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  1. Re:if you drink, don't drive on Minnesota Supreme Court Rejects DUI Challenges Based On Buggy Software · · Score: 1

    If the other guy who claimed this one is to be believed it's because he remembers it locally reported (and everyone reprinting is behind a paywall) and a DUI lawyer said so. Solid evidence in short.

  2. Re:System is broken. on High-Frequency Traders Are the Ultimate Hackers, Says Mark Cuban · · Score: 1

    If you have a contract with party A and party A sells it to party B then your contract to pay party A has changed in a contract to pay party B. Not only does that mean that you have every right to request proof that party B really is the party you owe, the mere possibility (particularly considering how common it was/is) means that you have every right to request proof that party A has not done so in case there's a dispute.

  3. Re:System is broken. on High-Frequency Traders Are the Ultimate Hackers, Says Mark Cuban · · Score: 1

    If the lenders could not sell loans you'd have a point. They can, so the contract might not be what it was.

  4. Re:Is it illegal? on High-Frequency Traders Are the Ultimate Hackers, Says Mark Cuban · · Score: 1

    Quite clearly king's unilaterally making shit happen doesn't count as regulation and purchasing power per unit of currenc trumps every other measure of efficiency.

  5. Re:Is it illegal? on High-Frequency Traders Are the Ultimate Hackers, Says Mark Cuban · · Score: 1

    Capitalism is the investment of capital for the purposes of profit. Cut the situational re-definitions.

  6. Re:It's also highly questionable on High-Frequency Traders Are the Ultimate Hackers, Says Mark Cuban · · Score: 1

    If the seller is anyone but a bot they don't care about a milisecond difference. How is a market more efficient due to a small amount being brute forced (spamming orders to find the lowest price) to a third party? Without the bot all of the difference remains in the "long" term market, with the bot some of the difference is in the absurdly short term market.

  7. Re:Uh.... what? on Chatbot Eugene Wins Biggest Turing Test Ever · · Score: 1

    What does that even mean?

    Just wanted to ask you - what do you know about Ukraine? It's my native country!

  8. Re:Best way to defeat a turing test on Chatbot Eugene Wins Biggest Turing Test Ever · · Score: 1

    Why bother with repetition, just stick a simple question at a the end of something, anything, else and watch it latch onto it and ignore everything else.

  9. Re:Best way to defeat a turing test on Chatbot Eugene Wins Biggest Turing Test Ever · · Score: 1

    It's precisely the bots inability to recognize that the conversation isn't one that makes them easiest to spot. If your test attempts to handicap the judges, then what is the point?

  10. Re:What? on Chatbot Eugene Wins Biggest Turing Test Ever · · Score: 1

    In short Eugene is following the age old advice of letting your conversation partner talk (i.e. ask a lot of leading questions). My hypothesis is that the people who thought Eugene is human like to talk about themselves a lot and don't listen much.

  11. Re:Serious question: on ADA May Force Netflix To Provide Closed Captioning On Content · · Score: 1

    Wheelchair parts almost certainly overlap with bicycle parts. In-line skate wheels definitely are used. The more you know.

  12. Re:Artificial organ scarcity on Transplant Surgeon Called Dibs On Steve Jobs' Home · · Score: 2

    First, what if you're wrong? Nobody gets your heart, nobody is saved.

    I wouldn't be the one who's wrong then, as I don't claim that a financially motivated system would increase the pool. My heart doesn't matter if the pools bigger and you say it is. It's really simple, you want the system to be a financially regulated market, that's me voting by not selling my product to the highest bidder. If you are going to harvest my organs (which I don't have a problem with per se) then they go to the person with 20 years of life expectancy, first, because it's comparatively wasted if it goes to the one with 2 first.

    Then what happens when there are two people waiting; a rich guy and a poor guy. Two people die today -- you and someone else. The other dead guy donated his heart, the rich guy gets it. You didn't donate your heart, the poor guy doesn't get one.

    Than that's a consequence of people (i.e. me)making a personal choice in the system you advocate. What happens if now if the rich guy with a good prognosis gets my heart and the poor guy dies? Exactly what I'd want to happen. It's not about rich or poor, not to me.

    And you'll be dead when it happens, so why do you care?

    If you advocate universal organ donations I'll back you up, if you are going to do personal appeals then go get the people who are currently not opted in to sign up as you are wasting your breath the situation being as it currently is by appealing to what I should or shouldn't do in a hypothetical.

  13. Re:Artificial organ scarcity on Transplant Surgeon Called Dibs On Steve Jobs' Home · · Score: 2

    Let's put it this way, if my organs aren't prioritized towards people who they'll help the most I'm opting out. In fact, I'd consider opting out of a system that only further increases costs and would never actually benefit me (that is, I'm dead one way and can't afford a transplant even the other).

