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  1. Re:Wow. Women *and* india. on Scientists Sent a Rocket To Mars For Less Than It Cost To Make 'The Martian' (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you also check the cost of living differences between India and the US? Out of all the moronic "observations" you make on here, that one is pretty high up there.

  2. Re:NASA already tried that on Scientists Sent a Rocket To Mars For Less Than It Cost To Make 'The Martian' (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    "Better to lose an expensive mission due to bad luck, than to lose a bunch of cheap missions due to dumb mistakes"

    Why is that better? Plus expensive missions go bad for other reasons than luck.

  3. Re:This is VERY bad on Google's Allo App Can Reveal To Your Friends What You've Searched (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    " judged on your private thoughts"

    If you are searching on the public internet, then it isn't your private thoughts. The Internet is NOT private, and not secure either. It is a public network.

  4. Re:CEO modified database without telling anyone on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Horrible IT Boss Story? · · Score: 1

    Geez. How do you even get out of bed in the morning? What a horror.

  5. Please name one AI that "imitates intelligent human behavior". Chess/go/checkers playing computers is the wrong answer.

  6. Re: Republicans love wireless charging... on Sony Patent Could Let You Wirelessly Charge Your Phone From Another Device (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    In Seattle I use a 300baud modem and I got fired from my QA position when they laid off their entire QA department. Now I work as a maintenance man. I also don't like the Charter.

  7. Just plug it in and stop wasting energy.

  8. Re:Berkley didn't do this to be jerks on 20,000 Worldclass University Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them (lbry.io) · · Score: 1

    And I should be able to go to MIT too, even though I am as dumb as a rock.

  9. Agreed. People have been spoiled by advances in computer technology driven by Moores Law. That is coming to an end. Just because your computer is 10000x faster than it was 10 years ago doesn't mean it will be 10000x faster 10 years from now. Same idea applies to any technology.

  10. Re:peak intelligence on America May Miss Out On the Next Industrial Revolution (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    The answer is "VC hype". These endless stories about "AI" and "machine intelligence" and "autonomous cars" and now suddenly robots (again) is just hype from people looking for investment dollars. It isn't based in reality, and we won't have "AI" or self driving cars any time soon (if ever).

  11. CEO Claims on America May Miss Out On the Next Industrial Revolution (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    CEO Claims that His Industry is the Most Important for the Future. Invest now in his company so you won't get left behind. More news at 11.

  12. Re: Not much for those stuck *right now* on Canadian Millennials Struggle As College Degrees Don't Guarantee Jobs (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. People like lgw are full of shit. One thing I have learned in life is luck and circumstances beyond your control have a lot to do with 'success'. For example, if you were a secretary at Google when they went public, you are a millionaire. I have had similar things happen to me too. I was in the right career at the right time when people were throwing money around. It isn't because I am so smarter and harder working than everyone else. I just got lucky.

  13. Re:And so it begins... on A Rogue Robot Is Blamed For a Human Colleague's Gruesome Death (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    How does a robot activate without an electrical power source? Oh, you mean someone forgot to disconnect the electrical power source before working on the robot? Carry on.

  14. This is what happens when you have too much money.

  15. Re:BAE has a history of this kind of malfeasance on Work-Life Balance: Cryptographer Fired By BAE Systems For Taking Care of Dying Wife (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure. I totally believe your story. What is the name of the "HR guy"?

  16. Re:Too One Sided, Not Enough Info on Work-Life Balance: Cryptographer Fired By BAE Systems For Taking Care of Dying Wife (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 2

    Uh huh. Sure. You worked their for 15 years, but it was so bad, right? And they fire people on a whim for going to hospitals to visit their mothers, right? You "saw" that. Sure you did.

  17. Sorry to hear about your wife. The good thing is many companies are very empathetic about situations like that. People like to gripe about heartless corporations, but HR people are usually women and have families of their own.

  18. This is clickbait BS most likely. BAE is a government contractor. They don't give a shit about little stuff like this. They just bill the government. Since the article fails to name the people involved I take this with a grain of salt. Chances are there is a lot more to this story.

  19. Re:We knew that on What The CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    But your data is not end to end encrypted, only maybe encrypted in transit. Your mail, cloud storage, etc is open and for sale to the highest bidder. Google, Microsoft, etc all provide API access to your unencrypted data. Why do you think gmail is "free"?

  20. Re:No it doesn't on What The CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works (ap.org) · · Score: 2

    Exactly. Most of the surveillance is gone by tapping one of the endpoints. All your "cloud" data (email, voice, whatever) is unencrypted on the server side and there is API access. On the client side, security is horribly broken because the client side software keeps changing and every change introduces new holes.

  21. We knew that on What The CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works (ap.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We knew that strong encryption works, because "math and stuff" that lawyers never learned. The point is that the mega companies are WILLINGLY giving your data away to anyone that pays. They provide an unencrypted endpoint to your data, so encryption of data in transit doesn't matter. We are much worse off than we were four years ago, and the cloud is doing to make it worse(er).

  22. So what is the difference between LibreElec and OpenElec?

  23. Re:The dorks here don't care on Google Mobile Search Shows Recipe Suggestions When You Look For Food (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    It is Star Treck not Star Track.

  24. Radio is still around, Grandpa.

  25. Why bother on US Announces Response To Russian Election Hacking [Update] (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The Russians won anyway. They got their man in the White House and he owes them a lot.