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  1. Re:To study Geoengineering. on Proposal For United Nations To Study Climate-Cooling Technologies Rejected (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, and in order to gain that knowledge you must... NOT study it?
    They didn't vote down implementing technologies, they voted down gaining knowledge.

  2. So what WOULD have been the proper alternative here?

    Disconnect the robot, take an hour to drive over while the patient waited and then tell her she was going to die in person? Somehow that doesn't sound all that good either.

  3. Movie reviews? Seriously... you're bombing movie reviews?
    THIS is why we can't have nice things.

  4. Yeah! Let the company ignore the business model, go bust and let all patients afterwards just die!

    Like it or not, a company can only continue doing what it does if it exists. This even applies to companies doing good work.
    It may sound like a bitter thing to ponder at first, but it is an important question to ask assuming we want those companies to continue healing people.

  5. Re: It happens more often than people realize on The Complicated Economy of Open Source Software (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    This.

    User burnout for should be a complete non-issue for open source developers.

  6. Re:How to fix bugs on Bug Bounties Aren't Silver Bullet for Better Security (infosecurity-magazine.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Kinda like how hospitals should only hire good doctors so nobody will ever die again.

  7. Special place on AT&T Misleads Customers by Updating Phones With Fake 5G Icon (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's a special place in hell for marketeers.
    It's called "Ring 9 E".

  8. Re:Getting tired of this on Google Chrome's New UI is Ugly, And People Are Very Angry (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Because "mobile first" seems to imply the current "everything white" UI trend.

  9. Re:One individual man probably gets more bad tweet on A Woman on Twitter is Abused Every 30 Seconds (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I dare bet the AI wasn't much better than `if tweet contains any of these words, it's abusive`.

  10. Re:Men? on A Woman on Twitter is Abused Every 30 Seconds (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    The report also lacks information on the identity of the poster or whether it was posted in jest (i.e. using normally derogative terms to jokingly describe themselves or their friends, like how some rap songs use the N-word).

  11. Wrong problem on Steam is Finally Coming To China But Chinese Gamers Don't Want It (abacusnews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So the Chinese citizens' solution to stopping government censorship and overreach is to try and get a foreign company to stop a product that works with their government.

    Seems like the wrong target to attack. How about revolting against your government instead?

  12. Re:Fair is fair on Democrats Intend To Probe Ivanka Trump's Use of Personal Email In Next Congress (go.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    The legal system doesn't work like that.

    If I go run a traffic light, I don't get to say "Sure, I did it and I'll pay the ticket as soon as everybody else who I think might have run a traffic light pays up first".

    You did something bad, you pay the price, regardless of whatever anybody else may or may not have done.

    The prove of your guilt is not contingent upon the prove or lack of such of somebody else's guilt.

  13. Governments encrypt everything, so they would know best.

  14. ...back to using the evil bit for our protection.

  15. Re:Gay! on Movie Commentary Tracks Are Back (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes! Isn't it just fabulous?

  16. I'm guessing a false student ID is more expensive than just paying for coffee

  17. But do the students understand that they are paying way over market value for those few dozen liters of coffee each week?

  18. Re: DaMattster = fake name massive human fail on Ajit Pai Calls California's Net Neutrality Rules 'Illegal' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    There does seem to be an inexhaustible supply of it.

  19. What consititutes "reading the manual"? If it means reading every word from front to back then "No". If it means "scanning it from front to back and reading the parts that I care about, then "Yes".

  20. Re: Seriously, America. on Mass Shooting Reported at Madden Video Game Tournament in Florida (polygon.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    America; where not being a total douchebag to other people is called "socialism" and is a bad thing.

  21. Re:And re-invented over and over again ... on IRC Turns 30 (www.oulu.fi) · · Score: 1

    The fact that it's constantly being re-invented is proof of it's quality.
    Businesses would be trying to vendor-lock customers in proprietary protocols based on OTHER open standards if it wasn't.
    Worse, they could be inventing their own protocol from scratch.
    IRC will still be around long after the latest fad chat has died.

  22. Judging from the other comments, IBM's AI system has improved human vision to a perfect 20-20 hindsight.

  23. Re:Potential for fake, scam, malicious apps? on Google Play Shows Warning To Anyone Searching For Fortnite APKs (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    It's not about the value of letting those apps in but the cost of keeping those apps out.

  24. Re:aww poor baby on Short-Sellers Sue Tesla After Musk's 'Going Private' Tweets (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    I think privately informing investors (though short-selling is more of a negative investment in a company) before releasing public information that impacts the stock price would amount to investment fraud.

    This is pretty much the definition of "butt-hurt".

  25. Re:Waste of money on BBC Wants Microsoft To Expose 'Doctor Who' Leaker (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Who says they're spending lots of money on this? They really don't need to spend any serious money on this to still get all the press coverage they could dream of.