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  1. Re:With one exception; the goal state on Machine Figures Out Rubik's Cube Without Human Assistance (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    I did wonder how it decided for itself that the completed cube was somehow "better".

  2. None of those points address the fundamental issue: the testimony of police is believed without corroborating evidence.

    This. The defendant shouldn't need to disprove the police's story.

  3. Re:So close... on NASA's Most Experienced Astronaut Retires, Spent 665 Days In Space (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Such vulgar colonial patois would never be tolerated at The Reform Club.

  4. Re: "we" are not on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    You're playing semantics. Is a person's ability at boxing fixed? We know sports people have on days and off days. Is that because the underlying thing itself varies, or because something like a filter is acting on the expression of it?

    It doesn't matter. Even if he was hungover and had flu Anthony Joshua would still smack the shit out of you or me, possibly both at once. But even something more trivial than that - a bad night's sleep - might be enough for him to lose against another actual professional.

    Do you understand statistics at all?

  5. Re:Important note - the opposite of 'Idiocracy' on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    If there's little or no net migration, then aren't you just reshuffling the genes? So over the whole population, in the absence of some selection pressure, I'd expect it to pretty much even out.

  6. Re: The so-called Flynn Effect... on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    This gets my vote for the stupidest comment of the year award.

    Seems reasonable. After all it's bad form to vote for yourself.

  7. Re:The so-called Flynn Effect... on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Mahatir promised to step down next year

    If he doesn't then what? Does he turn into a pumpkin?

    will appoint Anwar's wife as PM

    That sounds almost as democratic as North Korea.

  8. Re:Smart people in Norway avoiding the military? on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    ... when criminals in Norway leave prison, they stay out. It has one of the lowest recidivism rates in the world at 20%.

    That's terrible. How do they stay in business?

  9. Re:The so-called Flynn Effect... on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Why should it 'look anything'?

    So people will buy them, duh.

  10. Re:Probably atmospheric CO2 on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    artificial lighting. It messes on a lot of scales with our bodies, most prominently with our sleep patterns.

    Someone should invent a device for safely & reversibly breaking the conduction path. This would enable the curtailment of said illumination when superfluous to requirements.

  11. Re:IQ does not measure intelligence on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    IQ tests measure education, not intelligence.

    It might appear that way to people who don't have much of either.

  12. Re: Wait, all of us? on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Being smart is just not a requirement for a non-officer.

    Because you just have to obey orders, ja?

  13. Re: Smart people in Norway avoiding the military? on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    If you intentionally score low and end up in a wet trench with a rifle, rather than do well on it and getting a cushy number counting blankets, then you deserve to spend your period of service in a wet trench.

  14. Re:Why not? on Samsung Plans To Use 100% Renewable Energy by 2020 (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    The US fast-neutron breeder reactor project was shutdown by the Clinton administration as a favor to the fossil fuel industry. It was never an issue with technical feasibility or commercial viability.

    If it had been commercially viable it would have produced enough money to outbribe the fossil lobby.

  15. Re:So close... on NASA's Most Experienced Astronaut Retires, Spent 665 Days In Space (upi.com) · · Score: 0

    Did they allow for gaining an extra day if you go round anti-clockwise?

    I saw that in a movie once.

  16. Re:true, but needs focus on users first on Why OpenStreetMap Should Be a Priority for the Open Source Community (linuxjournal.com) · · Score: 1

    Because closed source/proprietary stuff never has shit UIs, does it?

  17. When you were at college did you have a section on the noticeboard for ride shares? "Going to Newcastle. Depart Friday 18:00. Return Sunday p.m. 2 places. Split petrol x ways. Dave Lones, physics III".

    LOL, silly me. You - at college!

    Do you think you can ignore food hygiene regulations by calling your restaurant a meal share and having an app?

  18. Re:Sounds like “hacker vs cracker”, re on 'The Word Hack is Meaningless and Should Be Retired' (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Language is fluid.

    Which is why, in the absence of effort to prevent it, it runs downhill till it reaches a drain.

    I hate the term ''life hack''. I hope it dies in a fire. But I have very little control over whether that excremental little turn of phrase ends up having staying power

    The best you can do is mentally label anyone who uses it as an utter bell-end and move on.

    P.S. Bizarre thing - the double quotes look OK in your post but when I copied them they went all a-hatty. WTF?

  19. Re:I don't care what language you use. on Microsoft Program Manager Mistakenly Tweets Office 365 Will Be Rewritten in JavaScript (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    If you keep things modular, and keep a strict rule of not importing other code beyond the absolutely necessary, its really not hard at all.

    If you're doing those things you probably aren't using JavaScript.

  20. Re:Microsoft is sloppily managed? on Microsoft Program Manager Mistakenly Tweets Office 365 Will Be Rewritten in JavaScript (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    No, are you stupid 24 hours a day?

    I certainly wouldn't tweet about anything work related unless I was explicitly given permission to.

  21. Re:Fuck you for trying to sneak feminism in again on America's Former CTO Remembers Historic Coders (bard.edu) · · Score: 1

    As for who slashdot is for, it says it there right at the top. "News For Nerds".

    Where, exactly?

  22. Sounds like Artificial Islam!

  23. Re: remember on Eric Raymond Shares 'Code Archaeology' Tips, Urges Bug-Hunts in Ancient Code (itprotoday.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    They could have protected and served them by whacking him across the arse with a truncheon, handcuffing him and dumping him in a cell to sleep it off.

    Like they do in civilised countries.

    Drunks are shit fighters, even if they think the opposite. If you can't subdue one without artillery you shouldn't be working as a cop.

  24. Re: Wait, all of us? on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair, I did say "not quite". I'm more correct than the person I was referring to who seemed to assume they ran a volunteer army like the UK or USA.

    I am rather surprised EU human rights law allows such a thing, though.

  25. Re:true, but needs focus on users first on Why OpenStreetMap Should Be a Priority for the Open Source Community (linuxjournal.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That would require employing real UX people

    Isn't that an oxymoron?