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  1. Please change the title to: on Driverless Startup Zoox Suddenly Removes CEO · · Score: 4, Funny

    Driverless startup becomes driverless

  2. Most crims are only interested in moving or laundering money, the pump and dump crims are called brokers.

  3. You don't need to go back so far for parallels, try dot com 1.0 and the last real estate boom.

  4. What really scared me was the number of people that were throwing big money in at the top. Some of these people were very smart people and they basically dropped $30-50k.

    They don't talk about Bitcoin so much anymore, and I don't ask.

  5. Proper simulators count as real flying hours on Flight-Simulator Enthusiasts Confident of Real-World Skills (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    And having been in the pilot seat of a 30-year-old 747 simulator I can tell you that was ultra-realistic which is why hours in them count as hours flying the real thing.
    By the way, putting a 747 into a dive from 10,000 feet because you approached the runway too high doesn't work just in case someone wants to try it in real life.

  6. Re:money to burn on VP Pence Lays Out Trump's Vision For Establishing a US Space Force (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Goddamn, man, do you not see the folly of going into debt to the country so you can build defenses against that country?

    I would say it is a brilliant move, it isn't like you have to pay the debt back if war does break out..

  7. Re:If you want folks to give a damn about this on Planet At Risk of Heading Towards Irreversible 'Hothouse Earth' State (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I remember reading about Mexican drug cartels and how there wasn't a great deal of pressure to deal with them until of course, they started stealing the one thing that has way more profit margin than drugs, and that is oil.

  8. Re: Product without purpose shows great promise on 3D-Printed Deep Learning Neural Network Uses Light Instead of Electrons (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think there was an analogue hardware implementation of the perceptron in the 80s or 90s even?

  9. Re:Well, nice but bulky on 3D-Printed Deep Learning Neural Network Uses Light Instead of Electrons (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    ideal for weapon systems that need to identify targets very quickly. Might be able to help an aircraft carrier survive for another 10 minutes in an all-out war with Russia or China.

  10. Re:Product without purpose shows great promise on 3D-Printed Deep Learning Neural Network Uses Light Instead of Electrons (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Either had hardly any practical application at the time they where introduced. Fast forward and companies are now poring billions into this kind of technology. Point being nobody cared about most things, before they suddenly became the next big thing.

    Bullshit. There just wasn't enough computing power nor big enough data sets to do much with the technology.

    If someone had invented an analogue analogue to the neuron as a component may be in IC form factor, the world would be a very different place today.

  11. i have to hack mine every day on HP Will Give You $10,000 To Hack Your Printer (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    So my computer or iphone can find it. My HP printer is a shit printer.

  12. If I say ho hum ... on SpaceX Enters a New Stage of Reusability (mashable.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Will Elon Musk call me a pedo too?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/wor...

  13. I bet it was forcing everyone to use the pre-computer version of systemd that caused their downfall.

  14. Re:It took this long? on The EU Would Very Much Like Airbnb To Know That the Rules Are Different in Europe (fortune.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Probably because they have lots of worse behaving US companies to contend with.

    Try one of the big travel booking companies that closed their European office and thought it was ok to just lock the doors without notice and not pay any staff any money at all nor even give the staff termination notices which meant the staff couldn't even claim social security.

  15. stealth planes are obsolete anyway on China's Quantum Radar Could Detect Stealth Planes, Missiles (popsci.com) · · Score: 2

    The Russians have been able to spot them for years using "radar" that looks at disturbances in background radiation.

    Anyway, why send a $1bn plane in to drop bombs when a cluster of supersonic or hypersonic missiles will do exactly the same thing for a few $m a piece.

  16. Not sure how they can prove that the result is not that a 30-second shock and 19 mins of boredom didn't cause an uptick in criminal tendencies...

  17. I really didn't know that .jp was for japan and .uk was for the UK.

    Is there really anyone on /. who doesn't have at least a basic idea of how the TLD system works?

  18. Re:Many bad products are from stupid customers. on Facebook May Ban Bad Businesses From Advertising (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    you're thinking about this the wrong way. you can now get back at your old employer who fired you. just wage a campaign to get them booted from facebook ads. power back to the people..

    if it detects that they've purchased something after clicking on an ad.

    What i want to know is how they detect this.

    Conversion tracking using js, pixels, etc... Nearly everyone does this using Facebook's tools so the best performing ads can run.

  19. Re:I forget who on Solar Has Overtaken Gas, Wind As Biggest Source of New US Power (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What do you think the oil majors are doing? They are doing what anyone with bundles of cash and half a brain would do, they are investing in renewables themselves.

  20. Re:I forget who on Solar Has Overtaken Gas, Wind As Biggest Source of New US Power (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Since the US is 1.2m barrels up per day in oil consumption over last year I doubt there is going to be much of a problem for a while.

  21. Try using less oil fucktards on Sucking CO2 From Air Is Cheaper Than Scientists Thought (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    US oil consumption 2017-2018, up 6.3% or 1.2 million barrels per day!
    China up 3.8%, India up 10%, globally up 2.5%

    Looks like we are hardly at the beginning of a renewables revolution and oil production is increasing worldwide.

  22. Re:Out of the total market? on About $1.2 Billion in Cryptocurrency Stolen Since 2017 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe credit card fraud is higher both in value and percentage terms, and the banks just build it into the credit card charges we pay...

  23. Re:The Navy Has Been Doing This for Decades on Boeing's Folding Wingtips Get the FAA Green Light (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    There were enough accidents with flaps down indicators being incorrect that a lot of airlines now put the flaps down on planes before taxiing so ground crew can confirm that they are down.
    A plane does not take off well with the flaps up and once in the air there is no recovery from this mistake except to hit the ground, so good news that they are pushing the regulation of this as I am sure you could get a plane in the air with the wingtips folded but it also wont stay there for long.

  24. America is literally going bankrupt doing all this stupid shit for free.

    Well, America pretty well can't go bankrupt unless the USD stops being the reserve currency, which means you can keep borrowing and borrowing from all those freeloading countries to your heart's content.

  25. Re:Fuck him, I had to spend $200 on Ecuador Spent $5 Million Protecting and Spying On Julian Assange, Says Report (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Er, actually they selectively publish what people send them, usually to suit whatever PR strategy they are using at the moment.

    Yes, the information was compromised already, but now I am stuck with my personal information (not to mention the 10,000s of others) on WikiLeaks for anyone to get hold of it.