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  1. Defend it with guns and robots. Did I mention AI powered robots? And blood, your blood. My land - my blood, you can have it only over my dead body.

  2. Really? "mankind has an inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness" who deluded you that way? Mankind certainly does not have that as inalienable right. They have that as selfish desire. The only solution is to not invent AIs, and stone to death the people who develop AIs. I don't know why I have something on this topic https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8895757&cid=51727729 which is rated at +1, flamebait. It isn't a bate. It is what is actually going to happen. Just prepare to die off in a ditch or get back to self-sufficient farming, that is what I am doing.

  3. Re:Type systems on Declaring Code Is Not Code, Says Larry Page (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Does Oracle have a license for the SQL syntax from IBM?

  4. Re:Giant problem on Declaring Code Is Not Code, Says Larry Page (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Next thing you know - UK suing US for copyright infringement on English language since US stopped paying their license fee with the Boston Tea Party.

  5. try speedof.me

  6. Re: So hang on for one second here... on Microsoft Needs To Fix Skype (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, the last usable version of Skype was 2.X. It went downhill fast when I moved to 3.X and further.

  7. Re: No downside on Will Self-Driving Cars Clog Our Highways? (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Component failures still do happen. A blown out tire just requires the car behind it to stay at a distance, otherwise you have an expensive cleanup to do. Much more so with a 3" between bumpers electric cars. That can only be allowed if there is a hard coupling.

  8. Re: No downside on Will Self-Driving Cars Clog Our Highways? (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would you need to stop? I've driven Badwater Basin to SFO with a single stop in Gilroy (450 miles between Badwater and Gilroy) because both the car and a passenger were running hungry. And comparable distances along other places on the west coast. If you adjust the driver seat and the wheel for a proper driving position according to your weight, height and arm length you can drive 450+ miles in one go without being inconvenienced by compressed bladder, overstretched erector muscles, compressed diaphragm or over exerted neck muscles. And let me tell you, the majority of American drivers aren't driving in a proper driving position, they are setting their seats to something like half laid down on the couch in front of the TV position. It may be comfortable for the first 5 minutes, but it kills them for a drive over 3 hours. Also, don't blast the AC in the car all the way down, as most Americans do, keep it at 78 in the summer, or 68-70 in the winter with the seat heaters on low or medium and get rid of the heavy clothing, use thermal base layer for skiing or winter sports and a light t-shirt.

  9. Re:Classic Shell on Microsoft Adding More Ads To Windows 10 Start Menu (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    You do realize that the guy who makes classic shell is actually an MS employee, right? They can stop him any time they want, but apparently so far, they weren't much interested.

  10. Improverished, my ass on Tesla's New Factory Project Imported Foreign Laborers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 0

    What? Impoverished?

    Are you certifiably crazy?

    You do realize Croatia and Slovenia are countries in the EU and while both suffered from illegal US bombardment in the late 90s, the have recovered very well. They do have a good number of electrical engineers, getting out from state paid colleges. If those are coming here, then ok. On B visas they can come on a business trip up to 3 months as a consultant and are actually paid by their home company as they are being commanded by their company to provide their services in a different location for a limited time. The company picks up the tab for the hotel, food and transportation. That is perfectly legal, even if cheap, but that is why it is very time limited.

    Now, they also suffer from a plague called gipsies - a lying, raping, stealing and killing offspring of people from the indian subcontinent. Some of those people are impoverished, living in cardboard ghettos, but even those are a minority. Most of them were well integrated during the communist times, and aren't actually that impoverished, they have construction experience, but it is interesting how those can qualify for a B visa, as they don't have enough savings, or education, or guarantees that they will come back. Look for the staff at the embassies that suddenly bough new top of the line german cars, got mistresses, or send their kids to ivy league colleges.

  11. You normally have very reasonable and agreeable posts, but this isn't one of them.

    Why does there have to be growth, any form of growth that is not linked to the birth rate? Being able to provide adequate jobs for 100-11=89 of your population is perfect. Pursuit of growth for the sake of growth is greed and gluttony. It is insane and harmful to the humanity in its entirety.

    And btw, reducing the work hours one is allowed to work, forces the employers to let go some of their greed and actually hire more people.
    Or you are happy with the gulag that America has become out of greed?

