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  1. Re:As an America ... on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Everything is in place for a society even more fascist and an ethnic/sexual/cultural purge that will make everything shy of the Soviet/Communist Chinese starvation events pale in comparison.

    Your dream state is not a reflection of reality.

  2. Re:As a German, ... on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Pride is always a disease.

    No, no it's not, despite your rhetoric to extend the definition further.

    There's a reason why the Doomsday Clock was advanced to two minutes before midnight.

    Politics.

  3. Re:Back to full fascism with the Dims on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Antifa, judging by their actions.

  4. Does life exist beyond Earth? on In the Search for Alien Life, 'Everyone Is an Astrobiologist' (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    That will be answered only by finding life beyond Earth. All the expert input in the world as to what might or might not exist won't help. All that does is make guesses sound more sensible.

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

    Oh please. We see major, fatal bugs discovered all the time in all kinds of software. Enough that some producers pay bug bounties for others to ferret them out. What on Earth makes you think AP code isn't just as susceptible to hidden, fatal bugs?

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

    "It's nominally no different in use than cruise control." Translation: "It's in name only, though perhaps not in reality no different in use than cruise control."

    Got that right. It's in name only no different as the one and only thing cruise control does is keep the throttle steady.

  7. Re:Hacky workarounds on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Forced Subscription-Only Software? · · Score: 1

    If you're an individual, sure. If you're a business and do all of the above that "shut you down" will be a helluva lot harder once you're discovered (much more likely than individual) and will include more than business losses.

  8. Re:I think it sucks on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Forced Subscription-Only Software? · · Score: 1

    1) Pretty sure everything exports to bmp. 2) Pdf files can be edited with pdf editors and are open.

  9. Re:What if... on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Forced Subscription-Only Software? · · Score: 1

    What if someone used hysterical, overboard examples as argument?

  10. Re:In Favor on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Forced Subscription-Only Software? · · Score: 2
    That ellipsis you used? It removed the sentence immediately preceding the one you quoted which is the answer to your query:

    I get to always have the latest copy with security patches and bug fixes.

    This is something LO simply does not do. I use OO and every time LO issues an upgrade I download it and look for the bugs I hate the most in the both. There are blatant bugs that haven't been fixed since the split. Same bugs in both OO and LO.

  11. Re:Yes to the "Vampire" block for coughs and sneez on Why You Shouldn't Stifle Your Sneeze (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, if you're giving it to someone else to use. You can't contaminate yourself with germs you expel from your own body. It's your hands you want to wash.

  12. It can work the other way too. on Why You Shouldn't Stifle Your Sneeze (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    I already have a ruptured right eardrum. If I suppress a sneeze it causes an astonishingly loud (only to me, I realize) and painful whistle. So my sneezes sound more like cannon shots.

  13. Re:Doug Lenat's Test on AI Beats Humans at Reading Comprehension (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
    So:

    I saw a bicycle in a store window.
    I want it.
    Why? I always wanted one for my future bicycle store.
    The bicycle? No, the window. It's just what I need.
    Well, not the window, the display of the bicycle. Of course I wanted windows in my store before I saw this one. Jeez.

  14. BFD on AI Beats Humans at Reading Comprehension (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    My *dog* reads better than some of the younger people graduating from high school.

  15. Re:And the police on Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Charged; Faces 11 More Years in Prison (latimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Did you not read what the content of the call was or does that not factor into your understanding of the situation? They were under the impression that a murder had been committed and hostages were in immediate danger. **THAT'S** why they didn't send only one officer.

  16. Look it up.

  17. Re: Sigh on Your Car May Soon Start Serving You Ads (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    You did see the USB sticks mentioned, right? Hard to jam ads onto my stick w/o me knowing it.

  18. Your Car May Soon Start Serving You Ads on Your Car May Soon Start Serving You Ads (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Why? Someone going to sneak into my backyard and install a radio or something I can't turn off??

  19. Re:OK but how about the dead people on Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Had Already Been To Prison For Fake Bomb Threats (go.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Lessee... You're AC, you use "in our state" (which is meaningless) and then push your personal agenda. We should believe what you say why?

  20. Re:This is why we need bet neutrality on Don't Pirate Or We'll Mess With Your Connected Thermostats, Warns East Coast ISP (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    As ISPs *have* terminated services with people who have pirated and other illegal activities you're correct.

  21. What the Slashdot submitter meant, besides a click-bait headline that causes SJW signalling, is the rabid left doesn't use logos or graphical devices (images) to create an identity.

    Then the submitter is axiomatically incorrect.

  22. Did you know that your personal interpretation of "hateful" is just that, personal and therefore meaningless when you try to apply it to real life people. Could be that *you're* the hateful one and just projecting.

  23. I'll repeat myself... on Yes, Your Amazon Echo Is an Ad Machine (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I do not want a friggin' relationship with my machinery.

  24. Re:The reason for generations on Ask Slashdot: Has Technology Created A Monster? (codinghorror.com) · · Score: 1

    That, or laughing at hubris.

  25. Re:The reason for generations on Ask Slashdot: Has Technology Created A Monster? (codinghorror.com) · · Score: 1

    Current forms of capitalism *are* middle road. Perhaps instead of simply saying "capitaism bad", you could lay out an economic system which will function better without the need to change basic human characteristics.