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  1. Roses need bullshit. on Robot Pizza Company 'Zume' Wants To Be 'Amazon of Food' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But in this case, the roses are covered in bullshit.

    "She works for free."

    No, "she" doesn't. Anyone who says a piece of equipment "works for free" even if it doesn't have an operator most of the time is /lying/. Maintenance and setup costs can be a bitch. If you believe that machines are "free labor," you have no experience in manufacturing. They amplify the ability to make stuff (scaling up is more economical), but they're not free.

    The pie then "travels on a conveyor belt to human employees who add cheese and toppings.

    So the only problem solved here was the simplest, spreading sauce. Frozen pizza companies have solved the issue of automation, but it doesn't scale down. I'll get to that in the last paragraphs.

    Even the guy who tried making a burger-making-robot failed. It was basically a VC scam, which this sounds like.

    >Zynga

    Yeah... uh...

    >end of article
    >shells out for a hand-made pizza, because it's better.

    But of course, because bespoke pizzas are easier to make when the maker can /adapt/, unlike a machine, which must be retooled. Frozen pizzas, made entirely under automation, are "standardized" per the manufacturer. And that's what happens when you automate something that's hand-made, choices get reduced to a handful. You're not going to see a pizza come from these trucks with soppressata, as 80 percent (or more) of people /don't even know what it is/.

    I'm not saying this is impossible, but the fact is that a lot of people go to pizzerias because they can easily get special orders, because if you can't, frozen pizzas are less expensive and you don't have to leave home. Say what you will about cardboard and disappointment, but big pizza chains that rely on human help will still do special orders.

    "Any color, as long as it's black." - H. Ford

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  2. She'll likely win it, but not because she's liked.

    The only reason why she'll win is that the R side is just so horribly /bad/. Indeed the justification by a lot of Clintonistas is that they hold up the spectre of a "Trump Presidency."

    >megathatcher

    I love this term. Consider it stolen.

    >Bernie's kid-gloves treatment of her

    This is the most disappointing part of it. He could have annihilated her in ads using her own words and record. "But that's negative ads" and he pledged to not do negative ads. All the while she's killing him in the media with rumors and nonsense.

    I'm gonna go vote for Jill Stein. She's not gonna win, but I'll be damned if I'm going to vote for evil or more evil (YOU try and figure out which one is which here. Clinton has /done/ more evil than what Trump talks about. So like, what's the choice here? Devil you know or devil you don't? Fuck. That.)

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  3. Ahem... on Federal Court: The Fourth Amendment Does Not Protect Your Home Computer (eff.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The court argues that since "computer hacking is more prevalent than it was even nine years ago" the defendant has no expectation of privacy to the contents of his own machine.

    This is like arguing the content of a person's wallet is not private because of the existence of pick-pockets.

    This is insanity.

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  4. Re:why qualify the nightclub as "gay"? on Senate Rejects FBI Bid For Warrantless Access To Internet Browsing Histories (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're shot with a .22 long, unless you're extremely unlucky, you're going to survive.

    If you're shot with a Remington .223/5.56mm NATO in the abdomen, you're going to die, because it's made hamburger of your insides from the cavitation.

    It's not the speed at which you can pull the trigger that's the difference, here. It's the fact that being shot with one vs. being shot with the other is the difference between "it's a flesh wound" and the EMT saying "he's dead, Jim."

    Moron.

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  5. Re:why qualify the nightclub as "gay"? on Senate Rejects FBI Bid For Warrantless Access To Internet Browsing Histories (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You're comparing an AR15 round to a .22 Long round?

    Yes, they are of similar caliber, but you don't fucking understand F=M*A. You also don't understand that the AR15 round has so much force behind it that the damage isn't done by the round itself, but by the cavitation generated by the round going through the body.

    Idiot.

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  6. Re:why qualify the nightclub as "gay"? on Senate Rejects FBI Bid For Warrantless Access To Internet Browsing Histories (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    >What's funny is that I left a gun on my front porch.

    You're a shitty gun owner. You leave your weapon to be fucked with by passers-by.

    You don't know what an "attractive nuisance" is. If a kid had gone up to your porch and shot himself with your gun, say goodbye to everything you own.

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  7. Re:why qualify the nightclub as "gay"? on Senate Rejects FBI Bid For Warrantless Access To Internet Browsing Histories (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    >Climate change will exist so long as there's money to be made from it.

    I just noticed this.

    You're a flat-out moron. No, really. You think it's some sort of grand conspiracy. This view is just plain nuts.

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  8. Re:why qualify the nightclub as "gay"? on Senate Rejects FBI Bid For Warrantless Access To Internet Browsing Histories (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    How about you google bump-fire.

    Because you clearly have no idea what it is.

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  9. Re:why qualify the nightclub as "gay"? on Senate Rejects FBI Bid For Warrantless Access To Internet Browsing Histories (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If he couldn't get a gun, he could have used an Axe, Hammer, Machete or Bats etc.

    Right, because you can bump-fire an axe.

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  10. So like what's a messenger app? on Russian Bill Requires Encryption Backdoors In All Messenger Apps (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Is ytalk a messenger app? What about IRC? Is encryption over ytalk and irc going to be banned? How?

