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  1. Re: We have those already in the US on Amazon Unveils 'Self-driving' Brick-and-Mortar Convenience Store (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, exactly. Also, most shrinkage in retail is caused by employee theft. So if anything, self-checkout helps avoid that part altogether :D

  2. Re:Chinese usually dont pay on Faraday Future's Factory Construction Paused; Shipping Timelines at Risk (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, soon enough God-Emperor Trump will build the factory and make the Chinese pay for it!

  3. Why do you assume either of us are Apple fanboys? Can't we just be facts fanboys? You tried to correct someone with wrong information and in a pretty condescending manner at that. I just pointed that out and provided a refernce which clearly explained the ruling and why you were wrong.

    Maybe "stop breathing" was too aggressive, how about "stop posting" instead :P

  4. Re:Strange on Samsung Group Offices Raided By Korean Prosecutors (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Samsung HQ raided? It must be Wednesday!

    Also I think calling Korea one of the most corrupt countries is really exaggerating it when the world outside of Western Europe and North America exists. It's similar to Spain and Czech Republic, better than Italy and waay better than most of everything else.

    But really the whole situation is much more interesting than the company having a slush fund for bribes. An old friend of the president is accused of running a cult and influencing the president among other stuff. It's really bizarre:
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37971085
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37820112

  5. That's really misrepresenting that situation, and you should know better before correcting people like that.

    Apple was following the Irish taxation rules and did not break any laws. What EU is claiming is that the tax regime constituted to state-aid which favored Apple and other companies. Not only Apple, but Ireland (and the US) disagrees about this and are appealing.

    www.economist.com/news/business/21706238-european-commissions-huge-penalty-against-apple-opens-up-new-front-war-tax

  6. You're the one making this a "smart" vs "not smart" issue, the OP said "blue collar" and [college] educated which is basically a class thing. The latter are doing pretty great, despite the constant bitching about the evil Indians taking dem jerbs.

  7. Re:In communist Russia on Chemical Traces On Your Phone Reveal Your Lifestyle, Scientists Say (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Speaking of which, would they be able to tell how much time I spend playing Angry Birds on the shitter by the amount of poop particles on the phone?

  8. Re:Constitutional rights on Children Can Now Sue The US Government Over Climate Change (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You could say the same thing about the commerce clause, but look - it can now be used for everything.

  9. Re:Well on Crushable Runway Technology Saved Mike Pence's Plane (cnn.com) · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Don't most games do this... on New AI Is Capable of Beating Humans At Doom (denofgeek.com) · · Score: 2

    Human newbies have a ton of context to determine what's success in the game. I think you're the one who seems to expect a Doom bot to have solved all of AI forever.

    This appears to be a significant improvement over something like Breakout or even Mario, and just because it was partially supervised, doesn't make it less of a progress.

  11. Re:Perhaps it's because. . . on Android Wear Hopefuls Call Timeout On Smartwatches (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, she definitely is using it for something else too, something the OP can't do for her.

  12. Re:Dolphin deciphering on Dolphins Recorded Having a Conversation For The First Time (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    What they're actually saying, of course, is "So long, and thanks for all the fish".

  13. Re:Not really on Walmart Is Cutting 7,000 Jobs Due To Automation (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, I'm sure automating away some invoicing and accounting positions from the HQ or service offices will cause the the individual stores to go empty and turn into crime zones.

  14. Agreed in general. However here they want to implement this at border crossings, so refusing to hand over the facebooks will go over just as well as refusing to show them the passport or just looking sketchy -- you'll get sent back home (or to gitmo). Good luck with civil disobedience then.

  15. Re:"lager-scale" rollout? on AMD Says Upcoming Zen CPU Will Outperform Intel Broadwell-E (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Well how else do you expect AMD to get some positive press for this thing?

  16. Re: Inexcusable on One Billion Monitors Vulnerable to Hijacking and Spying (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    >As a display technology engineer, I find it plausible that a hacker could use the overlay to display a simple image in place of the usual content or flash a 1x1 pixel region at full frame rate.

