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  1. Even if it isn't Not likely to see real AI for another 100 years. What we have now are machines that have better decision matrices, but they are not intelligent. If it doesn't have asimov's 3 laws programmed in, then it will be incredibly dangerous.

  2. Re:The Cloud is your enemy. on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Hard Truths IT Must Learn To Accept? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Not only is it the most hostile environment you can be in, but you have no control and your data isn't yours. Just ask Mega-upload customers. (they had legitimate customers, too.). Arguably it's more expensive than an in house system, because the vendors are looking for a profit which you really aren't doing with your own it department, at least not directly.

  3. Still creepy on Google Photos Now Recognizes Your Pets (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    And it gets even creepier

  4. Re:Darn? on Leave It To the Heat to Dull Autumn's Glory (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, there's digital photography involved, climate science, etc. I live in Maine. The colors are spectacular (Yellows, Oranges and Reds), they're just a couple of weeks late. The shorter days get them going, but what really gets the trees going is a frost which is something much of the country doesn't get until after the leaves drop.

  5. Re:Linux has no Office, Exchange, Sharepoint kille on Munich Plans New Vote on Dumping Linux For Windows 10 (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    It's glorified webdav with a few extra bells and whistles.

  6. Re:Linux has no Office, Exchange, Sharepoint kille on Munich Plans New Vote on Dumping Linux For Windows 10 (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Open X-Change anyone? OpenOffice or Libre Office anyone? There is almost no reason for me to use Windows any longer. I don't need the vsphere client any longer. Still wish there were better tools for managing KVM and BTRFS snapshots, though

  7. AI is mostly "A," not "I" on Does the Rise of AI Precede the End of Code? (itproportal.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no "I" in it. Even if it were, it needs Asimov's 3 laws programmed in or else it's too dangerous to even conceive. Does anyone remember "Colossus: the Forbin Project" or Skynet? Machine learning only tends to do a better job of targeting ads at us since that's what it's all used for. It's not intelligent. It can't make the leap outside of programmed logic, therefore, is still a dumb machine. Moreover, the monopolies like googbooktwitazon are attempting to use it to decrease the amount of money spent on vetting and screening. We can see how well that's working out for the world. AI, according to experts is still at least a century away. Currently it totally doesn't work.

  8. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... on Intel's Just Launched 8th Gen 'Coffee Lake' Processors Bring the Heat To AMD's Ryzen · · Score: 1

    I've been building nothing but AMD for a number of years. They've always run better than the equivalently priced Intel. We won't even get into the fact that AMD drives the x86 technology these days, not Intel.

  9. I'm not so sure it turns of in Android, either on iOS 11's Misleading 'Off-ish' Setting For Bluetooth and Wi-Fi is Bad for User Security (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    My phone constantly reports available networks even with wifi turned off. It's Galaxy S7.

  10. Must be programmed into any AI.

  11. Sorry calling BS on this on Apple: iPhones Are Too 'Complex' To Allow Unauthorized Repair (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    An iPhone, an Android device are all the same. They are a system on a board and in some cases a system on a couple of chips. They are no more complicated than your desktop or you laptop; just smaller. So I"m calling BS on this one. Apple just wants control.

  12. Re: Why do people flame distros for default deskto on System76 Pop!_OS Beta Ubuntu-based Linux Distribution Now Available To Download (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Been using Mate for way too long. works well, not unity and not the default gnome3, either. -

  13. No, everyone is moving to nvme. m.2 sucks, too. It's no faster than SATA and SATA is the bottleneck, now.

  14. Of course, well, there was that on Comcast Sues Vermont To Avoid Building 550 Miles of New Cable Lines (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    whole bit where, you know, the lawyers, poured over all the contracts and then the bit where Comcast then signed them thereby agreeing to the 550 miles of cable plant. Comcast has no standing. I'm sure there are other cable companies that would take the gig.

  15. Burstnet and blogetry are both in Canada on Blogetery Shutdown Due To al-Qaeda Info · · Score: 1

    So assuming its the FBI is not right and might not be the case.

  16. Re:fastest and highest bat on Did Bat Hitch a Ride To Space On Discovery? · · Score: 1

    the throttle down and up is at supersonic transition, which is why the throttle down. The first shuttle launch did go supersonic in 10 seconds at 100% throttle. The thing now launches at somewhere around 75% to 85% throttle.

  17. fastest and highest bat on Did Bat Hitch a Ride To Space On Discovery? · · Score: 1

    The numbers on acceleration are incorrect. The last I knew, the Shuttle went supersonic in ~10 seconds. After that it doesn't really pick up a lot of speed until its out of the atmosphere and most of the fuel is burned up. They are supersonic by the time they get the "Throttle up" command. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle

  18. Re:Why use bleeding edge intel chips? on Cisco Barges Into the Server Market · · Score: 1

    the new memory controller technology (that was essentially copied from AMD) makes these chips very compelling. They will be much faster than the original quad cores.

  19. Re:IRS vs. Scam Artists? on Feds Tighten DNS Security On .Gov · · Score: 1

    You're tag line: Use your head, can't you, use your head, You're on earth, there's no cure for that needs editing. It should read: Use your head. Can't you, use your head? You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

  20. Privacy Policy on Privacy Policies Are Great — For PhDs · · Score: 1

    We value your privacy, but we're going to give or sell your personal information information to anyone who asks. That's what most of them say, especially HPPA and Insurance Privacy Statements.

  21. Re:Sometimes the correct answer is the simplest on Why Corporates Hate Perl · · Score: 1

    Yes C# has regex libraries, PHP has perl compatible regex.

  22. Re:Twice the time, twice the frustration on Smart Self-Service Scales · · Score: 1

    I don't do self checkout. 1. I won't work with a machine that talks "down" to me. If I could shut off the stupid voice...I might, but still, see #2. 2. Its putting some college student or high school kid out of a job. 3. It takes any social interaction out of the equation and I think that's generally bad. 4. It takes longer. If you pay with a credit or debit card, you're purchases are getting linked. If they're not getting linked at the store, they're getting linked somewhere else like ChoicePoint. Ever read a privacy statement? You don't have any.

  23. the mp3's have been pulled on Digitizing Rare Vinyl · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm getting nothing but errors when I try to pull any of these up. They were working earlier, but it looks like Yahoo has pulled them.

  24. Re:"Enhanced for 16:9 Televisions" on New Study Finds Low Interest In Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    You hit it right on the head. Its price. $400.00 for the player. Another $400.00 for the TV + the movies. Of course, for the same $400.00 player, you can get a PS3 that is the best Blu-Ray and HD DVD player around and is useful in other ways.

  25. Re:Here's betting it doesn't work on US ISPs Announce Anti-Child-Porn Agreement · · Score: 1

    That's right. The kiddie porn folks will just swap files on IRC.