    Is Russia going to yank these "apps" out of the public domain?

    The cat is not only out of the bag, but is riding the cows that have left the barn and the open gate in the field, and are headed toward the mountains to start their new society based on milking humans.

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  11. Re:Even better on Microsoft Says Edge Browser Is More Power-Efficient Than Chrome (windows.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And Lynx is the most power-efficient of them all.

    FTFY.

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  12. Headlines with question marks on Will Self-Driving Cars Destroy the Auto Insurance Industry? (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Are almost always answerable with "no."

    New headline: Will Good Editing Ever Come To Slashdot?

    No.

    New headline: Will Slashdot Ever Embrace Anything Besides Seven Bit ASCII?

    No.

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  13. Nobody does phone patches anymore,

    Funny, my neighbor does.

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  14. Re:Yeah. Why not? on Ask Slashdot: Should You Store Medical Details In The Cloud? (caremonkey.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a good thing you decided to post as AC, because if I was going to post what you just posted, I would hate it if people thought I was as dumb as your post.

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  15. Re:Yeah. Why not? on Ask Slashdot: Should You Store Medical Details In The Cloud? (caremonkey.com) · · Score: 1

    I was going to post an argument why your assertion is wrong, that just because some privacy has disappeared that we should give up all of it.

    I'm just going to ask you:

    What is your bank account number, DOB, last 4 digits of your SSN, and mother's maiden name?

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  16. No. on Ask Slashdot: Should You Store Medical Details In The Cloud? (caremonkey.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No.

    There is already something called MedicAlert, run by the MedicAlert foundation. It's those little bracelets that have a number on the back and EMTs and other emergency professionals seeing these are trained to do a lookup.

    It's a system that works that doesn't need "the cloud." You don't even need a computer or smartphone to access the system. Just a phone. Which means it will work where there is no cell service and can work where there isn't even phone lines - radio operators can do a phone patch.

    It's /better/ than "cloud based systems" that needs fancy hardware to access which we have seen to be poorly run and insecure.

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  17. SCHNIFTER: Das ist immer alles Aulung und ist rauch mit and potzen Volkswagen und niemann stint und "Swell Pizza!!"

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  18. Re:And he means it .. literally .. on The NSA Would Be Eliminated Under President Gary Johnson (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Further, since justice without mercy is tyranny, you cannot have liberty under such a condition.

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  19. Re:And he means it .. literally .. on The NSA Would Be Eliminated Under President Gary Johnson (thehill.com) · · Score: 2

    Justice without mercy is tyranny. --E'Jéi Osborne

    Extremism in any direction is nuts. Me.

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  20. Re:Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The bow of a coracle is sharper than you.

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  21. Re:Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    yeah...but words dont kill people.....

    Joseph Goebbels would like a word with you.

    As would the former staff of Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines.

    Words don't kill directly, but they do light the fuse and millions die.

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  22. Re:Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Your religion is what you say it is. It's a self-identifying thing.

    "Rolling fags" isn't just for skinheads. The northern end of RI is full of Catholic hooligans. RI doesn't have many skinheads at all.

    Insert another coin to play one more time.

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  23. Re:Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    John Salvi and others like him aren't muslim. Neither was Tim McVeigh. Neither were countless other members of fine organizations such as the KKK, which has a /lot/ of sympathizers among whites that "want to take back their country." (from who?)

    There are more people murdered by christians, as raw numbers /and/ percentage, in the US than by Muslims.

    Today was Gay Pride day. I'll give you a hint about the religion of the vast majority of people who "roll fags."

    - they're not Muslim.

    Go. Fuck. Yourself.

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  24. Re:Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It is important to also remember that there are a lot of Christians in this country with not too dissimilar views towards homosexuality than what radical Islam does.

    Indeed.

    All you have to do is go to "social media" or even the local bar or /talk to your relatives/ to find it.

    FFS.

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  25. Today there is a more recent story about the DEA spying on your medication list:

    Unlike in cases of commercially-held data, where the Third Party doctrine allows police warrantless access, prescription drug monitoring databases are maintained by state-governments. The difference is lost to the Obama Administration, which argues that "since the records have already been submitted to a third party (a state's Prescription Drug Monitoring Program) that patients no longer enjoy an expectation of privacy."

    You don't think they would apply the third-party doctrine to your data in the cloud, would they? Naw...

    They don't need to break TLS. They just have to ask your provider "nicely" in a "youse got a nice restaurant here, it'd be too bad if it burned down" kinda way. Because you no longer own your data, they do.

    Welcome to the police state. Thanks a lot, Tricky Dick, Ronnie Raygun, GHWB, Bill Clinton, Bob Graham (not a president, but he wrote most of the Patriot Act), GWB, Obama. (not sure about Carter expanding the drug war that Nixon started. Wouldn't surprise me if he did).

    And it's guaranteed that Hills will continue the fine tradition.

    In the unlikely event that Der TrumpenFuehrer gets elected, he's dumb and cowardly enough to be talked into also continuing the fine tradition. He'll be a patsy like GWB was.

    Hills will be more direct.

    We're fucked.

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