

  14. Re: Article is pretty light on details on Stephen Hawking: We Might Have 1,000 Years Left on Earth (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    It's lucky the bastards are so tiny or they'd totally pwn us.

  15. Re:Yet another win for the people with Trump victo on James Clapper, US Director of National Intelligence, Has Resigned (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would anyone put someone they believe to be a felon in a position as an advisor and administrator?

    I ain't giving you a job! You're a not a goddam crook!
    --
      Al Capone

  16. They probably just removed the UI. Or made it so low contrast you can't see it anyway.

  17. Re:Poor Nazis on Twitter Suspends American Far-Right Activists' Accounts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Your attempts, to sound erudite, might succeed better if, you didn't put, a comma, every three words.

  18. Having budget available doesn't mean you have munitions instantly available. There is a lead time to this sort of thing.

    Perhaps The Royal Navy have Amazon Prime?

  19. You can work out what colour it should be, though.

    Light grey, like everything else.

  20. Re:Angular momentum on Pluto's 'Icy Heart' May Have Tilted the Dwarf Planet Over (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I was thinking the same. And movement parallel to the axis doesn't cause them to tip over either, for example when they drop into that crouching spin with one leg out in front.

  21. I have the same same skin colour and genitals as Hitler

    What happened? Did you have an accident, or was it orchitis?

  22. Protip: The Earth is approximately spherical.

  23. Ram 'em and board, mateys.

  24. Re:Steve Bannon, not a racist? on Steve Bannon Suggests Having Too Many Asian Tech CEOs Undermines 'Civic Society' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    What is the difference between a dog and a pig as a source of protein.

    It's inefficient and unhygienic to eat carnivores.

  25. Re:"found that 27 percent of professionals" on Steve Bannon Suggests Having Too Many Asian Tech CEOs Undermines 'Civic Society' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Friendlier than if you mistake them for a Pakistani, that's for sure.