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  1. Re: Level of AI (Artificial Intelligence) on Will You Even Notice the Impending Robot Uprising? · · Score: 1

    Very few. Those papers tend to be very philosophical, and not so technical. They usually present new ways to think about storing and processing data; not necessarily designs for artificial intelligence.

  2. Re:Politics as usual on Red Light Camera Use Declined In 2013 For the First Time · · Score: 1

    I think you mean brakes

    (this wouldn't be slashdot without some pedantry...)

  3. Re: Sentence doesn't make sense on Why Cloud Infrastructure Pricing Is Absurd · · Score: 1

    Thank you AC! I learned something today!

  4. Re:You can buy 2 TB flash drives now on Why Cloud Infrastructure Pricing Is Absurd · · Score: 1

    I think he said that explicitly...

  5. Re:Sentence doesn't make sense on Why Cloud Infrastructure Pricing Is Absurd · · Score: 1

    I thought it functions as an adjective:

    "the man is running"
    "the man is tired"
    "the running man"
    "the tired man"

    see what i mean? how can a gerund like "running" be used like a noun?

  6. Re:They don't need to crack anything on Sci-fi Author Charles Stross Cancels Trilogy: the NSA Is Already Doing It · · Score: 1

    They *SHOULD* warn, unless the person browsing explicitly trusts you. That's the whole point.

  7. Re:They don't need to crack anything on Sci-fi Author Charles Stross Cancels Trilogy: the NSA Is Already Doing It · · Score: 1

    Or stop trusting central authorities. Run a certificate authority, hand out keys out-of-band, and do the "Web of trust" thing the old fashioned way.

    There's no reason you need somebody like Verisign for personal, or even public, communication.

  8. Re:Never underestimate the bandwidth on How the LHC Is Reviving Magnetic Tape · · Score: 1

    Nope, the hot swap bay is a convenience. The drives are accessible without it.

  9. Re:Interesting on Mir Won't Ship Even In Ubuntu 14.04 · · Score: 1

    Unless they add support of Mir as a backend to GTK+ or QT; Not saying this is a good idea, it's just a possible solution.

  10. Re:Complicated algorithm? on Music Industry Issues Take Down Notices to 50 Major Lyrics Sites · · Score: 4, Funny

    To be fair, Google's search algorithm is fairly complicated...

  11. Re:Biggest problem with Ubuntu: Upgrades on Ubuntu, Kubuntu 13.10 Unleashed · · Score: 1

    Technically, Emacs keystrokes are shortcuts, because all of that functionality can be referred to by full name after M-x (by default).

  12. Re:what about the musicians? on More Evidence That Piracy Can Increase Sales · · Score: 1

    There have to be [hundreds of] millions of potential Justin Beibers, and every one of them would accept less than the current one to take his place

    If this is the case, Why doesn't the market let this happen? If there is so much viable competition for the job, shouldn't the value of the work plummet?

  13. Re:Capital from luck on More Evidence That Piracy Can Increase Sales · · Score: 1

    Someone who happens to inherits wealth

    put's their ancestor's _previous work_ at risk. it's not risk-less.

    happens to be born in the correct country

    Irrelevant -- guilt baiting is not a good argument strategy

    happens to be discovered by the right publisher

    probably worked very hard for no income before being discovered, and trades their privacy and anonymity for their success

    or otherwise happens upon a lucky break

    Life isn't fair. You can't make it fair. Sorry for the truth.

    doesn't have proportionate "previous work".

    Bullshit. Most people that are successful work for it. We can all be successful, with a lot of work and a little luck.

  14. Re:logic on How Early Should Kids Learn To Code? · · Score: 1

    You forgot math...

  15. Re:graphical symbols, not APL! on Time For a Hobbyist Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    And labview is a great example of why this sort of thing is a bad idea.

  16. Re:Default? on Time For X-No-Wiretap HTTP Header? · · Score: 1

    Hint: no-one wants to be wiretapped.

  17. Re:Almost as good as Evil BIt! on Time For X-No-Wiretap HTTP Header? · · Score: 0

    What's more, it would cut gun related suicides down to practically nothing.

    Great! Now let's outlaw pills, knives, rope, and walking into the ocean! this will work out great!

  18. Re:Ironic on Wii Outselling Wii U, Only 160,000 Units Shipped Last Quarter · · Score: 1

    But...I like patronising bullshit, tons of fetch quests and dumb puzzles that try to make me feel smart!

  19. Re:Ironic on Wii Outselling Wii U, Only 160,000 Units Shipped Last Quarter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    New Zelda FPS style game

    Worst....Idea....Ever. Zelda is perfect.

  20. Re:the syfy channel B-movies all seem to be alot a on The Book That Is Making All Movies the Same · · Score: 1

    You mean....awesome?

  21. Maybe not pool environments, but it may be helpful in sink or toilet environments.

  22. Re:Inferior to Android ? on First Look At Ubuntu Touch, the Smartphone OS · · Score: 1

    Android doesn't run emacs

    Correction: Android doesn't run emacs *well*

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zielm.emacs&hl=en

  23. Re:Obligatory.. on To Avoid Confusion: Oracle's Confusing New Java Numbering Scheme · · Score: 1

    This seems like a joke, but it's actually a good thing how the kernel went to 3.0. They realized that their numbering system was getting out of hand, and that the leading '2' was no longer needed. Emacs did something similar several years ago.

    I think that may happen with android in the not distant future (rumours going around that the next update will be 4.3 instead of 5.0). maybe 4.5 will just be 5, then we'll have 6, etc.

    I wonder if java will ever stabalize this way? (java 8, 9, 10)

    I, for one, welcome our new leading-version-number-dropping-for-readability overlords.

  24. Re:Not useable as in.... on Ubuntu Touch: The Other Linux OS For Your Phone · · Score: 1

    Android is a great open ecosystem, why not just develop an defacto FOSS Android skin and package repository?

    There is a FOSS android skin ... AOSP (which happens to be the "Best" android). Unfortunatly, it doesn't officially support a lot of devices.
    http://source.android.com/

    There is also a FOSS repository ... F-Droid. It has some useful software, but not much. Seems to me it's a lot of little toy apps.
    http://f-droid.org/

  25. Re:I love the idea, but... on Ubuntu Touch: The Other Linux OS For Your Phone · · Score: 1

    Well...you do have the freedom to choose to conform to any of the existing and conflicting standards... or none at all. Huzzah!