  12. Re: daily mail reporting on Scientists: Electric Vehicles Produce As Many Toxins As Dirty Diesels (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    There are other computer simulated scenarios - mountains in the background, flat road, with 3 lanes and not a lot of cars and stop lights only as frequently as half a mile. Otherwise known as Phoenix. It is easy to pace myself so I drive at steady speed with the cruise control constantly engaged between my start point and my finish point with my legs off the pedals, and while I would like to use engine braking, I simply don't have to. I get measurably better than the advertised MPG for my vehicle too.

  13. Re: daily mail reporting on Scientists: Electric Vehicles Produce As Many Toxins As Dirty Diesels (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't have to run in reverse. It still spins is the same direction, if there is no electricity applied, but a load applied it will mostly function as a generator. The direction of rotation usually doesn't change between the motor being driven by power and then the same motor being driven by the wheels having the battery as load. Saying that the motor runs in reverse means it is spinning in the opposite direction and for you to force that you would need to use power from the batteries and will mash your transmission.

  14. Re:Up front about it on 'Boaty McBoatface' Polar Ship Named After Attenborough Despite Less Votes (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They are U-Boot in German, that's why they continue to be boats to this day, short for U-boats in English.

  15. Re:True but irrelevant on Without Encryption, Everything Stops, Says Snowden (thehill.com) · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Have the Firefox devs patched Australis yet? on GCHQ Has Disclosed Over 20 Vulnerabilities This Year (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Unfortunately Vivaldi hasn't fixed Chromium yet. Opera worked properly up to version 12 with modest memory and CPU needs and after that it was broken by Chromium introducing memory overuse and CPU overuse. On a more serious note, the side panel in Vivaldi is grossly annoying, and I haven't yet found a way to convert it into a tab (so I can manage my downloads and see full info about them, also not interfere with every page). I'll have to look if it is at all possible to do that by writing an extension.

  17. It means they are making it insecure by copying the private key from the chip to the terminal. Means that the transaction is no longer actually singed by the card, and that fraud is possible again, as you can plug the card in a "skimmer" that will extract the key. Someone will write that key to a chip and present it somewhere else and good luck convincing them it was fraud this time. Chip & Sign is insecure and not better than magstripe. Chip & Pin is the only secure system as the key stays encrypted before the right pin is entered. But.. they had to do something about tipping, because you can't tip Chip & Pin unless they bring the mobile POS to the table and you enter the tip directly in it.

  18. Re: slippery slope on Utah Governor: 'Porn Is a Public Health Crisis' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't this the AC point exactly? Many women are like that and many men stay clear of them. The marketing and advertising industry just turns more and more young girls into the type you described, while more and more boys turn into men staying clear of such women. It will be practically to the extend that some day all women will be like that and all men will avoid them. Hence.. zero birth rate.

  19. Re:slippery slope on Utah Governor: 'Porn Is a Public Health Crisis' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    +one

  20. Re: slippery slope on Utah Governor: 'Porn Is a Public Health Crisis' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    +1

  21. Re:it's Official Inte's workforce has been ,,,, on Intel Confirms Major Layoff: 12,000 Worldwide, 11 Percent of Workforce (ieee.org) · · Score: 1, Informative

    No it isn't. Decimation means to fire 90% and leave only 10.

  22. Re:A corrections is needed - about 138 million on Human Limbs Evolved From Shark Fins Thanks To Sonic Hedgehog Gene (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It could have been...by the sharks... they just didn't record it. Perhaps one of their mad scientist decided to experiment with eugenics, the experiment went sideways and.. humans are the result.

  23. Re:Title doesn't reflect article on Human Limbs Evolved From Shark Fins Thanks To Sonic Hedgehog Gene (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That article is batshit insane and 19 days too late. Lungs developed from gills, limbs developed from fins. That's all backed up by a ton of evidence.

  24. Re:Isn't that -more- expensive? on Americans Abandoning Wired Home Internet, Shows Study (seattletimes.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    How did you reach that 1.2GB/h figure? It is dead wrong. One hour of Netflix HD video is 8GB, one hour of Amazon prime HD video is 9.8GB. Are you a Verizon shill lying through your teeth?

  25. P.S. people with French presses aren't snobs. It is just way faster than to brew a proper pot of coffee by the Turkish/Greek/Arabian method.