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  1. Re:novel animations on Facebook To Shred 'Paper' News-Reading App On July 29th (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the kind of shallow pointless shit that hipsters love.

  2. Re: Secret government proceedings? on C-SPAN Uses Periscope and Facebook Live To Broadcast The House Sit-In (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If you were to take a balanced sample of people across the world throughout history you'd conclude that nobody has any rights, or as close as makes any difference.

    It's a fallacy, an argument from authority squared.

  3. Re:Switching positions twice on Scientists Say The Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs Almost Wiped Us Out Too (theweek.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Am I the only one who's noticed that these mass extinctions tend to occur around changeovers from one geological period to the next?

    I think a little extra caution is warranted around those times.

  4. Re:90% of dinosaurs survived? on Scientists Say The Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs Almost Wiped Us Out Too (theweek.com) · · Score: 0

    You are so exponentially wrong that it literally makes my blood boil.

  5. Re:And this is why... on Europe's Robots To Become 'Electronic Persons' Under Draft Plan (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Bullshit? http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUr...

    It's certainly truer than this: https://slashdot.org/comments....

  6. Re:we're all government's bitches on DoNotPay Bot Has Beaten 160,000 Traffic Tickets -- and Counting (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    nowhere was a pedestrian as safe as they were in France.

    Fucking hell, you must have lived in some dangerous places!

  7. But you still have to file, even under first-to-invent.

    It just means that evidence that you were working on it at a certain date is taken into account and that might trump the guy who got to the office first.

  8. Re:Seems this topic is stuck in the roundabout. on The Moral Dilemma of Driverless Cars: Save The Driver or Save The Crowd? · · Score: 1

    But with an AI driven car you could make those decisions in advance. In fact it would be one of the things you'd have to do when designing the software.

  9. Re:Fighters becoming an anachronism, like horse ca on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    They don't work all that well (try heading home without GPS......good luck)

    Rubbish again. Inertial navigation and terrain matching are more than good enough to get you home.

  10. Re:Fighters becoming an anachronism, like horse ca on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Did I say those were the only possible options for a combat drone? It could be anything you want.

    I expect that kind of stupidity from the other guy, but you usually have a bit more sense.

  11. Re:risk assessment on Microsoft To Make Saying No To Windows 10 Update Easier (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I am sure legal risk assessment was done before their sordid attempts to force themsel... win10 on all existing windows installations

    If an assessment was done, they ignored it.

  12. Re:Fighters becoming an anachronism, like horse ca on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Bollocks. Even some hobby drones can be set that if they lose comms for X amount of time they revert to some other behaviour - circle, hover, land, head for home...

  13. SF made me reigistar on Airbnb Has Sued Its Hometown Of San Francisco (cnn.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    SF made me reigistar to get a frosty piss!

  14. Re: Federal Law my ass on Invoking Orlando, Senate Republicans Set Up Vote To Expand FBI Spying (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    involving the summary execution of the one issuing the order in the most extreme of cases as in ordering their troops to fire on US citizens.

    Then their marksmanship is appalling if Kent State is anything to go by.

  15. Re:Complete B.S. on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If this was in a simulator, the AI must have been given access to all of the flight data with perfect precision.

    On what grounds? It'd be trivial to add random or systematic errors to data, or cause certain sensors to appear mute. I played some old military sims that had an option for "fog of war".

    AI can't do shit against a enemy that can radar jam its senses. It would be blind as a bat.

    As would a manned aircraft in a BVR engagement.

    If you can actually see the target with the old Mk1s you're probably doing it wrong.

  16. Re:Why are we still using Human Pilots? on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    we'd be fighting our strife for superiority on the soccer field.

    God, I hope not.

      Signed,
        Roy Hodgson.

  17. Re:Unsurprising on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    He thinks it's still 1940. Like half of the British electorate.

  18. Re: Unsurprising on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I'm not able to walk because my grandfather was made to walk in WW1 and died doing it. I can walk because I have legs.

    You're able to walk because your great-times-n grandfather did something dangerous, namely coming down from the trees.

    Maybe n isn't so large, given this gem.

    Knowledge can't be passed down between generations, it's inherited.

  19. Re: Unsurprising on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    The simple fact is that image and pattern recognition on radar and camera's are not good enough in real time for an AI pilot to work with.

    Are you suggesting that they point a camer at the HUD?

    The data's already in digital form. Instead of feeding it to a display panel feed it straight to the AI. Controls are fly-by-wire anyway, so why pass it through an expensive and delicate carbon unit?

  20. Re:Not in the UK on Vacationing Security Researcher Exposes Austrian ATM Skimmer (carbonblack.com) · · Score: 1

    They won't do it for the pay offered.

  21. Re:Meaningless on High IQ Countries Have Less Software Piracy, Research Finds (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    There are other tests that take into account other things important to intelligence like the ability to communicate with others (a high IQ isn't useful if one can't understand a problem to be solved) etc.

    And swimming. Because a high IQ isn't useful if you drown. Oh, and fencing. A high IQ isn't useful if someone kills you with a sword.

  22. Re:Aern't most of China's chips based on the Alpha on China Builds World's Fastest Supercomputer Without U.S. Chips (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Quantity has a quality all its own.

    The Soviets produced about 80,000 T34s in WW2.

    The Germans produced 1,300 Tigers.

    If they all met in one big battle of doom, the Germans would have to achieve a kill (not hit) ratio of well over 50% or they'd run out of ammo before the Russians ran out of tanks.

  23. The British one from about 1980, with the bald guy? I loved that!

    Or did I?

  24. Re:Statistics on Wisconsin's Prison-Sentencing Algorithm Challenged in Court (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought it was only married men that live shorter lives.

    Because they want to.

  25. Obama should ask for pardon. on President Obama Should Pardon Edward Snowden Before Leaving Office (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Obama should ask for pardon from the people of Europe. I reckon his pushing for remain caused a fair number people to vote the the other way. Because if there's one thing Brits absolutely love, it's being pushed around by foreigners, which, duh, was the whole fucking point of the question.

    Really, if I was some head of state, I'd be like "That's a matter for the people of X". At the very strongest, if pushed, I'd say "Well, personally, I'd prefer..." or "If I was one of them, I'd probably choose...". I wouldn't make threats.