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  1. Obviously not. Most likely in 10, 20 years we will not even have the same products. Think how many products were replaced by the smart phone. If in 10, 20 years we have working neural lace then smartphones themselves would likely no longer be relevant. Also think how much cell phones changed from funky bricks to today's smartphone. No way looking at designs up to the funky bricks could anything, no matter how smart make a future proof brick that was relevant.

    AI is not magic. There is no magic.

  2. why is this here? on That Tablet On The Table At Your Favorite Restaurant Is Hurting Your Waiter (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since when is slashdot against meritocracy and user/client/customer feedback. Is there any monitoring of what kind of tripe can be posted?

  3. He should be fired immediately on Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: I Screwed Up and I Want Reddit To Trust Me Again (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Users will not trust Reddit headed by someone that edits their posts "because I can" for any reason whatsoever. This is more than a relatively innocent screwup. This is clear fraud and violation of the fundamental nature of Reddit. FIRE!

  4. He misses the point on Phil Schiller Says the MacBook Pro Doesn't Need an SD Card Slot (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Today I can buy an SD card that is 1TB. This greatly adds to the effective disk storage of the machine. I don't use it for camera.

  5. Blaming all startups now in or that came out of the incubator is completely and totally unjust. Thiel's private political decision, much as I disapprove, is not their responsibility or any of their doing. So punishing these startups for that is not just.

  6. Why is this horseshit even posted? The tiniest glance at actual temperature change data show this is complete BS.

  7. how does this work on Researchers Warn Linux Vendors About Cloud-Memory Hacking Trick (thestack.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How does the attacker know what memory pages are what in the targets VM space? That seems like quite a trick. Or is Amazon sharing various pages among all machines that are known to the public somehow? I am not a cracker myself so I don't really get how the attacker has this information.

  8. There is no way to spoof a fingerprint sensor with a 3D printer. It would take extremely precise printing, far better than any 3D printer the local cops are like to have and a very precise fingerprint. And a sensor that has no ability to note discrepancy with living tissue. So I am claiming complete bullshit pretense of far more powers than cops have.

    Heck, I have to recalibrate my iThing fingerprint patterns every month or so to get it to recognize the real thing.

  9. They are only trying to protect rent seeking schemes that almost exclusively benefit labels and studios and not actual creators. The goal is to maximize access and further creative while rewarding creators. Anything short of that is simply not good enough and introduces too many negatives including limiting how much benefit we can get from our technology and criminalizing everyone who may attempt to fully utilize the abilities of the technology.

  10. Tit for Tat on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 1

    Many businesses, especially software companies (my main experience) don't give employees any notice before firing them, downsizing, layoffs, etc. So what right do the have to expect notice when the employee is the one that ends it? Why don't they get a bad rep for the abrupt end of the relationship if that is a thing? It also depends on the company. Some companies want people to leave immediately as a general policy when they know for sure they are leaving.

    That said I usually give at least two weeks notice when possible and there aren't extenuating circumstances. Sometimes they want that two weeks or more and sometimes they don't.

  11. something fishy on Second Tesla Autopilot Crash Under Review By US Regulators (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Teslas do not have a "self driving mode". They have a limited autopilot in no way meant to be a "self dirving mode". Are people making the mistake of acting it is supposed to do all the driving for them?

  12. In the context of +AC we get a lot more work done in a lot more condensed brain power spaces in all weather but true design for natural cooling or heat dissipation is less valuable in that context. Not surprising. All powerful innovation changes the context and thus what is of relative value compared to what else. So?

  13. Since when can business block competition? on Frontier Teams With AT&T To Block Google Fiber Access To Utility Poles (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure fiber on polls threatens other inferior internet solutions. That is why it is mandatory - it is a much better solution to internet access. That it threatens company's business models that offer inferior solutions is irrelevant. Either they offer equally as good solutions or they lose business to the better competitor. That is how a free market should work and how a meritocracy works.

  14. Re:Statistically impossible or paid to think lazil on Twitter, Facebook and Google Sued For Facilitating Paris Attacks (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    That is not the point. Only and idiot would want every piece of content vetted before it could be published and want to experience the huge chill of ISPs and webapps and companies scared stiff of being sued for any and all claims against content as their responsibility. I can't believe there are people in slashdot of all places that don't get this.

  15. Re:"Statistical impossibility" on Twitter, Facebook and Google Sued For Facilitating Paris Attacks (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    You really really don't want this. It would END the internet as you know it if all content was the responsibility of every ISP and webapp that had any user supplied content. Calling for this is insane.

  16. Re:The culture of this company is toxic. on Uber Banned in Germany and France, and Faces Lawsuits in Multiple States (nbcnews.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    You are toxic. You don't know what you are talking about. You don't want to use them then don't use them. But beat them in the marketplace not by State harrassment.

  17. Totally anti-progress, and anti-sharing economy protecting old fashioned business plans and State revenue streams. Take the assholes that did this apart.

  18. Google needs to stomp these idiots flat. It should be trivially easy to do so with their war chest. In any event no sane judge would even hear a case of "infringement" that didn't involve a plaintiff who was in any way the infringer.

  19. I smell government hackers on Apple Offers No Explanation for 7-Hour Outage (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Forces in government are miffed with Apple. On a rogue basis or not they sent a message. Call me paranoid if you like.

  20. I paid for all of my books, movies, TV shows. In the case of the latter I often paid a premium. I paid for a better medium that is more usable in the case of books. I should have all rights to those books that I have with paper books, not less. The streaming notion that we own nothing but pay owning prices anyway and our access even for ourselves can be removed at any time is not acceptable in the least.

  21. Slashdot now does the work of the anti-freedom forces and establishment busybodies? This is FUD.

  22. Hell No! on FBI Wants Biometric Database Hidden From Privacy Act (onthewire.io) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is precisely these sort of records that can do us the most mischief - those that government enforcers and some kinds of other interested parties would be most likely to use against us. We must demand to especially see these records and others like them and to be allowed to correct or at least file protest on any that we find inaccurate. In some cases we need to sue against misuse of information voluntarily given in one context in another context in ways never justified against our own interests.

  23. WTF on Hackers' Website Breached by Hacker (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would a site dealing in illegal activities keep possibly real name identifying information and a history of all illegal transactions associated with each. If these be hackers they are damn stupid ones.

  24. very doubtful on Will Self-Driving Cars Clog Our Highways? (go.com) · · Score: 1

    It would result in far less cars on the road. Why? Because many more people would not care to own one but only that one would take them where they wished pretty much when they wished. The rest of the time the car would suffer the needs of other would be passengers instead of being parked idle at an office complex or such and then driven home. It would result in the most efficient use of cars to do desired traveling. IT is doubtful much more travel than today would be desired. It even more doubtful that more cars would be on the road.

  25. This is not law enforcement on The Government Wants Your Fingerprint To Unlock Phones (dailygazette.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a gross violation of the 4th Amendment right to be secure in our papers and effects. Worse our computational devices are more intimate and part of us that mere paper could ever be. As they become ever more extensions of our brain forcing access may fairly be compared to directly wiring your brain to testify against you. Enough with these petty tyrants!