  14. Re:This is why there should be a market for organs on Transplant Surgeon Called Dibs On Steve Jobs' Home · · Score: 1

    No, the logical result is killing people to harvest organs.

  15. Re:Artificial organ scarcity on Transplant Surgeon Called Dibs On Steve Jobs' Home · · Score: 1

    As opposed to a list that takes prognosis into account.

  16. Re:No sense of feel, like the Intellivision II on Nintendo's Big-Screen 3DS XL Meets Lukewarm Reception · · Score: 1

    If thw Wii shop is any indication the single most important things is to have oodles of fans, e.g. World of Goo, Cave Story.

  17. Re:Summing Up The 3DS on Nintendo's Big-Screen 3DS XL Meets Lukewarm Reception · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I don't think they as much jumped on the bandwagon as tried to steer it in a better direction. Sony will sell you an expensive new TV with the same old shutter glasses that didn't work last time, that's jumping on the bandwagon. Nintendo actually managed to make the 3D part nice, which is not something I can say about any other mass marked 3D tech, however I agree that it was unwise to let it come at the cost of battery life. Maybe next time Nintendo, for now I have Skywards Sword and more games then I could possibly go through on the DS.

  18. Re:Easy Fix on Fires Sparked By Utah Target Shooters Prompt Evacuations · · Score: 1

    Clearly banning fireworks makes wildfires worse (by the logic exhibited around here), so why aren't they being legalized just like guns so that the reasonable people setting fireworks off in dry grass can safely call 911?

  19. Re:Has nothing to do with "trumping" anything on Fires Sparked By Utah Target Shooters Prompt Evacuations · · Score: 1

    Of course you can, the lottery winner will be someone who had a lottery ticket, the next fire caused by shooting will be someone shooting when they shouldn't have been. If your gun is going off in a dangerously dry environment by accident you should switch on the safety or unload the gun.

  20. Re:The causal mistake on Biotech Report Says IP Spurs Innovation · · Score: 1

    The biotech industry confirms that the biotech industry currently engages in best practices as clearly evidenced by growth in growing economies! Stay are best practices tuned for out next segment where Monsanto has a stunning announcement about the ecological impact of Roundup.

  21. Re:Same thing as always on Nvidia Engineer Asks How the Company Can Improve Linux Support · · Score: 1

    How about you at least try to comprehend what I'm saying instead of reading whatever you expected into it? Those drivers are pretty good after 4 years of development by a small team less than familiar with the specs (as in, compared to in-house driver developers who can draw heavily on their and their peers experience. They are up to speed now, but I'd bet their are massively hurting for manpower and testers, take away nvidia desktop drivers and the current 3D desktop users and quite a few developers will flock them, they'll have no choice! Also compare the progress of Linux, the BSDs and HURD. Userbase counts for a lot. Blender developers focusing on AMD along would probably weed out oodles of bugs.

    Short term it will hurt them when the 3D animation houses and supercomputing users have to deal with buggier drivers, and without the huge pool of testing that happens on the desktop they undoubtedly will. Long term, long term they will be even more on their own when it comes to working with Linux/Xorg/Wayland developers, the Radeon drivers (of both kinds) will improve faster, because bug fixes if nothing else and AMD will undoubtedly figure out some way to capitalize on it. I also think you heavily underestimate how much supercomputing user care about being able to fix and adopt things, it's not just the price why Linux would up on all the clusters. Besides, on that end AMD is releasing their OpenCL pipeline, I very much doubt there has to be a high performance 3D driver attached to that to make it a great choice for supercomputing. Just some logic to load it into the GPU, it's not even a graphics card at that point.

  22. Re:he knows on Nvidia Engineer Asks How the Company Can Improve Linux Support · · Score: 1
  23. Re:For fucks sake on Nvidia Engineer Asks How the Company Can Improve Linux Support · · Score: 1

    This is an article asking what more nvidia could possibly do, so...

  24. Re:Same thing as always on Nvidia Engineer Asks How the Company Can Improve Linux Support · · Score: 2

    If nVidia sees no benefit they needn't be doing any of it. Wait, they wouldn't be, their attitude makes it quite clear that they care preciously little for goodwill. Desktop users likely only get support as its a good bugtesting pool for their workstation and supercomputing clients. The only thing they'd accomplish by pulling out is sending developers to the FLOSS Radeon drivers, something that could turn very bad in the long term. So yeah, pull the desktop blob... if you dare.

  25. Re:The very thing that they don't want to do. on Nvidia Engineer Asks How the Company Can Improve Linux Support · · Score: 0

    Did he ask nVidia to tell Nouveau which patents they are violationg?