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  1. Do people actually want on Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant Are Coming To Xbox One (windowscentral.com) · · Score: 2

    All these voice command devices? I mean, people buy it, but after the first day of playing with it, do they actually use it?

  2. Or did i just read that they are gonna give a $1000 per month allowance to potential shooters for ammo and body armor? Novel.

  3. Re:And even worse on A Tesla on Autopilot Crashed Into a Parked Police Car (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Field virus scan?

  4. I bet it is actually AI. The car likes to drive fast and knows the cops give out tickets. Therefore, take the cop out before he can ticket you.

  5. Re:Well, there goes the competition... on Vevo To Shut Down Site, Giving In To YouTube Empire (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I guess it's all up to pornhub now...

  6. Schrodinger's Cat on China Launches Satellite To Explore Dark Side of Moon (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Is gonna be pissed off when they get there and it dies from asphyxiation...

  7. I think a better question on Should The Media Cover Tesla Accidents? (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    Should be if the media should cover all the school shootings? The media needs to stop glorifying the shooters and the next shooting may not be so quick. At this point you know there are psychos out there trying to figure out how to get a better score and be more famous/infamous than the last shooter...

  8. Re:It is dangerous to live in that place on Kilauea Volcano Erupts On Hawaii's Big Island (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's dangerous for the people who built their houses on a lava field... Not so dangerous for where most of the people live (for now anyway).

  9. Re:Ridiculous on NASA Will Send Helicopter To Mars To Test Otherworldly Flight (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This one is actually a rotating solar sail design... Why have a stationary sail when it can spin?!?!?!?

  10. Re:The SKY IS FALLING.... on Hacking a Satellite is Surprisingly Easy (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Regardless of if they run win95 (they don't) and anything else said in this article, not like many of these things would be dangerous if deorbited anyway. What % of the sats up there could survive reentry and hit a target? Gonna bet it's near zero.

    Probably are gonna have to start worrying about such things now that launches are getting cheaper and faster cadence. Get some heavy tungsten rods into orbit and you would basically have a weapon in the nuclear class of power without any of the downsides of nuclear. Drop a ton of tungsten from orbit into the middle of a city and see what happens...

  11. Or easy access to knives, cars, rocks, baseball bats, etc, etc, etc.

  12. Well, I eat some pretty hot stuff on Eating World's Hottest Pepper Sparks Brain Disorder, Thunderclap Headaches (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Most days. I have become a big fan of reaper powder sprinkled on stuff. In my experience, the peppers will usually make my headaches (even migraines) go away better than any medicine I've tried, so ymmv...

  13. Re:And go to where, exactly? on Steve Wozniak Drops Facebook: 'The Profits Are All Based On the User's Info' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, something like discord could easily replace what facebook does. Then you just need a web page indexing interesting discord rooms. Sure, not quite as clean as what facebook does, but much preferable to wholesale info rapage. Of course, the data scrapers would then just scrape the discord rooms and the like.

    Probably no way to have open conversations that won't get mined at this point. But life is all about the ratio of convenience vs security. Credit cards are convenient, but not as safe as cash.

  14. As someone who doesn't use facebook on Steve Wozniak Drops Facebook: 'The Profits Are All Based On the User's Info' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What I'd really like to know is how much of the ghost profile they have built on me was made available through these wonderful API's? I would hope they mostly use that internally, but really what is the hope that's true?

  15. Re:Vigilante ? More like the NSA. on 'Vigilante Hackers' Strike Routers In Russia and Iran, Reports Motherboard (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Hope these script kiddies have somebody to taste their food and open their mail for them. Assuming anything of worth was actually touched. If not, meh....

  16. Re:Bootcamp compatibility? on No More Intel Inside, Apple Plans To Use Its Own Custom-Built Chips in Mac (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Don't forget MS is launching full(ish) windows for ARM now... So as long as apple keeps their flavor of ARM compatible with what MS is targeting, dual booting will or at least may work.

  17. Sounds like Trump has figured out how to stop the sea level rise then. Explosives to open the rift to the sea and all that extra water from the glaciers makes a nice new sea.

  18. If we can't terraform earth, on Can Problems From Climate Change Be Addressed With Science? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    How can we even talk about doing it on mars? Might as well get earth back firmly in the perfect zone to lock down the tech for playing with other planets. Good ol foundational tech.

  19. Sick some neural nets on it on MIT Plans To Build Nuclear Fusion Plant By 2033 · · Score: 1

    Seems that fusion reactor design is a big complex task that these 'AI' neural nets could crunch away on til they figure out a really complex optimum design. Think what kind of crazy stellarator design skynet could think up... Might be too hard to actually construct, but I bet it works on paper (RAM?), lol.

  20. Re:Who's space station is it actually? on The Trump Administration is Moving To Privatize the International Space Station: Report (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, the Karman Line is at 62 miles, and after that you are considered to be in space. The ISS is at ~254 miles, so it is in space.

    Nonetheless, the proposed deep space gateway they want to build is a much better place to spend the money.

  21. Re:What kind of nonsense is this? on NIH Study Links Cellphone Radiation To Cancer In Male Rats (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I like my rats well done, need to up it to 20 W/kg!

  22. Re:Defense: it was drunk on Tesla Model S Plows Into a Fire Truck While Using Autopilot (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, sounds like it mostly did what it was supposed to do unless he was the one braking. If the impact has been at 65, there would be pieces of that car a quarter mile past the impact and not much left that looked like a car probably.

  23. Re:They used to teach this in school on Efforts Grow To Help Students Evaluate What They See Online (apnews.com) · · Score: 2

    This. If they hadn't watered down education in general then this wouldn't be an issue. All it takes is critical thinking and reading a handful of 'news' articles on some subject. Pretty pitiful that you need to read the same story 5+ times before you can begin to form a picture of what's actually happening, but that's where we are.

    Bottom line is fake news isn't fake news, it's propaganda, and people should be able to spot that. Everyone has access to the whole of human knowledge at their fingertips and are too stupid to use it well.

  24. This! And everyone talks about corruption around the world in the context of being able to give some inspector a box of cigars and he looks the other way. The US has this at an industrial (and legal) level with lobbyists. I'd much rather just have the good ol straightforward 'line some palms' method. At least it doesn't pretend to be something else.

  25. Re:God forbid they learn how to use a damn compute on Google Glitch Took Thousands of Chromebooks Offline (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't be that hard to change the wifi password to password1234 for the afternoon...