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  1. Re:Strong AI is Bullshit on WSJ Overstates the Case Of the Testy A.I. · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just waiting until someone at WSJ googles for funny stuff Siri says. They will be SHOCKED at how rude she can be.

  2. Re:Demographics on FB Reveals Woeful Diversity Numbers · · Score: 1

    You need to hire a bunch of people who self-identify as black and/or hispanic. I wonder if you still get federal subsidies if you self-identify as blind?

  3. Re:diluting the market on Aiming To Beat Tesla's "3", Chevy Tests and Teases a Cheaper 200-Mile Electric Car · · Score: 1

    The service that is accessible to the occupants stops working. The vehicle itself continues to upload whatever data GM feels like receiving until the vehicle no longer functions.

  4. Re: I'm not saying it was aliens on Why Didn't Voyager Visit Pluto? · · Score: 1

    and it's not a planet

  5. Re:Bad RNG will make your crypto predictable on NIST Updates Random Number Generation Guidelines · · Score: 1

    No, it will be sooner and less random.

  6. Re:Bad RNG will make your crypto predictable on NIST Updates Random Number Generation Guidelines · · Score: 1

    yes, then drink the potassium chloride, and have someone time how long it takes you to die. that time will be sufficiently random for our purposes.

  7. Re:Old news on Black Hole Awakens After 26 Years · · Score: 1

    It was just resting before continuing on with the main course...that much turkey will put anyone to sleep for awhile...

  8. Re:Of course not on Elon Musk Probably Won't Be the First Martian · · Score: 1

    sure. just stepping onto the surface of mars makes you a full-fledged Martian, with voting rights and everything. They also have conscription, because they are about to invade Earth.

  9. Re:Lots of people did on How Etak Built a Car Navigation System In 1985 · · Score: 1

    ...then the road made a slight bend to the left, and the car and occupants continued straight on into a ravine...

  10. Re: root problem on DARPA Is Already Working On Designer Organisms To Terraform Mars · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, you are saying we have to nuke the core of Mars to restart it's rotation? I think I saw a documentary on how we did this here on Earth just after the turn of the century...

  11. Re:Everybody should be pissed at NSA by now ... on France, Up In Arms Over NSA Spying, Passes New Surveillance Law · · Score: 5, Insightful

    These are always the best laws...enacted right after an 'emergency', with no debate. Helpfully, the law was pre-drafted and just in a filing cabinet waiting for the right circumstance to pass it.

    Of course, I'm not exactly sure how this helps with the 'emergency', that the NSA was spying on the French gov't. I guess the emergency for the gov't was that they finally realized that the NSA knew more about everyone in France than the French Secret Service does. The new legislation should even it up, by greatly increasing their ability to spy on their own largely law-abiding citizens.

    Problem solved! This calls for a round of embezzling.

  12. Re:If you do go with C++ on Ask Slashdot: Is C++ the Right Tool For This Project? · · Score: 1

    Of course, the UI looks and works like shit, unless you effectively code the UI yourself for each target platform, except on Windows, where it looks and behaves like regular Windows apps. It still looks and works as initially described, it just fits in with all the other apps.

  13. Re:FP on Car Hacking is 'Distressingly Easy' · · Score: 1

    Start with:

    1) remove built-in data networking [as in, a cellular connection, not the car's 'network'].
    2) physically separate the car's entertainment system from the network that used to operate the car [engine/brakes/ABS]

    And yes, I know the manufacturers won't do 1 because they believe you didn't pay enough for the car when you bought it, that they deserve both a monthly fee just because you have possession of the car and whatever money they can generate by selling whatever information they can that your car generates and is automatically uploaded to their servers on your dime. Including audio and video from the interior of your car.

  14. Re:Of course not on Elon Musk Probably Won't Be the First Martian · · Score: 1

    Stepping on Mars makes you Martian the same way that stepping on Canada's soil makes you Canadian.

  15. There are already private companies doing this, and selling access to the data to the gov't and anybody else who stumps up a couple of bucks.

  16. Re:Be Nice on The Science of Incivility · · Score: 2

    Why do you have to make everything relate to pornography?

  17. Re:Sounds like reasonable changes to me on Amazon Overhauling Customer Reviews · · Score: 2

    Of course, you have no idea which 'version' of the product you will receive. I've received a product from Amazon that was shipped to them more than a year before I bought it [it had the fedex label from the manufacturer to Amazon's warehouse inside the box].

    And I don't know why the hell Amazon has to burn a whole CPU for each page you have open on their web site, constantly refreshing the whole page.

  18. Re:So that means it's free to everyone on Windows 10 Will Be Free To Users Who Test It · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    you got a free copy of Linux? where the hell do you pirate it from?

    i've searched everywhere and can't find one anywhere.

  19. Re:Do not... on Facebook's Absurd Pseudonym Purgatory · · Score: 1

    No, they want to APPEAR to be one. They still want to retain control of what content you are permitted to see.

  20. Re: Tell me... on Amazon Is Only Going To Pay Authors When Each Page Is Read · · Score: 2

    without the 'kind of'

  21. Re:So here in the USA on 5G Network Speed Defined As 20 Gbps By the International Telecommunication Union · · Score: 1

    Hm, my carrier updated their software so 5G is displayed on my phone...

  22. Re: Tell me... on Amazon Is Only Going To Pay Authors When Each Page Is Read · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, it is solely to make Amazon more money. The 'purchaser' doesn't pay less, but the writer gets paid less because Amazon just wants to pay them less.

  23. Re:Obviously on Ask Slashdot: Best API Management System? · · Score: 1

    why wait for the user to click...share the page automatically when it loads.

  24. Re:How dare Apple on The Problems Apple Music Needs To Fix Before Launch · · Score: 1

    Equally good at music.

  25. Re:In other news on The Tools Don't Get You the Job · · Score: 1

    You'll always be employable if you know how to use Word and Excel!