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  1. And therein lies the problem! The entire paradigm of running JIT code from a web browser is uber fucking stupid! JAVA, FLASH, SILVERLIGHT, it's not platform insomuch as the philosophy of taking code from the internet, and executing it in a way that's not sandboxed.

  2. Re:AVG uses INSECURE connections too. on ASUS Delivers Its Updates Over HTTP With No Verification (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm flummoxed here. One one hand, you're obviously smart and competent to be aware of such things. On the other, WTF MAN were you thinking??!!! AVG IS SHIT; and has been for years. Why??

    Might I recommend something like Bitdefender (my personal trusted favorite), Norton AV, or even Kaspersky?

  3. IANAD - It's my limited understand that the 'blood-brain-barrier' - while protects the brain - also inhibits the immune system from gaining access to it too. Perhaps it's not the stem cells. Perhaps, just a though, that the act of drilling holes is breaking the blood-brain-barrier enough for the immune system to go in a cleanup and make way for natural repair.

    Any thoughts on this supposition; false or otherwise?

  4. Re: This sort of thing is why people like Trump on IT Layoffs At Insurance Firm Are A 'Never-Ending Funeral' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I know it was a rhetorical questions, but the answer is simple; it's because those that are supposed to be enforcing existing laws are bribed by others whom have everything to gain by breaking them.

  5. Re:the real story here on North Korea Ballistic Missile Explodes On Launch Fourth Straight Time · · Score: 3, Funny

    If a rocket could do that, it most certainly was built by the Pkunk.

    Hallelujah!!!!!

  6. When my father first brought one home from Shell (Compaq Portable), I though it was a new Singer sewing machine for my mother. That is, until after he removed the cover.

  7. Re:Simulation, Multiverses, Panspermism = faiths on Elon Musk: 'One In Billions' Chance We're Not Living In A Computer Simulation (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    That the consciousness is in fact in all bodies spanned through the multi-verse, and that which verse you currently take focus is up to the sub-conscious??

  8. Re:Simulation, Multiverses, Panspermism = faiths on Elon Musk: 'One In Billions' Chance We're Not Living In A Computer Simulation (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing is more maddening than the concept of Quantum Suicide. It postulates that consciousness can't be eliminated, but rather slip into an alternate universe in the event the current one in focus comes to an abrupt end. For example, take someone that's schizophrenic that's hell bent on committing suicide. The've gone mad because no matter how many attempts at suicide, they always fail from there perspective. So in our universe, someone really does pull the trigger and they die. But for that person, they pull the trigger and *click*, nothing happens! Because in all the universes in which his live was ended, the conscious slips into a universe in which the attempt failed.

  9. Re:Scientology not Science on Elon Musk: 'One In Billions' Chance We're Not Living In A Computer Simulation (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    uh huh, and déjà vu was just a glitch in The Matrix....

  10. Re:Customer Service on Ray Kurzeil's Google Team Is Building Intelligent Chatbots (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I think it's criminal that the FAA even allows automation when calling in about issues with a flight. That shit is complicated because well...life is complicated. And like most people, I want to get home ASAP and not fuck around with flight delays, layovers, and whatnot. Just help me get my next flight, that I already paid for, and get me outta here. Obviously that's too much to ask.

  11. Re:Customer Service on Ray Kurzeil's Google Team Is Building Intelligent Chatbots (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    My self-sufficiency by far and away exceeds that of what any automatic customer services can provide. So when I have to pick up the phone, I do so knowing full well that my questions or situation will trump that of most people. And sometimes they do require managerial intervention. "Press the numb.....AGENT, get me an AGENT. Please hold...connecting.." Yeah, fuck that robo shit.

  12. Re:California refugees never help on Is Denver The Next High-Tech Center? (newyorker.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We call em' "locus voters"; the liberals that leave the very problems behind that they themselves created. It's like a person that's trying to leave a problem when they are in fact *the* problem.

  13. Have you ever put two or more Furbys in front of each other? It's a hoot!

  14. Re:Don't use a sealed device on E-Cigs Are Exploding In Vapers' Faces At An Alarming Rate (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 2

    You sure about that? It's well know that pirated battered made in China have horrible quality control issues. And depending on the device, the E-Cig could have been a cheap knock-off with no circuitry protection.

