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  1. Re:Talk to Selena on China Launches Satellite To Explore Dark Side of Moon (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    As for the far side of the moon (because the moon is tidally locked to our planet and only shows us one side ever)

    You're the kind of person who, whenever dinosaurs are mentioned, says they aren't extinct because you saw two in a tree this morning.

    In other words, a fucking grade-A class-1 shitcock assburger.

  2. Re:"DARK SIDE OF THE MOON" on China Launches Satellite To Explore Dark Side of Moon (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Like darkest Peru, where Paddington Bear comes from.

  3. Haithangyow! on MoviePass' Days Look Limited (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's because none of us can see what their path to monetizing this was/is.

    Including, apparently, their own management.

  4. Re:Run, Tesla. Run! on Tesla Unveils Dual Motor and Performance Specs For Model 3 · · Score: 1

    Tedious obsessives like you.

  5. I for one ... on Scientists Transfer Memory Between Snails (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    I for one welcome our new gastropod overlords.

  6. Re:So does this make a bubble sort racist? on New Toronto Declaration Calls On Algorithms To Respect Human Rights · · Score: 0

    At one end you have very computing-centric issues like "how confident does this automated turret need to be about the identity of its target before opening fire?"

    Depends. Is it the version for exporting to Israel?

  7. Re:Metric Handicaps on New Toronto Declaration Calls On Algorithms To Respect Human Rights · · Score: 2

    Some companies e.g. Google say that when they decide who to promote, the person with authority who makes the decision doesn't see information about a candidate's protected statuses

    For that to work the person making the decision would need to never have seen the candidates, let alone interacted with them in a working situation. In other words, the decision would be based on nothing at all.

    It makes as much sense as insisting that a coach picks a team from people he's never watched playing.

    You might as well draw straws.

    However if it's Google there's no such thing as "too stupid to be true".

  8. Re:Summary is wrong... on New Toronto Declaration Calls On Algorithms To Respect Human Rights · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It isn't, he's spouting shit as usual.

    Of course the primary motivation behind the declaration - and the SJWs' support for it - is fear that algorithms might come up with results that some people don't like.

  9. This is a worng speling itt is nott undelrined on Scottish Students Used Spellchecker Glitch To Cheat In Literacy Test (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The best strategy would be to NOT put the sentence in a to begin with.

    I figured there must be some trick like that. The subject field, here on our beloved slashdot, is not checked - try it.

    For me anyway - Firefox on Linux.

  10. Re: so how do you prevent from scanning your plat on Repo Men Scan Billions of License Plates -- For the Government (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Good luck with that. When you're done, try getting the carbon units to follow the Decalogue.

  11. Re:Some context on People Hate Canada's New 'Amber Alert' System (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    "Western countries" like UK and Australia do not have a large amount of African or South American populations.

    Australians are descended from convicts, though. It's why they're good at rugby - running with an iron ball chained to your leg builds the strength for breaking tackles.

  12. Re:Some context on People Hate Canada's New 'Amber Alert' System (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    In my home country of Denmark you can't go 870 miles in any direction from any point in the country without ending up in another country altogether.

    I don't think it would help much if Germany gave back the bit they stole.

    P.S. For Luxembourg, that'd be more like 870 metres.

  13. You read too much shitty sci-fi.

    That's because 90% of sci-fi is shitty.

  14. Re:People would "lawbreak" their robots, ai's, etc on Ask Slashdot: Could Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics Ensure Safe AI? (wikipedia.org) · · Score: 1

    There was no way to remove a law without damaging a robot to the point of inoperability.

    #TODO: systemd quip here.

  15. a ready guide in some celestial voice on Ask Slashdot: Could Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics Ensure Safe AI? (wikipedia.org) · · Score: 1

    And no deliberately selecting targets when an accident is unavoidable.

    Even if it decides to do nothing, that still amounts to hitting the default target.

    To put it another way: it can swerve left and hit this, swerve right and hit that, or not swerve at all and hit something else. Whichever it does is still a choice.

  16. Re:so how do you prevent from scanning your plate on Repo Men Scan Billions of License Plates -- For the Government (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Well perhaps except in police state the UK that is...

    Yeah, with their compulsory ID cards. None of that in France, Germany, Belgium...

    Oh wait. It's the other way round, and you're a fat moron.

  17. Re:because this could never go wrong. :p on Anti-GMO Activists Slow Scientists Breeding a CO2-Reducing Superplant (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 2

    Unless the bastards are made of asbestos, I think there's a pretty simple countermeasure.

  18. In any case, this doesn't mean analog radio will be depreciated

    Straight line or declining balance?

  19. Re:Not going to happen any time soon. on FM Radio Faces UK Government Switch-Off As Digital Listening Passes 50 Percent Milestone (inews.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    When UK TV was switched from analogue to digital, the government first made sure that simple, cheap STBs were available

    *froth* why not leave it to the market *froth froth* nanny-state *froth* death panels *froth*

    (cayenne8 & SuperKendall are on holiday).

  20. Galt's Gulch became Ayn's Atoll.

  21. Re:Feminism at work on US Births Dip To 30-Year Low (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I suspect you don't quite understand how religions work.

  22. Re: Feminism at work on US Births Dip To 30-Year Low (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes, definitely millions of violent, religious, uneducated invaders is exactly what we need to solve all our problems!

    When you quote something you should cite the source.
    --
    Powhatan, near modern-day Richmond, 1607.

  23. Re:Feminism at work on US Births Dip To 30-Year Low (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Quebec sounds like my kind of place -- a province of freethinkers.

    You mispelled "French assholes".

  24. Re:Feminism at work on US Births Dip To 30-Year Low (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    *to* dumb to parent, *to* dumb to breed.

    Sow cut you're bawls of, write know.

  25. Complex issue on US Births Dip To 30-Year Low (npr.org) · · Score: 0

    It's a complex issue. There's a TED talk here that explains it pretty well.

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