User: fredrated

Re:Wanna become Royals?

On: Facebook Filed a Patent To Predict Your Household's Demographics Based On Family Photos (buzzfeednews.com)

I hear Trump is going to put up a picture of God as a family photo.

Re:Contamination

On: Tantalizing But Preliminary Evidence of a 'Brain Microbiome' (sciencemag.org)

When Jonny was asked to form a sentence using the word dictate: "My girlfriend say, my dic tate good".

So when I call you a shit head

On: Tantalizing But Preliminary Evidence of a 'Brain Microbiome' (sciencemag.org)

I'm being accurate?

To bad this kind of money and effort

On: The British Army is Carrying Out a Massive Test of Military Robots and Drones (technologyreview.com)

isn't spent fighting the coming war on global warming. But it won't be, and we will lose.

What else is new?

On: The World is Running Out of Sand, and People Are Dying as a Result (medium.com)

We are sucking everything of any value out of our planet, soon only a lifeless husk will remain.

With a shit-eating title like this

On: How Nature Defies Math in Keeping Ecosystems Stable (quantamagazine.org)

I won't even read the summary

And we will all start

On: Dyson May Make Wearable Air Purifiers That Double as Headphones, Says Report (cnet.com)

breathing out of our ears?

Re:They'll stuff Attenborough and still use him

On: David Attenborough To Present Netflix Nature Series 'Our Planet' (theguardian.com)

They probably already have an AI-driven model all ready to step in when he dies. Assuming he hasn't already died and been replaced by software.

Thank God

On: David Attenborough To Present Netflix Nature Series 'Our Planet' (theguardian.com)

We at least get to see our planet in detail just before we lose it.

Why not call it "Winux"

On: WLinux, the First Paid-for Linux Distro for Windows 10, Goes On Sale on Microsoft Store (techrepublic.com)

At least that's pronounceable.

Re:Finally, a comment on AI that I can support

On: Opinion: Artificial Intelligence Hits the Barrier of Meaning (nytimes.com)

For example: there are two stable isotopes of lithium. Chemically they are identical, but they do not have the same effect on the brain.

That's a pretty radical assertion, I would sure like to see a reference. I'm googleing lithium isotopes and mental illness, but so far nothing.

News flash:

On: Ask Slashdot: Do Older IT Workers Doing End-User Support Find It Gets Harder With Age?

everything is harder when you get old, except where it counts.

Re:Headline:

On: Mario Segale, Namesake For Nintendo's Mascot, Dies At 84 (arstechnica.com)

You're mean.

Position the trains arrival

On: Making Trains Run on Time (economist.com)

so that the internally crowded doors open on the sparsely populated part of the platform. Then you don't have to direct the platform passengers so much.

It's named GRAVITY?

On: About That Monstrous Black Hole We're All Orbiting (theatlantic.com)

What an amazing coincidence! I bet that doesn't happen often!

Wow.

On: Scientists Warn That World's Wilderness Areas Are Disappearing (nytimes.com)

We have now almost completely consumed the systems that give us life.

Re:But...

On: 190 Universities Launch 600 Free Online Courses

3 grams?

But we don't know

On: Microplastics Found In Human Stools For the First Time (nytimes.com)

how much plastic there was in people's stool before the industrial revolution!

$50,000 in Silicon Valley?

On: Coinbase Lets You Buy and Sell USDC Stablecoin (techcrunch.com)

That isn't even poverty level.

Re:This is getting ridiculous

On: 'Hyperalarming' Study Shows Massive Insect Loss (washingtonpost.com)

Their not blaming every stupid thing on climate change asshole, their blaming changes to the environment on climate change! Get it? The environment is dominated by the climate, so climate change effects just about everything in the environment. Duh!

Blood money.

On: Silicon Valley's Saudi Arabia Problem (nytimes.com)

The kind that financed 9/11.

Re:uber is all most Enslavement with others left h

On: Are Universal Basic Incomes 'A Tool For Our Further Enslavement'? (medium.com)

Ironic. California indian's are reported to have spent 4 hours a day meeting their needs, and in a virtual paradise.

Re:Psst.. hey bud, wanna buy some pills?

On: Amazon Patents New Alexa Feature That Knows When You're ill and Offers To Sell You Medicine (telegraph.co.uk)

Mod this guy up!

Respond for me?

On: Android Creator Is Building an AI Phone That Texts People for You, Report Says (bloomberg.com)

Gag me with a bar of soap.

The cows

On: HP Unveils Spectre Folio, a Convertible Laptop 'Made of Leather' (techcrunch.com)

are going to love this.