  15. You're confusing political and economic systems.

    What's to confuse?? They are justly conflated. They're one in the same when you get right down to it. One shapes the other.

    As well as propaganda and reality

    Propaganda, sadly, more often than not shapes reality. Ideally it shouldn't, but history has proven otherwise.

  16. Fascism and Communism are two sides of the same coin, totalitarianism. The difference is that while the leaders of Communism lie about their intentions via their actions, Fascism up-front about their ambitions and goals; for the most part anyways.

    All you need to really understand is this: There are two types of people in this world; those that wish to control the lives of others, and those that don't.

  17. Would redefine 'nasty response'.

  18. Re:And then those employees burn down your restaur on Former McDonald's USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    There would be at least a few people depending the size and location of the restaurant. At least, you need someone to collect cash to help move the line alone. Someone that can repair or step in for the failed robot, and perform the role of cleanup and closing for the night. So while I doubt you can have a human-free working environment, if you did, you can bet on everything being done remotely overseas.

  19. Re:"an additional opportunity" on Microsoft Backtracks On 'Nasty Trick' Upgrade To Windows 10 (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Why the sudden push before the free Windows 10 upgrade campaign expires on July 29, 2016?? If they're really afraid people aren't adopting the "upgrade" fast enough, I don't see why Microsoft can't just push the date back to the Fall or next year. In fact, they might even.

  20. Re:Tentatively going where no human has gone befor on Foxconn Cuts 60,000 Jobs, Replaces With Robots (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Cost of labor only applies to humans. Far into the future, where robots with advanced enough AI to build other robots, their labor will effectively be FREE. Meaning, wealth is a human social construct not applicable to machines with AI. So that said, what I see in the market is mass labor deflation couple with excessive spending to prop up those that are unemployed. What we have here is a wicked case of stagflation that's redefining the importance of "wealth".

  21. Re:A new class of rich assholes on Billionaire Technologist Accuses NASA Asteroid Mission of Bad Statistics (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It actually feels a bit as if, after a short period of enlightenment (rule of law, democracy, reading&writing for all, you get the idea) we are inching back towards feudalism and darkness.

    WE ARE!! Globalists, and their wealth, feel entitled to be abstracted from their local nationality. Locality is for "the little people", and the concept is sovereignty is an impediment to a globalist. Why do you think the world is shifting towards nationalism in the current election cycle; from the US, Europe, to the Philippines.

  22. Re:"not intended to be scientific or medical devic on Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Fitbit For 'Highly Inaccurate' Heart Rate Trackers (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The fallout from this will be regardless of whether or not the disclaimer was there, but rather NO MEDICAL ANALYSIS can be performed on a non-certified device!! This is just paving the way for future legislation to solidify that notion. What will be interesting - and bring a big fucking bag of popcorn - is how both Google and Apple will team up against Federal regulatory action. You want to talk about political nuclear war, baby, this would be it; right up there with encryption!

  23. Re: Hydogen is just a way to store energy on Tesla Co-Founder Says Hydrogen Fuel Cells Are a 'Scam' (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Correct. Anyone who says otherwise doesn't live in Texas; a state built on sanity, unlike Cali. It's nice that aside from Alaska and Hawaii, we are the only other state that has its own electric grid. Currently, I'm paying just under $0.09 per kWh on average w/ 12 month contract. Love it!!!!

    http://www.powertochoose.org/

  24. Re: Half arsed on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Civil unrest and war. When you have robotics and AI that render people functionally obsolete on a planet with 7.4 BILLION people, there's only this logical conclusion. It's what will happen when one group of people don't want to support an endless growth of people that consume vs produce to their benefit. This is not my position of course; I'm a Christian. I'm just simply telling you what will occur based on human nature. Question is, once super AI sees our destructive nature on full display (World War 3), I can only conclude that the future of our species will be planned for permanent exit from the evolutionary tree of life. God help us all.

  25. Re:How about replacing the CEO with a machine on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    What you don't have the right to do is force them to comply.

    But it is perfectly acceptable to elect officials to carry out that task for us, to force others to comply. Right?