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  1. Bake the cake. There's no lawful reason, I am ASSURED by progressives, to refuse to bake the cake based on what the customer intends to do with it. And in this case the product is not even custom-made. The AI is the AI is the AI. The fact that the customer intends to use it as designed to be used, but which would bring to light a defect in the product, is double plus good hypocrisy. If the product is for sale, and a non-prohibited buyer (munitions, etc) is lining up to purchase it, you must sell it to them. Bake. The. Cake.

  2. "Failure rate for that many satellites will be high, too." The _rate_ will be the rate regardless of number of satellites, no? I'm sure they hadn't thought of replacement issue until some random Slashdot reader alerted them. Is the still a thing?

  3. Backward to the future on Microsoft Tries To Write the Book On AI (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    "...with a forward from longtime lawyer..." A forward; not a foreword? I leave the forums for a decade and their still crap. Could of known it. Well, better safe then sorry. Yes... pedantic. Yes, they're all intentional.

  4. E.D. & related pills. on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Implications of Finding the Higgs Boson? · · Score: 1

    I expect a new wave a penis enlargement pills touting their new super-duper ingredient, Higgs Boson, GUARANTEED to make your tool MASSIVE.

  5. Obviously a Hiring Puzzle on China Building Gigantic Structures In the Desert · · Score: 1

    Baidu is looking for new talent. "All your Googles PhDs are belong to us." As far as I can tell it has something to do with some sales person meandering around trying to find some sort of preferred path. Perhaps the shortest? Can't be sure... Oh, and they're getting a sense of humor too.

  6. Re:"Machine Language for Beginners" on Preserving Great Tech For Posterity — the 6502 · · Score: 1

    You're living my life! I had paper route in a 110-unit high-rise condominium in Puerto Rico. It was great, except for Sunday when half the residents had Sunday-only deliver of the NYT. I had to sub-contract my little brother for help on Sundays. I remember coding a Mandelbrot(sp) Set visualizer in assembly language using a library of large precision (not floating point) routines. It was great fun to zoom in to a new area and watch as each dot in the raster image was rendered. Then it occurred to me to do a more modern pre-rendering by doing only every 4th pixel on every 4th row first, and letting the neighboring pixels inherit that color until they were themselves properly computed. Then offset by 1, and repeat, and watch in minute-by-minute amazement as the details revealed themselves. I also remember trying to code Super Mario... I was only able to render level 1-1 with SMOOTH left-right scrolling, with no cycles left for ANY game logic. I don't know how Nintendo did it. The feeling of KNOWING what the machine was doing is indescribable. I often wish I had the time and a few extra IQ points to understand the 8086... but alas, both resources are limited. Good memories.

  7. Re:What? on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    You missed the improper conjugation of scoff. And the sarcasm. Did you also miss the missing word in quoted sentence? Look closely between "thought" and "people". Grammer is pretty standard in grammar-scoffing posts. It be comedy 101.

  8. What? on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    --Physicists may scoff at the thought people allowed to walk among the living who don't know what a Planck value is.-- I scoffs @ the writers grammer.

  9. Re:Of course they can on Denials Aside, Feds Storing Body Scan Images · · Score: 1

    So all I need to do is promise 999 times in various ways that I will be a tidy house guest in the W.H.. That I will wear a suit, a tie, and shoes. That I will eat three meals a day, cut down on smokes (not quit, heh-heh), etc, etc, etc... Oh I and I also promise not to F the dog next door. So next month after my first 999 promises are scored true, you mean to tell me I can screw the pooch and STILL get a 99.99% truth rating? WOW. You really are a tool.