    Well I'm not a display engineer like your or the parent, but yes, it's pretty obvious that if you modify the firmware responsible for the OSD, you could overlay goatse or something. That's annoying, but not really a huge issue, and as the other pointed out, at that point you'd be already fucked anyway.

  17. Re:Is this a metaphor? on Luxury Liner SS United States Cannot Be Put Back In Service (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    But can he make SS United States great again?

  18. Re:Simply liability on DJI Issues Software Update That Implements No-Fly Zones For Rio Olympics (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Even though Boeing wasn't found liable, they still had to deal with the lawsuits. They have an army of lawyers for that, I'm sure, but this isn't something a smaller drone manufacturer wants to deal with. Plus, you never know how the lawsuits might end up. Someone could argue that the manufacturer (like Boeing in your story) should've spent $5 to offer to implement geofencing and save are children.

    Then there's always the hordes of people completely outraged whenever a drone flies somewhere where they think they shouldn't, like in line of sight of an airplane or a park or their house. The less attention these incidents incur, the better - they already have to deal with retarded registration rules and what not, and they don't want to create a demand for more rules that would put people off the hobby.

    Of course, I'm happy to fly a manual controlled quad that does whatever I tell it to do, and as long as this option is available, I don't mind the mainstream products being a bit crippled to keep idiots out of trouble.

  19. Why don't you reboot the system and see? =)

    I have to say that as much as it sucks for those affected (which is not that much, since it's just the MBR), this virus is like a breath of fresh retro-air. Check out the message

    Ahh, it's like being in 1998 again and getting your drive wiped by CIH. Those were the days.

  20. The initial Win7->10 upgrade actually left my Grub and Linux stuff alone. I wasn't too worried as it was basically a toy installation but it was still nice to see.

    What I've heard about the AU is that it just unchecks "Time to display list of operating systems" in startup options but otherwise everything is in place.

    Anyway I'm in no rush to get the update so I killed the update service and will just wait until the dust settles.

  21. Re:don't trust uTorrent on Mr. Robot 'Plugs' uTorrent and Pirate Release Groups (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    It's like 16 megabytes, this is around 150 of the (older) utorrents.

  22. Re:ridiculous on Apple To Make $3 Billion From Pokemon Go (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That's very generous of Apple! And there are a ton of app stores on Android, but they're having trouble taking off because the Play store is always there by default (lol remember IE?)

  23. Re:When will VideoCards peak? on NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 1060 To Take On AMD's Radeon RX 480 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    The progress is definitely slowing down, however. Far Cry was released in 2004 and looked amazing at the time. Crysis came out just three years later and was clearly a whole new level. That was 2007, or almost ten years ago. It still looks very, very good by todan's stanards, if not quite top notch. Crysis 3 is three years old now, and while it's a moderate improvement over 1/2, not much, if anything, surpassed it yet, certainly not to a degree that Crysis improved on Far Cry.

    Hopefully it's been mostly an issue of consoles holding everyone back, but I'm not quite so sure any more. Processors are barely getting any faster, AMD's new cards are basically last-gen level of performance and efficiency, and Nvidia's, while a noticeable improvement, took two years to update.

    Still, we'll probably hit that mark since it's not that far off. A 1080 can hit 50-60fps at 4k in most games, and simultaneous re-projection should enable stereoscopy at minimal cost. For VR, foveated rendering would also cut down on effective resolution significantly.

    So we'd need double or triple performance, at least, with significant improvements to graphical engines and tech. Back in the day this would've taken a couple of years at most, but this is still doable within a decade.

  24. Re:.torrent!=pirated on Google and Bing Have No Obligation To Censor Searches For Torrents (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes of course, everyone is downloading hundreds of gigabytes of Linux ISOs every month :)

    I'm curious what this would actually mean in practice. Right now there's a ton of content removed due to automated DMCA complaints, and it seems like those won't be affected.

  25. Re:Politicians are people, LESS trusted on The Case Against a Universal Basic Income (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    This is one thing that would actually be addressed by UBI - poverty causes people to make bad short term decisions so providing a guaranteed stream of income would slowly improve that.

    Ultimately, as you say, everyone makes bad decisions, and you can't eliminate that even if you created a Department of Good Decisions that had to approve every choice everyone makes.